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Schatz Amendment Would End the 1033 Program That Militarizes Cops
From Consortium News: Congress is taking action on the 1033 program, which authorizes the Defense Department to send military equipment and weapons to local police departments. Since 1990 more than $5.4 billion in equipment has flowed to the hands of cops with predictable results. The response by local law enforcement to the nationwide uprising that...
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Raazi: RAW Agent Penetrates Pakistan Military
This Indian spy thriller, said to be based on a true story, is the story of a woman RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) agent, who is sent to Pakistan to spy on their military officials. Directed by Meghna Gulzar, the film stars Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal in lead roles.
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In Deep: The History Behind Trump’s War on the Intelligence Community
(This story first appeared in Counterpunch.) “There is no ‘deep state’—not in the conspiratorial way that Donald Trump uses the term,” writes David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, in his new book, In Deep: The FBI, the CIA and the Truth about America’s “Deep State.” “In dozens of interviews, no current or former government officials...
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Guaidó Signed a Contract With Mercenaries Planning to ‘Detain’ Maduro
The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó keeps trying distancing itself from the amateurish invasion of U.S.-based mercenaries that the Venezuelan security forces crushed last but his denials are undercut by emerging evidence. In a meeting last October with Jordan Goudreau, a 43-year-old Special Forces veteran who organized the invasion force, Guaidó “was saying all options...