Donald H. Harrison

Donald Trump vows to cancel Trans-Pacific Partnership as president, puts NAFTA on notice

Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that if elected president he would cancel a pending trade deal with Pacific Rim countries and demand Mexico and Canada accept sweeping changes to NAFTA – or else he will nix that one, too. It was part of an anti-globalization agenda that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee offered to revitalize U.S. […]

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Trump campaign illegally soliciting donations from foreign nationals: Watchdogs

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is illegally soliciting campaign donations from foreign nationals, according to a complaint being filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Trump’s campaign has emailed solicitations to foreign nationals in Iceland, Scotland, Britain, and Australia requesting that they make contributions to his presidential campaign, according to a copy of the complaint

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Children urged to remind parents about gun safety

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego City Councilwomen kicked off their shoes at the Copley-Price Family YMCA on Wednesday, June 29, and on the shaded playground turf led a pep rally in which they instructed a multi-ethnic group of young day campers to refrain from

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Why Doesn’t Turkey Receive the Sympathy It Deserves?

Within hours of the deadly assault on Istanbul’s Ataturk international airport, analysts and experts were looking for someone to blame. Most cited lapses in airport security or Turkey’s precarious situation given the long-standing conflicts in Iraq and Syria. The threat faced by Turkey from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is real. Major attacks in

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International, Middle East

Why Turkish deal is a success for Israeli diplomacy

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The announcement of Turkish-Israeli rapprochement was touted first as an economic achievement for Israel. It should be noted, however, that Turkey-Israel civilian trade, as distinct from military trade, was already robust, rising from $1.5 billion in the first half of 2010 to $5.6 billion in 2015. Israel has an interest

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Middle East Roundup: June 29, 2016

  Israeli ministers officially approve reconciliation deal with Turkey (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli diplomatic-security cabinet on Wednesday approved the recently struck reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey. Following a five-hour debate, the cabinet ministers voted 7-3 in favor of the agreement. Israel’s cabinet approval of the agreement came a day after a shooting

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Atheist group quotes Ronald Reagan in Cleveland message to RNC

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is erecting a billboard that features a Ronald Reagan quote stressing the importance of separation of church and state ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month. “We establish no religion in this country … Church and state are, and must remain, separate,” the billboard will read, Raw

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