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Since 9/11, US has spent $21 trillion on militarism at home and abroad
Sep 05, 2021 04:41In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, the United States regime has spent more than $21 trillion at home and overseas on militaristic policies that led to the creation of a vast surveillance apparatus, worsened mass incarceration, intensified the war on immigrant communities, and caused incalculable human suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and elsewhere.
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Biden blasted for resuming fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters
Sep 04, 2021 13:09Biden is restarting a broken leasing system that is ripping off taxpayers, polluting air, lands, and waters, and killing people.
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Native American tribes enforce mask mandates regardless of state bans
Sep 03, 2021 04:33As sovereign nations, Indigenous groups and Native American tribes are using their authority to make their own rules to protect students and teachers as COVID-19 cases surge.
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The $150mn machine that will change the world
Sep 03, 2021 04:26Amid the recent chip shortage, Dutch company ASML's products have become central to a geopolitical struggle between the US and China, with Washington making it a high priority to block China’s access to the machines. So far, the US government has pressured the Dutch not to grant the export licenses needed to send the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines to China.
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Climate crises converge as wildfire burns west and hurricane pummels south in US
Sep 02, 2021 13:08Hurricane Ida made landfall in Southern Louisiana on Aug 29 as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the U.S. It has knocked out power to the hundreds of thousands of residents of New Orleans and over 1 million in Louisiana and has caused at least one death so far.
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US COVID hospitalization rate tops 100,000, highest since winter’s peak
Sep 02, 2021 13:01US Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 have topped a two-week average of 100,000, according to the New York Times. This is the highest rate of hospitalizations due to COVID recorded in the U.S. since last winter, when rates reached record highs.
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The U.S. Education Department is investigating five states over their mask mandate bans
Sep 02, 2021 10:48The U.S. Education Department has initiated investigations into five states whose prohibitions on universal mask mandates in schools may run afoul of civil rights laws protecting students with disabilities, federal officials announced on Monday (Aug. 30, 2021).
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Afghanistan today, Africa tomorrow: America’s saga of failure
Sep 02, 2021 10:40The presence of extremist militant groups in Africa is providing the perfect pretext for expanding the US military footprint there. The US desperately needs new leadership before it bleeds another generation in an endless war.
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Hurricane Ida: Up to 2 million without power as New Orleans assesses damage
Sep 02, 2021 10:33Up to 2 million people remained without power in and around New Orleans on Monday Aug. 30 as residents and authorities began to assess “catastrophic” damage from Hurricane Ida, a 150mph monster storm that was the most powerful ever to hit Louisiana.
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Afghanistan: The great deception
Sep 01, 2021 04:02The U.S./NATO’s rhetorical game of nation-building and democracy-building, all while funding the very forces they were officially fighting in the so-called “war on terror,” is one of the greatest deceptions of the last 20 years.