Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation.

Investigation part 1 by @_whitneywebb

mintpressnews.com/shocking-origi… Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling implications of government by blackmail, this tangled web of unsavory alliances casts a lurid light on the political history of the U.S.

Investigation part 2 by @_whitneywebb

mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeff…

On MintCast @nolan_higdon, @Mythinfo & @AlanRMacLeod talk about censorship, fake news, disinformation and the prevalence of conspiracy theories in this free-flowing discussion.

Virtually nobody trusts what they read any more. The United States ranks dead last among 46 nations surveyed in confidence in the press. Only 29% of Americans say they broadly believe what they read, see or hear in mainstream media.

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In the wake of WMD-liar Curveball’s videotaped confession, Colin Powell was demanding to know why nobody warned him about Curveball’s unreliability. The trouble is, they did.

By @davidcnswanson

mintpressnews.com/colin-powells-… @davidcnswanson A pertinent question posed by @davidcnswanson

ICYMI: Water as Weapon of War: Activists Say Israel is Drying Out the West Bank to Drive Out Palestinians

By MintPress Palestine correspondent @jess_buxbaum

Read more: mintpressnews.com/water-weapon-w… The Military Commander of the West Bank justifies these practices by saying that the Palestinian communities in Area C did not receive building permits...

Is Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, really a whistleblower after all? Haugen has a wealth of experience within the establishment.

Global internet services are down. Potentially as a result of cyber attacks in response to the Pandora Papers.

-Facebook is offline, about 1.5b users data is being sold
-Instagram is down
-Whatsapp is down
-Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T are down
-Coinbase experiencing errors -The United States army is investigating potential security threats as a result of downed services

-Facebook and Instagram appear to have been severed from their global DNS routing.

Many mainstream rights groups and media organizations have a mixed history when it comes to opposing Washington’s agenda. The case of #JulianAssange has been no exception.
by @AlanRMacLeod
mintpressnews.com/extradition-tr… #AssangeCase #AssangeTrial #FridayVibes #FridayThoughts #Friday #AmnestyInternational’s Europe Director described the hearings against #julianAssange as an “assault on the right to freedom of expression” that would have a “chilling effect on media freedom.”
by @AlanRMacLeod
mintpressnews.com/amnesty-intern… #AssangeCase #AssangeTrial #journalists

You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites.
by @ChrisLynnHedges
mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-c… #ChrisHedges #Resistance #ExtinctionRebellion #JulianAssange #TheResistance #protestors #protests Accusing Holy Land Foundation Five of “funding terrorism” required a great deal of creativity but also a collaboration between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
by @mikopeled
mintpressnews.com/the-trial-and-… #Palestine #MuslimTwitter #politicalprisoners

Former vice president #JoeBiden has a sordid history of opposing progressive #CriminalJustice legislation, spearheading draconian #police and #immigration measures, and playing a central role in waging America’s failed #WarOnDrugs.
by @AlanRMacLeod
mintpressnews.com/mass-incarcera… #drugs With over 2 million people locked up across a network of private & public #prisons, the US has by far the highest #incarceration rate in the world, significantly worse than brutal dictatorships in Africa, Latin America or Central Asia.
by @AlanRMacLeod
mintpressnews.com/private-prison…

Eleanor Goldfield, @ActivistEleanor, reports from #Stockholm on how #COVID_19 has laid bare the #US-style capitalist reality taking hold in #Sweden and how the #pandemic ushered in the end of #DemocraticSocialism in the country.
mintpressnews.com/covid-19-marks… #capitalism 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.
by Eleanor Goldfield @ActivistEleanor
mintpressnews.com/surviving-coro…

For many in Yemen, there is little reason for optimism entering what feels like the third phase of the war against their country as Israel ostensibly enters the fray.
by @AlhouthiAhmed
mintpressnews.com/yemen-war-pois… A medic checks a malnourished newborn inside an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, June 27, 2020. Photo by Hani Mohammed | AP #Yemen #YemenCantBreathe

An experimental new vaccine developed jointly with the US #government claims to be able to change human #DNA and could be deployed as early as next year through a #DARPA-funded, injectable biochip.
by Raul Diego @hijodelcuervo
mintpressnews.com/darpa-covid-19… #COVID19 #coronavirus #tech #DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big #Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices.
by @hijodelcuervo
mintpressnews.com/darpa-launches… #technology

