Informed Comment - Part 1202

US to Renew Internet Surveillance Program Exposed by Snowden

TeleSur | – – The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to renew a warrantless internet surveillance program, disregarding civil liberties advocates. In a 65-34 vote the […]

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African-Americans

With Marijuana Legal, L.A. Makes Amends for damage of the War on Drugs

By Kevon Paynter | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – The city creates a “social equity” tier of applications who will receive priority for […]

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Featured

Russia accuses US of destabilizing Syria with Kurdish-Turkish Clash

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s angry threat to invade a Syrian Kurdish canton in response to the […]

Juan Cole

Djibouti

Turkey to deploy 60,000 soldiers in bases abroad, including in Qatar

Middle East Monitor |- – 60,000 armed Turkish soldiers will be deployed across four military bases abroad in accordance with a new 2022 plan, The […]

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White Supremacists

Radical White Terrorists committed Most 2017 Killings in US

TeleSur | – – A report by the Anti-Defamation League shows that in 2017 the majority of murders in the U.S. were committed by right-wing, […]

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North Korea

A Second Korean War, this Time with Nukes?

( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or […]

Rajan Menon

Afghanistan