foreign affairs

Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
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“You must keep out of our ranks all who do not belong to them, all mercenaries and skeptics, all who join the revolution for private gain.” -- From the Will of Palestinian revolutionary Ali Taha
The post Suheila’s Story: The Two-Year Quest to Reclaim and Bury Her Martyred Brother’s Body appeared first on MintPress News.

The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable.
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Investigative journalist Whitney Webb joins MIntCast to discuss Pegasus, Toka, and the global Israeli cyberspying network.
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The mainstream media's myopic focus on Israel's Pegasus spyware and the threats it poses means that other companies, like Toka, go uninvestigated,  even when their products present an even greater potential for abuse and illegal surveillance.
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Lowkey is joined by Whitney Webb to examine the IDF’s military intelligence Unit 8200, which gave birth to the NSO group responsible for Pegasus Spyware, and how Israel’s national security state is merging with that of the United States to target free speech and dissent.
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When Naftali Bennett, the first yarmulke-wearing Israeli prime minister, refers to the Bible to justify his claim to the Land of Israel, he is not referring to Jewish scripture but to Protestant religious doctrine.
The post Why Opposing Zionism Is Not Anti-Semitic: The Christian Roots of Zionism appeared first on MintPress News.

The U.S. government can cause economic misery for the Cuban people, but it cannot, it appears, convince them to overthrow their government.
The post The Bay of Tweets: Documents Point to US Hand in Cuba Protests appeared first on MintPress News.

Only a few years old, the nation-state law has already proven it can serve as a legal tool for discrimination, racial segregation, and outright apartheid.
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While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press.
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