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US state terrorism not an impediment to Iran-Venezuela ties
Oct 20, 2021 17:17US state terrorism on the international scene, including kidnapping of officials of other countries should not be an impediment to the Iran- Venezuela growing ties that are beneficial to the politics and economy of the free world.
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Colin Powell: US general leaves behind a bloody legacy in West Asia
Oct 20, 2021 17:15Colin Powell leaves behind a bloody legacy in West Asia - most notoriously his speech to the United Nations in 2003 in which he promoted false intelligence while making the case for the invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
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US killer drone program stays afloat on sea of lies
Oct 20, 2021 06:39The claim that US drones are humane and effective has always been a lie. But by classifying the program as top-secret and by aggressively prosecuting whistleblowers, the US has been able to hide the truth about drones from most Americans.
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Biden tells Supreme Court that publicly documented torture is a state secret
Oct 19, 2021 06:46Joe Biden is not the first president to invoke the state secrets privilege in the so-called “war on terror.” The Bush administration used the privilege to evade accountability for torture, to silence whistleblowers and prevent disclosure of its extraordinary rendition program.
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Russia draws a red line for US in Central Asia
Oct 18, 2021 14:03The Pentagon’s much-touted plan for staging 'out-of-horizon' operations in Afghanistan appears to be a pipe dream.
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Democrats weigh carbon tax after Manchin rejects key climate provision
Oct 18, 2021 06:47Some House and Senate Democrats, smarting from a move by Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, to kill a major element of President Biden’s climate plan, are switching to Plan B: a tax on carbon dioxide pollution.
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Did the United Nations just abandon Yemen?
Oct 17, 2021 06:15Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the U.N. Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. For nearly four years, this investigative group examined human rights abuses suffered by Yemenis whose basic rights to food, shelter, safety, health care and education were horribly violated, all while they were bludgeoned by Saudi and U.S. air strikes, drone attacks, and constant warfare since 2014.
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Another terrorist blast as questions remain unanswered
Oct 17, 2021 06:08It seems terrorists are having a free rein in Afghanistan to kill people at will, especially those engaged in worship at mosques, without being arrested or brought to justice for their crimes against humanity.
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Nearly 42,000 sources of toxic 'forever chemicals' put US drinking water at risk: Study
Oct 16, 2021 05:29A new study by Environmental Working Group scientists finds almost 42,000 potential sources of the toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS that could be polluting surface water or drinking water in communities across the US.
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The US has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious
Oct 15, 2021 17:30America's most familiar super rich simply do not appear in the Pandora Papers coverage. No sign of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk or Bill Gates or any of the other U.S. mega billionaires who top the just-released annual Forbes 400 list of America's richest.