Month: February 2023

“Biden DOJ Backing Norfolk Southern in High Court Case” — by Jake Johnson

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Sept. 30, 2020: Presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigning by train. (Adam Schultz / Biden for President, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). If the ruling favors the railroad giant, Norfolk Southern could find it easier to block pending and future lawsuits, including those from the major derailment earlier this month in East Palestine, Ohio.

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“Revealed: The Israeli Hacking and Disinformation Team Meddling in Elections” — by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Carole Cadwalladr and Jason Burke

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‘Team Jorge’ unit exposed by undercover investigation
Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles
Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
Mastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential elections
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“Biden Nominee Dropped After ‘Israel Apartheid’ Comment” — By Julia Conley

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U.S. State Department in Washington, Feb. 13, 2023. (State Deptartment /Chuck Kennedy)
The withdrawal of James Cavallaro’s nomination to a human rights commission was decried by rights advocates as a clamp-down on criticism of the Israeli government’s violent policies in Palestine.
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“CIA Spied on Mexican Revolutionary Workers Party, Interfered in Union Elections and Collaborated With Anti-Union Thugs Who Broke Up Strike at Ford Cuautitlán Assembly Plant Thirty-Three Years Ago” — by Rob McKenzie

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A 1990 rally after the shooting at the Cuautitlán plant. [Source: indybay.org]
Growing strength of independent Mexican labor movement today draws on legacy of striking Ford workers.
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“GoFundMe Refusing to Fund Syria Relief Effort, Funding White Helmets” — Al Mayadeen

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GoFundMe is refusing to send aid to Syria over sanctions from the US Treasury despite the devastating earthquake that struck the country earlier in the week.
Many other prominent activists highlighted the fact that the West was not allowing Syria to receive funds after having funded terrorist organizations in the country

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“Earthquake Sets Off Criticism of US Sanctions on Syria” — by Peoples Dispatch

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The Syrian Arab Red Crescent demanded Western countries to lift sanctions on Syria to help with rescue and relief work, February 7, 2023. (Photo: SANA)
Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday
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