Catalonia Closes Ranks As Outrage Over Crackdown Grows

With 10 days left to the vote, there’s a lot of time for the situation to continue to escalate, with thousands of Catalan demonstrators in the streets, and thousands more police arriving on ferries in Barcelona.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz
People shout slogans during a protest in Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 21, 2017. Thousands have gathered at the gates of Catalonia's judiciary body in Barcelona to demand the release of a dozen officials arrested in connection with a vote on independence that Spanish central authorities are challenging as illegal. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s increasingly public crackdown on the planned October 1 secession referendum in Catalonia appears to be bringing the population of the northeastern region together. Reports say that the social indignation toward police action is spreading far from just the pro-secession crowd. Spain’s Constitutional Court forbade the referendum, and

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Over 100 Arrested In Brutal Police Crackdown On Standing Rock ‘Water Protectors’

At least 107 people were arrested and police used ‘less lethal’ weapons on members of the media, including a MintPress News reporter, as they cleared a camp and road blockade near the Dakota Access pipeline construction site.

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Kit O'Connell
作者 Derrick Broze
And Kit O'Connell
Dakota Access pipeline protesters face off with police who are trying to force them from a camp on land in the path of pipeline construction on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D.

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, North Dakota --- Law enforcement commenced a violent crackdown on Native American activists blocking construction on the Dakota Access pipeline on Thursday, resulting in over 100 arrests and multiple injuries. At least 107 people were arrested and both Native American “water protectors” and members of the media

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Mass Detentions, Political Crackdown In Turkey After Failed Coup

Some 6,000 members of the military have been detained in relation to the coup attempt, including the commander of the Incirlik Air Base, where US troops and a substantial number of US nuclear arms are stationed.

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz
Turkish military personnel who were aboard a Blackhawk military helicopter are transferred to a prosecutor's office in the city of Alexandroupolis, northern Greece, Sunday July 17, 2016.

The first 48 hours after Friday evening’s failed coup d’etat in Turkey has seen the launching of a massive crackdown on anyone even suspected of being involved, with some 6,000 from the military already detained in relation to the attempt, including the commander of the Incirlik Air Base, where US troops and a substantial number of US nuclear arms

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Venezuela Cyber Crackdown Ensnares Web’s Bitly

In the midst of a a currency crisis, the Venezuelan government is blocking websites people use to track exchange rates on the black market.

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作者 Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans have been scrambling for dollars for weeks, taking refuge in the greenback as their own currency is in free fall. Rather than address the economic imbalances behind the bolivar's plunge, the government is going after the bearers of the bad news — it's blocking websites people use to track exchange rates on the

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Egypt’s Darkest Day: Over 500 Dead After Military Cracks Down

Egypt’s military-backed government imposed a curfew Wednesday night following a day of brutal violence nationwide.

Louisa Loveluck
作者 Louisa Loveluck

CAIRO — Egypt’s military-backed government imposed a month-long nighttime curfew in nearly half the country’s provinces Wednesday night, following a day of nationwide violence that was striking in its brutality and that marked one of the bloodiest episodes here in decades. More than 500 people were killed across Egypt Wednesday after police —

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