Category: USA
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End of American Decency: People Are Dying
On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children.
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In Gratitude for USAID
An open-letter to my representatives in Congress (Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Eric Schmitt, and Congressman Sam Graves) about how one USAID program may have saved my husband’s life.
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USAID’s Work in Sudan Saved My Husband’s Village
USAID saved lives with emergency food that reached my husband’s village during famine. One friend in his village, born in the 1980s, is named “Reagan” – in honor of the President who began sending U.S.-farmed sorghum to keep Sudanese people alive. My husband, who was just learning to read English, clearly remembered reading “FROM THE…
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January 20th Through Mercy’s Eyes
In this cross-post, Mercy Aiken juxtaposes what she saw from Gaza and what she saw from Washington D.C. on January 20th.
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MLK Calls Us Beyond War
Cross-posting Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence at Riverside Church in New York City.
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Cognitive Dissonance in D.C.
The Blob knows what is going on, but it doesn’t call any of the shots… To work in DC now is to understand that the genocide in Palestine is not a mistake. The people actually in charge are doing this. (by Josef Burton)
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Massacres Under US Hegemony
In the second in a three-part series on the Korean War, Tasha, Munjo, and Tenzin present about the dark history of Korean War massacres under US hegemony.
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Korea is Increasingly Connected to the Conflicts Around the World
In the midst of a world at war, the Korean Peninsula is not only connected to these global conflicts, but is itself a geopolitical fault line. The author urges the South Korean government to tred cautiously.
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As US Approves Landmines for Ukraine, Victims Demand ‘Mine-Free World’ at Global Summit
“Every landmine planted is a child, a civilian, a woman, who is just waiting for their legs to be blown off, for his life to be taken. I am here to say we don’t want any more victims. No excuses, no exceptions.”
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Crisis in South Korea: Understanding the Turmoil Rocking South Korea’s Democracy
This webinar, directed toward an American, Christian audience, provides some context for South Korea’s martial law situation, which has been in the news lately, and offers some ways for Americans to stand in solidarity with South Koreans.
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