A Self-Determination Fa çade: The Kurdish Referendum
On September 25, 2017,Iraqi Kurds voted in favor ofindependence from Iraq in a historic referendum. Out of the 3.3 million Kurds and non-Kurdswho voted, 92% voted in favor of independence, which is not surprising. The international community ’s reaction is also not surprising:Iraq, Turkey,Iran, Russia, France, and theUnited States were all against the referendum, cautioning the Kurdish leadership about theregional impact from various strategic angles. In its quest to secure more non-Arab allies,Israel is the only country that has backed the referendum. The international community ’s lack of support is seen ashypocriti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 29, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Sahar Khan Source Type: blogs
New Travel Ban Would Not Have Prevented the Entry of Any Terrorists Since 9/11
President Trump signed anew proclamation this weekend that bans or restricts the travel and immigration of nationals from eight countries. This order drops the pretext of being a temporary measure and includes no end date. Inour amicus brief for the Supreme Court case challenging his prior executive order banning travel from six countries, we criticized the ban as lacking a basis in the evidence regarding terrorism threats and terrorism vetting failures. This new order fares no better. It is even further divorced from threats of terrorism to the United States than the prior order.The new targets are the nationals of the fo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
President Trump's New Travel Executive Order Has Little National Security Justification
President Trump issued anew proclamation that expanded a list of the so-called “travel ban” countries that were the subject of an executive order he issued early in his administration. His first order temporarily banned the entry of nationals from six countries fordubious national security reasons. His new order expands the list to eight countries (as Isomewhat predicted). They include Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. From the original six, he subtracted Sudan and added Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela. The new executive order is also not a complete ban for all of those countries. A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Very Few Immigration Vetting Failures of Terrorists Since 9/11
President Trump ’sexecutive order attempted to temporarily ban all refugees and all travelers or immigrants from six African and Middle Eastern countries due to a concern over widespread vetting failures. The purpose of the temporary ban was to give the administration time to “improve the screening and vetting protocols and procedures.” The order grounded this concern in one fact:Recent history shows that some of those who have entered the United States through our immigration system have proved to be threats to our national security. Since 2001, hundreds of persons born abroad have been convicted of terrorism-relate...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 31, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 069 Oliver May versus the world
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Fraud and Counter-Fraud. NGO’s like Oxfam are now a huge part of the international healthcare system. When you look at the environments these organisations work in, from Oxford to South Sudan, there are corruption issues everywhere. Corruption! We need a cop, a super cop, a stylish sleuth, a sort of crime-buster for NGO’s. It’s @OliverBMay of @2ndMarshmallow
Have you have ever had a dream of going and working for Médecins Sans Frontières or something similar? I di...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 25, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean corruption Médecins Sans Frontières NGO Oliver May oxfam Second Marshmallow Source Type: blogs
Heritage Report Shows Refugees Are Not a Major Threat
ConclusionTheHeritage Backgrounder makes a valuable and interesting contribution to the debate over the future of the American refugee program. As a side effect, it shows just how small and manageable the refugee terrorist threat is. (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 13, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier, Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Being queer in the jungle: The unique challenges of LGBTQ scientists working in the field
The Stonewall Riots occurred on June 28, 1969. It was this summer evening that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. Now, forty-eight years later, the world celebrates Pride Month every June to celebrate, honor, support, and fight for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.
The queer community is resilient. No matter what obstacles they encounter, their battle to live, pursue their passions, and contribute to society endures. For many queer people that passion is science. Queer scientists such as Alan Turing who was crucial in ending World War II, and Sara Josephine Baker who made unprecedented br...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ben Ragen Tags: Uncategorized field research LGBTQ Source Type: blogs
I ’m a U.S. doctor just back from Sudan, where hospitality from Muslims greeted me everywhere
Many Americans have never visited a predominantly Muslim country and may know relatively little about the faith of Islam. This is relevant in light of the Trump administration’s recent executive order attempting to reduce terrorist threats to the U.S. by halting the issuance of visas to travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Having returned this month from Sudan, one of the countries affected by the ban, I wish to share my own firsthand experience of Islam – not Islamic extremists or Islamic terrorists, but Islamic hosts. As I have learned, hospitality and generosity are traits that receive considerable a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 31, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/richard-gunderman" rel="tag" > Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD < /a > Tags: Physician Pulmonology Source Type: blogs
South Sudan: Unknown Hemorrhagic Illness
Regarding an ongoing outbreak of hemorrhagic illness in South Sudan, a differential diagnosis list generated by Gideon [Global Infectious Disease & Epidemiology Network]http://www.GideonOnline.com, includes 2 lesser-known pathogens which have been associated with single small clusters of hemorrhagic fever in Africa: Bas-Congo virus (rhabdovirus) and Lujo virus (arenavirus). In 2008, 4 of 5 patients died of Lujo virus infection in a South African hospital, following transfer of an index patient from Zambia. The following year, 2 of 3 villagers in DR Congo died in an outbreak of Bas Congo virus infection. If tests for ot...
Source: GIDEON blog - July 4, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Cases Diagnosis Epidemiology Outbreaks ProMED Bas Congo Lujo South Sudan Source Type: blogs
Time To Remove U.S. Sanctions On Sudan
KHARTOUM, SUDAN—Like the dog that didn’t bark in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale, little advertising promotes American goods in Khartoum. Washington has banned most business with Sudan.
As I point out on Forbes: “Sanctions have become a tool of choice for Washington, yet severing commercial relations rarely has promoted America’s ends. Nothing obvious has been achieved in Sudan, where the U.S. stands alone. It is time for Washington to drop its embargo.
The Clinton administration first imposed restrictions in 1993, citing Khartoum as an official state sponsor of terrorism. The Bush administration imposed additional...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 28, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
American Christians Should Stop Hurting Sudanese Christians With Sanctions
KHARTOUM, SUDAN—Ubiquitous American advertising is absent in Sudan. Washington bans most imports and exports to the country. Among the strongest supporters of economic coercion have been American Christians, seeking to punish the Muslim-dominated central government for its brutal conduct in past ethnic conflicts.
While the combat has largely ceased, the embargo remains. And Sudanese Christians with whom I recently spoke said that they suffer when Washington penalizes the Sudanese people for Khartoum’s sins. Rev. Filotheos Farag of Khartoum’s El Shahidein Coptic Church, explained “we want to cancel all the sanctions...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
A Mission to One of the Most Devastated Places in the World
By Josh Skaggs, MD
I went on a medical mission to East Africa’s South Sudan this past January and February. The country is one of the most undeveloped, isolated, and devastated places in the world, and it was an amazing experience even though being there was incredibly tough.
South Sudan and Sudan used to be under the control of Egypt, and were overseen by Great Britain. Great Britain withdrew from Sudan, its former colony, in 1956. Sudan had two regions at that time, the Arab north and the tribal south. War broke out after the northern Sudanese government began killing all non-Arabs in the south who would not ...
Source: Going Global - July 15, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
