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UN Feigns Outrage Over Ghouta While Terrorist Rockets Rain Down on Damascus

Eva Bartlett breaks down the dizzying array of information surrounding the mounting humanitarian crisis in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. With accusations abound, parsing the reality on the ground is becoming more challenging by the day.

Eva Bartlett
By Eva Bartlett
UN Feigns Outrage Over Ghouta While Terrorist Rockets Rain Down on Damascus

Eva Bartlett breaks down the dizzying array of information surrounding the mounting humanitarian crisis in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. With accusations abound, parsing the reality on the ground is becoming more challenging by the day.

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Oxfam’s Sex Scandal: Haiti’s Latest Indignity at the Hands of Dogooders

Structurally speaking, NGOs are not accountable to the people they serve or the host governments. They are only accountable (and this story shows the limits of this) to their donors and countries of origin.

Mark Schuller
By Mark Schuller
Oxfam’s Sex Scandal: Haiti’s Latest Indignity at the Hands of Dogooders

Structurally speaking, NGOs are not accountable to the people they serve or the host governments. They are only accountable (and this story shows the limits of this) to their donors and countries of origin.

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Cindy Sheehan and the Women’s March on the Pentagon: A Movement, Not Just a Protest

Sheehan was taken aback by how some prominent organizers of the recent Women’s March were unwilling to express anti-war positions and argued for excluding the issue of peace entirely from the event and movement as a whole.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Cindy Sheehan and the Women’s March on the Pentagon: A Movement, Not Just a Protest

Sheehan was taken aback by how some prominent organizers of the recent Women’s March were unwilling to express anti-war positions and argued for excluding the issue of peace entirely from the event and movement as a whole.

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Operation Pacific Eagle: Duterte Falls in Line with US Plans for the Philippines

Whatever anti-imperialist intentions the notoriously zig-zag Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may have begun with, his natural affinity for the like-souled Trump has quickly brought him around to the traditional symbiosis with the U.S. and its use of his country for a regional launchpad.

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
Operation Pacific Eagle: Duterte Falls in Line with US Plans for the Philippines

Whatever anti-imperialist intentions the notoriously zig-zag Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may have begun with, his natural affinity for the like-souled Trump has quickly brought him around to the traditional symbiosis with the U.S. and its use of his country for a regional launchpad.

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Regime Change in Venezuela Failed, Is a Military Coup or Invasion Coming?

A military attack on Venezuela from its Colombian and Brazilian borders is not far fetched.

Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers
By Kevin Zeese
And Margaret Flowers
Regime Change in Venezuela Failed, Is a Military Coup or Invasion Coming?

A military attack on Venezuela from its Colombian and Brazilian borders is not far fetched.

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The Trial and Conviction of the Holy Land Foundation Five

Accusing Holy Land Foundation Five of “funding terrorism” required a great deal of creativity but also a collaboration between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
The Trial and Conviction of the Holy Land Foundation Five

Accusing Holy Land Foundation Five of “funding terrorism” required a great deal of creativity but also a collaboration between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

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US State Department Spent Over $1M in Iran to Exploit Unrest

Documents reveal ‘regime change’ aspirations were pursued under the cover of ‘democracy promotion’ programs.

Nafeez Ahmed
By Nafeez Ahmed
US State Department Spent Over $1M in Iran to Exploit Unrest

Documents reveal ‘regime change’ aspirations were pursued under the cover of ‘democracy promotion’ programs.

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