Category Archives: Global Politics

Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime | Yoka Verdoner | Opinion | The Guardian

My grief and anger about today’s southern border come not just from my personal life. As a retired psychotherapist who has worked extensively with victims of childhood trauma, I know all too well what awaits many of the thousands of children, taken by our government at the border, who are now in “processing centers” and foster homes – no matter how decent and caring those places might be. We can expect thousands of lives to be damaged, for many years or for ever, by “zero tolerance”. We can expect old men and women, decades from now, still suffering, still remembering, still writing in the present tense. What is happening in our own backyard today is as evil and criminal as what happened to me and my siblings as children in Nazi Europe. It needs to be stopped immediately.

Source: Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. The trauma lasts a lifetime | Yoka Verdoner | Opinion | The Guardian

Putin’s ‘trail of breadcrumbs from Trump Tower’: Spies issue warning to West – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

“To sow discord and discontent and doubt about our system and they succeeded fairly well in doing that. They played to the schisms, to the polarisation, played to the interest of our various tribes,” he said. Mr Hoffman agrees. “Vladimir Putin realised he could inject this virus into our political system and set us fighting against each other instead of remembering that the enemy is not Google, Facebook, Twitter, Democrats, Republicans — it’s the guy in the Kremlin,” he said.

Source: Putin’s ‘trail of breadcrumbs from Trump Tower’: Spies issue warning to West – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism | World news | The Guardian

As violent street protests between the far right and anti-fascists become standard fare, rightwingers see the press as a threat – and aren’t shy to act on it

Source: Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism | World news | The Guardian

T-Mobile Hires Corey Lewandowski to Help Sell Merger to Trump – Everything is for sale – including competition, jobs, democracy…

T-Mobile has hired former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to help the company gain regulatory approval for its $23 billion merger with Sprint. The looming merger has been blocked several times by regulators already because it would not only eliminate anywhere from 10 to 30,000 jobs but would dramatically reduce incentive for the remaning three large wireless carriers to seriously compete on price. As with most megamergers, the CEOs for Sprint and T-Mobile have spent the last few weeks trying to claim the exact opposite.

Source: Inoreader – T-Mobile Hires Corey Lewandowski to Help Sell Merger to Trump –

Russia should free Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov before the World Cup – IFEX

Does the Kremlin care enough about international pressure and the shadow cast by Sentsov’s case to free him? Stranger things have happened, and the outrage over his imprisonment has been mounting inside and outside Russia. For the sake of Oleg Sentsov and others jailed for dissent through political manipulation of justice, we can only hope that Russia still cares about its international image enough to realize that the only right thing to do is to release them immediately.

Source: Russia should free Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov before the World Cup – IFEX

FBI has obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Donald Trump Jr at NRA Convention | 3CHICSPOLITICO “No one cares the the NRA is in bed with Russia?” 

Torshin — a close political ally of Vladimir Putin — had multiple contacts with conservative activists in the United States during the election, seeking to set up a summit between the Russian president and then candidate Trump. Although the summit never transpired, Torshin did meet briefly with the president’s son at a private dinner in Louisville during the May 2016 annual convention of the NRA. A member of the NRA since 2012, Torshin has been a regular attendee of the group’s conventions in recent years and hosted senior members of the group in Moscow.

Source: FBI has obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Donald Trump Jr at NRA Convention | 3CHICSPOLITICO