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Soon after the 2004 U.S. coup to depose President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, I heard Aristide's lawyer Ira Kurzban speaking in Miami. He began his talk with a riddle: "Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?" The answer: "Because there ...[Read more]
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The excessive use of force by Spanish police and plans to strengthen repressive legislation are a damning indictment of the Spanish government’s determination to crush peaceful protest, said Amnesty International in a new report published today.
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Used as a storage and distribution facility to spread weapons to rebel fighters around the world - and also to prepare for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion - the location of the CIA's secret arms storage center has reportedly been identified in Texas. ...[Read more]
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The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas â even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons, says Glenn Greenwald, in an extract from his new book about the S ...[Read more]
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This report, based on documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, provides highlights and analysis of how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-funded Fusion Centers used their vast anti-terrorism and anti-crime authority and funds t ...[Read more]
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Establishment Democrats appear more than willing to repeat the same mistakes over again. Politico also reported that, rather than focus on serving the working and middle class, Democrats are holding a closed-door meeting with wealthy Democratic Party dono ...[Read more]
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Labor and economic equality used to be at the heart of liberal politics. Rich professionals expunged these concerns and have reaped the consequences.
That makes 2016 a disaster for Democrats is not merely the party’s epic wipeout in Washington and the s ...[Read more]
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A dangerous ingredient that may trigger the development of cancer has been found in toothpaste and certain food products, a recent study, published in Scientific Reports said.
It goes about food coloring known as E171 (titanium dioxide). The substance is ...[Read more]
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The CIA has announced its new deputy director as Gina Haspel, who took part in covert interrogation programs on Al-Qaeda suspects, and even ran a ‘black site’ prison in Thailand that used torture for questionings, the Washington Post reports.
Haspel m ...[Read more]
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No inside information informs this prediction. No argument is advanced as to whether her run is a good or a bad idea—there are many ways to make a case either way. Instead this is just a statement of simple facts (if facts mean anything anymore, that is ...[Read more]
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THE DEPARTMENT OF Justice filed a motion in Washington State federal court on Friday to dismiss its indictment against a child porn site. It wasn’t for lack of evidence; it was because the FBI didn’t want to disclose details of a hacking tool to the d ...[Read more]
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