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NEW ARTICLE: Closing the Door on Solitary Confinement by Senator Randolph Bracy III
Algerian Protestors Target Army Chief of Staff Lebanon Marks Assassination Anniversary of Former President Elect PM: Kashmir Muslims Being Cleansed by Indian Policy Deutsche Bank Join JPMorgan Led Blockchain Network IMF Likely to Withold Argentina Billions Until Policy Fog Lifts Colombia Threatens to Label Cuba as Terrorism Supporter Maduro Wants Opposition Leader Arrested for Photos With Colombian Drug Lords Will Brazil Leave Mercosur Trade Bloc? Kenya's Ultra-Rich No Match for African Peers Bezos-Owned Business Slashes Medical Benefits for Wholesale Foods Workers Renowned Israeli Designer Caught Up in Epstein Donations Scandal Venezuelan Opposition Leader Caught Taking Pictures With Colombian Drug Gang Members Colombian Foreign Minister Sued & In Trouble Over Alleged Drug Gang Links Nicaraguan Group Says 17 Government Opponents Murdered by Death Squads [Washington Post] EU Gives Colombia Aid for Venezuelan Migrants Paraguay Police Search for More Bodies in Former Dictator's House Paraguay May Strengthen Military After Alleged Drug Lord Escapes Brazil Embassy Censors Movie on Musician Chico Buarque Brexit: A Movement for the Super-Rich by the Super-Rich South African Authorities Seek Murder Suspects With Links to Rwandan Government Richer Americans Live Longer Than Poor & Middle Class Segments of Society UK Ambivalence: Britain's Tiring of Brexit Israel & UK Conduct Historic Joint Exercise in Skies Alongside German, Italian & US Planes Joint Inter-Agency Task Force South Encourages Inter-Agency Cooperation Against Organised Crime Chief of Panama Canal Highlights Protectionism Affecting Trade Flows Paraguay Investigates Human Remains Found on Ex-Dictator's Former Property Second Mayoral Candidate Assassinated in a Week in Colombia Guatemala Declares State of Emergency After Soldier Ambush Recruitment Drive by Indian Army in Kashmir & Jammu Prince Andrew Flew on Epstein's Private Jet After Billionaire Was Arrested for Trafficking Underage Girls China's Meteorite Hunters - Trying to Get Rich From Space-Rocks Joint Chief of Staff: Countries Attempting to Contest U.S. Space Supremacy Spain's Super-Rich Grows by 74% Since 2011 Majority of Canadians Believe Their Society is Broken Political Divides Deepening in Thailand Black Eagles Paramilitary Squad Threatens Teachers' Union in Colombia How the 5 Richest People in Singapore Made Their Fortune Israeli & Turkish Arms Links With Private Companies Russian Arms Making a Killing on the Market Is Attendance of U.S. Universities the New Status Symbol of Britain's Young & Wealthy? Rising 'Class Tensions' Across Indonesia Trigger Protests Ecuador: Government Raids Jeopardize Right to Fair Trial for Privacy Activist Study: You Don't Need a Lot of Money to be Happy as Long as You're Richer Than Your Friends Mexican Cartel Forces Gas Stations to Refuse Military Vehicles THROWBACK: Why Did the U.S. Pay Former Swiss Banker $104 Million? Russia & India Vow Closer Arms Support Chile's President Announces Water Crisis Team Amid Serious Drought American-Canadian Billionaire Wins Rights to Iron Ore Project in Guinea Vulture Funds Encircle Argentina Waiting For Moment to Buy Peru Developing $30 Billion Infrastructure Project Israel Arms to India Strategic Partnership Continues UK Police Accused of Acting Illegally After Arresting Quakers Colombian Bishop Decries Brutal Assassination of Mayoral Candidate Top AUC Paramilitary Leader Claims He'll Unmask Private Sector & Military Commanders Implicated in War Crimes Nicaraguan General Says N.G.Os Pushed for Coup Peru Government Considers Taking on $1 Billion Petroperu Debt UK: South Wales Police's Use of Facial Recognition Technology Deemed Lawful UK Ministry of Defence Plans to Destroy 156,000 Documents Rather Than Hand Them to the National Archives U.S. Attorney General to Decide if Key Name in 9/11 Case to be Kept State Secret Chinese Property Tycoon Arrested As Authorities Clamp Down on P2P Industry U.N. Backed Body That Exposed Corruption in Guatemala to Close its Doors Venezuela Presents Evidence of Colombia Training Paramilitary Opposition Robert