In this Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 photo Johnathan Perkins, an attorney in the office of General Counsel at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in his office in Cambridge, Mass. (AP/Stephan Savoia)
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Black Law Student Says FBI Pressured Him to Recant Racial Profiling Claim

John Perkins’ story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia prompted outrage in Charlottesville and a visit from the FBI.

by Denise Lavoie

Protests Denouncing Trump, Neo-Nazis Held Across The US

Events were held in cities throughout the country, a mass rebuke of white supremacy and of President Donald Trump, who earlier this week took to blaming “both sides” for the violence in Charlottesville

Protests Denouncing Trump, Neo-Nazis Held Across The US

Replacing torches with candles and hate with hope, thousands gathered across the United States Wednesday night to mourn the death of Heather Heyer and stand peacefully against the violence perpetrated by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. At the University of Virginia (UVA), the same place white supremacists

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A Confession: I Met With The Russian Ambassador

Though now billed as a “spymaster,” Russian Ambassador Kislyak was well known as a social butterfly, meeting a wide range of Americans, including politicians, academics and activists, which led David Swanson to this “confession.”

A Confession: I Met With The Russian Ambassador

It was August 2014. Our secret and nefarious meeting had to be disguised as a public event. So, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, spoke at the University of Virginia, in an event organized by the

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David Swanson

David Swanson

David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

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Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It

MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes.

WASHINGTON --- Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the

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Sean Nevins

Sean Nevins

Sean Nevins is a Washington DC based staff writer for MintPress focusing on foreign affairs, and the intersection of politics and policy. His work has appeared on Link TV, Inter Press Service, and The Real News Network. He has lived and reported from all over the world and holds a Master’s in Asian Studies (focus: Pakistan) from Lund University in Sweden.

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Twitter Under Pressure To Ban Blogger Who Posted UVA Rape Victim’s Name

Charles Johnson’s comments were met with an immediate backlash and calls for Twitter to block or permanently ban Johnson’s account for being abusive.

Twitter Under Pressure To Ban Blogger Who Posted UVA Rape Victim’s Name

Twitter users are calling on the social media company to jumpstart its new anti-harassment policies after a conservative blogger claims to have published the full name of the University of Virginia (UVA) student whose

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Rolling Stone, Journalistic Integrity, And The Fight Against Campus Rape

The unraveling of the Rolling Stone article threatens to validate the pervasive narrative that rape victims are always lying.

Rolling Stone, Journalistic Integrity, And The Fight Against Campus Rape

Certain details of a University of Virginia student’s story of an alleged gang rape at a college frat house are coming into dispute, leading the magazine that published

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