Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein is a former staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He writes about police, prisons, and protests in the United States. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

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.”

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By Alexander Rubinstein
Elizabeth Warren | Trump

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 put it at the time: The number of members of the

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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.”

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By Alexander Rubinstein
Roger Waters performs during his "Us + Them" tour stop at Staples Center on, June 20, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

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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Pierre Omidyar: A Billionaire Prone to Reclusiveness and his Trove of State Surveillance Secrets

With strategically placed donations, Omidyar has placed himself in the rare position of being able to support both the national security state and at least part of its self-proclaimed opposition. In the eyes of the former element, that might be precisely what makes him so valuable.

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Max Blumenthal
By Alexander Rubinstein
And Max Blumenthal
Pierre Omidyar

This is the concluding part of our series exploring billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s broad sweep of influence over global media and surveillance enterprises. Part 1 examined Omidyar’s use of investment to build a vast and tangled web of influence in NGOs and media outlets around the world; Part 2 illuminated his involvement with

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How America Rescued Its Weapons Runners After Their Arrest in Haiti

“The fact that the U.S. took these people and did not charge them, it shows there was a conspiracy. They didn’t want them to go before Haitian justice.” — Pierre Esperance, National Human Rights Defense Network

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Haiti | Americans | Weapons

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Earlier this week, MintPress News reported that a  number of suspected American mercenaries were arrested transporting a cache of assault rifles and other weapons in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince amid an uprising against government corruption. As MintPress noted at the time, many Haitians believed that the men were

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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Slams Richard Branson for Fronting US Trojan-Horse “Aid” to Venezuela

“It has nothing to do with the needs of the Venezuelan people. It has nothing to do with democracy. It has nothing to do with freedom. And it has nothing to do with aid.” — Roger Waters on the Richard Branson “aid” concert

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By Alexander Rubinstein
Colombia | Venezuela | concerts

CÚCUTA, COLOMBIA -- Knighted billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson is hosting a concert on Friday in the Venezuelan border town of Cúcuta, Colombia to raise money for the Washington-backed regime-change push in the Bolivarian Republic. The area has become a flashpoint in the U.S.-backed coup attempt against Venezuela’s elected president,

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Pierre Omidyar’s Funding of Pro-Regime-Change Networks and Partnerships with CIA Cutouts

To [Omidyar] it’s … about … integrating things together to give technocrats, business executives and government officials a God’s-eye view of the world — to manage and control society more efficiently.” — Yasha Levine, author of “Surveillance Valley: The Military History of the Internet”

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Max Blumenthal
By Alexander Rubinstein
And Max Blumenthal
Pierre Omidyar

As we have seen in part one of this investigation, billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has partnered closely with many of the U.S.-funded outfits that fulfill the role the CIA used to play during the Cold War in backing opposition media and civil society in countries targeted for regime change. However, Omidyar has also sought state-of-the-art

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Haitian Authorities Arrest Americans Transporting Cache of Weapons amid Uprising

“President Jovenel Moise has brought home mercenaries to assassinate not only a desperate people who are clamoring for his resignation by demonstrating peacefully but especially his political opponents.” — Haitian online publication Vedeth

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By Alexander Rubinstein
Haiti | Protests

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Even as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to inspire a military coup against the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, evidence is mounting that the U.S. government is enabling American mercenaries to violently quell a popular uprising in Haiti. MintPress News previously examined the parallels between the

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