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Domestic Surveillance
Why are Authorities treating DAPL enviro Protesters like Terrorists?

Why are Authorities treating DAPL enviro Protesters like Terrorists?

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TeleSur | – – The legal activist group ACLU announced it has filed a motion to quash the warrant, which it argues violates free speech laws. A local police department in the state of Washington has obtained a warrant to search private information about a Facebook group used to share information related to the Dakota […]

Israel/ Palestine
Only the Israeli dead matter: Israel's failure at investigating its bloody wars

Only the Israeli dead matter: Israel’s failure at investigating its bloody wars

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By: Ramzy Baroud | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – At a glance, Israel appears a true democracy. Take a closer look, and that facade of democracy will soon dissipate, turning into something else entirely. Tuesday, Feb. 28 was one of those moments. The chain of events was as follows: An official Israeli State Comptroller […]

Donald Trump
Surging Trump’s America:  What didn’t work in Baghdad won’t work in Washington

Surging Trump’s America: What didn’t work in Baghdad won’t work in Washington

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By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – The other day, I found myself flipping through old photos from my time in Iraq.  One in particular from October 2006 stood out. I see my 23-year-old self, along with my platoon. We’re still at Camp Buerhing in Kuwait, posing in front of our squadron logo […]

Inequality
Women's National Strike over Pay inequities, Glass Ceiling

Women’s National Strike over Pay inequities, Glass Ceiling

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CBS News | Video News Clip | — “Women worldwide walked off the job Wednesday to protest and demand equality. Anna Werner reports from Alexandria, Virginia, which had to close its schools since so many teachers joined the protest.” CBS Evening News: “Women wear red, go on strike for “Day Without a Woman””

Israel/ Palestine
As Civil War heats up in S. Syria, Palestinian Refugees displaced Again

As Civil War heats up in S. Syria, Palestinian Refugees displaced Again

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN agency responsible for providing services to some five million Palestinian refugees, released a statement on Wednesday expressing concern over the escalation of violence in the city of Deraa in southern Syria. “Fighting among parties to the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Cornel West: Israel Anti-BDS Law Would Ban Einstein from Entry

Cornel West: Israel Anti-BDS Law Would Ban Einstein from Entry

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TeleSur | – – The African-American intellectual is one of the BDS movement’s most prominent figures and therefore could be denied entry into Israel under the new law. The new Israeli law banning foreigners who call for a boycott against the country over its treatment of Palestinians and the occupation of their land suggests that […]

Central Intelligence Agency
WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of 'CIA hacking'

WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of ‘CIA hacking’

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David Glance | (The Conversation) | – – WikiLeaks today released what it claims is the largest leak of intelligence documents in history. It contains 8,761 documents from the CIA detailing some of its hacking arsenal. The release, code-named “Vault 7” by WikiLeaks, covers documents from 2013 to 2016 obtained from the CIA’s Centre for […]

Far Right
We ignore the Violence of Radical White Populist Extremism at our Peril

We ignore the Violence of Radical White Populist Extremism at our Peril

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By Sindre Bangstad | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | – – We ignore the terrorist threat from right-wing extremism at our peril. But the main threat to democracy in our time is even more insidious. On 29 January 2017, a gunman opened fire in a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, killing six Muslim worshippers and wounding 19 […]

African-Americans
It's Racism, Stupid.  America's Persistent Racial Wealth Divide

It’s Racism, Stupid. America’s Persistent Racial Wealth Divide

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By Josh Hoxie | ( Inequality.org ) | – – A new study shows the legacy of racism far outweighs individual financial decisions in driving the growing gap between black and white families. No myth around around our staggering racial wealth divide may be more entrenched than the notion that black and brown people have […]

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