Harvey Wasserman | Trump's "Emergency" Is About His Criminality, NOT the Wall

15 February 19

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Harvey Wasserman | Trump's "Emergency" Is About His Criminality, NOT the Wall 

Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
Wasserman writes: "He says it's about the border wall. He's got everybody yapping about immigration and steel slats. He's torturing and killing innocent children in concentration camps at the border for the private profit of the incarceration corporations ... and to act out his own primal fantasies as an absolute dictator."
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Donald Trump supporter holds sign calling for border wall to be built. (photo: Getty)

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Excerpt: "Trump is setting a precedent for future presidents."
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Former Trump Officials Are Supposed to Avoid Lobbying. Except 33 Haven't.
Derek Kravitz, ProPublica
Kravitz writes: "The former officials - including ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke - have found ways to sidestep the administration's ethics pledge."
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Excerpt: "The UK-born rapper, who was detained by US immigration authorities, has lived in Atlanta since he was seven years old."
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Fast-food restaurants in New York City may soon have to adhere to a law that prohibits firing an employee without just cause. (photo: Mike Groll/AP)

Fired for No Reason? Fast-Food Workers Complain of Unfair Dismissals
Steven Greenhouse, Guardian UK
Greenhouse writes: "It's easy to get fired in fast food. According to a recent report, one fast-food worker said she was fired because her nails were too long; another because she said she didn't smile enough. That might be about to change."
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Israeli security forces hold a Palestinian child in a chokehold. (photo: AFP)

Israel Detained 500 Palestinians, Including 89 Children So Far in 2019
teleSUR
Excerpt: "This January alone, Israel detained 509 Palestinians, including 89 children and eight women, from occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian prisoners rights groups."
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Students take part in a student climate march on February 15, 2019, in Brighton, England. (photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty)

Climate Change: Young People Striking From School See It for the Life-Threatening Issue It Is
David Rousell and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, The Conversation
Excerpt: "Students around the world are walking out of school once more, as part of ongoing strikes to protest governments' inaction on climate change. Since August 2018, tens of thousands of young people have taken part in strikes across Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Canada and Australia. The movement continues to grow, with fresh protests occurring in the UK and elsewhere."
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