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“California ‘Poverty Penalty’ Fee Disproportionately Impacts Poor and Non-White Residents, Report Finds” — by Bob Eglko for/of The San Francisco Chronicle

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A California Highway Patrol officer stops a motorist for speeding along Interstate 405 on April 23, 2020, in Westminster, Calif. California charges a fee of up to $300 to people who miss deadlines for paying traffic tickets and other fines, though the fees often go uncollected, a new report found.
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“The Biden Administration says it Wants Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing Investigated, but it’s Hard to Take that Seriously” — by Michael Arria for Mondoweiss

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STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESPERSON NED PRICE SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ON FEBRUARY 2, 2021. (PHOTO: AP) The Biden administration says it wants an investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, but it stonewalls independent investigations of Israel at every turn.
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“PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of ‘Geophobes’” — by Patrick Lawrence A Special for Consortium News

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Amid rampant Russophobia and Sinophobia, America’s penchant for Cold-War “national character analysis” will — if left unchecked — lead the U.S. into deepest trouble. Sailors unfurling U.S. flag the size of an American football field for opening day ceremonies for the San Diego Padres football team, June 2015. (Joe Kane / Navy Visual News Service)
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“Israeli Weapon Seen Used by Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Unit Against Russia” — by Michael Starr for The Jerusalem Post

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© (photo credit: REUTERS/GLEB GARANICH)Members of Azov battalion attend a rally on the Volunteer Day honouring fighters, who joined the Ukrainian armed forces during a military conflict in the country
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“Pepe Escobar: On the Dawn of a New Global Financial System” — by Pepe Escobar for/of The Cradle

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The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.. Pepe Escobar interviews the Eurasia Economic Union’s Sergey Glazyev, a man in the eye of our current geopolitical and geo-economic hurricane.
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“’Al Qaeda Is on our Side’: How Obama-Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria” — by Aaron Mate from his Substack

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Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team’s second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.
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“NATO Expanding into Asia-Pacific to Militarily Encircle China as Well as Russia” — by Benjamin Norton

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While it wages a proxy war on Russia in Ukraine, the US-led NATO military alliance plans to encircle China and expand into the Asia-Pacific region, collaborating with Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. (South Korea’s first vice minister of foreign affairs at NATO headquarters in Brussels in October 2021)
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