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Palestinians support indigenous Dakota pipeline protests: “We stand with Standing Rock”

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U.N. experts call for halt in Dakota Access pipeline, blast “excessive force” against protesters

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A U.S. soldier outside the entrance of Sarpoza prison in Kandahar city, Afghanistan, August 24, 2010 (Reuters/Oleg Popov)

U.S. forces may have committed war crimes, says International Criminal Court

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Steve Bannon; Donald Trump (AP/Gerald Herbert/John Raoux/Photo montage by Salon)

“The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office”: Republicans warn of Trump presidency

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Donald Trump will now control drone assassinations and mass surveillance, which Democrats let Obama expand

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Keith Ellison (AP/Molly Riley)

Rebellion in the Democratic Party: Keith Ellison eyes top spot as DNC staff berates Donna Brazile

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Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/Lucas Jackson/Mark Kauzlarich)

Bernie Sanders warned Democrats he could beat Donald Trump; party sabotaged him anyway

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Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Dominick Reuter/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)

How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy

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(AP/Matt Rourke/Kirsty Wigglesworth/Evan Vucci)

WikiLeaks criticizes both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, condemns “McCarthyite” Russia accusations

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An Afghan man inspects a house destroyed during Thursday’s clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on November 4, 2016 (Reuters/Nasir Wakif)

The 15-year U.S. war in Afghanistan barely gets mentioned, even when NATO airstrikes massacre 30 civilians

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WATCH: “All Governments Lie” — Matt Taibbi and filmmaker Fred Peabody on media failures and dissident journalism

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Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government take cover during a battle with Islamic State militants in Ghiza Bahriya district in Sirte, Libya, on October 31, 2016 (Reuters/Hani Amara)

Without telling the public, the U.S. started and ended a new bombing campaign in Libya

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Migrant justice activists known as the #Buffalo25 occupy the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 4, 2016. (Movimiento Cosecha/Maria Cabello)

Migrant justice activists occupy Hillary Clinton campaign office, demand end to raids and deportations

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Hillary Clinton lost sleep trying to talk Wellesley students out of Vietnam War protests

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Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a purge of thousands of education staff since a failed coup in July, in front of the main campus of Istanbul University in Istanbul, Turkey, November 3, 2016 (Reuters/Osman Orsal)

Growing tyranny in Turkey: Government shuts down social media, detains elected lawmakers from leftist, pro-Kurdish party

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Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders speak simultaneously during a Democratic debate, April 14, 2016. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Hillary Clinton campaign chair asked lobbyist where to “stick the knife in” Bernie Sanders, leaked email shows

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Bernie Sanders; John Podesta (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Getty/Drew Angerer/Photo montage by Salon)

Leaked email: “Bernie needs to be ground to a pulp,” Clinton adviser and lobbyist wrote to John Podesta

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, October 26, 2016 (Reuters/Yasin Bulbul/Presidential Palace)

Turkey’s ruthless, slow-motion coup: 110,000 purged as Western ally cracks down on dissent, journalism

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A line of police move towards a roadblock and encampment of Native American and environmental protesters near an oil pipeline construction site, near the town of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. October 27, 2016 (Reuters/Rob Wilson)

Dakota pipeline protesters say they were detained in dog kennels; 268 arrested in week of police crackdown

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A defaced poster of the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the rubble of a house during a vigil marking one year since a Saudi-led airstrike on a residential area in Yemens capital Sana'a, June 21, 2016 (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Russia kicked off U.N. Human Rights Council, but Saudi Arabia was re-elected

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A Yemeni man looks at his cows killed by a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led airstrike at a dairy farm in Bajil in Yemen's western province of Hudaydah, January 2, 2016 (Reuters/Abduljabbar Zeyad)

Famine looms in Yemen, as U.S.-backed Saudi bombing intentionally targets food production

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Iraq War architect Colin Powell is voting for Hillary Clinton — along with major right-wing hawks

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Syrian child refugees making clothes for British companies in Turkish sweatshops, BBC investigation found

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Activists at a climate change rally in solidarity with protests of against the Dakota Access pipeline, in Los Angeles, California on October 23, 2016 (Reuters/Patrick T. Fallon)

Dakota Access pipeline protests grow: 127 arrested over weekend in police crackdown

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