Video: Traditional mindsets evolving on Iranian island of Qeshm

The Iranian island of Qeshm, in the Persian Gulf, is home to one of the country’s most traditional societies. Young women are often married off at puberty, rarely venture out of their villages alone, and sometimes mask their faces. But things are beginning to change. More and more young women are being encouraged to study and now dream of leading a different life from that of their mothers. Our correspondents report.
‘You Hate America!’: How ‘the Caravan’ Story Exploded on the Right
Racism at its worst – “Brown hoard” replaces “Yellow Hoards” and “Irish Hoards” of old! Evil as evil can be. The coverage tends to play on the fears that hiding among mass groups of immigrants are criminals, vectors of disease and terrorists.
Trump Denies Knowing of Any Hush Money Paid to Porn Actress
ROTFLMAO In his first public remarks, President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he knew nothing about $130,000 paid to the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels.
The west must not just abandon the Balkans to Russia’s embrace | Ivor Roberts
#TraitorTrump cares not a whit!

The proposal to honour the late Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević with a statue in Belgrade reflects a wider power play
The commission for monuments and naming of streets and squares in Belgrade will soon rule on a proposal to erect a statue of Slobodan Milošević, Serbia’s late president, who led his country into and through the collapse of Yugoslavia and a series of calamitous wars in the 1990s.
This proposal, made by the youth wing of Milošević’s Socialist party (now back in government in Belgrade), tells us much about the state of politics in Serbia and the wider Balkans. To the west, Milošević – who died in 2006 while on trial for crimes against humanity at The Hague – was a war criminal; to many Serbs he was not only that but also the man who oversaw a collapse in living standards, the isolation of Serbia and the loss of swaths of territory that had once been majority Serb.
Trump defends Mexican rapists claim during conspiracy-laden speech
When rats are cornered – they get even wilder and more dangerous to the rest of us.

The president threw out his script at West Virginia event, speaking of voter ‘conspiracy theory’ and referencing his infamous 2015 remarks
Donald Trump veered wildly off-script at an event intended to tout the Republican tax bill on Thursday, making false claims about voter fraud and darkly warning of the menace of predominantly Hispanic gangs.
Trump, who spent much of the 2016 campaign alleging massive voter fraud, returned to the topic at the event in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
Trump says taking a serious look at policy options on Amazon
E.P.A. Officials Sidelined After Questioning Scott Pruitt – The New York Times
Mr. Pruitt bristled when the officials — four career E.P.A. employees and one Trump administration political appointee — confronted him, the people said.
The political appointee, Kevin Chmielewski, was placed on administrative leave without pay, according to two of the people with knowledge of the situation. Mr. Chmielewski was among the first employees of Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, serving as a senior advance official. The two people, who are administration officials, said that Mr. Chmielewski flagged some of his concerns about Mr. Pruitt directly to the White House’s presidential personnel office.
Two of the career officials, Reginald E. Allen and Eric Weese, were moved to jobs where they had less say in spending decisions and less interaction with Mr. Pruitt, the people said. A third career official, John E. Reeder, joined American University as a temporary “executive in residence” after being told by the E.P.A. to find a new job. And a John C. Martin, who served on the security detail, was also removed from the team and had his gun and badge taken away after raising concerns about how Mr. Pruitt’s security was being handled.
غزة …اعمي بدخان اطاراتك عيون لا تبصر
Gaza home of hope, despair, brutality, courage, love. When Gazans are finally free, the world will be amazed and free as well.
غزة …اعمي بدخان اطاراتك عيون لا تبصر 
هل من الصعب فهم سبب قوة غزة ؟ هل من الصعب استيعاب معنى التضحية بالجسد في ظلال حياة تخنق فيها الروح مع كل نفس ؟
سيخنقنا دخان غزة ؟
غزة التي تقاوم مقاومة الأبطال ، وتضحي تضحية الزاهد، وتناضل من أجل الوجود حتى الرمق الأخير ، نعجز دائما امام قوة أهلها مقابل عجزنا المخزي.
سيبقى مشهد اندفاع الناس في مسيرة سلمية نحو الحدود إلى بلدات لم ينس أصحابها مكانها، ولا يزال الكثيرون يحتفظون بمفاتيحها القديمة، وكواشين ملكية الارض وعقودها،وقنص قوات الاحتلال لهم ورشهم بوابل الرصاص، مشهدا يسجله التاريخ على بطش الاحتلال وظلم الحياة وخنوع الجميع من ساسة وحكام ارض.
بارتقاء ١٧ بطل وجرح العشرات من المحاربين من اجل حرية رمزية الأسبوع الفائت، ليس بالغريب على عزة فلسطين ان تقوي هكذا جريمة بشعة ابناءها. فهم لا يفهمون معنى تجريد الانسان من كل وسائل العيش وحرق القلوب وتجويع البطون. لا يفهمون معنى ان تتساوى الحياة…
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Panic In D.C.
I lived in DC at that time and attended American University. This was a summer of discord, hope, and hopes smashed when Martin was killed and then Bobby – while thousands marched to end the war and in the poor people’s march on Washington. We could be in for the same now because #TraitorTrump is not as smart as even Nixon was and there are so few with principles left in the GOP in DC now.
From the air, through the haze of smoke, the city looked like a battlefield. On April 5, a convoy of soldiers from Fort Myer in Virginia began rolling over Memorial Bridge into the city. More came in from Fort Meade in Maryland. Eventually, 13,000 troops would arrive — the most to occupy an American city since the Civil War.

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