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World’s most tyrannical regime can’t stop babbling about 'human rights'
May 08, 2021 11:28Like all US secretaries of state, Antony Blinken’s public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
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House Republicans have had enough of Liz Cheney’s truth-telling
May 07, 2021 06:20The first time defenders of Donald J. Trump came for Representative Liz Cheney, for the offense of having voted to impeach him, fellow Republicans closed ranks to save her leadership post, with Representative Kevin McCarthy boasting that their “big tent” party had enough room for both the former president and a stalwart critic.
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Don’t be fooled by Joe Biden
May 07, 2021 06:06Biden is the epitome of the empty, amoral creature produced by US system of legalized bribery. His long political career in Congress was defined by representing the interests of big business, especially the credit card companies based in Delaware.
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US police killings of black people are indeed a crime against humanity
May 06, 2021 05:54The late African-American Muslim Minister and Human Rights Activist, Malcolm X once suggested that the United States should be prosecuted, for the genocidal situation facing Black Americans, at the United Nations. Decades on, and in the wake of brutal US policing, the United States is now facing similar questions and similar criticism.
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Toxic legacy of US military in pacific
May 04, 2021 12:08For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve agent
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Bush: ‘Anglo-Saxon’ ideals show pro-Trump Republicans ‘want to be extinct’
May 03, 2021 11:17Ahead of a special election on Saturday (May 01, 2021) to replace a Texas congressman who died after contracting COVID-19, former President George W Bush said the ascendancy of supporters of Donald Trump suggest Republicans “want to be extinct”.
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Many US deaths during pandemic were simply due to lack of access to health care
May 02, 2021 12:20For decades, the US government has ignored the warnings from public health experts that the U.S. was not properly prepared for the pandemic Americans are living through now.
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With 300,000 deported in first 100 days, rights group warns Biden 'well on track to repeat' Obama failures
May 02, 2021 08:43Rights group United We Dream has warned that unless he takes immediate steps to improve his administration's treatment of immigrants, President Joe Biden is at serious risk of repeating the destructive failures of former President Barack Obama, who deported roughly three million people during his eight years in office.
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Global military spending grew to nearly $2 trillion in 2020 despite pandemic
May 02, 2021 08:29Despite growing demands made by progressive lawmakers and activists to redirect funds from the Pentagon to impoverished communities nationwide to promote human and environmental flourishing, Biden earlier this month requested an even bigger military budget than the one approved last year.
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US Marshals used drones to spy on Black Lives Matter protests in Washington DC
Apr 29, 2021 14:33The U.S. Marshals Service flew unmanned drones over Washington, D.C., in response to last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests, documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act show.