Black Lives Matter Defends Chicago Looting as ‘Reparations’

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(David Dee Delgado/Getty Images) A Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago is defending the violence that caused $60 million in damage and injured 13 police officers on Sunday, characterizing looting as “reparations.” Ariel Atkins, a BLM organizer, according to Chicago … Read More

Chicago Business Owners Fear Impact of More Looting

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A window is shattered at a Timberland store along Michigan Avenue after it was looted on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Chicago continues to brace for more looting as business owners fear the long-term impact of … Read More

Russian Military Looks to Establish Six Military Bases in Africa

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A serious problem, or a pipe dream? Even before the so-called “Scramble for Africa” of the late nineteenth-century, many European powers had a well-established presence in Africa—including some with benign-sounding terms such as “interest” or “protectorate.” But after the Berlin … Read More

Tyrants, including rulers of Iran, China and North Korea, threaten free speech in all countries

Illustration on attacking freedom of speech by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times ANALYSIS/OPINION: Frederick Douglass called freedom of speech “the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they, first of all, strike down. They know its power.” Back in the … Read More

North Korea Most Certainly Has a Coronavirus Problem

Can the impoverished country pull through the pandemic if widespread outbreaks occur? North Korean state media has publicly admitted the likely presence of coronavirus in the country, reversing Pyongyang’s longstanding and widely doubted claim of no coronavirus cases within its borders. … Read More

Aftermath of looting in downtown Chicago: 13 cops injured, 2 people shot, more than 100 arrests, Mag Mile trashed

Clean up at Best Buy Workers clean up merchandise boxes outside the Best Buy store on North Avenue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood following looting on Aug. 10, 2020. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune) Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent … Read More

Trump and Biden take sharply different paths on immigration

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s push to crackdown on illegal immigration and reshape legal immigration was at the heart of the Republican’s winning 2016 campaign and has remained at the forefront of his White House agenda. Former Vice President Joe … Read More

As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics

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Government data released last Friday shows that from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020 forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon totaled 9,205 square kilometers (3.554 square miles), an increase of 34.5% over the previous comparative period (2018/2019), when 6,844 … Read More

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