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BALTIMORE (Mint) — The world watched last week as protesters stormed the streets of Baltimore to oppose police brutality and demand justice for Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man, who died of spinal injuries suffered in police custody on April 19. But racist policing policies aren’t the only factor leading police officers to allegedly treat Gray, and others like him, inhumanely and …

WASHINGTON (Mint) — A Washington, D.C., community organizing group held a press conference last week to call out the District government for a lack of transparency and enforcement mechanisms to protect workers and put the city’s residents, who are often victims of displacement and gentrification, to work. “We always hear this rhetoric about public-private partnerships, and giving out public funds to …

WASHINGTON (Mint) — Iran is a country with incredible potential. Sandwiched between the Middle East, and Central and South Asia, with the Caspian Sea to the north and the Persian Gulf to the south, it’s situated in one of the most prime pieces of real estate on the planet. It’s home to the largest gas reserves in the world and the …

WASHINGTON (Mint) — The 2016 presidential election is shaping up to be more boring than ever, with the Bush and Clinton dynasties poised to take the reins of America’s corporate capitalist system, likely to deliver unsubstantive debate and the illusion of choice in a duopoly that offers very little in terms of real meaningful change. “We need a good strong challenge, …

BEIRUT (Mint) — The U.S. government is coming apart at the seams in more ways than one. The world watched as lawmakers played chicken with the debt ceiling in 2011 and forced a government shutdown in 2013. And now, a dispute over American foreign policy in the Middle East is prompting an unprecedented schism between the executive and legislative branches. Nowhere …

BALTIMORE (Mint) — Marshall “Eddie” Conway, 68, is a human rights activist, who spent 44 years in prison for killing a police officer — a crime he says he didn’t commit — until he was released last March. On April 26, 1970, the former minister of defense for the Black Panther Party’s Baltimore chapter was arrested at the post office where …

WASHINGTON (Mint) — On Dec. 11, Rasmea Yousef Odeh, 67, an American citizen originally from Lifta, Palestine, was released on bond after spending five weeks in jail at Port Huron, Michigan. She was imprisoned and awaiting sentencing after being convicted on Nov. 10 of lying on her naturalization form to become a U.S. citizen. Sentencing for her crime will take place …

WASHINGTON — (Mint) Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the global banking giant is likely to …

WASHINGTON (Mint) — The regional implications for an Iran nuclear deal would be profound, yet they could possibly lead to something even greater, the likes of which have not been seen since Nixon’s rapprochement with China in the 1970s. Iran and the P5+1 countries (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) are scheduled to finalize negotiations for …

WASHINGTON (Mint) — As the United States sends bombers into the Middle East, an Iraqi tribal leader has sent lobbyists to Washington to create a semi-autonomous Sunni state and convince President Obama to consult with him on matters regarding the group that calls itself the Islamic State. That tribal leader is Sheikh Ali Hatem al-Suleiman of the Dulaim tribe, the largest …