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Watch | The Black And Latino ‘Sacrifice Zones’ Of Hurricane Harvey

Houston’s lack of zoning and regulations maximized the impact of Hurricane Harvey, with “fence-line communities” deliberately put in harm’s way.

Emma Fiala
作者 Emma Fiala
Houston Sacrifice Zones

In this second installment of special coverage Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath, Abby Martin explores how the petrochemical industry dominates the city and why its low-income, Black and Latino areas are in the highest-risk areas for flooding and pollution, earning them the name “sacrifice zones.” Abby explores Houston’s unique lack of zoning and

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New Documents Show Extent Of Domestic Surveillance Under Executive Order 12333

Rights group warns Americans “exercising their legitimate free-expression rights” are at risk of “discriminatory” or “arbitrary” monitoring.

Julia Conley
作者 Julia Conley
A reflection of the Department of Homeland Security logo in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the watch and warning center of the Department of Homeland Security's secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Human Rights Watch is calling for a congressional inquiry into an executive order aimed at the warrantless monitoring of U.S. citizens and permanent residents after obtaining new documents that raise serious and troubling concerns about the extent of such surveillance. The human rights group used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain training

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Who Wrote The Balfour Declaration And Why: The World War I Connection

Evidence shows that Zionists pushed for the U.S. to enter World War I on Britain’s side as part of a deal to gain British support for their colonization of Palestine.

Alison Weir
作者 Alison Weir
Lord Balfour visits Hebrew University in Tel Aviv in April, 1925. (Photo: US Library of Congress)

Most analysts consider WWI a pointless conflict that resulted from diplomatic entanglements rather than some travesty of justice or aggression. Yet, it was catastrophic to a generation of Europeans, killing 14 million people.[i] The United States joined this unnecessary war a few years into the hostilities, costing many American lives, even

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Senators ‘Stunned’ To Learn US Has 1,000 Ground Troops In Niger

Senate Armed Services Committee members confirmed they had no idea that the U.S. had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside Niger.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, a carry team of soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), carry the transfer case during a casualty return for Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, of Lyons, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Oct. 5, 2017. U.S. and Niger forces were ambushed on Oct. 4 and Wright and three other soldiers were killed. (Pfc. Lane Hiser/U.S. Army via AP)

With Pentagon officials offering the first details on the Niger ambush incident, they also revealed details about the ongoing U.S. war in Niger, including the revelation that there is an ongoing U.S. war in Niger. Nobody seems to have known about it. Especially not those whose job it is to know. Senate Armed Services Committee members

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US Spent $350B On Climate Change Related Disaster Relief In Last Decade

Trump has repeatedly called climate change a hoax and withdrew the United States from the United Nations Paris climate agreement in June.

Matthew Renda
作者 Matthew Renda
Western Wildfires

A nonpartisan congressional investigative agency has released a report detailing the escalating costs of climate change-related weather events, and says the federal government must do more to grapple with fiscal problems caused by global shifts in climate. The Government Accountability Office used data from several federal agencies to estimate

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Palestinian Unity: Beyond Hamas And Fatah

For the Hamas-Fatah unity to become a true national unity, priorities would have to change entirely, where the interest of the Palestinian people – all of them, everywhere – would, once more, become paramount.

Ramzy Baroud
作者 Ramzy Baroud
From left to right in front row, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar, Head of Palestinian General Intelligence Majid Faraj, Head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and an Egyptian mediator hold their hands up during a meeting in Gaza City, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. (AP/Prime Minister Office)

The reconciliation agreement signed between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, in Cairo on October 12 was not a national unity accord – at least, not yet. For the latter to be achieved, the agreement would have to make the interests of the Palestinian people a priority, above factional agendas. The leadership crisis in Palestine is not

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