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More than 50 people, including a journalist, have been detained by Turkish authorities during this year’s Istanbul Pride on Sunday, June 28. According to local journalists, undercover police officers detained Pride participants in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district while demonstrators marched through the streets chanting, “Today is our day, we are marching!”Continue Reading

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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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MANILA, Philippines – Fake news peddlers continued to put on a show of different false claims about the Senate in June. Their antics have been going on since May, triggered by the real-life chaos in the Senate. But their lies in June have taken advantage of recent arrests and tragediesContinue 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