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The Israel lobby is trying to label October 7th the new Holocaust in order to criminalize any dissent from the mainstream account of that day.
Watch
@MaxBlumenthal
’s full interview on Scheer Intelligence here:
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@CornelWest
enters the U.S. presidential race and gives first interview to
@ChrisLynnHedges
“What is possible would never have been achieved if, in this world, people had not repeatedly reached for the impossible.”
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Chris Hedges is back, now on : "The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. . . . [They] can no longer claim the right to have a monopoly on violence."
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Gabor Maté explains to students at the University of Southern California the unfortunate reality of entering the workforce post-graduation: speaking truth often means sacrificing your career. Keeping your career often means sacrificing your authenticity.
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@DavidHundeyin
explains the real reason African countries are hesitant to involve themselves in opposing the Nigerien military junta: because the nations still very much remember the 2011 NATO-backed murder of Gaddafi, and the terror it spread throughout the region.
"The
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"American democracy has been steadily eroding since the Reagan administration, Hedges says, and if you think Donald Trump’s arrival on the political scene is what killed democracy you have not been paying attention."
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This
@ChrisLynnHedges
column on the latest news in the Assange case is a must-read for anyone worried about the future of journalism
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Chris Hedges: "The arrest of the reporter Richard Medhurst,...is part of the steady march towards the criminalization of journalism, something all of us, including Medhurst, understood lay at the heart of the long persecution of Julian Assange."
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"Guilty of Journalism" author
@kgosztola
joins Robert Scheer to talk about why Julian Assange's case is crucial to understanding the state of US journalism and government:
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"The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what anthropologists call crisis cults — movements led by demagogues..."
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Why does
@RayMcGovern
find the "crazy" idea that the US might nuke its way out of a Russian defeat plausible?
Because he says there are personal stakes in Ukraine for key figures in the Biden administration.
"History is replete with examples with people in power having
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The censorship industrial complex is now running interference for Israel’s genocide in Gaza by defaming journalists like
@MaxBlumenthal
, who exposed Israel’s slaughter of its own civilians on Oct. 7.
Full interview here:
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"I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding," writes Chris Hedges, "but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian."
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Barely literate and weighing less than 90 lbs, Lawrence Bell was 14 and a homeless orphan when cops pressured him to sign a confession to murder and rape charges despite the absence of physical evidence or witnesses. On Sunday, 30 years later, he was free.
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“We tried to dig through the history to see if a publisher has ever been charged for anything like Julian Assange has been accused of. And the answer is no. This is the first case in U.S. history of its kind."
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The CIA's invasive surveillance knows no boundaries — it will even turn family members against each other in pursuit of its own goals. CIA whistleblower
@JohnKiriakou
learned this from personal experience when he found out his own wife was spying on him for the agency.
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"Unless we investigate the roots of [the rage on display at the Capitol siege],the rupture of these social bonds, the deep betrayal, then these divisions and the rage that comes with it are only going to grow," Hedges tells Jimmy…
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"Kennedy has been marginalized by the mainstream media for 18 years...but I know him to be deeply honest, totally dedicated to his beliefs and willing to back them up with personal courage and scientific evidence."
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UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled in the 19th century, and why it meets the UN's definition of genocide.
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Is TikTok a US Deep State Front?
"We really have the best of both worlds for the U.S. government. They get to keep these private companies at arm's length, all the while filling their ranks with former State Department officials, former officials who worked at the White House or
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@MaxBlumenthal
hates the corporate media.
@TheGrayzoneNews
is an "anti-media organization" using journalism to break the corporate media monopoly.
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“This threat of extradition follows a decision by the Trump Administration to bring charges against Mr Assange relating to his role as a journalist and publisher in publishing evidence of war crimes, corruption and human rights abuses.”
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Daniel Ellsberg, courageous whistleblower, thoughtful activist and fierce advocate for government transparency, has died at 92.
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A statement from
@ChrisLynnHedges
on the attempted assassination on former President Trump.
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“It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,” - Brazilian President Lula da Silva
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"By designating WikiLeaks a spy outfit, the U.S. government has stacked the deck against Julian Assange and leveled an unprecedented threat against journalism"
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@thehill
They don't hate America. They hate what it has done and what it has become. They hate that it has never lived up to its promise or its promises. They hate that the American dream of hard work and upward mobility is a lie told to excuse the most exteme inequity and oppression.
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Chris Hedges reports on Assange hearlings: "A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice. The battle for Assange’s liberty has always been much more than the persecution of a publisher."
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In former CIA officer and presidential briefer,
@RayMcGovern
’s, “brief” to President Biden (played by ScheerPost founder, Robert Scheer), Ray had quite a reality check for the warmongering President:
The U.S. is not the most powerful country in the world anymore.
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“The world’s 10 richest men more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion at a rate of $15,000 per second, or $1.3 billion a day during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99% of humanity fall..."
