Lisa Barron

Lisa Barron is Mint Press's former New York Correspondent. She has worked for leading news organizations, including Time, Inc., CNN, CNBC and CBS News, in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East as well as in the United States. She has won two Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association and a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media for her work in Iraq, where she spent fourteen months covering the war for CBS News Radio, CBS Newspath and WCBS-TV. Contact Lisa at [email protected]. Follow Lisa on Twitter at @LisaBarronMPN

NYPD Cracks Down on Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Protests

Occupy Wall Street’s one year anniversary was celebrated by some 1,000 activists, significantly fewer than the number of supporters who turned out for demonstrations during the movement’s heydey.

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Occupy Wall Street protestor Chris Philips screams as he is arrested near Zuccotti Park, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Occupy Wall Street’s one year anniversary was celebrated by some 1,000 activists, significantly fewer than the number of supporters who turned out for demonstrations during the movement’s heydey, not only because they have lost much of their energy after being evicted from Zuccotti Park last November, but also because New York’s finest were at it

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Private Prisons Trying To Drum Up Business Across The Country

A prison cell is shown in this AP photo. (AP Photo) (NEW YORK) MintPress — Once again, the nation’s private prison industry claims to be trying to alleviate the huge burden that many states are carrying due to overcrowded prisons and underfunded budgets when it is in fact trying to create the market conditions necessary to […]

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A prison cell is shown in this undated photo. (Photo/AP )

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Once again, the nation’s private prison industry claims to be trying to alleviate the huge burden that many states are carrying due to overcrowded prisons and underfunded budgets when it is in fact trying to create the market conditions necessary to expand its own business. In its latest and perhaps brashest move, the

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Access To Banking Services For Lower Income Consumers Dwindles As Wealth Gap Grows

This photo taken July 16, 2012 shows Claudia Pedroza, 39, and her eight-year-old daughter Karla Osorio at the Jefferson Action Center in Lakewood, Colo. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt) (NEW YORK) MintPress — One week after the Democratic National Convention, a slew of new data is taking some of the shine off of the self-congratulatory speeches and […]

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This photo taken July 16, 2012 shows Claudia Pedroza, 39, and her eight-year-old daughter Karla Osorio at the Jefferson Action Center in Lakewood, Colo. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — One week after the Democratic National Convention, a slew of new data is taking some of the shine off of the self-congratulatory speeches and showing that even if the Obama administration’s economic policies are on the right track, there is a long way to go before it can claim Americans are better off than they were four

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Obscure Anti-Muslim Film That Sparked Mideast Riots: Sam Bacile Isn’t Who He Says He Is

Protesters chant slogans amid orange smoke outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid) (NEW YORK) MintPress — It was, unfortunately, another 9/11 to remember. This time, the attacks on American soil were not against Americans, and the attacks against Americans did not take place on American soil, […]

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Protesters chant slogans amid orange smoke outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — It was, unfortunately, another 9/11 to remember. This time, the attacks on American soil were not against Americans, and the attacks against Americans did not take place on American soil, but they were once again the result of religious extremism that continues to threaten peaceful American-Islamic relations both inside the

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Occupy Hong Kong Poses Major Contradictions In The Movement

Bailiffs evict the protester the Asian headquarters of HSBC in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) (NEW YORK) MintPress — The end has finally come for one of the global Occupy movement’s longest-running encampments in Hong Kong. On Tuesday afternoon, security guards completed the removal of a handful of protesters from the street-level plaza underneath the […]

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Bailiffs evict the protester the Asian headquarters of HSBC in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — The end has finally come for one of the global Occupy movement’s longest-running encampments in Hong Kong. On Tuesday afternoon, security guards completed the removal of a handful of protesters from the street-level plaza underneath the Asian headquarters of HSBC, located in the Central business district, Hong Kong’s

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People In Africa Are Starving So The West Can Drive

A Somali man from southern Somalia rests in a makeshift shelter in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, July 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor) (NEW YORK) MintPress — It seems that gravity can be defied when it comes to the price of oil and, more recently, food. This summer’s jump in maize, wheat and soya bean prices, […]

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A Somali man from southern Somalia rests in a makeshift shelter in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, July 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — It seems that gravity can be defied when it comes to the price of oil and, more recently, food. This summer’s jump in maize, wheat and soya bean prices, driven by the record-breaking drought in the United States, was the third spike in the last five years. And a recent report from Oxfam said the U.S. should expect further

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Study Finds Young Vets Prematurely Aging, Highlighting Need For Better Care

In this Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. German Gomez, 23, from Houston, Texas, of the 118th Military Police Co., based at Fort Bragg, N.C., stands guard during a training session for Afghanistan National Police at their combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan’s Wardak Province. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) (NEW […]

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In this Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army Sgt. German Gomez, 23, from Houston, Texas, of the 118th Military Police Co., based at Fort Bragg, N.C., stands guard during a training session for Afghanistan National Police at their combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — The war in Iraq may be over and combat in Afghanistan is coming to an end in 2014, but for many of the young veterans of these conflicts, the battle is just beginning. New evidence shows that former soldiers and Marines in their 20s and 30s appear to be growing old before their time. Scientists are seeing early signs of

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