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Bibi on his way out as Israeli PM? So what do/can/should we expect from likely successor Naftali Bennett? MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Muhawesh Adley talks Netanyahu 2.0, what it’s like growing up Palestinian-American in the belly of the beast, and the challenges of independent media. Spoiler alert: Facebook always wins. Who's really behind Big Tech censorship? And how do we shatter the echo chambers when it comes to empire's crimes in Palestine and beyond? Check out Mnar on Twitter and MintPress News! The Left Bitches are Anissa Naouai, Erica Marable, Amanda Getty, and Ryan Wentz. Produced by Gregory Haddock with music by Jonathan Hurley. Visit patreon.com/leftbitches for same-day release, bonus episodes, and more.

Jim Kavanagh, writer and contributor to the ThePolemicist.net and CounterPunch, discusses how Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who resigned last year, is going to plead guilty to making a false statement in a deal struck with prosecutors looking into the entire Russiagate investigation. Clinesmith altered an email describing Trump campaign adviser Carter Page to add the words “not a source” and then forwarded that email to a colleague who was working on getting a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to spy on Page.Rami Mumir, writer for Citizen Truth based in Palestine, discusses the recent Israeli attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza. The Israelis say the attacks were due to Palestinians launching incendiary and explosive balloons toward Israel. Mnar Muhawesh, MintPress News founder, CEO and editor-in-chief, discusses several stories topping the news. Last week, MintPress published an article about Maffick titled "Popular Viral Video Firm Sues Facebook over Russian Propaganda Label"; the company says its sole owner is an American. How is this new “state-funded media” brand being applied? Also, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is facing more charges. "The charge sheet contains further allegations that he conspired with others to obtain US government information by encouraging computer hacking," Computer Weekly reported on Friday. This comes as the US continues to try and delay Assange's extradition trial in the UK. And we'll take a look at recent protests among residents in Chicago, Illinois.

Mnar Muhawesh, MintPress News founder, CEO and editor-in-chief, discusses several stories topping the news. Last week, MintPress published an article about Maffick titled "Popular Viral Video Firm Sues Facebook over Russian Propaganda Label"; the company says its sole owner is an American. How is this new “state-funded media” brand being applied? Also, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is facing more charges. "The charge sheet contains further allegations that he conspired with others to obtain US government information by encouraging computer hacking," Computer Weekly reported on Friday. This comes as the US continues to try and delay Assange's extradition trial in the UK. And we'll take a look at recent protests among residents in Chicago, Illinois.

Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Robert Inkalesh and Miko Peled to discuss the so-called “Deal of the Century,'' a plan promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump together with his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel's annexation plans for the Jordan Valley located in the Palestinian West Bank, and the implications of the so-called deal for Palestine and the broader region. The Netanyahu-led Israeli government was expected to initiate its plan to annex as much as 35 percent of the West Bank in the Jordan Valley earlier this week, formally declaring it part of Israel along guidelines laid out in President Trump and his son in law Jared Kushner’s so-called “Deal of the Century.” After international criticism and even caution from some members of the U.S. Congress, a delay in the plan has been announced. Nonetheless, critics fear that Israel will begin annexing Palestinian land soon.Israel’s annexation of the region would put the over 70,000 Palestinians under full Israeli authority, giving the Israeli military control over all movement, agriculture, water, and all imports and exports, forcing residents to endure apartheid-like conditions experienced by those living in Gaza. The plan would also cut out a part of the West Bank, allowing Israel to encircle the region militarily and control all Palestinian access to the outside world similar to the apartheid-like policies it carries out in Gaza. Not only does Trump’s so-called Deal of the Century hand de facto control to the Israeli military over all Palestinian movement, but it also opens up the doors to over 100,000 illegal Jewish only colonies on indigenous Palestinian land and prevents the two million Palestinian refugees who have the legal grounds to return to their land from ever doing so. The move is nothing short of territorial conquest and military occupation as defined by the United Nations Charter and the annexation is illegal under International Law. Indeed, the United Nations’ High Commissioner on Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has declared Israel’s annexation plans both “illegal” and “disastrous.” This will, without a doubt, create another preventable man-made humanitarian disaster at the hands of Western powers that will fuel the military-industrial complex and stimulate profits off of the theft of indigenous land and blood of indigenous people. If the plan is not stopped, the West Bank could very well become a sprawling open-air prison and ghetto similar to Gaza.Despite the international opposition, Israel enjoys full support from the United States, the world’s only superpower, and plans to complete the annexation before Trump’s reelection run in November.This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment.Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.In this episode, we are joined by Margaret Kimberly and Monique Cullars Doty. Kimberly is a New York-based writer and activist for peace and justice. You can find her work at the Black Agenda Report where she is a senior columnist. Her book, “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents,” was published in February. Cullars Doty is a local organizer for the Black Lives Matter Twin Cities Metro and greater Minnesota region and the Twin Cities Coalition for Jamar Clark. While some are calling it a “revolution” and others an “American intifada,” one thing is clear, that millions of people have taken to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality. This after a viral video showed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, slowly suffocating the life out him while he begged for his mother. Floyd struggled for air for over eight minutes. His dying words “I can’t breathe” were heard around the globe, igniting a mass uprising and calls to defund the police, place law enforcement under community control, and even to dismantle law enforcement institutions altogether.The state, under the Trump administration, has met their calls with brutality, beating and shooting protesters and journalists with rubber bullets, tear gas, and so-called less than lethal weapons. The National Guard has been deployed in over 30 states as the government struggles to keep a lid on the public’s anger.Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Breonna Taylor. The list of victims of racist police violence goes on and on. Police, on average, kill over 1,000 Americans every year, vastly more than the rest of the developed world combined, yet officers are largely protected from any consequences. Margaret Kimberly and Monique Cullars Doty join MintCast to unpack the decades of racial injustice and police brutality unleashed on communities of color by the Democratic Party, how Democrats attempt to save face by co-opting justice movements, and the party’s roots in White supremacy. This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment. Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

