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US co-opted Cuba’s hip-hop scene for regime change
US co-opted Cuba’s hip-hop scene for regime change
For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba’s underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The idea was to use ...[Read more]
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Center hit in US attack produced cancer drugs
Center hit in US attack produced cancer drugs
Western powers claim their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons program but what they destroyed included a scientific research institution producing cancer drugs. ...[Read more]
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How convict labour increased inequality
How convict labour increased inequality
THE 13th Amendment to the constitution has prohibited slavery and indentured servitude in America since 1865. The one exception is as “punishment for crime”. As a result, prisons use their inmates as forced labour to balance the books, particularly si ...[Read more]
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Syrian Army Captures British Militants in Eastern Ghouta
Syrian Army Captures British Militants in Eastern Ghouta
A number of British forces have been captured by the Syrian army during military operations in Eastern Ghouta, according to reports by local media. ...[Read more]
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What Really Happened When Bernie Sanders Went to Mississippi
What Really Happened When Bernie Sanders Went to Mississippi
If Beale Street could talk, it would tell a very different story about Bernie Sanders than the now-familiar critique that he is insufficiently sensitive to racial issues. As I walked with Sanders down Memphis’s famous thoroughfare, his popularity, inclu ...[Read more]
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Now Mattis admits there was no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people
Now Mattis admits there was no evidence Assad used poison gas on his people
Then why did Trump launch a missile strike against the Shayrat airbase in Syria? ...[Read more]
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Russia will never be our friend, well slap them when needed US envoy to UN
Russia will never be our friend, well slap them when needed US envoy to UN
Nikki Haley has erupted in another fiery Russophobic rant, warning that Russia will “never be America’s friend.” Moscow can try to behave “like a regular country,” but the US will “slap them when we need to,” Haley said. ...[Read more]
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Russia will never be our friend, well slap them when needed US envoy to UN
Russia will never be our friend, well slap them when needed US envoy to UN
Nikki Haley has erupted in another fiery Russophobic rant, warning that Russia will “never be America’s friend.” Moscow can try to behave “like a regular country,” but the US will “slap them when we need to,” Haley said. ...[Read more]
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YouTube Censors Empire Files’ Abby Martin on Israeli Militarism
According to The Empire Files' official Twitter account, YouTube sent the program a notice saying "We have received a legal complaint regarding your video." teleSUR presenter Abby Martin's episode highlighting Israeli military violence against Palestinian ...[Read more]
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This 15-year-old Florida shooting survivor was shot 5 times while saving 20 of his classmates — and now his family is trying to raise $1 million for his hospital bills
This 15-year-old Florida shooting survivor was shot 5 times while saving 20 of his classmates — and now his family is trying to raise $1 million for his hospital bills
Anthony Borges saved 20 other students during the Parkland shooting, and was shot five times but survived. Now people are raising funds for his hospital bills. ...[Read more]
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Homeland Security wants to track journalists & analyze media “sentiment”
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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