Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein is a former staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He writes about police, prisons, and protests in the United States. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

North Korea Pleads for Food Aid as Trump Sanctions Noose Tightens

As much as Trump likes to rail against the failed policies of his predecessor, he seems to be mimicking them, using North Korea’s food shortages as leverage to force the country to denuclearize, a move that DPRK believes would bring about only a swifter death.

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North Korea | Food

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA -- A leaked diplomatic memo reveals that the North Korean government is lobbying its allies for assistance in dealing with an “urgent” food shortage crisis needed to stave off hunger this month. But with U.S. and international sanctions in play, delivery of humanitarian aid is risky business. A diplomatic memo obtained by

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With US on the Warpath, Iran’s Press TV the Latest Target for Google’s Political Censorship

Iran finds itself in the crosshairs of social-media censorship, along with a number of other countries that are, incidentally or not, in the crosshairs of the U.S. State Department.

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Iran US Journalist Detained

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA -- Press TV -- the Iranian government-funded TV news outlet -- has been “shut down” on Google’s platforms, including YouTube and Gmail. The move coincides with similar action taken against HispanTV, an Iranian Spanish-language channel. With increasing repression of Iran’s official vehicles of communication to the world,

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Thought Police: US, Israel Increasingly Banning & Deporting Ideological Enemies

Israel and the US are simultaneously stepping up repression in the form of travel restrictions against critics of Israel’s human rights violations.

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Israel and the U.S. are simultaneously stepping up repression in the form of travel restrictions against critics of the apartheid state. A Palestinian activist has been barred from entering the U.S. while an advocate with a leading human rights NGO - Human Rights Watch (HRW) - faced a ruling on Tuesday in Israeli courts which upheld the

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Former ISIS Commanders Rehabilitated as Traffic Cops in Raqqa Suburbs Under US Watch

The rehabilitated ISIS fighters are reportedly “imposing bribes” and royalties on vehicles, “not to mention the shameful acts against the pedestrians in the streets and the harassment of the citizen women.”

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Raqqah, Syria

EIN ISSA, SYRIA -- Locals of Ein Issa, a Syrian town just north of the city of Raqqa are reportedly fed up with former ISIS members and commanders who have been rehabilitated by U.S. proxy forces as traffic cops. “Reliable sources” told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) that former Daesh militants have been converted into “security

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With Russia and China Now in its Sights, US Army to Spend $50B on New Stuff

As with any kind of change of priorities or new projects taken on by the military, defense contractors will be soon scrambling for a piece of the pie, as will the folks on the Hill looking to bring the pork home to their states and districts.

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US Navy

U.S. Army top brass recently announced that they are briefing “top military commanders” about the construction of new weapons that would better prepare them in an all-out war -- or, in their words, a “high-intensity conflict” -- against Russia and China. Army officials have already briefed Admiral Philip Davidson, who oversees all military

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The Assange Poop Smear Was Concocted to Cover Ecuador’s $4.2 B IMF Loan

The truth is at once less and more squalid than the Assange poop story. Ecuador, once among the Latin American “pink tide” nations, since Moreno came into power has been making fast strides towards neoliberalizing its economy. That means cozying up to the U.S.

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Lenin Moreno | Assange

Now that journalist Julian Assange is in the hands of Western authorities thanks to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, their media lapdogs are scraping from the bottom of the barrel to smear the WikiLeaks editor with increasingly absurd claims. While Assange is no stranger to smears, this set is particularly distasteful. It started with

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Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy Vision is Incoherent and Dangerous

While Sanders positions himself as an anti-war candidate, so too did Trump. Sanders even echoes the Trump talking points: China and Russia are our enemies; Maduro won his presidency through election fraud; and Iran is a sponsor of terror.

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is now leading the pack of Democratic contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination. In the previous election cycle, Sanders served as an anti-establishment underdog, bucking Democratic orthodoxy with a strong progressive economic message. But this time the field is more crowded with like-minded candidates

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