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Why Haudenosaunee won’t be voting in the federal election this October

Few Haudenosaunee went out to the polls in 2015. Why doesn’t the First Nations group vote in federal elections? The reason is political and historical, going back to a 17th century treaty.
Why Not Compete With Iran?
By now every Tom, Dick and Harriet knows about the mash up between the US and Iran with the Saudis on the side line throwing gas on the fire…..but instead of trying to destroy the country why not try to compete with them on the world stage?
US has imposed more sanctions on Iran and its leadership…..which is a tool for diplomacy but not for the Trump presidency……they have little to no plans……
For the Trump administration, and much of America’s Republican Party elite, the Obama administration’s nuclear deal was a step too far. Elements of the inspection regime expired prematurely, they argued, and the deal undercut a key pillar of Washington’s longstanding effort to topple the Iranian government through economic warfare. However, neither the Trump administration nor those that support the current U.S. policy in the Middle East have put forward a workable policy to address Iranian behavior. Instead, as Nicholas Miller wrote on Twitter, the Trump administration’s policies are “dangerously escalatory” and, importantly, have ceded diplomatic and coercive leverage to Iran. The result has been to push the United States into a position where it has to contemplate air strikes, a choice neither Trump nor the Democratic opposition is enthusiastic about, or just do more of the same and apply more sanctions.
Washington has no plan to translate sanctions against Iran into diplomatic success. The result is a policy of escalation that, counterintuitively, creates conditions that favor Iran’s policy of conflict-by-client to manage escalation and damage American relationships with its Gulf Arab partners. For this reason, it is important that Washington change course, seize the diplomatic initiative, and work alongside its European allies to explore ways to augment the nuclear deal — which remains operative despite the U.S. withdrawal. The United States could further defuse regional tensions by pushing for an end to the war in Yemen and initiating a high-level conversation with Iran about regional security.
Something needs to change for the status quo in the Middle East is unsustainable……
At this point, it should be clear that the regional status quo is simply not sustainable. Iran’s “strategic patience” over economic sanctions following the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, aimed at giving Europe the chance to provide Iran with the promised economic dividends of that pact, has not borne fruit. Europe has been unable to provide sufficient sanctions relief after more than a year of trying. Iran now sees its position deteriorating, with little diplomatic progress and a weakening economy – and it is not prepared to allow this to happen quietly.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/18/iran-saudi-attack-nuclear-deal-us
For 30 years the Middle East has been close to settling old hatreds and then someone somewhere has to re-light the fuse and conflict boils over again.
If Western ideals are superior to all others then why do we need to force them on others by military might?
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Trump denies pressuring Ukraine, will not commit to transcript release
Equal Nixon’s erased tapes?

Donald Trump denies trying to coerce Ukraine into investigating his Democratic political rival Joe Biden but wavers about whether he would release a transcript of a phone call that some Democrats say is grounds for his impeachment.
Pacific leaders give stark warning of ‘living nightmare’ at UN climate summit

Pacific Island leaders urge the world not to accept the “living nightmare” of climate change their countries are already facing, as the United Nations seeks to tackle stalling climate action.
‘How dare you’: Greta Thunberg accuses world leaders of failing to act on climate change

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a fierce and passionate speech at the United Nations headquarters, accusing world leaders of failing to act on climate change.
Democratic Debate Rules Will Make It Harder to Get Onstage
Money is not the measure, votes and people are! The Democratic National Committee said it would impose slightly higher thresholds to qualify for the November debate.
How Anti-Vax Sentiment Took Hold in the United States
This is life and death, not a media treating it as a game! As families face back-to-school medical requirements this month, the country feels the impact of a vaccine resistance movement decades in the making.
Republicans Only Pretend to Be Patriots
And Democrats need to expose them for what they are.
Watch Greta Thunberg’s Devastating Address At The U.N. Climate Action Summit – Gothamist
“‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!'”
Source: Watch Greta Thunberg’s Devastating Address At The U.N. Climate Action Summit – Gothamist
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