Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

Refusing to “Snitch,” Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Becomes Two-Time Political Prisoner

“I will not participate in a secret process that I morally object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech.” — Chelsea Manning

Refusing to “Snitch,” Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Becomes Two-Time Political Prisoner

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA -- Chelsea Manning was thrown in jail on Friday for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena related to sealed charges against WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. She is ordered to be held until she complies with the subpoena or the grand jury process concludes, which could be more than a year from now. The whistleblower

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Alexander Rubinstein

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Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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Assange May Be Elephant in Room as Chelsea Manning a Fights Federal Grand Jury Subpoena

“If you end up going to trial rather than taking a plea, they actually use it against you in sentencing. They do something called ‘sentencing enhancement’ and they call it ‘failure to take responsibility.’” — CIA-Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou

Assange May Be Elephant in Room as Chelsea Manning a Fights Federal Grand Jury Subpoena

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA -- Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is fighting a grand jury subpoena in Alexandria, Virginia. On Tuesday, Manning spoke to reporters after she and her lawyer unsuccessfully motioned to quash the subpoena. The subpoena is widely believed -- but not confirmed -- to be related to sealed charges against WikiLeaks editor Julian

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Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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An Unholy Alliance: Did the US-Backed UAE Fly ISIS Leaders into Yemen’s Killing Fields?

The de facto alliance between the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, AQAP, and now allegedly ISIS in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history,

An Unholy Alliance: Did the US-Backed UAE Fly ISIS Leaders into Yemen’s Killing Fields?

ADEN, YEMEN -- Ali Abdullah al-Bujairi -- a Yemeni politician who served as a senior member on the failed UN-brokered transitional government and as Yemen’s ambassador to Iraq under former president Ali Abdullah Saleh -- is accusing the United Arab Emirates of facilitating a transfer of ISIS officials into Yemen. “The UAE has recently

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Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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How a Small Team of Journalists Overcame Neocon-Cheered Facebook Censorship

“CNN manufactured a story: They investigated us, then got Facebook to censor us due to our funding source and then boom, they had a story about a Russian-funded outlet getting banned by Facebook.” — In The Now host Rania Khalek

How a Small Team of Journalists Overcame Neocon-Cheered Facebook Censorship

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA -- Facebook seemed to have outdone itself again in its ongoing suppression of independent media when, earlier this month in coordination with CNN, it banned four pages belonging to a company that was not even accused of breaking any of the platform’s rules. The genesis of In The Now’s ban is striking as it has never

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Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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The Holes in Jorge Ramos’ Story About His Clash with Nicolas Maduro

Univision’s Ramos claims that his belongings were confiscated and his phone was wiped. Miraculously enough, and conveniently for Ramos’ story, the footage that allegedly enraged Maduro survived.

The Holes in Jorge Ramos’ Story About His Clash with Nicolas Maduro

MIAMI -- Jorge Ramos, veteran journalist for the Univision network, was welcomed back to the U.S. with open arms by the establishment press corp following his three-hour detention during a Trump administration-approved journalistic excursion in Venezuela complete with an interview with President Nicolas Maduro. Upon his return to the U.S., Ramos

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Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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Trump’s Democratic Opposition Endorses His Coup Attempt in Venezuela

Illustrating that the exception only proves the rule, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard stood virtually alone, tweeting: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.”

Trump’s Democratic Opposition Endorses His Coup Attempt in Venezuela

WASHINGTON (Analysis) -- Nothing unites the D.C. blob like a good old coup d'état. The only other times, it seems, that Donald Trump is given a break by “the resistance” is when he acts “presidential” -- i.e., orders military aggression, as we saw with Syria. As veteran journalist Dan Rather

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Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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Roger Waters, Socialists Say No to Bernie and AOC’s Positions on Venezuela

While Senator Sanders seems to support a supposedly “democratic” kind of regime change in Venezuela, journalist Ben Norton, who has spent the past two weeks in Venezuela amid the flailing coup attempt, says it is the opposition that is un-democratic. On Twitter, Norton accused the Venezuelan opposition of dropping “all pretense of wanting democracy and demand[ing] a coup and war.”

Roger Waters, Socialists Say No to Bernie and AOC’s Positions on Venezuela

WASHINGTON -- As socialists rally in the United States over their country’s backing of a right wing coup in Venezuela, the supposedly socialist members of Congress - Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) - are hitting talking points that worry critics like Roger Waters and activists in the streets

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Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States' policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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