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Archives for June 2016

Israel Cutting Palestinians Off From Their Own Water Supply

According to an experienced reporter on Palestine, 50 percent of the water to a city of 40,000 people has been cut off during Ramadan, a time ‘when people need to have access to food and water more than any other time.’

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Palestinians fill empty bottles of water at the New Gaza Boys United Nations School. Israel controls access to Palestinian aquifers, and has been restricting access to local residents.

JERUSALEM --- Apartheid Israel is limiting access to water in Palestine, a long-standing practice that’s only intensified during the holy month of Ramadan, when access to water becomes even more important than usual. Cuts in water supply are hitting the Occupied West Bank especially hard, Al-Jazeera reported on June 23. “Water shortages and

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Crowded London Muslim Shop Fire-Bombed As Post-Brexit Hatred Rages Out Of Control

The spike in crimes is no surprise given that Leave supporters often made their case throughxenophobic and racist language, rather than serious conversations about the economy or the refugee crisis facing Europe

Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
By Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani

There has been a significant rise in hate crimes since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week, according to local media — which is probably not a surprise given the blatantly xenophobic campaigning of Leave supporters. The Independent reported Tuesday that there have already been over 100 incidents of racial abuse and hate crimes

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Latest Poll Shows Trump Riding Wave Of ‘Hatred’ To Tie With Clinton

Brexit serves as troubling backdrop to latest U.S. election polling numbers.

Lauren McCauley
By Lauren McCauley
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens as he is introduced at Politics and Eggs in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

"Hate winning." That's the troubling explanation provided by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday as its latest national poll showed that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a statistical dead heat. The latest survey (pdf) published Wednesday finds the contest between two frontrunners "too close to call," with Clinton securing 42 percent of

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Mass Shooting Myth — U.S. Homicide Rate Hits 51-year Low As Gun Ownership Increased 141%

Contrary to what the public has been led to believe; as the homicide rate in the U.S. has fallen to a 51-year low, gun ownership has increased drastically.

Jay Syrmopoulos
By Jay Syrmopoulos
In this March 15, 2016 photo, guns for rent are on display at a shooting range and retail store in Cherry Creek, Colo. . Across the U.S., suicides account for nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths, with 21,334 gun deaths by suicide in 2014, according to federal data. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

In the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre, politicians have attempted to use the tragedy as means of garnering public support for increased gun control measures. Four pieces of knee-jerk gun control legislation were defeated in Congress yesterday, but the debate surrounding gun rights continues unabated. The new narrative is that “mass

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Four Million Americans Have Dangerously High Lead Levels In Their Water

A new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has found that there are many other cities facing extreme lead contamination in their drinking water, just like in Flint, Michigan.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Water samples for lead testing sit on an office counter top at Fawcett Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash. After Tacoma Public Schools revealed last month that multiple elementary schools tested positive for lead in the drinking water

The NRDC examined the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) violation and enforcement records from 2013-2015 and found that over 3.9 million people have water flowing into their homes that exceeds the agency’s action level. “Americans take it for granted that the water flowing from their drinking water taps…is clean and safe,” Erik Olson,

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New Evidence Shows Australia Is Torturing Refugees

The prolonged imprisonment was “arguably to coerce asylum seekers into voluntarily returning to their own or another country and to deter others from seeking asylum”.

The Independent
By The Independent
Protesters against asylum seekers being deported, gather for a rally in Sydney.

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage have all called for the adoption of an Australian-style immigration system. However, in a devastating critique of Australia’s methods, medical ethicists have warned there is “increasing evidence that Australia is engaged in torturing asylum seekers” with refugees imprisoned for more than a year

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