John Clarke
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Former organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
The "regionalization of
#Israelâs
regime of violence.'
#Somaliland
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/how-...
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How Israelâs move in Somaliland fits in its broader strategy for regional dominance
Israelâs strategic posture favors a constant state of war over political deals that might constrain future aggression. Its recognition of Somaliland is part of this strategy, and an attempt to plant t...
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/how-israels-move-in-somaliland-fits-in-its-broader-strategy-for-regional-dominance/
about 8 hours ago
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This appalling killing will not be forgotten or forgiven.
#ReneeNicoleGood
about 8 hours ago
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'Increasingly,
#Israelis
are not simply leaving but fleeing â buying one-way tickets with only daysâ notice, often with no intention of returning.'
www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...
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Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers
Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone â many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.
https://www.972mag.com/israeli-emigration-record-numbers/
about 8 hours ago
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The Labour government follows in Thatcher's footsteps by refusing to negotiate with dying
#hungerstrikers
.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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Palestine Action hunger strikers near death âintentâ on continuing protests
Prisoners remaining on rolling hunger strike are suffering with dangerous symptoms, loved ones and a doctor say.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/8/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-near-death-intent-on-continuing-protests
about 9 hours ago
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Coffee shop politics.
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John Clarke
A couple sitting next to me in a coffee shop yesterday asked me what I was reading. The book's title was 'We're coming for you and your rotten system,' so I can see why it sparked their interest. It....
https://www.facebook.com/john.clarke.771282/posts/pfbid02NKdHx4tpUgtDhH6KtcDj6yDxybQSSW13qFaBGJhvmkf5t9wfgLqcuxe8QVfWXDuEl
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The US attack on
#Venezuela
is a straight exercise in 'piracy and extortion.'
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
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'Straight-Up Piracy and Extortion': Trump Says He Will Control Money From Sale of Venezuelan Oil | Common Dreams
US President Donald Trump declared that Venezuela will hand over up to 50 million barrels of oilâwhich could be sold for around $3 billion.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-sale-venezuelan-oil
about 10 hours ago
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Trump's murderous immigration enforcers take things over the edge in Minneapolis.
#ICE
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"This is another example of
#police
overreach and overcharging to create a false narrative for justifying their heavy presence at both pro-#Palestine and
#Indigenous
led demonstrations."
www.thegrindmag.ca/charges-drop...
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Charges Dropped Against Nine Arrested at Pro-Palestine Protest
Organizers say these arrests are another example of police overreach and that they are being used as justification for ongoing repression. Toronto police call the arrests âlawful, justifiedâŚ
https://www.thegrindmag.ca/charges-dropped-against-nine-arrested-at-pro-palestine-protest/
about 12 hours ago
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A 'ceasefire' that must be hidden from view.
#GazaGenocide
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about 22 hours ago
www.rawstory.com/this-city-is...
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'This city is about to explode': Rage consumes Minneapolis after deadly ICE shooting
A woman was killed in a shooting involving ICE agents in Minneapolis on Wednesday, according to reports.ICE officials claimed that a "rioter" attempted to use her vehicle to target agents, according t...
https://www.rawstory.com/this-city-is-about-to-explode-protests-erupt-in-minneapolis-in-shooting-aftermath/
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Sunny Marvel
about 22 hours ago
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Live Updates: Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/07/us/minnesota-shooting-ice?smid=url-share
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Al Jazeera English
about 12 hours ago
Statement says army established state monopoly on arms in an 'effective and tangible way', without mentioning Hezbollah.
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Lebanon army says phase one of disarming non-state groups in south complete
Statement says army established state monopoly on arms in an 'effective and tangible way', without mentioning Hezbollah.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/8/lebanons-army-says-phase-one-of-hezbollah-disarmament-in-south-completed?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialPulse
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Andrea Basso
1 day ago
Tesla's German car sales drop by almost half in December KBA said Tesla sold 2,032 cars in Germany in December, a decrease of 48%. The number of Teslas sold in 2025 dropped 48.4% to 19,390 units compared with the same period last year. BYD surged more than 12-fold to 4,109 units in December.
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Tesla's German car sales drop by almost half in December
Tesla's sales volume in Germany nearly halved in December from the same month last year, the German road traffic agency KBA said on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/teslas-german-car-sales-drop-by-almost-half-december-2026-01-06/
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David Abel
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North Atlantic right whales are having an encouraging season for births, with 15 calves born so far. But scientists warn that the critically endangered species needs 50 calves a year.
apnews.com/article/righ...
