America’s new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone

Has anyone been held accountable for the financial crisis? Photograph: MARCEL ANTONISSE/epa/Corbis The event was attended by Iraq war proponents of both parties, from Dick Cheney to Lindsey Graham to Hillary Clinton. The funeral featured a saccharine eulogy from the …

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Trump, the Saudis, and America’s disastrous ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ strategy – Trending Stuff

(CNN)“He’s a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is said to have been talking about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. It was 1939, and you can imagine him, cigarette and martini in …

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More Iranians ‘buying’ passports in other countries to evade U.S travel ban, sanctions – Trending Stuff

More Iranians are paying big money to buy passports in neighboring countries through bribery or fraudulent information, in a bid to evade U.S. sanctions and the Trump administration’s travel ban on Iran and six other nations, multiple sources have told …

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