Activism - Part 4

In unprecedented move, eight European countries to demand compensation from Israel for West Bank demolitions
Eight European Union countries wrote an official protest letter to Israel, demanding over €30,000 ($35,400) in compensation for confiscating and demolishing structures and infrastructure which the countries had built in Area C of the West Bank, which is ...[Read more]
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Making History: China and Russia are Transforming Enemies into Friends
Russia, China and Iran have in recent years drawn enormous benefit from the declining military and economic power of the United States, further propelled by a general mistrust of Washington's diplomatic and political abilities, both with Obama and now wit ...[Read more]
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Populists Are on the March in the South: Bernie-Backed Insurgent Randall Woodfin Defeats Birmingham’€™s Incumbent Mayor
But populist challenger Randall Woodfin, a 36-year-old former board of education president endorsed by the Bernie Sanders-backed campaign group Our Revolution, topped Bell in the first round of voting in August. On Tuesday night, Woodfin finished the job ...[Read more]
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China Says Healthcare Access is a ‘Basic Human Right’
China, whose health system has improved steadily in recent years, said that equal health access is a "precondition for the survival of humanity." The Chinese government published a document on Friday analyzing public health development, stressing that hea ...[Read more]
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Yet Another Major Russia Story Falls Apart. Is Skepticism Permissible Yet?
Last friday, most major media outlets touted a major story about Russian attempts to hack into U.S. voting systems, based exclusively on claims made by the Department of Homeland Security. “Russians attempted to hack elections systems in 21 states in th ...[Read more]
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Why Does North Korea Hate Us?
“The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless . . .” And so we return to the Korean War, when North Korea was carpet-bombed to the edge of existence. The American media doesn’t have a memory that stretches quite so far back, at least not under pres ...[Read more]
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A New Report Raises Big Questions About the “DNC Hack”
There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-stora ...[Read more]
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How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder
Newly released documents from long-secret Kennedy assassination files raise startling questions about what top agency officials knew and when they knew it. ...[Read more]
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After libel suit, Newsweek erases two election fake news articles that falsely claimed
Newsweek has settled a libel complaint with a former Sputnik writer that included allegations of Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald using bribery and threats to buy the editor's silence over a false story regarding Russia, President Trump and WikiLeaks that was l ...[Read more]
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‘Wonder Woman’ actress posts pro-Israeli army message
“I am sending my love and prayers to my fellow Israeli citizens,” she wrote. “Especially to all the boys and girls who are risking their lives protecting my country against the horrific acts conducted by Hamas, who are hiding like cowards behind wom ...[Read more]
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Cenk Uygur, Bernie Sanders staffers team up to take over the Democratic Party
A group of progressive journalists, former staffers for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign and political organizers have launched Justice Democrats, a crowdfunded political action committee to remove and replace the corporate-aligned facti ...[Read more]
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