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A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct
One of the worldâs rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.
https://apnews.com/article/right-whales-babies-endangered-oceans-399c14a110f0169d9f3ea2fb0c2c2d6b?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share
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Global Abortion Rights News
about 21 hours ago
A review of Mary Fissel's book "AbortionâA History", by the Socialist Worker. They recommend the book but criticize her position that patriarchy is the cause of womenâs oppression, claiming that it's "class society" that's had the biggest impact on womenâs reproductive rights.
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Tracing the long history of abortion and criminalisation
Despite a flawed analysis of women's oppression, In AbortionâA History by Mary Fissell widens the discussion around decriminalisation.
https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/tracing-the-long-history-of-abortion-and-criminalisation/
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Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition
about 23 hours ago
"Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the US â especially among seniors." Cheaper housing. Instead of needing to collect cans for rent/food in the richest city in the world. Build Haven Green. Here. Now.
@mayormamdani.bsky.social
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Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the US â especially among seniors
The reasons for the rapid increase may include peopleâs difficulties in maintaining a healthy diet and a new focus in identifying malnutrition, according to a new report
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/malnutrition-deaths-seniors-older-people-cdc-2026-b2894677.html
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UNabla
about 12 hours ago
@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
thank you from this Adelaide resident (who was very much looking forward to you visiting Adelaide again) for boycotting
#AdelaideWritersWeek
in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah. Islamophobia and racism must be combated. Thank you!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Authors withdraw from festival after Palestinian Australian author dropped
After Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from Adelaide Writers' Week by the Adelaide Festival Board, a slew of authors, including Michelle de Kretser, have withdrawn from the event.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-08/randa-abdel-fattah-adelaide-writers-week-axed-authors-withdraw/106210464
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The Starship Entityâ¨2026
about 22 hours ago
The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26010...
The Red Rectangle nebula lies about 2,300 light years away towards the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros).
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All In with Chris Hayes
about 21 hours ago
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
: âA 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.â
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Alex Baumhardt
about 21 hours ago
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Rajan Naidu đ â
about 12 hours ago
Indian spies linked to killings, tracking dissidents abroad: What we know
@aljazeera.com
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/...
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Indian spies linked to killings, tracking dissidents abroad: What we know
Is India's spy agency increasingly targeting dissidents and separatists abroad? Here's a lowdown.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/1/indian-spies-linked-to-killings-tracking-dissidents-abroad-what-we-know
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Now that
#Venezuela
is 'free,' the mass deportation of Venezuelans living in the US looms large.
www.axios.com/2026/01/06/v...
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600,000 Venezuelans face U.S. deportation after Maduro raid
Caught in a casework pause and TPS terminations, they face potential deportation.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/06/venezuelan-immigrants-tps-maduro-deportations
1 day ago
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This is what 'peace' looks like as far as
#Trump
is concerned.
#GazaGenocide
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Imperialism without pretences.
#StephenMiller
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John Clarke
"We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else. But we live in a world, in the real world ⌠that is governed by strength, that is governed by.....
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Horribly close to the truth.
#Maduro
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'#LeqaaKordia remains confined because she spoke out for
#Palestinian
liberation and called for an end to the
#genocide
.'
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
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The last Columbia student protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using rac...
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-last-columbia-student-protester-in-ice-detention-leqaa-kordia-on-her-9-months-in-captivity/
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The political servants of Canadian
#fossilfuel
capitalism are scrambling to deal with the impacts of the US theft of
#Venezuelanoil
.
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Another
#Indigenous
community criminally abandoned.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Kashechewan First Nation residents in Ontario using bottled, river water after treatment plant fails | CBC News
Kashechewan First Nation, along northern Ontarioâs James Bay coast, is in a local state of emergency and plans to evacuate residents in the coming days because its water treatment system is in disrepa...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/kashechewan-evacuation-water-treatment-9.7035457
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Even at its most brutal and predatory, capitalism ensures that the risks are socialized while to profits stay in the private domain.
#Venezuela
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To appreciate what a brutal period of international predation, environmental degradation and class war we have entered, we can't only focus on the Trumpian right. The 'progressive' political centre is fully implicated in this harsh reality.
#MarkCarney
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada's cheaper, cleaner and lower-risk oil can rival a resurgent Venezuela, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's not worried about the prospect of increased oil production from Venezuela challenging Canada's energy exports because Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner and lower ri...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-venezuela-oil-trump-competition-9.7022452
1 day ago
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I'm sorry to have to break this news but
#USimperialism
was already hated across the planet as a system of violence and exploitation long before
#DonaldTrump
came on the scene.
