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Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Stop Further U.S. Ground Invasion of Syria

‘It is our constitutional duty as members of Congress to place a check on the executive branch in matters of war and peace.’ In response to the Pentagon’s deployment of about 400 American ground troops to Syria, U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is introducing a bill Friday that would block the Defense Department from putting any more Read More…

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Documents Reveal UK Involvement in Secret US Drone Campaign ‘Kill List’

‘These documents are the strongest evidence yet that the U.S. may be conducting its illegal, secret drone war from bases on British soil.’ The British military has been involved in selecting the targets of the United States’ secret drone campaign, new documents obtained by the U.K.-based rights group Reprieve revealed Sunday. According to the documents, personnel Read More…

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Filmmaker Faces 45 Years in Prison for Reporting on Dakota Access Protests

“They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist.” In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison—simply for reporting on the ongoing Indigenous protests against fossil fuel infrastructure. Schlosberg was arrested Read More…

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“Don’t Shoot Him:” Wife’s Cellphone Video of Fatal Police Shooting Released

“He doesn’t have a gun, he has a [traumatic brain injury], he’s not going to do anything to you guys, he just took his medicine,” Scott’s wife tells police in moments before shooting. Disturbing cellphone footage of the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, the 43-year-old black man whose death earlier this week in Read More…

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Pentagon Has No Idea Where Hundreds of Thousands of Guns Went in Iraq and Afghanistan

Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted for in DoD’s own records, watchdog discovers. The U.S. government has shipped over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11, according a new analysis by the U.K.-based watchdog Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), but the Pentagon is only Read More…