Time Is Not on Our Side in Libya

Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital and is now holding fast in the city of Sirte and at the airbase of Jufra. Most of Libya’s population [...]

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The World’s Most Expensive Coffee Requires Animal Cruelty — and Could Lead to the Next Pandemic

Bustling civet cat attractions are breeding grounds for disaster. This may seem hard to swallow, but the world’s most expensive coffee is made out of poop. Kopi luwak comes from coffee beans digested and excreted by the Asian palm civet, also called the civet cat or luwak, and sells for about $600 a pound. If [...]

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Portland: “Wall of Moms” Mobilizes to Protect Protests From Police Violence

Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Despite a widely-condemned federal crackdown, Portland’s anti-racist police brutality protests show no signs of [...]

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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Cutting the Pentagon to Support Our Real Needs

A 10 percent cut to the Pentagon could come from a multitude of places, including: ending our never-ending wars in the Middle East, reducing our reliance on nuclear weapons, and turning off the spigot to arms contractors. The United States is a world leader in new coronavirus cases, unemployment remains sky-high, and COVID testing and [...]

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Partisan Media Coverage of Epstein Masks His Links to Both Sides of the Political Establishment

A study conducted by MintPress’ Alan Macleod revealed that both MSNBC and Fox News intentionally slanted their coverage to highlight Epstein’s links to either Bill Clinton or Donald Trump. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The Jeffrey Epstein saga continues to rumble on. Earlier this month, the deceased sexual predator’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested [...]

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Long Overdue for Latin America: A New “Good Neighbor Policy”

Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations. (Common Dreams) U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. Try as it might, the Trump regime-change team has been unable to depose President Maduro and finds itself stuck with [...]

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‘No Tactics… Just Seemed Like a Gang’: Navy Veteran Speaks Out After Attack by Secret Police in Viral Video Viewed Nearly 10 Million Times

“They just started whaling on me with batons, and I let them,” said Christopher David. (By: Jon Queally, Common Dreams) The U.S. Navy veteran who was brutally attacked by unidentified federal police in Portland, Oregon over the weekend is speaking out about the incident—a video of which has gone viral online—and explained that he traveled [...]

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Gunman Attacks House of Judge Assigned to Deutsche Bank Jeffrey Epstein Case

Esther Salas’s son was killed and her husband injured four days after she was assigned the case of a lawsuit shareholders launched due to Deutsche Bank’s role in Epstein’s finances Five days ago, US District Court of New Jersey Judge Esther Salas was assigned a case against Deutsche Bank alleging the German bank misled investors [...]

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Antonio Sabato Jr. Plans to Launch a Conservative Movie Studio

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. announced on Twitter that he wants to launch a conservative movie studio geared towards content that he believes Hollywood would normally avoid. “To all conservative producers who want to make a change this is the time, get in touch with me, and be part of our team. Blacklisting in Hollywood and [...]

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No Party for the Left?

Try to reform the Democratic Party from within or start a new party and overcome the two-party system of electoral dominance? It’s a fundamental question for leftists in the United States and one that hasn’t gotten any easier following Bernie Sanders’s now two failed bids for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Each option has its [...]

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