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Australian government stares down calls to press UK and US for Julian Assange’s release
Dec 13, 2021 12:16Australia says it is ‘not a party’ to case and will ‘respect the UK legal process’ after court clears way for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s extradition to US.
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Senate rejects Sanders’s resolution to block $650m weapons sale to Saudi Arabia
Dec 12, 2021 07:31The Senate voted against a bipartisan resolution to block a $650 million weapons sale to Saudi Arabia recently, rejecting a bid by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and progressive and Republican lawmakers to stop the sale.
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Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup
Dec 12, 2021 07:19Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House Select Committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack a PowerPoint recommending Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to return himself to the presidency.
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Biden is upholding Trump's hateful vision for the border
Dec 09, 2021 13:05The Biden administration officially ended “Remain in Mexico” in June, but is now reinstating it under a court order. In one key area, Biden’s rebooted “Remain in Mexico” is even more cruel, expanding the number of people who can be placed into the program, including Haitians and other Caribbean nations with majority Afro-descendant populations like Jamaica.
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Fauci optimistic after early reports suggest Omicron lacks 'great degree of severity'
Dec 09, 2021 13:00As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to emerge in the U.S., top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said that preliminary findings are encouraging.
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Islamic trust should replace US-created distrust in the region
Dec 09, 2021 12:54The Islamic Republic believes the states of the region possess the potential to promote peace among themselves on the firm basis of the historical ties of religion, culture, and trade, provided they have the Islamic courage to tell meddlers, such as the Americans and the British, to stay away and not create sedition.
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Right vs. right vs. left: Governor’s race puts Georgia at center of 2022 drama
Dec 09, 2021 12:45Former U.S. Senator David Perdue, encouraged by Donald Trump, is challenging Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican who defied the former president.
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Biden to Pentagon: Keep the war machine running
Dec 08, 2021 07:06The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia.
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Illegal and inhumane: Biden-Harris and immigration
Dec 08, 2021 06:59It is the U.S. that has created or greatly contributed to the economic, climatic, and political instability in many of these Latin American and Caribbean countries. As in Afghanistan, the U.S. has the moral and legal obligation to respond humanely to this desperate cry for help.
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'Indefensible': Outrage over man in wheelchair fatally shot in the back by Arizona cop
Dec 08, 2021 06:50Noting that up to half of all fatal U.S. police use-of-force incidents involve people with disabilities, rights advocates voiced serious concerns over what they called the "unacceptable" killing of a wheelchair-bound Arizona man by a Tucson police officer who shot the victim nine times in the back on Monday evening, November 29th.