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President Harry Truman receives an ornate bronze menorah as a birthday gift from David Ben-Gurion, prime minister of Israel, who called on the chief executive to discuss peace and economic development in the Middle East, May 8, 1951. Ben-Gurion said the menorah was made in 1767. This is the president's 67th birthday. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin)

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Mnar Muhawesh: ‘We Don’t Have A Mainstream Media, We Have A Very Extremist Media’

According to a recent poll, almost half of Americans distrust the mainstream media, which the MintPress News editor-in-chief believes is because “the media is lying to us.”

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Fox news Channel's Sean Hannity campaigns on behalf of of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz.March 18, 2016, in Phoenix.

WASHINGTON --- Trust in the mainstream media has reached dramatic lows, and MintPress News’ founder and editor-in-chief believes it’s because “the media is lying to us.” Mnar Muhawesh appeared on RT’s “Watching the Hawks” on April 22, where she told hosts Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace that the general public is right to grow wary of the

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Why Voters Will Stay Angry

From the supporters of Donald Trump to the street protesters of southern Europe, voters around the world are mad as hell.

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Trump protester Bryan Sanders, center left, is punched by a Trump supporter as he is escorted out of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's rally at the Tucson Arena in downtown Tucson, Ariz., Saturday, March 19, 2016. (Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Inequality, immigration, and the establishment's perceived indifference are firing up electorates in a way that's rarely been seen before. As the following charts from Bloomberg show, the forces shaping the disruption of global politics have been building for years and aren't about to diminish... The world's middle classes are getting poorer The

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Bernie Sanders Says There Is ‘Evidence of Saudi Role in 9/11’

Bernie Sanders said he backs U.S. Congress exposing Saudi Arabia’s role in the Sept. 11 attacks adding the kingdom’s money funds extremism globally.

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King Salman, the current ruler of Saudi Arabia, poses with former U.S. president George W. Bush. (AP Photo)

The United States must get to the root of Saudi Arabia’s in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the country, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said in an interview aired Sunday , adding that the Saudi kingdom is a major supporter of extremism in the world. “I think there's a lot about Saudi Arabia that we don't fully understand. And I

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White House: Imprisoning People For Victim-less Crimes ‘Devastating The Economy’

Since 1980 alone, the US prison population has skyrocketed by nearly 5 times.

Matt Agorist
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A prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La.

On Saturday, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration released a report detailing the adverse effects on the economy derived from locking non-violent drug offenders and criminals behind bars. For decades, a guiding philosophy of authoritarians was that locking more people up would result in less crime. This has created a prison

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What’s Next For Democracy Spring?

Democracy Spring has taken the campaign against big money in politics and voter suppression to a new level.

Eric Stoner | WNV
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Voting rights reform demonstrators stage a sit-in at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2016, urging lawmakers to take money out of the political process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Washington, DC  – Last week, I was arrested at a sit-in to get big money out of politics and protect voting rights in Washington, D.C. With more than 1,300 people arrested on the steps of the Capitol since April 11 — including The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Harvard law professor and former presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig, Ben and Jerry’s

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Despite Denial Of Guilt, City Of Cleveland Agrees To $6M Payout To Tamir Rice Family

Cleveland has agreed to pay $6 million to the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot in 2014 by the city police.

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Activist Art McCoy holds a photo of Tamir Rice before a protest march at Cudell Park in Cleveland

The city of Cleveland has agreed to pay $6 million to settle a federal lawsuit which was filed over the boy's death. An order filed in US District Court in Cleveland on Monday says the city will pay out $3 million in 2016 and $3 million in 2017. According to the settlement, Rice's mother and and his sister will each get $250,000. The

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