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Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of the South's "Lost Cause" - and eventually a racist icon....
The videos that rolled across the television screen were startling: Americans beating each other with clubs and sticks on the streets of a quiet college town. White supremacists with torches; anti-fascists pushing back. An improvised flame thrower fashioned from an aerosol can. Bottles of frozen water hurled like bricks at one another's skulls....
(Vatican Radio) Venezuela is bracing itself for another week of rule by the all powerful Constituent Assembly as the re-writing of the Constitution is now an Agenda priority.Listen to James Blears report: The South American trading bloc Mercosur, which has just indefinitely suspended Venezuela`s membership, is none the less, criticizing US President Donald Trump`s hint of possible military action against the Administration of President Nicolas Maduro, arguing that dialogue is the is the only way to find a lasting solution.Now that the Constituent Assembly, has snuffed out the power of the Opposition controlled Congress, it`s created an Economic Commission, taking on the daunting task of diversifying the oil driven economy, and more significantly creating a new law to regulate the price of basic commodities.It also aims to re-write the 19 year old Constitution to set the official seal on power.The other day while criticising the Media, an irate President Mad...
(Vatican Radio) Venezuela is bracing itself for another week of rule by the all powerful Constituent Assembly as the re-writing of the Constitution is now an Agenda priority.
Listen to James Blears report:
The South American trading bloc Mercosur, which has just indefinitely suspended Venezuela`s membership, is none the less, criticizing US President Donald Trump`s hint of possible military action against the Administration of President Nicolas Maduro, arguing that dialogue is the is the only way to find a lasting solution.
Now that the Constituent Assembly, has snuffed out the power of the Opposition controlled Congress, it`s created an Economic Commission, taking on the daunting task of diversifying the oil driven economy, and more significantly creating a new law to regulate the price of basic commodities.
It also aims to re-write the 19 year old Constitution to set the official seal on power.
The other day while criticising the Media, an irate President Maduro wondered aloud, whatever would his friend the Queen of England think about all of this? Any view she might express would of course be subject to the scrutiny of the Constituent Assembly`s so called Truth Commission.
SOUF, Jordan (AP) -- The odds had been stacked against Hajar, a lion cub born just hours after her mother Dana, rescued from a defunct zoo in war-torn Syria, was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior U.S. national security officials said Sunday that a military confrontation with North Korea's is not imminent, but they cautioned that the possibility of war is greater than it was a decade ago....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Why doesn't President Donald Trump just unequivocally condemn white supremacists?...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The man accused of plowing a car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Virginia had been photographed hours earlier carrying the emblem of one of the hate groups that organized the "Take America Back" campaign....
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Republican race to fill a Utah congressional seat abandoned by Jason Chaffetz is pitting the party establishment, which is backing a popular mayor with a Democratic past, against further-right conservatives who are divided between two candidates with support from national GOP heavy-hitters....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Trump resistance movement cheered when Democratic attorneys general in several states sued to block the president's plan to bar travelers from some Muslim majority countries....
