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Trump just froze $221m in aid Obama sent to Palestinians during his final hours in office
The Trump administration has reportedly frozen a multimillion dollar aid package granted to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the final hours of Barack Obama’s presidency.   Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah was told by US officials not to expect the $220� ...[Read more]
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PressTV-‘Russia will not allow US no-fly zone in Syria’
President Donald Trump says he is going to establish a "safe zone" in Syria. The new US leader has not given details of the project, however experts have expressed concern about the potential risk of an escalation as a result of the American military inte ...[Read more]
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China steps up as global leader while the U.S. steps away
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s appearance at last week’s World Economic Forum shows global leadership is shifting, not drifting, toward Beijing. The most vigorous defense of globalization and multilateral cooperation was mounted not by an American sta ...[Read more]
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Trump’s plan to seize Iraq’s oil: ‘It’s not stealing, we’re reimbursing ourselves’
At a forum hosted by NBC on 7 September, Trump suggested oil seizure would have been a way to pay for the Iraq war, saying: “We go in, we spend $3tn, we lose thousands and thousands of lives, and then … what happens is we get nothing. You know, it use ...[Read more]
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Meet the New Boss: Bracing for Trump’s Anti-Worker, Corporate Agenda
Trump's ascension to the presidency has ended his inside-out shtick. Much like Barack Obama in 2008, Trump's anti-establishment marketing assault has culminated into an uber-establishment cabinet. Within six weeks of his election victory, Trump has procee ...[Read more]
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In First Conflict With China, Trump & Xi Clash Over Embassy Move To Jerusalem
Following the first statement by the new White House press secretary that the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem was “coming soon,” Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that East Jerusalem should be the official capital of a Palestinian state. ...[Read more]
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In Scathing Attack, CIA Director Brennan Warns Trump To Watch What He Says
In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.”… for taking on the CIA and questioning its concl ...[Read more]
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The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Trump’s critics can do him no bigger favor than using dubious, discredited tactics to attack him. ...[Read more]
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How the Democrats could win again, if they wanted | Thomas Frank
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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Donald Trump blasted by Russian foreign ministry over Fidel Castro criticism
After news of the former revolutionary leader of Cuba's death yesterday, Trump issued a strongly-worded statement calling Castro a "brutal dictator who oppressed his own people." That was in stark contrast to a statement issued by Russian President Vladim ...[Read more]
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‘CIA created ISIS’, says Julian Assange as Wikileaks releases 500k US cables
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange today said the CIA was responsible for paving the way for ISIS as the whistle blowing organisation released more than half a million formerly confidential US diplomatic cables dating back to 1979. In a statement to coincid ...[Read more]
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