(COMMONDREAMS) The Mexican government’s deadly crackdown on a teacher’s union protest has rattled the nation in recent days, as 200,000 doctors on Wednesday joined the ongoing national strike against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s neoliberal reforms.
(ANTIMEDIA) On Monday morning, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a law enforcement agency administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ), released redacted portions of one of the 911 calls made by Omar Mateen — the individual whose shooting rampage at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida resulted in 49 deaths.
(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. ─ Only four days after a man previously under FBI surveillance carried out the worst massacre in recent years at an Orlando nightclub, U.S. lawmakers have once again rejected efforts to end warrantless government spying.
(COMMONDREAMS) Despite the international ban on cluster bombs, more than 150 financial institutions have invested $28 billion in companies that produce them, according to a new report released Thursday.
Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo are among the 158 banks, pension funds, and other firms listed in the “Hall of Shame” compiled by the Netherlands-based organization PAX, a member of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC).
(ANTIMEDIA) United States — While Bernie Sanders’ supporters and independent media outlets have exhaustively pointed out that corporate media’s fatuous prattling over Hillary Clinton likely tipped the elections in her favor, we now have solid proof — leaked emails show the DNC colluded with mainstream outlets to heavily favor Clinton.
(ZHE) While the media’s focus following the leaked DNC documents by lone (and hardly a group of Russian operatives hacker “Guccifer2″ has been understandably on the Democrats’ documents in which they reveal they strategy how target Trump and his republican peers, what we found more interesting was the list of the candidate’s mega donors, those who have provided $100,000 and above, as per the leaked confidential documents.
(MINTPRESS) MINNEAPOLIS — As WikiLeaks prepares to publish more of Hillary Clinton’s emails, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, suggested they show Clinton violated the law.
“We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton,” Assange told Robert Peston, host of the ITV News program “Peston on Sunday” on June 12:
(ANTIMEDIA) United States — As the nation experienced collective shock over the hate crime cum terror attack on an LGBTQ-friendly club in Orlando, the leading-by-default presidential candidates decided the time was ripe for declaring war on your constitutional rights.
Donald Trump declared war on an entire religion — and to a lesser degree, journalism, free speech, and sanity.
(ANTIMEDIA) In the wake of yet another terrorist attack, a former CIA counterterrorism agent has shared her insight into what causes such tragic, intentional carnage.
(ANTIMEDIA) United States — Several revelations from the newest release of a batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails show both astonishing cronyism and lackadaisical indiscretion with national security.
