UN Bloc of Developing Nations Elects Palestine as Leader in Snub to Israel, US

Despite its new leadership position, Palestine’s bid for statehood at the UN still faces significant hurdles, and its new position will not change Palestine’s status as a UN “permanent observer,” which prevents Palestine from voting in the General Assembly.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Friday, June 1, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NEW YORK -- The Group of 77, a bloc of developing nations at the UN, has chosen Palestine’s delegation as its chair for 2019, a move that will likely be seen as a diplomatic win for Palestine and a loss for Israel and the U.S. The latter two countries have been arguing against increasing Palestine’s political power in the international body until a

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How the SCOTUS “Muslim Ban Ruling” Gives the President a Blank Check to Detain American Citizens

Mint Press speaks with legal expert and law professor Ryan Alford, who warns that hidden within the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Trump administration’s “Muslim travel ban” is a massive power giveaway to the executive branch that allows any president to order the mass detention of American citizens without worrying about a challenge from the courts.

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By Whitney Webb
A child stands next to a protester representing the Statue of Liberty Trump's Muslim ban on June 26, 2018, in New York. Civil rights organizations, expressed outrage and disappointment at the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump's ban. Andres Kudacki | AP

WASHINGTON -- Though the recent Supreme Court ruling on Trump vs. Hawaii, which upholds President Trump’s “Muslim ban,” has been widely covered by the press, very few outlets – if any – have explored some truly unnerving implications hidden within the court’s majority opinion. In order to explore these implications further, MintPress spoke to Ryan

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Your Up-To-Date Guide To Avoiding Internet Censorship & Getting Real Watchdog Journalism

There are lots of good strategies for beating both corporate and government Internet censors and snoops. These range from alternatives to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — to direct subscriptions to authors and pubs — to setting up your own VPN. All are worth the effort.

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By Whitney Webb
Poland | Facebook | Protest

While Google’s Information Age dominance has long been recognized to have some unsavory consequences, the massive technology corporation has, in recent months, taken to directly censoring content and traffic to a variety of independent media outlets across the political spectrum -- essentially muting the voices of any site or author who does not

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State Dept. Sued Over Refusal To Release Records On George Soros Foundation

The U.S. State Department is being sued for refusing to release information regarding funding it has given to organizations affiliated with billionaire investor George Soros. These organizations are known to have connections with groups that are seeking regime change in Macedonia.

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By Whitney Webb
The silhouette of Georges Soros of the Soros Fondation, is pictured as he speaks to the media at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25 ,2012.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- For much of this year, prominent Macedonian politicians and journalists have been publicly speaking out against organizations linked to controversial billionaire George Soros, accusing the organizations of fomenting regime change and undermining the country’s national sovereignty. The evidence for Soros-backed political

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Making America Broke Again: Trump & The Inevitable Financial Crisis

Trump can either ‘bite the bullet’ now if he really wants to improve the American economy or he can ‘kick the can down the road’ like his predecessors have, noted financial commentator Peter Schiff tells MintPress.

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By Whitney Webb
President Donald Trump, right, Vice President Mike Pence, left, witness Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin accompanied by his fiancée Louise Linton sign documents after he was sworn-in by the vice president, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON --- Barack Obama insisted throughout his time in office that the financial crisis that began in 2008 and fundamentally altered the U.S. economic landscape was a thing of the past. Despite Obama’s insistence that his economic “recovery” was successful and that critics of his economic policy were “peddling fiction,” many Americans were not

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