Abused Asylum-Seekers Launch Legal Battle Against ICE and its “Concentration Camp” Prisons

MPN spoke to advocates and an attorney working on a lawsuit by a group of refugees who are suing the government and for-profit GEO Group for the abuse and torment they suffered at the notorious Adelanto ICE detention center in California.  

Elliott Gabriel
By Elliott Gabriel
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ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA – A group of refugees from Central America, who faced beatings and abuse while detained at a California detention center last year, are pursuing legal action in hopes of drawing attention to the systematic abuse of migrants who are being confined in a growing network of concentration camp-style facilities across the United

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DOJ Report: Purdue Pharma Knew of Opioid Abuse After Releasing OxyContin

Almost immediately after releasing OxyContin in 1996, Purdue Pharma received reports that patients were crushing and snorting the drug and stealing it from pharmacies.

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
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As lawsuits mount against the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma over its knowledge that one of its best-selling drugs was addictive and dangerous, a newly- uncovered Justice Department report shows that the multi-billion dollar corporation also knew that patients were abusing OxyContin shortly after the drug's release. Almost immediately

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Lawsuit: Trump Using New Citizenship Question on Census to Raise Campaign Cash

Republican President Donald Trump – days before his Commerce Department announced the Census Bureau’s citizenship questions – used his approval of the query as a tactic to raise campaign cash.

Mark Gruenberg
By Mark Gruenberg
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Atlantic Aviation in Moon Township, Pa., Saturday, March 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NEW YORK — Not content with intimidating Hispanic-named people with a loaded citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census, Republican President Donald Trump – 10 days before his Commerce Department announced its decision – used his approval of the query as a tactic to raise campaign cash. Trump then repeated his boast in yet another fundraising

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Judge Who Gave Saudis a Free Pass Orders Iran to Pay $6 Billion to 9/11 Families

Despite the factual evidence pointing to the contrary, the United States and many of its allies have failed to target Saudi Arabia for its role in fomenting terror and have erroneously labeled Iran the “top state sponsor of terror,” a title that all evidence indicates belongs to the Saudis.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
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NEW YORK – Iran has been ordered to pay a total of $6 billion to families of September 11 victims as part of a U.S. District Court ruling handed down on Tuesday. The ruling, ordered by U.S. District Judge George Daniels, blames Iran as well as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the country’s central bank for the deaths of the more than 1,000

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DNC Files Suit Against Russia, Trump, and Wikileaks for Conspiring in 2016 Election

The DNC argues that a cyberattack undermined its ability to communicate with voters, collect donations and operate effectively as its employees faced personal harassment and, in some cases, death threats.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Traditional Russian Matreskas depicting Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump displayed in a shop in Moscow. Nov. 8, 2016. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Did The Democrats' "The Russians did it" narrative just jump the shark? The Washington Post reports that The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the

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Muslim Groups Awarded Damages Over Discriminatory NYPD Surveillance

“We have been down similar roads before. Jewish Americans during the Red Scare, African Americans during the civil rights movement, and Japanese Americans during World War II are examples that readily spring to mind.”

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Kameelah Rashad demonstrates Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, outside the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia. The 3rd U.S. Circout Court is scheduled to weigh an appeal of N.J. decision that allows New York City police to spy on Muslim communities in the city and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The New York Police Department reached a settlement with Muslim-owned businesses, mosques, student groups, and others it subjected to discriminatory and suspicionless surveillance. As part of the settlement, businesses and mosques that were spied upon by the NYPD will receive damages for income lost as a result of the stigma and humiliation they

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