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Matteo Salvini is threatening me mafia-style. But I’m not afraid

Roberto Saviano* Italy’s minister of the interior is questioning whether I should have police protection. I’m just one of his long list of enemies Living under around-the-clock police protection is a tragedy. Italy has more journalists in this situation than any other western…

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The US Immigration Issue: Due Process For The Undocumented

TELESUR  in English Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to hire more immigration judges and install quotas to accelerate deportations and address the more than 700,000 immigration cases backlogging the judiciary system. “What this means is that judges will have to complete…

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Think Saudi Arabia Wants Women To Be Equals? They Don't

Opinion, by Lara Stein* – Newsweek After years of human rights violations, and weeks before Saudi Arabia was set to lift its oppressive ban on women drivers, the government has arrested at least 11 women’s rights activists. The government has denied these women access to legal…

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Trump is Here to Stay and Change the World

by Roberto Savio* Rome – Donald John Trump, 45th and current president of the United States, has been seen in many illustrious circles as an anomaly that cannot last. Well, it is time to look at reality.

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From Fake News to a Fake Death

By Ed Holt  KIEV, Jun  2018 (IPS) – When news broke on May 29th that journalist Arkady Babchenko had been murdered in Ukraine, serious questions about the safety of journalists in the country were raised. When news broke less than 24-hours later that Babchenko’s murder had been…

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Matteo Salvini’s March on Rome

By Frederika Randall* – The Nation The head of the fearmongering, anti-immigrant Lega party has enormous power in Italy’s new government Si Salvini chi può. When Italy’s two most bellicose parties finally agreed to form a government on June 1, following 88 days of post-election…

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Is there Gender Parity & Reverse Sexual Harassment at UN?

By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2018 (IPS) – Faced with growing allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in the UN system, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last year announced a “zero-tolerance” policy to fight harassment in the world body. But UN Women, which…

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China Smells Opportunity in the Middle East’s Crisis

By Daniel Kliman, Abigail Grace(*) – Foreign Policy Beijing is using the region’s ongoing woes to solidify its own geopolitical agenda As the Middle East becomes ever more unstable, a surprising victor may be emerging: China. Under President Xi Jinping, China has accelerated its…