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The word peacekeeping is like the word terrorism: it is meaningless on its own and able to be molded to serve the interests of a political clique. Like Alex P. Schmidt's description of terrorism in The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research , peacekeeping "is usually an instrument for the attempted realization of a politicala project that perpetrators lacking mass support are seeking."
Republicans disdainfully call it "identity politics," this outreach by Democrats to the many target audiences that make up what we used to call "the melting pot" but is more accurately described as the patchwork quilt comprising the American people. That's because, when they think of "the voter," "the people," "REAL Amurricans," Republicans have a very clear image in mind: a middle-aged white man with a middle-class job, a wife and kids who are dependent on him, and the grandparents, who are also white and live in the suburbs or a retirement community.
Indigenous activist J.R. American Horse marches in a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota last month. Activists from oil-impacted communities around the country are descending on Energy Transfer Partners' corporate offices in Houston, Texas, to protest the company's Dakota Access Pipeline and other controversial pipeline projects.
Suleiman Abdullah Salim is one of 39 men subjected to some of the C.I.A.'s most brutal techniques during America's post-9/11 war on terror. Salim described his incarceration in grisly detail in a series of interviews with James Risen, a reporter at The New York Times.
A life on death row is unimaginable for most people - but for almost 3,000 prisoners in the United States, it is stark reality. Gary Tyler used to be one such prisoner, unjustly convicted and sentenced to death at age 16 for a crime he did not commit.
Societies worldwide are suffering epidemics of mental illness because "human beings, the ultrasocial mammals, whose brains are wired to respond to other people, are being peeled apart," writes George Monbiot at The Guardian. "Though our wellbeing is inextricably linked to the lives of others, everywhere we are told that we will prosper through competitive self-interest and extreme individualism."
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Donald Trump has gone too far with his attacks on Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son Army Capt. Humayun Khan... A Donald Trump White House would be a disaster, and this goes way beyond any ideological difference.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the second presidential debate. Donald Trump mischaracterized the record on Hillary Clinton's defense of her husband and her own treatment of women when he brought up Bill Clinton's sexual history and other episodes of the past.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump casts a shadow as he speaks at the Polish National Alliance in Chicago, Wed., Sept. 28. From the moment the first scribe etched a paean of praise to Nebuchadnezzar into a stone tablet, it's reasonable to conclude that never in history has the media covered a single human being as it has Donald Trump.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump released a video statement saying comments from a 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women emerged "don't reflect" who he is. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview Saturday that he would not drop out of the race under any circumstances, following calls from several in his party to do so.
Since Republican primary voters nominated a racist, sexist, xenophobic conspiracy-monger as their party's standard-bearer, we'll have to put up with that asshole's dangerous demagoguery until future President Hillary kicks his ass on November 8. That's just the way democracy works when the electorate comprises millions of petulant, overgrown toddlers with massive persecution complexes. But is there no recourse when public sector union officials lie to inflame anti-immigrant sentiment on a candidate's behalf? That appears to have happened during a meeting today between Trump and several National Border Patrol Council officials.
Just came across another person hectoring teh millennials for maybe not voting for Hillary Clinton despite all polls showing that they'll vote in greater proportions for Hillary Clinton than any other generation. It's a funny obsession.
An outtake from the Paul Ryan photo shoot that was inspired by his Facebook photos showing him working out with P90X creator Tony Horton If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them.
Renee Montagne talks to Stephanie Schriock, president of the pro-abortion rights political action committee EMILY's List, about the group's spending on political races this election.
Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed 'to highlight the vital role women play not only in the resistance movement, but in the survival of the Palestinian people as a whole'. The Israeli navy on Wednesday stopped a boat carrying international female activists, preventing them from breaking the blockade of Gaza.
A National Security Agency contractor has been arrested and charged with stealing highly classified information, U.S. authorities said Wednesday, a data breach that could result in a damaging new leak about the U.S. government's surveillance efforts. The contractor was identified as Harold Thomas Martin who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, the same firm that renowned whistleblower Edward Snowden worked for.
According to a series of newspapers, immigrants will apparently change the English language in Britain beyond repair over the next 50 years. The Daily Telegraph , the Daily Mail and the Daily Express have all run alarming stories on this topic.
The executive director the Kansas City library system says he is "outraged" that prosecutors continue to pursue charges against a man who was arrested after asking pointed questions during a library discussion about the Middle East peace process and an employee tried to intervene.
In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave of unrest, a Palestinian upheaval, or even the "Jerusalem Intifada." Whatever the name, the past year has seen an intensification of deadly violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.