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Germany Criminalises BDS Movement Against Israel
Germany becomes the first country in the world to criminalise the boycott, disinvest and sanction movement. Shir Hever, TRNN correspondent in Germany and expert on Palestine-Israel, responds in this conversation.
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America made the same mistake in the Middle East four times – now Trump is making it again
The US and its allies have fatally underestimated the religious motivation of their adversaries, and lost countless conflicts as a result. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading
When the Australian security consultant Julian Gutmanis was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017, what he found made his blood run cold. By Martin Giles. (Mar. 5, 2019)
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‘I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy’: Bernie Sanders on the 1980s
In an interview, one of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination discusses his long-held opposition to war and his support for socialist leaders. By Sydney Ember, for the former Samoza Guard.
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Arrest Me, You Alabama Cowards
The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants. By Emily Atkin.
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San Francisco becomes the first US city to ban facial recognition by government agencies
In a first for a city in the United States, San Francisco has voted to ban its government agencies from using facial recognition technology. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted eight to one to approve the proposal, set to take effect in a month, that would bar city agencies, including law enforcement, from using the tool. The ordinance would also require city agencies to get board approval for their use of surveillance technology, and set up audits of surveillance tech already in use. Other cities have approved similar transparency measures.
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Governments are deploying spyware on killers, drug lords – and journalists
Sophisticated digital spyware such as Pegasus can turn cellphones into secret agents to take aim at advocates, lawyers, scientists, and the media – and these programs know no borders. By John Scott-Railton, Ronald J. Deibert.
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In re: Grand Jury Subpoena, Chelsea Manning, Subpoenaed Party. Declaration 19-1287-cv
My name is Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. I am competent to be a witness, and I possess personal knowledge of the facts set forth below... I’m not going to change my mind. Not now, not ever. So be it. [PDF]
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State
On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism… By Angelo Guisado.
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It’s Time for Saudi Arabia to Stop Exporting Extremism
Trump should not waste his opportunity to begin repairing Wahhabism’s trail of wreckage. By John Hannah.
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What if Iran Retaliates and Shuts Down the Strait of Hormuz?
Some 18 million barrels of oil transit through every day. The economic impact would be catastrophic. By Scott Ritter.
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An American Lab Test Abroad
Ireland’s cervical cancer scandal, and its underlying logic of profit-driven, privatized health care, has ramifications far beyond the country’s shores. By Erica X Eisen.
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Landmark UN Report to Show 'Transformational Change' Urgently Needed to Save Humanity and Natural World From Nightmarish Future
"Anyone who denies that we are in a human-induced extinction crisis is either lying or not paying attention." By Jon Queally.
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"When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system?"
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The Rehabilitation of Gina Haspel by the New York Times
Last week, the New York Times did its best to rehabilitate CIA director Gina Haspel, who was one of the agency’s leading proponents and players in the unconscionable policy of torture and abuse in CIA’s secret prisons. By Melvin Goodman.
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Did the CIA Orchestrate an Attack on the North Korean Embassy in Spain?
A Nation investigation reveals a Rashomon-like tale with conflicting truths. By Tim Shorrock.
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If Politicians Can’t Face Climate Change, Extinction Rebellion Will
A new movement is demanding solutions. They may just be in time to save the planet. By David Graeber.
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What are we there for?
It is a cliché that the United States and Britain are obsessed with Middle East oil, but the reason for the obsession is often misdiagnosed. By Tom Stevenson.
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Federal Judge Damon Keith, who authored landmark rulings on civil liberties, dies at 96
Keith decided cases on some of America's most controversial issues, from school desegregation to government surveillance of citizens
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Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America's defeat in Syria
After years covering the "main battlefield in World War III," Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong. By Patrick Lawrence.
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