This week we get on the ground reports about protests and police targeting reporters from 2 Minneapolis based journalists, Emma Fiala & Mnar Muhawesh. Emma recounts the what she has seen at these protests and the calls for defunding the police. Mnar from Mint Press News talks about the systemic problems that have led us to the rise of this massive movement! No Dispatch this week, but I talk about how I arrived to adapting to the Digital content space. NEW LIVE STAND UP COMEDY DATES June 12: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show. Elections & New Parties. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-4.bpt.me June 19: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show, Juneteeth Special. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-5.bpt.me June 26: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show, Independence Day Special. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-6.bpt.me July 10: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-7.bpt.me July 17: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-8.bpt.me August 7: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-9.bpt.me August 14: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-10.bpt.me August 28: The Citizen Revolution Virtual Stand Up Comedy Show. 9pm https://citizenrevolution-11.bpt.me Donations: http://ramannoodlescomedy.com/donate/ Monthly Newsletter: http://bit.ly/SubscribeKrish Weekly Newsletter: http://bit.ly/WeeklyKrish

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined from Minneapolis by Mnar Muhawesh, a journalist and founder of MintPress News, and Nick Stender, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, to talk about the latest on the uprising currently taking hold in the city, Donald Trump's threat to start "shooting" those assembled, and the repression of media exposed by this morning's on-air arrest of a CNN news crew.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman talk about the wave of popular demonstrations currently sweeping the country following the police killing of George Floyd, how to debunk some of the most common misconceptions surrounding the uprising, and the need to reclaim the militant anti-imperialist legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined from Minneapolis by Mnar Muhawesh, a journalist and founder of MintPress News, and Nick Stender, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, to talk about the latest on the uprising currently taking hold in the city, Donald Trump's threat to start "shooting" those assembled, and the repression of media exposed by this morning's on-air arrest of a CNN news crew.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Rachel Hu, a journalist with BreakThrough News, to talk about last night's mass arrest of over 70 demonstrators at a rally for George Floyd in Union Station, the long history of racism and violence in the New York Police Department, and where to find the latest on-the-ground coverage of the uprising from BreakThrough News.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Eleanor Goldfield, a creative activist, journalist, co-host of the Common Censored podcast with Lee Camp and filmmaker of the new documentary “Hard Road Of Hope,” to talk about the news that the officer filmed killing George Floyd has been charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter, why class solidarity is more crucial now than ever, and how her new documentary about organizing in rural America ties into this historic moment.

Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.In this episode, we are joined by Aaron Mate -- investigative journalist, contributor to The Nation and host of “Pushback” on The Grayzone. Mate has spent the last four years covering the mainstream media and U.S. intelligence claim that Russia hacked the U.S. elections in 2016.Most recently, Mate revealed a bombshell that Crowdstrike, the firm behind the accusation that Russia hacked and stole DNC emails, admitted to Congress that it had no direct evidence that Russia actually stole the emails or infiltrated DNC servers. Thanks in part to the global pandemic that has been dominating headlines, the revelation was not picked up by corporate media, the same corporate media, that for the past four years, worked diligently to convince the American public that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections to help Donald Trump. The mass hysteria caused by Russiagate since 2016 caused so much paranoia that the American public became convinced that Russia was corrupting and manipulating the American political system. However, very little evidence was presented to the back that claim. In fact, the most famous claim published by the New York Times and the Associated Press in 2017 was that “all intelligence agencies agree Russia hacked our elections.” These same news organizations would later retract that claim yet they still continued to peddle that narrative. For another two years, U.S. political and media voices continued to promote the narrative that President Donald Trump conspired with the Kremlin and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would prove it through his probe which was released last year. Most recently, however, previously sealed FBI documents “indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.” This was largely ignored by the same outlets peddling Russiagate. Mate argues, “the real Russiagate scandal is the damage it has done to our democratic system and media.”This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment. Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.In this episode, we are joined by independent journalist Whitney Webb. Many of our readers and listeners are familiar with Webb from her extraordinary work at MintPress as a staff writer and investigative reporter. She is now a contributor and is working on her first book about Jeffery Epstein and his ties to the Deep State. Webb recently published a series of reports on the Last American Vagabond entitled "Engineering Contagion: Amerithrax, Coronavirus and the Rise of the Biotech-Industrial Complex." In them, she exposes the agendas of the national security state, Silicon Valley tech giants, billionaires, Big Pharma, the U.S. government’s years-long preparation for a flu-like pandemic similar to COVID-19 and how they planned to capitalize on that crisis to fulfill a vision worthy of George Orwell's "1984." As Webb explains: "For decades the U.S. ‘biodefense’ programs and pandemic preparedness efforts are now rearing its ugly head as pandemic panic distracts the American and global public from the fundamentally untrustworthy, and frankly dangerous, individuals who are in control of the US government and corporate America’s response.”While the American public is riddled with panic and fear over the spread of the coronavirus, a mass surveillance system far worse than that introduced to the nation after 9/11 is being built under the guise of protecting public health -- all with public consent. The effort to normalize this plan for the greater good will expand a surveillance system that will make authoritarianism the new normal and further reduce American civil liberties. From Jared Kushner to Bill Gates to the corruption-riddled vaccine companies tied to the opioid epidemic to Silicon Valley tech giants and their role in martial law, rolling back civil liberties and authoritarianism -- Whitney Webb unpacks the many conflicts of interests at play in the government and corporate response to COVID-19. She also discusses how the search for a cure ties into a larger agenda to use public fear over the pandemic to build a techno-tyrannical state worthy of George Orwell’s "1984."This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment. Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

Welcome to MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence.In this episode, we are joined by journalist Vanessa Beeley, who is covering the conflict in Syria from Damascus for MintPress News. Beeley is well-known in independent media for her expertise on the Syrian conflict and particularly the covert involvement of Western powers in the crisis through humanitarian front groups. More recently, she has been covering the conflict in Syria’s Idlib province, where groups directly linked to al Qaeda are fighting to maintain control of the province with the direct backing of Turkey while the Syrian military seeks to reclaim its territory.Recent developments in the conflict have seen Russia and Turkey negotiate a ceasefire of sorts after Syria and Turkey nearly went to war over Turkey’s backing of militants in Idlib as the Syrian military, backed by Russia, pushed forward. Despite the ceasefire, Turkey continues to lobby NATO, the EU, and the U.S. to support their efforts to halt the Syrian advance into Idlib, with limited success.Turkish President Recep Erdogan is so desperate for EU support for his military incursion in northern Syria that the Turkish state is effectively weaponizing refugees as leverage to induce European states to adopt Turkey’s position in Syria. This has resulted in millions of Syrian and Afghan refugees flooding Europe after Turkey opened its border with the EU. It was in 2011 that Turkey initially opened its borders to Idlib, where the current crisis was born. This set the stage for the rise of al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria. The terror groups viciously took control of this northern region which became ground zero in the fight for the geopolitical interests of Turkey, Western-backed armed groups linked to al Qaeda, and the Syrian military, which was trying to retake control of Syria’s most resource-rich region. That fight for oil, gas and major water reservoirs has left civilians scrambling for survival. The crisis has led to the creation of a parallel state with the support of Turkey, Gulf Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and Western nations including France, Britain and the United States, who poured millions of dollars and countless weapons into the hands of these terror groups in a desperate bid to overthrow the Syrian government. In what was being described for years in Western media as a bastion of democracy and revolution to justify support for these so-called “moderates,”Idlib became the largest safe haven for al Qaeda. Vanessa Beeley joins MintCast to help us unpack the crisis in Idlib, the geopolitical agendas at play and how civilians are scrambling for survival amid a fight over Syria’s resources. This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

