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The US-led coalition jets bombed targets in the town of Al-Shafa in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, the official Twitter account of Al Mayadeen TV channel said on Tuesday.
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The US-led coalition jets bombed targets in the town of Al-Shafa in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, the official Twitter account of Al Mayadeen TV channel said on Tuesday.
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Trump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through Mexico on their way to the US border.
Trump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through Mexico on their way to the US border.
Trump told Fox News he plans to build tent cities to hold the thousands of Central American asylum-seekers currently trekking through Mexico on their way to the US border. While the tents will be "very nice" - everything Trump builds is, in his mind - he hopes that holding the migrants in these tent cities until their asylum hearings will deter additional caravans from making the crossing.
Current practice, derided by Trump and others as "catch and release," allows asylum-seekers to stay in the US until their hearings, which can be years after they cross the border given the huge backlog of immigration cases.
Many new arrivals, understandably, never turn up for the hearing, having successfully blended into American society and not wishing to risk being turned back to their country of origin. Restricting them to tent cities - no matter how "nice" - ensures they will be present at their hearing, where - according to Fox News host Laura Ingraham - 80 percent will be sent home.
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Illegal immigrant minors detained at a facility in Texas
Illegal immigrant minors detained at a facility in Texas
"We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits," Trump told Axios in an interview taped on Monday. "It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And it has to end."
While Trump was ambiguous on the subject, it is likely that the children of legal immigrants who have attained US citizenship will be unaffected by the planned policy order.
Comment: See also:
- US considers restrictions on green cards for immigrants receiving public benefits
- The true cost of illegal immigration
- The 'diversity' of illegal immigration: A first-hand account
- Poll: Americans believe US borders more porous than other countries, majority say immigration has worsened life in America
No, Putin is not 'rehabilitating' Stalin: "There cannot be any justifications for Stalin-era crimes"
As Western scholars were blithering about Putin's love for, and rehabilitation of Stalin in the 2000s, Putin-era state television produced a series of films commemorating Russian figures destroyed during the Stalin era. Some of the state or state-tied television channels' productions on the Soviet regime's atrocities, include Yesenin (a film about the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances and pressure from the communist regime), Moskovskaya saga (the story of a Moscow family's destruction under Stalinism), Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel Doctor Zhivago, the great Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, and Mikhail Bulgakov's anti-Stalinist satire Master and Margarita, among many others. At the same time, the Russian Orthodox Church has been carrying out a permanent campaign against Stalin since the Soviet collapse-under both Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Putin (see, for example).
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McGurk, who was directly involved in the formation of the Iraqi leadership (Speaker, President and Prime Minister) in the last few months, didn't manage to return his favourite candidate Haidar Abadi to power and failed to prevent Faleh al-Fayyad from coming to power. According to private sources in Baghdad, al-Fayyad will be nominated as Interior Minister, a position that requires coordination with US forces in Iraq. McGurk clashed with Fayyad on several occasions when he unsuccessfully sought to limit the activity of Iran and Hezbollah in supporting the formation of the new Iraqi leadership in Baghdad.
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"We are ready to smash the terrorist structure east of the Euphrates. We have completed preparations for this issue. In the near future, we will drive the terrorist organization into a corner through a large-scale and efficient operation. One night we will suddenly come," Erdogan told Turkey's parliament.
Ankara considers Syria's Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the principal component of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which enjoys the support of the US and controls the territory of Syria east of the Euphrates River, a terrorist organization associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is banned in Turkey.
The Turkish forces have killed, captured or forced to surrender 1,451 Kurdish militants in the course of counterterrorism operations held over the past year, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Tuesday.
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"If we talk about the east of Syria, since the creation of the so-called US international coalition, thousands of Syrians, including women, children, men and the elderly, have become its victims. All because of the fact that the United States is fighting anything in Syria, except for Daesh... Today, the US assistance to the Daesh group has enabled the latter to reach the Syrian-Iraqi border once again," Muallem said at a meeting with the joint delegation of the International Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Peace Council.
The Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, is funding a program with the bizarre name "Insect Allies." Dr. Blake Bextine of DARPA describes the program as "leveraging a natural and efficient two-step delivery system to transfer modified genes to plants: insect vectors and the plant viruses they transmit." DARPA claims the program is to provide "scalable, readily deployable, and generalizable countermeasures against potential natural and engineered threats to the food supply with the goals of preserving the US crop system." Check the language: scalable, readily deployable...
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FILE PHOTO. US Marines conduct cold weather training in Iceland on October 19, 2018.
FILE PHOTO. US Marines conduct cold weather training in Iceland on October 19, 2018.
Trident Juncture 2018 is the largest exercise hosted by Norway since the 1980s and the largest NATO has held in decades. Some 50,000 troops from 31 countries, about 10,000 combat vehicles, 65 ships and some 250 aircraft are taking part in the drills that kicked off last week and will go on till November 7, with the troops honing their skills on the land, in the air and at the sea.
The exercise is supposedly intended to send "a clear message" to both the alliance's member states and potential "adversaries" that NATO is "ready to defend all allies against any threat," its secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said last week.
Comment: With NATO, countries are merely battle grounds and sources to drain for funding for the continuation of an outdated and dangerous enterprise:
- Hypocritical NATO 'concerned' by Russia's military build-up close to "our borders"
- Coordinated NATO Propaganda Blitz Against Russia & China Takes Hypocrisy Into Twilight Zone
- A colder war? UK to send commandos to Norway, curb Russia's activity in Arctic
- NATO wants Europe's civilian infrastructure ready for war
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The case of Vyshinsky must be properly investigated, Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said on Monday, expressing hope that the journalist's extended detention was about to end.
"I hope that Kirill Vyshinsky's pre-trial detention will not be further extended and will therefore end on 4 November 2018," Désir said. "I call on the Ukrainian authorities to expedite the investigation on the serious charges brought against Vyshinsky, and to conduct such an investigation in full compliance with the principles of rule of law, necessity and proportionality."
Comment: Whichever way you look at it, following the US-backed coup, life in the failed state of Ukraine just gets worse:
- Even Ukraine's own newspapers report bribery problem worse now than in 2015
- Secrets of the 'dead souls' of Ukraine's population
- HRW: Ukraine's censorship of Russian media undermines democracy
- Faith, power, money: How Western meddling is corrupting Ukraine's Orthodox Church
- President Poroshenko promised Ukraine would 'live in a new way' - citizens increasingly turning to shoplifting
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