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GOP Lashes Out After Weekend’s Alleged Terrorist Attacks
The GOP is taking advantage of the recent events anti-Muslim rhetoric to push back against allowing refugees into the country.
UN Summit Won’t Resolve Refugee Resettlement Impasse
The UN's richer member states are missing a crucial opportunity to tackle xenophobia and racism by actually resettling refugees within their own borders.
Will President Obama Address Climate Refugees at the Upcoming Leaders Summit on Refugees?
President Obama will be hosting a Leaders' Summit on Refugees next week.
Why Is a Former Guantánamo Prisoner on Hunger Strike in Uruguay?
Sold by Pakistan, tortured by the US and traded for Uruguayan oranges, Abu Wa'el Dhiab is still trying to get home.
Post-Brexit Shifts Deprive Refugees in Calais of Needed Support
Refugee camps in Calais now look more like concentration camps — the people in them desperately need the world's help.
Team Refugee and the Normalization of Mass Displacement
As refugees take the Olympic stage, the wars that sent them running for their lives continue apace.
Global Struggles for Dominance: Noam Chomsky on ISIS, NATO and Russia
Noam Chomsky challenges prevailing viewpoints about terrorism in Europe and assesses the threat of nuclear war.
Criminalizing Solidarity: Syriza’s War on the Movements
The eviction of three occupied refugee shelters in Thessaloniki marks another episode in the Greek government's war on grassroots solidarity efforts.
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The “Golden Age of Capitalism” Was an Era of Racism and Secret Coups
A political revolution against our current system would not be the return to a less megalomaniacal Republican Party.
Lessons in Activism: Middle School Students Advocate for Syrian Refugees
Nassim Zerriffi's activism campaign class teaches middle schoolers in Manhattan how democracy really works.