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reportwire · 1 year

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Islamic State group claims attack on Chinese hotel in Kabul

ISLAMABAD — The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a coordinated attack on a Chinese-owned hotel in Afghanistan’s capital that left three assailants dead and at least two of the hotel guests injured as they tried to escape by jumping out from a window. Beijing on Tuesday advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible,” following the…

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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“America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality.

The Biden administration on January 19 launched the Welcome Corps, a new program that will allow groups of Americans to directly sponsor refugees to resettle in their communities.

Whereas recent programs have focused on bringing over people from specific places — Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela — this program makes it possible for private citizens to resettle people from any place in the world, so long as they are refugees as defined by the US Refugee Act.

Under the Welcome Corps program, you and a few of your friends can pool together funds to provide an immigration pathway that allows vulnerable people who may not otherwise be able to immigrate the ability to rebuild their lives in the US. Forming a private sponsor group involves bringing together at least five adults in your area and collectively raising $2,275 for each person you want to resettle in your community. With that money, sponsors commit to helping them through the first three months there, which can include securing and furnishing housing, stocking the pantry with food, supporting job hunts, and registering kids for school.

It’s a powerful way to improve life for the newcomers, granting them protection from persecution or violence in their country of origin, plus the chance to access health care, education, and socioeconomic opportunities. It can also improve life for everyone who’ll be in the newcomers’ orbit, including you and your neighbors. Research suggests welcoming refugees will likely benefit your community as a whole, for example by opening new businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. In Canada, a similar private sponsorship program has proven immensely popular and successful over the past decade.

But you might be thinking: Why should it fall to private citizens to fork over the cash, time, and energy to resettle refugees? Shouldn’t that be the government’s job?

...It’s a fair point: This is the government’s job. That’s why the advocacy groups that pushed for the Welcome Corps program insisted that any refugees who come to the US via private sponsorship should be in addition to the number of traditional, government-assisted resettlement cases.

The State Department has signaled that it agrees. This means that by sponsoring a refugee, you can play a role in allowing the US to take in more refugees overall. It really is additive.

And unlike prior programs for Afghans or Ukrainians, which were temporary, ad hoc responses to crises, the Welcome Corps is intended to be a permanent fixture. The hope is that it’ll complement the traditional resettlement process, which has been struggling for years.”

-via Vox, 1/27/23

#refugees #asylum #us politics #immigration #migration is a human right #refugee #afghanistan #ukraine #welcome corps #refugee sponsorship #united states #human rights #immigration reform #immigrant rights #good news #hope #this has SO MUCH potential to make a difference #to let us help people rather than just watch the government be awful and racist #it's huge

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tomi4i · 1 month

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Pro at playing victim.

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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Women in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan are facing significant challenges in their fight for survival and equality, yet some self-identified feminists, known as TERFs, do not acknowledge or support their struggle and revolution.

#terfblr #radical feminism #gender critical #radfem #radblr #jk rowling #help iran #islamic republic of iran #iran news #iranian #iran women #iran government #iran protests #women movement of iran #jina mahsa amini #afghan women #afghanistan #taliban #united nations

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communistkenobi · 5 months

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does anyone have reading recommendations that clarify the difference between liberalism and fascism? I’m having trouble distinguishing what is just like normal levels of imperial/colonial violence conducted by a liberal state and what pushes it over the edge into a fascist state. Is fascism simply mature liberalism? Is it liberalism in crisis? Can we only make historical, reactive judgements about what is fascist, which is to say, can we only know if fascism occurred after it has come and gone? I take the general point that calling all liberal states fascist can let them off the hook for types of violence considered normal or “just doing business,” invisibilising the daily violences they conduct as part of the regular maintenance of a liberal capitalist state. People are calling the US fascist for its direct participation in and funding of the genocide in Palestine - a diagnosis I don't disagree with, but if that’s the case, where do you draw the distinction between the US being merely a liberal state with aggressive global imperial ambitions and the US being a fully fascist state? Perhaps more bluntly, what’s the difference between a liberal drone strike and a fascist one? I’m struggling to understand the value of the fascist label, because everything it describes (ultranationalism, a theory of racial and cultural degeneracy/decline, paranoia about an imminent external threat expressed as violence against internal populations deemed to have insufficient loyalty to the country, a turn towards a mythologised tradition of the past, imperial expansion, genocidal projects against minority populations, etc etc) just seems to me like a description of United States in general lol

#if we call all liberal states fascist we risk exceptionalising liberalism <- point I am sympathetic to #but if that’s the case then like what does the fascist label get us? What does it ‘do’ as analytical tool? How does it help us understand #the world today and the history of the world?#was the iraq war fascist? If so are we meant to understand that the US stopped being fascist for a couple years #and is now fascist again? Despite the continued occupation & violence & sanctions in Iraq Libya Yemen Afghanistan etc during that time ?#are all the coups it did in Latin America fascist or just normal liberal behaviour? Was the Korean War fascist? The Vietnam war?#what about the Cold War? What about the genocide of indigenous people in North America? What about chattel slavery?#I guess I’m just at like a point in my knowledge of history that none of the governments or movements or actuons called fascist #seem even remotely different from just like regular imperial and colonial violence #and so like my current inclination is that either all of this is liberal or all of this is fascist #and that doesn’t feel satisfactory lol

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storm-of-feathers · 5 months

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There aren't only three genocides happening. By the way. There's been at least ten ongoing. None of you cared about them until you could hate jews about it, though.