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Georgia Lee
2 days ago
Read "Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the US â especially among seniors" on SmartNews:
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Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the US â especially among seniors (The Independent)
Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the United States â particularly among seniors â and the reasons are unclear, according to a new report. In roughly the la...
https://l.smartnews.com/p-6UCnVFi8/9x3GrL
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Neal Asher
3 days ago
phys.org/news/2026-01...
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Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Irvine associate professor of physiology and biophysics, point...
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-eye-greenland-sharks-vision-centuries.html#google_vignette
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Not having payed attention, tropical cyclone Jenna has kind of caught me out with her rapid intensification to a category 2. Now however shear has begun to pound the system and that should result in an accelerating weakening trend over the next few days.
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joshua weresch: songs
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Kashechewan First Nation residents in Ontario using bottled, river water after treatment plant fails | CBC News
Kashechewan First Nation, along northern Ontarioâs James Bay coast, is in a local state of emergency and plans to evacuate residents in the coming days because its water treatment system is in disrepa...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/kashechewan-evacuation-water-treatment-9.7035457
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Servando Ortoll
3 days ago
Your unfavorite people.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Best cartoons of the worst people: RFK Jr. edition
Enjoy these cartoons highlighting the many ways that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the worst. And feel free to share more of your favorites in the comments. Cartoon: ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/4/2356861/-Best-cartoons-of-the-worst-people-RFK-Jr-edition
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UPBeachBum
2 days ago
Today is the 5th anniversary of the violent January 6 Republican insurrection against the people of the United States. Don't let them whitewash this, in a normal functioning democracy there would be thousands rotting in prison today for their actions.
#J6
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Fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack brings fresh division to the Capitol
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, there's no official event to memorialize what happened that day.
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-anniversary-trump-democrats-1ef8f91dcdf0f209ba7316139df7e9c6
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George Monbiot
1 day ago
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Todayâs column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Letâs be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government
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All the Galaxies!
3 days ago
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.28 (lookback time 3.35 billion years) with coordinates (150.25563, 2.20464). 50 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
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Derek gendvil
2 days ago
Disability Justice Organizers Are Creating the Liberatory Future We All Deserve
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Disability Justice Organizers Are Creating the Liberatory Future We All Deserve
Organizers share where they find hope in the struggle for disability justice as we go into the second year of Trump 2.0.
https://truthout.org/articles/disability-justice-organizers-are-creating-the-liberatory-future-we-all-deserve/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
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joshua weresch: songs
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Calgary restaurant owners jailed for financial abuse of temporary foreign workers | CBC News
Manikandan Kasinathan, Chandramohan Marjak and Mary Roche, who co-owned Marina Dosa and Tandoori Grill, were each sentenced to 90-day jail terms after they were convicted of fraud over $5,000. They mu...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/tfw-marina-dosa-tandoori-grill-9.7035861
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'The conditions were set to be the worst since the catastrophic 2019-20 summer bushfires that killed more than 30 people and burned through millions of hectares.'
#ExtremeHeat
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Worst heatwave since black summer forecast for more than half of Australia
Fire danger expected to reach extreme levels in South Australia, Victoria and inland NSW this week
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/06/worst-heatwave-since-black-summer-forecast-australia
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Yes, that Miller family I'm afraid.
#Greenland
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âNo one influences
#DougFord
, I can assure you of that.â No you can't, Doug.
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Ford will file appeal against court ruling to release personal phone records | Globalnews.ca
The latest twist in a three-year-old transparency battle means the government has now twice lost its argument Ford should not have to make parts of his phone records public.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11599875/doug-ford-cellphone-order-appeal/
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This will come as a big shock to lots of people.
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The
#AmericaFirst
extortion racket in operation.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The velvet glove was always easy to slip off but now it's being put away in drawer so that the iron fist can do its work without interruption.
#Gaza
#Venezuela
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'The de-industrialisation of the sub-continent since the 1980s and increasing reliance on commodity exports subject all these economies to the volatile swings of commodity prices (agricultural, metals and oil).'
#Venezuela
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/v...
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Venezuela and oil
Within hours of the US military strikes on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro, President Trump proclaimed that âvery large United States oil companies would go in, spend bilâŚ
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/venezuela-and-oil/
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The post-truth world is a bit like the quantum realm. Assertions are here but also there and they exist but then they're gone. In both cases, there's also a measurement problem.
#CarteldelosSoles
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It's the lack of pretences that is most remarkable.
#Trump
#venezuelainvasion
#oilcompanies
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
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'What an Authoritarian Oligarchy Looks Like': Trump Says Oil Execs Tipped Off About Venezuela Attack | Common Dreams
"I canât begin to tell you how insane this is," said one critic. "He did not inform Congress but heâs saying he informed the oil companies."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-says-oil-companies-tipped-off-venezuela
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