Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Immigrants. An opportunity, not a problem.
In accord with my ongoing effort to reverse Gdansk’s and Polish record of nationalism and to make our city more immigrant-friendly, the Council of Immigrants was created. It is a part of a wider immigration policy accepted by the City Council. Now I look forward to getting help and advice from 12 people from different parts of the world. As...
Top House Democrats Demand FBI Inquiry Into Trump Team’s Alleged Link To Email Hack
A group of senior House Democrats is calling on the FBI to investigate the alleged connection between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the hack of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, which it’s widely suggested has Russia’s hands all over it.Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Eliot...
Weekend Roundup: Aleppo Is The 21st-Century Guernica
A fertile crossroads of trade and culture for millennia, Aleppo today is a victim of the unfathomable suffering that results when ancient enmities meet modern weapons and poisonous post-Cold War geopolitics. Its ongoing decimation by Russian and Syrian air bombardment ranks the city as an emblem of human brutality in our time comparable to the...
Hillary Clinton, Wannabe Global Dominatrix and Liberal Neocon, Plans more Stupid Wars
Never before were the two leading presidential candidates so disliked. Both major parties have nominated candidates that most Americans desperately want to reject. There many reasons to oppose Hillary Clinton: a history of scandal, reaching back to Bill Clinton’s Arkansas governorship; greedy, grasping friendships with economic elites; and...
Atonement and Action on the Syrian Crisis
As we step away from Yom Kippur, it is a moment when the American Jewish community accepts responsibility for our sins of the past year and prepares to start anew. This year, we must atone also for the crimes in Syria–and that atonement must involve taking deliberate action to stop the slaughter of innocents there. All of us have seen the...
Sixty Years in Journalism: Revisiting the Revitalized Baltics
When I revisited Vietnam in recent years, after reporting from the region during the 1970s, I noted how its rulers had won their wars against France and the United States only to lose out on the economic front, as Communism put them a quarter century behind the roaring “tigers” of East Asia. Now they are struggling to catch up by...
Trump Calls U.S. Bombing Of Yugoslavia A ‘Big Mistake’: Report
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump expressed regret to Serbia for the U.S.-led bombing campaign of what was then Yugoslavia in the 1990s, according to a Serbian weekly magazine.“The bombing of Serbs, who were our allies in both world wars, was a big mistake,” Trump told Nedeljnik. “Serbians are very good people. Unfortunately, the...
Myth of Russian Power
It is fair to say that Russia is doing its best to be the biggest thorn in the side of the US and NATO in recent years. It is almost as if they were offended by how little attention the world was paying to them in the 90s and early 2000s, after the West spent half a century fearing and dreading them. And now they are doing their best to frustrate...
Russian Ultra-Nationalist Says Vote Trump Or Risk Nuclear War
MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Reuters) – Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President Vladimir Putin who likes to compare himself to the U.S. Republican candidate.Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery...
Poland’s Massive Anti-Abortion Protest Shows That Citizens Are Frustrated With The Country’s Rightward Surge
LVIV, Ukraine ― Last week, Poland’s ruling government, the Law and Justice party, or PiS, rejected a proposal to ban abortion, but not before black-clad Poles, who donned the color in symbolic mourning of the potential loss of their reproductive rights, took to the streets across the country in a revolt against its rightward surge. The...
