Archives for يونيو 2020

Black Lives Matter Everywhere: Its Time to Defund the US Military

The case for Black Lives Matter should be applied globally and the push to defund police should be extended to the US military.

بواسطة Medea Benjamin
Black Lives Matter Feature photo

On June 1, President Trump threatened to deploy active-duty U.S. military forces against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters in cities across America. Trump and state governors eventually deployed at least 17,000 National Guard troops across the country. In the nation’s capital, Trump deployed nine Blackhawk assault helicopters, thousands of

George Floyd Protests: Stunning Photos From the Epicenter of a Revolution

MintPress brings you a stunning collection of photos by photographer Emma Fiala from Minneapolis, the epicenter of the George Floyd protests.

بواسطة Emma Fiala
Minneapolis George Floyd Protest Feature Photo

The historic uprising against police brutality that has raged through Minneapolis, Minnesota over the past weeks has captured the imagination of disenfranchised people the world over. That uprising, sparked by the police murder of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who begged for his life as a police officer knelt on his neck for over eight

Police Attacking Protestors, Journalists and Doctors While Defending Racist Attackers

Historically, it has been law enforcement that has escalated race riots rather than protestors, the latest unrest has been no exception.

بواسطة Alan Macleod
Police counter protesters Feature photo

A man in a black sedan car barrels towards a large Seattle demonstration protesting the killing of George Floyd. After he stops, he gets out and shoots a protestor at point blank range. The crowd scatters in terror. The man, still brandishing his weapon, casually walks through the mayhem towards the line of police, and is apprehended without

From Superpredators to Black Lives Matter: Hillary Clinton’s Opportunistic Career Arc

An honest reckoning of Clinton’s past unearths a myriad of troubling incidents and positions that are difficult to square with her newfound radical antiracist stance.

بواسطة Alan Macleod
Hillary Clinton Feature photo

After the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis two weeks ago, a spontaneous nationwide movement of millions of people protesting racist policing has gripped the country. Politicians of all stripes have staked out their positions, condemning, endorsing, or trying to co-opt the radical movement. The latest of these is failed 2016 presidential

Podcast: Pandemic Profiteering – How Billionaires Are Looting American Taxpayers

In this segment of Mintcast, journalist and author Alan MacLeod discusses how COVID-19 became a boon for the ultra-wealthy and allowed America’s billionaires to accrue more wealth in just three weeks of lockdown than they made in total prior to 1980.

بواسطة Mnar Adley
Alan Macleod Podcast Feautre

Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers, and journalists the establishment would rather silence. In this episode, we are joined by MintPress News senior staff writer, Alan MacLeod. MacLeod covers everything from

Fake Taxis Among the Latest Tools in the NYPD’s Rights-Busting Crackdown on Protesters

The NYPD is famous for violating civil rights so it comes as no surprise that protests over the police brutality in the city have elicited a violent crackdown from the city’s finest.

بواسطة Alan Macleod
New York Protests Feature photo

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio have declared a curfew until Monday, June 8 in response to ongoing protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The latest method of trapping and arresting those breaking the curfew appears to be the use of fake yellow taxis that are actually