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Between the Lines: Congressional Report Finds US Sanctions to Blame for Venezuela Crisis

If the U.S. government’s propaganda is correct that the current crisis is due to Maduro’s mismanagement and corruption, then illegal and inhumane sanctions would not be needed to dislodge the “regime.”
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“The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian

In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power -- indeed they are instructed -- to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion.
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The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise

Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach.
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The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment

It’s a tangled web but the bottom line is that social-impact investing, given a big boost by the pandemic and the “Great Reset” planned in its wake, can be made to sound so good that it’s hard to conceive what a dangerous threat it poses: it only “works” by herding and caging.
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Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China

Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.
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Ramadan Brings No Relief for Yemen as Saudis Block Charities and Turks Unleash Foreign Mercanaries

Just as it transferred mercenaries from Syria to the conflict zones in Libya and Azerbaijan, Turkey -- the financial and spiritual capital of the Muslim Brotherhood -- is now doing the same in Yemen's oil-rich Marib.
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