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'Tip of the Iceberg': Amnesty Demands Independent Probe of Civilians Massacred During US 'Annihilation Tactics' in Raqqa

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A destroyed car is seen in the western neighborhood of Jazrah on the outskirts of Raqqa, Syria on October 30, 2017.

"How can the coalition avoid inflicting high civilian death tolls in the future without accounting for what went wrong in Raqqa?"

Uh... No, Say Legal Experts, Trump Tower Meeting Was Not "Totally Legal"

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"President Trump is wrong on the law. And he should know he's wrong on the law...

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Hiroshima Mayor, Survivors, and Activists Call for Nuclear Weapons Ban 73 Years After US Bombing

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Deleting Alex Jones

Small good news. Every big tech company but Twitter has finally banned conspiracy crank Alex Jones and his loathsome Infowars rants about anchor babies and Sandy Hook actors and gay Pentagon juice in the water. Jones says globalists are removing "outlets of liberty and truth" because " inbred child molesters in Hollywood had some psychotic dream they wanted to kill everybody." The techies say he's spewing bonkers hate and it's not okay.