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Trump’s spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro | Ken Roth

The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice It is bad enough that the Trump administration blocked a federal criminal investigation when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed Renee Good as she was turning her car away from him in Minneapolis the past January. Just before the…

Trump’s spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro | Ken Roth

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Police detain URCS driver during evacuation of critically ill patients from Kherson region, send him for medical examination

On the morning of August 14, police in Mykolaiv region detained a volunteer driver from Kherson Emergency Response Unit of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS), who was in the process of evacuating people from a dangerous area in Kherson – specifically, an elderly woman, a cancer patient, and a three-year-old child, according to a post…

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