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Trump launches 'despicable' last-minute attack on social security with rule aiming to restrict disability benefits
Dec 10, 2020 17:33The Trump administration is quietly launching a last-minute assault on Social Security by rushing ahead with a rule that, if implemented, could deny critical benefits to hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities.
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Report blames Trump admin for 330% rise in Afghan civilian casualties
Dec 10, 2020 17:28A report by Brown University Watson Institute's Costs of War Project—one of the premier authorities on civilian casualties in the 19-year so-called War on Terror—found a 330% increase in the number of Afghan civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes from 2016, the final year of the Obama administration, to 2019.
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Millions of Californians put under strict COVID lockdown
Dec 10, 2020 16:49More than three-quarters of California’s population are now living under the harshest lockdowns in the US, as COVID-19 cases hit record levels in the country’s most populous state.
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Trump's attacks on election integrity 'disgust me', says senior Georgia Republican
Dec 09, 2020 12:06Donald Trump’s attacks on Republican officials in Georgia and insistence his defeat by Joe Biden must be overturned are disgusting, Geoff Duncan, the Republican lieutenant governor of the southern state said on Sunday (Dec. 06, 2020).
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Palestinian case at ICC legal, not political
Dec 09, 2020 11:56Reaffirming its unwavering support to the Zionist regime of Israel, the United States took radical steps to reject International Criminal Court’s (ICC) authority over its citizens and territory, suspend visas to ICC personnel and their families, and condemn the Palestine investigation and “any other action that seeks to target Israel”.
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Pandemic, the so-called ‘Great Reset’ and resistance
Dec 09, 2020 10:42According to the latest International Labor Organization reports, as job losses escalate due to lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19, nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of losing livelihoods, access to food and the ability to survive. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has stated, “With some 2.6 billion people around the world in some kind of lockdown, we are conducting arguably the largest psychological experiment ever.”
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New US data show income of top 0.1% soared 345% while that of bottom 90% stagnated over past 40 years
Dec 09, 2020 10:31U.S. wage data released recently reveal the continuation of a trend that began at the end of the 1970s, and which has given the United States the dubious distinction of having the worst income inequality among most-developed countries. While U.S. income inequality is the worst among most-developed nations, its wealth inequality is even more egregious.
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Because she was wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg joins campaign against Flournoy
Dec 09, 2020 10:27Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams on Friday, December 4th both joined a grassroots progressive campaign urging Joe Biden not to nominate Michèle Flournoy as his Pentagon chief, warning her ties to the weapons industry, hawkish record, and current positions disqualify her for the powerful role.
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With rent freezes about to expire, Mnuchin lobbies for more Wall Street bailouts
Dec 09, 2020 10:20The United States Treasury Department keeps a stash of taxpayer money and uses it for currency speculation. The massive profits from the secret market activities can be used for things like funding foreign governments and many other applications at the discretion of the presiding administration.
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Immigrants detained by ICE say they were punished for requesting COVID-19 tests
Dec 08, 2020 17:40When detainees at an Alabama jail got sick — or simply asked to be tested — they were put in solitary confinement.