Welcome to MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb that re-launched in February 2020. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence.One such voice is independent journalist and editor of ShadowProof, Kevin Gosztola. He joins MintCast to discuss his exclusive on the ground coverage of the Julian Assange extradition hearings taking place in London this past week. Assange, who was forced to sit in a glass cage far from his defense team during last week’s hearings, faces extradition to the United States for alleged violations of the Espionage Act. The next hearing in the case is set to resume on May 18. He stands accused of 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act, an archaic law that dates back to World War I and has increasingly been used to target whistleblowers in the United States. He also faces one count of violating a computer crime law that the U.S. government asserts is also a charge of espionage. If convicted on all counts if extradited, Assange would face 175 years in a U.S. prison. For the past decade, Wikileaks has helped expose a litany of crimes and corruption by the political class supported by both the Republican and Democratic Parties making Assange a target of the deep state and war-profiteering establishment. This includes publishing the Vault 7 leaks, exposing the CIA’s surveillance and intelligence capabilities worldwide, State Department cables -- highlighting the war agendas under Hillary Clinton to benefit Israel, DNC emails -- revealing how the Hillary Clinton campaign colluded with the DNC to smear and undercut Bernie Sanders and his supporters in the 2016 election and much more. And in 2007, Wikileaks published documents leaked by Army Private Chelsea Manning that detailed evidence of American war crimes that took place during the war in Iraq. After previously being sentenced to 35 years in prison and spending months in solitary confinement, Manning was resentenced to 18 months in prison last year for refusing to testify against Assange. In targeting the publisher of journalistic information that acts as a watchdog to those in power and works in the interest of the public, rather than those who committed the crimes, human rights organizations like Amnesty International have warned that this is a grave attack on press freedoms and the charges against Assange should be dropped. Kevin joins us from London to discuss the recent hearings and the intricacies of Assange’s situation, the case against him and the precedenSupport the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence.One such voice is independent Bolivian-British journalist Oliver Vargas. He joins MintCast to discuss his exclusive on the ground coverage of the post-coup crisis in Bolivia, including the country's upcoming elections scheduled to take place on May 3.Last November, the democratically-elected government of former Bolivian President Evo Morales was removed in a U.S.-backed coup that forced him to flee to Mexico and then to Argentina. Morales and his party MAS have since faced persecution, with several political allies and former Morales ministers now imprisoned. Other former ministers and officials have been forced to seek refuge in the Mexican embassy in the Bolivian capital of La Paz in order to avoid arrest. In addition to the threats faced by Morales' political allies, his supporters have also faced aggression from the far-right post-coup government that has killed scores of unarmed protesters and wounded even more, especially in the early days that followed the coup.Despite this, Morales’ successor, Luis Arce, has emerged as the election frontrunner according to recent polls. Bolivia’s so-called “interim” president Jeanine Áñe, however, has vowed to “fight” to stay in power, a move that has fragmented Bolivia’s pro-coup right, which has failed thus far in uniting in their effort to prevent Morales’ MAS party from retaking power. This backdrop has led many to worry that Bolivia’s upcoming election could be marred by fraud and manipulation.Earlier this year, Morales himself -- despite being in exile in Argentina -- announced his plans to run for Bolivia’s Senate. Following the announcement of his candidacy, Morales said he received numerous threats from the United States and was recently barred by a Bolivian court from running, a decision that Morales and his allies argue was orchestrated by the Trump administration. Morales has said he plans to appeal the court’s decision.Oliver Vargas joins us to discuss the latest election news from post-coup Bolivia.This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment. Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence.One such voice is journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin. She joins MintCast to discuss her free speech lawsuit against the state of Georgia after she was banned from giving a keynote address at Georgia Southern University last month for refusing to sign a loyalty oath to the apartheid state of Israel as part of Georgia’s newly passed anti-BDS law. Ironically, she was scheduled to give a presentation about critical media literacy and free speech. Over the past six years, 28 states including Georgia, have adopted anti-boycott laws. The majority of states have already mandated loyalty pledges to Israel as a means of outlawing dissent.The non-violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is the latest target of the pro-Israeli lobby, which is now trying to make support for the movement illegal. It’s no wonder since BDS is possibly the most powerful non-violent tool that places economic pressure on Israel to follow international law and end its apartheid system and military occupation of Palestine. In their joint lawsuit, CAIR Legal Defense Fund Senior Litigation Attorney Gadeir Abbas said: “There is no place where free speech is more important than on campus. And this attempt to suppress Abby’s views–denying students, academics, and others from hearing her lecture–is as brazen as it is illegal.”Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, added: “In 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr. was criminalized for leading a boycott against Jim Crow apartheid in Alabama. Southern states enforced anti-boycott laws to punish and derail civil rights organizing. The Supreme Court eventually made clear that peaceful boycotts are a protected form of political speech and expression. Abby Martin is an outspoken critic of Israeli apartheid and it’s colonialism and occupation of Palestine. She recently highlighted Israel’s ongoing aggression and human rights abuses against Palestinians in Gaza in her documentary “Gaza Fights For Freedom”. This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment.Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

