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Public Enemy’s Chuck D named by the U.S. State Department as one of its Global Music ambassadors to “promote world peace"
The hip-hop star, perhaps best known for his track “Fight the Power" is now being criticised for fronting the U.S. State Department and YouTube initiative apparently aimed at creating unity and world peace through music.
US demands destruction of classified materials as part of Assange's plea deal
As part of Julian Assange’s plea deal, he was ordered by the judge to destroy all material containing classified information.
This would mean that following a 14-year-long legal battle Assange would be prohibited from allowing the release of further classified information, given the option to destroy it or hand it over the US government. In response to the ban on Wikileaks, Assange’s wife, Stella, urged journalists to FOI the US government to acquire case details.
Keir Starmer singles out migrants from Bangladesh
Speaking to a live audience for The Sun newspaper, the Labour Party leader used people from Bangladesh as an example of those who need deportation. He said, "At the moment, people coming from countries like Bangladesh are not being removed because they’re not being processed."
Labour Councillor Sabina Akhtar has resigned in protest against his comments.
"Tony Blair has made hundreds of millions personally from his association with the British arms trade...."
Expert on the arms trade and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein is running against Keir Starmer in Holborn and St. Pancras.
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Woman trapped under rubble in Shejaiya
Footage from today shows a woman buried under the rubble of her home in Gaza following Israeli airstrikes. She is seen waving her hands and calling for help.
It is currently unknown whether the rescue team managed to save her life.
“Don’t touch me!”
During a pro-Israel demonstration, a woman accuses a bystander, who is recording the event, of touching her, despite video evidence showing no physical contact from him. After confronting him, she proceeds to assault him.
Kenya’s President William Ruto’s $2.3 billion plan to balance the budget and please the IMF won’t be signed following the killing of 22 protesters
Hundreds of demonstrators stormed the parliament in Nairobi, after their government refused to scrap a new tax-hike bill that was hoisted upon the country by the IMF and other lenders.
"We are not ready to see Palestinians here. We are not ready to walk in the streets and see these people."
Shay Golden, a journalist with Israel’s Channel 14 and former editor of Haaretz, appeared on television and asserted that Israelis are not ready to see Palestinians at all.
AIPAC spent nearly $14 million to unseat Jamaal Bowman
Jamaal Bowman’s defeat to the pro-Israeli 70-year-old George Latimer in the Democratic Party primary race for New York's 16th congressional district, signals the power of the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby group.
Norway’s largest private pension fund, KLP, has announced that it will divest from Caterpillar over complicity in Israeli war crimes
The company’s D9 series bulldozers are imported to Israel and used for demolishing Palestinian homes, amongst other war crimes.
Longstanding accusations against Israel for using human shields resurface as a new video shows a Palestinian man tied to an Israeli military vehicle.
Read Robert's full news brief via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/jenin-video-rekindles-israel-human-shields-allegations/287716/
Amputations carried out on ten children every day in Gaza
According to Philippe Lazzarini, the Secretary General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), ten children per day are losing one or both of their legs in the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
Julian Assange’s Biggest Revelations
Julian Assange is finally free. The WikiLeaks co-founder struck a plea deal with American authorities. After more than a decade in prison or under effective house arrest, MintPress looks back at some of the Australian publisher’s most important stories.
Bezalel Smotrich and Benjamin Netanyahu have a covert plan to annex the West Bank.
According to a report by Haaretz, Smotrich, who holds positions in both the Finance and Defence Ministries, admitted to using the occupation army to conceal these actions. Smotrich outlined his plan to "establish sovereignty" over the occupied West Bank into "Israel" by first establishing sovereignty on the ground and subsequently through legislation.
“My life’s mission is to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state.” He said, adding that his goal is "to legalise the young settlements." He detailed strategies to avoid international backlash by creating a civilian system while keeping the Defence Ministry involved to obscure their annexation efforts and make it seem as though "the military is still the main player in governing the West Bank."
Lyft, a popular transportation network company that offers ride-hailing services in the US, fired one of their drivers last weekend for displaying a "US Jews Say Ceasefire" banner in his backseat. The sign cost him his job because a client was "uncomfortable."
Lyft has since commented on CODEPINK's post, suggesting that they are aware of the situation and, upon review, have reactivated Sergei’s account.
Credit: CODEPINK
Israeli officer who secretly filmed female soldiers nude has been convicted of dozens of sex crimes
Israeli Lt. Col. Dan Sharoni was revealed to have been using hidden cameras to film female subordinate soldiers and civilians, over the course of eight years, leaving him charged with 67 offences.
