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Authoritarianism
Some Animals are Better:  An American Version of the One-Party State

Some Animals are Better: An American Version of the One-Party State

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By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Know thyself. It was what came to mind in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory and my own puzzling reaction to it. And while that familiar phrase just popped into my head, I had no idea it was so ancient, or Greek, or for that […]

Israel/ Palestine
Some Israeli Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ disarmed Palestinian Suspects

Some Israeli Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ disarmed Palestinian Suspects

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Human Rights Watch | – – Calls for Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinian Suspects Proliferate (New York) – Some senior Israeli officials have been encouraging Israeli soldiers and police to kill Palestinians they suspect of attacking Israelis even when they are no longer a threat, Human Rights Watch said today in an analysis of those statements. […]

Dissent
Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump's Deportation Plans?

Can Popular Mobilization & Sanctuary stop Trump’s Deportation Plans?

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By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – Cost, impossible logistics, political opposition, and community resistance could spell the end of the president-elect’s anti-immigrant scheme. President-elect Donald Trump built his campaign on a pledge to build a wall and deport two to three million undocumented immigrants, but the likelihood that his promises will […]

Donald Trump
GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump:  McCain Says he Must 'Stand Up' to Putin

GOP Russia Hawks attack Trump: McCain Says he Must ‘Stand Up’ to Putin

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TeleSur | – – On Friday, Trump congratulated Putin for not retaliating to Obama’s expulsions. On the same day a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said the White House may have disproportionately punished Russia by ordering the expulsion of 35 diplomats, Republican Senator John McCain reaffirmed his conviction that the United States could only […]

Russia
No, it's not a new Cold War: The USSR is Gone Forever

No, it’s not a new Cold War: The USSR is Gone Forever

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By Ghia Nodia | (Project Syndicate) | – – MOSCOW – This New Year’s Eve marks the 25th anniversary of the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union. But, rather than celebrating, many Russians – and some people in the West – are ambivalent about that outcome. Russian President Vladimir Putin tops the list of doubters. […]

Israel/ Palestine
2016: A deadly year in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and Israel

2016: A deadly year in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and Israel

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The past year has been one of the deadliest and most violent in recent years for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip. In 2016 alone, more than 100 Palestinians were killed, the majority shot dead by Israeli forces. The wave of […]

Authoritarianism
Wall Street Journal Wouldn't Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It

Wall Street Journal Wouldn’t Call a Lie a Lie If Trump Says It

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TeleSur | – – The paper is worried about objectivity, said WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker. The Wall Street Journal would not call a lie a lie if it was told by President-elect Donald Trump over concerns of “objectivity,” the paper’s editor-in-chief told Meet the Press on Sunday. “I’d be careful about using the word, ‘lie,’” […]

Health Care
Rethinking The Cost of War

Rethinking The Cost of War

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By Mike Hixenbaugh for The Virginian-Pilot, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica | – – There are many ways to measure the cost of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War: In bombs (7 million tons), in dollars ($760 billion in today’s dollars) and in bodies (58,220). John Scarlett died of brain cancer in November 2015. His widow […]

Terrorism
2016 mean till the end:  New Year's Eve Massacre in Istanbul

2016 mean till the end: New Year’s Eve Massacre in Istanbul

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Aljazeera English | (Video News Report) | – – Aljazeera English: “Dozens killed in Istanbul nightclub shooting”

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