Special Analysis: Arab leaders understand that relations with #Israel provide access to US Empire and all that comes with it, including much desired US-made weapons and other perks such as security and economic cooperation.
by @mikopeled
mintpressnews.com/why-arab-state… #UAEIsrael #UAE Heads of Arab states are seated around the table at a session of their Summit meeting in Khartoum, #Sudan, Aug. 30, 1967.
AP Photo

A 10 year #war, #sanctions, the deliberate destruction of essential civilian #infrastructure & blatant scorched earth policies of the US neocolonialist foreign policy-managers are designed to reduce #Syria to a failed state
by @VanessaBeeley
mintpressnews.com/wildfires-rage… #TuesdayMood

https://twitter.com/Ibra_Joudeh/status/1302352614483427328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1302352614483427328%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mintpressnews.com%2Fwildfires-rage-across-syria-in-wake-of-increased-us-led-economic-warfare%2F271189%2F

When #Gaza’s allies cry, “They have no fish,” Americans are responding, “let them eat cake.”
by @HomePalestine
mintpressnews.com/btselem-report… #Israel #IsraeliCrimes #FreePalestine #Palestine #MondayMotivation #Palestinian #police pass an #Israeli naval vessel as they search for the body of a fisherman killed by the Israeli Navy near Rafah.

#Israel #IsraeliCrimes #Palestine #Gaza #mondaythoughts

To reduce the risk of #COVID19 exposure for its Jewish population, the #Israeli Prison Service approved the transfer of 500 Israeli prisoners to house arrest, but refuse to provide the same for #Palestinian prisoners.
by @HomePalestine
bit.ly/3bJHpCE #Israel #Palestine #Israeli leaders have characterized the latest bombardment as retaliatory, citing “incendiary balloons” and “riots” as justification.
by @HomePalestine
mintpressnews.com/israel-launche… #Palestine #Israel #WednesdayThoughts

In 2018, Sheriff #DavidBeth went on a bizarre eugenics rant, claiming that the police’s job should be to stop “these males” from “getting ten other women pregnant & having small children.”
by @AlanRMacLeod
bit.ly/2D62o5Q #kenoshaprotest #Kenosha #KenoshaRiots #JacobBlake Being in the midst a summer of unprecedented racial and political unrest was apparently not enough to stop Kenosha police from emptying seven rounds into the back of yet another unarmed black man.
by @AlanRMacLeod
mintpressnews.com/paid-vacation-…

#Yemen may be set to repeat the horrific events of 2014, when fighters from #Iraq and Greater #Syria (ISIS) carried out mass executions, kidnapping, and torture.
by @AlhouthiAhmed
bit.ly/3jncDSP #YemenCrisis #FridayThoughts MintPress’ Ahmed Abdulkareem traveled through #Yemen’s recently liberated al-Jawf Province to see firsthand the devastation left behind by Saudi-backed AQAP militants.
by @AlhouthiAhmed
mintpressnews.com/ssaudi-arabia-… #YemenCantWait #YemenCrisis

Special Analysis
"Ultimately, as long as Americans continue to pay top dollar for illicit #drugs, Colombians will continue to pay in blood."
by @AlanRMacLeod
bit.ly/3hElijt #Columbia #DrugWar #WarOnDrugs #FridayVibes #FridayThoughts #CocaineConvention Jorge Ivan Ospina, the Mayor of Cali, visits the crime scene where the bodies of five young men were found.
Photo | Twitter via Jorge Ivan Ospina
#Columbia

"This intricately designed system of #injustice – arguably worse than that of #apartheid South Africa and condemned by nearly every other country in the world – is funded by #American tax dollars."
by @HomePalestine
bit.ly/34DkFTn #Israel #Palestine #Palestinian A so-called terror balloon carrying an incendiary device drifts across the #Gaza border border, Aug. 24, 2020.
Photo by Ariel Schalit | AP
#Israel #Palestinian #Palestine #ThursdayThought

"I joined the army in 2017 and took an oath to protect and serve this country, not to be part of a corrupt government that continues to arm and support terrorism."
by @AlanRMacLeod
bit.ly/3lpLtwG #Yemen #Protest #SaudiArabia #UK #WednesdayMotivation #WednesdayThoughts

https://twitter.com/5Pillarsuk/status/1298571129838338048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1298571129838338048%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mintpressnews.com%2Fvideo-british-soldier-ahmed-al-babatia-arrested-uk-arm-sales-saudi-arabia%2F270787%2F

#Yemen