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Turkey spurns widespread criticism of clampdown on university protests

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US Supreme Court spurns NY politician Sheldon Silver’s appeal in corruption case

NEW YORK — The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the case of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who is serving a 6 1/2-year prison sentence after being convicted in a corruption case. The high court’s decision not to hear Silver’s appeal is another sharp blow to the Manhattan Democrat, who was […]

Shame: Harvard Welcomes Spicer, Spurns Manning

Above photo: ‘Harvard’s fear of alienating donors is well known.’ Photograph: Buckner/Variety/REX/Shutterstock Its time to withdraw support from the university after it invited Sean Spicer and Corey Lewandowski, but rescinded a fellowship for Chelsea Manning. Boston, MA – I graduated from Harvard in 1968. (Officially, my diploma was from Radcliffe, the now disbanded women’s college, but […]

Netanyahu Spurns Social Justice Issues

by Stephen Lendman   Unaffordable housing prices ignited mass social justice protests in Israel. At issue is settlement developments at the expense of other construction, creating a supply/demand imbalance enough to cause prices to skyrocket. Israelis demand that issue be addressed responsibly. In response, Netanyahu’s government announced thousands of illegal new West Bank/East Jerusalem settlement […]

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