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In this undated file photo, water flows through the Southern California desert in the Metropolitan Water District's Colorado River Aqueduct from the Colorado River to the Los Angeles area. A pricing dispute has sharply escalated hostilities between San Diego and the agency that delivers water to much of Southern California, straining an odd partnership already defined by years of lawsuits and heated rhetoric. The San Diego County Water Authority launched a website to attack the MWD, its largest supplier, saying it wanted to lift a veil of secrecy. The site displays a trove of internal documents obtained under California’s public records law, including references to a "Secret Society" and an "anti-San Diego coalition." (AP Photo/Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, File)

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Archives for June 2016

New Report Reveals 7 In 10 Women Raped While In Police Custody In Mexico

In a report released early Tuesday, the group said that in interviews with 100 incarcerated Mexican women, 72 reported sexual torture during their arrests. Ninety-seven had been beaten or received some kind of physical abuse. All 100 reported at least harassment or psychological abuse.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Claudia Medina Tavariz talks during an interview, at the Amnesty International office in Mexico City, Monday, June 27, 2016. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Medina was arrested in August 2012 and believes she was taken to a local Navy base where her captors accused her of working with organized crime. Over a period of hours she was beaten, sexually assaulted, jolted with electric shocks and subjected to simulated drowning. Human rights defender Amnesty International says Medina’s experience is common among women arrested in Mexico.

MEXICO CITY  — Claudia Medina Tamariz was asleep in her home in the Gulf coast port of Veracruz with her husband when Mexican marines burst in and arrested them both in August 2012. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Medina believes she was taken to a local navy base where her captors accused her of working with organized crime. Over a period of hours,

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Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Movement Urges Carlos Santana To Cancel Tel Aviv Concert

The concert, scheduled for July 30, would mark Carlos Santana’s first appearance in Israel in 29 years.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Can BDS Movement Stop Carlos Santana From Getting So Smooth In Apartheid Israel?

AUSTIN, Texas --- Opponents of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine are urging superstar guitarist Carlos Santana to support their boycott of Israel’s apartheid policies. Santana’s Luminosity Tour is scheduled to stop in Tel Aviv’s HaYarkon Park on July 30, but activists from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement are hoping

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Obama Granted Over 1,500 Underwater Fracking Permits In Gulf Of Mexico After Deepwater Horizon

An environmentalist attorney warned that despite the Deepwater Horizon disaster, ‘the federal government is rubber-stamping practices like fracking without doing any environmental review or notifying the public.’

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
This Wednesday, April 21, 2010 aerial photo shows oil in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns.

MINNEAPOLIS --- The Obama administration has approved hundreds of fracking permits for underwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s also frequently allowed oil companies to sidestep the environmental review process. Even the most severe environmental disaster in the Gulf’s history couldn’t dissuade the government from issuing permits,

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Video: Untold History Of Imperial Japan & The Bomb

Abby Martin interviews Dr. Peter Kuznick, co-author with Director Oliver Stone of the bestselling book and HBO series “The Untold History of the United States,” about the real story behind the use of the atomic bombs.

Abby Martin
By Abby Martin
An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. The vast ruin is a result of "Little Boy," the uranium atomic bomb detonated on Aug. 6 by the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUPkeQBkCVU Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism. Abby Martin interviews Dr. Peter Kuznick,

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UK Experiences 57% Rise In Hate Crimes Since Brexit Vote

Amid a surge of xenophobia since the Brexit result, teleSUR looks at five examples of the hate currently terrorizing minorities within the country.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Demonstrators opposing Britain's exit from the European Union in Parliament Square following an EU referendum result hold a protest in London, Saturday, June 25, 2016. According to the Muslim Council for Britain (MCB) there have been more than 100 reports of 'hate crimes' against Muslims since the Brexit result.

Racism is nothing new to Britain but there is no denying hate crimes and abuse against minorities surged over the weekend after almost 52 percent of Britons voted to leave the European Union. There was a 57 percent increase in incidents reported between Thursday and Sunday compared with the same days four weeks earlier, according to the National

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Texas Cop Raped Prisoner, Entire Police Department Watched, Offered Victim Taco Instead Of Reporting Assault

Lawyers for the disabled South Texas woman “Renee” allege that the video-documented sexual assault by Peralez took place over several hours and that high-ranking officers refused medical attention after she reported the violation to the his supervisors, who witnessed video footage of the assault.

PINAC
By PINAC
Officer Felipe Santiago Peralez III.

A Texas cop raped his prisoner on video, while the entire department watched. Now the victim is suing the town of 4,000 residents for $5,000,000. The tiny border town of La Joya only has a total of 11 police officers, and seven active officers have been named in the lawsuit including the current chief. La Joya’s former chief is also a named

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