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Cryptocurrency: With Inequality Rising, Citizens Seek Alternative Economies

Cryptocurrencies are helping recipients of foreign aid by allowing them to exchange peer-to-peer, rather than having to transact through corruption-prone bureaucrats.

Elizabeth Stephens
بواسطة Elizabeth Stephens
In this Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, file photo, a man uses a Bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong. Bitcoin is the world's most popular virtual currency, but multitudes of alternatives are springing up around the world. (AP/Kin Cheung)

The year 2017 will go down as a particularly tough one for ordinary citizens, particularly in the global South. A sharp rise in government restrictions on fundamental freedoms across regions, as well as in levels of inequality, played a big part in that negative review. According to a recent Oxfam report, 1% of the world’s richest elites now own

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Facebook And Google Are Censoring Us. Here’s How You Can Help

While Facebook, Google, and others ramp up their efforts to make watchdog journalism algorithmically disappear, we’re ramping up our efforts to circumvent censorship. The state of our free press is on life support, and we need your help to save it.

Mnar Adley
بواسطة Mnar Adley
Spain UN Human Rights

MintPress News, and all independent media for that matter, are being censored and harassed like never before by the 1% — more specifically by Facebook and Google — platforms where the majority of the public get their news. After the 2016 election, the establishment partnered up with the biggest players in information sharing — Facebook and Google —

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The Trial and Conviction of the Holy Land Foundation Five

Accusing Holy Land Foundation Five of “funding terrorism” required a great deal of creativity but also a collaboration between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled
Defendants Shukri Abu Baker, center left, and Abdulrahman Odeh, hug after a mistrial was declared in the Holy Land Foundation trial at the federal courthouse, Oct. 22, 2007, in Dallas. (AP/Matt Slocum)

On December 4, 2001, less than three months after 9/11, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13224, which designated Holy Land Foundation (HLF) as a terrorist organization. On February 27, 2002, the Wall Street Journal quoted Bush as having said: The facts are clear… The terrorists benefit from the Holy Land Foundation, and we’re not

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Operation Pacific Eagle in the Philippines: Washington’s New Colonial War

Critics contend that Operation Pacific Eagle Philippines is aimed at strengthening Washington’s grip on the long-subjugated people of the Philippines, defeating a half-century leftist insurgency, and securing the country for the interests of U.S. multinational corporations.

Elliott Gabriel
بواسطة Elliott Gabriel
A U.S. Marine teaches a Philippine Marine weapon handling techniques during Air Assault Support Exercise 2015-2 at Basa Air Base in Pampanga, Philippines, July 15, 2015. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corp)

In the first part of this MPN exclusive, we speak to Ka Oris of the New People’s Army and Professors William I. Robinson and Roland Simbulan about the new U.S. intervention in Asia, which raises the Philippines to the same level as Syria and Iraq for the Pentagon’s war plans. In the second part, we will look at the 1999-2015 counterinsurgency

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How “America First” Became the Presidency of the Pentagon

The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy is the perverse embodiment of the Trump administration’s “America First” policy, putting American military and corporate empire above all else, even if it leads the country into financial ruin and a dangerous global war.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence greet military personnel during a visit to the Pentagon, July 20, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump won over many American voters by his promise to put “America First.” Though this catchphrase was thought – at the time -- to imply a populist message of putting the American people first, Trump has largely failed to deliver on his promises to roll back the corporate welfare state and instead

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Moscow Slams “Illegal US Presence in Syria” Following US Airstrikes on Syrian Troops

The U.S. carried out several “defensive” airstrikes against Syrian forces in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province.

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
Smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following U.S. airstrikes outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, Nov. 17, 2014. (AP Photo)

Moscow lashed out at the U.S. this morning, after the U.S.-led coalition in Syria carried out several "defensive" airstrikes against Syrian forces allied with President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday in Syria's Deir al-Zor province - purportedly in retaliation for what the coalition said was an "unprovoked" attack on the U.S.-backed left-wing rebel

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