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The Politics Of Punishment: Greece Is Being Destroyed By Europe And Austerity Orthodoxy

With Greece and the eurozone committing to reforms and a bailout that’s still unsustainable, it’s the people of Greece who are left to suffer, not knowing “what will come tomorrow. They don’t know if they’ll have their jobs or if they’ll have money to live,” a Greek expat tells MintPress.

Sean Nevins
By Sean Nevins
A street vendor pushes his trolley as he passes a banner, depicting a wrecking ball that reads: "NO" and destroying a wall with anti-austerity measures, in Athens, Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Barely a week after their last crunch vote, Greek lawmakers are set to vote later Wednesday on further economic reforms demanded by international creditors in return for a new financial bailout.

WASHINGTON --- All the news coming out of Greece is bad, says Giannis Nitodas, who left his home in Chios, Greece, amid the mounting pressures of austerity measures that continue to crush the Greek economy. “I was paid €900 [$990] per month,” Nitodas told MintPress News from his home in Toronto, Ontario. “But we didn’t know what would happen

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Native American Civil Rights Activist Dies Mysteriously In Police Custody

The results of the state’s autopsy still haven’t been released to the public weeks after Henry’s death.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Rexdale Henry, a civil rights activist, was found dead in jail the day after Sandra Bland was arrested over failure to pay minor traffic citation

NESHOBA COUNTY, Mississippi --- Rexdale W. Henry, a Choctaw activist, died in Mississippi’s Neshoba County Jail earlier this month under circumstances that remain mysterious. Coming just one day after the alleged suicide of black civil rights activist Sandra Bland in Texas, questions are being raised about how an apparently healthy man died in

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‘Monsanto’s Dream Bill’: DARK Act And Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Keep Consumers Ignorant

The controversial TPP trade deal could destroy the efforts of some states to mandate labelling of foods with GMO ingredients, while a bill moving through Congress has a similar goal.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
A woman attends a protest against genetically-modified foods as she holds a banner which reads: "No GMO!

WASHINGTON --- It’s called the Safe and Accurate Food Labelling Act of 2015, or H.R. 1599, but activists and supporters of GMO labelling might know it better as the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, or DARK Act -- a nickname it got because it would destroy state efforts to mandate GMO labelling on foods containing ingredients from genetically

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Republican Candidate Compares Iran Deal To The Holocaust

Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the deal is “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON  — GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is sticking with his controversial criticism of the Iran nuclear deal as "marching the Israelis to the door of the oven," a reference to the Holocaust. The former Arkansas governor made the tweet Sunday, a day after first making the comparison when denouncing President Barack Obama for his

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MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Via Today Show And WSJ

The emails just how corrupt the big players in American media really are.

Tech Dirt
By Tech Dirt

If you talk to the reporters who work for various big media companies, they insist that they have true editorial independence from the business side of their companies. They insist that the news coverage isn't designed to reflect the business interests of their owners. Of course, most people have always suspected this was bullshit -- and you could

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Search for 43 Missing Students In Mexico Turns Up Mass Graves

The war on drugs claims more victims.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
forensic workers load a body into a truck after at least 10 bodies were found in clandestine graves on the outskirts of the Pacific beach resort Acapulco, Mexico

MEXICO CITY – The search for 43 missing college students in the southern state of Guerrero has turned up at least 60 clandestine graves and 129 bodies over the last 10 months, Mexico’s attorney general’s office says. None of the remains has been connected to the youths who disappeared after a clash with police in the city of Iguala on Sept. 26,

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