Andrea Germanos

United States Doesn’t Even Make Top 20 on Global Democracy Index

With a final score of 7.96, the U.S. earned the “flawed democracy” label.

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A new index released this week offers a sobering look at how democracy is faring in the United States. According to the 2018 edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, the U.S. doesn't even make the list of top 20—its demonstrably "flawed democracy" notching it the 25th spot. The ranking is based on 60 indicators spanning

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Sorry Chris Murphy, GOP Rejects Call to Curb US Funding for ‘Slaughter of Yemeni Kids’

Republicans objected to the Senate’s “big chance to slam on the brakes and stop our role in enabling the suffering in Yemen.”

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Markings on a remnant of a CBU-58 cluster bomb found near al-Zira`a Street in Sanaa on January 6, 2016 indicating that it was manufactured in 1978 at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant in the US state of Tennessee.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday denounced as "mind blowing" the decision to "continue to willingly participate in the slaughter of Yemeni kids" after Republicans objected to his amendment to the Defense Appropriation bill that would have put key restrictions on U.S. financial and othe support for the Saudi-led bombing

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Google is Tracking You Even When Your Phone’s ‘Location History’ is Off

New investigation by Associated Press shows how iPhone and Android users’ location data is still recorded even when they have been misled to believe it isn’t.

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Android and iPhone users may be under the impression that Google is not tracking their location data if they've turned off "Location History" on their devices. After all, the Google support page says, "With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." But a new Associated Press investigation showed how that is not really the

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Crime Against Humanity: 99-Year-Old Nuremberg Prosecutor Calls Out Trump’s Detention of Children

Ferencz also denounced the ongoing “glorification of war-making.” He said, “The capacity to kill human beings has grown faster than our capacity to meet their vital and justified needs,” noting, “Nobody wins in war; the only winner is death.”

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The last surviving prosecutor at the Nazi Nuremberg trials just offered harsh criticism for the Trump administration's family separation crisis resulting from its cruel immigration policies, calling it "a crime against humanity." Ninety-nine year old Ben Ferencz made the comments in a recent lengthy interview with United Nations High

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Amnesty Demands Independent Probe of Civilians Massacred During US Annihilation of Raqqa

“How can the coalition avoid inflicting high civilian death tolls in the future without accounting for what went wrong in Raqqa?”

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Amnesty International on Monday is urging the U.S.-led military coalition targeting the Islamic State in Syria to launch an independent investigation into the full scale of civilian carnage it may have caused in its brutal Raqqa offensive last year. The siege took place between June and October 2017—right after Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog"

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Why No “Heartfelt Concern” From Former First Ladies for Children Killed or Maimed by Their Husbands?

Consumer advocate puts check on Laura Bush and Michelle Obama for selective criticism when it comes to kids harmed by brutal U.S. policies.

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First lady Michelle Obama, center, hugs former President George W. Bush, as President Barack Obama and former first lady Laura Bush walk on stage at the dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Noted consumer advocate and author Ralph Nader on Friday offered a sharp retort to Laura Bush and Michelle Obama in response to the former first ladies levied criticism at the Trump administration's cruel immigration policy that separated immigrant children from their families. "Would be nice if Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had expressed

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Survivors of Domestic and Gang Violence Will No Longer Qualify for Asylum

“In what world does the United States turn its back on people who have suffered persecution, trauma, and extreme distress from domestic or gang violence?”

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In just the latest addition to the Trump administration's mounting collection of "cruel" policies aimed at closing off the nation to refugees and asylum-seekers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions released a new Justice Department guidance on Monday declaring that migrants will no longer automatically qualify for asylum if they present concerns of

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