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Opinion: Why It Matters that We Call the Russian Invasion What It Is: Genocide, Not War
we shouldn’t refer to their acts of barbarism and wholesale mass murder as “war.†We need to call it what it is: an act of genocide
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United States Officially Announces Intention to Seek Election to U.N. Human Rights Council
The United States has formally announced its intention to seek election to the United Nations Human Rights Council. according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Today, the administration took an important step in that direction by announcing the U.S. intent to seek election to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council starting in January…
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Biden Administration Rejoins Human Rights Council
The United States is rejoining the United Nations Human Rights Council, per Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The move signals another move from President Joe Biden and his administration to reverse former President Donald Trump’s legacy of isolationist policy and withdrawing the United States from multilateral organizations. “When it works well, the UN Human Rights…
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UN Panel Says Trump’s Blackwater Pardons Violated International Law
A United Nations panel said this morning that President Donald Trump‘s pardons of several former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in Baghdad are a violation of international law. “Pardoning the Blackwater contractors is an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families,†said Jelena Aparac, chair of…
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U.N. to Debate Systemic Racism and Police Brutality in U.S. Following Call from Entire African Continent
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council will debate systemic racism and police brutality in the United States following a call from all 54 African nations. “Structural racism and police violence are issues, which are commonly raised by states and civil society at meetings of the council, as are unlawful killings by police and racial bias…
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Coronavirus has Magnified Problem of, Silence Around, Sexism and Gender Inequality
One can find in the media many important analyses and accounts of the way the coronavirus pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the myriad inequities plaguing U.S. society. The most opulent among us can shelter in place and not have to worry about their next paycheck, about being evicted, about having enough food. They don’t have…
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Opinion: Trump Needs to be Brought to U.N. on Charges of Genocide
While the Turkish continue to deny this history to this day, in 1915 the nation of Turkey engaged in a genocide of the Armenian people. The mass killing reduced the Armenian population from two million to 400,000. Last week, with the knowledge and approval of U.S. President Donald Trump, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered…
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Human Rights Groups Demand That the U.N. Investigate Khashoggi’s Killing
Amnesty International and several other leading global human rights organizations are calling for the United Nations to investigate the killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In addition to Amnesty International, the groups include the Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. They have joined together to ask Turkey to pressure the…
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United Nations Calls For Trump to Stop Child Separations
The head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission has demanded that the Trump administration immediately stop separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. U.N. High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has called upon Donald Trump to stop enforcing his new zero tolerance policies which cause the the U.S. Border Patrol to separate migrant…
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United Nations to Trump: Stop Separating Families At the Border
On Tuesday the United Nations called on the Trump administration to “immediately halt†its policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico. The request came from the United Nations human rights office which has heavily criticized the administration for their actions of taking children away from their parents after they cross…
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U.N. rights expert assails Trump administration on press treatment
A United Nations rights expert voiced concern on Wednesday that Trump administration actions would be harmful to a free press in the United States.
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Opinion: Haley’s UN Vote Tells The World We Are Not A Champion Of Human Rights
When Niki Haley voted no on a UN resolution to ban the death penalty for apostasy, adultery, blasphemy and same sex relations, she was exposed to be as incompetent as her boss. Worse, Haley told the world we aren’t the champions of human rights we used to be.
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Opinion: U.N. Says Trump-GOP “Obamacare†Repeal Violates International Law
Declaration of Human Rights “Establishes everyone’s right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being, including food, medical care and necessary social services.â€
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Opinion: U.N. Condemns Republican Bills Criminalizing Peaceful Protests
Since January 2017 a number of undemocratic bills that if enacted into law, threatens one of the United States’ constitutional pillars: free speech.
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Trump’s Politics of Repression Promise to Exacerbate Domestic and Global Problems
Trump’s presidency, with its emphasis on law and order, is trying to sell us the idea that a repressive society is a free society.
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Threatens Our Allies, Says She is ‘Taking Names’
“For those that don’t have our back, we’re taking names, we will make points to respond to that accordingly.”
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The Republican Quest to Defund the United Nations May Hurt the US More Than the UN
Trump seems intent on following in the footsteps, not of our most successful modern president, Barack H. Obama, but rather the least, George W. Bush
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President Obama Stands Up To Israeli Netanyahu’s Aggression in Palestine
The U.N. reaffirmed its consensus that settlements have no legal validity. The United States has been sending a message that settlements must stop.
