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From left: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff , Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of China Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma sit during a signing ceremony at the BRICS Summit in Ufa, Russia, Thursday, July 9, 2015. Ufa is hosting BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summits. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool photo via AP)

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Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Selects First Muslim Running Mate In US History

In this episode of ‘Behind The Headline,’ host Mnar Muhawesh meets Will Coley, founder of Muslims for Liberty and Libertarian Party member, who could become the first Muslim candidate for vice president in U.S. history.

Mnar Adley
Par Mnar Adley
Will Coley, head of Muslims for Liberty, and America's first Muslim running mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JouxD2YUAxc MINNEAPOLIS --- The first woman to receive a vote from the Electoral College wasn’t a Democrat or a Republican; she was a Libertarian. Tonie Nathan was the 1972 running mate of John Hospers, the presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. In December of that year, Republican elector Roger

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Standing Up To Multinational Big-Ag: Nepal, Monsanto, & USAID

Without constant vigilance and activism by advocates for food security and food sovereignty in Nepal, the threat Monsanto and other corporations like it, will continuously loom.

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Par MintPress News Desk
An aerial view of a crop circle made by local farmers in Isabela province, 300 km northeast of Manila (AP Photo/Greenpeace)

Nepal – Throughout history, controlling India was the key to controlling Nepal. British control over the landlocked nation was an extension of its control over India itself. Today, imperialism is far from a distant memory. It did not go “extinct,” rather, it merely “evolved.” Today, imperialism looks like national and international “aid programs”

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UK Sells Arms To Half The Countries On Its List Of Human Rights Abusers

Despite horrific human rights records, the “countries of concern” benefiting from support from the British war machine are plentiful.

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Par MintPress News Desk
British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and French President Francois Hollande stand backdropped by a model of a concept design for a future unmanned combat air vehicle as they wait for memorandums of understandings and an agreement to be signed before the start of their press conference at their one-day summit at the RAF Brize Norton air base in Brize Norton, England, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. The one-day summit covered military cooperation, including talks over armed drones, anti-ship missiles, and underwater mine detectors, as well as a joint Franco-British force of 10,000 soldiers due to be formed in the next few years. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

United Kingdom — New research has shown the U.K. is providing military training and support to over half the countries named on its own watchlist of human rights abusers. An investigation by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Independent has revealed U.K. armed forces have trained security and armed forces personnel from 16 of 30 regimes

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Protesters Storm Trump Rally In Albuquerque

New Mexico’s population is almost half Latino, mostly of Mexican descent, and polls show they are overwhelmingly against Trump.

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Riot police block off the Albuquerque Convention Center to protests following a rally and speech by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the convention center where the event was held, in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was interrupted several times by protesters inside a rally Tuesday evening, as hundreds clashed with police outside the event in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the grandstands around the stage, over a dozen protesters held up banners that read, “Trump is a Fascist”, "Undocumented Unafraid" and

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Chicago Investigator Blows Whistle On Corrupt Police Review Board

A former investigator with Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was fired for refusing to produce false reports regarding officers accused of misconduct.

Derrick Broze
Par Derrick Broze
Two Chicago police officers take a man into custody during a protest march, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Chicago, the day after murder charges were brought against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

A former investigator with Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority has filed a lawsuit claiming that he was fired for refusing to produce false reports regarding officers accused of misconduct. Lorenzo Davis began working with Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) in 2008 as an investigator after 23 years with the Chicago

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Watchdog: Over 400 Civilians Killed In US Airstrikes On Syria

111 of the victims were children under the age of 18, and at least 70 were women.

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A US Air Force plane takes off as a Turkish Air Force fighter jet taxis at the Incirlik airbase, southern Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. (Photo: AP/Vadim Ghirda)

A new summary of casualties from the US-led coalition airstrikes against Syria by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that since September of 2014, the strikes have killed nearly 4,900 people, mostly ISIS but also including 417 civilians. The observatory’s numbers put the overall civilian deaths at 417, with 111 of them children under

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