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Los Angeles resident Elvis Summers poses with his tiny house on wheels he built for a woman who had been sleeping on the streets in his South Los Angeles neighborhood on Thursday, May 7, 2015. Summers never thought more than 5.6 million people would watch a YouTube video of him constructing the 8-foot-long house for Irene "Smokie" McGhee, 60, a grandmother who’s been homeless for more than a decade. He estimates he spent less than $500 on plywood, shingles, a window and a door.

The Government’s Insane War On Tiny Homes And Humanity

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US Vet Seeks Asylum For Iraqi Man Who Saved His Life

For the past two years, a former Green Beret soldier has been fighting a battle to gain political asylum for his brother in arms, a man he simply calls The Captain, a soldier who fought alongside him during two tours in Iraq.

Associated Press
Par Associated Press
HOLD FOR USE WITH STORY MOVING FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016-This 2007 photo provided by Chase Millsap shows Millsap with the Captain standing next to a suspected truck bomb following a successful raid in Al Anbar, Iraq. After three tours of duty in warn-torn Iraq, including one that nearly took his life, Millsap returned to the United States to earn a master's degree in public policy and get on with a civilian life. For the past two years, the former Green Beret soldier has been fighting another battle to gain political asylum for his brother in arms, a man he simply calls The Captain, a soldier who fought alongside him during two of Millsap's tours in Iraq. (Chase Millsap via AP)

LOS ANGELES  — After three military combat tours in war-torn Iraq, Chase Millsap returned home to get on with a civilian life. But there was one thing he couldn't do: leave a comrade behind, certainly not one who had saved his life. Especially not the former Iraqi military officer who had worked with the Americans and was now living a precarious

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Three Suggested Aims Of US Central Command General’s Secret Visit To Syria

Joseph Votel, who has headed U.S. Central Command for just seven weeks, became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer known to have entered Syria since the U.S.

Sputnik News
Par Sputnik News
Army Gen. Joseph Votel speaks to reporters Saturday, May 21, 2016 during a secret trip to Syria. Votel said he is encouraged by progress in building local Syrian Arab and Kurdish forces to fight the Islamic State.

Commenting on a secret visit of US Central Command General Joseph Votel to Syria, Turkish journalist Amberin Zaman suggested to Sputnik three possible motives for the trip, which marks the highest-ranking US military officer known to have entered Syria since 2014. “I think there were three possible reasons for the US Central Command General’s trip

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Pentagon Talks Up ‘Eclectic’ Recruits For Syrian Rebel Training Scheme

That the Pentagon is already trying to same scheme again so soon after such an embarrassment reflects the lack of realistic ideas among US officials on how to win the ongoing war, and continued pressure to “do something,” even if it clearly won’t work.

MintPress News Desk
Par MintPress News Desk
'moderate' Syrian Rebels train.

After their last attempt to recruit and train a whole new rebel faction for Syria ended in disaster, the Pentagon is angling to try again. US officials are bursting with confidence, saying they have more Arabs volunteering than they know what to do with. Described as an “eclectic” group, the new recruits seem even less suited to the role than

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Leaked Transcripts Detail How Elite Orchestrated Overthrow In Brazil

Revelations detail ‘national pact’ between government, military, and oil executives.

MintPress News Desk
Par MintPress News Desk
A woman holds up signs that say in Portuguese "Serra, the coup is hot, we're already boiling," left, and "Serra, tomorrow will be another day" as protesters wait for him outside the Foreign Relations Ministry where he'll meet Argentina's Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 23, 2016. Serra is on his first state visit since being appointed in the wake of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Confirming suspicions that the ouster of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is, in fact, a coup designed to eradicate a wide corruption probe, Brazil's largest newspaper on Monday published damning evidence of a "national pact" between a top government official and oil executive. It is unclear how Folha de São Paulo obtained the transcripts of

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Ikea Looks Into Replacing Styrofoam With Biodegradable Mushroom Packaging

‘We always look for new and innovative processes and sustainable materials that can contribute to our commitment’ to sustainability, an Ikea representative said.

MintPress News Desk
Par MintPress News Desk

MINNEAPOLIS --- Ikea shoppers may soon encounter mushrooms on trips to the big box store, but the fungi won’t be served on a plate with Swedish meatballs. "We are looking for innovative alternatives to materials, such as replacing our polystyrene packaging with mycelium -- fungi packaging," Joanna Yarrow, Ikea’s head of sustainability in the

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Counting Down To Israel’s Next ‘Mowing Of The Lawn’ In Palestine

Of course, no one can adequately predict Israel’s next move. But if history gives us any indication, it’s more than likely that Israel’s going to be drumming up some vague pretext soon that will allow it to use Gaza like a weapons testing facility.

Robert Fantina
Par Robert Fantina
a Palestinian girl walks next to destroyed houses, in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City

KITCHENER, Ontario --- (Analysis) Every two years or so, Israel decides that it’s time to once more test out its weaponry, provided by the United States, on Palestine. It invents some vague pretext and levels the Gaza Strip, a process Israeli politicians have referred to as a periodic “mowing of the lawn.” Indeed, the grass in any lawn will grow

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