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In this Saturday, April 16, 2016 photo, A Palestinian boy uses a homemade wagon made from a plastic crate to wheel bottles full of drinking water in front of a water supply station in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip. Poor sewage treatment is a feature of life in Gaza, a result of infrastructure damaged during Israel's bombing campaigns and ongoing blockade.

Israeli Soldiers Destroy UNICEF Drinking Water Pipeline

Archives for فبراير 2017

Email Dump Reveals EPA Chief Pruitt’s Cozy Ties With Fossil Fuels Industry

Groups and Democratic senators had called for Pruitt’s confirmation vote to be delayed until the emails could be reviewed, but the GOP-led Senate pushed ahead anyway.

Deirdre Fulton
بواسطة Deirdre Fulton
In this Jan. 4, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator-designate Scott Pruitt answer a reporter's question during his meeting with Sen. Shelley Moore Capitol, R-W.Va., on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Cliff Owen)

(REPORT) --- Thousands of pages of emails between newly confirmed EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and fossil fuel companies during his time as Oklahoma attorney general—released per court order on Tuesday night—confirm "a close and friendly relationship" between the man now charged with protecting the U.S. environment and entities seeking to hamper

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CIA Cables Reveal New Deputy Director’s Role On Torture

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s choice for the CIA’s number two position, was more deeply involved in the torture of Abu Zubaydah than has been publicly understood, according to newly available records and accounts by participants.

Raymond Bonner
بواسطة Raymond Bonner
The Central Intelligence Agency flag is displayed, partially cast in a shadow. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

In August of 2002, interrogators at a secret CIA-run prison in Thailand set out to break a Palestinian man they believed was one of al-Qaida's top leaders. As the CIA's video cameras rolled, security guards shackled Abu Zubaydah to a gurney and interrogators poured water over his mouth and nose until he began to suffocate. They slammed him

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Survey: Most Americans Worried About Major War In Next 4 Years

The poll also showed that 41% believe the United States should be “less active” in world affairs, with only 25% believing the US should be more active.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
NATO Trident Juncture

(REPORT) --- A new NBC News/Surveymonkey survey (PDF) was released today revealing that two-thirds of Americans are worried about the possibility that the United States will become engaged in a major war in the next four years. 36% were “very worried” with another 30% “somewhat worried”. Only 8% of Americans polled were not worried. The polls

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2 Robots Crippled By Record Levels Of Radiation Leaking At Fukushima Daiichi

Two robots sent to survey the true extent of a recently discovered breach at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant have been crippled by record levels of radiation emanating from the breach.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
A member of the media tour group wearing a protective suit and a mask looks at the No. 3 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. (Toru Hanai/AP)

TOKYO --- While media attention has largely drifted away from the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the years since the disaster, a recent and disturbing development has once again made Fukushima difficult if not impossible to ignore. On Feb. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, quietly released a statement

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White Supremacists Are Infiltrating The Ranks Of US Law Enforcement

Though right-wing attacks have killed more people on American soil than attacks carried out by Muslim extremists, the Trump administration is pushing for a national counter-terror program to focus solely on the latter.

Roqayah Chamseddine
بواسطة Roqayah Chamseddine
Facebook user Evan Parish Matthews posted this photo depicting a Philadelphia Police Officer Ian Hans Lichtermann sporting a Nazi-inspired tattoo.

Much has been said about the need to protect U.S. borders from dangerous entrants, specifically terrorists. From a proposed hyper-militarized border wall to the contested executive order banning travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations, the burgeoning security state of the Trump administration is using violence and fear-mongering to manipulate

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou: Treating Russia As The ‘Bogeyman’ Has Failed

‘The average American does not care about what’s happening with Russia. They are concerned with jobs, jobs, jobs. … I think that this tactic of blaming Russia for everything and casting Putin as the bogeyman has failed,’ the co-founder of The Duran tells MintPress.

Dr. Michael Nevradakis
بواسطة Dr. Michael Nevradakis
Vladimir Putin | Poland

ATHENS --- So-called “fake news” has been in the news in recent months, and this debate over what is and what isn’t legitimate news reflects the political divisiveness that is increasingly prevalent in the United States and in Europe. Like MintPress News, another website which was accused of purveying “fake news” is The Duran, a

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