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Wed, 07/02/2024 - 01:11

A new study of major media outlets’ coverage of the Red Sea blockade found overwhelming bias in the press, which put forward pro-war talking points and portrayed the US as a good faith actor “dragged” into another Middle Eastern conflict against its will

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Sat, 03/02/2024 - 07:55

Greg Stoker is a former U.S. Army Special Operations member who left the military and became a committed anti-imperialist. Today, he joins MintCast to discuss Israel, Yemen, and the US role in the chaos.

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Wed, 31/01/2024 - 00:35

Joining MintCast to discuss the blockade and Yemen’s escalating tensions with the United States is Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansar Allah.

The post Yemen’s Houthis Speak to MintPress About US Attacks, Their Blockade of Israel appeared first on MintPress News.

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Tue, 02/01/2024 - 10:37
by Dror Goldberg* Where and when did modern currency originate? My book Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency (University of Chicago Press, 2023) tackles this fascinating question. I discover and explain the origin of modern currency in 1690 in the English colony of Massachusetts Bay — an unimportant place, compared to […]
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Fri, 29/12/2023 - 00:00

For a long time, two of the great gerontocracies were the Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese Communist Party. It is quite a thought that if Joe Biden were a Catholic bishop, he would have been required to submit his resignation to the pope five years ago. If he were a cardinal, he would, when […]

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Tue, 19/12/2023 - 00:39

Dive into the intricate geopolitics of Northeast Asia with Tim Shorrock in today's MintCast interview, exploring the shaping of Japan and South Korea by the United States, their complex political landscapes, and the potential for regional unification amidst growing U.S.-China tensions

The post South Korea and Japan Emerge as Key Battlegrounds in US Strategy Against China, Featuring Tim Shorrock appeared first on MintPress News.

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Thu, 30/11/2023 - 08:22

The US and Israel have been planning the construction of brand new trade routes, which are only possible through normalization agreements signed between Tel Aviv and the Arab World. So, what is the Ben Gurion Canal, India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, and why is this so important to Washington's considerations when backing the current Israeli onslaught on Gaza?

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Tue, 14/11/2023 - 23:00

Joe Biden’s response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle. Immediately after he returned from his visit to Tel Aviv, where he had both literally and figuratively embraced Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden addressed the US public from the Oval Office. “You know,” he […]

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