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Yemen’s Houthis on U.S. Attacks and Their Blockade of Israel
MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
29 Jan 2024 – Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansar Allah, discusses the blockade and Yemen’s escalating tensions with the United States.
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Suspicious Israeli Stock Market Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023 – False Flag Like 9/11? Hearkening back to the days preceding the 9/11 attacks, suspicious stock market activity suggests that someone with prior knowledge of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood sought to capitalize on the events on October 7.
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Hamas Uses Human Shields? The Evidence
Behind the Headlines | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
28 Nov 2023 – For years we have heard in Western corporate media that Hamas uses civilians as human shields. So, what does the evidence show?
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Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – After Hamas launched a surprise attack, Israeli Defense Forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people but Western media have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as spokespersons for IDF.
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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke
Mnar Adley | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Here’s how this deadly disaster has everything to do with the Obama administration and NATO’s 2011 “humanitarian intervention” to overthrow Muammar Qadaffi. The US and NATO bombed Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets. Before, Libya was the most successful country in Africa.
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Transparency International’s Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence’s Game
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Expressing “astonishment,” many compared TINZ’s consultation of high-ranking lobbyists on how to clean up their own industry as akin to “police recruiting gang members to determine new rules on pursuit of fleeing drivers.” Yet, anyone familiar with Transparency International’s history would hardly be surprised.
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China’s Diplomatic Evolution: A Potential Ally for Palestinians’ Quest for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
16 Aug 2023 – It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. Even before Beijing successfully managed to achieve reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran last April, Chinese diplomacy has shown exceptional maturity.
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Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions about What US Was Doing All Along
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – The Taliban government in Afghanistan, which produced 90% of the world’s heroin, has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country; up to 99% in some provinces. This raises questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years of occupation.
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New Files Reveal MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – Renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton exposes a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files obtained through Freedom of Information reveal ties between the infamous MKULTRA program and nightmarish experiments on prisoners of color in the United States.
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The War on Julian Assange
Lowkey interviews Stella Assange | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world’s most famous political prisoner.
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How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground for Global Torture
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – The School of the Americas (now known as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC), where around 84,000 Latin American soldiers and police officers have been taught how to kill, torture and how to stamp out political activists.
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Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine
Jessica Buxbaum | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023 – Technology has become integral to our modern lives, but for Palestinians, Big Tech has also become another way Israel enacts control. Multinational tech companies facilitate Israel’s human rights violations.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter’s bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s bombshell.
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The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – There is one line at the very end of the State Department’s statement that is particularly cynical: “We look to both sides not to take steps that actually make things worse.” This comment is noteworthy because Blinken did make one proposal that will make things far worse and will without doubt bring about more violence.
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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.
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Moral High Ground
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Are you serious? Really?? Wow!
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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
31 Oct 2022 – A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have positions of influence in the biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population.
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The Israel Files: WikiLeaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel to Defend Its War Crimes
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
23 Sep 2022 – Exploring and highlighting the many revelations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that WikiLeaks documents disclosed in hopes of shedding light on many of the most important and underreported revelations the publishing group exposed.
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Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.
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New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore
Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.
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The Paradoxical Seeds of the Holocaust: Oppression and Death Live on in the Apartheid State
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors.
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An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War
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Really??
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
No Shame…
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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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Hawaii’s Red Hill Disaster: The Latest Episode in 200 Years of Colonialism
Lowkey | The Watchdog, MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – In November, a huge underground US Navy fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes.
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“Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
Alan Macleod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – War Drums Sounding – While many in the Horn of Africa clearly need help, the Biden administration’s idea of “help” might not be exactly what they had in mind.
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Ultimate Dog Whistle: World Misses Israel’s Hebrew-Language Incitement against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Israeli State-sponsored terrorism and incitement against the Palestinians are not new. The Naqab–Zionist incitement against Palestinians–is at all-time high but you wouldn’t know it because it is all done in Hebrew. The violent, racist-supremacist discourse that takes place in the Israeli media and among Israeli politicians is all in Hebrew and so it gets little or no attention worldwide.
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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
Dan Cohen | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. How the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.
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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.
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Reality
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
When Masks Fall Down
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The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda
Raul Diego | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.
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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Goes Uninterrupted, but Is Europe Finally Taking Notice?
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
22 Dec 2020 – A long and cruel siege, constant Israeli attacks resulting in the killing of countless civilians, destruction of homes and infrastructure, extreme poverty, and trauma remain the daily bread of Palestinians in Gaza.
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Civil Rights 2020
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
What change?
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Western Martyrdom
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
Fiction of Biblical Proportion: ‘The truth shall set you free.’ Right!!
