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Hooded Belgian police officers patrol outside the Gare du Midi train station in Brussels, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide bomber, rocked the Brussels airport and its subway system Tuesday, prompting a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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Archives for March 2016

What the Saudi Leaks Tell Us: An Interview With Julian Assange

“What comes across from the cables is a small cloistered, intellectually isolated ruling elite with a paranoid worldview.”

New Internationalist
By New Internationalist
Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman as they wait for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of a Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Since June 2015 WikiLeaks has been releasing details of leaked cables and other documents that come from within the Saudi Foreign Office. They provide an insight into the internal workings of the secretive regime, its fears, and its strategies for spreading its influence abroad. More than 230,000 leaked Saudi documents have been published by

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Obama, Castro Lay Bare Tensions On Embargo, Human Rights

Obama said the latest meeting is “a symbol of the end of this Cold War chapter.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. (AP Photo)

HAVANA — Laying bare a half-century of tensions, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro prodded each other Monday over human rights and the longstanding U.S. economic embargo during an unprecedented joint news conference that stunned Cubans unaccustomed to their leaders being aggressively questioned. The exchanges underscored

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WikiLeaks: US Sought Syria Regime Change For Israel’s Sake

The Clinton ideal was that the US would impose regime change with arms, and without troops, and that Russia wouldn’t dare oppose America.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Hillary Clinton at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, Monday, March 21, 2016. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

It is rare for a succinct foreign policy platform paper to so fully reflect a candidate’s thinking process. The State Department email of Hillary Clinton, available on WikiLeaks, lays out the Democrat front-runner’s strategy as an architect of US intervention in Syria, shows the flawed reasoning that beget the scheme, and perhaps most importantly

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What Bernie Sanders Would Have Told AIPAC About Palestinian Rights

“To be successful, we have also got to be a friend not only to Israel, but to the Palestinian people,” declared Sanders in a speech that offered stark contrasts with those of his presidential rivals

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks Sunday, March 20, 2016, at a campaign rally in Seattle. (AP/Stephen Brashear)

Though Bernie Sanders was the only presidential candidate credited for skipping the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington, DC on Monday, he gave a speech on the campaign trail in Utah which he says is the same one he would have given to the powerful pro-Israel lobbyists and their allies if he had

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If Trump’s Racism Shocks You, So Too Should AIPAC’s

“AIPAC represents everything we should seek to purge from politics…”

Samantha Brotman
By Samantha Brotman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to members of the audience before speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference is currently underway in Washington, DC. The conference is no small affair; as is the case every year, there is a star-studded speakers list. This year, nearly all of the American presidential candidates are scheduled to speak, each no doubt hoping to convince conference

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Daniel Ellsberg: Most Americans Believe A ‘Fairy Tale’ About The Cold War

Richard Nixon was known for employing the ‘madman theory,’ in which world leaders were made to believe he had an insatiable lust for war combined with volatile, erratic behavior. But the ‘Pentagon Papers’ whistleblower suggests all nuclear policy is fundamentally mad.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Cuba President Fidel Castro gestures during an interview at the Presidential Palace for PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Feb. 8, 1985, Havana, Cuba. Castro said closer U.S.-Cuban ties would ease global tensions but “I will not change a single one of my principles for a thousand relations with a thousands countries like the United States.” (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand

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