Americans’ love of guns is not likely to change, but at least in the latest mass shooting, the parents of one alleged killer are being held to account.
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Tag: United States
After Costly Afghanistan Misadventure, More Disaster Looms
By William J. Furney After two decades in war-ravaged Afghanistan, the United States has had enough and, under orders from President Biden, packed up and left this week, surely hoping
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#FakePresident
By William J. Furney In the end, it wasn’t so much fake news as a bogus leader who refused to accept election results, sowed doubt, confusion and chaos — and
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Make America Grotesque Again
By William J. Furney Sixty years on, and there’s no respite from the malignant force of police brutality in the United States. The world’s sole superpower polices the globe yet,
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Trump’s Exclusive New Club
By William J. Furney It doesn’t matter that Donald John Trump will most likely survive attempts to topple him, after the Senate votes to acquit the contentious American leader in
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Hunger-Striking American in Egyptian Jail Is ‘Distraught and Losing Hope’: Lawyer
By William J. Furney Mustafa Kassem is a taxi driver in New York who was visiting his wife and young son and daughter in Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of
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Egypt’s Mass Death Sentencing a Further Stain on a Once-Great Nation
By William J. Furney It’s a peculiarity that Donald Trump’s government has recently announced it’s cutting almost all United States aid funding to Pakistan and a United Nations relief agency
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