Washington Moves Against Ecuador’s Rafael Correa

By serving justice and truth instead of Washington, Correa earned Washington’s hatred and determination to destroy him.

Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts
Supporters of Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa hold up images of his face as they protest an attempt to prosecute him, outside the National Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, June 14, 2018. Dolores Ochoa | AP

As President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa was a Godsend for the Ecuadorian people, for Latin American independence and for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. By serving justice and truth instead of Washington, Correa earned Washington’s hatred and determination to destroy him. Correa was succeeded as president by Lenin Moreno, who Correa mistakenly

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How Turkey Uses Kidnapping and Hostage Negotiations As Diplomacy

Most U.S. allies would likely understand that, as a member of NATO, every nation is subject to the will of the U.S. Yet Erdogan is not your average U.S. ally and, instead of pleading to deaf ears in Washington, he has decided to take his purge global and use every method available to secure his power.

James Carey
By James Carey
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, holding an olive branch arrives to deliver a speech at an event in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 20, 2018. (Pool Photo via AP)

ANKARA, TURKEY -- Ever since a failed coup in July of 2016, the increasingly anti-democratic policies of the Turkish government under the leadership of President Recep Erdogan have become an embarrassment for the NATO member’s Western allies. While many people may be aware, at least to some extent, of the ongoing crackdowns inside of Turkey, few

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Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue Of Hate Crimes Against Whites

As Chicago authorities waited before filing hate-crime charges against four young adult blacks for an alleged attack on a white disabled man, the Internet raged.

Joe Sexton
By Joe Sexton
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)

(ANALYSIS) --- The meaning and enforcement of the Illinois hate-crimes statute seems destined for intense scrutiny with the arrest this week of four young black adults in Chicago in connection with the assault of a mentally disabled white man. The arrests by the Chicago Police Department resulted in part from what appeared to a livestreamed video

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Police Wouldn’t Do It, So Kidnap Victim’s Family Kicked Down Door, Kill Abductor

Many in the community are left wondering why it took a citizen to do the job that police claim to be there to do.

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M. David for Counter Current News
By Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
And M. David for Counter Current News

The police simply weren’t moving fast enough for a man looking for his abducted cousin. In spite of the fact that officers had been called, they were not taking the kidnapping seriously enough for the family of the victim. That’s when they decided to find her themselves. That’s why the victim’s cousin kicked in the back door of an abandoned

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New Details On Syrian Kidnapping Of Richard Engel Reveal Rebel ‘False Flag’

New evidence has emerged about the 2012 kidnapping of Richard Engel and his NBC News team that reveals how, like a later chemical weapons attack, it was a false flag designed to encourage war with Assad.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
This image taken from undated amateur video posted on the Internet shows NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, center, with NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas, left, and NBC photographer John Kooistra, right, after they were taken hostage in Syria. More than a dozen heavily armed gunmen kidnapped and held Engel and several colleagues for five days inside Syria, keeping them blindfolded and tied up before they finally escaped unharmed during a firefight between their captors and anti-regime rebels, Engel claimed, but later admitted it was actually the rebels who carried out the kidnapping.

This image taken from undated amateur video posted on the Internet shows NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, center, with NBC Turkey reporter Aziz Akyavas, left, and NBC photographer John Kooistra, right, after they were taken hostage in Syria. More than a dozen heavily armed gunmen kidnapped and held Engel and several colleagues for

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Off Duty Cop Kidnaps Woman From Jail, Drives Her To His House ‘For Personal Relationship’

One of the kidnappers fellow officers stated: “You arrested her, you can do whatever the f*ck you want to do.”

Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
By Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News

(Photo/my_southborough via Flickr) A police officer was recently found to have acted “inappropriately” after he pulled over an intoxicated Native American woman, and then drove her to his house to have a “personal relationship” with her. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was disciplined, and given seven days off off work without

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