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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"

 

 

 

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,801

 

 

Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,487

 

 

Total Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001

$5,304,696,921,747

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40 Houthi rebels killed in Yemen's Marib fighting

Russian air strikes kill 21 IS jihadists in Syria: monitor

6 IS militants, 4 paramilitary members killed in Iraq

Rocket attack on Iraqi airbase where US defense company operates

U.S. rescinds Trump White House claim that all U.N. sanctions had been reimposed on Iran

U.S. says it is ready to resume talks with Iran on nuclear deal

Iran Offers to Reverse Its Nuclear Deal Violations if Sanctions Are Lifted

US does not plan sanctions relief, other steps before Iran talks

Propaganda alert: Iranian-backed militias "likely" behind deadly rocket attack on U.S.-led base, experts say

Israeli press review: Report finds widespread racism among Israel's youth

Hamas begins internal elections to choose a new leadership

Vaccine prevents 98.9% of COVID deaths, Israel’s Health Ministry data shows

Israel reopens stores, malls, gyms Sunday in major easing of COVID restrictions

Iran plans to export Covid-19 vaccine to the world

Israeli Authorities Prepare Law to Prohibit Cooperation with ICC

Not Identifying Israel and Saudi Arabia as Allies: Stupidity or Brilliant Subterfuge?

Saudi Arabia to invest $20bn in domestic arms industry

Release of intelligence report on Khashoggi killing could push already strained U.S.-Saudi relations to new lows

AFRICA

Doctor says 5 killed in Somalia''s election-related violence

Ethiopian army implicated in brutal war crime video: 'You should have finished off the survivors':

U.N. report: Erik Prince violated arms embargo in Libya

Report of Illegal Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question: Who's Backing Former Blackwater CEO

John Pilger: Apartheid Did Not Die

ASIA

5 killed in serial explosions in Afghanistan's Kabul

US Will Not Undertake Hasty Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Austin

NATO Puts Holds on Afghanistan Decision, Expands in Iraq

Military operation in NW Pakistan leaves 3 killed: army

Two killed in Mandalay city in bloodiest day of Myanmar protests

China raises rare earth quotas in ‘goodwill trade signal’ to US

US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

EUROPE

Russian court finds Kremlin critic Navalny guilty of slandering WW2 veteran -Ifax,

Moscow court rejects Navalny appeal

Kremlin tells West to pull back from idea of Navalny-related sanctions

Pressure mounts on U.S. State Dep’t: If Navalny deserves support, why not Issa Amro?

Biden administration designates Russian ship as helping to build Nord Stream 2 pipeline

White House says U.S. not inviting Russia to G7

Biden stresses importance of partnership with Europe at the Munich Security Conference

Coronavirus news: Ireland reports three cases of Brazilian variant; Italian police investigate fake vaccines

Biden Tells Allies 'America Is Back,' but Macron and Merkel Push Back

Boris Johnson: 'America is back as the leader of the free world'

We must resist Israel’s war on British universities

UK: drivers are workers not self-employed, Supreme Court rules

AUSTRALASIA

Anti-coronavirus vaccine protests held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide.

Propaganda report: ‘Possible war’ looming on Australia’s doorstep as China ramps up attacks on Taiwan

GLOBE

Global case tally for COVID climbs above 110.4 million

Pandemic will not end until world is vaccinated, Merkel says

Johns Hopkins Doctor Predicts Covid ‘Will Be Mostly Gone By April’: The doctor acknowledged the reluctance of many scientists to publicly acknowledge his conclusions

I.M.F. Predicts Worst Downturn Since the Great Depression

US officially back in Paris Agreement

Biden's policy of containing China, Russia and Iran is no longer viable

Biden says U.S. commitment to NATO is 'unshakeable'

AMERICAS

US sanctions on Venezuela have failed to achieve anything but needless death and misery.

'No to Dictatorship': Why Haitians are protesting US-backed Moïse

Vijay Prashad: Will Andrés Arauz be the next president of Ecuador?

