Category Archives: Viva!

4,500 Tech Workers, 1 Mission: Get Democrats Elected

Tech for Campaigns, a volunteer network of people with day jobs at companies like Google, is trying to drag Democratic campaigns into the digital age.

PHOENIX — Transporter of Stolen Migrant Children was ‘Black Contract’ Operator in Iraq and Afghanistan

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MVM secret black contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan were exposed when MVM was sued by an employee. Now in Phoenix, MVM was caught on video stashing migrant children in an abandoned office building. Photos 2 and 3: MVM advertised for youth care workers in Phoenix in June. In the photos, Native youths can be seen taking young migrant children into the black site in midtown Phoenix, including one

Key moments from Trump and May’s joint press conference – video

Murdoch will love him calling him a liar too.

Trump says his quotes in the Sun are ‘fake news’, Boris Johnson would make a great PM and the relationship between Britain and the US is ‘the highest level of special’. After Trump dismisses US immigration laws as non-existent, May says the UK has welcomed immigrants and immigration has been good for the UK

Donald Trump in the UK – live

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‘The highest level of special’: Trump praises US relationship with UK

First hand exposure to his false face, hair and lies

From Brexit and Boris to Putin and fake news, US president and Theresa May put on a show of unity after their Chequers meeting

Donald Trump’s press conference with Theresa May at Chequers lasted 50 minutes, and took in everything from transatlantic relations to immigration, Boris Johnson, attacks on the media and at least one outright lie by the US president.

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Friday Finds: Excerpt from ‘Shatila Stories’

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The magazine Refinery 29 has published an extract from Shatila Stories, a commissioned novel that was written by nine Syrian and Palestinian refugees, edited by Suhir Helal, translated by Nashwa Gowanlock, and published by Peirene Press:

It opens:

Chaos everywhere. Thundering sounds rip through my ears. I blink and blink again. I take snapshots with my eyes. Racing feet, dragging feet; old people, young people; cars of different colours, of different shapes; grey sky, swaying trees. Hundreds, thousands are waiting at the closed gate, paperwork in hand, hoping to pass through. They want to cross the border. A scene worthy of the Day of Reckoning. Worry and fear are paramount. A pallor has settled across everyone’s face, no matter how dark or fair their complexion. Desperate eyes.

You can keep reading at Refinery 29and you can also meet the nine writers in this YouTube interview:

Trump blasts UK PM May’s Brexit plan, says it puts trade deal in doubt

A disunited Europe is Putin’s goal and, hence, a must do for #PuppetTrump! U.S. President Donald Trump said a free trade deal with Britain might be impossible if it went ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for post-Brexit ties with the European Union, in a damaging intervention set to further criticism of her plans.

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