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Outrage over alleged Russian intervention in US elections has been widespread. But documents obtained by Jacobin reveal that the US has intervened in Venezuelan elections by training opposition forces to use Facebook against President Nicolás Maduro’s ...[Read more]
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When Taliban fighters swept across Afghanistan in a little over a week and entered the capital city of Kabul on August 15, 2021, they surprised the US media, the Biden White House, and the military. Desperate to get out of the country, those who had worke ...[Read more]
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The retreat of Ahmad Massoud and Amrullah Saleh belies public claims that they are still in Afghanistan. ...[Read more]
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"The world needs global cooperation to tackle shared threats of the pandemic and climate change, not a new Cold War." ...[Read more]
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Up to half of the estimated $14 trillion that the Pentagon has spent in the two decades since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan has gone to private military contractors, with corporate behemoths such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, and General Dynami ...[Read more]
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Americans who made aliyah to Israel were far more likely than immigrants from any other country to move to West Bank settlements last year, according to recent data from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics.
The figures show 191 Americans out of 2,296 wh ...[Read more]
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The New York Times obtained exclusive security camera footage and witness accounts to show how the military launched a drone strike that killed 10 people in Kabul on Aug. 29 without knowing whom it was hitting. ...[Read more]
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"The Pentagon has some serious explaining to do," said one reporter. "Now consider how many strikes go unexamined by Western media." ...[Read more]
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The outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, as Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview, which also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that be ...[Read more]
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Official figures state that 841,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between 1999 and 2019, and that opioids caused 70.6 percent of drug overdose deaths in 2019. The CDC also reports that in 2020, overdoses spiked by about 30 percent for all drugs and n ...[Read more]
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"On average, U.S.-led airstrikes have killed more than 1,000 civilians a year since 2001." ...[Read more]
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