Kennedy's Assassin Stabbed in Prison 10 Richest Family Dynasties in U.S. History Kalashnikov Factory To Open in Venezuela in 2021 Billionaire Czech PM is Cleared of Fraud Charges Germany & Norway Halt Brazil Aid Funding Over Amazon Policies String of Paramilitary Style Assaults Across Londonderry Raise Concern Claims Chinese Billionaire Offered to Deliver Bags of Cash to Political Party-HQ Evolution of Italy's Five-Star Movement Sees it Join So-Called Establishment Australian Bureau of Statistics Drops References to Wealth Inequality & Hardest Hit Poor to Craft 'Good Story' The IMF is Hurting Countries it Claims to Help as Ecuador Moves May Increase Poverty & Unemployment Epstein's Victims: They Have Been Denied Justice After His Death US-Colombia Action Plan Conference for Regional Security Held in Medellin Philippine National Police Conduct Counter-Insurgency Training with Army Military-Centric Approach to Counter-Terrorism in Nigeria is Slammed Will Germany Implement a Serious Wealth Tax on the Rich? Bloomberg: Hong Kong's Protests Hit Billionaire Class Saudi Prince in U.S. for Yemen Talks Peru to Sell Off 15 Percent of State Oil Firm to Private Investors Archaeologists in Peru Discover 227 Sacrificed Children UK: Police Called to Protest Against Arms Sales Why Florida's Marijuana Business Is Unfair Chechen War Veteran Assassinated in Berlin Park After Several Previous Failed Attempts [The Times] Another Journalist is Added to Mexico Death Toll Are the New Crypto-Rich Beginning to Influence World-Wide Scientific Research Such as Cryogenics? Nigerian Army Says it Will Change Strategy Against Boko Haram & Denies Troop Withdrawal Is Globalisation Done For? Bolivian Mine Workers Strike Against Japanese Corporate Behemoth Who Are the Koch Family & How Rich Are They? What Does Being Wealthy Mean? Rich Habits Researcher Asks 233 of the Wealthiest Oxfam to Protest Inequality at G7 Summit Could a Wealth Tax Lessen Inequality? How the 'Gig' Economy is Re-Shaping Workers' Rights Trump Considering Cuts to Medicare & Social Security After $1.5 Trillion in Tax Cuts to the Rich Amazon Removes Clothing Depicting Heinous Execution of Jews in WWII Indian Army Chief to Get 3 Year Extension India May Exempt Foreigners from Super-Rich Tax UK Civil Rights Organisation Lose Legal Battle Against Mass Surveillance Mexican Families Search for the Remains of Their Loved Ones |
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Council on Foreign Relations Director Caught Hob-Nobbing at Jeffrey Epstein Function Showing Epstein's Entwinement With U.S. Upper Class Are Deported U.S. Military Veterans Joining the Cartels? More Repression Hits Bolivia As State Violently Cracks Down Colombia Unrest Against Neoliberal Exploitation Leads to 7000 Troops to Bogota Colombia: 3 Police Officers Killed in Bombing Mirroring Algeria Fight Against Colonialism Leaked Audio of Colombian Officials Exposes Failure of U.S. Coup Operation in Venezuela EPIC Contributor & Florida Senator Bracy Announces Bill That Would Prohibit Discrimination Against Natural Hair-Styles Polls Open for Uruguayan Elections Venezuela to Back its Cryptocurrency Petro Dollar with 30 Million Barrels of Oil on Reserve Launch of Egypt's 1st Communication Satellite into Space Postponed Former Brazil President Seeks to Make Life 'Hell' For Those Who Put Him in Prison Guyana-Exxon Oil Deal - 'Anything Better Would be Free Oil' 15 Richest NHL Owner Billionaires & How They Made Their Wealth Fragile Truce As War-Time Issues Remain Between Japan & South Korea U.K. Tory Billionaire Boys Club - Brits Who Bankrolled Party's £52 Million Wales: Here Are Some of the U.K.'s Richest Inhabitants Brazil Seeks to Arrest Former Paraguayan President Man Arrested in Malta Money Laundering Case Claims to Have Information on Journalist Assassination Mastermind Colombian President Becomes TV Show Host Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office Raided by Inspector General's Office Indigenous Guatemalans Organise to Protest Bolivia Coup Hundreds Killed in Bangladesh Drugs Crackdown The Operation Condor of Asia: Philippines Considers Sharing Intelligence With China to Continue Drugs Crackdown Bloomberg Launches $100 Million Ad Campaign