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Indonesian President Joko Widodo, commonly referred to as “Jokowi.” (Flickr / CC 2.0) Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (known as “Jokowi”) is facing an attempted coup by both active and retired generals. According to intelligence gathered by The Intercept’s Allan Nairn, along with documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden, President Trump’s political and business allies are behind the movement to remove Jokowi—a movement that is also linked to Islamic State. Nairn reports: Prominent supporters of the coup movement include Fadli Zon... Читать дальше...

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If the United States takes military action against North Korea, “it would mean from that very day an all-out war,” Vice Foreign Minister Han Song Ryol (pictured) says.

Rather than pursuing an independent investigation into the 2016 election, the Democratic establishment has used hyperbole to block Bernie Sanders and progressives from pulling away from Wall Street.

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“Much of the media and establishment are saying that this election is a foregone conclusion,” said Corbyn Thursday as he kicked off his 2017 election campaign. “They do not want us to win. Because when we win it is the people, not the powerful, who win.”

The Fox News star is officially off the airwaves, but Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and others are not, and they have a few parting words for “Papa Bear,” as Colbert likes to call O’Reilly.

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By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan If he gets his way, Arkansas’ Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson will execute eight men in 11 days this April.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment O’Reilly is off the airwaves, but the despicable strategy of orienting Fox “news” toward the nativist far right in the United States will continue.

By Theodore A. Postol Some kind of poisoning event may have produced mass casualties on April 4, but the White House Intelligence Report did not describe that event, a weapons specialist from MIT writes.

After Mike Pompeo criticizes WikiLeaks, its founder responds in an interview with The Intercept.