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Argentina is Taking the World Cup Home from Qatar. Why Isn’t the U.S. Leaving?
The issue of U.S. bases and troops in Qatar and U.S. support for the Qatari government was supremely overlooked during reporting on the World Cup. If this was a World Cup ‘soaked in blood,’ as many rightly said, what does it mean that the U.S. government has been one of the Qatari government’s biggest backers for decades?
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Why Did FTX Spend So Much on Politicians?
“Money in politics today is a Category 5 hurricane. Just when you think you have finally absorbed the worst punch the storm has to offer, some other eddy comes blasting down. We have tried to pull together the many streams of political money from SBF, his senior associates, and all other employees of FTX, together with the executives of Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund that SBF had co-founded.”
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Is Medicare Advantage Worthless?
By 2018, Medicare Advantage was not providing “meaningful health advantages” for people experiencing heart attacks compared to traditional Medicare.
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After the World Cup, the U.S. Isn’t Leaving Qatar
With all the outrage over Qatar’s hosting of the World Cup given the ruling regime’s human rights record, few have asked why the U.S. government has been such a supporter of that very regime for decades. https://accuracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/base-nation-200×300.jpeg” alt=”” width=”200″ height=”auto” />
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U.S.-Africa Summit
The Black Alliance for Peace “has launched an anti-imperialist week of actions in Washington to raise public awareness about the cynical intentions of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit by the State Department.
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Will Congress Finally Stop U.S. Support for Saudi’s War in Yemen?
The group signed a letter along with 105 other organizations recently in support of the Sanders legislation: “March 26th, 2022, marked the start of the eighth year of the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen, which has helped cause the deaths of nearly half a million people and pushed millions more to the edge of starvation.
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Big Pharma’s Big-Money Business Model for the Pandemic
Fresh analysis from the New Institute for Economic Thinking finds that drug prices will remain out of reach for Americans until pharmaceutical companies sever executive pay from stock price performance and the companies are banned from stock buybacks.
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Nobel Peace Prize Purpose: Ending War or Taking Sides?
PBS reports: “Ukrainian Nobel Peace Pri…
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Nursing Home Deaths Remain High
Nursing home deaths have remained high while older Amercians’ rates of receiving Covid boosters have been lower than expected.
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Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Congress Giving it Billions More
Congress stands ready to give a big raise to an agency that failed to account for more than 60 percent of its assets.
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