Pittsburgh sanitation workers thats right pittsburgh once had sanitation workers in 50 restaurants across florida chicago arbys employees dallas postal workers carlsbad nurses san diego transit workers crack dealers in cleveland and black market baby baby salesmen in black sea the workers are fighting back thats just a small portion of the list of workers who have gone on strike or halted work in order to have their demands met over the past 2 months we have learned something we have learned that the the lowest paid workers in a company are often the most essential even if they arent the most celebrated is kind of like at a wedding the bridesmaids in the groomsmen get all kinds of attention all the pomp and circumstance but they arent the most essential they arent the essential of all the guys cooking up the pork chops and then delivering them to your tables are the truly essential workers without them the wedding gas would begin killing and eating the slowest and weakest amongst them
Particularly announced wednesday by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins own plans to relinquish the presidency or not in a few years. So we are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa who is the moscow correspondent for thenew yorker. Been covering russia for much of the past decade and his new book between two fires truth, ambition, compromise in putins russia offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on above all the nations psyche and the moral struggles and calculations that Many Russians confront. Josh has written a very nuanced portrait ofrussia. Nothing like the simplistic view of that country, oppressed people lorded over by a kgb trained dictator area josh describes a people who fall somewhere between oppressor and oppressed, prone to compromise and accommodation with the state but still double and resource
Washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security. The most famous of these measures is president Donald Trumps executive orders which ground the federal Refugee Program virtually to a halt in january 2017. His imposition of what is widely known as the refugee ban shortly after taking office initiated one of the sharpe
And if you have been following the news in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience, fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. In many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaky boats. Theyre drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a po
In mass Rakhine State. Russia has what it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow backs the damascus government issued the warning after the Turkish Military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets of its lip about a report from her taiwan turkeys border with syria but yet overthrow turkish and syria fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above aleppo and that with 2 syrian warplanes. The confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria turkeys defense minister warns that turkish troops will retaliate against it if the. Also announced Operation Spring shilled and your campaign aimed at pushing Syrian Government troops out of the socalled buffer zone near the border. We do not aim to face with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regimes most ekers radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in italy province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a