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Not Even a Single Gunshot Has Been Fired at the Disputed Sino - Indian Border Since 1975
China has built new structures near the border . Recent images from June 22 show China has built new structures near the location of a Himalayan border. New Chinese bunkers, tents, and storage units that weren't previously there in earlier within the month.
By Siddharth Shankar V6 years ago in The Swamp
Corona Virus Recession - Using Protectionism to reduce the current account deficit during a recession
The COVID — 19 recession, could be a major global recession which arose as an economic consequence of the continued Coronavirus pandemic. Since World War 2, coronavirus pandemic could cause the worst global recession. Most of the countries saw a falling GDP from January to March 2020, because the economic impact of coronavirus began to hit. For April to June official figures haven’t been published yet, but they’re likely to point out even bigger falls, this can mean the second quarter of negative growth, confirming that much of the globe is in recession.
By Siddharth Shankar V6 years ago in The Swamp
BLM & Pride
"Racism" is discrimination and antagonism directed at people for their ethnicity and the color of their skin. From the beginning of what we all learn in the history books, race has always been a factor in the way people treat each other. When the first tribes ran into each other, fought for the same food and land. Since then, there were movements, laws, laws were advised, white people hurt colored people, some white people fought for colored people, and people tried to bring attention of the real seriousness of the injustice of the actions of which were made. Still, in 2020, the US has a leader with an abominable vision and dastardly morals. People treat African Americans as some glitch in the creation of humans. THEY ARE HUMAN. BLACKS, BROWNS, and LIGHT BROWNS are all human. They do not deserve the cruelty of the racism from the privilege of everyone with white skin. People are being killed for having darker skin. They are scarred from surviving slavery, abuse, sex trafficking, poverty, the way people treat and even look at them. I myself am not of color; I am white, and for that I have a privilege most of my peers at the University, my neighbors in my apartment complex, my family members, and my friends do not have. Everyone is so easy to jump at the fact that my life matters. It is crazy how someone will tell me my life matters and my best friends does not solely because she is black. I cannot see it that way; I would give my life for my friend of color rather than someone kill them because they don't look like me. All lives do not matter until black lives matter. Acceptance is something people struggle with when it comes to acknowledging they have a problem or when something they don't understand has entered their their in some way. But as humans, we are capable of much more than we know. The way we accept love and care from our family is the way we should accept anything/anyone else. People are afraid. They judge and treat my friends as if they are dangerous. Furthermore, my colored friends who are gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, etc. These people are also being shamed and punished for being a person who feels and are different from what society set as our default, our "normal." The way the world has progressed for the people of color, isn't the leap they need from the road they have been traveling down. WE CAN DO BETTER. It is a shock of how many ways a person can "justify" their racism. During the 16th and 17th century they used religion as a justification for racism, in the 19th century, they used science/social science. BY 1915, Inter-racial marriage was illegal. They used to kill/punish black people for acting outside of their orders of their white slave-owners, for falling for a white person or trying to protect each other. Today, they are still being killed by the protection they are supposed to have by law. Hate is NOT okay. It is STILL a difficult time for our friends of color when it should be so much better for them. Take a stand. Speak up. Educate yourself. Decide if you are the one to sit on the side lines while people are being murdered for no other reason than the color of their skin, or if you are the one who will stand and fight against what is happening to them and try to change this world so they can get the treatment they deserve, the same treatment you have as a privileged person. And if you are a person of color, one day, this world will be as safe for you as it is for me, and I will help you fight the obstruction of this world into the day you can truly say you are treated the way you should be. You ARE making a difference. We WILL change the world.
By Annabeth Barber6 years ago in The Swamp
Which Is Correct: Fourth of July, July the Fourth, July 4, July 4th, Or Independence Day?
There is only one official holiday in July, and it is a big one that many people look forward to celebrating. There are five ways to say and write the name of the holiday that acknowledges the birth of the nation.
By Margaret Minnicks6 years ago in The Swamp
What is White Saviourism?
Due to the increased attention on the Black Lives Matter Movements after the outcry at the murder of George Floyd, white people have been pushed to question their treatment of black people. I am one of them. Many white people have had a positive response. They understand their privilege – that white people will not suffer because of their race as black people are targeted due to the colour of their skin. Many white people have joined in solidarity with black people on marches, signing campaigns and using their platform to speak out against racism.
By Rebecca Clark6 years ago in The Swamp
South Africa: Cry My Beloved Country
Cry the beloved country is a novel by Alan Paton that discusses the racial and economic divisions that plague the country – the novel was released in 1948 why is it now in 2020, 72 years later the words written are still relevant. Cry the beloved country is also the phrase that comes to mind when I think of South Africa, my once beloved country.
By Kayla Dell6 years ago in The Swamp
Russia offers Monetary rewards to Taliban Fighters to Kill US Troops in Afghanistan according to news reports.
More than 2,300 US soldiers have died in Afghanistan since the war with the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaida Islamic Fundamentalists. The war began about 18 years ago, and now a new report from the New York Times has alleged that the Russian Government of Putin wants to pay Taliban soldiers to go after US Soldiers in Afghanistan. Taliban forces may have ceased on this promise by going after US Soldiers wherever they are found in Kabul and other locations in Afghanistan where they operate.
By Paul Oranika6 years ago in The Swamp
Andrew Jackson's Native Removal Policy
As the seventh President of the infantile United States of America, Mr. Andrew Jackson assumed an office which not only granted him immense power, but also a glaringly cacophonic environment in which opposing factions would do seemingly anything to bring the other side down. Of the many divisive political issues present in 1828, none was perhaps of more importance - or in need of urgent debate - than the territories of Native Americans and where they fit in between the industrious North, the aristocratic and bountiful Southern coast and the agriculture-oriented, ever-expanding Western frontier. The general consensus of most white Americans was: not in our state. Regardless of motivation, a majority of the populous agreed that resettlement of Native Americans was necessary, and the best place to send them was West of the Mississippi River. As “the people’s president,” Jackson was inherently inclined to bend to the will of the people. Despite his rhetoric, which on the surface seemed compassionate and protective of the indigenous peoples, Jackson’s motivations were political, cultural, and economic, not humanitarian.
By Thomas Christopher Luongo6 years ago in The Swamp
