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Honduras Joining Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty A Success Amid ‘Insane’ US-Driven Arms Race, Expert Says

29 October 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi
Honduras is the fiftieth country to join the UN’s nuclear weapons ban treaty. The fact that this occurred amid intense pressure from the US government to undermine the treaty makes it both a “remarkable” and “ironic” development, according to the founder of American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute .

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UK Complicity in Sri Lankan War Crimes Formed Part of ‘Securing its Imperial Interests’, Expert Says

8 October 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi
Britain’s complicity in war crimes in Sri Lanka have been brought into the spotlight by a new book by investigative journalist Phil Miller about the mercenary firm Keenie Meenie.

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Trump Administration ‘is Actively Moving to Turn Space Into a War Zone’, Expert Warns

25 August 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

Despite attempts by countries such as Canada, China and Russia to “keep space for peace”, the US government has proceeded upon a dangerous path that will lead the heavens to “become a war zone”, explains author and journalist Karl Grossman.

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Financial Regulation ‘Has Failed to Protect the Public Interest’, City of London Economist Says

20 August 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

Bringing the banking system under public control may ultimately be the only way to prevent the ongoing cycle of “scandal after scandal” in the financial sector, long-time economist Michael Roberts tells argues.

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Over 150 Lawyers ‘Condemn’ Denial of Julian Assange’s ‘Right to a Fair Trial’ in Open Letter

17 August 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

The potential extradition of the WikiLeaks publisher to the US and his treatment whilst in the UK “sets a risky precedent for the entire democratic world”, according to legal experts who have signed on to a detailed open letter to the British Prime Minister.

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Nuking of Japan Was ‘Totally Unnecessary’ and Didn’t End World War II, US Historian Explains

7 August 2020|Mohamed Elmaazi

The historical record shows that it was the entry of the Soviets into the Pacific theatre that brought the Second World War to a close, and the idea that atomic weapons ended the war is a “myth”, unsupported by the evidence, expert in 20th century history Peter Kuznick says.

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Purges Will ‘Screw’ Nearly 16.7 million US Citizens Out of Their Right To Vote, Muckracker Explains

5 June 2020|Mohamed Elmaazi

Millions of people are being purged from US voter roles in swing states in violation of the law. They are disproportionately young, poor, or from ethnic minority backgrounds – people who would generally not vote for the Republican Party – award-winning journalist Greg Palast tells Mohamed Elmaazi.

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Authors Retract Their Study Which Said HCQ Won’t Help With COVID-19 And May Kill You

5 June 2020|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

The anti-malaria drug HCQ remains unproven in its efficacy to treat COVID-19. However, the report which lead to the WHO pausing its own research into the drug has now been disavowed by the lead researchers.

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US Police Must Be ‘Radically Defunded’ and Resources Diverted to Community Building, Professor Says

31 May 2020|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi
Police in the US are wrongly being used to treat the consequences of decades of de-industralisation and austerity, according to sociologist and policing expert Alex Vitale. Re-training programmes and other measures haven’t worked, he argues, because it is the nature of policing itself which is the problem.

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UK ‘Faces Terror Threats on Three Fronts’ Though Lessons Have Been Learned, Policing Expert Says

23 May 2020|Sputnik UK|Mohamed Elmaazi

23 people were killed and 139 injured, more than half of them children, following a bombing attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on 22 May 2017. Britain has continued to experience politically motivated violence since then though newer policies have helped reduce their risk, according to Dr David Lowe.

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