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US drone strikes’ errors and the cost in human life
Oct 25, 2021 12:25From the perspective of international humanitarian law (The Hague and Geneva Conventions), it is clear that drones are indiscriminate weapons and therefore illegal because they contravene the two core rules of IHL – the distinction between military and civilian targets and the principle of proportionality.
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'Bombshell': Total knew about climate threat from fossil fuels for decades, but denied it
Oct 25, 2021 12:13The dire consequences of climate change we are now experiencing could have been avoided if Total executives 50 years ago had decided that the future of the planet is more important than their profits.
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New report shows 'shocking abuses' of asylum-seekers by US border agents
Oct 25, 2021 12:04Shocking instances of sexual and physical abuse of asylum seekers at the southern US border by federal officers have been uncovered by Human Rights Watch, after a years-long battle to wrestle the information from the Department of Homeland Security under freedom of information laws.
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Trump warned his backers would skip midterms — new polling shows he may be right
Oct 23, 2021 06:39US former President Donald Trump has recently said that his supporters wouldn’t take part in the 2022 midterm elections unless more “audits” of his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden were conducted — and new polling suggests that in one of the nation’s “reddest” districts, Trump’s prediction may come true.
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Biden and other democrats helped Colin Powell spread George W. Bush’s Iraq lies
Oct 22, 2021 18:12To this day, leading Democrats continue to side with Republicans on the Israeli regime occupations, increased military spending, support for dictatorial regimes, and attacks on the United Nations, the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, as well as other controversial foreign policy positions rationalized through demonstrably false statements.
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Trump sues to block release of White House papers to Jan. 6 inquiry
Oct 22, 2021 12:13Former US President Donald J. Trump sued Congress and the National Archives on Monday Oct. 18, seeking to block the disclosure of White House files related to his actions and communications surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Colin Powell’s UN speech: A decisive moment in undermining US credibility
Oct 22, 2021 12:07Former US Secretary State Colin Powell will be most remembered for the act he most regretted, his 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council laying out US evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
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'Indefensible': US billionaires became $2.1 trillion richer in 19 months of pandemic
Oct 22, 2021 11:57American billionaires grew in number and expanded their collective fortunes by $2.1 trillion since COVID-19 sparked a worldwide pandemic nineteen months ago, according to a new analysis unveiled recently.
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‘This is Americans' last chance’: Biden urged to act as climate agenda hangs by a thread
Oct 21, 2021 06:53Failure to pass legislation to cut emissions before the UN summit in Glasgow could be catastrophic for purported US efforts to curb global heating.
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U.S. Supreme Court again protects police accused of excessive force
Oct 21, 2021 06:44The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday Oct. 18 signaled that it is not retreating from its inclination to grant a legal protection called "qualified immunity" to police accused in lawsuits of using excessive force, ruling in favor of officers in separate cases from California and Oklahoma.