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Le Kompromat? Macron’s candidate for Paris mayor ends race amid sexting scandal Anti-Putin Protests

Le Kompromat? Macron’s candidate for Paris mayor ends race amid sexting scandal

The Paris mayoral candidate picked by President Macron has ended his campaign a month before the election, following a sex scandal. His run was torpedoed by a self-exiled Russian shock artist, who released the compromising tapes. Benjamin Griveaux, who ran for the top office in France’s capital with Emmanuel Macron’s…
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February 14, 2020
Zimbabwe police fire teargas as court rules on opposition leader’s subversion case Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe police fire teargas as court rules on opposition leader’s subversion case

HARARE (Reuters) - A court in southern Zimbabwe ruled on Friday that an opposition official was not guilty of trying to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa, moments after proceedings were halted when police fired teargas to disperse supporters, his lawyer said. Zimbabwe's health workers wear protective suits during a training exercise…
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February 14, 2020
Turkey to oppose Pakistan blacklisting at anti-terrorism finance meet Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey to oppose Pakistan blacklisting at anti-terrorism finance meet

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he would help Pakistan stay off a terrorism financing blacklist at a meeting of a global finance watchdog, a move he suggested would counter “political pressure” from Islamabad’s critics. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which tackles money laundering, told…
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February 14, 2020
Marx, Lincoln and Project 1619 1619 Slavery

Marx, Lincoln and Project 1619

Branding Slaves, from William O. Blake’s The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade. It must have enraged the historians who signed Sean Wilentz’s open letter to the New York Times and their World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) allies to see Abraham Lincoln knocked off his pedestal. How insolent for…
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February 14, 2020
Trump’s Gutting of NEPA Will Cut the Public Out of Public Lands Decisions Water Pollution

Trump’s Gutting of NEPA Will Cut the Public Out of Public Lands Decisions

Mt. Hood from Lookout Peak, Badger Creek Wilderness. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Trump administration is stampeding ahead with a rewrite of the regulationsimplementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This landmark law requires federal agencies to study—and let the public weigh in on—the environmental impacts of federal actions. Ironically,…
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February 14, 2020