Sean Nevins

Sean Nevins is a Washington DC based staff writer for MintPress focusing on foreign affairs, and the intersection of politics and policy. His work has appeared on Link TV, Inter Press Service, and The Real News Network. He has lived and reported from all over the world and holds a Master’s in Asian Studies (focus: Pakistan) from Lund University in Sweden.

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منذ عام 2009 ، تقدم 17778 أفريقيًا ، معظمهم من اليهود ، بطلبات لجوء في إسرائيل طالبين اللجوء في الدولة اليهودية. تم منح 45 فقط من هؤلاء المتقدمين وضع اللاجئ ، حيث تم رفض معظم الطلبات وسحبها أو سجنها في صحراء النقب على أساس أنهم من السود.

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In this Friday, June 27, 2014 file photo, African migrants clash with Israeli soldiers after they left Holot detention center in southern Israel and walked towards the Border with Egypt near the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nitzana.

Amnesty International released its “The State of the World’s Human Rights” on Wednesday. In the report, the NGO asserts that Israel has denied the rights for fair determination of African asylum seekers and held more than 2,000 African asylum seekers in indefinite detention in a prison in the Negev Desert in 2014. “None of it is surprising,”

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Saudi-Funded French Weapons Sent To Lebanon To Destroy Hezbollah

The Lebanese army’s role is limited to internal security, so how does $25 million in arms from the U.S. and another $3 billion worth of Saudi-funded arms from France fit into that military objective?

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Saad Hariri, Ali Awad Assiri

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, meets with Saudi Ambassador Ali Awad Assiri at Hariri's house in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Hariri, considered Lebanonís most influential Muslim Sunni politician, returned unexpectedly to Lebanon Friday after three years of self-imposed exile. His return comes amid heightened tensions

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Tensions In Syria Threaten To Spark Another Israeli War On Hezbollah

Israel and Hezbollah’s tit-for-tat military aggressions last month are prompting concern about an impending all-out war, but more powerful interests may prevail to keep these enemies at bay.

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An old Israeli tank sits in a position in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria,Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.

An old Israeli tank sits in a position in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria,Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. BEIRUT --- On Jan. 18, six Hezbollah military officers and a general of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) were targeted and killed by a missile in Quneitra, Syria, in an aerial attack allegedly carried out

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Israel Threatens Int’l Criminal Court With Retribution If War Crime Investigations Continue

From forcing the resignation of the head of the U.N. inquiry into Operation Protective Edge to calling for cuts to funding, Israel is pulling out all the stops to prevent the International Criminal Court from investigating war crimes allegations stacking up against it.

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Firefighters extinguish a fire in the rubble of the destroyed 15-story Basha Tower, following early morning Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. BEIRUT --- Israel is pulling out all the stops to prevent an examination by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands into alleged war crimes

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Video Shows DC Man Jailed Over A $2 Bus Ticket Being Severely Beaten By Guards Then Killed

The death of a D.C.-area man while in police custody in June sheds light on two important problems facing America: police brutality and the mass incarceration of the mentally ill.

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Samuel Shields, who died while in the custody of the Prince George's County Correctional Center.

Samuel Shields, who died while in the custody of the Prince George's County Correctional Center. WASHINGTON --- On June 17, 2014 Samuel Shields, a jovial and charismatic reggae musician from Jamaica, boarded a bus in Washington, D.C. on his way to Addison Road Metro Station, located just over the state border in Capitol Heights, Maryland.

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How The US, Its Allies And Syria Unwittingly Corporatized ISIS

ISIS operates as both a company and a government that’s spun totally out of control. The group is selling oil to Assad and U.S. allies — allies who are also arming them. But how did this happen? How did ISIS become the world’s wealthiest, most sophisticated terrorist group?

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Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered American in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON --- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has created an empire that stretches hundreds of miles through the countries of its namesake. It has accumulated riches that enable it to fund a war, govern a population of around 8 million people, and operate massive amounts of infrastructure in the areas it has conquered. During a talk in

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Beyond Climate Change: Cruz, Rubio Appointments Could Threaten US-Russia Relations

The Republican-controlled Senate recently appointed climate change skeptics to committees which oversee two of the country’s major agencies that study the issue. These appointments could have major implications that echo here on Earth and out in space.

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Ted Cruz

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, waves to the crowd at a Republican victory party Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Photo: David J. Phillip/AP WASHINGTON --- On Jan. 8 the Republican-majority U.S. Senate appointed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as the chairman of Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)

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