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Take The Boycott Home: 5 Household Products That Support Israeli Apartheid

While Sodastream will reportedly close its controversial West Bank factory, BDS movement activists say that doesn’t end their issues with the Israeli company.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
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AUSTIN, Texas --- A growing number of people worldwide support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to bring an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, and it’s already forced major corporations to change their practices. Earlier this month, MintPress News offered six grocery products to avoid to support BDS, but

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Rogue States and Diplomacy: a Conversation With Noam Chomsky

Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky discuss the Iran nuclear deal: There seems to be little evidence that the Iranians would ever use nuclear weapons. In 2005, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a fatwa (decree) against nuclear weapons. Why is there this belief that the Iranians are eager almost to use their non-existent nuclear weapons?

Mint Press News Desk
بواسطة Mint Press News Desk
Noam Chomsky arrives to a conference at the Islamic University in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 20 , 2012. Photo: Hatem Moussa/AP

  On September 2, the United States’ support for the Iran nuclear deal was secured. President Barack Obama’s team negotiated the deal along with other countries of the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Germany). The Republicans in the U.S. Congress had threatened to pass a resolution that would block Obama’s

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‘Netanyahu Has Announced A War On Al-Aqsa’

Raed Saleh, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, blamed the Israeli occupation for its “aggressive” measures as it keeps provoking Palestinians and Muslims. He described what the Jerusalemites are doing at Al-Aqsa Mosque as a “duty” towards the holy city, calling for all to join them.

Mint Press News Desk
بواسطة Mint Press News Desk

Middle East Monitor-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had declared a war on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and his desecration of the Islamic holy site is the start of the last phase of his plan to partition it, Al-Resalah reported the leader of the Islamist Movement in Israel Sheikh Raed Salah saying yesterday. Salah told the paper that Al-Aqsa

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Bashar al-Assad: Cause of Syrian Civil War Is ISIS & Western Propaganda, Intervention

In a rare interview with Russian media, including RT, Syrian President Bashar Assad opened up about terrorism, the refugee crisis, and Western propaganda. He went back in history, saying the US invasion of Iraq had set the scene for Syria’s unrest.

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On the cause of the Syrian civil war The Syrian president said it might come as a surprise if he mentioned the “crucial juncture” in what happened in Syria, saying it is “something that many people wouldn't even think of.” “It was the Iraq war in 2003, when the United States invaded Iraq. We were strongly opposed to that invasion, because we

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Rumors Persist That The CIA Helps Export Opium From Afghanistan

Unconfirmed rumors persist that the CIA is helping export opium, or at least prefers to “manage” Afghanistan’s opium trade rather than fight it. Who profits?

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
In this Friday, April 8, 2011 photo, an Afghan armed man member of the Afghan Public Protection Force destroys an opium poppy field during an eradication campaign in Marjah district, Helmand province of Afghanistan. Afghanistan supplies most of the world's opium. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

KABUL --- Despite billions spent to eradicate opium crops in Afghanistan, the crop is more popular than ever there, leading many to wonder whether some U.S. forces may actually be encouraging its growth and the heroin it later becomes. In July, the Centers for Disease Control warned of record-breaking numbers of heroin deaths in the United

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#YouStink: Lebanese Rise Up Against The Capitalist Dream Of Privatization

“Lebanon is brutally capitalist in its structures … all public infrastructures are run privately,” one analyst tells MintPress. “And so what you see today as a ‘revolution’ against the establishment is really a denunciation of Western capitalism.”

Catherine Shakdam
بواسطة Catherine Shakdam
A Lebanese anti-government protester faces off with a riot policeman on a road leading to the parliament building before a scheduled meeting of political leaders to try to solve the on-going trash crisis and government dysfunction, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

BEIRUT --- Lebanon has been described as “the next domino to have fallen to the grand anti-establishment movement currently playing out in the Middle East” by Jawad Fairouz, a former Bahrain MP for Al Wefaq, Bahrain’s main opposition bloc and the largest political party in the Gulf Cooperation Council. All eyes are yet again locked on the Middle

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