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Watch: Unity & Survival: Fighting Hunger on the Streets of Philadelphia
BreakThrough News recently released a new documentary about the Unity & Survival Program, a food distribution and organizing network in Philadelphia initiated by neighborhood leaders and the Philadelphia Liberation Center — a community center run by volunteers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Continue reading
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale In Carceral Limbo While US Generals Shirk Responsibility For Deadly Strikes
Around two months ago, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison after he stood before a federal judge and delivered a statement that demonstrated he was a person of conscience. Continue reading
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America’s broadband crisis: the making of a twenty-first-century cartel
Invoking president Franklin Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Plan of 1936 in scope and vision, the statement announced: “The President believes that we can bring affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to every American through a historic investment of $100 billion.”2 In the months since Biden introduced his plan, it has been politically revised with the most recent broadband… Continue reading
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Clear Away the AUKUS Hype: The US and Australia Signed a Nuclear Arms Deal
The AUKUS despite being coined a security partnership, is a nuclear arms deal aimed at increasing pressure against China and should be cause for concern Continue reading
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The Fallout From The AUKUS Deal
The AUKUS deal allowed Australia to cancel an order for diesel driven submarines from France by taking up a U.S. and British offer to eventually acquire nuclear driven submarines. Continue reading
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Ruckus over AUKUS isn’t an edifying sight
The diplomatic fallout from the new security agreement between the Australia, United Kingdom and the United States [AUKUS] is just about beginning. The debris will take time to clean up. Might there be some lasting damage? Continue reading
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Likely Assassination of UN Chief by US, British and South African Intelligence Happened 60 Years Ago Today
Former President Harry Truman told reporters two days after Dag Hammarskjöld’s death on Sept. 18, 1961 that the U.N. secretary-general “was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘when they killed him.’” Continue reading
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The British-American coup that ended Australian independence
Across the media and political establishment in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him. Continue reading
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How the US Government Stokes Racial Tensions in Cuba and Around the World
10 September 2021 — MintPress News BLM for Thee, but Not for Me In Washington’s eyes, the point of funding Black, indigenous, LGBT or other minority groups in enemy countries is not simply to promote tensions there; it is also to create a narrative that will help convince liberals and leftists in the United States… Continue reading
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Since 9/11, FBI Has Destroyed People Based On Their Race, Religion, Or Country Of Origin
To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter presents aretrospective on this transformation in law enforcement and government. Each entry in the series, “Twenty Years In A Security State,” will connect with whistleblower stories where possible.] Continue reading
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Want Regime Change with Plausible Deniability? Call Creative Associates International
The Reagan administration constructed a network of outsourced private organizations that would do the dirty work of the U.S. empire, shielding the U.S. government from the prying eyes of investigators and journalists. Continue reading
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Louisiana Black-out: Not an Act of God, an Act of Entergy
I was hired by the City of New Orleans to investigate why their power company, Entergy, simply can’t keep the lights on while citizens’ electric bills soar. That was in 1986. Continue reading
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US-China relations at crossroads
The Biden Administration, in dire straits over Afghanistan, is pursuing China for help. There have been two phone calls to Chinese State Councilor and FM Wang Yi from US Secretary of state Antony Blinken since August 16 alone. Continue reading
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Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough
CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND — You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one of the largest and most powerful non-governmental organizations operating anywhere in the world. A pillar of soft U.S. power, the group has been an architect in privatizing the Iraqi education system, designed messenger apps meant to overthrow the… Continue reading
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British High Court Expands US Government’s Appeal In Assange Extradition Case
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was astounded by Britain’s High Court after it reversed a prior decision and permitted the United States government’s appeal on grounds related to his health. Continue reading
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Watch: Top New York Times, WaPo Experts Affiliated With Pentagon-Funded CNAS Think Tank
Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. And here in Washington, the think tank inside this nondescript building – Center For A New American Security… Continue reading
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The story they want us to forget
The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead). Continue reading
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Cuba’s US-Backed Pop-Culture Dissidents
Over the past decade, Washington has spent millions to cultivate anti-government rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in Cuba, Max Blumenthal reports. Continue reading
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Foreign Agents #1: Exposing the San Isidro Movement & US culture war on Cuba
In new Rokfin livestream, Max Blumenthal details his investigation into Cuba’s San Isidro Movement and the US sponsorship of the right-wing cultural dissident group Continue reading
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The Apocalypse That The Imperialists Are Engineering
As the U.S. empire slowly crumbles, it’s cutting its losses. This means waging ever-growing campaigns to destabilize the places that are slipping out of its control. Obama’s 2011 destruction of Libya, where the richest democracy in Africa was bombed into nonexistence and NATO left the country a slave trade-ridden failed state, was a major step towards this… Continue reading
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