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US insurance giants worsening climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and human rights violations: Report
May 30, 2021 04:34The world's leading insurance companies, especially U.S. ones, are underwriting and investing in industries that drive planetary heating, destroy ecosystems, and violate human rights, according to Insuring Disaster, a new report released recently by a United Kingdom-based financial industry watchdog.
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When it comes to the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the US (2)
May 29, 2021 04:53Three months into Joe Biden's term, the president's early pledge to rein in damaging arms deals are already eroding.
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When it comes to the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the US (1)
May 28, 2021 15:13The recent bombing and leveling of Gaza by the U.S.-financed and supplied Israeli regime military is just the latest example of the devastating toll exacted by American weapons transfers in these years.
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Biden, Blinken and emperor's new rules
May 28, 2021 14:54The newly-touted "rules-based order" by the U.S. is its latest smokescreen for a foreign policy based on illegal threats and uses of force and a doctrine of "might makes right."
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New York district attorney convenes grand jury in Trump criminal inquiry
May 28, 2021 05:12Former US President Donald Trump is facing growing legal danger after the attorney general’s office in New York said it had opened a criminal investigation into his business activities and those of other Trump family members.
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George Floyd family urges Biden to pass police reform bill as it stalls in Senate
May 28, 2021 05:05George Floyd’s brother, Philonise urged US President Joe Biden to pass a law ‘to protect people of color’ at White House meeting.
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Study shows 91% of people killed or injured by explosives in global cities were civilians
May 28, 2021 04:55On the heels of Israel's recent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, a London-based charity revealed Tuesday that civilians accounted for 91% of people killed or injured when explosive weapons were used in populated areas worldwide from 2011 to 2020.
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Insolent terrorist needs to be taught a lesson
May 28, 2021 04:45The latest humiliation of the illegal Zionist entity vis-à-vis the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza has alarmed its godfather, the US, to such an extent that it is now plotting to create tensions among regional countries in a bid to save Israel from the fast approaching doom.
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‘It’s a minefield’: COVID vaccine safety poses unique communication challenge
May 27, 2021 06:12Poll on vaccine hesitancy demonstrates the extraordinary predicament researchers face in transmitting risk information during a pandemic.
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BLM activist Sasha Johnson in critical condition after gunshot to the head
May 26, 2021 11:04The Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is in a critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to her head in an incident in south London, her affiliated group, Taking the Initiative Party, has announced on social media.