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Mr. Means has assailed American agriculture firms and claimed pesticides and the Roundup weed-killer are increasing chronic illness.

Through innumerable “special rapporteurs” and working with many U.N. offices created over decades to pressure Israel, the council annually produces more resolutions assailing Israel than the entire rest of the world.

Politicians love to assail drug makers, but what would Americans do without lifesaving medicines?

On Monday’s Carlson show, Mr. Fuentes assailed “organized Jewry” as the obstacle to American unity and “these Zionist Jews” as the impediment to the right’s success, while calling himself a fan of Joseph Stalin.

China is “assailing U.S. interests from all directions” in Latin America, U.S.

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