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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington, March 22, 2018. (AP/Cliff Owen)
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Former OPCW Official: No Conclusive Proof of Russian Complicity in Salisbury Attack

But Russia’s denial of past ‘Novichok’ programmes is misleading.

Nafeez Ahmed
بواسطة Nafeez Ahmed
Police officers guard a cordon around a police tent covering a supermarket car park pay machine near the spot where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found critically ill following exposure to the Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter makes it "highly likely" that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The US and its European allies have coordinated the largest collective expulsion of Russian diplomats in history. Russia has promised to retaliate in kind. Yet despite the sense of certainty around Russian culpability in the Salisbury incident, questions remain around the state of the available evidence. As contradictory narratives proliferate

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Ecuador Cuts Wikileaks’ Julian Assange’s Internet Over Social Media Posts

The move came after Assange criticized Germany’s detention of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.

Gonzalo Solano
بواسطة Gonzalo Solano
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, gestures as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been taking refuge to avoid extradiction to Sweden. His WikiLeaks Party is in the running to win Senate seats in Australia, according to polls. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's government said Wednesday it has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet connection at the nation's London embassy after his recent activity on social media decrying the arrest of a Catalan separatist politician. In a statement, officials said Assange's recent posts "put at risk" the good relations

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Alton Sterling Case Confirms State-Sanctioned Lynching of Black Americans

Alton Sterling’s case shows us that #BlackLivesMatter is not only a hashtag for the internet, but an ever-present battle cry of a community of people who are constantly told by the system that their lives do not matter.

Chauncey Robinson
بواسطة Chauncey Robinson
Damon Brumfield, a student at Southern University of Baton Rouge, poses while his friends take photos, in front of a mural honoring Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Black boys’ cries fall on deaf white ears and Black mothers’ tears keep graveyard grass green. The line above is part of the title of a spoken word poem by Black Lives Matter activist and artist Kale Nelson. The poem speaks to the injustice interwoven in the legal system when it comes to state violence against Black bodies. As the world learned

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Rich Keep Saks in Clover, Poor Keep TJMaxx Growing, But No Middle to Shop at Sears

The death of the American shopping mall reflects the twilight of an American middle class that was the most prosperous of the Industrial era, imbued with unprecedented purchasing power by New Deal-era public infrastructure investments, and trade unions heavily influenced by a radical vanguard of Communists and African-Americans.

Jon Jeter
بواسطة Jon Jeter
A woman rides an escalator past closed storefronts inside the largely empty White Flint Mall in Bethesda, Md. Opened in 1977, just two tenants remain. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

INDIANAPOLIS – On a recent weekday afternoon in March, the Goodwill store on this city’s east side was buzzing with nearly two dozen shoppers – young and old, black and white, Latino and Asian -- rummaging excitedly through the rows of blue jeans, piles of shoes, and shelves of luggage, books, and picture frames in a hunt for the best bargains to

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Black Law Student Says FBI Pressured Him to Recant Racial Profiling Claim

John Perkins’ story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia prompted outrage in Charlottesville and a visit from the FBI.

Denise Lavoie
بواسطة Denise Lavoie
In this Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 photo Johnathan Perkins, an attorney in the office of General Counsel at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in his office in Cambridge, Mass. (AP/Stephan Savoia)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A young law student's story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia in 2011 drew outrage in Charlottesville, a liberal college enclave that boasts of its inclusiveness. When he recanted weeks later, he was branded a liar and an example of what's wrong with affirmative action. One editorial

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Jeremy Corbyn, Antisemitism and Freedom for Humanity

Jeremy Corbyn was heavily criticised by Jewish institutions for supporting a mural “depicting Jewish bankers playing Monopoly on the backs of the poor.” Turns out most of those depicted in the mural were not, in fact, Jewish.

Gilad Atzmon
بواسطة Gilad Atzmon
Freedom for Humanity by Kalen Ockerman

Jewish power, as I define it, is the power to suppress criticism of Jewish power. For the last few days the Brits have been shown a spectacular display of that power and the manner in which it is mobilised. Without any attempt to hide their behaviour, a bunch of Jewish leaders have chosen to slander Europe’s biggest party and its popular leader in

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