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$200bn to reconstruct war-torn Syria – the US and its partners should pay
With Syria’s nearly seven-year war now virtually over, the process of rebuilding the devastated country comes to the fore, with the financial cost of that effort put at $200 billion. Who pays for it? ...[Read more]
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US Training New Militants to Counter Russia in Syria
US instructors are training new military formations in the Syrian province of Al Hasakah in order to counter Russia, first Deputy Chairman of the Russian upper house Committee on Defense and Security Frants Klintsevich said Saturday. ...[Read more]
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Special Counsel Investigating Trump Campaign Has Deep Ties to the Deep State
Former FBI agent and 9/11 whistleblower Coleen Rowley says former FBI head Robert Mueller, now appointed to investigate the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, participated in covering up the pre 9/11 role of the U.S. intelligence agencies and the Bush Admin ...[Read more]
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Africans are being sold at Libyan slave markets. Thanks, Hillary Clinton.
'We came, we saw, he died,' she joked. Black Africans are being sold in open-air slave markets, and it’s Hillary Clinton’s fault. But you won’t hear much about that from the news media or the foreign-policy pundits, so let me explain. Footage ...[Read more]
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$21 trillion of unauthorized spending by US govt discovered by economics professor
The US government may have misspent $21 trillion, a professor at Michigan State University has found. Papers supporting the study briefly went missing just as an audit was announced. Two departments of the US federal government may have spent as much as $ ...[Read more]
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US Donates Almost USD$1M to Pro-Venezuelan Opposition Think-Tank
The donation will be used to fund a year-long programme to provide training and mediation within Venezuela's fractured opposition, as well as to draw international attention to Venezuela's crisis.  ...[Read more]
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Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn’t Move Past East German Border
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given a host of assurances that the NATO alliance would not expand past what was then the East German border in 1990 according to new declassified documents. ...[Read more]
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Revealed: How the US pressured Sweden to shut down Pirate Bay
The extent of US influence over Sweden’s crackdown on Pirate Bay has been revealed over a decade later, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by TorrentFreak. The documents show the methods used by the US government to pressure Sweden to crack ...[Read more]
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Watching the Watchmen: First Ever Pentagon Audit Begins
For the first time in its 70-year history, the US Department of Defense (DoD) will be undertaking an agency-wide audit. Pentagon officials announced that a massive audit involving thousands of inspectors will be checking every nook and cranny of the garga ...[Read more]
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UN tells Israel to let in nuclear inspectors
The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection. The resolution, approved by a vote of 174 to six with six abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Tr ...[Read more]
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The US Military Is the Biggest Entitlement Program on the Planet
The US economy is caught in a trap. That trap is the Department of Defense: an increasingly sticky wicket that relies on an annual, trillion-dollar redistribution of government-collected wealth. In fact, it's the biggest "big government" program on the pl ...[Read more]
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