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Someone Finally Asked the Obama Administration to Own Up to America’s Support of Terrorists in Syria

Mainstream media has been content to float the falsehood that President Obama’s legacy is that he “stayed out” of Syria.

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Trump’s ICE Raids Set To Top Obama In Deportations

Donald Trump looks like he may outdo the Obama administration when it comes to deportations, with families across the U.S. themselves for a surge in ICE raids unlike anything seen before. Although some communities are fighting back, many undocumented immigrants are now in danger of being detained and deported.

Trump’s ICE Raids Set To Top Obama In Deportations

Mass deportations became a routine occurrence under the Obama administration. According to a report from the Miami Herald, during the first seven years of Obama's presidency “more than 2.7 million foreign nationals were deported.” From Jan. 20, 2009 to Sept.

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Obama’s Legacy: Institutionalizing The Assassination Complex

The Obama Administration has laid the groundwork, now Donald Trump will be president, and he will have a vast apparatus for carrying out targeted assassinations,

Obama’s Legacy: Institutionalizing The Assassination Complex

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. As President Barack Obama’s administration comes closer to an end, the number of civilians killed by United States drone strikes in Pakistan,

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Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure."

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US Admits Use of Depleted Uranium in Syria

Between the strikes on the two dates, 5,100 rounds of 30mm DU ammunition were used by A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft. This equates to 1,524kg of DU. CENTCOM said that the ammunition was selected because of the “nature of the targets”.

(ICBUW) – The US has finally confirmed that it has fired DU ammunition Syria, after it had earlier stated that the weapons would not be used. US Central Command (CENTCOM) has acknowledged

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Benghazi Panel Protests Continued ‘Stonewalling’ From State Department

“Whatever the administration is hiding, its justifications for doing so are imaginary and appear to be invented for the sake of convenience. That’s not how complying with a congressional subpoena works, and it’s well past time the department stops stonewalling.”

Benghazi Panel Protests Continued ‘Stonewalling’ From State Department

Lawmakers on the House Select Committee on Benghazi are protesting the State Department’s “stonewalling” as they seek to finalize a long-awaited report about the 2012 terrorist attacks. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Monday accused the Obama

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Obama Administration Anti-Semitism Czar Defines Anti-Zionism As Jew Hatred

Anti-Zionism, far from being a religious canard, advocates the transformation of Israel into a single unitary state in which both Jewish and Palestinian citizens will hold equal political rights. It is not the same as anti-Semitism, and conflating the two issues has dangerous consequences.

Obama Administration Anti-Semitism Czar Defines Anti-Zionism As Jew Hatred

  SEATTLE --- The Israel lobby’s flavor du jour in the battle to uphold Israeli triumphalism is the notion that anti-Zionism (which seems to be everywhere!) is anti-Semitism. The notion is sweeping university campuses from the United States

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Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein is a MintPress analyst who has written the Tikun Olam blog since 2003, specializing in Israeli politics and US foreign affairs. Silverstein works to expose the excesses of the Israeli national security state. He breaks major news stories that are often under judicial gag or military censorship, and which may not be reported in Israel. He has been published in Haaretz, Al Jazeera English, the Forward, Christian Science Monitor, Middle East Eye, and the Seattle Times. He speaks Hebrew fluently and incorporates the Hebrew-language press into his blog and other publications. He earned a BA from Columbia University, a BHL from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and MA in Comparative Literature from UCLA. He did two years of undergraduate and graduate study at the Hebrew University. He lives in Seattle. Follow Richard on Twitter: @Richards1052

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Pres.’s Proposed Budget Finds Challenges Among Reps., Dems.

President Obama’s $3.901-trillion budget was dead-on-arrival when it hit the House.

Pres.’s Proposed Budget Finds Challenges Among Reps., Dems.

On Tuesday, the White House released its official fiscal year 2015 budget for the federal government.

“The budget I sent Congress this morning lays out how we’ll implement this agenda in a balanced and responsible way,”

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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