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Israel's President Shimon Peres speaks to the media during a news conference in the southern town of Sderot on July 6, 2014 (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

Israeli leader Shimon Peres, supposed “man of peace,” also had a bloody record of war

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Demonstrators march in a protest against stop-and-frisk in New York City on June 17, 2012 (Reuters/Eric Thayer)

Donald Trump may love stop-and-frisk — but it was unconstitutional, racist and ineffective

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's at the event "Israeli Technology and Innovation for Africa" at the U.N. headquarters (YouTube)

Netanyahu calls for fighting “savages” and “pulling out the weeds” at Africa event at U.N.

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Film director Oliver Stone in 2012 (Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP)

“I’m still angry”: Oliver Stone slams “superficial election,” media “idiots,” Orwellian U.S. politics

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A Yemeni man cries out after a Saudi-led bombing in Yemen's capital Sanaa, on February 10, 2016 (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Senate rejects bill blocking U.S.-Saudi arms deal; rights groups applaud “growing dissent” on Yemen war crimes

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Police in riot gear use teargas to disperse protesters after police killed a disabled black man in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 (Adam Rhew/Charlotte magazine)

Charlotte erupts with protests after police kill disabled black man family says was “reading book in car”

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Oliver Stone; Edward Snowden (Getty/The Guardian/Christoph Stache)

Oliver Stone talks “Snowden”: NSA leaker is more than a whistleblower; he’s a “lie exposer”

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Police helicopter footage showing officers seconds before killing unarmed black man Terence Crutcher (Tulsa Police Department)

Videos show Oklahoma police shooting and killing unarmed black man Terence Crutcher

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Yemenis stand on the rubble of a school destroyed by a U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition air strike in an outskirt of the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen on September 14, 2016 (Reuters/Naif Rahma)

Congressman seeks to block arms sale to Saudi Arabia, citing U.S.-backed war crimes in Yemen

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Libyan rebels on a tank outside the town of Ajdabiyah on March 26, 2011 (Reuters/Andrew Winning)

U.K. Parliament report details how NATO’s 2011 war in Libya was based on lies

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California Congresswoman Barbara Lee at a press conference in 2009 (Reuters/Enrique de La Osa)

“Repeal this blank check for endless war”: Lawmaker demands end to 9/11-era Authorization for Use of Military Force

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Israeli forces detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah on September 4, 2015 (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)

U.S. boosts military aid to Israel to $3.8 billion per year in largest package in U.S. history

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Surveillance footage of the suspect (NYPD)

A Muslim woman was set on fire on a NYC street

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Chelsea Manning (AP/U.S. Army)

Chelsea Manning goes on hunger strike to protest U.S. gov’s “high tech bullying,” lack of treatment

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Democracy Now host Amy Goodman at a Dakota Access pipeline protest in North Dakota on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 (Democracy Now)

Arrest warrant issued for journalist Amy Goodman after reporting on Dakota Access oil pipeline protests

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(Reuters/Andrew Cullen)

Feds delay Dakota Access pipeline construction in surprise announcement after court ruled against tribe

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(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Texas prisoners work for no pay in system inmate calls “modern-day slavery”

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Yemenis gather at a building destroyed by Saudi-led air strikes in the northwestern city of Amran, Yemen on Sept. 8, 2016 (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Warning U.S. is funding “disaster” in Yemen, senators take bipartisan action to stop arms sale to Saudi Arabia

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Gary Johnson (Getty/Molly Riley)

Media and pundits don’t know what Aleppo is, but they try to explain it to Gary Johnson

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Arrest warrant issued for Green Party’s Jill Stein after North Dakota oil pipeline protest

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(Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Incarceration nation: U.S. has miles to go in ending private prisons, legal advocates warn

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Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab marches in a protest in the village of Bilad al-Qadeem, west of Manama, on April 1, 2012 (Reuters/Hamad I Mohammed)

Political prisoner hit with another Kafkaesque charge for writing NYT piece about harsh repression by U.S. ally Bahrain

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Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab (Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain)

Arrested by a U.S. ally over tweets: NGOs call for freedom of Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab

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Yemenis carry the body of a child they uncovered from under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sana'a Airport, Yemen on March 26, 2015 (AP/Hani Mohammed)

Despite 10,000 civilian casualties in Yemen — 13 per day — U.S. reaffirms support for Saudi Arabia

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