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Epstein: Blackmail?
“Other investigations have made it increasingly clear that Epstein was running a blackmail operation, as he had bugged the venues — whether at his New York mansion or Caribbean island getaway — with microphones and cameras to record the salacious interactions that transpired between his guests and the underage girls that Epstein exploited. Epstein appeared to have stored much of that blackmail in a safe on his private island.”
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More FBI Powers: Won’t Be White Supremacists Bearing Brunt
“A new domestic terrorism statute would allow the agency to investigate and prosecute far-right violence. But this approach is misguided — and dangerous.”
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No First Use: “It Makes the World Safer”
“Most Americans don’t want our nation to start a nuclear war; in fact, most Americans think we already have an official policy that we will never start a nuclear war. It’s time to make No First Use a reality.”
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Emmy-Winning Actor Takes Pro-BDS Stand in Hollywood
“Two of the creative executive producers of the new series, Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, are also the creator-producers of the Israeli Netflix series ‘Fauda,’ an action-adventure drama set in Israel and the Occupied Territories. I was aware that the show had been criticized for its portrayal of Palestinians and for its tendency to justify Israel’s human rights abuses.”
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“If Guns Made People Safer U.S. Would be Safest Country”
“The evidence is clear. If guns made a country safer, the U.S. would be the safest country in the industrialized world. But the opposite is true. Per capita, you are six times more likely to be murdered in the U.S. than in Australia, and 25 times more likely to be murdered with a gun.”
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Anti-Nuclear Activists Facing 25 Years in Prison Urge Dismissal of Charges
“A number of the activists’ supporters are planning to fast from August 6 through 9, the 74th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.”
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Petition Urges CNN to Add Progressive to Democratic Debate Panel
“By refusing to broaden its Democratic debate panels to include progressive journalists whose views better reflect the Democratic Party’s base, CNN is reminding everyone of this history of favoring unapologetic rightists over unapologetic leftists.”
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House Condemns Boycotts for Palestinian Rights
“All but one of the representatives who voted against the resolution are Democrats. They included a mix of longtime proponents of Palestinian rights such as Minnesota’s Betty McCollum, Indiana’s André Carson and Barbara Lee of California.”
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Questions for Mueller
Following are the questions; the article contains explanations about them: 1. “Why did you suggest that juvenile clickbait from a Russian troll farm was part of a “sweeping and systematic” Russian government interference effort? 2. “Are you still convinced that the GRU [Russian military intelligence] stole Democratic Party e-mails and transferred them to Wikileaks?
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Rowley on Ruling Against Mueller’s Anti-Russian Charges
“While Mueller has made clear his intention to not extrapolate beyond his report, Democrats hope pointed questions during testimony will offer new context that could deal a blow to Trump. Mueller was explicit that he cannot go beyond the exact words in the Report, but he actually can probably no longer do that.”
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn