Raul Diego

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

NJ Homeland Security Assessment Warns Violent Unrest Could Follow 2020 Election

A new threat assessment by the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness warns that extremists from both sides of the political spectrum could engage in violence and civil unrest well into 2021 as a result of the upcoming presidential election.

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Civil Unrest Feature Photo

In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, potential civil unrest and worse has been predicted by multiple governmental agencies and assorted federal outfits, including the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. Last week the organization published a "supplemental threat assessment" on the upcoming electoral contest

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The Court of God: How a Catholic Secret Society Took Over SCOTUS

With his latest SCOTUS nomination, Trump advances the designs of a clique of ultra-conservatives with ties to a Catholic secret society and Cold War stalwarts leading the US to the brink of overt fascism.

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Amy Coney Barrett Art

The Trump White House wasted no time in nominating Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic,  to the Supreme Court after RBG's passing gave this administration an unprecedented third bite at the SCOTUS apple. Barring an improbable successful challenge by Democrats, Barrett is on her way to becoming a Supreme Court justice and tipping the scales of the

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Mexico to Renationalize Oil Next Year If Current Laws Fail to Save Reeling PEMEX

AMLO first hinted at the prospect of re-nationalizing Mexico’s oil industry in August and recently doubled down on the idea as well as leaving open the possibility of refinancing the energy sector’s enormous debt.

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AMLO PEMEX Feature photo

Faced with thousands of conservative opposition demonstrators camping out in the streets of Mexico City since he took office, the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is under renewed pressure to come up with a strategy to address the nation's tottering energy sector, which has reached a critical juncture in the

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Kushner-Linked Firm and Gig Economy Set to Reap Huge Profits as Mass Evictions Begin

With threats of homelessness and bankruptcy in the air as the eviction moratoriums subside, both renters and small landlords are getting pinched by predatory tech capitalism as the gig-economy hits the real estate market.

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evictions Feature photo

In 2014, former Blackstone and Goldman Sachs investment banker Ryan Williams got together with his "college buddy," Joshua Kushner - Jared’s brother - to form a real estate investment platform they called Cadre. Cadre sought to disrupt the real estate industry in the wake of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis by tinderizing property deals through a

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Trump Pushes CDC To Release COVID Vaccine Before Election, Experts Warn It’s Too Early

The CDC wants $6 Billion dollars to kickstart a mass vaccination effort that CDC director Robert Redfield said is coming straight from the top, but experts warn the efforts need more time and will pose a public health challenge, claiming they could « be even worse than the problems with testing and PPE. »

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COVID-19 Vaccine Feature photo

Operation Warp Speed has grabbed all the headlines when it comes to the federal government’s efforts to deploy a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available. A colossal enterprise, some supply chain experts have called it "an Amazon Prime delivery model for a vaccine." But, the real distribution networks tasked with the job are located in 64

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Deutsche Bank Money Laundering Scandal Could Create Greatest Economic Crisis in History

The leak of the FinCEN Files over the weekend has rocked global markets and augurs a financial crisis of epic proportions as Deutsche Bank hovers over the precipice.

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Deutsche Bank Feature photo

Deutsche Bank, along with several of the world's biggest commercial banks, are embroiled in a global money laundering scandal that spans over two decades, as documents leaked to BuzzFeed show the movement of $2 Trillion in illicit cash through the Western banking establishment. The cache of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) detailing years of

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Pentagon’s Top Spy Agency Turns To AI for Targeting and Operations Planning

Reminiscent of the 1983 sci-fi classic WarGames, the DIA’s new MARS program aims to create a system that uses AI to scour volumes of foreign intelligence and make decisions on how to act on it.

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DIA AI Feature photo

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is getting ready for the "next battlefield" and counting on the expertise of private concerns, like Booz Allen Hamilton, to implement what it calls Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System, or MARS for short. MARS is a critical data management system for "military targeting" and operation

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