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TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLANS HIT SNAG

by | Feb 24, 2017

Stepping up deportations, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] hit a major snag when Mexican officials refused to take nationals from other Latin American countries. While most Americans see illegal immigration coming from Mexico, that doesn’t mean...

LGBT COMMUNITY IRKED BY TRANSGENDER REPEAL

by | Feb 23, 2017

Revoking former President Barack Obama’s guidelines on transgender bathrooms, President Donald Trump showed his federalist leanings, letting states decide whether transgender groups should use the opposite sex bathrooms. Occupying less than one percent of the...

NEW SYRIAN PEACE TALKS DOOMED TO FAILURE

by | Feb 22, 2017

Getting ready to open up another round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva Feb. 23, 70-year-old U.N. Special envoy Staffan de Mistura looks to tamp down expectations, with most parties holding the same positions when talks opened a year ago. Since evicting...

MARINE LE PEN GAINS STEAM IN FRANCE

by | Feb 21, 2017

Proving her international chops, 48-year-old far right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen met with Lebanon’s Christian President Michal Aoun in Beirut, courting the French Lebanese vote. France’s Lebanese population swelled during Lebanon’s civil war [1975-1990]...

NEW YORK TIMES PUSHES FAKE TIES TO RUSSIA

by | Feb 20, 2017

When 69-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lost to President Donald Trump Nov. 8, her failed campaign chairman John D. Podesta blamed FBI Director James Comey for opening her email scandal two weeks before Election Day. It didn’t take long for...