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Are Dead Children The Price of Freedom in America?

The moral perversity that allows one to think that universal healthcare is tyranny but dead school children are the price of freedom is what is corroding the soul of the United States.

Christian Christensen
بواسطة Christian Christensen
A gun-rights activist carries his rifle with an American flag during a "National Day of Resistance" rally at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 23, 2013. (AP/Rick Bowmer)

There is a sickness eating at the body and soul of my home country, and it is on full view for the world to see. When the news broke on Valentine’s Day that 17 people—mostly young students—had lost their lives in Parkland, Florida, one could be forgiven for being numb. Of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in US history, six have come after 2012.

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Oxford University’s Complicity in Myanmar’s Genocide Denial

Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of genocide by Myanmar, Oxford University is passing off the genocide as “public relations” issue.

Maung Zarni
بواسطة Maung Zarni
Aung San Suu Kyi when she was a Burmese pro-democracy campaigner walking with Andrew Dilnot, the Principal of St Hugh's College of the Oxford University, at a reception in Oxford in June 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

When reality goes off the chart of what is thinkable, fiction is no match.  That Oxford University’s most iconic living graduate Aung San Suu Kyi may find herself at the International Criminal Court for her “complicity of silence in crimes against humanity” and even a genocide will go down in history as one such extraordinary tale.  Yet as the UN

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Former CIA Agent Admits US Meddled in Other Countries’ Elections

“We’ve used posters, pamphlets, mailers, banners — you name it. We’ve planted false information in foreign newspapers. We’ve used what the British call ‘King George’s cavalry’: suitcases of cash.”

teleSUR
بواسطة teleSUR
The Central Intelligence Agency flag is displayed, partially cast in a shadow. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A former Central Bureau of Investigation (CIA) operative has confirmed the U.S agency has been meddling in the elections and internal political affairs of other countries since its inception in 1947. "The United States absolutely has carried out such election influence operations historically," said Steven L. Hall, a CIA operative who retired

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Watch | Former Israeli Soldier: “I Helped Entrench the Occupation”

“I could always justify it to myself, but those eyes, their anger, and their fear were what helped me overcome that.”

Middle East Monitor
بواسطة Middle East Monitor
Former Israeli soldier and critic of Israeli policies, Avner Gvaryahu, is a spokesman with Breaking the Silence, a movement of Israeli soldiers opposed to the occupation of Palestinian territories. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum

A former Israeli soldier has said that it is the responsibility of Israeli citizens to call for an end to the occupation in order to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinians. During an interview with BBC HARDtalk last week, Avner Gvaryahu, executive director of Breaking the Silence, spoke about the organization’s mission to collect

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The Unthinkable Consequences of Outsourcing U.S. Intelligence

Privatized intelligence operations have become a favored practice of the U.S. and other Western governments, but the tactics of so-called spies for hire are often unethical and possibly illegal

George Eliason
بواسطة George Eliason
cyber warfare Photo: Christiaan Colen/flickr)

Decades ago, philosopher Marshall McLuhan predicted a future world war fought using information. While World War I and World War II were waged using armies and mobilized economies, “World War III [will be] a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation,” McLuhan said, a prophecy included in his 1970 book of

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Inter-Korea Talks Score Gold at Olympics as US ‘Autopilot’ Diplomacy Wipes Out

While the two Koreas took the first halting steps toward becoming one, Mike Pence sat boorish and stone-faced, like an emperor giving the thumbs-down to both gladiators. The U.S. and Trump’s vested interest in perpetual conflict was on display for the whole world to see.

Elliott Gabriel
بواسطة Elliott Gabriel
North Korea supporters wave the Korean unification flag ahead of the pairs free skate figure skating final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Feb. 15, 2018. (AP/Bernat Armangue)

PYEONGCHANG, KOREA -- North Korea’s participation in the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics drew thunderous applause from crowds at the games and a flurry of press coverage hailing the unfolding diplomatic process between Seoul and Pyongyang. While talks between the delegation from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) --

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