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US Anti-Iran Summit Coincided with Foreign-Based Terror Attack in Iran Killing 25

A group known as al-Ahvaziya claimed responsibility for the attack on a military parade in Khuzestan Province.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
iran

Tehran  – Terrorists in Iran launched an attack on a parade on Saturday killing 25 — including a four-year-old girl. Unsurprisingly, the group claiming responsibility for the massacre has links to foreign entities in Saudi Arabia and their allies. Also on Saturday, Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, spoke at an “Iran Uprising Summit” in New

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Damascus Trade Fair and Festival of the Cross Mark the Return of Peace to Much of Syria

Eva Bartlett attends the Damascus International Trade fair and the annual Maaloula Festival of the Cross to see how Syrians in areas liberated from jihadi rule are defiantly celebrating their new found freedoms.

Eva Bartlett
بواسطة Eva Bartlett
Syria Festival of the Cross

DAMASCUS and MAALOULA, SYRIA -- In April 2018 I returned to Syria, visiting recently-liberated areas in eastern Ghouta and also travelling to the southern village of Hadar -- which at the time was under continual bombardment by terrorists just to the south, with the assistance of Israel and its observation towers over the region. My focus last

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Why the NAACP and His Friends at the Top Can’t Make Ben Jealous the Next Maryland Governor

Ben Jealous’ abysmal campaign reflects the inertia of an African-American polity that was on the move only a generation ago and beginning to restructure central cities that were wholly unresponsive to people of color.

Jon Jeter
بواسطة Jon Jeter
Ben Jealous NAACP

BALTIMORE -- At first glance, Ben Jealous appears to be a good bet to become Maryland’s first black governor. Running in a blue state -- where Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one and nearly one in three voters is African-American -- against an incumbent Republican governor, Jealous is a liberal Democrat, a son of Baltimore, and the former

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China’s “Peace Ark” Makes Historic Visit to Venezuela After Maduro Visits Beijing

Perhaps China’s hospital ship currently moored in Venezuela is a direct message to Washington that invasion of the Latin American country is not a viable option.

ZeroHedge.com
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For the first time, a Chinese naval ship has traveled to Venezuela, following the visit by President Nicolas Maduro to Beijing earlier this month, where he had asked China's leadership for economic support following the collapse of its economy, said Channel NewsAsia. The naval medical ship, known as the "Peace Ark," had moored on Saturday at the

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Trump’s New Green Card Proposal Rejects Families Who Have Received Public Benefits

“This proposal says work and family don’t matter—only money matters. And at a time when one-fourth of children in America have at least one immigrant parent, it’s a direct attack on children.”

Julia Conley
بواسطة Julia Conley
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Angering immigrant rights and economic equality advocates alike, the Trump administration has made official its proposal to deny permanent residency, or green cards, to immigrants who have used public assistance programs including nutritional or housing aid. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced late Saturday that under the new

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Israeli Gov’t Argues It Can Annex Any Land, Defy Any International Law It Chooses

With its government openly admitting Israel’s rogue-state status and its intention to act without regard to international norms or basic human decency, Israel has indicated that it is hell-bent on ethnically cleansing Palestine and eliminating the “demographic threat” once and for all.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
israel breaking international law

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- During an ongoing court case regarding the legality of Israel’s controversial Settlement Regularization Law, the Israeli government has argued that the Israeli Knesset can “legislate anywhere in the world” and is “allowed to ignore the directive of international law in any field it desires.” The statements, delivered to Israel’s

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