Against President Trump Yorkshire, UK: Farm Tenants' Delight at David Versus Goliath Legal Victory Against Aristocratic Elites Bill Gates Worries That He Might "Have to do a Little Math" Over His Share of Paying Taxes if They Increase Further Could Death Squads Come Back to Sri Lanka? Morales Wants U.N. Mediation in Bolivia Archaeologists in Ecuador Discover Ancient Babies Wearing Helmets Fashioned from Human Skulls 3 Arrests Made in Latvia in Relation to Alleged Africa Weapons Dirty Deals Another Paramilitary Assault in Northern Ireland Pelosi Says New North American Trade Deal Equivalent is Imminent Despondency Grows in Zimbabwe China Could Reward Soldiers in Cryptocurrency China Re-Opens Markets to U.S. Poultry U.S. Extradition of UK Billionaire Sought After Claims of Fraud by HP Chilean Protestors Blinded by Police Pellet Guns Guatemalan Banker Accused of Taking Bribes to Move Drugs Profits Between Central America & The United States, After Implicated Ex-Presidential Candidate Takes Part in Sting Guatemalan Congress Votes to Cut Sentences for Corruption by as Much as 50% Where Crime Admitted Guatemala's President Elect Wades in on Israeli Issue Former Venezuela Military Intelligence Chief Evades Arrest in Spain Historical U.S. Intervention in Central America Should Not be Ignored United States & Colombia Meet to Discuss 'Extradition & Legal Assistance Matters' Brazil's "Most Trustworthy" President Bolsonaro Says He Was Unaware of Plans to Storm Venezuela Embassy in Brasilia 'Christian' Fascist Millionaire With Foreign Support Leads Bolivia Coup Bolivia Seeks New Leader As Morales Reaches 'Safe' Mexico Morales Says He Fled as Life Was At Risk Government of Nicaragua Denounces Bolivia Coup Power Vacuum After Bolivia's Morales Steps Down Amid Unrest Chile Says Will Re-Write Pinochet-Era Constitution Israeli-American Power Ranger-Fame Billionaire Raises Millions for Israeli Defence Forces Amazon's Jeff Bezos Keen to Buy NFL Team Bezos Reportedly Asked Billionaire Bloomberg to Run For President in 2020 Mexico: Arrests Made After Assassination of 3 Mothers & 6 Children Bolivia: Protestors Cover in Red Paint & Cut Off Hair of Mayor After Reports Civilians Killed OAS Audit of Bolivia's 'Disputed' Election Results to be Released Next Week Intriguing U.S. Trail of the Man Who Spied on Julian Assange Former Peruvian President Who Presided Over Brutal Dictatorship Moved From Prison to Hospital Unprotected Police Officer Involved in El Chapo's Son Arrest is Assassinated Major Regional Trade Deal Faces Difficulty After India Pulls Out U.S.'s Witholding of Aid for Defence Matters Against Humanitarian Law? Elizabeth Warren's Billionaire Backers to be (Slightly) Affected by Proposed Tax Cuts China Lifts Bitcoin Ban & Wants to Dominate Currency Bitcoin Robber Could Face 10 Years in Prison for Armed Robbery Google to Build New Data Centre in Uruguay Human Rights Reports Alleged Atrocities by CIA Trained Afghan Paramilitaries Afghanistan: University Lecturer Assassinated by Hit Squad Pro-Beijing Lawmaker Stabbed in Assassination Attempt Blackstone Billionaire Made Multiple Trade Trips to China Speaks Out Billionaire Diamond Tycoon Attacked in Prison in 'Extortion Attempt' Venezuela Slashes Debts to Russia Trump Sanctions 5 Venezuela Officials Humanitarian Chief Concludes Venezuela Visit Billionaires Pretend to be Afraid of Regular Elite Foundation Speaker Elizabeth Warren Paramilitary Violence in Northern Ireland Still Huge Concern Chile's Pinera Fires Economic Ministers After Major Protests Czech Republic's Richest Man Petr Kellner Buys Up Important Central European Media for $2.1 Billion South Africa: Whistleblower Shot in Assassination Attempt After Exposing Political Corruption U.K.'s Secret Military Unit Answering to Saudi Commanders & Contributing Towards Internal Security Morales Rejects 'Negotiation' After Win 1 Million Join Peaceful March in Chile for Serious Reform Mexico: 40 Skulls Recovered in Police Raid on Suspected Cartel 'Den' Britain's Jeremy Corbyn Stands by Ordinary People in Latin America & Condemns Chile Police Repression Nigerian Army Calling for More Air Power Spending in Counter-Insurgency Battle Student in Colombia Murdered for Fighting Against