Tag: Immigrants
Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
Jul 20, 2019 | Viewpoints, Africa, Americas, Politics, US
The supposedly random ‘violence’ and drug wars in El Salvador must be seen within the political context of misguided American interventionism.
Read MoreAmericans Need a Congress that Represents Americans
Jan 11, 2019 | Viewpoints, Americas, Palestine, Politics, US
The Congress opposes a wall to stop illegal immigration to the US, but it’s financing Israel’s wall to keep Palestinians out of their own country.
Read MorePresstitutes Abandon Journalism For Political Activism
Nov 9, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The presstitutes are only upset about Sessions being fired because his recusal from the Russiagate investigation enabled Mueller to go beyond his mandate.
Read MoreLest We Forget, One of Washington’s Greatest Crimes: the NATO Intervention in Libya
Sep 29, 2018 | Viewpoints, Europe, Middle East, Politics, US
Muammar Gaddafi warned the US and its NATO partners that overthrowing him would result in a flood of refugees and emigrants into Europe. They didn’t listen.
Read MoreEconomic Impact of Trump Immigration Policies on Chinese
Mar 3, 2017 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
Three groups of Chinese are facing very different forms of US immigration and possible changes under the new administration.
Read MoreThere Is a Strong Case for a Second Referendum on EU Membership Prior To Brexit
Feb 18, 2017 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics
There’s a strong case for a second referendum on EU membership prior to Britain leaving. Let the people decide.
Read MoreTrump’s Travel Ban Is an Affront to Civilized Values
Feb 1, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
How could an individual or a country that constantly lectures the world on human rights take such crass and inhuman action?
Read MoreThe Chance for Greatness, But It Is So Easily Lost
Feb 1, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Donald Trump has an opportunity for greatness. Will he rise to it, or fall over his worst ideas and become just one more failed American President?
Read MoreThe Profound Disappointment of Angela Merkel
Dec 9, 2016 | Viewpoints, Europe, Politics
Obama and his political associate, Hillary Clinton, are total failures as figures of principle and as leaders, and Merkel very much resembles them.
Read MoreThe European Migrants Crisis: The West Has Lost the Moral High Ground
Jul 8, 2016 | Viewpoints, Europe
Migrants wait as the self-important leaders of Europe decide whether political expediency has a higher value than that of human life.
Read MoreAn American Original: John Kerry
May 13, 2016 | US, Viewpoints
From his remarkable recent commencement address at Northwestern University to the remarkable career that made it possible
Read MoreThe Mediterranean Migration Crisis
May 19, 2015 | Africa, Essays, Europe, Middle East
Faced with a migration crisis in the Mediterranean, Europe is struggling to assist people in need while securing its borders.
Read MoreBlack Migrants, White Amnesia
May 5, 2015 | Africa, Europe, Viewpoints
It is a moral duty to accept desperate migrants, especially if you’re the one who made them desperate.
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