Tag: Virginia violence

A planet too hot to live on

What has happened in Charlottesville showed that temperatures and tempers are flaring in this long hot summer. Is the Arab Spring spreading worldwide due to climate warming? The Arab Spring broke out in 2011 with a wave of demonstrations and protests in Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Syria and Morocco. This was hailed as the outbreak of …

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August 20, 2017

America’s neo-Nazis

In response to the violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the American town of Charlottesville, the speechwriter of former President George Bush is said to have remarked that one of the “difficult but primary duties” of a political leader, indeed the Head of State, is to speak for …

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August 20, 2017

Former presidents Bush condemn bigotry, anti-Semitism

Former US leaders George H W Bush and George W Bush on Wednesday issued a tough joint statement condemning racial bigotry and anti-Semitism, in a veiled rebuke of President Donald Trump. Trump sparked a political firestorm on Tuesday when he said counter-protesters appeared to be equally to blame for violence over the weekend at a …

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August 17, 2017