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Donald Trump Staffers Online Posts Include Racism And Talk Of Holy War

While the 2016 Republican presidential hopeful’s controversial comments are well documented, his paid staff appears to be just as polarizing.

Sputnik News
بواسطة Sputnik News

Donald Trump has made disparaging comments about a variety of minority groups throughout his campaign, including Hispanics, Muslims, veterans, and the disabled. A closer examination of the social media accounts of Trump’s staffers shows a similar tendency toward racism and xenophobia. An examination conducted by the Associated Press surveyed the

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Louisiana Republicans Who Voted Against Aid To Hurricane Sandy Victims, Request Federal Flood Aid

“[I]f Congress denies Louisiana the aid funds necessary for recovery, it will be because some of our own congressional delegation turned their backs on the victims of Hurricane Sandy.”

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley
Reps. Steve Scalise, Bill Cassidy and Sen. John Fleming all voted against Sandy relief in 2013. (Photos: Andrew Harnik/Melinda Deslatte/AP via NY Daily News)

As residents of Louisiana this week struggle to recover from "one of the worst floods in modern history," there is a chance that federal aid may not be so forthcoming thanks to a trio of Bayou State Republicans, who back in 2013 voted against helping victims of another storm: Sandy. House majority whip Rep. Steve Scalise, Rep. John Fleming, and

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Tulsa Hate Crime: Khalid Jabara’s Family Speaks Out After His Murder by Racist White Neighbor

Police records show that the killer had frequently taunted, stalked, and threatened members of the Jabara family, calling them “dirty Arabs,” “filthy Lebanese”, “Aye-rabs”, and “Mooslems”.

Democracy Now
بواسطة Democracy Now
37 year old Khalid Jabara, shot and killed on the front porch of his home by his neighbor, Stanley Majors.

In Oklahoma, funeral services were held Friday for Khalid Jabara, a Lebanese-American man police say was shot dead by his next-door neighbor in a possible hate crime. Police say Stanley Majors will be charged with first-degree murder. Majors has harassed the Jabara family for years. The August 12 killing came less than a year after Majors was

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From Drone Killings To Hospital Bombings: 15 Years Of Civilian Deaths In The Global War On Terror

Doctors Without Borders asked ‘the U.S., U.K. and France to ensure an immediate application of measures to substantially increase the protection of civilians’ after the latest deadly hospital bombing in Yemen.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
refugee crisis

AUSTIN, Texas --- The recent bombing of a hospital in northwestern Yemen has drawn international outrage and new criticism of the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed forces fighting there, but it’s just the latest in a slew of war crimes committed over the past 15 years in the name of the U.S.-backed global war on terror. Nineteen people were killed and 24

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Louisiana Floods Show Harm Caused By Climate Change Denial And Neglect Of US Infrastructure

Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal once declared that ‘the Obama administration is holding us hostage to their radical ideas’ about climate change, but thousands in the state are suffering from the very real effects of historic flooding caused by climate change.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Danny and Alys Messenger canoe away from their flooded home after reviewing the damage in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.

AUSTIN, Texas --- In addition to highlighting the growing impact of climate change on everyday Americans, historic flooding in Louisiana shows the deadly effects of long-term U.S. policies that include climate change denial, support for fossil fuels, and neglect of infrastructure. At least eight people died, some 40,000 homes were damaged, and

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After Bombarding Gaza, Israel Attacks Syria’s Golan Heights

The Israeli Army said it was responding to stray mortar fire from Syria.

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Israeli soldiers stand on top of armored military vehicles during training exercises in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Syrian rebels launched a wide-ranging offensive against Syrian government positions near the Golan Heights on Wednesday, after tit-for-tat shelling in and around Damascus left at least 33 people dead, activists said. Insurgents have been on the offensive in southern Syria for the past three months, capturing military bases, villages and a border crossing point with Jordan. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli aircraft attacked a government target in Syria on Monday after claiming stray fire from fighting between government forces and rebel groups struck near the border in the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory which has been occupied by Israel since 1967. The Israeli army itself said it believed that the mortar fire was not directed at the

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