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@aaronjmate
joins Robert Scheer to discuss the damning new Justice Department evidence that the Hillary Clinton campaign conspired to finance and promote the totally fraudulent “Steele Dossier" on this week's "Scheer Intelligence"
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"As of February 2022 we’re all meant to pretend that the concept of provocation is not a commonplace idea that everyone understands and learns about as children, but that 'provocation' is rather a nonsensical propaganda word that was invented by Putin..."
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 .
@RayMcGovern
debunks the State Dept. narrative that just $60 billion more in weapons for Ukraine will allow them to finally beat Russia...using President Obama's and Antony Blinken's OWN WORDS against them.
Watch the rest of McGovern's "brief" to President Biden (played
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American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.
Read more:
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Chris Hedges addresses the Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi.
"The concerted attacks on Taibbi are an example of how the walls are steadily closing in to impose an iron conformity, one more piece of our emergent corporate totalitarianism."
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The banking expert explains where the $700 bn in coronavirus stimulus money came from and where it went on this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence"
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@KitKlarenberg
breaks down the chilling Official Secrets Act and new National Security Bill – two pieces of U.K. legislation that effectively criminalize investigative journalism into government secrets.
"You can be prosecuted for wrongful possession of a [classified] document
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Joshua Schulte, former C.I.A. hacker, now whistleblower, languishes awaiting trial in a federal prison under inhumane conditions and almost nobody is paying attention.
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@MTracey
breaks down how Trump's anti-Ukraine funding stance was a fraud from the beginning. In fact, Trump never even took a position on the issue. Now, he has facilitated the passing of the largest military "aid" package to Ukraine ($60 billion) — demonstrating that he and
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“If the Home Secretary certifies the US request to extradite Julian Assange it will violate the prohibition against torture and set an alarming precedent for publishers and journalists around the world,” Amnesty International said.
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Lee Camp reports on a new study that looks into the survivors of police brutality. It turns out US cops try to kill way more people than they succeed at killing.
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Peter Mertens of the Workers’ Party of Belgium spoke to Stella Assange ahead of the four year anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of Julian Assange.
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British police detain and interrogate journalist
@KitKlarenberg
, targeting his work with
@TheGrayzoneNews
"Six plainclothes officers surrounded Klarenberg and explained he faced arrest if he refused to answer their questions and hand over his personal electronics. They refused
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There's one line in
@LeeCamp
's book that will stay with the "Scheer Intelligence" host forever
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Watch the full video on YouTube:
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In a historic vote on July 6, the German parliament voted in favour of a petition condemning “in the strongest possible terms the psychological torture of journalist Julian Assange and the associated attack on press freedom in Germany and Europe.”
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"We are paying a heavy social, political, and economic cost for our militarism. Washington watches passively as the U.S. rots, morally, politically, economically, and physically..."
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A Letter From Julian Assange to King Charles III.
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Lee Camp tells "Scheer Intelligence" listeners the incredible, little-known story of U.S taxpayer dollars sent to the Mideast during the so-called War on Terror
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Only on Scheerpost, a new CHRIS HEDGES tour de force: “How Corporate Tyranny Works” via
@Robert_Scheer
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Oakland has a cop, Sgt. Patrick Gonzales, who killed and paralyzed multiple people - including mistaken identity “suspects” running away - and brutalizes protesters. He has cost taxpayers $3.6M in payouts. He often makes $250K+ w/OT. DA + cop union protect him. How is this OK?
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"Kabir lives in the netherworld of America’s criminal caste system. He is branded for life as a felon ... He is denied public assistance, food stamps, public housing, the right to vote... He is one of America's tens of millions of second-class citizens."
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"The world is becoming increasingly split between two groups of governments who are becoming increasingly hostile toward each other, and... it's a bad sign when that happens. Especially in the age of nuclear weapons."
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Juan Cole breaks down how Israeli PM Netanyahu has assigned religious extremists, previously on the US State Dept. terrorism watch list, top positions in his cabinet.
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We are very proud to be able to pair
@mrfishcartoons
paired with
@ChrisLynnHedges
every other Monday.
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"Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies," writes Chris Hedges as he examines the Ukraine invasion.
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"I have a counterfeit $20 bill in my possession right now, given to me by my daughter," writes
@SiegelForTexas
as he further reflects on his white privilege in light of George Floyd's killing
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"You become fatalistic, you strive against a monolithic evil knowing that whatever you achieve is Pyrrhic, that the system flourishes despite your efforts. And yet, what binds you, what keeps you going, are these relationships."
@ChrisLynnHedges
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@RayMcGovern
recounts his role in getting the 1972 ABM Treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union passed — and how communication between the two superpowers saved the treaty from failure when the U.S. caught the Soviets cheating. Today, in the midst of the potentially nuclear
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BREAKING 🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸: Zone of Interest director, Jonathan Glazer, acknowledges the dehumanization of Palestinians in Gaza during his Oscar’s acceptance speech for Best International Feature Film.
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"The legal lynching of Julian, I fear, marks the official beginning of the corporate totalitarianism that will define our lives."
Read the latest from Chris Hedges:
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Musk has yet to reinstate the banished accounts of ScheerPost's Patrick Lawrence (
@thefloutist
), as well as journalist Kit Klarenberg, presumably for their foreign policy positions espoused on X.
