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.

Venezuela Authorities Discover Cache of US-Made Weapons Amid Slow-Rolling US Coup

Authorities believe the cache was sent from Miami, Florida, a city notorious as a nexus of Pink Wave emigres and a major throughway in the international black-market arms trade.

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Venezuela | Weapons cache

VALENCIA, VENEZUELA -- Venezuelan authorities discovered a cache of weapons and ammunition from the United States and are investigating the intended recipient as the country faces a coup attempt backed by Washington. According to Endes Palencia, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister for Prevention and Citizen Security, the Venezuelan National Guard and

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Trump To Move US Troops from Syria to Iraq to “Watch” Iran, “Protect Israel”

“We have to protect Israel. We have to protect other things that we have.” — U.S. President Donald J. Trump

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Donald Trump | Iraq

WASHINGTON -- In a pre-Super Bowl interview on Sunday, President Donald Trump discussed his plan for a troop withdrawal from Syria, which, as it turns out, doesn’t involve many troops vacating the Middle East. Instead, Trump said the troops would mostly be “going to our base in Iraq.” CBS’s Margaret Brennan held a wide-ranging interview with

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Twitter Greenlights Venezuela’s Pro-Opposition Online Blitz – Shuts Down Genuine Opponents

Shady anonymous actors are waging an information war manipulating social media with automated posts in an apparent attempt to manufacture a faux consensus for regime change in Venezuela.

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By Alexander Rubinstein

CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- As the U.S.-backed coup attempt in Venezuela continues to take shape, shady anonymous actors are waging an information war manipulating social media with automated posts in an apparent attempt to manufacture a faux consensus for regime change in the online theater. If you’ve been on Twitter since January 23, you could be

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Facebook’s Troll Hunter in Chief Nathaniel Gleicher Tied to Neocon Think Tank

While Facebook claims impartiality in its crackdown on “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” the loyalties of the man charged with carrying out that mission. if his resume is any indication, are not with the users.

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Facebook | Nathaniel Gleicher | Neocon

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA -- After Facebook purged thousands of independent media pages from its platform in October, one may be forgiven for thinking that Facebook couldn’t go any lower. But in the company’s second purge of 2019, the social media giant may have done just that. The round of bans -- doled out on Thursday to more than a thousand

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US Rep. Calls Police on Supporters of Congresswoman Trying to Organize Delegation to West Bank

“Instead of her [Rep. Tlaib] talking about things, she’s new here, she ought to listen and learn and open her mind and then come to some conclusions.” — Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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CODEPINK | Protest Brian Babin

WASHINGTON -- Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the first Palestinian American elected to Congress, is encountering roadblocks erected by a senior Democrat and a Republican lawmaker in her bid to bring a congressional delegation to the illegally occupied West Bank. Tlaib’s plans are meant as a rebuke of the tours of Israel sponsored by the

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“It Can’t Be Fixed:” Senior ICC Judge Quits in Protest of US, Turkish Meddling

ICC Judge Flügge said he realized that the “diplomatic world” did not value the independent judiciary that was the ICC.

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THE HAGUE -- A senior judge at the United Nations’ International Court in The Hague has resigned in protest of “shocking” interference from the Trump administration into a preliminary war-crimes investigation into U.S. troops. The judge, Christoph Flügge, who hails from Germany, slammed National Security Advisor John Bolton over his response

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Ilhan Omar Doesn’t Flinch in Calling Trump’s Venezuela Policy the Coup that It Is

Omar is showing that she is onto the “humanitarian intervention” canard that has served as a pretext in the past decades to the destruction of large swaths of the Middle East and North Africa.

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Ilhan Omar | Venezuela

WASHINGTON -- Freshman Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), is quickly building a reputation for herself as a staunch anti-war voice in the House of Representatives. While the government has been shut down for the majority of her term so far, Omar has used social media to push back on the coup in Venezuela, which has been heavily supported by the

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