4 Feb 2021
A coalition of human rights advocates representing groups repressed by the Chinese Communist Party including members of the Tibetan, Uyghur, Inner Mongolian, and Hong Kong communities issued a call Thursday for the world to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, set to take place in Beijing.
The groups urged the government of the United States, in particular, to join the boycott, as the world’s leading nation, in the name of those currently suffering human rights atrocities at the hands of the government hosting the games.
Beijing, dominated by the ethnic Han Chinese majority, is implementing policies the administrations of both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden have deemed genocidal against the Uyghur people, the majority of whom live in western Xinjiang, China. The Communist Party has built hundreds of concentration camps for Uyghur and other majority-Muslim communities in the region, systematically sterilized women in the community, and stands accused of ha
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As promised, President Biden s Cabinet is historically diverse compared to former Presidents Donald Trump s and Barack Obama s. Laura Cavanaugh/FilmMagic; Aurelien Meunier; Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images
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President Biden pledged to make his Cabinet the most diverse in U.S. history, better representing the makeup of the country.
An NPR analysis of the past three administrations initial Cabinets shows that so far, he has kept his word, with an inner circle that outdoes his two most recent predecessors in matters of representation of race and gender.
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Former US and UN official Jeffrey Feltman on March 1, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC [KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images] February 1, 2021 at 10:29 am
Former US and UN official Jeffrey Feltman has said that his country failed to achieve tangible results in Syria related to Washington s goals,
RT reported on Sunday. Feltman attributed the US failure to the administrations of former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
The former UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs called for a new approach based on Syria s President Bashar Al-Assad taking concrete, specific and transparent steps that cannot be reversed in the matter of political reform in return for Washington easing sanctions.
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29 Jan 2021
President Joe Biden met with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Friday to discuss the economy but promoted massive government spending to boost the economy during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We need to act now, and the benefits of acting now and acting big will far outweigh the cost in the long run,” Yellen said to reporters during the meeting with Biden in the Oval Office.
Biden promoted his $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan as a way to boost the economy, warning that it was better to spend big than not enough.
“We have learned from past crises the risk is not doing too much; the risk is not doing enough, and this is the time to act now,” he said.