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Judicial Watch Sues TSA Over Cover-Up: Passenger Complaints “Assaults Relating To Sexual Misconduct”

FOIA lawsuit seeks TSA 2013 records from Dulles, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Los Angeles airports.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk

(Washington D.C.) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking “Incident Reports” of alleged sexual misconduct throughout 2013 by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Dulles, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Los

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Part I: My Father’s Journey During The Great War

WWI broke out when Norbert Schiller’s Viennese father was just 14. His penchant for the theatrical served him well after he was drafted, and his only brush with death came while he was walking back to Vienna after the war had ended.

Norbert Schiller
بواسطة Norbert Schiller
Schiller

One hundred years ago this month, World War I officially began when German troops marched into Luxemburg and Belgium. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo a month earlier was the spark that set the European continent ablaze. Looking back, it’s amazing that after

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VIDEO: Iraqis Unite To Help Those Displaced By ISIS

“This is what the Quran has taught us, to help anyone that is in need, regardless of their religion. This is real Islam,” a sheikh in Najaf, Iraq, tells MintPress.

Sheren Khalel
Matthew Vickery
بواسطة Sheren Khalel
و Matthew Vickery
Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq --- Iraq is in the midst of a refugee crisis. With ISIS militants having taken over swathes of the Levant and establishing a caliphate from Raqqa, Syria, through to Mosul, Iraq, over one million Iraqis have found themselves seeking refuge from the marauding militants. The front lines are fluid in Iraq, but the chaos is more defined

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Reflections On The Illegal And Unconstitutional In Chilean History

As long as imperialism garners willing allies and represses the process of liberation through socialism, freedom is destined to remain a contentious concept, available only to those who ally themselves with those wielding uncontested power.

Ramona Wadi
بواسطة Ramona Wadi

As Chile nears its 41st anniversary since the U.S.-backed military dictatorship toppled Salvador Allende’s government, the country remains incarcerated within a complex historical memory framework. Grappling with dictatorial restrictions enforced through the constitution, the ramifications of Augusto Pinochet’s macabre era, from 1973 to 1990, are

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Government Sued Over Alleged “Deportation Mill”

Citing due process violations and systemic poor treatment at a newly opened immigration center, legal advocacy groups sue the Obama administration on behalf of women and children currently being held there and others who have already been deported.

Carey L. Biron
بواسطة Carey L. Biron
Housing for immigrant children and families.

WASHINGTON --- Four legal advocacy groups are suing the federal government on behalf of women and children currently being held on immigration charges at a former law enforcement training center in rural New Mexico, as well as nearly 300 already deported from the facility. The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses the government of failing to allow for

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Will The #RubbleBucketChallenge Help Raise Awareness For Gaza?

The Ice Bucket Challenge has done wonders for ALS. Now Palestinians have a new challenge for you.

Laura Colarusso
بواسطة Laura Colarusso
#RubbleBucketChallenge

By now, most of us have seen videos of our friends, family members, and colleagues dumping buckets of ice water on their heads in support of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, research. The gambit has raised about $80 million, but perhaps more importantly, it's become a viral marketing tool, raising awareness for a devastating neurological

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