the Privatisation of Public Education Evo Morales Officially Declared Winner in Bolivia Elections Ex-Head of Philippines Police Faces Drugs Charges for Allegedly Selling Confiscated Goods Yet Another Former FARC Member Assassinated - This Time Inside Reintegration Camp Arrogant Billionaire, Soros, Puts Big Money Behind Another District Attorney Candidate to Influence Politics Jeff Bezos No Longer World's Richest Man After Costly Divorce Mexico's Avocado Boom Attracts Cartel Attention Judge Frees Suspected Cartel Members in Mexico Dutch-Bosnian Cartel Launders Money Through Big Banks & Suspect Transactions Pass Unchecked Opposition Rising Against U.S. Backed Honduran Leadership Mired in Drug Cartel Dirty Business Mexico: 120 Police Officers Investigated for Collusion with Drug Cartel USAID Diverting Millions of Dollars to Venezeulan Coup Attempt Leaders Will Being 'Softer' on the Rich Help Elizabeth Warren Win Presidency? Australian Young Rich List Wealth Doubles New York Hedge Fund Billionaire to Buy U.S.'s Most Expensive House Samsung Aire Received Grilling from Judge in Bribery Trial 11+ Dead in Chile Cost of Living Protests Chile's President Pinera Says the Country is 'At War' & People Should Choose Sides U.S. Gives Chevron & Four Other Oil Companies Permission to Continue Work in Venezuela Despite Sanctions ExxonMobil-Led Consortium to Begin First Off-Shore Oil Project in Guyana Terrifying Facebook 'Libra' Cryptocurrency Plan to Replace World Currency UNICEF Fund Manager: Cryptocurrency Could Revolutionise Humanitarian Aid China's Wealthy Outnumber American Rich for First Time Central American Dictators Using Israel to Sway U.S. Foreign Policy Billionaire Sleaze: Bezos's Lover Lauren Sanchez to Divorce Hollywood 'Super Agent' After Affair Revealed UK to Use Green Energy Funds to Support Fracking in Argentina Panama Papers Law Firm Founders Investigated by FBI Mossack Fonseca Suing Netflix for Defamation Over New Film US Coast Guard Off-Loads Over $92 Million Worth of Seized Cocaine China Deepening Economic Ties in South America Amid Global Uncertainty Mass Strikes in Ecuador Force President to Cancel Austerity Decree Mexico: 13 Police Killed in Cartel Ambush New IRA Spokesman Confirms Brexit Border Posts Will Be Legitimate Terror Target Honduran Bishop Denounces Cartel's Move into Politics Hong Kong's Rich Open Foreign Bank Accounts Amid Unrest India & Japan to Hold Joint Military Drills UK Ready to Revamp Military Training Thaksin Shinawatra's Son Faces Money Laundering Ruling Colombia Simulating Implementation of Peace Deal Police Locate Epstein's 'Missing' French Associate in South America Bolivia & Russia Continue to Strengthen Ties With Lithium Developments Ranks of Super-Rich Continue to Grow Despite Turmoil Elite Private Schools Help Keep Insiders at the Top & Outsiders Below Will the U.S. Send Troops to Saudi Arabia? U.S. Air Force Deploys First Drone Killing Microwave Weapon McMafia Journalist Questions Assassination of Maltese Journalist Bernie Sanders Proposes Stricter Wealth Tax Than Warren's Monaco Ousts Justice Chief After Russian Billionaire Scandal Kenya Plans Silicon Savannah After Signing U.N., Rockefeller Foundation, & University of California Communique Nigerian State Makes Counter-Insurgency Arrests as Country Clamps Down on 'Cultists' Nigerian Parliament Asks for More Funding for Counter-Insurgency Ops Nigerian Jets Bomb Alleged Terrorist Warehouse Scotland: Patrick Thistle Trust Urges Shareholders to Reject Billionaire Consortium Takeover Chicago Newspaper Calls for On-Campus CIA Recruitment to End |
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NEW ARTICLE: Trump's Racist Tweets Betray a Strategy of Racialised Class Warfare by Professor Inderjeet Parmar
