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Archives for September 2016

North Carolina Police Will Soon Be Able To Block Release Of Camera Footage

A new North Carolina law will make it harder for the public to acquire police dash cam and body camera footage.

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
A Police body camera is displayed at a news conference

North Carolina has been the scene of recent riots and protests as the public calls for accountability in the police shooting of Keith LaMont Scott. After initially fighting the release of body camera footage, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney reluctantly allowed the public to see the shooting with their own eyes. Beginning October 1,

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US Drone Strike Kills 13 Civilians In Eastern Afghanistan

The Pentagon previously announced the strike killed 13 ISIS targets, but has since confirmed that they are investigating reports of civilian deaths.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz

Amid the latest ISIS resurgence along the Afghan-Pakistan border, US drones attacked the area in the eastern Nangarhar Province, killing at least 13 civilians and wounding 14 others, according to officials. The attack centered around a house that apparently belonged to a public health employee. The Pentagon had previously announced a strike in

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Oil CEO Says Bribing Native Americans Will Stop Dakota Protests

The oil CEO’s comments ignored some of the fundamental reasons behind ongoing Native American opposition.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
trans mountain pipeline

© The CEO of North Dakota’s biggest oil company said that simply paying off native communities with oil related work would defuse the ongoing standoff against the US$3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline. Native American communities say that economics are not a factor faced with the irreparable damage. James J. Volker, CEO of Whiting Petroleum

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Unarmed Black Man Shot After Police Confuse E-Cigarette For Gun

The lastest incident follows one in Tulsa, Oklahoma last week when 40-year-old unarmed black man Terence Сrutcher was fatally shot by the police after his SUV stalled on the road.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
This undated cellphone photo released by Dan Gilleon, the attorney for the family of Alfred Olango, shows Alfred Olango, the Ugandan refugee killed Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, in El Cajon, Calif. The fatal police shooting of Olango, who drew something from his pocket and extended his hands in a "shooting stance" happened about a minute after officers in a San Diego suburb arrived at the scene where a mentally unstable man was reportedly walking in traffic, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

The police in El Cajon, California, who have shot dead an unarmed African-American man at a strip mall, allegedly confused the vape smoking device he was pointing at them for a gun, local media reported on Thursday. On Wednesday night, El Cajon police received phone calls about a man who was behaving erratically and walking in traffic, USA

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Syrian Al-Qaeda Commander: US Forces Are Arming Us In Syria

The State Department admitted that the Nusra Front could be receiving U.S. arms via allied nations, and it’s not the first time the U.S. or its allies have been accused of aiding extremist groups in Syria.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A screenshot showing Syrian rebels using an American made BGM-71 TOW missile.

MINNEAPOLIS --- The State Department moved quickly to deny a Syrian rebel commander’s recent allegations that the United States is offering arms and military equipment to extremist groups in the Syrian civil war. On Monday, German newspaper Köelner Stadt-Anzeiger published an interview with Abu Al Ezz, a commander in the Nusra Front, in which he

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How Shimon Peres Stole The Bomb With A Bluff

And why the military censors don’t want you to know about it.

Richard Silverstein
By Richard Silverstein
In an especially vain moment, Peres is pictured mimicking the pose of his political mentor, David Ben Gurion

You will read much hagiography in the Peres obituaries published in Israeli and world media. Here is a perfect example in the NY Times of the half-truths and undeserved admiration that is being heaped upon his memory: He was consistent in his search for an accommodation with the Arab world, a search that in recent years left him orphaned as

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