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

Hurricane Isaac Exposes Ongoing Fallout From BP Oil Spill

This Jan. 4, 2008 file photo shows BP’s Texas City refinery in Texas City, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) (NEW YORK) MintPress — Hurricane Isaac has already left people on the Gulf Coast struggling with flooding, wind damage and power failures, but it may also be dredging up trouble from disasters past, namely oil from […]

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This Jan. 4, 2008 file photo shows BP's Texas City refinery in Texas City, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Hurricane Isaac has already left people on the Gulf Coast struggling with flooding, wind damage and power failures, but it may also be dredging up trouble from disasters past, namely oil from the April 20, 2010 BP oil spill. After a Greenpeace research team said it had taken samples from beaches along the Alabama coast

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Bush Legacy A Political Football At Conventions

In this Sept. 2, 2004 file photo, President George W. Bush speaks to the delegates at the Republican National Convention in New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (NEW YORK) MintPress — Noticeably absent from last week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa was former President George W. Bush, who left office in 2009 with a 22 […]

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In this Sept. 2, 2004 file photo, President George W. Bush speaks to the delegates at the Republican National Convention in New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Noticeably absent from last week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa was former President George W. Bush, who left office in 2009 with a 22 percent approval rating. Ironically, he appears to be mentioned more at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. "Bush is sort of political herpes. He is just going

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Desmond Tutu Calls For Blair To Face International Criminal Court

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in fighting apartheid, speaks during a felicitation event for him in Dharmsala, India, in this Feb. 10, 2012 file photo. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File) (NEW YORK) MintPress — When the 2012 Discovery Invest Leadership Summit was held in Johannesburg last Thursday, one of the […]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in fighting apartheid, speaks during a felicitation event for him in Dharmsala, India, in this Feb. 10, 2012 file photo. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, File)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — When the 2012 Discovery Invest Leadership Summit was held in Johannesburg last Thursday, one of the keynote speakers was noticeably absent from  the program: South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who withdrew from the conference at the last minute to protest the attendance of former British prime minister Tony

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Texas Voter ID Ruling Highlights Push By Republicans For Discriminatory Voting Requirements

In this May 1, 2012, file photo, Viviette Applewhite, 93, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s tough new voter identification law, speaks in a video played during a news conference in the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., as one of her lawyers, Witold J. Walczak of the American Civil Liberties Union. (AP Photo/Marc […]

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In this May 1, 2012, file photo, Viviette Applewhite, 93, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law, speaks in a video played during a news conference in the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., as one of her lawyers, Witold J. Walczak of the American Civil Liberties Union. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — The decision by a federal court last week to strike down a Texas voter ID law is a major blow to that state’s legislators as well as Republican lawmakers and governors around the country who are pushing for similar stringent identification requirements. The rejection highlights what is becoming an increasingly contentious

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NYPD Rights Violations Costing City Millions In Payouts

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly speaks near the Empire State Building following a shooting, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano) (NEW YORK) MintPress — Illegal arrests, police brutality and cops withholding medication from inmates — justs some of the accusations against the NYPD in nearly three dozen lawsuits filed between July […]

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Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly speaks near the Empire State Building following a shooting, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)

(NEW YORK) MintPress — Illegal arrests, police brutality and cops withholding medication from inmates — justs some of the accusations against the NYPD in nearly three dozen lawsuits filed between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. To make them go away, the city paid out $22.8 million in 35 settlements and judgments worth $100,000 or more. The

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New Questions Of Medical Abuse At Gitmo As Anti-Malaria Drug Allegedly Used For Adverse Side Effects

In this handout photo from the Department of Defense made available Friday Jan. 18, 2002, Taliban and al-Qaida detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during in-processing to the temporary detention facility on Jan. 11, 2002. (APPhoto/Shane […]

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Guantanamo

(NEW YORK) MintPress — The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay suffered minimal damage from Hurricane Isaac, but it is once again being hit by allegations of detainee abuse. A piece in the medical journal Tropical Medicine and International Health is raising questions about possible medical abuse at the prison facility because of the use of a

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One New York Occupier’s Fight For Political Change

George Martinez, former Democratic District Leader from the 51st Assembly District in Brooklyn, NY speaks in New York in 2008. (Screen capture from YouTube) (NEW YORK) Mint Press — The March on the RNC has begun, and the protests are expected to continue all week. “We are a Coalition uniting groups from around the country to […]

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George Martinez, former Democratic District Leader from the 51st Assembly District in Brooklyn, NY speaks in New York in 2008. (Screen capture from YouTube)

(NEW YORK) Mint Press — The March on the RNC has begun, and the protests are expected to continue all week. “We are a Coalition uniting groups from around the country to say NO to this political system that only works for the 1%,” said organizers in a statement. “We therefore are marching at the Republican National Convention to let our voices be

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