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Race Commissioner: Australia is going backwards on racism

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In his final speech as Race Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Tim Soutphommasane says “there has never been a more exciting time to be a dog-whistling politician.”

Boris Johnson told to apologise over ‘totally out of order’ burka comments

Thumb in your eye Boris is having his fun any one’s expense he can unless he is run out of Tory Party!

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British Prime Minister Theresa May and other senior Conservatives tell former foreign secretary Boris Johnson to say sorry for a newspaper column in which he wrote burka-wearing women looked like “letter boxes” and bank robbers.

US sanctions target Iran’s access to US banknotes and key industries

North Korea can start selling its fake $100s and $50s again. Russia will sell steel and aluminum to Iran, and oil will be sold to Russian agents and repackaged to run overseas Trump resorts?

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The United States re-imposed a wave of tough, unilateral sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, bringing back into effect harsh penalties that had been lifted under a historic, multi-party nuclear agreement that President Donald Trump abandoned in May.

Charlottesville’s first black female mayor: ‘We’re not a post-racial nation’

I feel like the majority of the city council, when I walk in the room, the conversation shifts. People are quiet. I’m kept out of a lot of discussions. It’s still worth it. It changes the conversation. They are no longer in control of the narrative. Whether they exclude me or not, I’m in the story.

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A year after white supremacists marched through the liberal city, Nikuyah Walker says the left needs less talk and more action

A year ago, white supremacist groups marched with torches through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. The city reacted by electing its first black female mayor, Nikuyah Walker, 38, a fierce critic of how city officials had handled last year’s far-right protests.

An independent, Walker ran under the campaign slogan “Unmasking the illusion”. She argued that Charlottesville’s Democratic politicians had failed to do enough to tackle systemic racism and economic inequality, and that it was time for a deeper change.

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Apple, YouTube, and others drop conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

Must have thought that coming boycott would hurt them more than clicks at his sites gained them in $$. Certainly moral and ethics were not their concern, were they? Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Facebook Inc and Spotify all took down podcasts and channels from U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, saying on Monday that the Infowars author had broken community standards.

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