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Oct 13 2021
News
Revealed; Facebook's Secret Blacklist of "Dangerous Individuals and Organizations"
TO WARD OFF accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
The restrictions appear to trace back to 2012, when in the face of growing alarm in Congress and the United Nations about online terrorist recruiting, Facebook added to its Community Standards a ban on “
The InterceptJul 20 2021
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Chinese Suppliers to Apple, Nike Shun Xinjiang Workers as U.S. Forced-Labor Ban Looms
Chinese factories that supply Apple Inc. and Nike Inc. and make other products sold in the U.S. are shunning workers from Xinjiang, as Western countries increase scrutiny of forced labor from the remote northwestern region where Beijing has been accused of committing genocide against local ethnic minorities.
Lens Technology Co. Ltd, a Chinese maker of smartphone touch screens and
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 22 2021
News
U.S. Set To Admit Lowest Number Of Refugees Ever
Despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to overhaul immigration and welcome refugees to the U.S., 2021 is on pace for a record low in refugee admissions.
According to the latest State Department numbers, the U.S. has accepted just 7,637 refugees this year as of Aug. 31 ― putting it on pace for a historic low, as the fiscal year ends Oct. 1. The refugee cap, a number set by the president
HuffPostApr 03 2015
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Proposed Bill Calls for Reconciliation Between Turkey and Armenia
Bringing a new approach to a long-running Capitol Hill standoff, a Turkish-American coalition is pushing a new bill in Congress that will call for reconciliation and dialogue between Turkey and Armenia while sidestepping the question of whether the 1915 mass killing of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire was genocide.
Armenian and Armenian-American advocacy groups have long
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 14 2019
News
Columbus Day Is Dying. Indigenous Peoples Day Is the Future.
“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”—and in 2019, a growing number of US cities and states are recognizing that the cutesy rhyme we learned in school, and the federal holiday named in the explorer’s honor, belies a dark history.
Indigenous people have long resented the holiday, as Columbus’s arrival was the first step in their unfathomable genocide. He and his men enslaved and
Mother JonesJan 26 2024
Headline Roundup
ICJ Orders Israel to Limit Gaza Deaths, Stops Short of Calling for Ceasefire
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordered Israel to prevent possible acts of genocide by its forces in Gaza but declined to call for a ceasefire.
The Ruling: Finding some of the genocide claims against Israel to be “plausible,” the ICJ ordered Israel to “ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts” that could violate the United Nations’
Reuters Time Magazine CBNFeb 11 2020
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Omar al-Bashir: Sudan agrees ex-president must face ICC
Sudan's rulers have agreed to hand over ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face genocide and war crimes charges.
Bashir is accused of serious crimes in a conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003 and led to the deaths of 300,000.
Authorities said the former president, and others charged by the ICC, should appear at The Hague to face a
BBC NewsJul 09 2020
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Planned Parenthood Responds To Kanye’s Criticism: ‘Offensive And Infantilizing’
Planned Parenthood responded Wednesday to criticism from rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West, saying that “any insinuation that abortion is black genocide is offensive and infantilizing.”
West discussed his presidential ambitions in an interview with Forbes published Wednesday in which he denounced Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. (RELATED: Kanye West
The Daily CallerDec 21 2020
Analysis
Only the world wars have rivalled covid-19 for news coverage
Given how much the world has changed in 2020, it is hard to fathom that the year was just one leap-day longer than 2019. On January 16th The Economist published its first article about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, which at that point had been confirmed only as the cause of 42 infections and one death. Two weeks later, covid-19 made its debut on our cover. It returned there on February
The EconomistOct 12 2020
Analysis
Celebrating Columbus
Christopher Columbus, the most famous explorer in history, was once a celebrated hero. Now, many consider him a villain, a despoiler of paradise. So which version of Columbus is true? Michael Knowles answers this question and offers some much-needed historical perspective.
He ventured where no other man of his age dared to go. He saw things no other man of his age had ever seen. He
Prager University