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Iran Hard-Liners' New Headache: Dancing Schoolchildren
By Golnza Esfandiari @ RFERL.org, May 10, with a tweeted video embedded
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U.S. Rep. Justin Amash (R) of Michigan says:
continues as whole thread of tweets
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Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades...
From MARACAIBO, Venezuela by Anatoly Kurmanaev @ NYTimes.com, May 17
The crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba’s unraveling in the 1990s and Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe.
Shortages of food, water and medication have sunk most of the population into a deepening humanitarian crisis.Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/americas/venezuela-economy.html -
May/Corbyn plot to leave, avoid 2nd referendum
Except those talks appear to have collapsed...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/17/brexit-talks-tories-lab...
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What Actually Happens When a Country Bans Abortion
Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions. opponents of the restrictive abortion laws currently being considered in the United States don’t need to look to fiction for admonitory examples of where these types of laws can lead. For decades, communist Romania was a real-life test case of what can happen when a country outlaws abortion entirely, and the results were devastating.
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Austria approves headscarf ban in primary schools
Law against ‘religiously influenced clothing’ exempts male Sikh and Jewish headwear
[....] Representatives of both parts of the governing coalition, the centre-right People’s party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), have made it clear that despite its wide description, the law is targeted at the Islamic headscarf.
The FPÖ education spokesman, Wendelin Mölzer, said the law was “a signal against political Islam” while the ÖVP MP Rudolf Taschner said the measure was necessary to free girls from subjugation [....]
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Gene Simmons delivers briefing at Pentagon podium that has...
By Tom Kludt @ CNN Business, May 16As the frontman of KISS, Gene Simmons occupies rarefied air — a rock star who entertains arenas filled with adoring fans. On Thursday, Simmons joined another exclusive club, conducting only the second on-camera press briefing at the Department of Defense in the last year [...]
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Iran tells Middle East militias: prepare for proxy war
Exclusive: Top military leader delivers message at Baghdad meeting as tensions rise
By Martin Chulov @ TheGuardian.com, May 16
Iran’s most prominent military leader has recently met Iraqi militias in Baghdad and told them to “prepare for proxy war”, the Guardian has learned.
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Correcting the Myth of the Lost Cause
For decades the myth of the Lost Cause went unchallenged. Whites who felt that they were victims because they had to live with the fact that the South lost the Civil wove an elaborate tale of the noble South who lost to an intrusive Northern based United States government. In this tale, slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War. In fact, the argument went, blacks proudly fought for the South. Lies were interwoven into history.
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