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US Role in Destabilizing Yemen and Somalia Could Spark “Famine of Biblical Proportions”

The World Food Program is warning that Yemen and countries in the Horn of Africa – not coincidentally states that the US has been destabilizing for decades, could face mass starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
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A new report from the World Food Program warns that the COVID-19 pandemic could spark a massive global famine, leading to over a quarter-billion people falling into acute food insecurity by the end of the year. While the coronavirus is devastating enough – having (officially) killed over 177,000 people worldwide and infected 2.6 million, the

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Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History of Grisly Medical Experiments

Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the US government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike.

John Whitehead
بواسطة John Whitehead
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CHARLOTTESVILLE (Rutherford) -- I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Now this isn’t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat. Such crises can—and are— manipulated by governments in order to expand

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As the US Grapples with Coronavirus, Congress Leaps into Action… On a New Military Draft

What is the dumbest thing Congress could do at this moment? How about pushing a bill to force young women to register for a military draft. Meet HR 6415.

David Swanson
بواسطة David Swanson
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(DavidSwanson.org) — I know it’s stiff competition, but hear me out. The threat of nuclear apocalypse is higher than ever. The threat of irreversible climate collapse is higher than ever and massively contributed to by militarism. The trillions of dollars being dumped into militarism are desperately needed for actual defense against these dangers

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How the Us National Security State Is Using Coronavirus to Fulfill an Orwellian Vision

Last year a government commission called for the US to adopt an AI-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country. Now, many of the “obstacles” cited as preventing its implementation are being removed under the guise of combating coronavirus.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
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WASHINGTON DC (The Last American Vagabond) — Last year, a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can “address the national security and defense needs of the United States” discussed in detail the “structural” changes that the American economy and society must undergo in order to ensure a technological advantage over

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Experts Warn: Years of US Intervention Have Set the Stage for a Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak in Haiti

Since 2004, successive administrations have partnered with Washington to loot Haiti, stripping away its assets to the point of collapse and leaving it woefully unprepared to face the coming pandemic.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
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For a population of 11 million people, Haiti has only 62 ventilators and barely 100 intensive care beds. The Caribbean nation spends just $13 per capita on healthcare, less than 10 percent of what even its neighbor the Dominican Republic spends. And while the country officially has only 47 COVID-19 cases, nobody believes that figure. While tests

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Man Who Filmed Police Murder of Eric Garner Says Prison Guards Threatened to Give Him COVID-19

WeCopwatch, an activist organization dedicated to the nonviolent observation of police, says that corrections officers threatened to deliberately infect Ramsey Orta for weeks before he fell ill.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod

Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the police murder of Eric Garner in July 2014, has been transferred to the medical wing of the Midstate Correctional Facility prison in Marcy, New York. The group WeCopwatch, an activist organization dedicated to the nonviolent observation of the police, noted that corrections officers had for weeks been threatening

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