“Children are being targeted and exposed to attacks and brutal violence in their homes, schools, and playgrounds.”
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National Archives: US and UK Planned to Attack Iraqi Forces After 1991 Gulf War
Newly declassified documents from Britain’s National Archives have revealed internal discussions and planning between the American and British Governments on prolonging the 1991 war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Read More »Star Wars Boondoggle Again? Congress Seeks to Revive Space Missile Defense
As the US Congress contemplates reviving a Cold War-era program of putting ballistic-missile interceptors in space, scientists have lambasted the idea as impractical at best, and life-threatening at least.
Read More »Spooks for Hire: UAE Recruits ex-CIA Agents to Build Modern Spy Agency
The United Arab Emirates is pulling out all the stops to develop its own modern and professional intelligence service modeled on Western counterparts. Former agents in Western intelligence agencies are finding it hard to turn down the lucrative propositions.
Read More »World Repudiates US Over Jerusalem Despite Haley’s Pre-Vote Bullying and ‘Temper Tantrum’ on UN Stage
Despite U.S. threats, the U.N. voted 128-9 to declare Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital “null and void”.
Read More »Trump turning US into ‘world champion of extreme inequality’, UN envoy warns
The United Nations monitor on poverty and human rights has issued a devastating report on the condition of America, accusing Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress of attempting to turn the country into the “world champion of extreme inequality”.
Read More »A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
Philp Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has spent 10 days touring America. This is the introduction to his report
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