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Maternal Mortality Rates Fall Drastically Worldwide While America’s Rates Rise
“The rise in pregnancy-related deaths coincide with Republican lawmakers slashing family planning funds.”
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D.O.J. Orders Stop to Criminalizing Homelessness and Poverty
Attorney General Lynch demands a halt to criminalizing homelessness for profit.
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Foreign Diplomats Say Trump Represents A Threat To Peace and Prosperity
“Foreign diplomats are expressing alarm to about what they say are inflammatory and insulting public statements” by Donald Trump.
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Did Netanyahu Just Promise Vengeance for Obama’s Iran Nuclear Accord?
Benjamin Netanyahu did not like Barack Obama’s refusal to grant him control of U.S. foreign policy and a Kuwaiti paper says he wants revenge
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UN Security Council Announces Road Map for Peace in Syria
The UN, if not the GOP, has announced a cohesive peace plan for Syria, one that does not involve carpet bombing till the sand glows
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Paul Krugman Get It Mostly Right About Why Republicans Doom Earth’s Population
According to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, Republicans will go to any length to stop American involvement in a climate deal and will hasten the world population’s demise in the process; left alone the planet will fix itself in a few centuries. Krugman’s assessment is incomplete; there is more motivation behind Republican opposition to saving the Earth’s population than simply rejecting science.
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Iranian President Laughs At Republicans And Compares Them To Saddam Hussein
Iranian President Rouhani said tearing up an international agreement “is something that only the likes of Saddam Hussein would do.”
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President Obama Acts To Stop the Unconstitutional Criminalizing of Homelessness
The Obama White House this week took steps to force communities to halt the “cruel, inhumane, and degrading” treatment of the homeless
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Republicans Feel No Shame Over Starving America’s Kids To Give Tax Cuts To The Rich
Republicans refuse to address child hunger outside of telling Americans to work longer hours for less pay and be happy they get paid at all
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More Than 70 Nuclear Nonproliferation Experts Announce Support for Iran Nuclear Deal
The Republicans find themselves increasingly alone in opposing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. Back on July 20, not only did the United Nations Security Council unanimously endorse the JCPOA, but we saw a “Statement by National Security Leaders on the Announcement of a Joint Comprehensive Plan…
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Israeli Netanyahu And GOP React To Iran Deal Like Petulant Little Brats
This idea that Israel, or Netanyahu, has unfettered purview of America’s foreign policy is a legacy of the Bush administration
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Cultural Genocide as Right-Wing Answer to Ireland’s Gay Impertinence
St. Patrick drove the Pagan snakes out of Ireland 16 centuries ago. Today, Gordon Klingenschmitt wants to drive the gay snakes out of Ireland
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott Orders State Militia To Monitor the U.S. Military
Instead of ignoring the paranoid Texans, or telling them to grow up, Texas Governor Greg Abbott incited more distrust by ordering a Texas militia to keep the real U.S. military under a watchful eye to prevent any violations of the Constitution and Texans’ liberties.
For Corporate Profits Republicans Want President Obama To Skirt Congress’ Authority
What is duplicitous and very telling about how Republicans operate, and where their only loyalties and priorities lie, is that they are pushing the President to seek unilateral authority to negotiate and sign an international trade deal; something that requires congressional approval. And yet they have done everything in their power and all but forbid him from exercising his rightful executive authority where Congress has no say according to the Constitution; like on immigration enforcement and negotiating with foreign governments.
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Obama Relents and Gives Congress Veto Power Over Iran Nuclear Deal
The current President, Barack Obama, will go down in history for providing tens-of-millions of Americans with access to affordable health care, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, an historic climate change deal with China, and with the stroke of his pen, ceding executive branch authority over foreign policy to a Congress loyal to a foreign national.
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McConnell Warns Foreign Nations That GOP Will Undermine Obama Climate Change Deals
Taking a page out of a freshman Senator Tom Cotton’s playbook, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a threat to the world’s nations that America is an exceptionally deceitful country that cannot be trusted to honor its pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help diminish the devastating effects of global climate change.
