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FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence officials have released more than 100 documents seized in the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, including a loving letter to his wife and a job application for his terrorist network. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says the papers were taken in the Navy SEALs raid that killed bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. (AP Photo, File)

How Trump blamed bin Laden’s crimes on Iran to stir war

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(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

How Trump’s CIA escalates tensions with Iran

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The site of an air raid that hit a funeral reception in the Arhab district, 40 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa, on February 16, 2017. (Getty/Mohammed Huwais)

Gerald Feierstein, a Gulf-funded expert pushing catastrophic war on Yemen, appears to have lied to Congress

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(FBI via AP)

CNN hired top al-Qaeda propagandist for award-winning Syria documentary and wants to cover its tracks

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(Save the Children via AP, File) (AP)

Yet another video shows U.S.-funded white helmets assisting public-held executions in rebel-held Syria

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(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Privatized for-profit immigrant detention centers are a “living nightmare,” investigation shows

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(AP/Kathy Willens)

Is it true that not a single senator — including progressive dems — cares about Palestinian plight?

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(Getty/Yasin Akgul)

Trump’s missile attack on Syria air base helped ISIS and endangered civilians — but hawks call for more

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(AP/Evan Vucci)

Is Trump rescuing Al-Qaeda’s “heartland” in Syria? The president’s missile attack gives us a clue

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(Nomad_Soul/Shutterstock)

“Tear up Texas”: How the FBI played a central role in the first ISIS attack on U.S. soil

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(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

White supremacist who traveled to New York to murder black men followed extremist racist online groups who support Trump

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Steve Bannon (Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com)

Some of Steve Bannon’s biggest intellectual influences are fascists and white supremacists

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(Al-Nusra Front Twitter page via AP, File)

A new “moderate” coalition: U.S.-armed Syrian rebels join Al-Qaeda’s “Bin Laden Front”

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FILE -- In this Nov. 10, 2015 file photo, King Salman of Saudi Arabia waits to receive leaders during their arrival to participate in a summit of Arab and South American leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Within hours of ascending to the Saudi throne, King Salman announced sweeping changes that would recast the kingdom’s line of succession, and rework its security and economic decision-making processes. It marked the start of what would be a tumultuous year for King Salman, who completes one year as monarch on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. () (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Trump and the Saudi king discuss major pact to confront Iran

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(Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Quebec mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette’s classmates say he was a white nationalist who loved President Trump

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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, file photo, Stephen Bannon, campaign CEO for President-elect Donald Trump, leaves Trump Tower in New York. Trump on Sunday named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

President Trump’s right-hand man Steve Bannon called for Christian holy war: Now he’s on the National Security Council

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Fidel Castro in 1974 (AP)

Fidel Castro’s Cuba was accused of numerous human rights abuses — while the crimes of U.S. allies are barely mentioned

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(Reuters/Shane T. McCoy)

American criticism of Cuba on human rights is total hypocrisy, given U.S. history of terrorizing the island

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(Reuters/Brian Snyder/Getty/Casanowe)

“FOIA superhero” launches campaign to make Donald Trump’s administration transparent

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An anti-Houthi fighter loyal to Saudi-backed former president Hadi walks at the site of recent battles in Taiz, Yemen, November 20, 2016 (Reuters/Anees Mahyoub)

U.S.-allied rebels “terrorizing” hospitals and doctors in Yemen, Amnesty International says

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(AP/Mark Lennihan)

IBM employee quits to protest company’s overture to Donald Trump

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#JewishResistance activists protest Steven Bannon and the racism and Islamophobia of the Donald Trump camp, New York City, November 20, 2016 (Naomi Dann/Jewish Voice for Peace - NYC)

#JewishResistance protests Trump adviser Steve Bannon, racism, Islamophobia at pro-Israel group gala

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Police use a water cannon against Dakota Access pipeline protesters in the freezing cold, near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota, November 20, 2016 (Reuters/Stephanie Keith)

WATCH: Dakota pipeline protesters sprayed with water cannons in freezing cold, 167 injured in police crackdown

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Former Defense Intelligence Agency director U.S. Army Lt. General Michael Flynn testifies before the House Intelligence Committee, February 4, 2014 (Reuters/Gary Cameron)

Donald Trump’s new national security adviser has called Islam a “cancer”

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