Tag Archives: Bill Clinton

02Feb/26

Epstein Files Release: DOJ Declares Mission Accomplished as 3.5 Million Pages Expose Elite Networks, Trigger Resignations, and Spark Privacy Outcry

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02, Feb. 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) released a final tranche of documents on January 30, 2026, totaling over 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images. While the DOJ identified over 6 million potentially responsive pages, it released only about half, discarding duplicates and non-relevant materials, and has declared its review complete and its legal obligations met. This assertion has drawn bipartisan criticism from lawmakers like Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie, who question why millions of pages remain withheld and are demanding access to unredacted files. Continue reading →

10Apr/23

Good Friday Agreement: the early 1990s back-channel between the IRA and British government that made peace possible

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Niall Ó Dochartaigh, University of Galway

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.

If [the British government] think there is something to be lost by stating publicly how flexible they would be, or how imaginative, we are saying they should tell us privately … there is an avenue which they are aware of whereby they can make what imaginative steps they are thinking about known to the Republican movement.

It was a crucial early step on the road to the Good Friday Agreement.

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