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Paul Smith has served in the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the Russian invasion. He has been close to losing his life and says this war is much worse than what he experienced in Afghanistan.
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Author Peter Dale Scott, considered the father of Deep Politics, explains the influential role of the government’s highest-level emergency planning group in four of the biggest events in the last half-century of American history. Here’s how personnel from the “Doomsday Project,” as the Continuity of Government group is known, tie together JFK’s assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11.
As two courts are separately considering whether the “insurrection clause” of the 14th Amendment prevents Donald Trump from running for office, the former president referred to those convicted of January 6-related crimes as “hostages.”
In ‘The People v. Donald Trump,’ the former president is going to get a fair trial — but will “The People”? It’s a longshot.
The Fifth National Climate Assessment, released last month, warns of wide-ranging climate impacts throughout the United States. The implications for people and the environment in the Mississippi River basin are extreme, but experts stress that it is not too late to slow the worsening effects.
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Every crisis is connected. We must address the biodiversity crisis, the climate emergency, and poverty and injustice at the same time.
This activist’s package of controversial measures are rooted in Trump’s Big Lie. Do any of them make sense?
Long after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination — the event that sparked the term “conspiracy theory” — much remains unexplained, and secret. But news about it is still breaking.
In democracy, the people choose their leaders; in fascism, The Leader chooses his people.
Ukraine has more buried landmines, tripwires, and unexploded grenades than any other country in the world. US and British volunteers are helping to remove them.