U.S. & Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff Speak to Discuss Military Ties F-35s to Get System Upgrade Preparations for Iran Attack? Australia Joins Coalition to Protect Strait of Hormuz U.S. Space Command to 'Officially' Launch on August 29th U.S. Homeland Security Head in Panama to Talk Drugs & Immigrants South Africa Partially Bans Apartheid Era Flag 30 Years After His Cartel Assassination, Colombia Commemorates Presidential Candidate Galan More Than 2 Million Guns Circulate in Mexico Illegally Trump Officials Alleged to Have Met With Venezuela Socialist Party Members Largest Chinese Venezuelan Oil Importers Stop Loading as New U.S. Sanctions Come into Play Trump Approves More Military Sales to Taiwan Israeli Illegal Arms Shipment to South Sudan Disguised as 'Agriculture' Supplying Both Sides of Conflict Brazil's Bolsonaro Rhetoric Compared With Trump's Divisive Words Bitcoin's Race to Outrun Quantum Computing Code Cracking Former General Calls for Coup in Algeria Celebrity Pathologist Who Worked on JFK & MLK Cases to Conduct Epstein Autopsy FBI Raid Epstein's Home Blackwater Guard Finally Sentenced to Life for Unarmed Civilian Massacre Defence Secretary Ben Wallace: 'No Prosecutions for Troubles Veterans Without New Evidence' French Farmers Protest EU Trade Deal with Canada & Mercosur UK Told Must Accept US's Food Standards & Chlorinated Chicken After Brexit Guyana to Become Newest Petro-State After 'Fairy Tale' Discovery by ExxonMobil Extinction Rebellion Cover Brazil Embassy in London in Paint in Europe Wide Coordination Over Deforestation Demands Thousands Protest in Brazil Over Bolsonaro's Education Cuts Indigenous Groups Protest Theft of Their Land in Guatemala Venezuela Announces New Chinese Investment in Oil Sector SpaceX Falcon 9, Atlas V & Ariane 5 Soar While Vector Returns to Earth with a Bump Alleged Islamic State Members Assassinate So-Called 'Agents of the Egyptian Army' in North Sinai Jewish U.S. Officials Call for 9-11 Style Response to White Supremacists - Jerusalem Post Armed Men Open Fire on Indigenous Community in Colombia Gunmen Shoot At Revellers in Brazil Club, Killing 5 Saudi-Backed Yemeni Government Claim Coup Being Staged by Southern Separatists More Bombs Damage Oil Pipelines in Colombia Kashmir Coup Threatens India's Democracy Argentine Wine-Makers Fear EU-Mercur Trade Deal Germany to Suspend Amazon Aid to Brazil Cuban President Reiterates Support for Venezuela After New Sanctions Is Cuba Training & Advising the Nicaraguan Military? Bolivia Becomes 25th U.N. State to Ratify Nuclear Ban Treaty Outrage as Former President's Hitmen Released from Gambian Prison Sanders Stands Out from Other Democratic Presidential Runners: He Has No Donations from Billionaires Mining Projects Halted in Peru Due to Wide-Spread Protests Great Power Rivalry: China Warns U.S. Over Missile Deployment in Asia Nicolas Maduro Says He Has Evidence John Bolton Masterminded Parade Assassination Attempt Trump Imposes Economic Terrorism on Venezuela Calls for Changes to Post-9/11 Doctrines For Prioritising Far-Right Enemies (But How to Define Far-Right?) Great Power Wars the Talk of Washington Turkey Begins Second Military Restructuring After Failed Coup Peru to Update Mining Laws With No Big Changes to Tax Big Companies Berkshire Hathaway Finish with Record $122 Billion in Cash Canadian Firm Takes Legal Action Against Bolivian Political Candidate 25,000 More Troops Brought into Kashmir Unmanned Robotics Deployed to Mali Amidst Counter-Insurgency Battle Senator Fears Military Death Squads Behind Assassinations of Civilians & Officials in the Philippines These 10 Universities Produce the Most Ultra Rich in Asia Pacific Martial Law is Extended in the Philippines Showing Failure of Militarist Solution to War on Drugs Sudan Suspends Academic Activities Nationwide South Africa Unemployment Reaches Highest Level in Decade Unidentified Men Abduct Journalist From His Home in South Africa Is France Preparing for Wider State Conflict? Nation Creates Space Command Northern Ireland Woman with 'Links' to Paramilitaries Forced to Reveal Source of Mystery Millions Heavily Armed Paramilitaries Disperse Protests in the Gambia Tensions Remain High in Sudan After Protests Activist Killings in Guatemala Surge Trump Signs Deal to Make Death Squad Rife Guatemala Act as 'Safe Zone' for Central American Refugees Protests in Colombia As Over 500 Activists Murdered Since Peace Accords 2,600 Barrels of Oil Set on Fire by Unknown Persons in Colombia Colombia and Venezuela Clash Over Refuge for Former Rebels Colombian President Designates Venezuela Terrorist State Venezuela May Lose Its Largest U.S. Asset After Court Ruling Over