Watch: TV crew robbed at gunpoint live on air in Ecuador

US lets in asylum-seekers stuck in Mexico, ends Trump policy

Eight-year-old boy drowns as migrants risk Arctic conditions to cross river into US

Texas supermarkets are running out of food : 13 million - half of the state's population - are under 'boil water' orders

Biden declares major disaster in Texas

House panel unveils $1.9T relief package

$2,000 Stimulus checks, with the complete timeline for all you $1,400+600 truthers.

Biden privately tells governors: Minimum wage hike likely isn’t happening

Trump inauguration donor sentenced to 12 years for illegal contribution, obstruction

US judge suspends South Carolina’s new abortion law

Trump Returns to Fox News for Pathetic Interview

Bitcoin Market Value Shoots Past $1 Trillion Amid Tesla-Fueled Surge

Ghislaine Maxwell admitted Jeffrey Epstein DID have tapes of Trump and the Clintons

February 17/18, 2021

NATO’s Mission Impossible
By Finian Cunningham
The days are numbered for America bullying and extorting its NATO allies through peddling scary stories about foreign enemies.   - Continue

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The American Century Ends Early
By Tom Engelhardt
Let’s face it, we now live in a system, as well as a country, that’s visibly in an early stage of disintegration.   - Continue

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It’s Not A Political Problem, It’s A Propaganda Problem:
By Caitlin Johnstone
The days are numbered for America bullying and extorting its NATO allies through peddling scary stories about foreign enemies.   - Continue

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Techno-Censorship: The Slippery Slope from Censoring ‘Disinformation’ to Silencing Truth
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
The days are numbered for America bullying and extorting its NATO allies through peddling scary stories about foreign enemies.   - Continue

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If it were a narco lab, it would be working
By John Perry
A Honduran narcotics lab, protected by the military on JOH’s orders, had been sending hundreds of kilos of cocaine to Miami every month.   - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

Iraq: Three members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces were killed and five wounded in clashes with Islamic State

The untold tragedy of Iraq's Shia Turkmen women enslaved by Islamic State

NATO to send up to 3,500 more troops to Iraq

US-led Int’l Coalition to Establish New Military Base at Iraq-Syria-Turkey Triangle

Syria and Israel to swap prisoners in Russia-mediated deal

European powers, US warn Iran against further breaches of nuclear deal: Iran's Zarif hit back, saying violations were a result of US withdrawal from the agreement

UAE Reportedly Dismantling Red Sea Military Base as Country Pulls Back From War in Yemen

Biden Plans To Bypass MBS In Saudi Relations

Watch: Settlers, soldiers oust Palestinian Israeli family picnicking in occupied West Bank

Condemning BDS and promising to visit Israel are price of entry in Democratic race for NY mayor

Gaza law barring women from travel without male consent to be revised, judge says

Israel to bar unvaccinated people from some jobs, says health minister

AFRICA

20 al-Shabab militants killed in southern Somalia

Gunmen kill nine in northern Burkina Faso road attack

Nigeria: Gunmen kill seven in Edo

U.S. Approves $200 Million in Arms Sales to Egypt Amid Human Rights Concerns

UN: 1.3M people displaced in Somalia in 2020

ASIA

About 30 Taliban Killed in Bombmaking Accident, Afghan Government Says

Afghan official: Bombing kills 2 Kabul University lecturers

Amazon documents reveal company’s secret strategy to dodge India’s regulators

EUROPE

Spain: Protests Reach 30 Cities After Rapper Jailed

Nearly 5,000 Hong Kong citizens sign up for new UK visa: The Times

AUSTRALASIA

This is what Facebook looks like in Australia after the social media giant pulled all news content

‘We will not be intimidated’: Australian PM takes Facebook fight to India and the world

GLOBE

Mutations have made coronavirus EIGHT times more infectious than original Wuhan variant – study

‘Wildly unfair’: UN boss says 10 nations used 75% of all vaccines

Two variants merge to form first recorded 'recombinant' virus

AMERICAS

UN expert details crushing human toll of US sanctions on Venezuela

Brazil’s ex-President Lula on Venezuela: Maduro is democratic, Guaidó should be in prison, US blockade kills civilians

