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View More NewsThis week, we’re going to be talking about what will become of Iran now that it’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has fallen victim to the ongoing bombing campaign by U.S. and Israeli forces.With me to discuss the issue is Kaveh Shahrooz, an Iranian-born Canadian lawyer and human-rights activist who now serves as a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.Before taking on this role, Kaveh served as a policy advisor on human rights to Global Affairs Canada. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Toronto, he recently led a successful effort to convince Canada’s parliament to recognize the…
from the self-made-masked-men dept ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers — told ICE agents they don’t need judicial warrants to arrest people or enter people’s homes. All they need — according to acting director Todd Lyons, who issued the memos — is paperwork they could create and authorize without any need to seek the approval of anyone else. ICE calls them warrants but they’re just self-issued paperwork in which the officer…
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On Monday, I arrived at the United Nations Headquarters to observe the 10,113th meeting of the Security Council, devoted to the theme of Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict. The building was thronged with dignitaries and journalists, all eager to catch a glimpse of the day’s chairperson: Melania Trump. It was the first time in UN history that a sitting first lady had performed this role. And it was somewhat astonishing to behold the transformative effect that a single pair of stilettos can have on the atmosphere in this vast office complex.The first lady made no explicit reference to the…
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