Mnar Muhawesh: Why I’m Choosing Peace & Voting Jill Stein For President

The Green Party candidate promises to re-invest the billions wasted on America’s deadly foreign policy into job creation and universal healthcare, and she’s committed to a total divestment from fossil fuels.

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Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, is transported in restraints to be arrested after a sit-in at a downtown Philadelphia bank over housing foreclosures.

MINNEAPOLIS --- A dire prospect I’ve long anticipated became reality last week: Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont-turned-Democratic presidential candidate, endorsed Hillary Clinton ahead of the Democratic National Convention. Even as the system crumbled around them, Sanders’ millions of supporters have done work that’s nothing

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The Return Of Hemp, America’s ‘Billion-Dollar Crop’

Hemp was a major part of American history until misguided drug laws conflated industrial hemp with marijuana. Eric Steenstra, president of Vote Hemp, tells Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline’ about how that happened and how it may be making a comeback.

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Hemp was a major part of American history until misguided drug laws conflated industrial hemp with marijuana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrV9vlKob0 Hemp has had a role in almost every chapter of American history: It was illegal for early colonists of Jamestown to not grow hemp. Our founding fathers were enthusiastic hemp farmers. The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper. When Americans moved west, they took hemp-covered wagons

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The Disabled: America’s Forgotten Civil Rights Movement

The largest lobbying group for nursing homes spent almost $1 million so far this year ensuring they keep their share of funding. Mnar Muhawesh, host of ‘Behind the Headline,’ explains why disabled activists say they’d ‘rather go to jail than die in a nursing home.’

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Texas My Medicaid Matters Protest 2013-03-05 11.09.28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48-8m8i-38U MINNEAPOLIS --- When we hear about civil rights movements, we often don’t think of the disabled -- but it’s a demographic that has been fighting to live freely in American communities for over 50 years, and their struggle is rarely covered in the media. They’ve received far less attention than

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DOJ Helps Dow Chemical Avoid India’s Court Summons For Bhopal Disaster

Tens of thousands of people in Bhopal, India, have died as a result of a massive leak of poisonous gas in 1982. Mnar Muhawesh, host of ‘Behind The Headline,’ meets Rachna Dhingra, an activist who moved to Bhopal in 2003 to help survivors fight for justice.

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Survivors and their supporters look at photographs of the Bhopal gas disaster displayed during a protest on the anniversary of the tragedy near the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. On this day in 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal in central India.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sln7hX6NHKU MINNEAPOLIS ---Tens of thousands of people in Bhopal, India, have died as a result of a massive leak of poisonous gas in 1982 at the hands of Dow Chemical. This is became known as the worst industrial disaster in human history. On Dec. 3, 1984, the people of Bhopal  were awakened just after

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Press Freedom On Life Support: Why It’s Harder Than Ever To Get Real News

Media literacy expert Mickey Huff joins ‘Behind The Headline’ host Mnar Muhawesh in a discussion of media censorship, America’s war on whistleblowers, and other threats to press freedom in the United States.

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chelsea manning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKqZYp-FqU MINNEAPOLIS ---  The Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers was recognized by this year’s Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index. The NGO ranked the United States -- the supposed paradigm of press freedom -- at a disturbing 41 out of 180 countries. The timing of the release of the

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How The Drone King Turned Assassination Into Counter-Terrorism Policy

Barack Obama launched more drones strikes in his first year in office than George W. Bush did in both of his terms combined. ‘Behind the Headline’ host and MintPress News editor-in-chief Mnar Muhawesh exposes what one military scholar called a global policy of assassination.

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Obama Drone King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMK5uB8XLvg MINNEAPOLIS --- As President Barack Obama reaches the final stages of his presidency, for the general public, he will most likely be remembered for denuclearizing Iran and opening the door back up to Cuba. But will the Drone King also be remembered for normalizing targeted killings as a pillar of

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