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Israel Arrests Palestinian Teen Who Forced Them Off Her Land

The #FreeAhed campaign has been launched in support of the 16-year-old who was taken from her home.

Middle East Monitor
بواسطة Middle East Monitor

A 16-year-old Palestinian girl was arrested [this week] after a video of her telling Israeli soldiers to leave her property went viral, according to Haaretz. Female Border Police and Israeli occupation forces took Ahed Tamimi from her home in Nabi Saleh, near occupied Ramallah, and was taken to be questioned, the army said in a statement. The

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From Greensboro 1979 to Charlottesville 2017: Police Absent In Face Of White Supremacist Violence

A comprehensive, 219-page independent review led by a former U.S. Attorney concluded that law enforcement had “failed to ‘stand up’ to protect human life” during the August “Unite the Right” rally held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
بواسطة Thandisizwe Chimurenga
White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA – Some among Virginia’s highest levels of law enforcement have stepped down this year amid a small cloud of controversy. Col. W. Steven Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police,  announced his retirement December 19 after 42 years with the agency. Charlottesville Police Chief of two years, Al Thomas, announced

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While US Attacks Net Neutrality, UK Makes High-Speed Internet ‘Legal Right’

Rejecting major telecom company’s offer to voluntarily expand in rural regions, UK government says speedy broadband service now mandatory nationwide by 2020.

Jessica Corbett
بواسطة Jessica Corbett
Raul Jimenez Algobia

While last week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rolled back net neutrality rules that allowed the internet to be regulated as a public utility, the United Kingdom announced Wednesday that by 2020, high-speed internet will be a legal right for all British households and businesses. Rejecting an offer from the British

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Lee Camp: How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me

A couple days after NPR’s Weekend Edition hosted by Scott Simon did a rather awesome attack piece on me and my TV show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp which airs on RT America. I’d like to walk you through how to write such beautiful propaganda, as I did following the NY Times smear job against me, which sounded shockingly similar (more on that later).

Lee Camp
بواسطة Lee Camp

By Lee Camp, the host and head writer of the comedy news show “Redacted Tonight” that airs every Friday on RT America and at YouTube.com/RedactedTonight. He’s a former comedy writer for the Onion and the Huffington Post. This article originally appeared on Naked Capitalism.  I never thought I’d be the target of an NPR attack piece. Through my

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ISIS’ “Diaspora” Brings US New Opportunities for Its Geopolitical Agenda

The fall of ISIS and in Syria and Iraq signals a new era in the groups future. With eyes now on other battlefield theatres, the group is continually expanding in countries central to the U.S. vs Russian war of influence.

Darius Shahtahmasebi
بواسطة Darius Shahtahmasebi
U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Iron maneuver an M-777 howitzer, so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. Reversing his past calls for a speedy exit, U.S. President Donald Trump recommitted the United States to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, declaring U.S. troops must "fight to win." He pointedly declined to disclose how many more troops will be dispatched to wage America's longest war. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff, Operation Resolute Support via AP)

Damascus (Analysis) -- ISIS’ so-called caliphate is, by all accounts, crumbling in Iraq and Syria as Russia, Syria, Hezbollah and Iraq have all claimed victory over the terror group. While this may mean that the ISIS’ stranglehold over significant portions of territory in these two countries may, in the days to come, be effectively ended, it

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Investigating Jill Stein for Russian Collusion Decried as ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Absurd’

Stein, who is fully cooperating, warns, “we must guard against the potential for these investigations to be used to intimidate and silence principled opposition to the political establishment.”

Jessica Corbett
بواسطة Jessica Corbett
Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein delivers a stump speech to her supporters during a campaign stop at Humanist Hall in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

In what critics called a "dangerous precedent" and identified as an obvious move to deflect the still serious concerns about allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, multiple news outlets reported late Monday that the Senate Intelligence Committee is now investigating the

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