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Vice President of the United States Mike Pence gives a speech during an official visit May 16, 2019, at Fort McCoy, Wis.(U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.) by Finian Cunningham, Published by Strategic Culture Foundation, June 1, 2019 In an address to West Point military graduates, US Vice President Mike Pence told them[…]
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Members of Move in front of their house in the Powelton Village section of Philadelphia in 1977. The group have always said James Ramp was killed by fellow officers. Photograph: Leif Skoogfors/Corbis via Getty Images by Betsey Piette, Published on Workers World, May 28, 2019 MOVE 9 members Janet Holloway Africa, 68, and Janine Phillips Africa, 63, were freed on[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, May 29, 2019 The corporate media is concealing a leaked UN agency report that shows Syrian government innocence in an alleged chemical attack. “Americans have been fed a steady diet of ‘Assad the butcher’ and any counter narrative is disappeared.” The corporate media march in lock step with the United States and[…]
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by Javid Heirannia, Published on Tehran Times, May 27, 2019 Note: Once and a while we should see the best side of regional initiatives. Yes, they have peace-building ideas of their own. . . . . but how can they implement them the pink elephant of U.S. intervention in the middle of the room. After a meeting with his Iraqi[…]
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CounterSpin interview with Amin Husain on decolonizing museums by Janine Jackson, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, May 26, 2019 MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Last month, the American Museum of Natural History decided it would not allow its Hall of Ocean Life to host a gala for fascist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—the institution evidently persuaded that the guy who’s[…]
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Photo: Looking out from a factory in western Aleppo, just 400 metres from al-Qaeda snipers. © Eva Bartlett by Eva Bartlett, Published by Information Clearing House, May 25, 2019 Western media and politicians are crying for Al-Qaeda in Syria again. It doesn’t get much more absurd than this! After years of brutal occupation by terrorists from various groups and now overwhelmingly Hay’at Tahrir[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Consortium News, May 20, 2019 Reparations should not be a topic for national discussion until there is something akin to a consensus among black people about what to demand and how to do it. There is no question that black Americans deserve redress for 300 years of chattel slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racist terrorism, mass[…]
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The US has charged Julian Assange with espionage, and he now faces life in prison for telling the truth about U.S. war crimes. Assange is not a US citizen; so, if these charges hold, journalists anywhere in the world who tell the truth about the United States can be subject to prosecution if the U.S. decides the information is “classified.” […]
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A Business Model From Hell and the War in Yemen by Mashal Hashem and James Allen, published on Tom Dispatch, May 16, 2019 A springtime wedding in Northern Yemen’s Al-Raqah village took place in April 2018, a moment of reprieve from the turmoil and devastation of that war-torn country, a moment to celebrate life, love, and the birth of a[…]
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Venezuelan Ambassador Samual Moncada and Tighe Berry of CodePink held a Press Conference at the United Nations on May 16, 2019 The ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations ( UN ), Samuel Moncada, denounced on Wednesday from the headquarters of the agency in New York, United States ( USA ), the continuing violation of the Vienna Convention governing diplomatic[…]
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