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The Biden administration’s missile sale to Saudi Arabia is offensive, and must be stopped
Dec 02, 2021 16:23The Biden administration should halt all U.S. arms and maintenance to the Saudi regime as leverage to get it to end the air and sea blockades.
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The new variant is worrying – but it doesn’t change how we tackle COVID
Dec 02, 2021 06:37The only way to stop B.1.1.529 and other coronavirus mutations is through testing, masks, and getting vaccines to everyone in the world
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Pentagon chief orders new inquiry into U.S. airstrike that killed dozens in Syria
Dec 02, 2021 06:29Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Monday (Nov. 29) ordered a new high-level investigation into a U.S. airstrike in Syria in 2019 that killed dozens of women and children, the Pentagon said.
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CIA report says Trump’s ‘fact-free’ approach caused briefing challenges
Dec 02, 2021 06:20According to a newly released account from the CIA, former US President Donald Trump’s chaotic and freewheeling style, and his disinclination to read anything put in front of him, resulted in the presidential daily briefing, or PDB – a crucial security update– being delivered more regularly to Vice-President Mike Pence instead.
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As U.S. hunts for Chinese spies, university scientists warn of backlash
Dec 01, 2021 07:21A chilling effect has taken hold on American university campuses, contributing to an outflow of academic talent that may hurt the United States while benefiting Beijing.
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Crimes without punishment – ever
Dec 01, 2021 07:12An estimated 300 children under five dying every day in Yemen from malnutrition, Palestinians shot dead in their occupied country every day, Lebanon and Syria slowly strangled by US sanctions, and the revelation of yet another massacre by the US, in Syria, where “about” 70 women and children were killed at Baghuz by bombs dropped one after the other to make sure that no-one escaped.
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Iran, a victim of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear allegations
Dec 01, 2021 07:06Currently, about 30,000 Iranians still suffer from the injuries they sustained during Saddam’s use of chemical weapons. This war crime, which occurred during Iraq’s war against Iran between 1980 and 1988, is never covered by the mainstream media to the proportion of its importance and significance.
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UN human rights envoy slams racist voter suppression in US
Nov 28, 2021 17:55A top human rights official at the United Nations has concluded that new voting restrictions pushed by conservatives in Texas and other states are diluting the political representation of people of color in the United States, where human rights protections are “far from comprehensive” and “even incoherent.”
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US food insecurity is much higher than before COVID
Nov 28, 2021 17:50As the COVID pandemic upended the economy in the spring and summer of 2020, tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs and became ever more vulnerable to hunger. In consequence, the country’s network of food banks saw a sudden spike in usage.
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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
Nov 28, 2021 07:23Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.