Jo Erickson

Jo Erickson is a Mint Press investigative journalist and producer specializing in criminal and social justice as well as politics. She worked as the BBC’s News and Current Affairs Producer, breaking the news of the 2011 London riots while also covering African affairs and human rights. She has been published in The Guardian, The Daily Mirror and various U.K. publications. She has worked as an undercover journalist and filmed documentaries for the BBC exposing crime and terrorism. Contact Jo at [email protected] .

What Do the World Bank and IMF Really Do for Needy Countries? Add More Poverty

The World Bank creates programs to allow international companies to invest in developing countries’ agriculture, health, and water as well as promote local enterprise — giving locals the assistance they need. Sound too good to be true? It probably is.

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Ecuador IMF Protest Photo of the day

Coming in with their guns, breaking down people’s doors, throwing my blankets and pans into the road and pulling my roof down, that’s what is happening here. They want us gone. Those were the words of Abdellahi, an Ethiopian farmer who was forcibly driven from his land by soldiers to make way for a World Bank $2 billion program that will hand over

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Oprah Encounters Racism In Switzerland

Winfrey asked to see a €21,000 bag and was apparently told by the assistant that the bags on display was “too expensive” for her.

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Was it a very costly misunderstanding, or was it racism? That’s the question most people are weighing up. Oprah Winfrey, one of the world wealthiest women, claimed an assistant working in an exclusive upmarket handbag shop in Zurich, Switzerland refused to serve her. Winfrey asked to see a €21,000 bag and was apparently told by the assistant that

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Report: The US Government Wants Your Tweets

Twitter released its semiannual transparency report exposing a 40 percent rise in governmental requests for users’ private information.

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I spy with my U.S. government eye: someone is tweeting you. Every day there seem to be more revelations of the U.S. government’s secret surveillance program by the NSA, tapping into user accounts, phone metadata and now social media networks of ordinary people. In a rare instance of transparency, Twitter released its semiannual transparency report

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Coming Soon To U.S. Skies: The Military’s Spying Blimp

The U.S. Defense Department is upgrading its defense systems to include military spying blimps.

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Washington’s corridors of power have been busy in recent months dealing with the National Security Agency’s collection of private phone records and metadata, but that’s not the only issue of national security on federal officials’ radar. Envisioning scenarios of a 9/11-like terrorist attack on Washington, D.C., the U.S. Defense Department is

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French Politician’s Racist Remarks Tap Growing Xenophobic Sentiment In Europe

French MP Gilles Bourdouleix was recently reported as saying, “Maybe Hitler didn’t kill enough” of the Roma.

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Faced with a growing trend of vigilantes forcibly burning Roma camps and evicting Roma travelers, French politicians this week stirred up far-right groups like the National Front and Movement for France with more hateful rhetoric and racial discrimination.  While touring a Roma traveler site in the town of Cholet, French MP Gilles Bourdouleix was

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The Super PAC Effect: The Case Of Michele Bachmann (PODCAST)

Are voters disillusioned by Michele Bachmann’s shady campaign spending? Mint Press News investigates.

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[soundcloud id='101598045'] Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her campaign paid an $8,000 penalty for inaccurately disclosing more than $200,000 in receipts and disbursements in 2010. Are these penalties too small to protect democracy? In this podcast, Mint Press News investigates the effect of big money on campaigns, and whether any candidate

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Rape On The Reservation: Sexual Assault In The Native American Community

One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. This report tells the story behind this shocking statistic.

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[soundcloud id='98426712']   One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. This report tells the story behind this shocking statistic — revealing the human tragedy of mother and daughter as they struggle to cope with shame and the systematic failure of police and tribal lawmakers to prosecute offenders. In this

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