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Phyllis Bennis: ISIS Is Filling The Holes Left By The US War On Terror
What gave rise to ISIS and how is the group holding onto power? To answer these questions, journalist, activist and political commentator Phyllis Bennis connects the dots between the fall of Iraq, the U.S. “War on Terror,” and oil. → Read More
Rich Investors Flock To Puerto Rico As Debt Crisis Pushes Poor To The Mainland
Devastating economic times and myriad tax incentives are driving the wealthy to Puerto Rico, but they’re also forcing Puerto Ricans off the island. → Read More
Hunger Striking Palestinian Political Prisoner Mohammad Allan Slips Into Coma
The 31-year-old Palestinian lawyer is one of a number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails who are taking action against abuses and mistreatment at the hands of Israeli authorities. → Read More
Local Police Take The Eye Of Big Brother And Spy On Americans
Police take a que from the federal government and use technology for surveillance and to spy of Americans, raising privacy and fourth amendment concerns. → Read More
What Norway Is Getting Right About Policing That American Cops Just Can’t Figure Out
American police kill an average of three people a day. Norwegian police fired guns twice last year, and they haven’t killed anyone since 2006. → Read More
Roadside Remembrance For Samuel Shields Expresses White Solidarity For Black Lives
Every Thursday evening, a small group of mainly white women hold “Black Lives Matter” and “Honk for Justice” signs on a busy corner in Washington, D.C., expressing their own frustrations with police brutality and America’s systemic racism. → Read More
The Politics Of Punishment: Greece Is Being Destroyed By Europe And Austerity Orthodoxy
With Greece and the eurozone committing to reforms and a bailout that’s still unsustainable, it’s the people of Greece who are left to suffer, not knowing “what will come tomorrow. They don’t know if they’ll have their jobs or if they’ll have money to live,” a Greek expat tells... → Read More
Richard Silverstein On Israel’s Gag Orders And ‘The Middle East’s Only Democracy’
“Security, as the government defines it, trumps everything,” says Richard Silverstein, a veteran journalist who’s made a name for himself by exposing stories Israel’s domestic media are forbidden from touching. → Read More
‘Come Back When You’re Dangerous’: How Police Are Failing The Mentally Ill
Rather than providing the mentally ill with an opportunity to see a mental health professional, one expert says, “We say, ‘Come back when you’re in a crisis. Come back when you’re dangerous.’” → Read More
2016’s Horse Race: The Need For A Third Party And Greater Systemic Change
“I think there’s a mistaken pessimism and defeatism among activists thinking that the mass of money stacked against us means there’s no point,” an advocate for third-party contenders tells MintPress. → Read More
US Government Tested Mustard Gas On Troops Based on Race
“It felt like you were on fire,” a black U.S. Army veteran tells NPR of being a test subject for the effects of mustard gas in a once-secret government program to determine the effects of chemical weapons on different races. → Read More
Billion Dollar Israeli Gas Grab Behind Past 15 Years Of War On Gaza
When gas was discovered in Palestine in 1999, Yasser Arafat proclaimed it was a “gift from God.” So what’s stopping the country from exploiting that gas to the tune of an estimated $2.5 billion to $7 billion, and relieving a host of development problems? MintPress investigates. → Read More
CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Joins Anti-War Activists To Write Letters To Political Prisoners
He spent 30 months in federal prison for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s government-sanctioned torture practices. Now John Kiriakou joins activists from the anti-war group Code Pink to write letters to other activists, dissenters and perceived political prisoners. → Read More
Libya Still Reeling From 2011 NATO Removal Of Gadhafi
From Libya to Mali, Nigeria and Somalia, NATO’s 2011 intervention against Moammar Gadhafi has had an undeniable domino effect -- but when do the dominoes stop falling? → Read More
Beyond Gentrification: Hundreds Of DC Residents Being Forced From Their Homes
It’s no secret that the nation’s capital is also the country’s capital of gentrification. But when MintPress investigated, we found that the city’s poor residents aren’t just getting squeezed out by skyrocketing rents -- they’re victims of forced evictions. → Read More
Time Is Running Out For Israel’s Special Place In America’s Heart
“I think this U.S. policy of protecting Israel on the nuclear issue is not guaranteed, and it’s not necessarily permanent under any circumstances,” Cohen, an expert on Israel’s nuclear program, tells MintPress. → Read More
Gary Sick: The Broadening Threat Of War, Iran Nuclear Deal Naysayers, And Chairman Mao
The former National Security Council staff member and the White House’s point man on Iran’s Islamic Revolution talks to MintPress News about what Chairman Mao and Iraq can show us about how to proceed in Iran. Spoiler alert: Regime change isn’t the answer. → Read More
One Pan-Arab Army To Rule Them All … Or Not
Proposals of a pan-Arab army are generating buzz as a potentially powerful means of containing the threat of ISIS, but history and conflicting agendas are major roadblocks on the path to a unified military force in the Gulf region. → Read More
Beating The War Drums For Iran: How AIPAC Is Splitting America
Nowhere are the dangers of partisan disunity more apparent than in the United States’ handling of foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran and the forces working to maintain it the latest boogeyman of U.S. → Read More
Israel To Finally Face ICC Over War Crimes In Gaza
The International Criminal Court member will soon hear a case against Israel over last year’s war on Gaza and illegal Israeli settlement activity in Palestinian territories. → Read More