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America Has Spent $5.9 Trillion on Wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a New Study Says (CNBC)
Venezuela Crisis: Former UN Rapporteur Says U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Citizens (You won’t hear about this from mass media, The Independent)
How Amazon’s Ring & Rekognition Set the Stage for Consumer Generated Mass Surveillance (Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts)
Central Bank Gold Buying Hits Highest Level in Half a Century (CNBC)
EU Launches Mechanism to Bypass U.S. Sanctions on Iran (Al Jazeera)
Facebook Pays Teens to Install VPN That Spies on Them (Disgusting, TechCrunch)
Walgreens Is Exploring New Tech That Turns Your Purchases, Your Movements, Even Your Gaze, into Data (Super creepy, The Atlantic)
One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With the FBI (BuzzFeed)
Anti-Maduro Coalition Grew from Secret Talks (AP)
Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela, Has Spent His Life Crushing Democracy (The Intercept)
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