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Three British soldiers, wearing chemical and biological protective gear, sit in front of portraits of members of the Saudi royal family in a hotel lobby while waiting for the all-clear siren during a Scud missile alert in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, during the Persian Gulf War in this February 26, 1991 photo. (APPhoto/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Private Prisons Working With Police To Benefit From School Raids

In this April 11, 2010 photo, handcuffed teenagers are seen outside the Thomas Cooley High School in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) (MintPress) – When students at Arizona’s Vista Grande High School were put on lockdown for a random drug search this month, their situation wasn’t much different from other students across the country. What was […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak
In this April 11, 2010 photo, people are handcuffed in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

(MintPress) – When students at Arizona’s Vista Grande High School were put on lockdown for a random drug search this month, their situation wasn’t much different from other students across the country. What was different, however, was the involvement of a for-profit prison in the operation of the drug raid. Corrections Corporation of

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WikiLeaks Blockade Ordered By Lieberman, King Circumvents US Treasury Laws

A computer screen shows a WikiLeaks logo, during a live video conference call between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the media, in Brussels, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe) (MintPress) – Documents released recently by WikiLeaks show that the 2011 blockade on Visa and Mastercard transactions are in breach of U.S. Treasury laws. The […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
A computer screen shows a WikiLeaks logo, during a live video conference call between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the media, in Brussels, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

(MintPress) – Documents released recently by WikiLeaks show that the 2011 blockade on Visa and Mastercard transactions are in breach of U.S. Treasury laws. The action has been crippling for the online free speech project, potentially wiping out 95 percent of the site’s revenue of approximately $50 million. Instead of going the traditional legal

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EU ‘Schizophrenic’ on Palestine State Bid: Exclusive Interview With General Delegate Of Palestine To EU

Leila Shahid, the general delegate of Palestine to the European Union, sits during an interview with MintPress in Brussels. (Photo by Magda Fahsi) (BRUSSELS) – On Nov. 29, exactly 65 years after the U.N. vote on the partition of historical Palestine, the Palestinian government will submit to the U.N. General Assembly a resolution asking to accord […]

Magda Fahsi
بواسطة Magda Fahsi
Leila Shahid, the general delegate of Palestine to the European Union, sits during an interview with MintPress in Brussels. (Photo by Magda Fahsi)

(BRUSSELS) - On Nov. 29, exactly 65 years after the U.N. vote on the partition of historical Palestine, the Palestinian government will submit to the U.N. General Assembly a resolution asking to accord to Palestine an observer state status in the United Nations system. Whereas the United States and Israel lobbied intensively to prevent the move,

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Bangladesh Factory Fire: 3 Managers Arrested

Bangladeshis prepare to bury the bodies of some of the victims of Saturday’s fire in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman) Police in Bangladesh have arrested three people in connection with the fire that killed more than 100 people at a garment factory this weekend. All three are […]

Jessica Phelan
بواسطة Jessica Phelan
Bangladeshis prepare to bury the bodies of some of the victims of Saturday's fire in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)

Police in Bangladesh have arrested three people in connection with the fire that killed more than 100 people at a garment factory this weekend. All three are mid-level managers at Tazreen Fashions, the factory just outside Dhaka where flames broke out on Saturday night. "Survivors told us they did not allow the workers to escape the fire,

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Abbas Submits Weak UN Status Bid

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrives at the United Nations Plaza Hotel, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Palestine deserves full U.N. membership. It’s entitled to all rights and privileges afforded other Member States. Getting them is simple. It should have happened years ago. Palestine satisfies all essential criteria. On Nov. 15, […]

Stephen Lendman
بواسطة Stephen Lendman
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrives at the United Nations Plaza Hotel, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Palestine deserves full U.N. membership. It's entitled to all rights and privileges afforded other Member States. Getting them is simple. It should have happened years ago. Palestine satisfies all essential criteria. On Nov. 15, 1988, it achieved statehood. Previous articles explained. Security Council vetoes can't prevent U.N. admission.

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Questions Raised Over Who Directed Manning’s Confinement Conditions

Demonstrator Richard Ochs wears a button in support of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as he stands outside of Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, where Manning was scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) A retired Marine Corps colonel denied Tuesday that a three-star general directed the harsh pretrial confinement of […]

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Demonstrator Richard Ochs wears a button in support of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as he stands outside of Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, where Manning was scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

A retired Marine Corps colonel denied Tuesday that a three-star general directed the harsh pretrial confinement of an Army private charged with passing reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks. Daniel Choike was installation commander of the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps base during Pfc. Bradley Manning's nine months

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