Elliott Gabriel

Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and MintPress News based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

Supreme Court Nominee Kavanaugh Is Precisely the Pro-Corporate Right-Wing Hack Progressives Fear

A run-down of Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s positions on various social issues and the danger his appointment could pose to everything from the Department of Labor to the Environmental Protection Agency and even Roe v. Wade.

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, in the East Room of the White House, July 9, 2018, in Washington. Evan Vucci | AP

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s choice Monday night to nominate Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his second Supreme Court nominee has confirmed that Trump seems dead-set on fortifying conservative control of the court for years, if not decades, to come. The 53-year-old Kavanaugh has served on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for 12 years,

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MintPress Spoke to Legal Experts, Rights Advocates and Historians About the Future of the US Supreme Court

MPN spoke to Ajamu Baraka, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Rudy Acuña, and the National Lawyers Guild leadership about the U.S. Supreme Court and the past, present, and future of white supremacy in the U.S.

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Left to right: Ajamu Baraka, National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Executive Director Pooja Gehi, Prof. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña, NLG Vice President Ken Montenegro, and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.

UPDATE 7/10/18:  President Donald Trump’s choice of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his second Supreme Court nominee has confirmed that Trump seems dead-set on fortifying conservative control of the court for years, if not decades, to come. His record of hard-line right-wing stances on a range of social issues confirms what critics feared, and may push

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Duterte Beckons Communist Negotiators “Home” to Talk at Gunpoint, Reds Reject the Invitation

The new conditions also include the relocation of peace talks to the Philippines from their current venue in Oslo, Norway, which would pose the danger that the negotiators would be detained, incarcerated, or simply murdered.

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DAVAO, PHILIPPINES -- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has roundly rejected President Rodrigo Duterte’s set of stringent conditions for the continuation of peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), blasting Manila’s intransigence and accusing it of seeking to drive “another nail to completely shut down”

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Latin America Defends Ecuador Ex-President Correa’s Fight Against US-Backed Persecution

“You have my solidarity, with the security that we will enjoy the final triumph of justice and that our peoples will democratically decide our countries’ futures and the future of Latin America.” — Lula da Silva to Rafael Correa

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Rafael Correa

BRUSSELS -- The still-popular yet polarizing ex-president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa Delgado, is garnering the support of regional figures and mass movements throughout Latin America, as he defies an order that would see him detained in his current country of residence, Belgium, and incarcerated in the Andean nation. On Tuesday, Ecuadorian judge

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Trump Threats of WTO Pullout Spark Fear of “Law of the Jungle,” End to Neoliberal Globalization

The United States has employed the WTO as a means to establish its transnational corporations’ dominance in less-developed markets, using the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO to win far more trade disputes than any other country in the body.

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GENEVA -- President Donald Trump’s threat to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that a failure to treat the U.S. “properly” will mean “we will be doing something” has sent shockwaves rippling through Western capitals who fear that the “America First” agenda is increasingly leading to bruising fights with the other powers who comprise the

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China Warns Tourists to US of Gun Violence, Extreme Weather, Rampant Crime

The U.S. witnessed a 4 percent drop in foreign tourist visits last year. The decline has been called the “Trump Slump” by observers, who credit the outrage sparked by Trump administration policies such as the discriminatory anti-Muslim travel ban and other xenophobic measures.

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Tourists from China take in the sights of the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall National Memorial, in New York. Chinese tourists are among the fastest-growing and highest-spending groups of international visitors to the United States. Mary Altaffer | AP

WASHINGTON -- The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington issued a starkly-worded travel advisory this week for summer tourists traveling to the United States, explaining in so many words that traveling to the country could be hazardous to one’s health unless one takes proper precautions. The advisory reads in large part like a

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On July 4, The United States Celebrates Independence

teleSUR spoke to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Konrad Aderer, Ron Gochez and Ameena Qazi to gather their thoughts on the U.S. holiday.

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4th of july

On the 4th of July, the United States – a nation in the midst of doing all it can to preserve its hegemony and waning global dominance – gears up to celebrate its independence from former empire Britain. Ambitions on such a day, even for a country whose political class routinely touts self-indulgent precepts of “exceptionalism,” run high.

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