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Denmark helped US spy on Angela Merkel and European allies – report
Jun 02, 2021 15:17Reports that Denmark’s military intelligence agency helped the US to spy on leading European politicians, including the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, have sparked concern – and demands for an explanation – in EU capitals.
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Texas advances voter suppression law that makes it easier to overturn elections
Jun 01, 2021 03:15Sarah Labowitz, policy and advocacy director of the ACLU of Texas, slammed the state GOP’s Senate Bill 7 in a statement recently, declaring that “S.B. 7 is a ruthless piece of legislation.”
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Texas G.O.P. races to pass voting bill as state Democrats push back
May 31, 2021 11:27The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature was racing against the clock on Sunday night (May 30, 2021) to pass a sweeping overhaul of the state’s election laws that would rubber-stamp some of the most rigid voting restrictions in the country, but Democrats were pledging an all-out fight to try to stall the bill and prevent it from passing by a midnight deadline.
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Two dead and more than 20 injured in Florida banquet hall shooting
May 31, 2021 11:24At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured in Miami, Florida, early on Sunday (May 30, 2021) as attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall. It was the city’s second deadly mass shooting in little more than 24 hours.
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Disconnect between media and huge grassroot protests for Palestine
May 31, 2021 11:17As more and more human rights organizations and legal experts reflect the harsh reality of the human impact of Zionist regime’s bombing campaigns, the image which Israel has sought to cultivate of itself has eroded and been seriously damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
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'A $753,000,000,000 defense budget is a failure': Biden Pentagon request rebuked
May 31, 2021 11:10Progressive anti-war campaigners and lawmakers blasted President Joe Biden's recent call for a $753 billion military budget for fiscal year 2022, a request that goes beyond the current $740 billion spending level approved under former President Donald Trump.
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US Republicans are trying to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack
May 30, 2021 15:36US Senate Republicans have blocked the creation of a special commission to study the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, dashing hopes for a bipartisan panel amid a Republican push to put the violent insurrection by Donald Trump’s supporters behind them.
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Texas Republicans finalize one of the nation’s strictest voting bills
May 30, 2021 15:22Texas lawmakers on Saturday (29 May) finished drafting a bill that would impose a raft of new voting restrictions, setting up the likely passage of what would be among the most far-reaching laws in Republicans’ nationwide drive to overhaul elections systems and limit voting.
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President Assad’s re-election boosts Syria’s independence
May 30, 2021 04:59The re-election of Dr. Bashar al-Assad as president for the fourth consecutive time since 2000 is indeed a vote of the Syrian people for the unity of the country and its independence from both western hegemony and subordination to the rootless and unelected Arab regimes.
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'Appalling': Biden state department quietly grants Boeing an export license for $735 million bomb sale to Israeli regime
May 30, 2021 04:51The Biden administration has reportedly granted Boeing an export license for the sale of $735 million in advanced weaponry to the Israeli regime, news that came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has recently pledged $5.5 million in emergency aid to help Gaza recover from the latest Israeli regime bombing campaign.