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Charles Pierce | The 'Anonymous Sources' Are Engaged in a Monumental Ass-Covering Campaign on Afghanistan
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Believe this. Almost everything you're reading on this topic in elite publications is an effort by somebody somewhere to duck out of their responsibility for 20 years of fantasy and illusion and outright lies."
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House Dems Plan Budget Vote Next Week, Defying Moderates
Alan Fram, Associated Press
Fram writes: "Top Democrats plan House votes next week on a budget resolution that could clear a path for future passage of a .5 trillion, 10-year social and environment package, suggesting a showdown ahead with rebellious party moderates."
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Read What The Taliban Told NPR About Their Plans for Afghanistan
NPR
Excerpt: "The Taliban, which have taken over Kabul, the Afghan capital, say they have changed. They are promising amnesty for their enemies and to let people leave the country - a departure from the mass executions and repression when the armed group ruled most of Afghanistan in the 1990s."
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Dan Kaufman | Is It Time to Break Up Big Ag?
Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker
Kaufman writes: "Renewed attention to antitrust has been focussed on Big Tech, but concentration in agriculture may be an underlying source of rural America's pro-Trump political backlash."
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Federal Government Targeted Black Lives Matter Activists in Bid to Disrupt Movement, Report Finds
Associated Press
Excerpt: "The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation and beyond last summer after the Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, according to a new report."
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'Haiti Is Reeling:' Earthquake Survivors Overwhelm Hospitals in Disaster-Hit Nation
Matt Rivers, Etant Dupain and Jack Guy, CNN
Excerpt: "Hospitals in Haiti are completely overwhelmed by survivors of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake and urgently need help to treat them, medical staff say."
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Federal Judge Rejects Trump-Era Permits for Major Alaska Oil Project
Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post
Partlow writes: "A federal judge on Wednesday threw out the permits for a controversial oil project planned for Alaska's North Slope, faulting the way the federal government had assessed its environmental impact, including how it might harm polar bears."
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