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Can Biden remove Guantanamo 'stain' from US rights record?
Feb 14, 2021 06:44The White House said on Friday Feb. 12 President Joe Biden’s aides have launched a formal review of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, reviving the Obama-era goal of closing the controversial facility with the aim of doing so before he leaves office.
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From concentration camps to overflow facilities: With Biden in charge, media forgets kids in cages
Feb 14, 2021 06:40The Biden administration is opening a new child prison along the United States-Mexico border. The center, located in Carrizo Springs, around 100 miles southwest of San Antonio, is being specifically built for unaccompanied migrant children attempting to cross the border and will hold around 700 people when finished, although plans noted it will be expanded if the government deems it necessary.
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Massive losses should be a warning to Big Oil that its bonanza is over
Feb 13, 2021 02:34The crushing decline of the oil industry during the COVID-19 pandemic may be unprecedented, but it is also a foreseeable outcome for fossil fuel producers in the years ahead. The race to create clean-burning biofuels and hydrogen to propel aircraft and seaborne tankers is gaining pace. At the same time, electric vehicles are accelerating into the mainstream.
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White supremacy and American policing
Feb 13, 2021 02:27The assault on the U.S. Capitol has drawn attention to the presence of far-right extremists in the U.S. military and law enforcement. While the Pentagon has taken steps to address the problem, the police chiefs will have a much harder time rooting out extremism in their departments.
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Resistance resulting in US defeats all over the region
Feb 13, 2021 02:17While celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the resounding triumph of the Islamic Revolution we can say with confidence that as Iran marches steadily towards the pinnacle of progress in all spheres, the future appears brighter than ever.
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US Border Patrol policies are designed to kill hundreds of migrants each year
Feb 12, 2021 04:22Each year, untold numbers of migrants disappear in the US borderlands after being pushed into dangerous and remote terrain by Border Patrol, the same agency that is then tasked with responding to migrants’ search and rescue emergencies.
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ICE threatened to expose asylum-seekers to COVID-19 if they did not accept deportation
Feb 10, 2021 17:07Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to expose them to Covid-19 if they failed to obey his orders and submit to a transfer.
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Biden continues policies which put kids in cages, in Syria
Feb 10, 2021 16:54US President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, backed policies towards Syria which saw innocent children separated from their families and placed in cages. But the worst part of it, is that they have no quarrels with doing it again.
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Why GOP argument against trying Trump is so dangerous
Feb 10, 2021 16:45As the Senate trial of former US President Donald Trump nears, the defense is coming into view. It appears that most Senate Republicans will not defend Trump’s conduct around the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. Instead, they will rally around an argument about the chamber’s constitutional powers and the supposedly dangerous consequences for US politics if the Senate tries a “late impeachment.”
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Digital Yuan could bust the United States
Feb 10, 2021 08:05A digital Yuan might rewrite the rules of international banking.