Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K., Matt Kennard reports. Read here...

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German Public Sector
Workers Continue Strikes

After a year of labor actions and demands for higher wages to combat high inflation, negotiations between trade unions and employers at the municipal and federal levels head into their third round next week. Read here...

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Seymour Hersh Accuses US
of Nord Stream ‘Cover Up’

The veteran investigative journalist writes that Biden administration officials have been feeding the press false stories to “protect a president who made an unwise decision and is now lying about it." Read here...

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