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[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com]www.washingtonpost.com[/url] - By Damian Paletta , Damian Paletta Reporter covering economic policy Email Bio Follow Erica Werner and Erica Werner Congressional reporter focusing on economic policy Email Bio Follow Taylor Telford …
[url=http://www.bloomberg.com]www.bloomberg.com[/url] - A Ukrainian lawmaker accused his country’s top prosecutor of manufacturing a “conspiracy” about U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, adding to a political intrigue playing out from Kiev …
[url=http://www.strategic-culture.org]www.strategic-culture.org[/url] - After dramatic and patently scripted warnings of “Iranian aggression” by bellicose US officials, there then follows – conveniently enough – an alleged sabotage incident in the Persian Gulf region imp…
[url=http://www.commondreams.org]www.commondreams.org[/url] - A British general threw a wrench into the Trump administration's narrative that Iran is plotting attacks on American forces in the Middle East by telling reporters gathered at the Pentagon Tuesday th…
[url=http://www.mintpressnews.com]www.mintpressnews.com[/url] - With the beat of Washington’s war drums continuing to grow, particularly following the Monday revelation of a government plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to counter Iran, the threat of an “acci…
consortiumnews.com - Berlin, Paris and London assumed Tehran could not afford to leave the JCPOA even if it was not receiving any of the promised economic rewards. Now the EU3 are facing the hour of truth, writes Pepe Es…
[url=http://www.oftwominds.com]www.oftwominds.com[/url] - The net result is we have an economy that's supposedly expanding smartly while our well-being and financial security are collapsing. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and other metrics of economic activit…
fair.org - In commenting on what’s holding back the conquest of polio, the Washington Post (5/10/19) didn’t mention the humans at the CIA. If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that it’s much ea…
theintercept.com - A protracted legal saga at Guantánamo Bay ended last month, when a federal court tossed out two years of rulings by the judge overseeing the military tribunal trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the al…
[url=http://www.rt.com]www.rt.com[/url] - Appearing on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Monday, Gabbard said that conspiracy charges against the WikiLeaks co-founder were a “warning call” to all media and Americans in general that their f…
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com]www.washingtonpost.com[/url] - Darien Harris, now 26, is challenging his murder conviction based on the discovery that the prosecution's key eyewitness was blind. (Illinois Department of Corrections) By Marisa Iati Marisa Iati Ema…

[url=http://www.telesurenglish.net]www.telesurenglish.net[/url] - The People's Republic of China delivered a large amount of humanitarian aid to Venezuela on Monday, completing their second long haul of cargo to the Bolivarian Republic since March. Desperate Guaido…
[url=http://www.currentaffairs.org]www.currentaffairs.org[/url] - In 1948, South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond ran for president on the breakaway Dixiecrat ticket. Thurmond was furious that President Truman had proposed anti-lynching legislation, the elimi…
themindunleashed.com - In a shocking resignation letter dated March 28, 1999, a 3M environmental specialist accused the company of being more concerned with profits and image than environmental safety. According to Richard…
[url=http://www.theatlantic.com]www.theatlantic.com[/url] - In one way, this is PR 101—express regret, focus on the future, set the terms of the discussion to suggest that no one can be a fair critic—but the spin cycle here is cleansing much more than bad pre…
theintercept.com - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrives to hear the president deliver his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2019. Do you know what really annoys me about the me…
undark.org - On an otherwise normal Thursday in November 2018, the doors to the Lowell Community Health Center in Massachusetts opened at 8 a.m., as they always do, and the first of 802 patients who would walk th…
journal-neo.org - As of May 10, Mr. Trump has arbitrarily increased tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the US, worth about 200 billion dollars, from 10 % to 25%. It is an action without any foundation. An action t…
[url=http://www.unz.com]www.unz.com[/url] - Wherever I look at US policy, foreign or domestic, I see only insanity, ignorance, and incompetence. Take the issue of tariffs, which is Trump’s mistaken approach to bringing the jobs back home. The …
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