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NOURNEWS: U.S. Society at a Major Crossroad

NOURNEWS: U.S. Society at a Major Crossroad

BY: Martin Love PEJOURNAL/NORTH CAROLINA - What with all the violence and protest after the murder by a Minneapolis cop of a hapless Black man, the U.S. has been in riotous turmoil in myriad locations to an extent probably not seen on American streets since the height of the Vietnam War. And it’s not just over racism and police methods, but the murder of George Floyd was the sudden spark – a murder which in fact was a fairly common occurrence inside the U.S. It has been estimated that such crimes by police have occurred on average three times every…
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Maximum Pressure on Iran and Venezuela has Brought Them Together to Embarrass the U.S.

Maximum Pressure on Iran and Venezuela has Brought Them Together to Embarrass the U.S.

THROUGHOUT THE covid-19 pandemic, the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued its “maximum pressure” campaigns against Iran and Venezuela, heaping on more sanctions in the apparent hope that one or both regimes would crack under the combined strain of the virus and economic strangulation. Yet the most visible result of the policy to date has been to bring the two nations together to orchestrate an embarrassing display of U.S. impotence. PEJOURNAL - Last Tuesday, the last of five Iranian tankers arrived in Venezuela, sailing past U.S. warships deployed in the Caribbean. They were delivering an estimated 60 million gallons of gasoline…
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