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There will be much debate surrounding today’s announcement of the normalization of relations between Cuba…
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A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that Americans, by a 59-31% margin, believe that CIA…
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On Friday, the Senate voted to confirm Rabbi David Saperstein to the post of Ambassador-at-Large…
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Human Rights Day was celebrated this week, on December 10. Michael Adee celebrated with a…
Read MoreTorture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test
The U.S. has been publicly, globally, shamed in consequence of the gut-wrenching disclosures in the Torture…
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