Tag Archives: America

If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim…

Can you imagine what Trump and the media would have said if the shooter had been a Muslim instead of a white male?! If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim, the entire Muslim American community would be blamed for the actions of this one person. If the El …

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Opinion: Trump’s racism and American exceptionalism

The belief that America is exceptional is based on the old colonial misconception that power bestows moral superiority. The uproar over US President Donald Trump’s latest outrageous remarks attacking four members of the US Congress – Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, all women of colour – …

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Video: California braced for more aftershocks after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

Emergency officials in southern California’s high desert are braced for strong, potentially dangerous aftershocks from a major earthquake that damaged buildings, ruptured gas lines and sparked numerous fires near its remote epicenter. The magnitude 7.1 tremor rocked the Mojave desert town of Ridgecrest near Death Valley National Park as darkness …

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