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‘An Endorsement Of Racism’: Trump Hints At Pardon For Joe Arpaio

Human rights groups and advocates swiftly respond to Trump’s reassurance that America’s so-called «toughest sheriff,» a convicted criminal awaiting his sentence, will be «just fine»

Jessica Corbett
Por Jessica Corbett
Joe Arpaio, who proclaimed himself ‘America’s toughest sheriff’, showing detainees at the Tent City facility to the media in 2009. (Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP)

Human rights groups and advocates were outraged when President Donald Trump, from his controversial rally in Arizona Tuesday night, strongly implied he would pardon Joe Arpaio, the notorious former sheriff of Maricopa County who has been convicted of violating a federal court order to stop discriminating against Latinos in his county. "So was

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Fearing Counter-Protests, Anti-Muslim Group Cancels 67 Rallies

ACT America’s leader Brigitte Gabriel is known to have issued statements denouncing Islam and stating devout Muslims cannot be “loyal Americans.»

teleSUR
Por teleSUR
Counter-protestors stand behind a line of Seattle Police officers across the street from an anti-Islamic law protest rally, June 10, 2017, in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Citing the 40,000-strong anti-fascist protest in Boston Saturday, the largest anti-Muslim group in the U.S. has canceled nearly 67 "America First" rallies in 36 states. ACT for America, who claims to "prioritize real protection over political correctness," had planned nationwide rallies on Sept. 9 to support President Donald Trump's "Common

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The US Is Waging Cyber Warfare In Thailand Under The Guise Of Activism

The US use of cyberterrorism in Thailand and beyond should come as no surprise. It augments already ongoing efforts by US-backed opposition in Thailand to destabilize and upend Thailand’s political order.

Joseph Thomas
Por Joseph Thomas
Homeland Security logo reflected in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the agency’s secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)

The threat of cyberterrorism has competed for center stage in American politics with fears of “Russian hackers” disrupting everything from elections to electrical grids. And yet as US policymakers wield threats of cyberterrorism to promote a long and growing list of countermeasures and pretexts for expanding its conflict with Moscow, it is

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Pentagon To Spend Close To $500 Million On Guantanamo Expansion

The Pentagon envisions some $500 million in new spending, with roughly half set aside for a five-bed hospital, leading to criticism that the plan costs $50 million per bed.

Jason Ditz
Por Jason Ditz
Guantanamo

While President Trump is still trying to sort out exactly how to word his executive order,  but the plan is clearly to expand the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and start throwing more detainees into the facility. The Pentagon’s planning ahead on picking up spending at the site. The Pentagon envisions some $500 million in new spending,

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UN Condemns US Airstrikes In Syria Over Heavy Civilian Death Toll

According to reports from Syrian local media, at least 78 civilians have died in the past day in Raqqa city during U.S:-coalition led airstrike assaults

teleSUR
Por teleSUR
Black smoke rises from Raqqa where U.S.-forces are battling ISIS militants, in, northeast Syria, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

As reports mount of heavy civilian deaths at the hands of the United States coalition in Raqqa, the United Nations has expressed “deep concern” over the reports and has said that they condemn any attack directed against civilians or civilian infrastructure. “In recent days and weeks scores of civilians have reportedly been killed and injured in

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Freedom For The Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins And Outs Of The Right To Protest

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Whitehead
Por John Whitehead
Confederate flag supporters climb Stone Mountain to protest of what they believe is an attack on their Southern heritage during a rally at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Ga. Aug. 1, 2015. (AP/John Amis)

There was a time in this country, back when the British were running things, that if you spoke your mind and it ticked off the wrong people, you’d soon find yourself in jail for offending the king. Reacting to this injustice, when it was time to write the Constitution, America’s founders argued for a Bill of Rights, of which the First Amendment

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