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“It was the tobacco companies, under pressure from the government over smoking, that bought the food industry. So it’s a similar playbook, except now they know to burn the internal memos saying: ‘We know this food is unhealthy.’”

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Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

Desperate to avoid prison—and needing cash to win reelection, so he can pardon himself—Trump is selling his administration’s domestic and foreign policy to the highest bidder. He is traveling from billionaire to billionaire, with hat in hand....

The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the 'red line' and indefinitely end the shipment of weapons and artillery to the state of Israel. It is one thing to call for a ceasefire, it is another to take measures necessary towards liberation for all.