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Professor Johns Hopkins-SAIS, Fr Sr Advisor, State Dept, books: Dispensable Nation, Shia Revival. RT not endorsement

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    18 hours ago

    Every major western leader - Merkel, May, Trudeau, Macron - has condemned Trump’s racial invective. Can’t think of a parallel when America’s leading allies all censored US president.

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    German chancellor Merkel on Trump's racist attacks on female members of Congress: "I firmly distance myself from that and declare my solidarity with these attacked women."
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    21 hours ago

    معنای تحرکات اخیر در خلیج‌فارس: ▪️یا همه می‌بریم،یا همه می‌بازیم. ▪️پایان دوره صبر راهبردی در برابر اروپا. ▪️هزینه‌سازی برای آمریکا بابت سیاست فشارحداکثری. ▪️دست خالی پای میز مذاکره نمی‌نشینیم. ▪️همراهی با آمریکا برای متحدانش( مانند بریتانیا)هزینه دارد.

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    20 hours ago

    's eye-for-an-eye strategy in the Gulf. My analysis as seizes / diverts 2 oil tankers near . The pattern was predictable--and mimics its tactics in , , & against US over 4 decades.

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    Jul 19

    Ahmadinejad is 's Trump, and Trump is America's Ahmadinejad. their meeting would be the something to behold

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  5. Jul 19

    Ahmadinejad is 's Trump, and Trump is America's Ahmadinejad. their meeting would be the something to behold

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    Jul 19

    Someone who was authentically compassionate and not a racist would be horrified to be accused of racism; an apology would’ve been prompt. We've yet to have an apology from the President

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    Jul 19

    Rep Ilhan Omar’s district is 70% White Rep Ilhan Omar won her seat with 78% of the vote Here are the people of Minnesota who know her best proclaiming “WELCOME HOME ILHAN!” This love & unity is what America is meant to be❤️

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    Jul 19

    "He was basking in that moment like an iguana soaking up racist sun": Late-night hosts rebuke Trump over rally chant

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    Jul 19

    In Britain, the doner kebab is a shameful thing, eaten in darkness. In Germany, the doner is a source of pride From

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    Jul 19

    . on an El Paso detention facility: “It was the physical manifestation of Trump’s rhetoric in calling migrants animals. . . . Their hair was falling out, they had sores in their mouth due to the lack of nutrition.”

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    Jul 18

    Breakfast in Panjshir: Mitra visits one of Afghanistan’s most beautiful corners in search of a local breakfast dish. Our latest in the Street Food series (with English Subtitles) via

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    Jul 18

    Has Been a MBS’s War. Now It’s His Quagmire.

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    Jul 18

    In reality, there were a number of people who said something to him and some did before the rally and the chant but after the chant. Among those who said the tweets weren’t that bad were the chief of staff and the president’s son in law.

    For the Xth time, Ivanka Trump spoke with her father about X controversy he touched off, telling him X was problematic, according to X people close to her, who claimed that despite mountains of evidence, this conversation mattered.
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    Jul 18

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says telling someone to "go back to where you came from," like Trump did to four female lawmakers of color, is legally considered harassment based on national origin. via

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    Jul 18

    Almost every country in the European Union has seen its forest area increase in the past 25 years

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    Jul 18

    In Lithuania, 57% of scientists and engineers are women

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    Jul 18

    Here it is, 2019, and we are debating racist Presidential tweets, and who is a real American, and whether “concentration camps” is the right phrase for what is happening at the southern border. By Susan Glasser

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  18. Jul 18

    Has Been a MBS’s War. Now It’s His Quagmire.

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    Jul 18

    Trump thinks migrants should be grateful or go back to where they came from. It is migrants who built this country. Most recently...just look at how many titans of Silicon Valley who have built the new digital economy are migrants.

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    Trump thinks refugees "should be second class citizens, always quiet, bowing, grateful... When I was a child, people told me all the time, 'You must be so grateful,' or of course, 'Why don't you go back where you came from?'" – , author of "The Ungrateful Refugee".
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    Jul 18

    I told : "I believe the Iranians have come to the conclusion that noncompliance and pushback in the region has brought them more dividends than compliance and restraint”

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