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North Carolina Prison Imposes 9-Month Lockdown On 600 Inmates
Approximately 600 prisoners have been under intermittent lockdown since late December at North Carolina’s Scotland Correctional Institution, according to Keith Acree, the communications officer at...
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Record Gas Project Depends On Diplomatic Balancing Act
The biggest gas deal in history to deliver fuel from the Caspian coast off of Azerbaijan, through Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and into Italy, is fast approaching reality. The...
View ArticleVIDEO: 400,000 People Against Climate Change Heat Up New York City
Up to 400,000 activists, organizations, and people from all over the world marched in New York City over the weekend to express solidarity in the fight against climate change. The People’s Climate...
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Meet The Man Lobbying America To Divide Iraq
Ali Hatem al-Suleiman WASHINGTON — As the United States sends bombers into the Middle East, an Iraqi tribal leader has sent lobbyists to Washington to create a semi-autonomous Sunni state and convince...
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Judge Denies DOJ’s Request For Closed Hearing At Force-feeding Trial
A U.S. Navy nurse stands next to a chair with restraints, used for force-feeding, and a tray displaying. (AP/Charles Dharapak) WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has rejected a...
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Could An Iranian Nuclear Deal Be The Answer to Stability In The Middle East?
WASHINGTON — The regional implications for an Iran nuclear deal would be profound, yet they could possibly lead to something even greater, the likes of which have not been seen since Nixon’s...
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ISIS: Military Contractors’ “Gravy Train” To Profits
Thick smoke ad debris from an airstrike by the US-led coalition risesin Kobani, Syria. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis) WASHINGTON — Since the beginning of the year, the defense stocks of America’s top five...
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American Citizen On The Verge Of Death In Egyptian Jail
Photo from Change.org page of the Free Soltan Campaign. WASHINGTON — “Last year I put my hands up like #Mike Brown did and the Egyptian police shot me twice with bullets my US gov’t paid for!” wrote...
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Rasmea Odeh: Raped And Tortured By Israel, Now Being Prosecuted By The U.S.
WASHINGTON — Rasmea Yousef Odeh, 67, was brutally tortured and sexually assaulted in an Israeli jail in 1969. She was beaten with plastic sticks and a metal bar, compelling her to confess to a crime...
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The Forgotten Hunger Strikers Of Guantánamo Bay
A prisoner walks through a communal pod inside an area of the Guantanamo Bay detention center known as Camp 6, an area for prisoners who are considered “highly compliant” with the rules, at Guantanamo...
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American In Cairo Jail In Critical Condition As Hunger Strike Approaches 300...
Egyptian activist Mohammed Soltan (R), stages hunger strike for 263 days, meets with his father, well known Muslim Brotherhood official, Salah Soltan (L) on court hall before the trial that accuses him...
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The US Quietly Considers Sanctions Against The Biggest Threat To ISIS: Hezbollah
Hezbollah fighters stand on their armed vehicles and hold their party flags, as they parade during a rally to mark the 13th day of Ashoura, in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, Friday,...
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The US Prison System Perpetuates “The Criminalization Of Disability”
Merle Baldridge, 42, is fifth generation deaf. “I’m deaf, my family’s deaf… We’ve been deaf for over a hundred years, you know, we’re proud and strong,” he told MintPress News from Columbia River...
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Growing Movement Aims To End RE/MAX’s Role In Occupying The West Bank
A Palestinian boy protests outside an Israeli settlement. (Photo: Garry Walsh/flickr) WASHINGTON — Over the next few weeks, activists and supporters of the anti-war group CODEPINK will descend upon the...
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California Case Could Be A Pivotal Moment In Ending The War On Marijuana
(AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico). On Jan. 14, 2015, one of the most important criminal cases regarding the status of marijuana as a Schedule I substance will be heard at the U.S. District Court for the...
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BDS: The Global Intifada To End Israeli Apartheid
A man holds a sticker calling for a boycott against Israeli goods to protest against Israel’s offensive in Gaza in Pamplona, Northern Spain, Thursday, July 31, 2014. WASHINGTON — American support for...
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Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It
WASHINGTON — Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay...
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America Gives Aid To Pakistan. Pakistan Gives Terrorism To The World
An Afghan policeman stands guard near the scene of an attack in Torkham, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Afghan officials say three Taliban suicide bombers targeted NATO fuel...
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“Lynching Rebranded”: Mothers Who Lost Children To Police Violence Speak Out
Phaedra Parks, left, comforts Desuirea Harris, the grandmother of Michael Brown, during a news conference Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Jennings, Mo. Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed in a...
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Photo Essay: Washington D.C. Honors The Child Victims Of The Taliban
A family attends the DC with Peshawar vigil in Dupont Circle, Washington DC. (Photo: Sean Nevins/MintPress News) Friends share a flame. (Photo: Sean Nevins/MintPress News) Dr. Sami from Karachi,...
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