
Benjamin Kunkel
@kunktation
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RT @Schwartzesque: The DEA (under the Obama administration at that time) stuck to their story for years, repeatedly giving Congress informa….
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Now made public, the government’s surveillance video strongly suggests the agency’s account of a raid in Honduras, where four civilians died, was not accurate.
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RT @Schwartzesque: In 2012, US-assisted Honduran forces shot and killed four supposed drug traffickers who were actually unarmed civilians….
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Why are we still fighting the drug war?
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RT @erikmbaker: Fascinating that the "Department of War" moniker returns at a time when the threshold for using the term to describe offens….
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RT @LalehKhalili: These comments are incredibly useful correctives/criticisms and the idea that the mission may have been an assassination….
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RT @kayrosso1: “Mass deportation” is the suturing point around which the whole radical right wing project is structured. Inter-capitalist n….
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This Duterte-like policy also has Nazi antecedents: the Third Reich murdered ordinary criminal suspects (“antisocials”) w/o trial
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RT @jake_romm: the thing that makes this different from prior administrations is that prior administrations would ask its lawyers to think….
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I know the word "terrorism" is meaningless—but if it weren't. .
In other words, the US during Trump's first administration committed an act of monstrous terrorism against innocent civilians, in clear violation of international law, and concealed the fact from Congress, in clear violation of domestic law
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In other words, the US during Trump's first administration committed an act of monstrous terrorism against innocent civilians, in clear violation of international law, and concealed the fact from Congress, in clear violation of domestic law
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RT @_TimBarker: All it would take to ban buybacks is a simple SEC rule change - a reversion to the rule existing before 1982.
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RT @mtkonczal: It's a bad number. Just 22,000 jobs, and with revisions June went negative to -13,000. Worse, deeper into the data you can….
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RT @brouillettese: "The ability to impose pollution on others is another aspect of class rule—and the inability to refuse it is a form of u….
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RT @ReichlinMelnick: Only Congress can declare war! The President doesn't have legal authority to say we are at war with drug traffickers a….
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Pandemics, & infectious diseases generally, prove that “society” is not just an abstraction but a material & in fact biological reality; & vaccine mandates for school children concede this fact. It follows that the sociopathic right needs to present such mandates as “slavery”
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