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President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to withdraw nearly all of the 700 U.S. troops stationed in Somalia by early next year, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday.

Trump “has ordered the Department of Defense and the United States Africa Command to reposition the majority of personnel and assets out of Somalia by early 2021,” the…[Read more]

Despite a refusal for roughly the past six months to advance a smaller aid package that she deemed “half a loaf,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now willing to support a bipartisan stimulus bill worth less than half her previous demand thanks to, in part, Joe Biden‘s victory.

“That is a total game changer: a new president and a vaccine,” the…[Read more]

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

+ One of the most useful things about Obama’s memoir is that he reminds who some of the people now being recycled into the Biden administration really are. John Kerry, for example, who Obama describes as working assiduously to convince greens to “offer up concessions on subsidies for nuclear power and the opening of add…[Read more]

It’s called “debt parking,” and it doesn’t mean your financial obligations have stopped or are sidelined on the road of your financial life.

Debt parking is when a collector quietly — and illegally — places dubious obligations on your credit file so they’ll surface during a moment of need, such as when you apply for a loan or seek a job.

The col…[Read more]

Today, the National Science Foundation released video taken at the moment the Arecibo Radio Observatory’s cables failed, allowing its massive instrument platform to crash into the dish below. In describing the videos, the NSF also talked a bit about the monitoring program that had put the cameras in place, ideas it had been pursuing for…[Read more]

Rep.-elect Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that the notion of figures such as former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Broad Foundation President Bruce Reed serving in the Biden administration “makes my skin crawl.”

Bowman told CNN he was heartened to see the diversity in President-elect Biden’s appointments so far, but added, “I think ideo…[Read more]

By Jonathan Cook

Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him,…[Read more]

By Tony Plohetski
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday began circulating a coronavirus relief proposal whose contents offer so little assistance to the tens of millions of jobless, hungry, and eviction-prone Americans that critics warned the Kentucky Republican is actively working to ensure the U.S. economy remains mired in deep recession as Biden…[Read more]