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“Real Debt Trap: Sri Lanka Owes Vast Majority to West, NOT China” — by Benjamin Norton for Multipolarista

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Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary “Chinese debt traps” for the nation’s crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program.
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“CIA, FBI Computers Used for Wikipedia Edits” — by Randall Mikkeleson for Reuters

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A screenshot of Wikipedia.com, taken on August 16, 2007. People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program. REUTERS/www.wikipedia.com
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“Indian Boarding Schools Report Details Horror of Indigenous Dispossession and Genocide in U.S.” — by Albert Bender for People’s World

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A photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque shows a group of Indigenous students forced to attend the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe in the late 19th century. | Susan Montoya Bryan / AP
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“British Security State Collaborator Paul Mason’s War on ‘Rogue Academics’ Exposed” — Kit Klarenberg & David Miller

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In his covert assault on antiwar scholars, “left-wing” journalist and security state collaborator Paul Mason enlisted an academic snitch who knew his targets well.
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“Criminalizing Palestine Solidarity Activism in the UK” — Yara Hawari for Consortium (originally from Al-Shabaka)

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The British government has long tried to quell pro-Palestine activism, writes Yara Hawari. Recent maneuvers, however, mark a new era in state repression.
Nov. 4 2017: Protest in London demanding U.K. recognition of Palestine and end of British support for Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank and its brutal siege of Gaza. (Alisdare Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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