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Search and rescue team members hold up closed fists motioning for silence during rescue efforts at a collapsed building in La Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Thousands of professionals and volunteers are working frantically at dozens of wrecked buildings across the capital and nearby states looking for survivors of the powerful quake that hit Tuesday. (AP/Marco Ugarte)
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As Sanctions Hit Civilians, South Korea To Send Food & Medicine To North Korea

Mounting UN-imposed sanctions on North Korea are endangering local children and forcing cuts in both health and education.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
South Korean workers load packs of rice for North Korea into a Vietnamese ship at Gunsan port in Gunsan, South Korea. (AP/ Lee Jin-man)

In a move no one expected, and which puts them squarely at odds with the US, South Korea yesterday announced the provision of a new $8 million aid package for neighboring North Korea. The provision of humanitarian aid is directly in contrast with US calls for “more pressure.” South Korea’s Unification Ministry says that there is no risk of the

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US to Extract Minerals From Afghanistan to ‘Defray Cost of US Assistance’

The U.S. military has had its eyes on Afghan mineral deposits for some time. A 2007 Pentagon memo that the New York Times quoted in a 2010 article says that Afghanistan could be the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”

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Afghanistan has a vast untouched wealth of minerals, including lithium, the silvery metal used in mobile phone and computer batteries considered essential to modern life. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

U.S. Companies are planning on taking a larger role in extracting Afghanistan's enormous reserves of valuable rare earth minerals, Reuters reported after U.S. President Donald Trump met with his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani on Thursday. According to a White House statement, the presidents agreed that the development of Afghan minerals by U.S.

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Israel Bombs Damascus In Third Attack On Syria In Weeks

Multiple reports are circulating that the Israeli attack was initiated after Syria’s aerial defense missile system engaged and fired on an Israeli aircraft in the area.

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
An Israeli air force jet fighter plane takes off from Tel Nof air force base for a mission over Gaza Strip in central Israel, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

For the third time in as many weeks Israel has reportedly bombed positions inside Syria. Syrian state media along with multiple regional outlets showed fires burning at a facility near the Damascus international airport in the early hours of Friday. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that like with previous attacks, Israel jets fired from over

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How Profit Deals With Protest: The Disappearance Of Argentinian Activist Santiago Maldonado

The Maldonado case has exposed state repression of Mapuche resistance and activism. Digging deeper, we find linkage of the activist’s disappearance to capitalist exploitation — and to the clothing company, Benetton, which owns the largest share of territory allocated to a foreign company in Latin America.

Ramona Wadi
بواسطة Ramona Wadi
Demonstrators hold photos of missing activist Santiago Maldonado, during a protest at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Human rights groups say Maldonado went missing a month ago today, after Argentine border police captured him during an operation against Mapuche Indians who were blocking a highway in Argentina's Patagonia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Over 40 days have passed since the forced disappearance of Argentinian activist Santiago Maldonado. President Mauricio Macri’s government appears to be more preoccupied with protecting the impunity of the Argentine Military Police, also known as the gendarmerie, than with listening to the demands for Maldonado’s release -- or at least for

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New Emails Show Hillary’s Russia Pivot From Pay-To-Play To Latter-Day Hawk

Caught up in the twisted braid of domestic and foreign politics, attitudes toward Russia among U.S. public figures are now driven by a tangled mix of ideology, political convenience, and the profit motive. New emails illuminate Clinton’s participation in this strange dance.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks during a press conference at the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok, Russia Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)

Though Hillary Clinton has blamed numerous factors and people for her loss to Donald Trump in last year’s election, no one has received as much blame as the Russian government. In an effort to avoid blaming the candidate herself by turning the election results into a national scandal, accusations of Kremlin-directed meddling soon surfaced. While

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Most Americans Blame The Media For Distorting Science

The study found that Americans trust government agencies and science podcasts or radio segments slightly more than general news outlets.

Josh Russell
بواسطة Josh Russell
Fox News Bill O'Reilly Climate Change

Nearly three-quarters of American adults think their science news is subject to media distortion, a study published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center says. Though the media took the lion’s share of blame for muddying the waters when it comes to science news, the 91-page report says respondents also voiced scorn for researcher practices and

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