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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is among a group of South African officials and activists engaging in a 24 hour hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. (AP/Schalk van Zuydam)

South Africa’s Vice President Among Officials Engaging In Palestinian Solidarity Hunger Strike

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May 15, 1970: Jackson State and Forgotten History

Certain things are memorable, and certain folks’ deaths are rallying cries and others are lost to history. And that would be natural if it weren’t helped along so much by the biases of a warmongering state.

Lucy Steigerwald
بواسطة Lucy Steigerwald
Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn.,left, and Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., right, looking from shattered windows on to the area where two people were shot to death at what is now Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. May 20, 1970. (AP Photo)

Many of us have heard the song, most of those probably know its famous backstory: “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming/We’re finally on our own/This summer I hear the drumming/Four dead in Ohio” sang Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young in 1971. The Kent State shootings – done by National Guard soldiers with live ammo are famous. Tin soldiers and Nixon’s

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White House Finalizing $100 Billion Arms Deal For Saudi Arabia, Israel

White House officials said the move would be good for the economy, and insisted that building Saudi Arabia’s already substantial military was “essential” because of regional problems.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis departs after his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Jonathan Ernst/AP)

Earlier this month, US officials said the US was seeking to reach “billions” of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia as part of Trump’s visit to Riyadh. With a week left before the visit, officials now say the White House is very close to the deal, and that it will amount to over $100 billion in sales. Details are still emerging, but the plan

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China Suspends Majority Of New Coal Power Permits

The moves as China’s coal consumption has fallen for the third year running.

Zachary Davies Boren
بواسطة Zachary Davies Boren
A man walks past a coal-powered steel plant in Tianjin, China. (AP/Andy Wong)

The Chinese government has ordered the vast majority of its provinces to stop permitting new coal power projects. According to a statement from the National Energy Administration (NEA), 28 of China’s 31 mainland provinces do not currently have the right financial or environmental conditions to greenlight new coal capacity. This represents an

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New Poll Shows Only 29% Of American’s Approve Of Trump Firing Comey

Trump’s firing of his FBI director last week has only increased American’s concerns about his ability to govern the country.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
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With a new poll of U.S. voters on Sunday showing that less than one-third support his abrupt ouster of FBI Director James Comey last week, the talk of impeaching President Donald Trump and demands for a special prosecutor to investigate possible ties between his campaign and alleged Russian interference in last year's election have reached their

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Trumpcare Proves Politicians Are Willing To Challenge The Healthcare Industry

Pragmatic opponents to Medicare-for-all claim it is politically impossible to get a majority in Congress to vote against the health care industry. The House Republicans just proved this argument is unfounded.

Jon Walker
بواسطة Jon Walker
In this March 8, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans intent on scrapping Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act have a budget problem. As it turns out, repealing and replacing the law they hate so much won’t save nearly as much money as getting rid of it entirely, the goal they’ve been campaigning on for seven years. That means trouble for the federal deficit and for Congress’ fiscal conservatives who repeatedly warn about leaving their children and grandchildren worse off financially. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

 Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The American Health Care Act (Trumpcare) recently approved by the Republican-controlled House is a truly terrible bill. It would cause millions to lose Medicaid coverage to finance a large tax cut for the top 1 percent. There is, however, one small upside for people who support a single-payer health

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Colombian Gov’t Sells Out Indigenous Peoples’ Drinking Water To Western Mining Interests

Colombia’s Wayuú people have struggled to live without water since 2011, as a dam built that year has diverted the tribe’s only water source to a coal mine that consumes an astounding 17 million liters of water a day. The Wayuú say 14,000 children have died since the dam was built.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
Wayuu indigenous woman Rosalba Castro, 20, draws water from a community well in Manaure, Colombia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. (AP/Fernando Vergara)

COLOMBIA-- On Colombia’s arid Guajira Peninsula  – a region famed for inspiring the magic realism of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García-Márquez – a quiet effort to eradicate the Wayuú people, Colombia’s largest indigenous group, has entered its sixth year. The Colombian government and Western mining corporations are complicit in this attempt

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