#JulainAssange, left, with Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, June 16, 2013.
Photo by Frank Augstein | AP
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…
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
Often a flashpoint for tensions between international rivals and a major chokepoint for much of the world’s maritime transit, the waters surrounding #Yemen have become a much-vaunted prize for regional intelligence services.
by @AlhouthiAhmed mintpressnews.com/israel-uae-dev…#SaudiArabia
A penny aside a 3D printed hydrogel model of a lung-mimicking air sac in Rice University’s Houston BRC lab. Photo by Melissa Phillip #MedicalTechnology#technology#healthcare
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 group of Congressional Dems are calling attention to a key pillar of US-Israeli policy in a futile effort to stall an arms deal as Israeli-UAE normalization takes effect.
by Raul Diego mintpressnews.com/face-normaliza…#UAE#Israel#UAEIsrael
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-…
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
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen and its continuing blockade of Yemeni ports has virtually collapsed the country and basic necessities are in dangerously short supply.
by @_whitneywebb mintpressnews.com/saudi-blockade…#Yemen
"He then hurries from the scene, “repeating 'I just killed someone,' retreating back towards police lines, still carrying his rifle."
by @AlanRMacLeod bit.ly/3aYLT89
"When media and citizenry alike decline to confront these unsavory and uncomfortable realities, a smokescreen of impunity is permitted to develop around government actions, allowing such strategies to be utilized without repercussion"
by @stevechovanec mintpressnews.com/isis-morphs-fr…
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