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Editor's Choice
‘Peace Is Bad for Business’: War Profiteer Stocks Plummet After Diplomatic Progress With North Korea
June 13, 2018Last year, investors were drooling over the prospect of all-out war with North Korea, but Tuesday's...
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Editor's Choice
Senator: “Let Me Repeat… The US Helped Bomb A DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CHOLERA TREATMENT FACILITY”
June 12, 2018According to MSF, the clinic in the city of Abs was empty at the time and...
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Controlling the Herd
Police Unleash ‘Brutal Attacks’ on Austerity Protesters in Storm-Ravaged Puerto Rico
May 3, 2018Police in Puerto Rico deployed tear gas and fired rubber bullets to shut down May Day protests as...
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Economy and Finance
‘Astronomical’ Cost of War: Average US Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
April 18, 2018As long as we are forced to pay taxes, shouldn't that money be used to benefit...
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Editor's Choice
International Law Experts Warn Trump That Attack on Syria Would Be ‘Crime of Aggression’
April 12, 2018Just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet early Thursday warning that a military attack on...
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Camps and Detainment
Trump Picks an ‘Actual Torturer’ to Run the CIA
March 14, 2018"If Obama had allowed prosecutions over CIA torture, 'people like Haspel, quite plausibly, could have gone...
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Controlling the Herd
Chilling and Unprecedented’: DHS Reauthorization Bill Would Let Trump Send Secret Service to Polling Places
March 13, 2018"This is an alarming proposal which raises the possibility that armed federal agents will be patrolling...
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Editor's Choice
The Vital Congressional Hearing on the Endless War That Probably Nobody Watched
March 1, 2018Taking "an important step towards a long overdue debate and vote," a bipartisan congressional hearing Tuesday...
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Economy and Finance
‘Another Giant Spending Spree’: Budget Deal Denounced as Wasteful Gift to War Profiteers
February 8, 2018"Throwing more money at the Pentagon," one critic argued, "will only double down on the Trump...
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Economy and Finance
‘Billionaire Boom’: While World’s Richest 1% Took 82% of All New Wealth in 2017, Bottom Half Got Zero, Zilch, Nada
January 22, 2018A new billionaire was created every two days last year and now, according to Oxfam, just...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
What Kind of Logic Is This? Mattis Says US Must Bomb Yemen with Saudi Arabia Because… Iran
April 20, 2017The U.S. would “reinforce Saudi Arabia’s resistance to Iran’s mischief,” he continued, adding that “we are...
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Camps and Detainment
Here Comes Gitmo 2.0: Draft EO Reveals Trump Plan to Expand Offshore Prison — “US Has Institutionalized Indefinite Detention Without Charge or Trial”
February 9, 2017"America has institutionalized the idea of indefinite detention without charge or trial." New document swirls as...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
‘Unprecedented’: Trump Kicks Out Intelligence Officials and Adds Bannon to National Security Council
January 30, 2017President Donald Trump signed memorandums on Saturday that kicked the nation's top military and intelligence advisers...
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Editor's Choice
Behind Closed Doors, House GOP Vote Overwhelmingly to Eviscerate Ethics Watchdog – UPDATED
January 3, 2017Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives didn't even wait for the new congressional session to...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
The Wealth Gap Continues: Billionaires Increased Their Wealth $237 Billion in 2016
December 28, 2016While the dying middle class is busy trying to figure out how to pay the rising...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
Hypocrite Inspector Who Criticized Snowden for Not Using ‘Official’ Channels Found Guilty of Retaliating Against a Whistleblower Who Did
December 16, 2016Criticism by agency's inspector general appears particularly threadbare after internal panel found him guilty of lashing...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
Two Groups Demand ‘War Mastermind’ Kissinger Be Arrested at Nobel Peace Prize Forum
December 8, 2016The Nobel Peace Prize committee last month stunned many observers by choosing Henry Kissinger—the former secretary...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
US Vet: After Two Wars, Dakota Access Pipeline Is the First Time I Actually Fought for the American People
November 7, 2016"After two wars, PTSD and moral injury, I’ve come to realize I’ve been on the wrong...
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Camps and Detainment
“Whose Interest Is North Dakota Protecting?” 83 Protesters Pepper Sprayed as Mass Arrests at Dakota Access Pipeline Continues
October 24, 2016Saturday's arrests follow reports of escalating police abuse at the protest sites, including beatings and unnecessary...
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Armageddon Scenarios
Corporatocracy: Largest Corporations Wealthier Than Most Countries
September 13, 2016'The power of corporations is so great within our society that they have undermined the idea...
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Armageddon Scenarios
More Dakota Access Protest Blackout: Pipeline Bulldozes Ancient Burial Sites over Holiday Weekend, Attempts to Provoke Violence
September 7, 2016Members of the Standing Rock Sioux say Dakota Access is trying to 'provoke peaceful resisters 'to...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
Government Needlessly Murdering Wolves in Program Research Has Already Proven Is a Total Failure
September 6, 2016New research shows killing wild predators may not only be ineffective in protecting livestock, but can...
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Camps and Detainment
Debtors’ Prison Even for Kids: Did You Know Poor Children Are Incarcerated When Families Can’t Pay Juvenile Court Fees?
September 2, 2016First-of-its-kind report finds children are being imprisoned nationwide when families can't pay fines levied by juvenile...
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Camps and Detainment
US Police Departments STILL Not Reporting How Many People Killed by Cops in Custody
August 31, 2016Apparently we, as American citizens, in an age of omnipresent data collection and surveillance, still cannot...
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Armageddon Scenarios
Fukushima Cleanup Cost Tops $628 Billion… and Is Expected to Climb as Site Is a “Ticking Time Bomb”
August 30, 2016"The situation with contaminated water at the site is a ticking time bomb and they don't...
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Armageddon Scenarios
“Coup of the Oligarchy”: Venezuela’s Maduro Accuses US of “Imperialist Attack”
August 29, 2016Maduro asserted earlier this year that Venezuela is being targeted for a U.S.-backed coup.
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Armageddon Scenarios
OOPS: Pentagon Admits It “Lost” Over Half a Million Guns in Iraq and Afghanistan
August 25, 2016Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted...
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Camps and Detainment
Homeland Security Pulls Dakota Access Pipeline Protestors’ Water Supply Despite Sweltering Heat
August 24, 2016That's DHS for ya... always making sure the "Homeland" is safe... for the government to take...
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Agenda 21
“All-Out TPP Push”: Obama Announces Nationwide Campaign to Pass the TPP
August 17, 2016In defiant opposition to this election's anti-trade sentiment, Obama is provoking progressive outrage with events around...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
A Few Half-Way Decent Senators Actually Tried to Block U.S. Weapons Sales to Bloody Saudi Regime
August 16, 2016"Saudi Arabia is an unreliable ally with a poor human rights record. We should not rush...
