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Syrian army soldiers march through the streets in the Ansari neighborhood, east Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Dec 23, 2016. (SANA via AP)

Syrian Refugees Eagerly Return To Aleppo, Hopeful Fighting Is Over

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Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To Israel Has All Sides On Edge

Friedman’s nomination has already sharpened the borders of a growing balkanization of American Jews.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Trump Selects Anti-Peace Religious Extremist As Ambassador To Israel

NEW YORK  (ANALYSIS)— If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama's approach to Israel, he may have found his man to deliver that message in David Friedman, his pick for U.S. ambassador. The bankruptcy lawyer and son of an Orthodox rabbi is everything Obama is not: a fervent supporter of Israeli

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Anti-Trump Organizers Plan Massive ‘J20’ Event To Mark Inauguration Day

Organizers of inauguration protests speak to MintPress News about Jan. 20 and the prospects for mobilization under the Trump administration.

Joe Catron
بواسطة Joe Catron
Protesters hold signs during a protest against the election of President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in downtown Seattle.

NEW YORK --- Thousands of protesters who have mobilized nationally since the election of Donald Trump are planning a massive convergence in Washington against the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20. “We believe that we are entering a new period of mass mobilization in the United States,” Walter Smolarek, a spokesperson for the ANSWER

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Snowden: House Intel Report Is ‘Accidentally Exonerating’

‘After three years of investigation and millions of dollars, they can present no evidence of harmful intent, foreign influence, or harm. Wow.’

Nika Knight
بواسطة Nika Knight
Unlike the Green Party’s Jill Stein, not one Republican or Democratic nominee has voiced any support for the NSA whistleblower or shown any willingness to allow him to return to the U.S. as a free man. (Photo: Tony Webster/CC)

(REPORT) — The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released a heavily redacted, declassified version of its report on National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Snowden charges that the "parade of falsity" contained in the report is "accidentally exonerating." The report was several years in the making. A summary of it

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Obama Scraps Post-9/11 Muslim Registry

The move was the result of calls from several Democrats, who argued in an open letter that the program hadn’t led to a single terror conviction, and that Trump shouldn’t be given any tools to help with his own planned registry.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during a news conference at the G-7 summit

(REPORT) --- Totally unused since 2011 according to most officials, the NSEER system, which required registration of immigrants entering and exiting the US from predominantly Muslim countries, has been canceled by the Obama Administration, as the incoming Trump Administration says they are looking at a very similar program for their own Muslim

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U.S. To Deploy 4,000 Troops To Russian Border Next Month

The troops’ deployment coincides with the deployment of 300,000 NATO troops that have been on “high alert” since last month. Is this a sign that Cold War 2.0 will go hot in 2017?

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
U.S. Ambassador to Estonia James D. Melville Jr. addresses dignitaries in front of an U.S. Army tank, at a hand-over ceremony of the upgraded NATO military base in Tapa, Estonia, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. The

(ANALYSIS) — Since tempers first flared in 2014, tensions between Russia and the US have nearly boiled over on more than one occasion. However, recent NATO and US army actions along with a surge in anti-Russia propaganda throughout the Western world, suggest that these tensions will only escalate in the months ahead. Last Friday, new US tanks and

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The Continuing Muddle At A Pro-Trump Political Committee

‘America Comes First’ can’t seem to decide if it’s a PAC or a super PAC, but in either case its federal filings remain problematic.

Robert Faturechi
Derek Kravitz
بواسطة Robert Faturechi
و Derek Kravitz
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

(REPORT) — A political action committee that backed Donald Trump's bid for the presidency is continuing to flout campaign finance laws. Earlier this month, ProPublica reported that the America Comes First PAC had violated the rules by not disclosing the source of its funding before Election Day and by exceeding caps on contribution

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