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Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
Alan Macleod – MintPress News,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – After refusing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the state of Israel, the state of Georgia shut down a media literacy conference featuring journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin at Georgia Southern University. “This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin
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Jeff Bezos Donates Three Minutes’ Income to Help Australia Fight Wildfires
Alan Macleod – MintPress News,
27 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the newly crowned richest person in the world, announced yesterday that his company was donating one million Australian Dollars (around 690,000 U.S. Dollars) to help the country deal with the continent-wide fires. The donation would be equivalent to someone who earned $500 per week announcing that they had just donated five cents to help tackle the blazes.
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Modern Martyrdom
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
2 Sep 2019
The truth shall set you free? Really?
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Breaking the Media Blackout on the Imprisonment of Julian Assange
Mnar Muhawesh - MintPress News,
2 Sep 2019
26 Aug 2019 – The role of journalism in a democracy is publishing information that empowers the public to become more engaged citizens so that we can vote in representatives that work in the interest of “we the people.” The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.
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Reading Reuters between the Lines: Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela Is Toast
Roger D. Harris – MintPress News,
8 Jul 2019
4 Jul 2019 – A critical reading between the lines of a Reuters article confirms that Washington has failed to cobble together a united opposition in Venezuela that is popular enough to win in the polls, likely signaling the end for Juan Guaidó.
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More of the Same…
Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Apr 2019
Clouts. Right!
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Vampire
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Apr 2019
Thirsty…
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«Humanitarian» — Really?
Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
Who needs enemies with friends like these?
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A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Protesters
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect.”
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Meanwhile, in Syria
Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Mar 2019
More of the same
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Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Mar 2019
No comment…
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“Largest Land Grab since 1948” — Israel to Expel 36,000 Palestinians from Negev
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
18 Feb 2019
Given the Israeli state’s rejection of their existence, government officials have called the Palestinians living in these villagers “violators” and “squatters” – accusing them of illegally occupying “state lands.”
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Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Feb 2019
Change not always is an improvement…
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Leaked WikiLeaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
11 Feb 2019
7 Feb 2019 – This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will.
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Meanwhile, in Palestine aka Israel
Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Feb 2019
More of the same…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
28 Jan 2019
For the Sake of Power
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Latuff – MintPress News,
14 Jan 2019
Evil face of evil empire…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
24 Dec 2018
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Whatever that means…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Nov 2018
Fascism anyone?
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Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Oct 2018
The Fact of the Matter
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Getting Boring Already
Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Autistic Crying Wolf
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Latuff – MintPress News,
8 Oct 2018
Media No-Show
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Latuff – MintPress News,
1 Oct 2018
Business as Usual…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
1 Oct 2018
Come to Daddy…
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UN Report Finds ISIS Given “Breathing Space” in US-Occupied Areas of Syria
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
20 Aug 2018
By maintaining an ISIS pocket in the territory it occupies, the U.S. can continue to justify its illegal presence in the country for the long-term, ultimately substituting Iran for ISIS as its new regional boogeyman.
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LATUFF – MintPress News,
13 Aug 2018
Ahmed Tamimi’s Cry of Victory
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Latuff – MintPress News,
6 Aug 2018
Apartheid Jewish Style
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Latuff – MintPress News,
30 Jul 2018
Politics as usual…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
9 Jul 2018
Might Makes… What?
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Latuff – MintPress News,
2 Jul 2018
Of course…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
25 Jun 2018
Advancing American/Saudi Interests in the Region
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UN Warns 10 Million More Yemenis Expected to Starve to Death by End of Year
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
11 Jun 2018
According to the UN, the number of Yemenis in danger of starving to death would rise from the current figure of 8.4 million to 18.4 million by this December. That’s three times the estimated death toll of Jews killed during the Holocaust.
→ read full articleThe Iran ‘Deal’
Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Jun 2018
Messenger of Doom
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Latuff – MintPress News,
28 May 2018
War Crime of the Century
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Latuff – MintPress News,
21 May 2018
Messenger?
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Latuff – MintPress News,
7 May 2018
True Identity…
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Latuff – MintPress News,
30 Apr 2018
Outlaws above International Law…
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Famed War Reporter Robert Fisk Reaches Syrian ‘Chemical Attack’ Site, Concludes “They Were Not Gassed”
Zero Hedge – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
17 Apr 2018 – Not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he’s encountered multiple local eyewitnesses who say the gas attack never happened. Fisk is the first Western journalist to reach and report from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack widely blamed on Assad’s forces.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
Same old, same old…
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How the US Occupied the 30% of Syria Containing Most of Its Oil, Water and Gas
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
While gaining control of key resources for partitioning Syria and destabilizing the government in Damascus, the U.S.’ main goal in occupying the oil and water rich northeastern Syria is aimed not at Syria but at Iran.
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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Takes on Syrian White Helmets, Thought-Control
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
23 Apr 2018
17 Apr 2018 – Roger Waters, former guitarist for Pink Floyd, spoke out against the Syrian White Helmets during a recent concert in Barcelona, calling the group “fake” and existing for the sole purpose of creating propaganda for a Western audience on behalf of Syrian opposition groups.
