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    The Director of National Intelligence’s Hypocritical Annual Threat Assessment - DNI Avril Haines' Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intel Community is written in classic DC-establishment-ese but leaves room for plenty of policy inde...
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    Ramadan Brings No Relief for Yemen as Saudis Block Chairties and Turks Unleash Foreign Mercanaries - Just as it transferred mercenaries from Syria to the conflict zones in Libya and Azerbaijan, Turkey -- the financial and spiritual capital of the Muslim ...
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  • So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)
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  • Trivial Knot
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  • Socialist Alternative
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  • slacktivist
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  • WhatWouldJackDo
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    Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond - Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolst...
  • Debunking Christianity
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  • Progressives Chat
    Regarding Oscar and Chloé Zhao - Next Sunday, April 25, 2021, will be the 93rd Academy Awards for film achievements for the year 2020. I have mentioned, in previous years, that I don’t ...
  • Alas, a Blog
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    DNC Ramen - From the party that brought you DNC Dog Food, New Blue Money Detergent, Blue Box Chardonnay, and their Premier Donut Assortment now comes — DNC Ramen! Just...
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    MARLEY AMES: THE FEAST - Marley Ames searched the ground before him, taking carefully calculated steps to avoid ripping away the loosely hanging sole of his right shoe....
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  • Our Finite World
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  • DBC Green
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  • Save Buffalo Bayou
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  • Chicken Fried Politics
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  • Reveal
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  • New Progressive Alliance
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  • Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy
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  • nonsite.org
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  • The Socialist
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  • One People's Project
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