Maduro lodges new allegation of US spying on Venezuela firm

No to Dictatorship': Why Haitians are protesting US-backed Moïse

Almost One-Third of US Troops Are Refusing COVID Vaccines, Officials Say

Florida Gov. DeSantis Prioritizes Vaccines for Rich White Residents, Then Threatens Critics

US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII

US jobless claims unexpectedly rise to 861,000 amid chip shortage

Walmart raises wages for 425,000 associates, about half of U.S. employees now earn $15 per hour

Trump Inaugural Donor Gets 12 Years Over Illegal Contribution

Special report: Insulin users reeling at 550-percent price increase

Activist groups urge Biden, Congress to end 'forever wars'

South Carolina governor signs law banning most abortions and Planned Parenthood sues

White House says Biden supports study of slavery reparations

Texas Power Outages to Drag Into Third Day as Deep Freeze Persists

Watch: This is not a third world country. This is Houston, Texas.

While Texans Freeze, Ted Cruz Heads To Cancún

February 16, 2021

Russia holds the key to German sovereignty
By Pepe Escobar
A more sovereign Germany closer to Russia and China may be the straw that breaks the US hegemon’s back.   - Continue

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America’s Plot for World Domination
By Robert W. Merry
Global hegemony in the American Century was not an accident of circumstance but an intentional choice by a foreign-policy elite.   - Continue

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The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot
By Glenn Greenwald
Insisting on factual accuracy does not make one an apologist for the protesters. False reporting is never justified, especially to inflate threat and fear levels.   - Continue

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Tom Paine and the Tyranny of the Dead
By Kary Love
Life belongs to the living, and allowing the dead to impose laws on the living is a pernicious error.   - Continue

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The Empire Attacks BDS For The Same Reason Nixon Started The Drug War
By Caitlin Johnstone
This is an important victory for Palestinian rights activists, but it’s just one battle in a much larger war..   - Continue

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Why politicians and doctors keep ignoring the medical research on Vitamin D and Covid
By Jonathan Cook
Life belongs to the living, and allowing the dead to impose laws on the living is a pernicious error.   - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

3 refugees killed as fire guts camp in Iraq

Report: Israeli Airstrikes in Syria Kill 6, Destroy Iranian Weapons

Syria calls on UNSC to take firm measures against Israel raids

Iran warns Israel not cross 'red lines' in Syria

Israel's ambassador says not interested in working with US on return to Iran deal

Russia mediating Israeli-Syrian prisoner swap - Syrian state media

UN condemns ‘reckless’ Iraq rocket attack as US weighs response; Washington, European say it is too early to know who is responsible.

US sells $200m in weapons to Egypt despite human rights abuses

Biden plans to 'recalibrate' Saudi relations in shot at MbS - White House

Saudi Arabia is to stop signing contracts with companies whose regional headquarters are based outside of the kingdom

The ICC and the decision to investigate Israel's crimes

UK official condemns Israel settlements

Finkelstein: Palestine's ICC victory thwarted by Israel's apartheid reality

As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can’t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State

Biden finally calls Netanyahu

Ben Rhodes cites ‘very aggressive, pro-Likud media’ in the U.S. for intensity on Israel

AFRICA

At Least 10 Killed in Fresh DR Congo Attack, ADF Blamed

Gunmen abduct dozens of schoolchildren in central Nigeria

ASIA

26 Taliban Fighters Killed in Fresh Ops

Four Policemen Killed In Afghanistan Attacks

Biden says China to pay price for alleged human rights abuses: Biden says his country will reassert its global role on human rights.

EUROPE

Putin Warns: ‘We Won't Allow Any Blow To Russia's Sovereignty,’

Germany To Offer Free COVID-19 Rapid Tests for All Citizens

AUSTRALASIA

Facebook Blocks News In Australia Over Government Plan To Force Payment To Publishers

Australia Should Stop Blocking International Justice in Israel and Palestine

GLOBE

Health officials say the coronavirus will likely become endemic in the next several years. What does that mean?

