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Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, left, walks into the West Wing of the White House in Washington escorted by Mark E. Walsh, center, Deputy Chief of Protocol, Friday, June 17, 2016.

Saudia Arabia’s Conspicuous Absence In Trump’s Anti-Terror Sweep

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SEAL Team 6 Raid In Yemen Kills 57, Including Woman And Children

The raid reportedly lasted less than an hour, and left a large number of women and children riddled with bullets, including at least one eight-year-old girl.

Jason Ditz
Por Jason Ditz
Donald Trump military spending

(REPORT) ---  Pentagon officials confirmed that Navy SEAL Team 6 attacked what they described as an “al-Qaeda headquarters” in Yemen’s central Bayda Province, bragging of killing “about 14” al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and taking a cache of information. They reported a single soldier killed. Absent from the Pentagon’s account of

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German Ambassador 1933: Hostility To Jews Aimed Mainly At ‘Immigrants’

The Trump regime’s exclusion or expulsion of refugees without regard to the danger awaiting them on their return to their point of origin has some resemblance to this Nazi callousness in expelling stateless people who had nowhere to go and who lacked proper passports, having only a laissez-passer from Geneva.

Juan Cole
Por Juan Cole
Expulsion from Reichsgau Wartheland. Poles are led to trains under German army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the German Reich following the invasion. (Photo: Wikipedia / Wilhelm Holtfreter / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Here are two newspaper articles from spring, 1933. They concern the issue of early Nazi policy toward Germany’s Jews. In the first, the German ambassador to the UK maintains that the issue isn’t Jews but Immigrants. In the second, it is clear that only a few weeks later German Jews with citizenship were nevertheless being forced out. Those Jewish

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Trump Appoints Bannon To National Security Council, Removes Intelligence Officials

‘To reiterate, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been removed from the National Security Council and replaced with a white nationalist. Worry.’

Nadia Prupis
Por Nadia Prupis
Stephen Bannon, campaign CEO for Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, looks on as Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016, in Denver. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump signed memorandums on Saturday that kicked the nation's top military and intelligence advisers off the National Security Council's (NSC) Principals Committee and elevated his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, in their place. The memorandum gives Bannon, former executive chair of the rightwing website Breitbart News, a

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Trump’s Muslim Ban Is A Grotesque Product Of Fear And Prejudice

“Donald Trump is plunging the lives of first and second generation Americans into disarray and uncertainty.”

Kevin Gosztola
Por Kevin Gosztola
Protesters rally against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. (ANALYSIS) --- President Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively lays a strong foundation for instituting a ban against Muslims, as he pledged to do during his presidential campaign. The executive order asserts hundreds of foreign-born individuals were convicted or implicated in

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In Trump’s Executive Order, Foundation For A Muslim Ban Has Been Set

“Donald Trump is plunging the lives of first and second generation Americans into disarray and uncertainty.”

Kevin Gosztola
Por Kevin Gosztola
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on 'extreme vetting' during an event at the Pentagon in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. (ANALYSIS) --- President Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively lays a strong foundation for instituting a ban against Muslims, as he pledged to do during his presidential campaign. The executive order asserts hundreds of foreign-born individuals convicted or implicated in

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California Wins Right To Label Monsanto Roundup With Cancer Warning

California would be the first state to order such labeling if it carries out the proposal.

Associated Press
Por Associated Press
Containers of Roundup, left, a weed killer is seen on a shelf with other products for sale at a hardware store in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. (AP/Reed Saxon)

FRESNO, Calif. (REPORT) — California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chemical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge tentatively ruled Friday. California would be the first state to order such labeling if it carries out the proposal. Monsanto had

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