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.

Photo Essay: Washington D.C. Honors The Child Victims Of The Taliban

On Wednesday, Dec 17, a vigil was organized at Dupont Circle in Washington DC to grieve with and support the Pakistani community, which lost more than 100 children slain by the Taliban in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday.

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A family attends the DC with Peshawar vigil in Dupont Circle, Washington DC. (Photo: Sean Nevins/MintPress News)   Friends share a flame. (Photo: Sean Nevins/MintPress News)   Dr. Sami from Karachi, Pakistan: He told MintPress, “The true meanings of Islam are love, peace, humanity, acceptance, and tolerance. This is what our prophet

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“Lynching Rebranded”: Mothers Who Lost Children To Police Violence Speak Out

Who has felt the pain of police killings more acutely, more intimately than the mothers of the victims of police violence? Armed with their pain and a will to change the system, some of these mothers met in Washington earlier this month to find ways to work together.

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Police Shooting

Phaedra Parks, left, comforts Desuirea Harris, the grandmother of Michael Brown, during a news conference Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Jennings, Mo. Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed in a confrontation with police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo, on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP/Jeff Roberson) WASHINGTON --- On Dec. 9, a group of

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America Gives Aid To Pakistan, Pakistan Gives Terrorism To The World

“Pakistan is making sure that Afghans do not live in peace, and their whole purpose in Afghanistan is to create a terrorized population,” one demonstrator told MintPress News.

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Afghanistan

An Afghan policeman stands guard near the scene of an attack in Torkham, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Afghan officials say three Taliban suicide bombers targeted NATO fuel trucks at the border with Pakistan, setting off a gunbattle with police guards. (Rahmat Gul/AP) WASHINGTON --- Dozens of Afghan students and

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Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It

MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes.

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WASHINGTON --- Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the global banking

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BDS: The Global Intifada To End Israeli Apartheid

MintPress attended a recent panel discussion where the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movements was a major focus. As one panelist noted: “Such non-violent, humanitarian, human rights-based challenges are too difficult for Israel to combat.”

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Spain Israel Palestinians Protest

WASHINGTON ---  American support for Israel and its denial of Palestinians’ rights is at a tipping point. According to a new poll, 39 percent of Americans think the U.S. should impose sanctions on Israel for building settlements on Palestinian territory. This radical shift in the discourse over Palestinian rights and Israeli impunity in the

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California Case Could Be A Pivotal Moment In Ending The War On Marijuana

Over half of Americans think marijuana should be legalized, and one California case challenging the constitutionality of the DEA’s scheduling of the drug could prove instrumental in ultimately putting an end to the government’s war on marijuana.

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Uruguay Marijuana

Jake Dimmock, of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants in a grow room.  Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP On Jan. 14, 2015, one of the most important criminal cases regarding the status of marijuana as a Schedule I substance will be heard at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of

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Growing Movement Aims To End RE/MAX’s Role In Occupying The West Bank

By marketing and renting residential property in the occupied West Bank, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories says global real estate firm RE/MAX could be guilty of violating international law. The anti-war group CODEPINK agrees.

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WASHINGTON --- Over the next few weeks, activists and supporters of the anti-war group CODEPINK will descend upon the real estate offices of RE/MAX International to peacefully voice their concerns over the company’s rental and sales of homes in the occupied West Bank of Palestine, which includes East Jerusalem. “In about 20 different cities

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