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Pompeo embraced Zionist regime settlements, but Democrats also paved the way for it
Dec 01, 2020 05:33While it is easy to see Pompeo’s recent announcements as simply another one of the Trump administration’s renunciations of longstanding international norms, support for the Zionist regime colonization of occupied Palestinian territory has been ongoing for years. It has been endorsed by Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Biden's national security nominees want back in after cashing out of government service
Dec 01, 2020 05:25The incoming US administration is facing a major test of transparency and ethics after the New York Times reported on Saturday, November 28th that three former government officials tapped to run Joe Biden’s national security team have been stakeholders at a private equity firm which is promising investors big profits off government business because of its ties to those officials.
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US surpasses 13m COVID cases as experts urge caution over Thanksgiving weekend
Nov 30, 2020 02:09America’s coronavirus surge showed no sign of abating over the Thanksgiving holiday, as cases in the country surpassed 13 million on Friday (27 Nov 2020).
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Bleak Milestone: More than 100,000 American nursing home residents and staff killed by pandemic
Nov 30, 2020 02:04As of the last week of November, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people who live and work in long-term care facilities in the United States, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's latest analysis of state-reported data.
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Amid US public health and employment crises, new survey shows poor Americans agree on policy solutions
Nov 29, 2020 06:14According to a recent poll, 73% of Americans living in or near poverty somewhat or strongly agree that "the U.S. government should enact the policies and programs necessary to end U.S. hunger by ensuring that all Americans can afford and access sufficient, nutritious, culturally compatible food."
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How Trump is destroying the presidential transition process
Nov 29, 2020 06:04Having lost the election, as well as dozens of post-election challenges, Donald Trump’s ongoing refusal to admit defeat is still doing damage to Joe Biden’s transition to power. The formal process has finally begun, but it is weeks late and spent a long time starved of funds as Republican officials stonewalled usual procedures.
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Bernstein names 21 Republican senators who privately expressed contempt for Trump
Nov 28, 2020 05:50The veteran Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein has publicly named 21 Republican senators he says have “repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for [Donald] Trump and his fitness” for office.
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Implications of the U.S. election on U.S.-China relations
Nov 28, 2020 05:45In an attempt to pressure China, the U.S. President initiated a trade war in 2018 and ratcheted up tariffs on Chinese imports to the American market. By early 2020, these amounted to over $400 billion in tariffs, with China imposing its own retaliatory tariffs of $138 billion on its U.S. imports.
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Cuba could be on the brink of a revolutionary COVID vaccine, but US sanctions are slowing it down
Nov 27, 2020 16:50Dr. Helen Yaffe of Glasgow University, author of “We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World,” said: “Cuba now has four COVID-specific vaccine candidates under clinical trial. The fact that a small Caribbean island can achieve such a remarkable feat is testimony to its state-owned biotech sector, which is directed towards public health demands and integrated into its healthcare and education systems.
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Ivanka Trump distances self from dad's election fraud claims as her own legal jeopardy grows
Nov 27, 2020 16:50Ivanka Trump is among a growing number of President Donald Trump’s close advisers who want nothing to do with his legal efforts to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election, according to a new report. These advisers may publicly act as though they believe Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani can pull some kind of courtroom miracle to prove widely debunked claims of election fraud.