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Haley: US ‘Taking Names’ At UN, Will ‘Show Our Strength’

Nikki Haley, on Friday, her first day as United States ambassador to the United Nations, said she was there to institute change and support allies, adding that «for those who don’t have our back, we’re taking names.»

Jason Ditz
Por Jason Ditz
The new United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley waves to reporters as she arrives to the home of the U.S. Mission in New York, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)

(REPORT) --- Incoming US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a statement today warning of repercussions for countries that “don’t have America’s back” at the international body, insisting the new administration marks a “change in the way we do business.” Haley warned America would now be “taking names,” and that they intend to

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‘Resistance Means Resisting’: Democratic Opposition Folding Under Trump

«Senate Dems’ response to millions taking to the streets is beyond disappointing. It is outright shameful,» says Shaunna Thomas of advocacy group UltraViolet.

Deirdre Fulton
Por Deirdre Fulton
A man dressed in red-white-and-blue sits on the curb during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

(REPORT) --- From Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) backing unqualified Housing and Urban Development nominee Ben Carson, to 14 Senate Democrats voting to confirm torture supporter Mike Pompeo as CIA chief, to the looming possibility that any Democrat might support Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, progressives have reason to fear that

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Donald Trump And His ‘Magic Mirror’

President Trump’s vain tirades about crowd size and voter fraud make him look like Snow White’s evil queen gazing into her mirror, but he could turn that around by telling some important truths, says Robert Parry.

Robert Parry
Por Robert Parry
Trump mirror

By insisting that he is the legitimate winner of the U.S. popular vote and the man who drew the largest inaugural crowd ever, President Trump is behaving like the evil queen in “Snow White” gazing into a “magic mirror” and refusing to accept that he isn’t the “fairest of them all.” To protect his giant but fragile ego, Trump concocts fantasies

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2 ½ Minutes to Midnight – Our World In Peril

Over the course of 2016, the global security landscape darkened as the international community failed to come effectively to grips with humanity’s most pressing existential threats.

Robert Dodge
Por Robert Dodge
Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist, chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors, left, and Thomas Pickering, co-chair of the International Crisis Group, display the Doomsday Clock during a news conference the at the National Press Club in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, announcing that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist have moved the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock to two and a half minutes to midnight. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock. In so doing they moved the symbolic minute hand ahead thirty seconds to two and one-half minutes till midnight.  Midnight represents nuclear apocalypse. The decision to move the minute hand is made by the Bulletin's Board of Directors in consultation with its

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New Administration To Publish Weekly List Of Crimes Committed By Immigrants

The order does not specify if the list will only publish crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.

teleSUR
Por teleSUR
Protesters listen to an speaker as the hold signs during a rally against President Donald Trump's order cracking down on immigrants living in the US at Washington Square Park in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP/Andres Kudacki)

(REPORT) --- U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants. The move is part of the new executive order signed Wednesday, which targets sanctuary cities and counties which do not comply with federal requests to detain undocumented immigrants. The order underlines

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Trump Appoints Former Hate Group Leader Julie Kirchner To Head Border Protection Agency

Kirchner worked at America’s most influential anti-immigrant organization for almost ten years before leaving in 2015 to become an immigration advisor to the Trump campaign.

Stephen Piggott
Por Stephen Piggott
Julie Kirchner, former executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group labelled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Julie Kirchner, the former executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has been named chief of staff at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Kirchner worked at America’s most influential anti-immigrant

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