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Member Of ‘Alt Reich’ Group Charged In Stabbing Death Of Black Student

The murder at the University of Maryland follows a series a spike in the number of racist incidents on the campus.

Kira Lerner
بواسطة Kira Lerner
People gather for a candlelight vigil at a bus shelter at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md, May 21, 2017, where visiting student was fatally stabbed. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

The FBI is investigating the stabbing death of a 23-year-old African-American student on the University of Maryland campus Saturday as a potential hate crime. Authorities said Sunday that the suspect, a white man, was a member of a Facebook group called “Alt-Reich: Nation.” Richard W. Collins II, a student at Bowie State University, was visiting

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US Arms Manufacturers Stocks Soar To Record Highs Following Saudi Weapons Deal

Lockheed Martin is the biggest “winner,” of the deal, with some $28 billion in weapons and equipment out of the initial $110 billion going to the weapons manufacturer.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson participates in a signing ceremony between President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salam at the Royal Court Palace, Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP/Evan Vucci)

The weekend finalization of a US arms deal with Saudi Arabia which officials say will be worth at least $350 billion over the next decade sent the stocks of politically well-connected US arms makers soaring to all-time highs, underscoring just how much money there is to be had in keeping Saudi Arabia awash in weapons to drop on Yemen. Lockheed

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Will Venezuela Be The Battleground In The Next U.S.-Russia Proxy War?

Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, there is new potential for the country’s massive reserves of oil to end up in Chinese and Russian hands. It is unlikely that the U.S. will allow this to occur, even if it means getting into yet another proxy conflict with those countries.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
Russian President Vladimir Putin, front, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro enter the hall during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Jan. 15, 2015. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

CHILE -- There’s no denying that Venezuela is deeply embroiled in a significant crisis. While most are aware of the country’s recent string of violent protests, food shortages and government crackdowns on opposition protesters, few are aware of the opposition’s use of underhanded and downright illegal tactics, as well as the United States’ role in

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Bret Stephens Describes Arabs And Africans As Diseased And Depraved

The New York Times is attempting to “diversify” its pages by hiring Bret Stephens, a writer who has used slurs to denigrate Arabs and Africans in his previous writing. He has also argued in favor of colonialism, despite the negative effect it has had in the past on the communities he attacks.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Editorial writer Bret Stephens is known for his anti-climate science, pro-colonialist, xenophobic stances, and most recently for his new home at the New York Times. (Photo: Veni/Flickr CC)

While having no problem describing President Donald Trump as racist numerous times over the past two years, the New York Times has decided to hire a writer who makes Trump look like a stalwart of political correctness, all in the name of “diversity.” When the hiring of Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, was announced, his past

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Whistleblower: EU, IMF Manufactured Greek Debt Crisis Through Unscrupulous Accounting

“We had the role of a rubber stamp…” – a former board member of Greece’s national statistical authority has revealed that she and other members were forced to sign off on falsified deficit and debt figures that plunged their country into an ongoing economic depression.

Dr. Michael Nevradakis
بواسطة Dr. Michael Nevradakis
Greece's Statistics agency employees walk past the logo of the agency in Piraeus, near Athens. Serious errors in Greek deficit data, revealed last year, helped trigger the European government debt crisis rattled world markets and confidence in the euro. (AP/Petros Giannakouris)

ATHENS (Interview)-- On May 18, a new chapter was written in Greece’s economic odyssey, as the Greek parliament, with the votes of the SYRIZA and Independent Greeks coalition government, approved Greece’s fourth memorandum loan package since the onset of the country’s depression. The strings attached to this new deal with the “troika” of Greece’s

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In Saudi Speech, Trump Declares Absolute War Between Good and Evil

Trump’s comfort with transitioning his general hostility into one directed at all things Iran did not go unnoticed.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
Donald Trump Saudi Arabia

In his four months in office, President Trump has steadily been rebranding himself away from the outsider candidate willing to drift far afield of the conventional wisdom of US leadership, and toward a rarely well-spoken, and oftentimes downright surly facsimile of a modern, mainstream US president. With his speech in Saudi Arabia over the weekend,

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