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Montel Williams Vows To Take Arms Against Government If Muslim IDs And Database Are Mandated

Montel Williams offered a bold response to the growing call for Nazi-style registration of Muslims in database by Donald Trump and others.

M. David for Counter Current News
By M. David for Counter Current News

Published in partnership with CounterCurrent News. On Saturday, I was made aware of a bold and provocative statement about Donald Trump’s propose database and ID badges for Muslim Americans. The statement was not unlike many that I – and others – have made. But what caught my attention was who made these comments. Television and radio

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Mexican Immigration Reverses: Why Does Trump Still Want A Wall?

A report from the Pew Research Center released Thursday claims that more Mexicans are leaving the US than entering it.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle keeps watch along the border fence in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A report from the Pew Research Center released Thursday claims that more Mexicans are leaving the US than entering it. According to report there has been a net decline of 140,000 Mexican immigrants from 2009 to 2014. The reasons for the decline were tied to the Great Recession and Mexican immigrants

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Scotland Yard Apologizes For Undercover Relationships with Activists

Scotland Yard has apologized after undercover agents impregnated unknowing activist women while infiltrating activist groups. But the story gets even worse.

Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
By Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
A group of London's Metropolitan Police force in uniform. (Flickr / Ramon Rosati)

(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — Seven British women have won substantial damages and an extraordinary apology from the Metropolitan Police after being deceived into forming relationships with undercover police officers. The unprecedented apology and admittance of “abusive, deceitful, manipulative and wrong behaviour” by the Met comes four years

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23 States Now Offer Form Of Legal Marijuana; 58% of Americans Support Legalization

While Colorado receives the lion’s share of national attention for its successful efforts at legalizing and regulating marijuana, the legal landscape is shifting toward more permissive laws nationwide.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell

MINNEAPOLIS-- Keith Stroup, founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, noted in an Oct. 30 article for Alternet that a majority of Americans support marijuana legalization. Quoting a recent Gallup poll, he reported: “Among those poll respondents age 18 to 34, 71 percent endorse legalization. Among respondents

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University of Texas Professor Compares Palestinian Activists To Terrorists After Tense Protest

The Palestinian Solidarity Committee have retained a lawyer and filed a formal complaint with the university, saying their safety and right to free expression are being suppressed.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
The Minnesota chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine demonstrates on the University of Minnesota campus. (Photo: SJP MN Facebook).

AUSTIN, Texas --- A planned walkout at a University of Texas at Austin event earlier this month erupted into a violent confrontation with the college’s professor of Israel Studies and another audience member. Now Palestinian activists say they feel unsafe on campus after the professor accused them of having ties to terrorism. The incident began

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Kerry: US Will ‘Neutralize’ ISIS Quicker Than It Did Al-Qaeda

The statement raises the rather surprising suggestion that al-Qaeda, still active around the world, is “neutralized” in the administration’s view.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015 after attending the 22nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In a direct challenge to China, Kerry called Thursday for all claimants to disputed territories in the South China to Sea immediately halt provocative activities that have ratcheted up tensions in some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)

In comments that will only raise new questions about the administration’s view of foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters he believes the US will be able to “neutralize” ISIS much more quickly than it was able to do so with al-Qaeda. “It took us quite a few years before we were able to eliminate Osama bin Laden and the top

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