Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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News
Trump’s revised immigrant deportation criteria endanger everyone
February 16, 2017Trump’s new deportation rules turn the concept of “innocent until proven guilty” on its head. It’s a bad precedent to set, and not only for immigrants.
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Opinion
What does Trump have planned for Mexico?
February 6, 2017The latest flap comes from a telephone conversation that took place on Jan. 27, between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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Labor
Renegotiating NAFTA: Trump could make bad deal worse
January 18, 2017The impoverishment of workers in Mexico is not in the interests of the working class in the United States.
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News
Cuba’s super-low infant mortality rate
January 4, 2017Cuban health officials attribute the stunningly low infant death rate to investments in primary care and public health infrastructure.
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World
Trump breaks bread with NAFTA’s greatest Mexican beneficiary
December 21, 2016Who, we should ask, will be the losers in a rapprochement between the likes of Trump and Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim?
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U.S.
The coming political battle In Virginia
December 20, 2016There is, they say, no rest for the wicked. There is also going to be no rest for the working class in the United States.
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U.S.
Trump’s cabinet picks reveal dangerous foreign policy orientation
December 14, 2016Trump campaigned as a "man of the people,” but his cabinet choices so far could not be more elite.
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Opinion
The U.S. and Cuba, human rights and hypocrisy
December 12, 2016The fight here in the U.S. to expand the concept of human rights to cover material conditions of life will soon be harder than ever.
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