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Gina Haspel, Trump’s Pick for CIA Director, Ran a Black Site for Torture
Gina Haspel, directly involved in the most grotesque torture abuses, was nominated to lead the agency.
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Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
The war on terror framework continues to savage the world’s poorest civilians.
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Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful
The humanitarian horrors from this policy are obvious, but what comes next?
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Donald Trump Contradicts Himself, and Reality, at Press Conference
Trump's fury at the news media dominated his press conference, but several other matters of real importance were raised that are worth digesting.
Disinformation, Not Fake News, Got Trump Elected, and It Is Not Stopping
The "PizzaGate" hoax should be described as what it is: a disinformation operation intended to boost Donald Trump by tarnishing Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump’s Not Anti-War, He Just Wants the U.S. Military to Focus on Stealing Oil
Trump’s peacenik credentials are undermined by his vision of American troops as the muscle in a protection racket aimed at extorting oil from Iraq and Libya.
Federal Law Criminalizes Protesting Trump Now That He's Guarded by the Secret Service
The preemptive removal of two dozen black college students from a Trump rally in Georgia raised an obvious question: Why did a local police force apparently obey orders from the campaign to remove dissenters?