Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

DEA Whistleblowers Take Down Nominee, Expose Govt’s Role in US Opiate Crisis

In the same week that he decided that the U.S. opiate epidemic is a “national emergency,” Trump was forced to withdraw his nominee for Drug Czar, when Rep. Tom Marino was recognized as a congressional water-carrier for Big Pharma opiate producers and one who has impeded the effort to battle the epidemic.

DEA Whistleblowers Take Down Nominee, Expose Govt’s Role in US Opiate Crisis

For years, illicit opiate use has been on the rise in the United States, leading to the worst drug crisis in U.S. history, one that has claimed ten times more lives in a single year than all terrorist

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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Trump Seeds “Election Integrity” Commission With Voter Suppression Heroes

Taking aim at a “voter fraud” epidemic conjured up with no evidence by Trump to explain his popular vote defeat, his “Election Integrity” commission’s real aim is to provide data and cover for beefed up voter restrictions, and its enormous and willful blind spot is fraud in the computerized counting of votes.

Trump Seeds “Election Integrity” Commission With Voter Suppression Heroes

WASHINGTON – Prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump warned on several occasions that the upcoming electoral contest

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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Trump Set To Outdo Both Bush And Obama On Executive Orders

While the U.S. governmental system of checks and balances often finds executive and legislative interests at odds, the most successful administrations have found ways to work together with Congress. The breakdown of that process has led to sharply increased reliance on executive orders.

Trump Set To Outdo Both Bush And Obama On Executive Orders

Despite portraying himself as a “master negotiator” throughout last year’s campaign, Donald Trump as president has come to rely increasingly on the issuance of executive orders instead of brokering deals -- whether bipartisan or within his own majority party -- to meet his policy goals. Many of these executive orders

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Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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To Kill Iran Deal, Trump Finds Allies In Iraq WMD Peddling Neocons

In the “fog of diplomacy” in 2003, a mirage of WMDs was conjured up to sweep the Bush administration, its media echo chamber, and the U.S. into the disastrous fog of the Iraq War. Now the same neocon cabal has set its sights on Iran, beginning with the nuclear deal now in Trump’s crosshairs.

To Kill Iran Deal, Trump Finds Allies In Iraq WMD Peddling Neocons

With the memory of the saber-rattling prelude to the U.S.’ 2003 invasion of Iraq largely faded, many of that war’s biggest proponents have recently found themselves uniting behind a new cause – the dissolution of the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In recent weeks, their calls

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Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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With Syria Lost And Iran Deal On Block, Trump Turns Hard On Hezbollah

It seems that the recent campaign of the Trump administration to “crack down” on Hezbollah is aimed at targeting Iran — and organizations that are perceived as its proxies — and deeply linked to U.S. loss of Syrian proxy war and Trump’s looming decision to scuttle the Iran nuclear accord.

With Syria Lost And Iran Deal On Block, Trump Turns Hard On Hezbollah

Earlier this month, the leader of the Lebanese political party Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, accused the Israeli government of intentionally pushing the Middle East towards war. He further argued that Israeli Prime

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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Is Trump’s “Friend” Kissinger Steering Him From Calm To Storm?

Henry Kissinger, seemingly returned from oblivion, has been in the ear of “old friend” Trump since mid-primary season, just after Trump declared himself open to negotiation with North Korea. Since that moment, Trump’s stance and rhetoric have veered inexorably toward war.

Is Trump’s “Friend” Kissinger Steering Him From Calm To Storm?

President Donald Trump met with top defense officials Tuesday morning -- including Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Joseph Dunford -- in the White House Situation Room, to discuss potential

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Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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Study: GM Crops, Touted For Pest Resistance, Rapidly Breed Resistant Pests

Genetically modified crops are controversial because of everything from environmental to human-health effects. Now a new study further calls into question their capacity to resist pests. Over time, the study confirms, it is pests that develop resistance and get the upper hand.

Study: GM Crops, Touted For Pest Resistance, Rapidly Breed Resistant Pests

A new study, funded by the U.S. government and published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, has added to the evidence that pest resistance to genetically modified (GM) crops has been rising dramatically for decades. The study, which examines 20

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, and 21st Century Wire among others. She currently lives in Southern Chile.

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