Two variants have merged into a heavily mutated hybrid version of the coronavirus, report says

New French nasal spray eliminates 99% of Covid virus: The ionised water spray is set to go on sale in March; but it is preventative only, not a cure

Watch: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Takes an Anti-Vax Stance, Violating Facebook’s New Policy

Blinken says US to pay $200 million in WHO obligations

America’s Plot for World Domination: Global hegemony in the American Century was not an accident of circumstance but an intentional choice by a foreign-policy elite.

AMERICAS

US meddling in Ecuador's historic election and coup-supporting fake NGO 'left' -

UN expert details crushing human toll of US sanctions on Venezuela

Biden extends mortgage relief, ban on home foreclosures through June

Biden shoots down $50K student loan forgiveness plan

Watch: Trump Plaza implosion signals end of an era in Atlantic City: Mayor Marty Small called it “exciting” and “truly a great day in Atlantic City.”

Trump Attacks Republican Senator McConnell After Acquittal

75 percent of Republicans want Trump to play prominent role in GOP: poll

US President Biden says no to ‘defunding the police’

Why Can’t Inner-Ring Democrats Just Say ‘No’ to Billionaires?: The problem runs even deeper than Donor Class donations.

3 million without power, 20 dead as 100 million Americans brace for more cold, ice and snow

Anger rises as millions in Texas remain without power and heat

US farmers won’t see a year as profitable as 2020 for a decade

Conservative Radio Personality Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70

February 16/17. 2021

Why Russia is driving the West crazy
By Pepe Escobar
Moscow’s pivot to Asia to build Greater Eurasia has an air of historical inevitability that has the US and EU on edge.   - Continue

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Blame for EU-Russia Impasse?
By Finian Cunningham
Moscow is right to tell the duplicitous Europeans they are unreliable.   - Continue

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Cultural Deafness Defines the West
By Alastair Crooke
“America is back” to lead, and ‘to set the rules of the road’ for the rest of the world.   - Continue

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Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms
By Edward Curtin
The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security state’s ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people.   - Continue

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Nasrallah on Capitol Riots: Trump revealed the true face of the United States
By Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan- Video and Text
The whole world has remained silent, as have many Americans, in the face of his atrocious crimes against other peoples.   - Continue

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Is Biden Committing Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies
Biden should have announced US re-entry as one of his first executive orders..   - Continue

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Off To a Diverse Start: Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments
By Philip Giraldi
The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East.   - Continue

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Evil happens when good men do nothing.
By Dr Gideon Polya
"The media is trying to divide this country. You are bloodthirsty for ratings"   - Continue

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Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
By Chris Hedges:
A witch hunt by self-appointed moral arbiters of speech, has become the boutique activism of a liberal class.   - Continue

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Trump attorney lambasts CBSN anchor and media in general
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"The media is trying to divide this country. You are bloodthirsty for ratings"   - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

Turkish army says 13 civilians killed as anti-PKK operation ends: Defence chief Hulusi Akar says 48 PKK fighters were killed

Iran: Renegotiating on JCPOA is ‘impossible’: Pres. Rouhani

Iran says it will end snap IAEA inspections if nuclear deal terms not met

Iran disowns minister’s warning that it might seek nuclear weapons if cornered

Tehran calls US seizure of Iranian oil an ‘act of piracy’

Report: Iran and Russia begin joint naval drill

Apartheid: Israel blocks shipment of Russian Sputnik V vaccine to Gaza

British Consul General in Jerusalem Condemns Jewish Settlements

AFRICA

11 dead as rebels attack military sites in DR Congo’s city

28 Togolese Peacekeepers Injured in Central Mali Attack

Guinea declares Ebola outbreak after 3 deaths

ASIA

80 Taliban members were killed in 7 Afghanistan's provinces in the past 24 hours.

Taliban ‘open letter’ urges US to honour Doha agreement

China Eyes Rare Earth Export Curbs for U.S. Defense, FT Says

China becomes EU's biggest trade partner in 2020

Wuhan's COVID-19 outbreak probably 500% bigger than first thought, WHO team tells CNN

EUROPE

Dutch court orders government to lift Covid curfew:

French MPs to vote on 'anti-separatism' bill to battle Islamist radicalism

AUSTRALASIA

New Zealand orders largest city Auckland into snap COVID lockdown

GLOBE

Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi to pay $834m in Plavix case: The drugmakers failed to properly warn non-white patients taking Plavix of its health risks.

