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WikiLeaks: Google & Al-Jazeera Encouraged Civil War In Syria

Together with Al-Jazeera, Google developed a tool to track defections in Syria, hoping to encourage more former Assad allies to join the civil war.

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FILE - In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 file photo, a man carries a boy who was severely wounded during heavy fighting between Syrian rebels and Syrian Army forces in Idlib, north Syria. More than two years into Syria's civil war, the once highly-centralized authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and judicial system. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

MENLO PARK, California --- Tech giant Google collaborated with Al-Jazeera to develop an interactive online tool to encourage defections during the Syrian civil war, according to emails in WikiLeaks’ archive of Hillary Clinton’s emails. “Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool on Sunday that will publicly track and map

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‘Pinkwashing’ For A Cure?: Pink Ribbons Appear On Police Handcuffs, NFL Helmets And Fracking Drill Bits

In October, stores are full of pink-labelled products that do more to build up corporate bottom lines than advance cancer treatment or boost research budgets.

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MINNEAPOLIS --- Each October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a massive campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer by putting pink ribbons and pink coloring on dozens of products. By buying these products, consumers believe, some portion of their spending will be funneled into research and treatment initiatives. Yet critics of

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‘They Accept Us as We Are;’ Christians Join Forces With Muslim Group Hezbollah to Fight ISIS in Lebanon

«We’re in a very dangerous situation,» said Rifit Nasrallah, a Catholic businessman. «The only people who are protecting us are the resistance of Hezbollah. The only one standing with the army is Hezbollah. Let’s not hide it anymore.»

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Christian Post -- The Iran-backed Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah, classified for many years by U.S. Intelligence as a terrorist organization, is training Christians to fight ISIS in Lebanon and the Middle Eastern believers say their new and unlikely allies "accept us as we are." Citing Lebanese sources, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin says

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Factcheck: 4 Mainstream Media Lies On Russian Airstrikes In Syria In 2 Minutes

As Russia began air striking ISIS strongholds where US military has failed, American media didn’t waste any opportunity to blatantly lie and fabricate information about Russian airstrikes in Syria, including posting old photos of Syrian casualties blaming them on new Russian military action.

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5 US Government Conspiracy Theories That Were Totally Real

From poisoning drinkers during Prohibition to deliberately allowing syphilis to ravage the minds and bodies of black men for 40 years, the U.S. government has targeted the citizens it’s meant to govern and protect on more than one occasion.

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MINNEAPOLIS --- While it can be easy to dismiss some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories floating around on the Internet, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that the U.S. government has conspired against its own citizens on more than one occasion. It’s well known that the U.S. government has targeted its own citizens for

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A Group Of Chicago ‘Israelites’ Fought For Acceptance From The Israeli Government

It took decades for this group to receive acceptance in Israel, and their oppression contributed to Israel’s policy of racial profiling against black visitors to the country.

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DIMONA, Israel --- In the 1960s, as black Americans struggled for civil rights and a stronger sense of cultural identity, some turned to the Torah and the Bible, and what they believed was their ancestral home in modern-day Israel. Today, a few thousand of these Hebrew Israelites live there, where they continue to struggle for acceptance and

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Rogue States and Diplomacy: a Conversation With Noam Chomsky

Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky discuss the Iran nuclear deal: There seems to be little evidence that the Iranians would ever use nuclear weapons. In 2005, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a fatwa (decree) against nuclear weapons. Why is there this belief that the Iranians are eager almost to use their non-existent nuclear weapons?

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Noam Chomsky arrives to a conference at the Islamic University in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 20 , 2012. Photo: Hatem Moussa/AP

  On September 2, the United States’ support for the Iran nuclear deal was secured. President Barack Obama’s team negotiated the deal along with other countries of the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Germany). The Republicans in the U.S. Congress had threatened to pass a resolution that would block Obama’s

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