#i just.#if i see that ''theres TWO MORE genocides!!'' post one more time i might actually lose it.#like. absolutely none of you cared ab the congo. until it was convenient.#none of you STILL care about anything turkey does. ever.#or any country that does anything to kurds or armenians.#you cunts only care about israel bc it makes your antisemitism easy. bc you can be an edgelord ab the us government.#you dont care ab north korea or worse youre fine with it.#you dont care about pakistan or afghanistan or india or iraq or iran or #you dont care. none of you actually care. its all so performative.#im so sick of it. im so sick.#from the drafts #ive had enough. ive had fucking enough.#you NEED to know what youre talking about when you talk about something as serious as genocide.#is israel committing a genocide? yes absolutely.#does that mean its the only genocide or the ''one of three'' stat i keep seeing? no.

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azural83 · 2 years

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People from first world countries who dismiss middle east's pain because "that's just how things are there" are way too comfortable sharing their lack of empathy

It's funny because the moment something happens to them they're horrified. They aren't used to tragedies, these things "aren't supposed to happen to them"

But our suffering should be normalised huh?

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belleandre-belle · 5 months

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History repeats itself again and again !!!

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reportwire · 1 year

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Today in History: December 24, astronauts read from Genesis

Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2022. There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast. On this date: In 1814, the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent, which…

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workersolidarity · 4 months

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🇦🇫 🚨 💥SUICIDE BOMBER IN AFGHANISTAN STRIKES TALIBAN GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN NIMROZ PROVINCE💥

Afghan media is reporting an explosion resulting from a suicide bomber at a Taliban Governor's office in the Nimroz Province area in the southwest of Afghanistan, wounding three Taliban personnel.

In a statement issued to the Afghan International news agency, Taliban Ministry of Interior spokesperson, Abdul Matin Qane said that an attacker wearing explosives bypassed two security checkpoints as Governor Mohammed Qasim Khalid exited his offices for prayer.

Gul Mohammed Qadrat, a spokesperson for the local Police Command told local media that the suicide bomber detonated his explosives after being identified by the bodyguards of Governor Khalid, who opened fire on the attacker.

Residents in the city of Zaranj reported hearing explosions coming from the direction of the Governor's office on Sunday evening, and witnesses told local media they heard gunfire shortly after the explosion.

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queerism1969 · 1 year

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nando161mando · 2 months

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As the former ADF lawyer who blew the whistle on war crimes in Afghanistan is about to be sentenced, the prosecution are trying to use new material against him.

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golvio · 6 months

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I’m naively wishing we’ll find some kind of miraculous energy source that Big Oil won’t suppress the knowledge of. It won’t undo the harm we’ve already caused to the region or bring back the dead, but it’d remove the excuses our stupid government is making for supporting genocide and get us to leave the Middle East the hell alone.

Like, I already thought this when I found out we helped Iran get taken over by a repressive theocratic regime, but even moreso now I really don’t give a shit if switching to new types of transportation is inconvenient for me and everyone else so long as we stop forcing the places with oil to pay for our comfort and convenience with human lives.

#waaaaaaaaah! we all have to switch to new caaaars!#oh boohoo we’ve gotta build a functioning electric bus system now! waaaaah!#well good. if it means kids in palestine and iran amd iraq and afghanistan can grow up without hearing bombs and gunfire #and enjoy the full range of human liberties under a government that’s not an oppressive regime funded by the us #then i’m willing to put up with delays and minor inconveniences while we set shit up #humans can adapt to anything

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menalez · 4 months

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-islamic-jihad-reject-giving-up-power-return-permanent-ceasefire-egyptian-2023-12-25/

Hamas continues to reject the ceasefire process.

The demands for a ceasefire should be directed at Hamas with the same energy and fervor they're directed at Israel.

i dont think a single dictatorship in the world and not even netanyahu’s govt or ppl like trump or a lot of the governments in power would accept a deal like “you can have a permanent ceasefire as long as you give up your leadership”.

#anyways i would like it if u didnt send me constant anons downplaying israel’s actions 🙏🏾#imagine if the solution to the war in afghanistan was ‘umm taliban should just stop doing that :/‘#they wont stop. and america being barbaric wasnt going to stop them either #hamas wont just randomly stop either. and israel’s relentless violence towards civilians wont stop them.#it just seems ridiculous to me to put a recognised government in the same league as a terrorist group #i mean maybe u think the israeli govt is a terrorist group too. ok i agree but the global platforms dont seem #to view them the same way so..

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stupendoussandwichbeard · 2 years

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Someday soon i will write for you that my country is free and we are happy here someday soon i Will write for you that you should come and visit my country my beautiful Iran with free people but for now you have to help us share our story

tell others There is solid evidence that the Islamic republic is now exploiting children and using them as armed forses to suppress protests in Iran, this is a true act of war crime!!

I urge eveyone to be our voice and take action agains this concerning violations.

with helping us you can help the Ukraine war and countries in the Middle East like afghanistan.i mean without Islamic republic who would sell weapons to Russia and who would support the Taliban?

#iran government #mahsa amini #iran #middle east #مهسا امینی #help iran #iranian protests #iranian women #iran news #ukraine #afghanistan

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