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The CIA: 70 Years of Organized Crime
Everything the CIA does is deniable. It'€™s part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn'€™t want to be held accountable for the criminal things the CIA does. The only time something the CIA does become public knowledge 'other than the rare accid ...[Read more]
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Koch Brothers’€™ Internal Strategy Memo on Selling Tax Cuts: Ignore The Deficit
The Intercept obtained a messaging memo from the Koch brothers’ network on how to sell tax reform legislation. The memo went out to members of the network of likeminded Republican donors, which includes dozens of wealthy investors and business executive ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders awed by Canadian health care
U.S. senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says Americans have much to learn from health systems outside their borders, including Canada’s. “We do not in the United States do a good job in looking around the rest of the world and as ...[Read more]
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Resort Tycoon Says He’s Ordered Dem Leaders To Adopt Pro-Billionaire Platform
There’ve been a lot of important revelations in the last week, but one of the most significant has gone obscenely under-reported in the shuffle. In a recent interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, timeshare tycoon and top Democratic party donor Steph ...[Read more]
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Barack Obama says Libya was worst mistake of his presidency
Obama has conceded that the intervention “didn’t work”. White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Monday said Obama’s regrets extended to what “the United States and the rest of the members of our coalition didn’t do”. “The president has tried ...[Read more]
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Jeremy Corbyn and Noam Chomsky win peace prize amid media silence
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists, yet the award received scant coverage in the British media. The International Peace Bureau presents the Sean M ...[Read more]
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The U.S. Military Believes People Have a Sixth Sense
In 2014, the Office of Naval Research embarked on a four-year, $3.85 million research program to explore the phenomena it calls premonition and intuition, or “Spidey sense,” for sailors and Marines. “We have to understand what gives rise to this so- ...[Read more]
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Asian Dawn: Think Tank Claims China Will Supplant US as Largest Economy in 2032
A new report from a London think tank claims that China will totally overtake the US economy in size by 2032, with four other Asian nations – India, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia – joining it in the top 10. ...[Read more]
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So many Japanese people die alone, there’s an industry devoted to cleaning up after them
There is a putrid smell emanating from the flat. There is an obvious brown stain on the futon where the body has been. The futon, the clothes, the newspapers and horse-racing stubs are covered with maggots and flies. Still, if the man had died in the su ...[Read more]
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Reality Check: Ex CIA Director Says U.S. Meddles for a ‘Good Cause’
Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey said it himself. Yes, the U.S. meddles in other countries elections. But when we do it, it’s for the right reasons. “Only for a very good cause,” he says, because our government is ensuring foreign elections result in � ...[Read more]
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Homeland Security wants to track journalists & analyze media “sentiment”
The US Department of Homeland Security is looking to build a media monitoring database. When some reporters objected, a DHS spokesman dismissed their concerns as fodder for “black helicopter conspiracy theorists.” Service providers who want to bid for ...[Read more]
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