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US Should Stop Supporting Likely Saudi War Crimes
by Ivan Eland | Jan 3, 2016 | Featured Articles
The United Nations top official on human rights recently told the U.N. Security Council that the US-supported, Saudi Arabian-led coalition of Sunni nations fighting Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen bore a disproportionate responsibility for attacks on civilians. Since...
A Second Even More Unjustifiable Episode of Government Collection of Phone Records
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In the rush to sensationalize the Paris terrorist attacks and minimize all other news (for example, even more horrendous terrorist attacks in Nigeria), the American media has conveniently overlooked one major ill effect of the public hysteria it is helping to foment....
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