The nation has been “jammed into an ideological corner” by conservative Republicans and is primed for a power shift in the November elections, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday. “This is an election unlike any other I have ever participated in,” Clinton told Democratic supporters at a fundraiser in Las Vegas.
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The 10 stories the US mainstream news media ignored
The 10 stories the US mainstream news media ignored. The juiciest one of all: Halliburton sold key nuclear-reactor components to an Iranian company as late as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as …
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Jobless man asks judge for jail time
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