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Archives for December 2017

Despite Legalization, Border Patrol Will Go After Marijuana at California Checkpoints

At highway checkpoints, Border Patrol agents look for signs of nervous drivers, like clutching steering wheels and avoiding eye contact and interrupting when passengers are asked to state citizenship. Some panicked drivers make a U-turn when they spot the checkpoint, a dead giveaway.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk
Border Patrol

Marijuana possession still will be prohibited at eight Border Patrol checkpoints in California, a reminder that state and federal laws collide when it comes to pot. The U.S. government classifies marijuana as a controlled substance, like heroin and LSD. "Prior to Jan. 1, it's going to be the same after Jan. 1, because nothing changed on our end,"

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Russia: US Training Former ISIS Fighters to Destabilize Syria

Russian military chief sees US base at Tanf as ‘Black Hole’ for militants.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
ISIS

For a long time, Russia and the United States have differed on strategies in Syria, and have seen one another deliberately trying to undermine the other’s efforts. Russian Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov sees such an effort by the US coming out of the base at the al-Tanf border. In a new interview Gen. Gersimov accused the US of using the

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Systemic Racism, Inequality Fuel Spread of Violent Crime Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel

Palestinian citizens have made every effort to integrate as full citizens into a state that, for lack of a better word, forced itself upon them. But hard as they may try, the legal, systemic, and day-to-day reality in which they live gives this community no space to breathe, much less to thrive.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Israeli riot police officers scuffle with Arab men in Arab village of Ara, northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. About 50 right wing activists protested in Ara outside the home of Nashhat Milhem, who killed three people in a shooting rampage in Tel Aviv in January 2016 before police killed him in a shootout. The demonstrators demanded Israel deport Milhem's family and shouted "There is no Palestine." They arrived under heavy police escort to the village, where locals held a counterdemonstration.

In June 2017, a two-year-old girl was shot during a drive-by shooting in the Palestinian town of Umm El-Fahm. According to the Israeli press, the toddler was home with her mother when armed strangers opened fire on their home. The mother too was injured and both had to be taken to a local hospital. That same day, according to the same report,

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Since 2008 Financial Crisis, Wall Street Is The Grinch That Keeps Stealing Christmas

Hauling everything they owned in two grocery carts, Anderson and his three teenage children had put in a good 12 hours in their trek from Silicon Valley’s northern edge en route to the Promised Land, Berkeley, which was still another 14 miles away as the crow flies.

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter
Vernon Watson, a homeless person, wraps himself in blankets as a lone pedestrian walks by on a cold Chicago street. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA -- From his post at the edge of the bus-shelter bench, James Anderson spotted the two police patrol cars heading slowly towards him and snapped briskly to attention, or at least as briskly as humanly possible for a 53-year-old man with a bad back. He reached for his cane and struggled unsteadily to his feet, shielding his eyes

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‘They Stepped on Me’: Palestinian Teen in Viral Photo Released on Bail

“Then they blindfolded me and handcuffed me with a nylon cable tie and continued to step on me and beat me. My body and face were on the ground.” The kid continued to bleed from his lip until he was brought to a room at a nearby checkpoint where the soldiers began to beat him again, he told reporters.

teleSUR
By teleSUR

The Palestinian child was released on bail but will have to appear before the military court in 10 days over stone throwing charges. An Israeli court released on bail Palestinian teen Fawzi Junaidi, whose photo blindfolded and handcuffed as more than 20 Israeli soldiers arrested him went viral few weeks ago during protests over the U.S.

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Mainstream Media & FBI Push Fake Terror Attack Even After Their Patsy Refused to Do It

FBI informants were holding bait in front of a depressed, suicidal man, and were giving him a sense of attention and companionship that he was likely lacking in his own life. Ultimately, two days after meeting with FBI informants in person, the criminal complaint noted that Jameson sent a message on Dec. 18, saying, “I don’t think I can do this after all. I’ve reconsidered.”

Rachel Blevins
By Rachel Blevins

It is no secret that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation often look for and take advantage of vulnerable individuals on the internet by gaining their trust and convincing them to carry out attacks—but even in a case where the “terrorist” backed out of the attack, the mainstream media is still celebrating the FBI’s diligence in the War

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