Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of ‘Made in the USA’ Corruption

The government Iraqis are protesting against today is still led by the same gang of U.S.-backed Iraqi exiles who wove a web of lies to stage-manage the invasion of their own country in 2003. As Americans sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, Iraqis were mourning 40 protesters killed by police and soldiers that day in Baghdad, [...]

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‘Flat-Out Corruption’: DeVos Accused of Scheming to Stop Next President From Canceling Student Loan Debt

“This very much appears to be a Betsy DeVos scheme to block the next president from unilaterally forgiving federal student debt, which she is well aware a president could do without Congress. The DeVos family is heavily invested in the student loan industry and this is just flat-out corruption.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Billionaire [...]

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Consulting Firm McKinsey Advised ICE To Cut Food, Medical Care

“The consultants, three people who worked on the project said, seemed focused solely on cutting costs and speeding up deportations — activities whose success could be measured in numbers — with little acknowledgment that these policies affected thousands of human beings.” International consulting firm McKinsey & Company advised Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) immigration policy [...]

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NATO Should Be Obsolete

While claiming to “preserve peace,” NATO has a history of bombing civilians and committing war crimes. The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.” His adversary, Hillary Clinton, retorted that NATO was “the strongest military alliance in the history of the world.” Now that Trump has been in power, the White House parrots the [...]

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Trump Administration Finalizes Food Stamp Cuts

“This is an unacceptable escalation of the administration’s war on working families, and it comes during a time when too many are forced to stretch already-thin budgets to make ends meet.” The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it has finalized a rule to tighten work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which the [..]

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Tehran Signals Intention To Normalize Relations With Riyadh

“We should establish security in the Gulf and Strait of Hormuz through expanding our cooperation and preventing foreign powers to interfere.” – Iranian President Rouhani. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed on Tuesday his country’s willingness to normalize ties with the Sunni-majority influential Arab Gulf country of Saudi Arabia. “Iran believes that there is no problem [...]

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Oprah Winfrey to Produce New Documentary About Abuse in the Music Industry

“The music industry—and entertainment fields at large—have long been rife with corruption and victimization, given the nature of its constituents: aspiring artists, intense capitalization, and decadent lifestyles.” Oprah Winfrey will executive produce a new documentary about abuse and assault accusations against a major figure in the music industry. Directed by Oscar-nominated team Kirby Dick and [...]

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Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer

Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In Madrid, Spain, the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference—known as COP25—began on December 2. Representatives of the world’s countries gathered to discuss [...]

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If Factory Farm Conditions Are Unhealthy for Animals, They’re Bad for People Too

Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people. In 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that 700,000 people around the world die each year due to drug-resistant infections. A follow-up report two years later showed no [...]

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How Iran is Losing its Grip on Iraq and Stands Coming Undone

After many protests, some violent, Iraq is stepping away from under Iran’s shadow to establish its own self-governance. Following an almost irresistible, and admittedly unforeseen, rise to the height of power in the Greater Middle Eastern region in the past decade, the Islamic Republic of Iran is facing its toughest challenge to date at the [...]

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Top University Votes to Divest From Companies ‘Facilitating Human Rights Violations In Palestine’

“From the Gaza Strip, under Israel’s occupation and siege, we salute the students with Brown Divest and all those involved in this victory. It represents an important US university precedent.” A Brown University committee voted on December 2 in favor of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which seeks to eliminate financial support and [...]

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