Nationalisation of Gold Fields Fears Over U.S. Venezuela Invasion Continue as High Profile Politician Warns of Marines Entering Country Prominent EU Figures Call for a More Securitised Approach to Foreign Policy Mercosur & EU Agree Historic Trade Agreement Who Was Jeffrey Epstein Calling? Black Book Sheds Light on New York Elite Circles Paraguay Minister and Officials Resign After Brazil Energy Deal Outcry Mass Casualities in Brazil Prison Riot US Coast Guard Continues to Boost Guyana's Maritime Security Capacity Egyptian Billionaire Slams Britain & Germany for Halting Flights to Cairo on Claims of Terrorism Threat Reports: Putin Offered Turkey's Embattled President 2 Naval Ships to Fight Coup Attempt British Court Rules Establishment Sexual Abuse Allegeder and Police Officers Who Investigated Wrong - Could Ruling Silence True Future Victims? All Claims Dismissed in Colombia-Ecuador Telecoms Dispute Maldives: Ex-VP Assassination Conviction Overturned West Australia Rich List Released China's Billionaire Drain? Colombian Army Denies Pressing Officers to Increase Kills and Captures of Rebel & Gang Members Colombia Makes Way for $15 Billion Road Project Venezuela Opposition Envoy Meets with U.S. Officials Bolivia to Offer Satellite Capacity to Paraguay $12 Million Worth of Cocaine Heading to U.S. Seized in Guatemala Could Brazil Bar Massacre Have Been Revenge Attack by Police? |
NEW ARTICLE: Assange's Arrest Signals a War on Investigative Journalism and the Right to Dissent by Professor Inderjeet Parmar
NEW ARTICLE: Making Cold War Universities in the Middle East by Professor Osamah Khalil New Report Shows U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Overwhelmingly Damaging Civilian Population and Spurring Economic Crisis U.S. Imposes More Sanctions on Venezuelan Judge and Foreign Minister Rising Far Right in Spain Amidst Elections Chile Begins Official Proceedings to Leave Unasur Brazil Finds Worrying Levels of Pesticides in Wate of 1.400 Towns Protestors in Sudan Call for Civilian Rule Over Military Dictatorship French Intelligence Summon Journalists After Leak of Confidential Yemen Arms Sales Documents Pakistan: Bomb in North Waziristan Kills 3 Paramilitaries Nike to Launch Own Cryptocurrency Who's Getting Rich off New Tech Start-Up Wealth? Activists Occupy Venezuelan Embassy in Washington to Protest Trump Policy Venezuela Hits Out At U.S. in United Nations Speech Bosnian-Serb Critic on Serbia's Elites Assassinated in MAFIA-Style Hit Colombia to Strike Against Devastating Neoliberal Policies and Right-Wing Government Former Colombia Mining Firm Head Caught on Video Saying: 'Communities Not Important' Uruguay to Export Medical Marijuana Indigenous Communities Creating Own Energy in Guatemala Brazil Native Groups Protest Anti-Indigenous Bolsonaro Gallup Releases Annual World Stress Report With Chad Topping List Billionaire Vows to Leave UK if Left-Leaning Jeremy Corbyn Becomes Elected (and Society Becomes Fairer) Billionaire Brothers Arrested in Algeria Afghan Vice-President Survives Another Assassination Attempt Ex-French Spy Accussed of Congo-Brazzaville Plot Dies in Targeted Killing in Alps Brazilians Take to the Streets to Protest Military Coup Anniversary Brazil Opens Israel Trade Mission in Jerusalem, Just Short of Full Embassy Move Venezuelan Opposition Incite Civil War by Indirectly Asking for Military's Support to Change Country's Leadership Turkey to Host Venezuelan Minister Despte U.S. Pressure Not To Trump Cuts Aid to Central American Countries Billionaire Contender for Ukraine Presidency Assassination Attempt on Ugandan Minister Israel Bombs Gaza Stoking Fears of Invasion Peru: Week Long Blockade of Chinese Copper Mining Firm by Indigenous Community Shows Signs of Success Thailand's Parties Negotiate To Form Coalition Government Trump Admin Proposes $8 Million Loan Fund to SUbsaidize Foreign Weapons Sales Canadian Billionaire Family to Give $75 Million Towards AI Drive Mexican Security Chief Doubts Findings of Presidential Hopeful's Assassination Probe U.S. Mercenaries Helping Haiti President Transfer Oil Money As Corruption Protests Continue U.S. Continues Moves to Pressure Iran as Pompeo Visits Region More Sanctions Placed on Venezuela China