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Bill of Rights
Revealed: The private firms tracking terror targets at heart of US drone wars

Revealed: The private firms tracking terror targets at heart of US drone wars

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By Abigail Fielding-Smith and Crofton Black | (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) | – – The overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private sector contractors in the heart of its drone operations to analyse top secret video feeds and help track high value terror targets, an investigation has found. Contracts unearthed by the Bureau […]

Climate Change
Is our Fossil Fuel addiction setting even our wettest Rainforests Ablaze?

Is our Fossil Fuel addiction setting even our wettest Rainforests Ablaze?

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Subhankar Banerjee | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in flames and the smoke was so thick, so blanketing, that you could see it miles away. Deep in Washington’s Olympic National Park, the aptly named Paradise Fire, undaunted by the dampness of it all, was eating […]

Israel
Israeli squatter-terrorists kill Palestinian toddler, injure 4 after setting their Home Ablaze

Israeli squatter-terrorists kill Palestinian toddler, injure 4 after setting their Home Ablaze

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Ma’an News Agency | – – NABLUS (Ma’an ) — Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian toddler and injured four others early Friday morning after settling their home ablaze in the village of Doma near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, local sources said. Ali Saad Dawabsha, one-and-a-half years old, died shortly after sustaining serious burns, […]

Gay rights
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Man Allegedly Stabs 6 At Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Man Allegedly Stabs 6 At Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

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By IMEMC | – – An ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed six Gay Pride marchers in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday, in a repeat of a 2005 attack for which he served 10 years behind bars, police and medics said. Yishai Shlissel was released from jail three weeks ago after having served his sentence for the attack […]

Kurds
Turkey opens up old wounds with a new campaign against the PKK

Turkey opens up old wounds with a new campaign against the PKK

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By Cengiz Gunes | (The Conversation) | – – The recent surge of violence in Turkey following the massacre of socialist activists in Suruc has brought Turkey perilously close to an all-out conflict with the Kurds. Turkey has begun regular air strikes targeting the bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerrillas as part of […]

Apartheid
Amnesty Visualizes Israeli War Crimes on anniversary of Gaza Black Friday

Amnesty Visualizes Israeli War Crimes on anniversary of Gaza Black Friday

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AJ+ | (Video Report) | – “A joint study by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture reconstructs Israel’s four-day bombardment of the city of Rafah in Gaza.” AJ+ “Amnesty Report Visualizes Israel’s War Crimes”

African-Americans
Bernie Sanders launches "Political Revolution" w/ 100K Virtual House Partiers

Bernie Sanders launches “Political Revolution” w/ 100K Virtual House Partiers

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Bernie Sanders spoke from a house party in Washington, D.C., to supporters gathering in 3500 homes and other locations around the country in groups ranging from 7-8 to 80 or 90. He said it was a “historical night” and unprecedented to have these coordinated gatherings with an on-line streamed […]

African-Americans
White Male News: As US Diversifies, Newsrooms Lag

White Male News: As US Diversifies, Newsrooms Lag

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By Nora Happel | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Although the United States as a whole is becoming more ethnically diverse, newsrooms remain largely dominated by white, male reporters, according to a recent investigation by The Atlantic magazine. It found that just 22.4 percent of television journalists, 13 percent of […]

Apartheid
Israel to put 300 more Squatter Homes in West Bank, Palestine asks UN to Intervene

Israel to put 300 more Squatter Homes in West Bank, Palestine asks UN to Intervene

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Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The PLO and Palestinian presidency on Wednesday strongly criticized an announcement by Israel to approve 300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that Israel’s settlement policy is “destructive to all the efforts being put since September by the United […]

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