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The number of civilians killed by United States drone strikes is at least 500, nearly all of the strikes were a part of the Obama administration’s targeted assassination policy. (Photo: (Image: Lance Page/Truthout; Adapted: Amanda Currier, Nathan Barry/Flickr-CC)

Obama Carried Out Ten Times More Drone Strikes Than Bush

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Texas Republicans Make Third Attempt To Ban ‘Sanctuary Cities’

Bills targeting “sanctuary cities” failed to pass the Texas Legislature in 2011 and 2015, but similar efforts this session have better chances of making it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.

Julián Aguilar
بواسطة Julián Aguilar
The Rev. Annie Steinberg-Behrman, right, provisional pastor with Metropolitan Community Church, holds a sign while listening to speakers at a meeting at City Hall in San Francisco by city leaders and community activists to reaffirm the city's commitment to being a sanctuary city in response to Donald Trump's support of deportations and other measures against immigrants Monday, Nov. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

The Legislature is gearing up for a fight over "sanctuary cities" bills — and not for the first time. The current debate was foreshadowed by one in 2011, but this time, chances are better that a bill could make it to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. Texas’ proposed 2011 ban on sanctuary cities, the common term for local entities that don’t enforce

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Syrian Govt Addresses Water Crisis After Rebels Contaminate Key Reservoirs

US-backed “rebel” forces, who earlier this month poisoned and then damaged Damascus’ chief water supply, have now been ousted from Barada Valley reservoir.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
People fill plastic containers with water from a tap water in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. Water cut-offs have been almost continuous since Dec. 22, in the worst water crisis known to Damascus residents. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

(REPORT) --- While much of the world’s population was busy celebrating winter holidays and the end of the calendar year, Syrians living in Damascus found themselves without running water. For much of the past month, Damascus residents have been in the midst of an intense water crisis, leading to long lines at wells and a dearth of resources in the

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Ohio Police Beat Homeless Veteran Into Coma, Leaving Him Permanently Disabled

A complaint lodged against the sheriff’s office alleges that officers stood in the way of a surveillance camera so that the beating wouldn’t be captured on video.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Sheriff Phil Plummer, pictured during a press conference, has so far declined to comment on the allegations in the lawsuit.

DAYTON, Ohio  — A federal lawsuit alleges that officers at an Ohio jail beat a homeless veteran so severely that he ended up in a coma for two months and is now wheelchair-bound and cognitively disabled. Joseph Guglielmo, 59, filed the civil rights suit against Montgomery County's commissioners, its sheriff and six employees of the sheriff's

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The Washington Post’s Latest Folly Is ‘Weaponized Journalism’

A Washington Post fake news article misrepresenting the ‘firing’ of the head of the DC National Guard makes clear mainstream media has now weaponized the news.

Claire Bernish
بواسطة Claire Bernish
Fake News Laptop Computer

(EDITORIAL) --- Defying any sense of journalistic integrity and loyalty to the truth, the Washington Post did it again — publishing Fake News for clicks — which had the desired effect of worldwide outrage to suit a tightly-defined political agenda. This latest astounding deviation from the facts, however, makes indisputably clear the

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North Dakota Republicans Move To Legalize Running Over Protesters

A bill introduced last week would protect any driver who ‘unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular traffic.’

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis
Black Lives Matter demonstrators gather at the police vehicle stuck facing northbound during a protest march south on Broad Street in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention.

(REPORT) --- Running over protesters may soon be legal in North Dakota, if conservative lawmakers are successful in advancing legislation introduced last week. House Bill Number 1203 (pdf) states that, "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a driver of a motor vehicle who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing

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Trump Administration To Keep Entitlements, Obamacare Plan Unknown

While Obamacare has largely proved to be a disaster, the Medicaid expansion was a pretty solid success given its objectives: create greater access to health services and improve health outcomes-and its modest cost overruns.

Dan Wright
بواسطة Dan Wright
Reince Priebus, Chair of the Republican National Committee, right, speaks as President-elect Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech during his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus says there are no plans to cut Social Security or Medicare. This was Trump’s position throughout the Republican primaries and general election. But Priebus was less blunt on whether the expansion of Medicaid brought by the Affordable Care

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