Emile Schepers

Emile Schepers is a veteran civil and immigrant rights activist. Born in South Africa, he has a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University. He is active in the struggle for immigrant rights, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, and a number of other issues. He writes from Northern Virginia.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers

Opinion

Should U.S. scorn Security Council over Syria?
September 9, 2013 By Emile Schepers
The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is reportedly giving up on the UN Security Council, because it likely will not approve armed action against Syria in the wake of the August 21...
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World

“Humanitarian intervention” in Syria is a hoax
September 4, 2013 By Emile Schepers
The language the administration is using to argue for an attack on Syria is morally bankrupt power politics, not humanitarianism, and would violate international law.
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World

“The Beast” claims six fatalities in Mexico train disaster
August 27, 2013 By Emile Schepers
The train was one of several Mexican and Central American immigrants call "la Bestia" -- "the beast." It goes from Southern Mexico northward to Mexico's Northern border with the United States.
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World

Prospects good for communists, social democrats in Czech snap election
August 26, 2013 By Emile Schepers
On August 20, the government of the Czech Republic's caretaker Prime Minister, Jiri Rusnok, fell when a majority of the lower house of Parliament voted to dissolve itself.
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World

Mali elections go smoothly, but problems remain
August 19, 2013 By Emile Schepers
In a runoff presidential election on August 12, former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita easily beat engineer Soumaila Cisse.
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U.S.

Immigration reform and “criminal alien” injustice
August 19, 2013 By Emile Schepers
The Republican leadership in the House has been threatening to use parliamentary tricks to stop a reform bill even if it has majority support.
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World

Project to privatize Mexico’s oil company advances
August 16, 2013 By Emile Schepers
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, of the right-center Revolutionary Institutional Party, has announced long awaited plans for allowing private industry to play a bigger role in the finances of the national oil company, PEMEX.
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Opinion

Progressive Latin American integration advances
August 13, 2013 By Emile Schepers
In spite of the death of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and other reverses, the "Bolivarian" process of integration in Latin America is advancing.
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