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Arrested developments: Occupy arrests reach over 6,000

AP photo NEW YORK (MintPress) — For the first month of 2012, it seemed that the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, which began in New York City in the fall as a protest against corporate excess and economic inequality, was losing momentum.  After weeks of staying out of the headlines, though, the Occupiers are front and […]

Lisa Barron
Par Lisa Barron
Occupy Oakland

AP photo NEW YORK (MintPress) — For the first month of 2012, it seemed that the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, which began in New York City in the fall as a protest against corporate excess and economic inequality, was losing momentum.  After weeks of staying out of the headlines, though, the Occupiers are front and center again after the

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Presidential debate commission run by former lobbyists, special interest funding

AP Photo (MintPress)– There are nearly 20 private political parties vying for the 2012 presidential office that influence what candidates say and how they say it. But, watching the presidential debates, these 20 special interest groups go unseen and unheard of. Behind the scenes of every presidential debate is an entity that dictates how the […]

Joey LeMay
Par Joey LeMay
Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney

(MintPress)-- There are nearly 20 private political parties vying for the 2012 presidential office that influence what candidates say and how they say it. But, watching the presidential debates, these 20 special interest groups go unseen and unheard of. Behind the scenes of every presidential debate is an entity that dictates how the event is

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Billions lost in Iraq could have built much needed infrastructure

Department of Defense Photo (MintPress) — Recent audits suggesting the United States cannot account for $2 billion in Iraqi funds adds to a storyline of missing money under the watch of the U.S. Department of Defense. The most recent report details how the U.S. can only account for one-third of a $3 billion payment the Iraqi […]

Joey LeMay
Par Joey LeMay
Department of Defense Photo

(MintPress) — Recent audits suggesting the United States cannot account for $2 billion in Iraqi funds adds to a storyline of missing money under the watch of the U.S. Department of Defense. The most recent report details how the U.S. can only account for one-third of a $3 billion payment the Iraqi government gave the U.S. in 2004 to pay contract

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UN nuclear inspection gets under way in Iran

Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency,IAEA, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, arrives for his flight to Iran at Vienna’s Schwechat airport, Austria, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)   TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister expressed optimism Sunday that a visit by U.N. inspectors to […]

Herman Nackaerts

Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency,IAEA, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, arrives for his flight to Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, Austria, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)   TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign minister expressed optimism Sunday that a visit by

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New York police spokesman comes under for misleading the public

FILE- In this May 6, 2011 file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, left, talks with Paul Browne, the department's Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, at City Hall in New York. Lately, Brown has come under fire from local media as well as community activists for a series of flip-flops, hedges and retractions […]

Ray Kelly, Paul Browne

  NEW YORK (AP) — When word leaked out last year that New York police were showing an inflammatory movie about Muslims to trainees, news reporters flipped open their notebooks, picked up their phones and hit the speed dial for a man named Paul Browne. As the spokesman for America's largest police force, Deputy Police Commissioner Browne is

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Pentagon seeks expanded role for US military in talks with Iraq

Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy (AP Photo)   WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s chief policy aide. Michele Flournoy, who is leaving her Pentagon post on Friday to return to […]

Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is preparing to begin talks with Iraq on defining a long-term defense relationship that may include expanded U.S. training help, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's chief policy aide. Michele Flournoy, who is leaving her Pentagon post on Friday to return to private life, said in an

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