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‘Is this who Americans are?’: Gitmo is US’ enduring shame
Mar 10, 2021 07:00Even if US President Joe Biden is able to overcome pressure from the military, from the CIA, and from Congress to shut Guantánamo down, justice will still be absent, not only because of the numerous lives that are forever shattered but because America still refuses to learn from its mistakes.
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US war machine doesn’t want Americans to take war personally
Mar 10, 2021 06:45The United States has bombed Syria more than 20,000 times over the past eight years. The United States began bombing these ancient lands 30 years ago. The U.S. has continued bombing Iraq and neighboring countries on and off ever since.
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US exceptionalism surges again: Will it fly?
Mar 09, 2021 15:48Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was spot on when he said at the UNHRC meeting on February 24, “The pandemic has exacerbated old problems such as racism and xenophobia, as well as discrimination against national and religious minorities. Mass protests in the United States and Europe have exposed these countries’ continuing systemic inequalities, while highlighting the risks of condoning extremist ideologies.”
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American injustice industry: Why shutting down Guantánamo is not enough
Mar 09, 2021 15:45Guantánamo is – and has always been – a fraudulent operation with no real inclination to holding criminals and terrorists accountable and to preventing further crimes. Instead, Guantánamo is an industry, and a lucrative one. In many ways, it is similar to the American prison military complex, ironically dubbed the criminal justice system.
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'Shameful': Millionaire senators vote against popular minimum wage raise that would lift millions out of poverty
Mar 09, 2021 15:42It is despicable and unacceptable that there is not unanimous support among Democrats in Congress for a $15 minimum wage.
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Detroit will use $200,000 in taxpayer money to fund claim against BLM group
Mar 08, 2021 07:08Detroit City Council doesn’t care about the interests of the people they serve; they are more inclined to fill their own pockets.
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NATO’s expanding role hides the reality of a US empire in decline
Mar 08, 2021 06:57While a great deal of attention has been paid to the optics of unifying NATO under new, more inclusive American leadership, the harsh realities of the policy priorities pushed by Lloyd Austin, Biden’s Secretary of Defense, and their underlying economics, point to a weakened US looking to further exploit a European military alliance for the purposes of propping up an America in decline.
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No one is above the law: Rashida Tlaib rips Biden admin's opposition to ICC war crimes probe of Israeli regime
Mar 07, 2021 14:26The Michigan congresswoman said the ICC "has the authority and duty to independently and impartially investigate and deliver justice to victims of human rights violations and war crimes in Palestine.
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US, allies drop 46 bombs per day for 20 years, new CODEPINK research reveals
Mar 07, 2021 14:23The United States has been at war for nearly every year of its existence as an independent nation, fighting in 227 years of its 244-year history.
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The US House passed a bill named for George Floyd, it won’t stop police killings
Mar 07, 2021 06:39US Democrats and some civil rights leaders applauded the passage of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 in the House recently as an important step toward curbing police violence. However, the suite of policing reforms does not reflect the transformational demands of the movement that erupted into view after police killed Taylor, Floyd, Daniel Prude, Tony McDade, Modesto Reyes, Patrick Lynn Warren and so many others.