AMERICAS

Divided Ecuador heads to presidential runoff ballot in April

Bolivia and Cuba To Resume Pre-Coup Political and Trade Agenda

Mexico Blames U.S. as Energy Crisis Spills Across the Border":

Trudeau unveils details of ‘assault-style’ gun buyback program, municipal gun ban

Plummeting Cases in U.S. Show Pathway to Crushing Covid-19

Biden extends foreclosure moratorium for struggling US homeowners

After his impeachment acquittal, Donald Trump tells supporters 'our movement has only just begun'

Transcript: Mitch McConnell’s Trump impeachment speech

Lindsey Graham Suggests GOP Would Impeach Kamala Harris

Newly-declassified Documents Show Comey Purposefully Lied About the Steele Dossier

Email Reveals FBI Chief Comey Approved Trump Surveillance Despite Inability to Verify Russia Claims

February 14/15, 2021

The headless chicken and the bear
By The Saker
The EU rulers are desperate to show the new US leaders that they only hated Trump, not the USA.   - Continue

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The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticising US Military Aid to Israel
By Jonathan Cook
Corporate media like the Guardian are not an ally to the left, they are the enemy.   - Continue

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Once upon a time on a Chinese New Year
By Pepe Escobar
Learn to navigate the complex carcass of life itself – facing no resistance, and without exhausting vital energy.   - Continue

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Venezuela: an Example of Struggle for Food Sovereignty and Food Security
By Nino Pagliccia
The illegal US economic and financial measures (sanctions) that started in 2015 have caused the reported death of about 40,000 Venezuelans in 2017-2018 .   - Continue

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The Lincoln Project, Facing Multiple Scandals, is Accused by its Own Co-Founder of Likely Criminality
By Glenn Greenwald
Liberals heralded this group of life-long scammers, sleaze merchants and con artists as noble men of conscience.   - Continue

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Troop Deployments in Washington Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen
By James Bovard
Americans would be wise to recognize the growing perils of the militarization of American political disputes..   - Continue

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'Beyond Outrageous': Big Pharma Using Loophole to Get Taxpayers to Fund Billions in Fines for Fueling Opioid Crisis
By Kenny Stancil
"Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, Cardinal Health, and Amerisource-Bergen are laughing all the way to bank."    - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

Iraq: 21 alleged ISIL members killed by a suicide bomber's mistake

Series of ISIS attacks leave 5 Iraqi security force members dead south of Kirkuk

Turkey kills 7 alleged PKK members in northern Iraq

Russia equipping Syria air base to receive nuclear bombers

Flare up in Yemen conflict leaves kills dozens

UN: At least 400,000 Yemen children under 5 could die of starvation this year

U.S. to lift its terrorist designations of Yemen's Houthis on Feb. 16:

Piracy; US sells a million barrels of Iranian oil seized under sanctions

If U.S. sanctions continue Iran will change nuclear approach: presidential candidate

U.S. and Israeli national security advisers hold call on Iran

White House says no call planned to Saudi Arabia

4 children homeless as Israel blows up Palestinian prisoner's home

White House denies Biden is snubbing Israel’s Netanyahu

Netanyahu election rival commits to suspension of West Bank annexation

Israel will pull out all the stops to avoid facing war crimes charges

As Israel decries ICC investigation, Hamas readies its defence

Court rules Arkansas' Israel boycott pledge law is unconstitutional.

Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds To Sisi's Egypt

AFRICA

3 killed as car bomb explodes near Somalia's parliament headquarters

Sudan: 7 states declare state of emergency following mass protests outbreak

ASIA

30 militants dead in mosque blast, claims Afghan army

Four Afghan security members, including commander killed in Afghanistan blasts

Philippines' Duterte tells U.S. 'you have to pay' if it wants to keep troop deployment agreement with his country

EUROPE

Russia says it would be ready to cut EU ties if hit with painful sanctions

Italy: Mario Draghi forms new government, unveils cabinet

GLOBE

Biden administration files appeal for Assange extradition

Amnesty International joins civil liberties groups to ask Biden to drop case against Julian Assange

Why is U.S. getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon? It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot.

AMERICAS

US-led sanctions on Venezuela "devastating" to human rights, says UN report: Special Rapporteur calls on the United States, United Kingdom and European Union to lift "devastating" economic sanctions.

Damning UN report urges the UK to unfreeze Venezuelan gold

Biden admin smears Nicaragua as ‘dictatorship’ for forcing US-funded, coup-plotting NGOs to register as foreign agents

Some Asylum-Seekers Waiting In Mexico To Be Allowed In U.S.

Cuomo faces calls to resign amid allegations of hiding nursing home Covid deaths

Facebook Helped Government Identify Capitol Rioters From Photos

Mitch McConnell will vote to acquit Donald Trump: sources

Republican neocons whose treachery gave rise to Trump are talking of forming a new party because of Trump

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Israelis suspected of selling advanced missiles to U.S. rival in Asia
By Yaniv Kubovich, Josh Breiner
The case is highly sensitive, as it could affect Israel's foreign relations and lead to a crisis between superpowers.    - Continue

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IAEA Confirms Iran Produces Uranium Metal, Despite Western Warnings
By Jason Ditz
JCPOA forbade any metallurgy, but Iran's work isn't weapons-related.   - Continue

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Another Zionist Joins the Biden Team
By Philip Giraldi
We Americans are, never allowed to challenge the extent of someone’s devotion to a foreign country if that country just happens to be Israel.    - Continue

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Why Victoria Nuland Is Dangerous and Should Not Be Confirmed
By Rick Sterling
Nuland is the queen of chicken hawks, the Lady Macbeth of perpetual war.   - Continue

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Thirty-Nine Percent of Republicans Say They'd Support Americans Using Political Violence
By Jason Lemon
Smaller numbers of Democrats and independents also said they believed violence could be necessary.   - Continue

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Tearing Down the Edifice of American Democracy
By Scott Ritter
Trump provides proof that there remains a dark divide between those who support the 46th president, and those who continue to support his predecessor—and never the two shall meet.    - Continue

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Enough with America's 'thank you for your service' culture. It's betrayal, not patriotism.
By Dennis Laich and Erik Edstrom
Roughly 20 veterans and active-duty service members committed suicide daily in the past several years.   - Continue

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The Dangerous Myth of Patriotism
By Richard Sahn
Love of country, in short, is nonsensical.   - Continue

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New Lancet Report: 40 Percent of US COVID Deaths Could Have Been Avoided
By Jared Rodriguez
The scathing new report is an indictment of both Trump and a health care system that values profit over human life.   - Continue

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The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
By Edward Curtin
They were locked away from me in some conventional reality sold to them by liars.    - Continue

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MIDDLE EAST

Three Turkish soldiers killed in northern Iraq

France Warns Iran Against Nuclear Breaches, Jeopardising Diplomacy

Fact or fiction? Iranian nuclear scientist murdered by Israel using one-ton automated gun smuggled into Iran: Jewish Chronicle

FM Zarif's message on the occasion of the National Day of the Islamic Republic of Iran (HQ)

20 Israelis suspected of illegally making, selling missiles to Asian nation

Apartheid Israel: Netanyahu responds to Blinken: Golan will remain part of Israel forever

Apartheid Israel: UN experts call on Israel to stop torture, inhuman treatment of Palestinians: Panel of rights experts said Israel was using a 'grave loophole within the Israeli judicial system' to defend its use of torture

Apartheid: Israel's arrest campaign aims to destroy a new Palestinian movement; State forces have targeted a left-wing social and political network, using detention and torture as tools to curb its growth.