US President Donald Trump is defending his decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria as Turkey prepares to move into the region. Trump has faced backlash from both sides of the political aisle since making the announcement, with critics warning the move puts America's Kurdish allies at risk, since Turkey sees them as an enemy. Trump tweeted Tuesday that many people conveniently forget that Turkey is a big US trading partner, has helped him save lives in Syria and returned an imprisoned pastor at his request. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is growing "very concerned" about the impact to the state's economy from the United Auto Workers union strike against General Motors, now in its fourth week. Whitmer visited striking workers at the Delta Township GM plant in suburban Lansing on Monday, marking her second trip to a picket line since the strike started. There has not been anything released by the state budget office as of yet on the possible hit to the state's government and economy. What will be the economic fallout of the strike? "Dozens of groups from around Washington State will gather at Tacoma City Hall to launch a new campaign calling on Tacoma City Council to shut down the now infamous Northwest Detention Center (aka Northwest ICE Processing Center)," according to a Facebook page for a Tuesday event hosted by La Resistencia. "La Resistencia, a grassroots group that supports the leadership of those detained at NWDC and calls for an end to detention and deportations in our state is coordinating a statewide coalition of grassroots, legal, service and faith organizations, all of whom declare that detention has no place in Washington State."In a recent MintPress News article titled "Rage Against the War Machine: An Interview with Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan," writer Mnar Muhawesh does a deep dive into the activism, strategy and outlook of Sheehan. We'll cover how liberals learned to love her, her clash with the Women's March and more.GUESTS:Dr. Gerald Horne — Professor of history at the University of Houston and author of many books, including "Blows Against the Empire: US Imperialism in Crisis." Maru Mora-Villalpando — Nationally known immigrant rights activist, co-founder of the Latinx organization Mijente and community organizer with Northwest Detention Center Resistance Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cindy Sheehan — Anti-war activist and journalist whose son Casey was killed during the Iraq War.

Rob from the poor to give to our wars. We take a dive into the grotesque sludge that is Trump's proposed budget - and why we should really care regardless of whether it passes Congress or not. Next up, Mnar Muhawesh with Mint Press News introduces us to NewsGuard, the new Big Brother that's here to tell you what to believe via a neo-con backed news ranking system. Hint: they wouldn't like our show. https://www.mintpressnews.com/

Mnar Muhawesh of MintPress News explains the recent US Senate bill aimed at suppressing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement; she also looks at a new far-reaching establishment and…

Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola wrap up this year's season of "Unauthorized Disclosure" with MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Muhawesh. During the show, they reflect on some of the more pernicious social and political developments in the past year. Mnar talks about censorship by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies, and the impact it is having on independent journalists and alternative media outlets, especially the effect on MintPress News. Later in the show, Mnar and Rania discuss the wars in Yemen and Syria. They take a moment to address the most recent development—President Donald Trump ordering the withdrawal of troops from Syria. The show ends with Mnar, Rania, and Kevin each highlighting something they believe went significantly under-reported or virtually ignored in the U.S. press, including progressive media.

