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Human Rights Watch: Myanmar’s 2-Child Limit For Rohingya Population Is Ethnic Cleansing

Myanmar’s government is carrying out child-bearing restrictions on its minority Muslim Rohingya population, limiting each couple to two children.

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

In what humanitarian organizations are referring to as a slow form of ethnic cleansing, the Myanmar government is carrying out child-bearing restrictions on its minority Muslim Rohingya population, limiting each couple to two children. The penalty for three or more children? A prison sentence. The implementation of the rule by a now-U.S. ally is

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After The Tornado, Anonymous And Occupy Coordinate Relief Efforts In Oklahoma

Occupy activists also had provided relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last October.

Mint Press News Desk
بواسطة Mint Press News Desk

After an EF-4 tornado killed 24 people as it ripped through Moore, Okla., on May 20, relief workers sprung into action to help the survivors pick up the pieces. Among those helping victims are members of Occupy and the online hacker group known as Anonymous, which coordinated relief efforts in some of the outlying areas that received less attention

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2 Million Marched Against Monsanto — So Where Was The National Media?

While local and alternative media outlets captured the voices of those marching against Monsanto, national viewers were left in the dark.

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

As swarms of protesters took to the streets in small and major cities throughout the U.S. for the March Against Monsanto, local media flocked to the crowds, covering a worldwide movement breaking out in their backyards. While local and alternative media outlets captured the voices of more than 2 million people marching against Monsanto in 400 of

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Michele Bachmann Says She Won’t Run For Re-Election

She said her decision had nothing to do with ongoing investigations over finances related to her run for the Republican presidential nomination.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party favorite, said Wednesday she will not run for another term in the U.S. House and said her decision had nothing to do with ongoing investigations over finances related to her unsuccessful run for the Republican presidential nomination. Bachmann also said in an early morning

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Members Of Congress Censure Washington ‘Redskins’ Over Derogatory Name, Logo

Native Americans throughout the country consider the ‘R-word’ a racial, derogatory slur akin to the ‘N-word’ among African Americans.

David Trifunov
بواسطة David Trifunov

Political pressure is mounting on Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder. A month after city councilors petitioned the NFL team’s owner about abandoning his “racist” logo and nickname, 10 members of Congress have joined the fray. They sent letters urging change to Snyder, NFL commissioner Roger Goddell, the team’s stadium sponsor, FedEx, and

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Stockholm’s Riots Reveal The Illusion Of Sweden’s Tolerance Model

Events in Sweden show that what politicians call ‘multiculturalism’ is just outdated, discriminatory assimilationism in disguise.

Magda Fahsi
بواسطة Magda Fahsi

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Last week, young people in several Stockholm suburbs rioted for six consecutive nights, throwing stones, breaking windows, torching cars, clashing with police and setting building ablaze, in Sweden’s worst scenes of disorder in years. Were they the result of social exclusion? Growing disparities? Unemployment? Or a reaction to

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