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Political Corner: Trump’s inaction on the Russian bounties should not be allowed to fall out of the news cycle
Opinions July 19, 2020By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate On June 26, 2020, the New York Times released a report that claimed American intelligence had determined that a Russian military intelligence unit had offered bounties to militants to kill Afghanistan coalition forces. The disturbing part of the report was that it appeared that the United States’ president had been briefed at the beginning of last year, and again in 2020 about the plot. Despite this, he had not taken any actions to stop it, nor to immediately inform American coalition allies. Following the release of the report in the New York Times, the Whitehouse denied…
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Election rundown: Trudeau’s racism scandal is just one of many eroding voter trust
Opinions October 6, 2019By: Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate In mid-September, Times Magazine broke a story that included a photograph of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in brownface at a school event. In the following days, two more images depicting Trudeau in blackface were released to…
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