Month: March 2023

“JOHN KIRIAKOU: US Solitary Confinement” — by John Kiriakou

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Guard towers at Corcoran State Prison, California. (Steve Rhodes/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Most states have at least considered initiatives to do away with, or to reduce the use of, isolation in their prison systems, according to the latest major report on the subject. But there’s bad news too.
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“US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End” — M.K. Bhadrakumar

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U.S. soldier in a patrol area outside Manbij in northern Syria, June 26, 2018. (U.S. Army/Timothy R. Koster. Washington is worried about a peace between Damascus and its estranged Arab neighbors — as well as Turkey — that is marginalizing the U.S. and its allies, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
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“State Department Human Rights Report Whitewashes Shireen Abu Akleh Killing” — Michael Arria

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The State Department’s annual human rights report accepts Israel’s dubious story on Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing.
PALESTINIAN ARTISTS PAINT A MURAL IN HONOUR OF SLAIN VETERAN AL-JAZEERA JOURNALIST SHIREEN ABU AKLEH IN GAZA CITY ON MAY 12, 2022. – ABU AKLEH, WHO WAS SHOT DEAD ON MAY 11, 2022 WHILE COVERING A RAID IN THE ISRAELI-OCCUPIED WEST BANK, WAS AMONG ARAB MEDIA’S MOST PROMINENT FIGURES AND WIDELY HAILED FOR HER BRAVERY AND PROFESSIONALISM. PHOTO BY ASHRAF AMRA
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“SCOTT RITTER: G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races (BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP- Adjusted Global GDP) — by Scott Ritter

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G7 leaders meeting on June 28, 2022, at Schloss Elmau in Krün, Germany. (White House/Adam Schultz). An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report has found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.
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“PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Stormy Deep State” — by Patrick Lawrence

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump at a “rally to protect elections” in Phoenix, July 2021. (Gage Skidmore /The Star News Network, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons). We keep coming face-to-face with the wreckage of the Russiagate years, when the 45th president threatened the national security apparatus for, possibly, the first time since Kennedy fired Allen Dulles as C.I.A. director in 1961.
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