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What is exceptional about America is its culture of sadism.
The post Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By Joe Biden appeared first on MintPress News.

Now is the time for progressive congressional luminaries such as the Squad’s AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Presley to unite with Congressional Progressive Caucus to put their feet down and stand as a block against a bloated military budget.
The post The Squad & Co: Unite as a Block to Downsize Biden’s Military Budget appeared first on MintPress News.

With China now in the U.S. crosshairs, the ETIM has moved from being an adversary to being a potential asset.
The post In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist appeared first on MintPress News.

In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa.
The post West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence appeared first on MintPress News.

In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power -- indeed they are instructed -- to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion.
The post “The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian appeared first on MintPress News.

Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach.
The post The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise appeared first on MintPress News.

If you're looking for proof the CIA and the whole cavalcade of other intelligence agencies working with them have gotten too big, look no further than the DNI's latest report.
The post Lee Camp: The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades — Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us appeared first on MintPress News.

By the time of the 2021 presidential election in Ecuador, the playing field had been rendered so precipitously unlevel that the US had little need to overtly intervene.
The post Ecuadorian Election: US Secures Another Neoliberal Champion Without Intervening (Overtly) appeared first on MintPress News.

It’s a tangled web but the bottom line is that social-impact investing, given a big boost by the pandemic and the “Great Reset” planned in its wake, can be made to sound so good that it’s hard to conceive what a dangerous threat it poses: it only “works” by herding and caging.
The post The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment appeared first on MintPress News.

Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.
The post Tanks and Think Tanks: How Taiwanese Cash is Funding the Push to War with China appeared first on MintPress News.