Warns U.S. Not to Sell F-16s to Taiwan China Increases Bilateral Ties with Uruguay Colombian Pipeline Bombed Again Hamas Marks Anniversary of Assassination of Founding Leader Trump to Niminate Stephen Moore to Federal Board Venezuela Blackout - Vice President to File Complaint to UN Over Power Grid Sabotage THROWBACK: Venezuela Arrests Colombians on Maduro Assassination Plot Charges Part of World Bank Group Rules Venezuela Pay Extortionate $8.7 Billion For 'Confiscated' Oil Assets Forbes Releases Latest New Rich List Claiming Decreases in Wealth of World's Billionaire Class Hinduja Brothers Top UK Rich-List Overtaking Jim Ratcliffe Vast Swathes of UK Controlled by Billionaires from Abroad Right-Wing Brazil Government Hopes U.S. Trip Will Cement Defence Ties Amazon Tribe Accuses Brazil's Military of Carrying Out Massacres China Warn U.S. of Ignoring History's Mistakes Regarding Venezuela Venezuela Expel German Ambassador for 'Meddling' Colombian President Tries to Get Previously Banned Monsanto Chemical Sprays Legalised to Begin Coca Crop Eradication Is a Political Crisis on the Horizon in Guyana? Bolivia and Paraguay to Study Gas Pipeline (Subscription Needed) Peru Installs Military Bases to Protect Amazon from Illegal Mining Peru: Dozens of Youngsters at 15th Century Sacrificial Burial Site Had Hearts Removed Three Serb Ex-Paramilitaries Given Reduced Prison Sentences But Fail to Give Victim Families Whereabouts of Bodies PriceWaterHouse Coopers Helping Richest Man in Britain Re-Organise Assets to Avoid Taxes Right-Wing Establishment Darling Marco Rubio Visits Colombia & Threatens Venezuela Was a 5 Man Heavily Armed US-Mercenary Team Just Arrested at Haiti Protests? (RT) Original French Article for Mercenary Article^^ Is Colombia Looking to Buy Israeli Missile Defence System? Gunmen Kill 4 Paramilitary Soldiers in Pakistan April 10th Set For Belize Referendum on Guatemala Territorial Dispute North Macedonian Arms Smuggling Network Uncovered by Police Inter-American Development Bank Pledges $150 Million Towards Guatemala Infrastructure Project Brazil Police Favela Operation Leaves 13 Dead Brazil Economy Minister to Use Electricity Distributor Privatisations as Model for Other Industries Japan Lifts 2 Decade Ban on Uruguayan Beef Guyana to Consider Lottery for Awarding Mining Licenses Richard Branson Says He'll Fly to Space by July to Mark 50 Years Since Moon Landing EU-Backed Consortium Calls for Fresh Venezuela Elections |
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For In Depth and Insightful Analyses of the Latest Elite Power Developments Click Here Professor Inderjeet Parmar Debates Transatlantic Relationship at Chatham House
Were Russian Mercenaries Involved in Sudanese Protestor Crackdowns? Counter Insurgency Drive? India in Huge Move to Recruit Paramilitaries Venezuelan Authorities Discover Cache of U.S. Made Weapons Allegedly Sent From Miami Chinese Billionaire Banned from Australia After Political Interference Concerns Israeli Media Warn Government Still Arming Myanmar, Despite Genocidal Violence Trump to Target Cuba Next, then Nicaragua, with Fresh Sanctions & Terrorist Sponsor Designations to be Announced Thai Political Parties Choose Prime Minister Candidates After 2014 Coup U.S. Consulate Employee to go on Trial for Part in Turkey Coup Is Now the Time to Tackle the Rich's Wealth? White House Advisor Defends Richs' [Immoral & Undeserved] Mega Wealth Using Venezuela as 'Example' of Tax Failure Turkey Backs Maduro Against Coup Attempt Venezuelan Army Defectors Appeal to Trump for Weapons Is Venezuela Flying Its Gold to Russia or is the Media Establishment Attempting to Discredit Maduro by Linking with Boogeyman? U.S. Embassy in Caracas Announces (Do Not Travel) Security Alert to Citizens U.S. Officially Declares Economic War on Venezuela (What's New?) South Sudan Editor Flees After Receiving Gag Order Chile Court Convicts 6 Over Assassination of Former President Frei Jordan's King Abdullah Meets With Top U.S. Military Officials Over Closer Cooperation Bolton Notepad: 5000 U.S. Troops to Colombia or Bluff? Israelis Hoping For Big Arms Deals in Next Month's India Visit Trump's Denial of Venezuela Coup Dangerous Marco Rubio Calls For Closer