Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To “Promote Protests Movements”

Widespread protests were a feature of 2020, engulfing 68 nations. However, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a pro-regime-change think tank based in DC, is most preoccupied with those in China and Russia.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- A new report from Washington D.C.-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concludes that the U.S. government should work closely with social media companies to ensure that protest movements around the world result in an outcome more conducive to American interests. Along with intern Riley

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Yes, Biden and Harris Are Self-Declared Zionists, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains

The Biden administration faces an uphill battle as it tries to balance years of Trump pandering to Israeli partisans and Obama’s legacy in the Middle East.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled

As the U.S. and the world wait with anticipation for the Biden administration to take office, people with progressive agendas are feeling optimistic. Teams working on immigration, health care, and the environment, to name just a few, are already at work preparing to move the United States in a new direction. The one progressive issue where there

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Victory in Europe Day: These American Corporations Aided Nazi Germany

From Coca-Cola to Nestle, some of the most iconic American brands eagerly took part in the Nazi experiment.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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May 8 marks the 75th anniversary of the Allied armies’ victory in Europe, the day when they accepted the formal surrender of Nazi Germany after a bitter, six-year-long struggle that saw tens of millions killed in fighting, famines or exterminated in death camps. While many novel socially-distanced celebrations across the world are going on, some

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Surviving this Pandemic is Hard, For America’s Most Vulnerable, its Nearly Impossible

This coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the exclusion of whole subsets of the most vulnerable in our society, exemplifying the toxic mix of racism, sexism, imperialism, and capitalism that the US blends so well.

Eleanor Goldfield
By Eleanor Goldfield
Coronavirus capitalism Feature photo

They talk about it as if they're doing a garbage, low budget remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” but instead of a golden ticket, it's a $1,200 check. And instead of a magical trip through a fantasy land of candy and orange-faced crooners, it's a paltry pittance from an orange-faced fascist who held up the delivery in order to ensure

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Africa as Colonial as Ever: US “New Africa Strategy” Old Oil in New Bottles

Months after U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton announced the “New Africa Strategy” at the Heritage Foundation, the US’ new policy has killed civilians, exploited Africa’s resources and used the continent as a battleground for provoking tensions with Russia and China.

Erica Jung
By Erica Jung
AFRICOM | Djibouti

In February 2011, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated at West Point that “any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia, or into the Middle East or Africa, should have his head examined.” While blood was spilled in Libya by NATO coalition forces, killing hundreds from the sky and

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With Extradition Imminent, the Implications of Assange’s Persecution for Journalism and Democracy

In light of Wikileaks tweeting that Julian Assange will be forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in a matter of “hours or days, MPN brings you a piece by Whitney Webb first published last June on the dangerous implications of the persecution of the Wikileaks founder.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Julian Assange

Due to recent claims made by WikiLeaks on Twitter that Julian Assange will be forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London in a matter of "hours or days," MintPress News has brings you this editorial first published last June by journalist Whitney Webb in order to again highlight the dangerous precedent for journalism, free speech and

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