Raul Diego

Raul Diego is a former MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker.

Despite His Attempt to Tie MAGA to Anti-Semitism, Biden Will Preserve Trump’s « Israel First » Legacy 

Many are expecting President Joe Biden to roll back Trump’s heavily pro-Israel policies, but several factors – including his long-established ties to Israeli interests– point to a greater likelihood of their continuation instead.

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Biden Israel Feature photo

The cantankerous end to the turbulent Trump presidency has imbued the incoming administration with a halo of bright expectations by simple virtue of the disastrous four years that precede it. Like a stand-up feature act that follows an opener's bombed set at a comedy club, the Biden-Harris duo takes center stage with an easy advantage that requires

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Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout from COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself

As President Biden signs a national mask mandate into law, measures being imposed in the name of protecting public health could create a humanitarian crisis that sees Americans sued by the state and forced into detention camps for breaking pandemic protocols.

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COVID Civil Rights Feature photo

The very first executive order Joe Biden signed upon becoming the forty-sixth President of the United States was the national mask mandate he promised at the Democratic National Convention back in August. The order makes face coverings and social distancing mandatory on all federal property and a legal requisite for interstate commerce. The move

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Native Activists File Suit After Trump Officials Hand Sacred Land to Foreign Mining Firm

The fight to protect Oak Flat is just beginning.

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Oak Flat Feature photo

The land swap deal between the U.S. government and British-Australian corporate mining giant Rio Tinto and its subsidiary, Resolution Copper, went into effect last week. But, the true Native owners of the land are not about to give up a battle they have been fighting for centuries. On Friday, January 15, the U.S. Forest Service, under

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The Execution of Dustin Higgs and the Tradition of Capital Punishment 

Dustin Higgs proclaimed his innocence until the end, but neither his nor his lawyers’ pleas for clemency were enough to overcome the three-hundred-year momentum of capitalism’s most enduring tradition.

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Dustin Higgs

Dustin Higgs, an African American man from Poughkeepsie, New York, became the thirteenth federal inmate to meet his end at the hands of the state in the span of one year since Trump's Department of Justice directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume federal executions in the summer of 2019. The 48-year old father of one was pronounced

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Birth of the Digital Oligarchy: The Trump Ban and the Social Media Ruse

The events at Capitol Hill provided the perfect excuse for Twitter and other social media companies to advance the agenda of their benefactors in the permanent government of the United States

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Social Media Ban Feature photo

On January 6, as the events unfolding at the U.S. Capitol were discussed on Twitter, the barrage of opinions predictably accumulated on one side of the political spectrum. Outrage over what mainstream pundits characterized as the desecration of the symbols of democracy and similar bleeding heart liberal rhetoric was far more prevalent than the

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Escaping the Singularity: Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Save the Planet

The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act became law on the first day of 2021, opening a backdoor to America’s largest corporations to shield their commercial interests behind the full might of the US government.

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Google's campus-network room at their data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Photo: Connie Zhou/AP)

Artificial intelligence has been touted as the next frontier in technological innovation by the world's brightest minds and celebrity CEOs like Elon Musk, who predict a hyper-connected future where big data, smart infrastructure, and biology all fuse into what 'futurist' Ray Kurzweil and others call the technological singularity. In his 1999

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Oak Flat: Trump’s Final Middle Finger to the Environment

As Trump’s term comes to a dramatic close, the administration’s last minute effort to rush through multiple mining projects that pose a grave environmental risk is lost in the headlines

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Oak Flat Trump Feature photo

Buried deep in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2015, section 3003 calls for the expeditious facilitation of a land exchange agreement between Resolution Copper Mining, LLC and the United States government to create one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the country, spanning nearly 11,000 square miles of national forest

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