Ties With Right-Wing Bolsonaro Brazil Government UK's Brexit Good For War As Arms Sales Set to Gain Top Priority Iran's Central Bank Issues Draft Guidance for Cryptocurrencies YouTube Censors 9-11 Truth Movement Videos and Links Them With Patently Absurd Flat Earthers Police Death Squads Operating in Bolivia India: The Family Office Latest Prestige Symbol & Tool of the Rich as Wealth Sky-Rockets Venezuela Steps Up Troops on Colombia Border as West Piles on Political Pressure Peru Places Further Pressure on Embattled Venezuela to Hold Elections Iran-Contra Criminal Placed in Charge of US-Venezuela Relations Is a Coffee Crisis Brewing in Guatemala? Venezuela Arrests Military Officials for Weapons Theft British Foreign Office Accused of Shredding Nearly 400 Documents Related to Help for Sri Lankan Government Against Tamils 30 'Wealthiest' Inidividuals in Northern Ireland Revealed Did British Trained Beligum Mercenary Assassinate Dag Hammarskjöld? THROWBACK: Did 'Western Agents' Assassinate UN Secretary General? THROWBACK: Men's Testosterone Levels Determined from Where They Grew Up (Not 'Race') State Terrorism: Extreme Violence Used by Government on Own People in Sudan (Warning: Graphic Content) Ghanese Parliament Convenes to Discuss Assassination of Investigative Journalist U.S. 'Battle of the Billionaires' Heats Up for 2020 Elections Nigerian Air Force Lectures Journalists on How to Report Their Counter-Insurgency War Accurately Myanmar Launches Fresh Counter-Insurgency Operations US to Maintain Military Presence in Syria, Despite Withdrawal Masked Gunmen Kill Volunteers Guarding a School in Thailand's Embattled South Capitalism 101: Billionaire Fortune Grows 12% as the Poorest Got 11% Poorer Son of Martin Luther King Believes FBI Assassinated Father to Silence Him THROWBACK: These 15 Billionaires Own America's Media Federal Jury Launched to Decide if Explosives Were Used on September 11th 2001 Former Kosovo Guerillas Asked to Testify in War Crimes Tribunal Against Kosovan Serbs Rally Held in Latvia to Protest Social & Economic Inequality Colombia Ex-Rebel Leader of FARC Says He Regrets Peace Deal Saying Government Has Betrayed Them Top US Security Official to Visit Israel & Turkey Over Syria Troop Withdrawal US Chief of Staff Makes 'Surprise' Visit to Kabul Infighting Between Syrian Militants Kills 500 More Deaths in Nigeria's Ongoing Counter-Insurgency Operations Growing Demand for Illicit Drugs in Chile Fuelling Recruitment of Female Drug Mules for Bolivian Smuggling Rise and Dominance of Colombian Private Military Contractors Bolivia Seeks Stronger Ties with Vietnam Five Things to Know About Thailand's Upcoming Elections The United States Trained Guatemala's Mass Murderers & Border Patrol Played a Role |
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Written by a distinguished line-up of contributors actively engaged in original research on Obama's foreign policy direction, key influential actors, using a variety of international relations theories. Featuring twelve brand new chapters, this text provides a unique platform for rigorous debate over the contentious issues that surround US foreign policy. This wide-ranging text is essential reading for all students and scholars of US foreign policy.
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A book on the changing relationship between the state and capital in the wake of the global financial crisis. Originally appeared as a Special Issue in Globalizations.
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This book extends the parameters of US foreign policy literature to include race and ethnicity, the book documents case-specific analyses of the evolutionary development of the African American foreign affairs network (AAFAN). Whilst the examination of race in regard to the construction of US foreign policy is significant, this book also provides a cross disciplinary approach which utilises historical and political science methods to paint a more realistic appraisal of US foreign policy.
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On the pivotal role of America's 'big three' philanthropic foundations in shaping US hegemony.
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