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On Tuesday, representatives heard testimony that the CIA once issued what amounted to a government-sanctioned license to kill in the name of mind control research, and that no one knows how many people died as a result.  Decades after MKUltra was officially shuttered, lawmakers gathered to demand answers about whatContinue Reading

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The world’s counterterrorism chiefs are meeting in New York this week. We brought a list of demands and not much else. A plot hatched in a chat room in one country, funded from a second, carried out by a man walking into a crowd in a third – that’s theContinue Reading

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At least 14 children were killed when the roof of a private tutoring centre collapsed outside Lahore, Pakistan., NewsFeed At least 14 children were killed when the roof of a private tutoring centre collapsed outside Lahore, Pakistan. Officials said the unregistered centre was operating inside a residential building with anContinue Reading

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Robert B. Reich The gap between what the numbers say and how people are feeling has only grown wider. The post What Is the American Economy? appeared first on The Nation…Continue Reading

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Growing up on the central California coast, watching rocket launches with his father was part of Eric Fernandez’s childhood routine. Fernandez had posters of rockets on the wall, but despite being fascinated by them, he never imagined one day this would be his career. Because both of his grandparents had served at Vandenberg Air ForceContinue Reading