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5 Black Lives Matter Activists Shot By White Gunmen In Minneapolis

Miski Noor, a media contact for Black Lives Matter, said “a group of white supremacists showed up at the protest, as they have done most nights.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
: Protesters said at least two gunmen opened fire just outside of the Plymouth Ave. encampment.

Minneapolis police were searching Tuesday for three white male suspects who authorities say shot five Black Lives Matter demonstrators, while the family of a black man who was fatally shot by a city police officer called for the dayslong protests outside of a police precinct to end. No one was seriously injured in the shooting that happened

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Thousands Protest In Georgia Demanding Closure Of Government Run ‘School of Assassins’

“We have to take an honest look at the violence the United States is exporting all over the world. If we don’t do that, nothing is going to change.”

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Students from the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation and students from the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School conduct a joint assault on a simulated narcotics camp during a field training exercise. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Thousands of activists and dozens of peace groups converged this weekend in Georgia to call for the closure of the School of Americas (SOA or WHINSEC), a controversial training facility for Latin American soldiers, and the nearby Stewart Immigrant Detention Center. Hundreds protested outside SOA's gates in Fort Benning, calling it the "School of

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New Report Puts Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal At 115 Warheads

Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal includes 115 warheads, according to a new report by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, DC-based think tank.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Israel's Sorek nuclear reactor center near the central Israeli town of Yavne.

Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal includes 115 warheads, according to a new report by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, DC-based think tank. The arsenal represents what Israel has been estimated to amass since it developed its first nuclear weapon shortly before the Six-Day War in 1967. The study, which was

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Nestlé​ Admits Slavery And Coercion Used In Seafood Production

Global audit by the food giant finds abuse of workers who catch seafood from Thailand.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Seafood From Slaves

Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestlé SA's supply chains. The unusual disclosure comes from Geneva-based Nestlé​ SA itself, which in an act of self-policing planned to announce the conclusions of its yearlong internal

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Russia Bans Scientology

A court in Moscow has banned the local branch of the Church of Scientology, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the courtroom Monday.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Scientology church in Moscow. Photo: Sergei Fadeichev/TASS

MOSCOW  – During the inspection the Russian Ministry of Justice found out that the word 'scientology' had been registered as a trade mark owned by the US Religious Technology Center. The court backed the Russian Justice Ministry's claim that the organization's activity did not comply with the federal law on freedom of religion. "The

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Over 1,000 People Killed By Police Since The Beginning Of 2015

Just 34 police officers have been shot during the same time period, and one criminal justice blogger called 2015 “the second safest year for police ever.”

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Police killings Protest Feature photo

Police have killed over 1,000 people in 2015, and about 20 percent of those killed were completely unarmed. As of Monday evening, U.S. police had killed 1,024 people since the start of the year, according to The Counted, a continuously updated database of U.S. police killings maintained by The Guardian. Of the total, 203 victims of police were

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