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A minister belonging to a group protesting the Trump administration's budget proposals and health care bill, is arrested during in the Russell Senate Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 18, 2017. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Vox Video Spreads CIA’s ‘Mideast Cold War’ Narrative

Instead of challenging and informing the public, corporate media speak directly from the perspective of the CIA, and act as handmaidens to empire.

Ben Norton
بواسطة Ben Norton
A screenshot from Vox's "The Middle East’s Cold War, Explained”, featuring CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack.

(Analysis) -- A new Vox video is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald Trump’s vehemently anti-Iran administration, is ratcheting up aggression against that country. The 10-minute film, titled “The Middle East’s Cold War,

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Newly Declassified Memos Reveal Extent Of NSA Spying Under Obama

New memos obtained by the ACLU via an FOIA request detail violations that occurred during the Obama administration which includes illegally surveilling people on U.S. soil.

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Office of National Intelligence Director James Clapper, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry, walks away from the podium after speaking at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Va.,Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Back in May the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) found that the National Security Agency (NSA), under former President Obama, routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last

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Documenting Hate Reveals How Hate-Fueled Violence Has Become Routine

Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them.

Joe Sexton
بواسطة Joe Sexton
Willie Lawson paints over racist graffiti painted on the side of a mosque in Roseville, Calif. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations for yet another provocative missile test. The Supreme Court, in its latest ruling in the controversial travel ban case, said that people from the six largely Muslim countries covered by the immigration enforcement action could enter the

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Russia Vows To Retaliate In Response To New US Sanctions

The US House of Representatives approved a sanctions bill by a vote of 419-3 on Tuesday a new version of a bill that would impose sweeping sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea.

Vladimir Rodzianko
بواسطة Vladimir Rodzianko
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, walks past an honour guard before a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Michel Temer at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, June 21, 2017. (Sergei Karpukhin/AP)

A new bill introduced by US legislators seeks to impose new economic sanctions against Russia, including North Korea and Iran. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expects the bill to become law, pending approval from US President Donald Trump. The US House of Representatives approved a sanctions bill by a vote of 419-3 on Tuesday a new

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Taliban Said To Be Awash In American Weapons, Vehicles

Weapons provided to the Afghan military has slowly found its way down to the Taliban through corruption and battlefield losses.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Members of the Afghan Taliban atop a captured Humvee with what appears to be an anti-aircraft weapon.

16 years into the US occupation of Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgency is better armed than ever, fielding an ever-growing array of US-made weapons and vehicles that they’ve procured, either looting them from Afghan forces or stealing them outright through the legendary levels of corruption in Afghanistan. This is, after all, the same country

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Saving 1,400 Iraqi Nationals From ‘Grisly Fate,’ Court Blocks Deportations

A federal court in Michigan temporarily blocked the deportation of over 1,400 Iraqi nationals, many of whom are religious minorities who say face persecution if deported back to Iraq.

Kevin Gosztola
بواسطة Kevin Gosztola
Iraqi women stand outside the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, June 21, 2017, in Detroit. A hearing began on a lawsuit that seeks to stop the government from deporting more than 100 Iraqi nationals who were recently rounded up. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A federal district court in Detroit temporarily blocked the deportation of over 1,400 Iraqi nationals, who say they face a “grisly fate” involving “persecution, torture, and senseless religious hatred” if they are deported back to Iraq. The government refused to acknowledge “extraordinary

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