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De brief volgt een onderzoek van The Guardian naar onregelmatige manieren waarop de regering-Trump gedetineerden transporteerde. Daarnaast worden toptickets voor het WK voor bijna $33.000 verkocht.

• Exclusief: In een brief eisen 40 wetgevers dat de FAA reageert op beschuldigingen van mishandeling van migranten en de 'dringende noodzaak tot transparantie' • Een groep van 40 Democraten uit het Huis van Afgevaardigden heeft "ernstige zorgen" geuit over het geheime programma van deportatievluchten van de regering-Trump en heeft geëist dat de Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reageert op beschuldigingen van mishandeling en onmenselijke omstandigheden aan boord van ICE-charterjets. • In een brief die met de Guardian is gedeeld en gericht aan FAA-administrateur Bryan Bedford, beschrijven de wetgevers de "dringende noodzaak tot transparantie" over het uitgebreide gebruik van commerciële vliegtuigen door ICE om vastgehouden migranten te transporteren en de "ongepaste en gevaarlijke" pogingen om deze vluchten uit het zicht van het publiek te houden.

This year’s conference had plenty of newsworthy aspects, but it’s a mystery why the press fails to talk about itThe 72nd meeting of the Bilderberg group, the elite and secretive policy conference that is the longtime subject of endless conspiracy theories, was held at the weekend in Washington DC. A security cordon went up around the opulent Salamander hotel for the notoriously media-shy summit, which was packed as ever with prime ministers, military leaders, tech billionaires and the heads of giant investment companies.Bilderberg, which since the 1950s has been the intellectual engine room of Nato, took place this year at a time of immense crisis and uncertainty for the alliance. In recent weeks, with Trump threatening at every turn to withdraw from the “paper tiger” of Nato, the “Trans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial Relationship” (as it’s called on the agenda) has reached a strained breaking point. Continue reading...

Licensed school teacher and one-time police officer among those participating in riot-style gatherings as experts warn of threat to public safetyA network of militant neo-Nazi active clubs from around the US has been participating in riot-style combat events with other white nationalist groups in Virginia as part of what their founder called a “tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution”.Social media posts and group chats show members of so-called active clubs from Texas, Tennessee and Pennsylvania have in recent weeks and months travelled to Lynchburg, Virginia to train together at a secretive compound. The compound is run by the Wolves of Vinland, which the civil rights watchdog the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as a neopagan white nationalist hate group. Also present were members of the white supremacist hate group Patriot Front and the neo-Nazi skinhead group known as the Hammerskins. Continue reading...