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John Bolton Was Wrong About Iraq WMDs But Says Trust him on Iran Nukes
John Bolton’s New York Times op-ed exposes not only Bolton’s flawed thinking but the Times’ tendency to ape Fox News
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Conservative Radio Host: If You Oppose Netanyahu, You Oppose God
What emerges is Netanyahu as some sort of American super patriot for wanting to drag us into the war Republicans can’t, because Obama’s a bully
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Finally America Will Re-evaluate Unconditional Backing For Israel
Regardless any Americans’ opinion about the Jewish state, giving Israel free taxpayer money is supporting it; like it or not. Many Americans do not like it one bit; especially when this country is falling apart and Americans are hungry.
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Lindsey Graham Proves Ayatollah Right – America Is Disintegrating in Madness
Republicans have actively worked for the collapse of the political system (government) entirely. Now, the machinations of the Republicans have been exposed on the global stage and finally a foreign leader said what the world and an increasing number of Americans already know.
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Congressional Republicans Are Still Angry They Are Not The President
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The latest outrage, the open letter signed by 47 Republican senators, is the greatest sign to date that the spoiled little children are throwing a fit and are furious they are not allowed to be president and control foreign policy.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Schools GOP Traitors on Constitution and International Law
The Iranian may know the Constitution and international law better than the treasonous 47, but it seems he does not understand that in America, Republicans are not bound to any law; domestic or international.
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Jeb Bush Says He’s His Own Man Then Surrounds Himself With Brother’s Team
Despite his pronouncement that he intends to be “his own man”, Jeb Bush is surrounding himself with former Bush foreign policy advisers.
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Here’s The Facts On What President Obama Is Doing To Combat Violent Extremism
The President put violent extremism into context when he said of the Chapel Hill shootings, “Many Muslim Americans are worried and afraid. We stand with you.”
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The Enemies of Democracy Are Not Threats from Without But from Within
We see demagogues, unregulated capitalism, and might-makes-right. These, as populism, ultraliberalism, and political messianism, are the enemy
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Is Complex Systems Collapse in Our Future?
The internationalized world of the Bronze Age came to a catastrophic end. We are not immune to a similar systems collapse
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Conservative Columnist Predictably Uses French Terror Attack To Criticize President Obama
Shortly after news broke Wednesday morning that three gunmen attacked a French satirical newspaper, Breitbart columnist Ben Shapiro decided to use the tragic event to take shots at President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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The Koch Brothers Launch A Surrogate War Against Pope Francis
The Catholic Pope has garnered nothing but serious opposition and pushback from America’s evangelical and Catholic Republican movement, and now the Koch brothers and their dirty energy cabal have joined what is developing into a dirty oil-evangelical war against Pope Francis.
NRA-Republicans Blocked Treaty Banning Arms Sales To Terrorists
One might wonder what kind of malcontent opposes a worldwide treaty that limits the transfer of conventional arms and battlefield components to evil dictators who promote and commit genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and attack civilians or civilian buildings such as schools and hospitals. In America, it is Republicans indebted to, and serving, the National Rifle Association.
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Republicans Condemn North Korean Human Rights Violations While Ignoring Their Own
The hypocrisy of this nation co-sponsoring a resolution condemning anyone country for human rights abuses (torture) is beyond the pale. Particularly in light of the recent Senate Intelligence Report verifying what the world has known for several years; America is guilty of committing gross human rights abuses on its own citizens and “suspected terrorists” held in captivity.
To Delete Obama’s Agenda From History Republicans Violated Their Pledge To America
There has been an ongoing Republican crusade to eradicate any legislative accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers took control of the House after the 2010 midterms.
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Gun Nuts Threaten President Over Something He Hasn’t Even Done
The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), regulates the international trade in things like small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships, so why the hate?
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The Supreme Court Enjoins Republican War on Voting in Earnest
The Supreme Court’s anti-democracy wing; Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy issued an announcement that their decision was not on the merits of the case because they had not yet heard any oral arguments defending voting restrictions. They just believed so strongly that since Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted invested such an incredible amount of time and energy to disenfranchise minority and working-class voters, and labeled his “appeal” an emergency.
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Conservative Says Obama Is a Racist Then Calls Him a “Spade”
Conservatives, and primarily Republicans, have noticed their racist tendencies are attracting a bit too much attention and for the second time in a month are attempting to distract Americans with accusations that President Obama is a racist who hates and is waging a war on white people.