Israel urges social media giants to label anti-Semitic content

How the ADL’s Israel Advocacy Undermines Its Civil Rights Work

Secretary of State Blinken confirms Biden admin considers Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital

Jerusalem mayor threatens to ban unvaccinated Arabs from attending mosques

Egypt opens the Rafah crossing with Gaza 'indefinitely'

UK officials are putting ‘profit before Yemeni lives’.

Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport attacked; civilian plane catches fire

Twitter suspends accounts, removes verification of Saudi political prisoners

AFRICA

Nigerian troops eliminate 19 fleeing Boko Haram fighters in Borno

Cameroon army kills five armed separatists suspected of killing school children

Ethiopia killed 83 civilians in Tigray: Rights group

Ethiopian Red Cross Says 80 Percent Of Tigray Cut Off From Aid

South Africa scraps AstraZeneca COVID vaccine

ASIA

Afghanistan: Over 50 Taleban fighters killed in army operations

US-China confrontation would be ‘disaster’, Xi tells Biden in first call

WHO official derides US intelligence on COVID: WHO mission to China says US intelligence on the supposed origin of the coronavirus is not reliable.

Singapore households got $2,000 per member from COVID-19 measures on average

BBC World News Barred From Airing in China, State Media Claims

EUROPE

Great Reset? Putin Says, “Not So Fast”

France, Germany seek Russia sanctions over Navalny, diplomats say

Finian Cunningham: Victory Jab for Russia: The US media – are now even admitting that the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 could be “a global success story”.

UK: Vaccine ‘passports’ on way for travel

Ireland calls for calm as EU rebuffs British Brexit demands

AUSTRALASIA

Biden administration plans to continue to seek extradition of WikiLeaks' Assange: official

Press freedom coalition calls on Biden's Department of Justice to drop case against Julian Assange

GLOBE

Risk of death from COVID-19 is 3.5 times higher than influenza, CMAJ study finds

Left out by EU, Balkan nations turn to Russia, China for vaccine

PM Modi, says India would do its best to facilitate supplies of Covid vaccines to Canada

Many countries used COVID to justify free speech curbs: HRW: At least 83 countries worldwide used the pandemic as a pretext to target media, activists and political opponents, HRW report says.

AMERICAS

Bolivia: Gen. Valverde To Be Tried for the Senkata Massacre:

Venezuela to Receive 100,000 Doses of Russian Sputnik V vaccine

Through the “Bolivar Act”U.S. Congressmen Intend to Tighten the Blockade Against Venezuela

In Pictures: Haitian police tear gas protesters, journalists

White House says 'vast majority' of migrants at U.S.-Mexico border will be turned away

California surpasses New York as U.S. state with most COVID-19 deaths

America 'Should Be Ashamed': Texas Teen Forced to Use College Savings to Prevent Mom's Eviction

Florida Man Used COVID Relief Loans To Buy Lamborghini

Another 793,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

Fox News Cuts Away From Senate Trial as Shocking Footage Emerges

WATCH: : How the House Democrats used a deceptively edited video to make their case during today's impeachment trial.

Watch the 14-minute video the Democrats say proves that Trump should be convicted at his impeachment trial

140,000 Registered Republicans Abandon Party In January

Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party

Top Twitter official confirms Trump is banned forever -- even if he runs in 2024

Twitter reports $1.14 billion net loss for 2020

Instagram removes Robert F. Kennedy Jr for posting false Covid-19 claims

Many countries used COVID to justify free speech curbs: HRW: At least 83 countries worldwide used the pandemic as a pretext to target media, activists and political opponents, HRW report says.

Bill would cut over 100,000 DoD jobs: New legislation would require the Department of Defense to cut its civilian workforce by 15 percent by 2025

Chris Hedges: War Is Betrayal: We condition the poor and the working class to go to war.

US senators revive bill to make refugee status easier for Hong Kong protesters

 

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