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Putin thanked Trump for CIA tip-off which helped Russia prevent terror attack
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump for help in preventing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. Data provided by the CIA enabled Russian security services to find and detain terrorists The Russian leader expre ...[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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A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The UN’s Philip Alston is an expert on deprivation and he wants to know why 41m Americans are living in poverty. The Guardian joined him on a special two-week mission into the dark heart of the world’s richest nation ...[Read more]
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Yes, the FBI is America’s secret police
In order to boost the credibility of the FBI’s investigations of the Trump team, much of the media is whitewashing the bureau’s entire history. But the FBI has been out of control almost since its birth. A 1924 American Civil Liberties Union report wa ...[Read more]
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FCC Votes to Overturn Net Neutrality Regulations
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reclassified net neutrality from Title II to Title I of the Communications Act of 1934, slashing regulations on what Internet Service Providers (ISP) can do regarding internet speed. The five-member panel, w ...[Read more]
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FCC Set to Roll Back Digital Civil Rights with Thursday vote to Repeal Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday on whether to repeal the landmark net neutrality protections passed under President Obama in 2015. Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers treat web content equally and ...[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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All 535 members of Congress, and how much money they got from ISPs
The FCC is about to give massive internet service providers the power to divide the internet. It is at risk of becoming unrecognizable. A vital global utility that has been a boon to creative and economic freedom for people around the world may be turned ...[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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