Musk has also stated that "Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of
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@KitKlarenberg
breaks down Schedule 3 vs. Schedule 7 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019, and the dangerous precedent his detainment under Schedule 3 sets for a free press in the U.K.
“We are getting in the realm of the British government not only being in a
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Massive anti-genocide walkout by Harvard’s graduates at their commencement.
Among the slew of slogans the protestors chanted was “Let them walk!” referring to the 13 seniors who did not receive their diplomas for participating in pro-Palestinian protests.
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Chris Hedges and
@LeeCamp
discuss the devolvement of today's late night comedians into Democratic Party court jesters.
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"From banning books & letting prison libraries fall into decay to the intrusion of for-profit electronic reading services that inmates have to pay for, the assault on prisoners’ ability to read books while incarcerated is one of many calculated cruelties"
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@RayMcGovern
tells the story of his encounter with
@AndersonCooper
-- which showed McGovern how petrified the CNN anchor is of challenging the MIC, or as McGovern calls it, the MICIMATT, in any way shape or form on this week's episode of Scheer Intelligence.
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He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
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@JohnKiriakou
joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast to run back his story as the whistleblower who made one of the most insidious chapters of modern American history widely known.
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CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou comments on the legal case of five Guantanamo Bay torture victims and what its outcome could say about the US.
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"We absolutely have to deal with the way in which capitalism exploits us, and the way in which capitalism exploits Black people in particular," says
@DocMellyMel
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This special report hoped to make a list of all the editors' notes and retractions that would be needed because of the
#TwitterFiles
. The problem turned out to be too big to count
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"These elites have no intention of instituting anything more than cosmetic change. They refuse to ask the questions that matter because they do not want to hear the answers."
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First,
@samhusseini
held the world to account for its inaction against Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Now he asks the same of Congress for Joe Biden's unconstitutional bombings in Yemen:
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Tucker Carlson accused the NSA of spying on his personal communications when he tried to schedule an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
@anyaparampil
corroborates his story.
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@KitKlarenberg
@TheGrayzoneNews
"After five hours, the counter-terror police seemed to have run out of questions. They had, by this point, seized all Klarenberg’s electronic devices, forced him to provide unlock codes for his phone and tablet, taken his SD cards, and combed through thousands of his personal
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On Thursday, the House voted 269-144 for an amendment to the Department of State appropriations bill which “prohibits funds appropriated by this act to be made available for the State Department to cite statistics obtained from the Gaza Health Ministry.”
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"You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing…"
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Robert Scheer and
@kamaufranklin
talk Cop City, community organizing and misrepresentation in politics in this week's Scheer Intelligence podcast:
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges rejoins
@briebriejoy
to talk about his relationship with the Cornel West 2024 campaign, ballot access, strategy, RFK Jr. & more.
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🇵🇸🇮🇱Pro-Palestinian protestors confront attendees of White House Correspondents Dinner outside the event entrance.
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@briebriejoy
challenges Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA.) on right wing populism and her true establishment bona fides, pressing her on issues like taxing the rich, military spending, corporate contributions, and wealth inequality.
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“Since 1979, do you know how many times China has been at war with anybody? None. And we have stayed at war. . . . China has not wasted a single penny on war, and that’s why they’re ahead of us. In almost every way.”
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On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," the "Industrial Strength Denial" author takes examines eight of private industries’ most egregious crimes against humanity
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"There are at least four different aspects of our daily American lives that affect everything from how we think to where we live — not that anyone in corporate media would tell you so." Read
@LeeCamp
's latest original column at ScheerPost:
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@KitKlarenberg
covers a shocking and consequential story detailing how two of the 9/11 hijackers were recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation.
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Robert Scheer doesn't buy the idea that the Democratic Party is the path for systemic economic change. In fact, the Democrats have been necessary actors in its corporatization.
"Why do [people] think that the government is failing them? It’s because it is!"
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Watch the full interview on Rumble and YouTube:
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"Today, the top 10 percent of the richest people in the United States own almost 70 percent of the country’s total wealth. The top 1 percent control 32 percent of the wealth. The bottom 50 percent of the U.S. population hold 3 percent of all U.S. wealth."
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@Briebriejoy
and
@Ggreenwald
engage in a rare substantive debate regarding their critiques of the Twitter Files.
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The epic battle by the attorney to get Chevron to pay a $9.5 billion judgment he won in 2011 for its “mass industrial poisoning” of Indigenous Amazonian tribes is still ongoing
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.
@Jricole
describes how the Israelis have adopted the Nazi strategy of making their enemies stateless.
"The Nazis were right. Once you make people stateless and you deprive them of that position of having citizenship and passports and recognition, then you become gypsies, you
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As an employee at the Federal Reserve in 2011, three years after the dissolution of Lehman brothers, Segarra witnessed the results of banking deregulation firsthand
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"Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government."
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Why have the media been totally uninterested in the death of Jeffrey Epstein, and dismissed those who question its suspicious official narrative as “conspiracy theorists?”
@KitKlarenberg
offers multiple examples of the mainstream media’s total fear of getting to the bottom of
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