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Activists stage a demonstration against the so-called CETA trade deal outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Feb.15, 2017. (AP/Jean-Francois Badias)

What You Need To Know About CETA: The Newly Approved EU-Canada Trade Deal

Archives for فبراير 2017

Texas Couldn’t Help This Sex-Trafficked Teen, So Authorities Sent Her To Jail

No one wanted Lena behind bars. She was not a prostitute; she was a child who had been sexually exploited. But teenage sex-trafficking victims in Texas end up in jail for one simple reason: There’s nowhere else for them to go.

Neena Satija
Morgan Smith
Edgar Walters
بواسطة Neena Satija
و Morgan Smith
و Edgar Walters
17-year-old Lena waits to be released from the Harris County Jail, with a small bag of her possessions. Her mentor gave her a blue jumpsuit to wear over her skimpy clothes. (Photo: Callie Richmond/The Texas Tribune)

HOUSTON (REPORT) — For three months in the fall of 2016, Lena was one of the youngest inmates in the Harris County Jail. The 17-year-old lived with two dozen women in a single room. She slept on a metal bunk and wore an oversized orange jumpsuit every day. She went to the bathroom with no privacy, using a toilet attached to the wall. Yet compared

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US Air Force Significantly Increases Involvement In Saudi War In Yemen

New data from the Air Force showed a 50% increase in the number of in-air refueling sorties US planes have flown in the past year.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
An F-35 Lightning II simulates an aerial refuelling by a KC-130J aircraft during its first appearance at the Farnborough Air Show on Tuesday 12th July 2016. (Fiona Hanson/AP/Pratt & Whitney)

(REPORT) --- The US doesn’t necessarily like to brag about their involvement in the Saudi invasion of Yemen, given the massive civilian death toll of the Saudi airstrikes and the growing international disquiet about the humanitarian crisis the war has led to. Still, US involvement is increasing, not decreasing. New data from the Air Force showed

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Michael Flynn Was Taken Down By A Deep State Leak Campaign

There is a raging power struggle going on between the CIA and President Trump. Flynn was one of the CIA’s major targets, but hardly their only one.

Dan Wright
بواسطة Dan Wright
Michael Flynn sits in the front row before the start of the President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joint new conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. After one of the most blatant leak campaigns by national security officials in recent memory, former General Michael Flynn resigned from office as national security advisor Monday evening. The official reason for the resignation was giving “incomplete information” to the vice president and others about

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Pipeline Partners: Trudeau & Trump Meet As They Push For More Oil Pipelines

Trudeau has come under fire by environmentalists for approving two major pipelines: Kinder Morgan’s $5 billion Trans Mountain pipeline and the $7.5 billion Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.

Democracy Now
بواسطة Democracy Now
President Donald Trump reaches to shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)

(REPORT) --- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the White House Monday for the first time since Donald Trump took office. In a joint news conference, Trump and Trudeau discussed trade, national security and immigration policy. During a White House press conference, neither president talked about oil pipelines, despite their joint

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Egypt Targets American-Egyptian Activist With Cyber Spies

Officials in Cairo have yet to speak publicly about the barrage of malicious messages, also known as phishing emails, sent to civil society figures in recent months.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim, left, and Mona Eltahawy, a prominent Egyptian-born U.S. columnist, center, march in downtown Cairo, Egypt to mark International Women's Day Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

PARIS (REPORT) — American-Egyptian author Mona Eltahawy is one of many activists and human rights advocates targeted in a sweeping cyberespionage campaign blamed on Egypt's government, The Associated Press has found. A booby-trapped email sent to Eltahawy and examined by the AP shows that she was targeted by the same password-stealing technique

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Over 10,000 Protest Trump’s Immigration Crackdown In Milwaukee

People from dozens of cities across Wisconsin came by bus to take part in the action, and 120 businesses were also closed to show support for the #daywithoutlatinos.

Andrea Germanos
بواسطة Andrea Germanos
Thousands of Wisconsin activists gathered in Milwaukee's predominantly Hispanic South Side to protest the sheriff's plans to crack down on illegal immigration Feb. 13, 2017. (Photo: AP/Gretchen Ehlke)

(REPORT) --- Amidst growing pushback against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, more than ten thousand people marched in Milwaukee on Monday to "resist the wave of deportations and immigration raids sweeping the country." The "Day Without Latinxs, Immigrants, and Refugees" action, organized by local advocacy group Voces de la

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