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America’s Only Problem With Its Obscene War Budget is That Trump Didn’t Thank John McCain in a Speech

What is actually in the $717 billion military spending bill that Trump just signed?

by Kevin Gosztola

Worried About Election Interference? 5 Times the US Meddled in Foreign Elections

In the past 15 years alone, there are many cases of the U.S. interfering in the Democratic process of foreign nations. Here are some of the worst examples.

Worried About Election Interference? 5 Times the US Meddled in Foreign Elections

Washington D.C. – If you read any article about the “Russian hacking” or “U.S. election interference” you will likely see some reference to the U.S.’s own long history of election interference. Yet most of these articles defend the U.S. by claiming that such interference campaigns dropped off significantly since the end of the Cold

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Facebook Suspends teleSUR English Without Explanation, Again

“It seems like the censorship power many people on the left want Silicon Valley executives to unilaterally exercise might end up being wielded against the left. One good way to know that would happen is that is already is happening.”

Facebook Suspends teleSUR English Without Explanation, Again

For the second time this year, Facebook has suspended teleSUR English's page, claiming the left-leaning Latin American news network violated the social media platform's terms of service without any further explanation—a move that provoked outrage and concern among journalists, free speech advocates, and Big Tech critics. In a short 

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In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or Die

“Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.”

In Private Meeting, Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or Die

During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech behemoth's efforts to "revitalize

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Google is Tracking You Even When Your Phone’s ‘Location History’ is Off

New investigation by Associated Press shows how iPhone and Android users’ location data is still recorded even when they have been misled to believe it isn’t.

Google is Tracking You Even When Your Phone’s ‘Location History’ is Off

Android and iPhone users may be under the impression that Google is not tracking their location data if they've turned off "Location History" on their devices. After all, the Google support page says, "With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." But a new 

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Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr allowed Gina Haspell her to “classify” her own direct role in waterboarding and other torture techniques so that it could be kept from the public and secure her confirmation

Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture

Newly released official documents obtained by the National Security Archive showing that CIA Director Gina Haspel directly supervised waterboarding at the first CIA “Black Site” simply confirm what Senate

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Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Savior in inner-city Washington.  He served 30 years as an U.S. Army Intelligence and CIA analyst, and in retirement co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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Abused Asylum-Seekers Launch Legal Battle Against ICE and its “Concentration Camp” Prisons

MPN spoke to advocates and an attorney working on a lawsuit by a group of refugees who are suing the government and for-profit GEO Group for the abuse and torment they suffered at the notorious Adelanto ICE detention center in California.  

Abused Asylum-Seekers Launch Legal Battle Against ICE and its “Concentration Camp” Prisons

ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA – A group of refugees from Central America, who faced beatings and abuse while detained at a California detention center last year, are pursuing legal action in hopes of drawing attention to the systematic abuse of migrants who are being confined in a growing network of

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Elliott Gabriel

Elliott Gabriel

Elliott Gabriel is a former staff writer for teleSUR English and a MintPress News contributor based in Quito, Ecuador. He has taken extensive part in advocacy and organizing in the pro-labor, migrant justice and police accountability movements of Southern California and the state's Central Coast.

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