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Climate Change
Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch's Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires

Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch’s Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires

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The Watchers | – – 1. 1. Rupert's network denies global warming.2. Global warming burns down his home.3. The end.#LAfire https://t.co/FYbm19TY9z — jp (@jpdoctor) December 6, 2017 2. Wochit News: “Rupert Murdoch’s California Home Threatened by Wildfires” ——– 3. The Watchers | – – California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in […]

Afghanistan
All Trump's Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

All Trump’s Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

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By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net | From Washington to Cairo, military aggression and “keeping the lid on” are proving deadly. And they will never work. Nov. 25, 2017: al Rawda mosque where a terrorist attack took place in Bir al-Abed of North Sinai, Egypt. The death toll in the terrorist attack here on Friday […]

History
Far Right's Misuse of Knights Templar, Who were actually Sympathetic to Muslims

Far Right’s Misuse of Knights Templar, Who were actually Sympathetic to Muslims

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Patrick Masters | (The Conversation) | – – When market trader Tina Gayle was banned from selling mugs featuring Knights Templar logos in a Loughborough Market, Charnwood Borough Council ruled that they were offensive to Muslims. A story in the Daily Mail reported that Gayle had “been previously been warned by the council for selling […]

Eastern Europe
How Eastern Europe failed at Democracy & Invented Trumpism Instead

How Eastern Europe failed at Democracy & Invented Trumpism Instead

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By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – He was a rich businessman, an outspoken outsider with a love of conspiracy theories. And he was a populist running for president. In 1990, when Donald Trump was still beyond the furthest outskirts of American politics, Stanislaw Tyminski was trying to become the new president of […]

Yemen
Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh Leaves Behind Grim Legacy

Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh Leaves Behind Grim Legacy

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Human Rights Watch | – – Ex-President’s Death Underscores Need for Impartial Investigations (Beirut) – The killing of former longtime Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, on December 4, 2017, underlines the need for governments to support the new United Nations expert panel to investigate abuses by all sides to Yemen’s war, Human Rights Watch said […]

Donald Trump
Navajo Nation to Sue Trump over Shrinking Bears Ears Monument

Navajo Nation to Sue Trump over Shrinking Bears Ears Monument

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TeleSur | – – The Navajo Nation has vowed to sue U.S. President Donald Trump over his decision to shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent. Hundreds of people – including native tribe, the Navajo, and others – along with environmentalists gathered in Washington to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s damning decision to […]

Israel/ Palestine
Bethlehem Olive Tree decorated to Reflect City’s Suffering under Israeli Occupation

Bethlehem Olive Tree decorated to Reflect City’s Suffering under Israeli Occupation

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IMEMC News | – – In a ceremony attended by a group of Palestinians and Internationals, under the initiative of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF), as part of Bethlehem Heart of Christmas, Bethlehem Museum celebrated the lighting of its Christmas tree which was decorated with gas bombs and live bullets fired by the […]

Donald Trump
Jared Kushner didn’t report Funding Illegal Israeli Squatter Settlements

Jared Kushner didn’t report Funding Illegal Israeli Squatter Settlements

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TeleSur | – – The news organization, Haaretz, printed a report in 2016 stating Kushner’s parents invested thousand dollars in organizations nestled in the West Bank region. Researchers from American Bridge and Newsweek have revealed Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior advisor failed to mention to the Office of Government Ethics, during his […]

Education
How GOP Tax Bill's assault on Universities will Devastate US Economy

How GOP Tax Bill’s assault on Universities will Devastate US Economy

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By Benjamin J. Cohen | (The Conversation) | – – With the Senate’s passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” President Donald Trump seems close to notching his first legislative victory – a huge tax cut for the 1 percent. All that remains is the need to reconcile the Senate bill with the version […]

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