Today we chat with founder and editor in chief of Mint Press News, Mnar Muhawesh, regarding a recent video (https://youtu.be/cZP7CLDx6Vc) documenting the ongoing crisis in Yemen. We also discusss US involvement in Saudi Arabia's attack on Yemen and the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss an effort to convince a student group at Oregon State University to disinvite Khalek from an event, where she is scheduled to speak with Mnar Muhawesh, editor of Mintpressnews.com, and journalist Abby Martin. The campaign is also targeting Muhawesh. The students put out a statement refusing to cancel the event or disinvite Khalek. We talk about the stand the students took and then discuss the larger issue of "no platforming" or demanding groups or universities cancel speaking events. In the last part of the discussion, Khalek and Gosztola address the expansion of war in Somalia by President Donald Trump's administration. If you would like to support the show and help keep us going strong, please become a subscriber on .

Project Censored—the non-profit media watchdog organization, founded by Professor Carl Jensen—celebrating forty years of documenting news stories that independent journalists and news organizations cover, that corporate media either ignore altogether or report only in incomplete, slanted fashion. This past weekend, Project Censored hosted a National Media Freedom Summit. The Summit brought together independent journalists, media activists, professors, students, and members of the public, to discuss the links between media power and political power, and to share effective strategies for advancing social justice by promoting media freedom and critical media literacy. Mnar Muhawesh, founder and editor-in-chief of MintPress News and host of the program “Behind the Headline,”  led a panel discussion with Abby Martin, David Talbot, and Mark Crispin Miller on the state of media freedom and the significance of independent journalism. Mnar joins us to discuss the panel, the recent journalist arrests in North Dakota, the upcoming election, and the Middle East. Longtime Activist, Journalist, Radio Host and Legal Professional Bobby Rodrigo brings you a special broadcast of "I Take LIBERTY With My Coffee" on Coffee Party Radio. Advocating engagement Bobby points out the Constitution is the Rule of Law. Money in Politics, Tax Reform, the Political Party Machine, Cannabis Prohibition and partisan blind allegiance is on full display as he advocates against the erosion of Constitutional Protections in the name of corruption & tyranny. "If we focused on following the Constitution we would solve many of the ills of our society. Offering guests from Political Organizations, Activism, Media & Artists Bobby invites you to join him for this special broadcast and every Sunday Morning at 10:00 AM on Coffee Party Radio.

Mnar Muhawesh, founder of Mint Press News, talks to Lee Camp about the attack on Freedom of Press. Plus the Final Debates, more on the Hillary's email leaks, and an increased surveillance state!  

Mnar Muhawesh, founder of Mint Press News, talks to Lee Camp about the attack on Freedom of Press. Plus the Final Debates, more on the Hillary's email leaks, and an increased surveillance state!  

In the second part of an interview with Mnar Muhawesh, the founder and editor of MintPress News, Shadowproof managing editor talks to Muhawesh about infotainment and "fast food headline-driven" news media. We discuss how the news media spends such an exorbitant amount of time covering the presidential election and how this perpetuates the two-party system. Muhawesh also calls attention to Terry Burke, a disruptor in the Twin Cities in Minnesota, who has targeted her at many of her speaking events for opposing intervention in Syria. 

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks and blasts in Beirut, it seems very likely that Western countries will overreact and play into the hands of the Islamic State. It also is clear there will be little reflection on how Western countries, including France, created a climate that fueled the radicalization of individuals, who would want to target locations in Paris.  I interview Mnar Muhawesh, founder and editor-in-chief of MintPress News (MPN), and asked to her to react to how Western countries are responding to the attacks in Paris. She also addresses the media's ignorance and dehumanization of people who were killed in blasts in Lebanon. We also discuss how MPN has been critiqued for its coverage of Syria and how there are journalists, who have somewhat ridiculously fashioned themselves as sleuths and gone after MPN.