Choksy on Iran: 'situation very grave for Iranian people'

Indiana University professor of Iranian Studies and specialist on Iranian history and religions, Jamsheed Kairshasp Choksy, thinks the situation is very grave for the Iranian people. " "I think the situation is...

National Heroes Angry at SA Xenophobic Violence

Those who fought and suffered for freedom in South Africa are most certainly not amused by the current spate of violence against foreigners in their homeland:""We did not struggle to find ourselves in this present...

Lethal Force in SA Army Confrontation

For the first time since the apartheid era, South African soldiers have been deployed to stop the ongoing anti-immigrant violence. One person was killed in East Rand.""We unfortunately had an incident where a...

South Africans take out rage on immigrants

"A wave of horrifying violence has swept the townships around Johannesburg in the past week, The Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen reported in an article Tuesday Xenophobic rage explodes in South Africa. At least 22 people are dead, hundreds injured and an estimated 4,000...

Tsvangirai Visits Jo'Burg Hot Spot

Amid the latest wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa, Zimbabwean presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai visited some of his displaced fellow citizens, caught between an dangerous, unstable home and an...

Xenophobic Violence Spreads in South Africa

Update: The violence gripping Gauteng Province in South Africa appears to be diminishing... however, it's spreading into neighboring KwaZulu-Natal.""There are no new reports of attacks," said Thabo Masebe, deputy...

Papers 'fuel anti-German feeling'

"Tabloid newspapers play a central role in creating artificial tensions between Britain and Germany, an academic says. As the two countries spar up for a friendly football match, German-born Dr Christian Schweiger says Anglo-German tensions exist only in the "red tops". The...

GOP Not So Grand to Some Hispanics

"At a Mexican restaurant in the East End, Reggie Gonzales explains all the ways in which the Republican Party irks him these days: the "holier than thou" attitudes of some leaders, the second-class status he says it assigns to Hispanic members, and most of all, the harsh,...

A Fence Between Friends

Illegal immigration -- that sustained human wave that has seriously eroded the social services, job opportunities and quality of life.

Mexico fuels illegal immigration

Mexican congressional panel believes U.S. immigration policy is racist, xenophobic, and violates human rights.

Border Issues

Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution:  "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion and against domestic Violence."

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