“A C.I.A. abduction in 2004 landed them in Libya, where the man was tortured by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s security forces and imprisoned for six years.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/world/europe/britain-libya-apology-cia-rendition-torture.html
“A lot of people don’t realize US veterans, if they are not citizens, can get deported.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics/border-wall-mural-repainted/index.html
“It’s not just happening in California. Nashville, Tenn., Seattle, Wash., and Somerville, Mass., now have ordinances requiring local government approval for surveillance technology on the books.”
“The bottom line is that no one – not the United States, not Israel, not the International Atomic Energy Agency – ever really believed Iran was developing nuclear weapons.”
“One young Christian lady asked me, on a Palm Sunday when I was there, ‘Why do Americans want us all dead?'”
Read more: https://russia-insider.com/en/treatment-christians-assads-syria-vs-us-backed-rebel-areas/ri22984
“They call it ‘divesting’ from police. The church is part of a tiny but growing movement among liberal houses of worship around the nation making similar vows.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-dont-call-police-church-20180530-story.html
“After so many grueling years and thousands more immigration cases, Brack has decided enough is enough.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-judge-deportations-20180524-story.html
“Sessions’s new ‘zero tolerance’ plan seems distant and theoretical. On the border itself, however, the new policy feels close and horribly real.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/29/zero-tolerance-border-policy-immigration-mass-trials-children/
“Posada Carriles would later boast that ‘the CIA taught us everything… they taught us explosives, how to kill, bomb, trained us in sabotage.’“
“The Canadian government funded Cameron with roughly $500,000 between 1950 and 1965 — $4 million in 2018 dollars, along with sizeable funding from the CIA.”