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Part II – Western Capital’s Long Chinese Mission: From Opium to COVID Vaccine Credentials

We examine the virtually unbroken history between American power-brokers and the highest echelons of power in China -- a history that harkens back to the earliest days of capitalism, slavery, and the opium trade.
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A Good Start: Minnesota’s Return of Dakota Land Makes Space for Healing

While most Native communities in Minnesota, such as the Ojibwe and others fighting pipeline projects through their land recognize that their fight for sovereignty is far from over, the land transfer to the Lower Sioux is a good, if small start in countering centuries of whitewashed history.
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Saturday Night Live Controversy Hides Greater Issues Around Israeli Apartheid

“The real joke here is how this extremely obvious reality is taboo and calling any attention to it is subject to a massive pressure campaign when the real pressure campaign should be against Apartheid, not those calling attention to it.”
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Former US Ambassador Claims He Never Met Navalny but Unearthed Photo Shows Otherwise

As with so much in the world of spies and diplomacy, the public never has all the information. and the latest piece in the Navalny mystery underlines the point that few people are telling the truth all of the time.
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Facebook: Genocide is Cool but Don’t Threaten our Profits

"Facebook’s willingness to block credible news sources also stands in sharp distinction to the company’s poor track record in addressing the spread of hateful content and disinformation on the platform.” -- Tim O’Connor, Amnesty International Australia
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As Macron Courts the Far-Right, France Launches Crackdown on “Islamo-Leftism”

Islamo-leftism is a label coined by the far-right, with many pointing out the distinct similarities between it and “Judeo-Bolshevism,” a term created by German Nazis linking religion with a set of political beliefs. Yet it has quickly been taken up by many in France's political center.
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Prisons Prime Testing Ground for Dehumanizing Hi-Tech “Advances”

A new form of exploitation, known as “stakeholder capitalism,” is already being tested in many places around the world and prisons are among the main targets for its implementation, as they provide an ideal and literally captive market for its proof of concept. 
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