While Vladimir Putin’s behavior has been objectionable, there is something profoundly hypocritical about the American elite pretending the U.S. doesn’t embrace people like the Russian leader all the time.
Reveal finds a second Phoenix office building where MVM Inc. detained immigrant children. An insurance executive says they bathed in bathroom sinks.
The defense contractor had previously said children were only there for short periods, while awaiting flights.
Some immigrant Army reservists and recruits who enlisted with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, The Associated Press has learned.
Mainstream voices never mention that regime change pushed by one country against another is illegal.
If we're not simply to survive this present crisis, we must confront the consolidation of executive power that brought us here.
Though new CIA Director Gina Haspel just made it through the vetting process on Capitol Hill, Hedges and "On Contact" guest Kiriakou are not about to drop the subject of the agency's recent history of torture, in which Haspel allegedly played a role.
After cancellation of the June 12 summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, there are signs that the meeting could get back on track as originally planned.
In 2004, Fatima Boudchar was kidnapped and held in a "black site" prison similar to the one run by Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director.
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