Palestine Action shuts down supplier of Israel's largest arms firm
Palestine Action group occupied Grid Defence Systems, physically destroying part of the supply chain for weapons that supply the Israeli military’s campaign in Gaza.
The targeting of Grid Defence Systems, was cracked down upon by riot police. The company is a military hardware suppliers for several arms companies including Israel’s largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems. While the U.K. government continue to arm Israel’s ongoing war crimes, Palestine Action escalates its attempts to prevent such weapons being creating in Britain to begin with.
"You are a war criminal."
Activists representing CODEPINK confront Israeli minister who served in Netanyahu's war cabinet, Yoav Gallant, in Washington, USA.
Footage: CODEPINK
"Tony Blair has made hundreds of millions personally from his association with the British arms trade...."
Expert on the arms trade and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein is running against Keir Starmer in Holborn and St. Pancras.
Footage: Essad_48
Coup in Bolivia fails
Yesterday, troops led by US-backed army general Juan Jose Zuniga stormed the presidential palace. Footage showed Arce confronting Zuniga and soldiers inside the palace, ordering their withdrawal. President Arce later hailed the withdrawal as a victory for Bolivia's democracy, addressing citizens who had protested against the coup attempt.
Zuniga has since been arrested as reported by Reuters.
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is moving swiftly towards freedom. While many free speech advocates celebrate, MintPress looks back at the many top media outlets that helped, or even campaigned, to keep him locked up for the crime of journalism.
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A Californian woman, who accuses Jeffrey Epstein of raping her claims he boasted of being a Mossad agent
A woman, who is being referred to as Jane Doe 200 is suing deceased sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and claims that he had bragged of working for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, before raping her at his New York Mansion. This new accusation again brings to light the connections between Epstein and Israeli intelligence that have long been alleged. According to the alleged victim, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell hinted he was an agent for Mossad, like Maxwell’s father, Robert.
Miriam Adelson is backing Trump for President
The wealthiest Israeli in the world spends $100 million dollars to bankroll the Trump campaign, in exchange for the Presidential hopeful to accept West Bank annexation.
Miriam Adelson, a US-Israeli dual national billionaire has pledged her support for Donald Trump’s bid for re-election. The wife of deceased Republican Party mega-donor, Sheldon Adelson, who was a top contributor to Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign, seeks to back the Republican Party nominee as his top financier in order to have him accept Israeli annexation of the illegally occupied West Bank.
A leaked video has surfaced showing an Israeli soldier releasing a police dog on an elderly Palestinian woman who was asleep in her home in Jabalia, northern Gaza. The dog viciously attacked the woman, inflicting severe bites and causing her arm to bleed profusely.
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Cyprus denies aiding Israel against Lebanon
Deputy Parliament Speaker Elias Bou Saab met with Cypriot Ambassador to Lebanon Maria Hadjitheodosiou. During the meeting, the ambassador stressed that Cyprus will not allow its territory to be used for aggression against any country, particularly Lebanon.
This statement comes after Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently warned Cyprus that they are prepared to engage in a conflict "with no rules and no red lines" if the country aligns with Israel in its war against Lebanon.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launches a drone strike against a key Israeli military objective in the occupied city of Umm al-Rashrash [Eilat].
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said this morning that it has carried out a drone strike against a "vital Israeli target" in the occupied Palestinian city of Umm al-Rashrash [Eilat]. The organisation vowed to continue targeting Israeli occupation positions. Israeli media stated that a drone had targeted Eilat without being intercepted.
Footage shows Julian Assange arriving in Australia and being welcomed by his family.
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An Israeli air strike killed 11 members of the head of Hamas' Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh's family, in northern Gaza's Shati refugee camp.
According to Mahmud Basal, a spokesman for the civil defence agency, the strike led to the killing of 11 members of his family, including Zahr Haniyeh, the sister of Ismail. Basal also stated that a number of bodies may still be under rubble due to a lack of necessary equipment for extraction.
After spending nearly 7 years trapped in Ecuador's London based embassy, followed by 1,901 days in Belmarsh prison, Julian Assange is free
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, heads back to his home country of Australia following agreeing to a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice. The 14-year-long legal battle seems to have finally concluded with Assange agreeing to plead guilty to a felony charge under the Espionage Act of “conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information relating to the national defense of the United States”. The charge usually carries a 62 month jail sentence, yet it was agreed that his time spent in Belmarsh maximum security prison would be considered time served.
Claims by The Telegraph of Hezbollah stores weapons at Beirut Airport, echo discredited reports that justified Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s civilians.
Read Robert's full news brief via the following link: https://www.mintpressnews.com/inside-force-400-spies-and-sabotage-in-israels-covert-war-on-yemen/287613/