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Susan Rice Fires Back At Republican Critics Trying To Benghazi Her On Bergdahl
On Friday, National Security Adviser Susan Rice hit back at her Republican critics who have tried to make it appear that she said something misleading on Sunday.
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Drones Are Scary, But They’re the Answer to Asymmetrical Warfare
Five years into the drone campaign, there have been 2,400. killed, yet in Iraq, the ICCC offers a figure of 43,099 civilian casualties alone from from April 28, 2005 to August 22, 2008
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Republicans Show That They Abhor Peace by Criticizing Nuclear Deal With Iran
What the American people are reminded of with the warmonger’s criticism of diplomatic efforts is that Republicans abhor peace nearly as much as they love killing jobs.
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CNN Makes Man Made Global Warming Front Page News
A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing global warming
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Republicans Can’t Get Over Not Being Able to Thump Syria
The U.S.-Russian pact on Syria is, to former UN Ambassador John Bolton on Saturday, is “death by a thousand cuts.”
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John Boehner’s Do Less Than Nothing Congress Refuses To Get To Work
With only 9 days to oppose raising the debt ceiling and funding the government, Republicans in Congress have their work cut out for them.
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The Vote on Syria Will Be a Reflection of America’s Integrity and Character
The current debate about whether America should take limited military action against the Syrian government is about keeping a commitment shared with 98% of the world’s governments.
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British Government Approved The Sale of Chemicals That Syria Used to Make Nerve Gas
It is now reported that 10 months after civil unrest in Syria began, England allowed at least one chemical firm to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas.
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Obama’s Decision to Get Congressional Approval Gives Sanity a Chance
War should be a matter for sober reflection, not knee-jerk reactions, and the president should be praised for opening the matter up to debate
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The GOP’s Tea Party Astroturf Has Sprouted Roots and Grown Into Fringe Crazy
When the Tea Party emerged four summers ago, many of us dismissed them as a corporate-seeded astroturf movement. We were wrong. The GOP’s grassroots are the fringe.
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Bob Dole Tells the Republican Party to ‘close its doors to make repairs’
For the final nail in the GOP’s coffin, we have the revered former Republican Senator Bob Dole’s deep disappointment and shock at the modern day Republican Party.
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In a New Low The NRA is Schilling for War Criminals and Terrorists
While opposing fictional provisions in the Arms Trade Treaty, the NRA becomes a schill for War Criminals and Terrorists.
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PolitiFact Blames Obama for GOP Failure to Ratify UN Disability Treaty
President Obama said he would sign the UN Disability Treaty but the Republicans blocked it, so it’s a broken Obama promise according to PolitFact.
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38 Senate Republicans Use National Sovereignty as an Excuse to Discriminate Against the Disabled
38 Republican senators voted against ratifying a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled modeled after the Americans with Disabilities Act, because they ‘feared for US sovereignty.’
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Pamela Geller Really, Really Hates Islam, Obama, and the UN
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
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Glenn Beck’s Philosophical Belch – Agenda 21
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
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Republicans Refuse to Admit that Keystone XL will Bring Oil Through America, Not to It
The President and Democrats could protect the environment and Americans’ health if they informed the people that Canadian tar sand is not coming to America, but through it to China.
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Red State Secession Would Be a Dream Come True for the Rest of America
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
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UN Vote Monitors Draw Outrage from the GOP’s Voter Suppression Groups
Conservatives are beside themselves at the idea of foreigners monitoring their voter suppression activities on Election Day
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It is Time for Israel to Prove that They Strive for Peace
It is time for Israel to prove they ‘treat all with dignity and compassion and strive for peace’ instead of threatening to strike Iran or continue displacing Palestinians.
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Obama Plays Netanyahu Like a Fiddle, Romney Follows Behind
President Obama artfully and diplomatically manipulated Netanyahu and Mitt Romney is like a puppy chasing Obama, copying Obama’s words on Iran.
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Obama Invokes Gandhi at UN ‘Intolerance is Itself a Form of Violence’
Speaking at the UN on Tuesday, President Barack Obama took the opportunity to explain that tolerance is at the core of American democracy and freedom.
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Florida Family Council-Only Christianity Could Create or Save America
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it