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US Capitol attack panel in race against time as Trump allies seek to run out clock
Jan 07, 2022 18:03A barrage of delay tactics as US Republicans are expected to do well in 2022 midterms that would give them control to shut down the inquiry about the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
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Justice demands elimination of Soleimani’s killers
Jan 07, 2022 17:33With the firm determination shown by the lovers of freedom and justice, the day may soon dawn when the killers of Soleimani and al-Muhandis receive their due punishment, however tight the security ring around them.
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Americans poisoning themselves with war
Jan 06, 2022 06:10Participating the US in the endless wars has turned them into terrorists. When the US wages war, they dehumanize – then kill – a specific segment of humanity.
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Bannon and allies bid to expand pro-Trump influence in local US politics
Jan 06, 2022 06:05Growing drive by hardcore Trumpists spurs US election watchdogs to voice alarm about threat to American democracy.
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US needs to take responsibility for worldwide plastic pollution in oceans
Jan 05, 2022 12:19Plastic waste of all shapes and sizes permeates the world’s oceans. It shows up on beaches, in fish and even in Arctic Sea ice. And a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine makes clear that the U.S. is a big part of the problem.
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One year in, Biden’s nuclear policies look a lot like Trump’s (2)
Jan 05, 2022 12:09Currently, the U.S. is pursuing a nuclear weapons modernization program that was launched by the Obama-Biden administration that is expected to cost at least $1.7 trillion by 2046. This includes large spending increases on a controversial low-yield smaller nuclear warhead, the total replacement of the intercontinental ballistic missile force, new B-21 strategic bombers, B-52 upgrades, more destructive nuclear warheads, as well as other programs.
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One year in, Biden’s nuclear policies look a lot like Trump’s (1)
Jan 04, 2022 17:53Currently, the U.S. is pursuing a nuclear weapons modernization program that was launched by the Obama-Biden administration that is expected to cost at least $1.7 trillion by 2046. This includes large spending increases on a controversial low-yield smaller nuclear warhead, the total replacement of the intercontinental ballistic missile force, new B-21 strategic bombers, B-52 upgrades, more destructive nuclear warheads, as well as other programs.
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The US still doesn’t know how and where it will store its growing nuclear waste
Jan 04, 2022 06:43A year-and-a-half after a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that the US Department of Energy (DoE) has no coherent plan in place to manage nuclear waste from weapons manufacturing piling up at more than 150 sites across the US, the DoE has made little progress in developing a safe and strategic plan to handle the waste.
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Out of sight, out of mind: Afghanistan vanishes from US news
Jan 04, 2022 05:42Despite unprecedented levels of hunger and starvation for which U.S. sanctions bear important responsibility, Afghanistan has once again virtually disappeared from the most important single source of world news for most Americans.
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Meet the Biden war budget, same as the Trump war budget
Jan 03, 2022 12:40Organizations representing both progressive interests and more fiscally conservative perspectives had urged President Joe Biden earlier this year to pull back on the huge defense budget increases that occurred during former President Donald Trump’s four years in office.