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Latuff – MintPress News,
9 Apr 2018
29 Mar 2018 – Trump in Bad Company
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Death of Marielle Franco Shines Light on the White Collar Criminals Running Brazil
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2018
Death of the New Republic: White-collar criminals in Brasília are ruling the country. Drug lords, paramilitaries, death squads, military police, and now also the army are terrorizing the population in the slums and the suburbs.
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Algorithmic Censorship: Google and Corporate News Giants Forge New Alliance to Defeat Independent Journalism
Elliott Gabriel – MintPress News,
2 Apr 2018
23 Mar 2018 – The “new media” monopolists of Silicon Valley and the once-dominant traditional print media have clearly agreed that the “fake news” frenzy is a convenient pretext to step up their censorship of the internet through new algorithms, allowing them to boost their profit margins and silence opposition through a new framework of “algorithmic censorship.”
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Should Israeli Settlers Be Considered Civilians?
Robert Inlakesh – MintPress News,
2 Apr 2018
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Mar 2018
Tailored
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Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Mar 2018
It figures…
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Drawing Palestine from Prison: The Artwork of Palestinian Cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh
Ramona Wadi – MintPress News,
19 Mar 2018
“Most artists describe the Palestinian as a hero, even if imprisoned or killed by Israelis. I prefer to convey the message that Palestinians are human beings, so I portray suffering. The hero does not need anyone to stand with him — the hero is strong — but human beings need and demand someone to show solidarity with them.”
→ read full articleNATO Allies… (?)
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Feb 2018
Where (ex) Empires Clash
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A Rare Glimpse into the Inner Workings of American Empire in the Middle East
Edward Hunt – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – Four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing that it is still about oil and regional dominance.
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
29 Jan 2018
Busy body seeding destruction…
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
15 Jan 2018
Recycling Old Garbage
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
25 Dec 2017
Clobbered!
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The Case against Iraqing Iran
David Swanson | World Beyond War – MintPress News,
18 Dec 2017
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum. Sanctions become, as with Iraq, a stepping stone to war. Cutting off diplomacy leaves few options open. Electoral pissing contests take us all where most of us did not want to be.
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Trump’s Jerusalem
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Dec 2017
Idiocy + Power = Disaster
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Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Dec 2017
No comment
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Military Industrial Complex: Shadow World Exposes Greed, Profit and the Business of War
Kevin Gosztola – MintPress News,
27 Nov 2017
A new PBS documentary looks deep into the shadowy world of the global arms trade, profit-making from war, and the politicians who sell the interests of their constituents to the highest bidder.
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Mass Shooters Are Disproportionately US Veterans
David Swanson – MintPress News,
20 Nov 2017
US Military Veterans Are More than Twice as Likely to Be Mass Shooters – It’s important to answer because it’s important for us to know whether military training is contributing to this epidemic,
→ read full article“AmazonLog” — A Military Drill with Vast Amazonian Aspirations: US Empire of Bases
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
13 Nov 2017
While placing pressure on Venezuela could well be part of the agenda behind the public face of this week’s combined military drill, the move is likely reflective of the larger goal of establishing a permanent U.S. military presence in the Amazon.
→ read full articleDouble Standards
Latuff – MintPress News,
6 Nov 2017
Why?
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Latuff – MintPress News,
23 Oct 2017
U.S. Warriors? Farmers? Drug Dealers? Capitalists? All of the above? What?
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Latuff – MintPress News,
16 Oct 2017
Trump & Netanyahu, US-Iran Nuclear Agreement
→ read full articleIn Neoliberal Putsch, Brazil Auctions Off Indigenous Lands, Public Utilities to Foreign Interests
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
9 Oct 2017
Thursday’s [28 Sep] auction was a juicy meal for the 32 corporate bidders, which included such major Western energy giants as Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP. Unprecedented in size and in the opposition it provoked, the auction fit neatly into Temer’s neoliberal agenda for Brazil.
→ read full articleUS H-Bomb Testing Forgotten In Media Frenzy Over North Korea Threat
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
As the U.S. detonated nuclear bomb after nuclear bomb in the Marshall Islands – amounting to 23 tests of both fission and fusion bombs over a 12-year period – evacuated islanders and others nearby were intentionally exposed to radiation fallout from the testing, in what would become known as “Project 4.1.”
→ read full articleOil, Gas, Geopolitics Guide U.S. Hand in Playing the Rohingya Crisis
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
Internal conflict, appropriately located, spells geopolitical opportunity. With U.S. ally Saudi Arabia funding and stoking Rohingya insurgencies, the U.S. creates a chance to blockade China’s oil supply and provide Aung San Suu Kyi the military cooperation needed to wrest Myanmar back from Chinese influence.
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