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** Military seizing massive swaths of public lands at the border ([link removed])
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By Sam Carliner on May 27, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image The Trump administration has transferred thousands of acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to be controlled by the Department of Defense (DoD). The transfer is part of an ongoing expansion of the military’s presence along the border which the administration claims ([link removed]) is necessary to “control” illegal immigration.
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** Surprise: CIA link to sketchy Israeli aid scheme ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on May 26, 2025 11:35 am
Featured Image A former CIA officer who once headed American schemes to train right wing contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s has been working with the Israelis to hatch a new aid organization, call it "independent," and proceed to deploy it on the starving Gaza population with the assistance of foreign entities and U.S. security contractors, according to new reports.
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** Veterans: What we would say to Trump on this Memorial Day ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on May 26, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image This Memorial Day comes a month after the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, which was largely used to recall the collapse of the entire American project in Vietnam. In short, the failure of the war is now viewed as both a rebuke of the American Exceptionalism myth and the rigid Cold War mentality that had Washington in a vice grip for much of the 20th Century.
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** Bipartisan bill seeks to put arms sales lobbyists on ice for 3-years ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on May 22, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image President Donald Trump announced ([link removed]) some $200 billion in potential arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Qatar a week ago — this is huge potential business for major U.S. defense contractors like RTX, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Atomics, all of which deploy armies of lobbyists in Washington each year to influence such contracts.
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** Imposing 500% tariffs on nations that trade with Russia will backfire ([link removed])
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By Senator Rand Paul on May 21, 2025 11:54 am
Featured Image While tariffs make wars more likely, embargoes make wars difficult to avoid. Senator Lindsey Graham’s Sanctioning Russia Act calls for 500% tariffs on dozens of countries and essentially amounts to an embargo.
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** Here is why US troops may be in Iraq indefinitely ([link removed])
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By Tanya Goudsouzian on May 21, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image When Arab leaders arrived in Iraq last week for the Arab League Summit, they were greeted by a city determined to impress.
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