Conflicted Public Reaction to Trump ’s Executive Order
Last Friday, President Trumpissued an executive order temporarily barring entry of refugees, visitors, and immigrants —including those with green cards—from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. During this delay, the government is tasked with making its screening process more extensive. The order indefinitely bans refugees from Syria.As Henry Entennotes, we ’ll have to wait until we have more polling data to ascertain how the public will judge the action, but polling over the past year gives us some clues.Slim but Shy Support Most polls throughout 2015-2016 found about 56% of Americans opposed Trump ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emily Ekins Source Type: blogs
Guide to Trump ’s Executive Order to Limit Migration for “National Security” Reasons
President Trump isexpected to sign an executive order shortly to temporarily ban all visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia among other actions. An advanced copy of this order was available earlier this week. The first sentence of his order states that it is to “protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States.” However, the countries that Trump chose to temporarily ban are not serious terrorism risks. I compiled alist of foreign-born people who committed or were convicted of attempting to commit a terrorist attack on U.S. s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Little National Security Benefit to Trump ’s Executive Order on Immigration
Tomorrow, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order enacting a 30-day suspension of all visas for nationals from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Foreigners from those seven nations have killed zero Americans in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1975 and the end of 2015. Six Iranians, six Sudanese, two Somalis, two Iraqis, and one Yemini have been convicted of attempting or carrying out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Zero Libyans o r Syrians have been convicted of planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil during that time period.Many other foreigners have been convicted of terrori...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The Terrorism Risk of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees: The Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey Terrorist Attacks
News stories are now reporting that the Minnesota stabber Dahir Adan entered the United States as a Somali refugee when he was2 years old. Ahmad Khan Rahami, the suspected bomber in New York and New Jersey, entered as an Afghan asylum-seeker with his parents when he was7 years old. The asylum and refugee systems are the bedrocks of the humanitarian immigration system and they are under intense scrutiny already because of fears over Syrian refugees. Thevetting procedure for refugees, especially Syrians, is necessarily intense because they are overseas while they are being processed. The security protocols have...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
June Man of the Month: Marc Sommers, PhD
As a child, Marc loved looking at National Geographic magazines, especially at his Uncle’s home on New Year’s Day. That’s where young Marc went with his family to celebrate. Not much for the adult conversation upstairs, Marc would slip away to the basement and lose himself in exotic photos of far-away places. At 12, he decided he was going to go to the Serengeti.
Not only did he get there, but he has dedicated much of his adult life to working with young people, primarily in Africa—19 countries and counting. Marc Sommers, who is fluent in Swahili, is an internationally recognized youth, conflict, education, g...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Global Health Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
“For Idil Hassan, a 34-year-old nurse in Toronto, a...
"For Idil Hassan, a 34-year-old nurse in Toronto, a neighborhood aquatic center has become more than the place where her daughter will learn to swim. On Saturday evenings, mechanized screens shroud the center's glass walls to provide a session that allows only women and girls to relax in the hot tub, swim laps or careen down the water slide. "I wouldn't come before because my religion doesn't allow women to be seen uncovered by men," said Idil, a Somali immigrant. "It's really helpful to have that day to be ourselves." Idil lives in Regent Park, a neighborhood once known for its drug-fueled gang violence. But now, at a tim...
Source: Kidney Notes - March 2, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
PART II: SEMBENE! X MOOLAADÉ X DESERT FLOWER: Female Genital Mutilation and Bioethics
Sembene! Theatrical Trailer https://vimeo.com/139538743Sembene! is a documentary co-directed by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman. The filmmaking duo uses Sembene’s screen works to bracket the life events of African cinema’s founder. The ultimate illustration of capacity for complex socially relevant, visually compelling cinema lay in Sembene’s 2004 final film, Moolaadé (Magical Protection). This is a heart wrenching story of a woman named Collé living in a fictional, locked in time, Burkina Faso village.Collé’s is a polygamous family. She resists her daughter havi...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 5, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
America's Invisible Wars: Event January 25th
On January 14th, the White House announced that Gen. Joseph Votel - the current head of U.S. Special Operations Command – will take over as the head of U.S. Central Command, a position which will place him in charge of America’s wars in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. The symbolism of the appointment could not be clearer. As Foreign Policy noted,
“With 3,000 special operations troops currently hunting down Taliban militants in Afghanistan, and another 200 having just arrived on the ground in Iraq to take part in kill or capture missions against Islamic State leadership, Votel’s nomination underscores the central role...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 14, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
11.2 billion?
The UN has released a revised projection of global population and they now project that there will be 11.2 billion humans alive in 2100. They expect the most rapid growth in the poorest regions:Population growth remains especially high in the group of 48 countries designated by the UnitedNations as the least developed countries (LDCs), of which 27 are in Africa. Although the growth rate of the LDCs is projected to slow from its current 2.4 per cent annually, the population of this group is projected to double in size from 954 million inhabitants in 2015 to 1.9 billion in 2050 and further increase to 3.2 billion in 2100. Be...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 13, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How Drones Encourage Dumb Wars and Corrode Democratic Government
My article in this week’s Washington Examiner magazine argues that because U.S. wars seem so cheap, they tempt us into making war too casually. I explain that while this tendency isn’t new, recent technology breakthroughs, which allowed the development of drones, have made it worse. We now make war almost like people buy movies or songs online, where low prices and convenience encourage purchase without much debate or consideration of value. I label the phenomenon one-click wars.
If we take occasional drone strikes as a minimum standard, the United States is at war in six countries: Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afg...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 24, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Benjamin H. Friedman Source Type: blogs
Religious Persecution: First Freedom Remains Under Global Siege
Doug Bandow
Americans take religious liberty for granted. But four of five people around the world lack the freedom to worship and live faithfully.
The Pew Research Center, with Peter Henne as lead researcher, recently issued its latest study on religious liberty. The report makes for a sad read.
In some nations governments suppress the faithful. In other countries people make their societies unfriendly to minority beliefs, imposing a wide range of less formal sanctions, including murder.
The overall global environment to religious faith is hostile. Concluded the study: “restrictions on religion were high or very high...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 19, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Hold Politicians Accountable for Debacle in Libya
Doug Bandow
Will America ever again be at peace? Pressure is building for the U.S. again to intervene in Libya.
Less than three years after Libya’s civil war the country has ceased to exist. This debacle offers a clear lesson for American policymakers. But denizens of Washington seem never to learn.
The administration presented the issue as one of humanitarian intervention, to save the people of Benghazi from slaughter at the hands of Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy.
Although he was a nasty character, he had slaughtered no one when his forces reclaimed other territory. In Benghazi he only threatened those who had taken ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 26, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Somalia on the Mediterranean
Libya is as vulnerable to further inroads by ISIS now as Syria was a year ago. What can the United States and its allies do to stop the hemorrhaging? Many options have been debated, but none look very promising. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 19, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
The Charlie Hebdo Murders: The Real Atrocity Is Religious Persecution, Not Free Expression
Doug Bandow
The slaughter at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo brought hundreds of thousands of marchers and scores of world leaders onto the streets of Paris. The killings demonstrate how the destructive phenomenon of religious persecution is spreading from Third World dictatorships to First World democracies.
Religious minorities long have faced murder and prison around the world. Now the freedom not to believe by majorities in Western democracies is under attack.
As I write in Forbes online: “Free expression goes to the very essence of the human person. While good judgment tells us not t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
