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Showing posts with label Migrant Crisis. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Sunday, September 13, 2015
RSN: Federal Government Offering Up 42 Million Acres for Drilling in Gulf of Mexico, Chile Remembers Its Own 9/11, Madness of Blockading Syria's Regime,
Robert Parry | Madness of Blockading Syria's Regime
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "The U.S. State Department is trying to block Russian supplies going to Syria's embattled government despite the risk that collapsing the regime would create a vacuum filled by the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, another nightmare dreamt up by the neocons and liberal hawks."
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Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "The U.S. State Department is trying to block Russian supplies going to Syria's embattled government despite the risk that collapsing the regime would create a vacuum filled by the Islamic State or Al Qaeda, another nightmare dreamt up by the neocons and liberal hawks."
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | The Migrant Crisis: Arms That Welcome, Arms That Kill
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Many migrants are running toward the very countries that sold the weapons that are fueling the warfare they are fleeing."
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan, Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Many migrants are running toward the very countries that sold the weapons that are fueling the warfare they are fleeing."
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Daniel Ellsberg: Israel Must End Persecution of Israeli Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu
RT
Excerpt: "Famed Defense Department whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Israel should cease its nearly three-decade-old persecution of Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician who exposed the existence of Israel's clandestine nuclear program in 1986 and was jailed for 18 years."
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RT
Excerpt: "Famed Defense Department whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Israel should cease its nearly three-decade-old persecution of Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician who exposed the existence of Israel's clandestine nuclear program in 1986 and was jailed for 18 years."
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The US-Led Fight Against ISIS Has Killed Far More Civilians Than It Admits
Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad, BuzzFeed
Excerpt: "Nearly one year after the Obama administration launched its campaign of airstrikes to target ISIS and other extremists in Syria, claims of civilian casualties are piling up."
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Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad, BuzzFeed
Excerpt: "Nearly one year after the Obama administration launched its campaign of airstrikes to target ISIS and other extremists in Syria, claims of civilian casualties are piling up."
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Prisoners' Lives Matter
Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
Gonnerman writes: "While cell-phone videos of police officers behaving badly are now all over the Internet, video footage of abuses committed by corrections officers is far more rare. A civilian can hold up his or her cell phone and record a cop in action, but the only witnesses to the misbehavior of jail staff are other employees and the inmates - and inmates are typically prohibited from having cell phones."
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Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker
Gonnerman writes: "While cell-phone videos of police officers behaving badly are now all over the Internet, video footage of abuses committed by corrections officers is far more rare. A civilian can hold up his or her cell phone and record a cop in action, but the only witnesses to the misbehavior of jail staff are other employees and the inmates - and inmates are typically prohibited from having cell phones."
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Chile Remembers Its Own 9/11
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Often known as Chile's 9/11, on Sept. 11, 1973, the progressive government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a U.S.-backed military coup. The coup was led by General Augusto Pinochet, who later consolidated power and ruled Chile with an iron fist until 1990."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "Often known as Chile's 9/11, on Sept. 11, 1973, the progressive government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by a U.S.-backed military coup. The coup was led by General Augusto Pinochet, who later consolidated power and ruled Chile with an iron fist until 1990."
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Federal Government Offering Up 42 Million Acres for Drilling in Gulf of Mexico
Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com
Larino writes: "The federal government will offer more than 42 million acres off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida for oil and gas drilling in a March lease sale."
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Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com
Larino writes: "The federal government will offer more than 42 million acres off the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and western Florida for oil and gas drilling in a March lease sale."
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Monday, April 20, 2015
RSN: Criminal Investigation Launched After Baltimore Man Dies in Police Custody, The Major Crime of This Millennium Is the US Invasion of Iraq, 'Release Cards' Turn Inmates and Their Families Into Profit Stream
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Noam Chomsky:
The Major Crime of This Millennium Is the US Invasion of Iraq
RT
Excerpt: "Major American media organizations diligently parrot what US officials want the public to know about global affairs, historian Noam Chomsky told RT."
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RT
Excerpt: "Major American media organizations diligently parrot what US officials want the public to know about global affairs, historian Noam Chomsky told RT."
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Criminal
Investigation Launched After Baltimore Man Dies in Police
Custody
The Associated Press
Excerpt: "Freddie Gray, 25, died on Sunday at a hospital, a week after he was hurt following an arrest."
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The Associated Press
Excerpt: "Freddie Gray, 25, died on Sunday at a hospital, a week after he was hurt following an arrest."
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'Release
Cards' Turn Inmates and Their Families Into Profit Stream
Amadou Diallo, Al Jazeera
Diallo writes: "In 2013 Gregg Cavaluzzi walked out of federal prison with nothing more than the clothes he wore going in five years earlier and a Chase-branded debit card holding what remained of money sent by family members and the meager pay he'd earned working in the prison library."
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Amadou Diallo, Al Jazeera
Diallo writes: "In 2013 Gregg Cavaluzzi walked out of federal prison with nothing more than the clothes he wore going in five years earlier and a Chase-branded debit card holding what remained of money sent by family members and the meager pay he'd earned working in the prison library."
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Trevor Timm |
The Shroud of Secrecy Around US Drone Strikes Must Be Lifted
Trevor Timm, The Guardian UK
Timm writes: "It's been over two years since President Obama promised new transparency and accountability rules when it comes to drone strikes, yet it's become increasingly clear virtually no progress has been made."
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Trevor Timm, The Guardian UK
Timm writes: "It's been over two years since President Obama promised new transparency and accountability rules when it comes to drone strikes, yet it's become increasingly clear virtually no progress has been made."
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EU Forced to
Reconsider Migrant Crisis After Hundreds Drown Off Libyan Coast
James Mackenzie and Robin Emmott, Reuters
Excerpt: "European Union foreign ministers met on Monday under pressure to produce more than words and save desperate migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, as bodies of the deadliest known wreck of its kind were brought ashore in Malta."
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James Mackenzie and Robin Emmott, Reuters
Excerpt: "European Union foreign ministers met on Monday under pressure to produce more than words and save desperate migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, as bodies of the deadliest known wreck of its kind were brought ashore in Malta."
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No End in
Sight to Ukraine Conflict as US Troops Come to Train
Tom Kutsch, Al Jazeera
Kutsch writes: "Nearly 300 U.S. troops arrived in Ukraine on Friday as a part of a long-planned U.S. mission to provide training for Ukrainian National Guard forces."
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Tom Kutsch, Al Jazeera
Kutsch writes: "Nearly 300 U.S. troops arrived in Ukraine on Friday as a part of a long-planned U.S. mission to provide training for Ukrainian National Guard forces."
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Drought Spurs
Protest Over 'Unconscionable' Bottled Water Business
Andrew Gumbel, The Guardian UK
Gumbel writes: "Californians facing the prospect of endless drought, mandated cuts in water use and the browning of their summer lawns are mounting a revolt against the bottled water industry."
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Andrew Gumbel, The Guardian UK
Gumbel writes: "Californians facing the prospect of endless drought, mandated cuts in water use and the browning of their summer lawns are mounting a revolt against the bottled water industry."
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