Category: Politics

Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again.

Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again.

Monuments to racism license racist violence. White supremacists, for their part, know this well. The Trump administration announced this week that it would be restoring two Confederate monuments in Washington. One, a statue of...

US widens public benefit restrictions for undocumented immigrants

US widens public benefit restrictions for undocumented immigrants

Health Department says immigrants will lose access to 13 more federal programmes, including an educational project for low-income children. United States officials are cutting down further on undocumented immigrants’ access to healthcare programmes and...

U.S. diplomats brace for mass layoffs after months in limbo

U.S. diplomats brace for mass layoffs after months in limbo

The layoffs are part of an agency reorganization that has been in the works for months. U.S. diplomats in Washington are bracing for cuts to the State Department workforce, with dismissal notices expected to...

Canada plans to hit NATO spending target early and reduce reliance on US defense, Carney says

Canada plans to hit NATO spending target early and reduce reliance on US defense, Carney says

Canada will meet NATO’s military spending guideline by early next year and diversify defense spending away from the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday, asserting that Washington no longer plays a predominant...

Critics slam Mexico’s gentrification protests as xenophobic. Activists say they’re fighting for their human rights

Critics slam Mexico’s gentrification protests as xenophobic. Activists say they’re fighting for their human rights

The words “Get out of Mexico” are still visible on one shop window as protestors violently kicked in the glass pane. In another clip, “Kill a gringo” is spray-painted on a wall in Mexico...

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