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Biden must halt the assault on free press and drop the prosecution of Julian Assange
Jan 10, 2022 07:11Wikileaks exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, torture at Guantanamo and other abuses of power, releasing thousands of secret U.S. government and military documents that major news organizations worldwide, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian then used as the basis for award-winning reporting.
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Why Republicans keep falling for Trump’s lies
Jan 10, 2022 06:58When called upon to believe that Barack Obama was really born in Kenya, millions got in line. When encouraged to believe that the 2012 Sandy Hook murder of 20 children and six adults was a hoax, too many stepped up.
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US Capitol attack panel investigates Trump over potential criminal conspiracy
Jan 10, 2022 06:54Messages between former US Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and others suggest the former President Donald Trump White House coordinated efforts to stop Joe Biden’s certification.
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‘Everything is at risk’: Flood survivors urge US Congress to change inadequate insurance
Jan 10, 2022 06:48A petition of nearly 300 people who have been flooded, and their advocates argues that the US federal government’s current flood insurance policies are ill-equipped for an era of climate crisis.
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The cruel farce of US regime change policy in Venezuela
Jan 09, 2022 16:33Biden’s willingness to let the bankrupt and evil policy against Venezuela is a black mark on his record. This was a Trump-era policy that he inherited, so it would not have been that difficult for him to repudiate Trump’s policy at the beginning of his term.
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'Huge increase' in US child poverty feared as tax credit expires amid Omicron wave
Jan 08, 2022 06:34The New York Times has recently reported that with Omicron surging in the US, "economists warn that the one-two punch of expiring aid and rising cases could put a chill on the once red-hot economic recovery and cause severe hardship for millions of families already living close to the poverty line."
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Capitalism is preventing bold steps to curb COVID as cases skyrocket in US
Jan 08, 2022 06:31Indeed, Americans are all at the end of their rope, and it is vital to recognize that, along with the peril it represents. They have allowed capitalism to be in the driver’s seat of their response since this began, and all that has gotten them is a steady diet of one step forward, three steps back.
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The US is building, rather than tearing down GTMO prison facilities
Jan 07, 2022 18:24There seems to be little effort to hide the fact that the Biden Administration does not plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in his first term as he once declared. That pledge is but a whisper on the wind, much like the promises made by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.
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America's wars are far more costly than the Pentagon admits
Jan 07, 2022 18:13According to a major 2019 study, from 2001 to 2019, taxpayers incurred a cost of $6.4 trillion for US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.
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UK pivots to the Zionist regime in post-Brexit scramble
Jan 07, 2022 18:05Over the past year, the UK has taken a number of steps aligning itself much closer with the US and the Zionist regime than its own past positions.