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A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City, Monday, April 4, 2016. Panama's president says his government will cooperate "vigorously" with any judicial investigation arising from the leak of a vast trove of information on the offshore financial dealings of the world's rich and famous. An international coalition of media outlets Sunday published investigations it said stemmed from the leak of 115 million records kept by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca on behalf of clients. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

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Poll: Majority Of Republicans Now Support Full Marijuana Legalization

With several more states voting to legalize cannabis in some fashion this November, expect to see the walls of prohibition continue to crumble.

Steven Maxwell
بواسطة Steven Maxwell
Legalizing Marijuana

Prohibition of cannabis is over. It may not be legally over yet, but in the minds of men and women, it’s over. A new YouGov poll shows a new record high of Americans now support the legalization of marijuana by a widening gap. Americans that support legalization grew to 55% while those who support prohibition fell to 33%. The poll showed

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Reporter Abby Martin Speaks Out After Illegal, Aggressive Detainment At DNC (VIDEO)

Reporter and activist Abby Martin was aggressively detained yesterday while covering the Democratic National Convention. She talks about how she was never technically arrested but processed at an elementary school with a bunch of other civil disobedience activists.

Abby Martin
بواسطة Abby Martin

TeleSUR English -- Abby Martin, host of "Empire Files," was released by police on Monday after a violent arrest while covering DNC protests for teleSUR, but says that many more wait to be processed after "mass marches, mass protests and mass arrests and detentions," despite police reports that no arrests have been made at the

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NYPD Brags About Tax-Payer Funded Shopping Spree

“We will not be the police department that brings a knife to the gunfight,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio in a press conference.

teleSUR
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New York Police Department

The New York City Police Department has acquired US$7 million in military-style protective equipment for patrol officers in response to recent shooting attacks on police in Baton Rouge and Dallas, officials said Monday. "You name it, we're buying it," Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference. "There's not a police department in

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DNC 2016: Protesters React To ‘Shameful’ DNC Leaks, Voice Support For Jill Stein (VIDEO)

According to one pro-Bernie Sanders activist, leaked internal party emails show that ‘the Democratic Party is just as corrupt as the Republicans in many senses.’

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., march during a protest in downtown Philadelphia, Monday, July 25, 2016, on the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

https://youtu.be/Nmq60tmryAU PHILADELPHIA --- A leak of thousands of internal party emails has cast a shadow over the 2016 Democratic National Convention. On Friday, WikiLeaks released 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee, apparently hacked from internal servers, although claims that the Russian government was involved

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US Freezes $239 Million In Aid To Syria Over Significant Fraud

In one case a shipment of “food ration kits” was simply being filled with salt, since the contractor just paid based on weight, not contents.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
In this picture taken Thursday, April 14, 2016, a Syrian boy waits his family to loads their belongings onto a bus in the town of Palmyra in the central Homs province, Syria. Thousands of residents of this ancient town who fled Islamic State rule are returning briefly to check on their homes and salvage what they can _ some carpets, blankets, a fridge or a few family mementos. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Struggling with growing evidence of “significant fraud” within the program, USAID has frozen $239 million in contracts involved in the humanitarian aid program in Syria. This follows recent reports of overt bribery in getting contracts, along with overt fraud in delivered aid. Earlier this month, USAID officials reported on the problem to

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Former American Colony Takes Center Stage In South China Sea Dispute

The Philippines was under American colonial rule from 1898 to 1946. Despite gaining independence, the island nation is now being used as a tool to apply pressure on China, America’s biggest rival in the South China Sea.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
بواسطة Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
A protester displays a placard in front of riot police during a rally at the US Embassy to protest the visit of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday, July 27, 2016, in Manila, Philippines. The protesters are calling for the pullout of U.S. troops in the country under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement or EDCA which was entered into by the Philippines and U.S. militaries.

SHANGHAI --- (Analysis) The Permanent Court of Arbitration’s non-binding ruling on the territorial dispute between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of the Philippines is largely misunderstood. Sovereignty or ownership of disputed land formations were never going to be adjudicated or awarded as many Filipinos and Filipinas thought

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