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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“Trump Against Empire: is That Why They Hate Him?” — by Christian Parenti

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Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why US intelligence intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections.
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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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