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The Darker Nations
Author	Vijay Prashad
First published	2007 New York
Type	Book

Library works about India, Library works about decolonisation, Library works about geopolitics, Library works by Vijay Prashad

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MintPress News
Founded	January 2012 Minneapolis, Minnesota
Founder	Mnar Muhawesh
Key people	Alan Macleod, Kit Klarenberg, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, Max Blumenthal, Miko Peled, Kevin Zeese, Whitney Webb, Carlos Latuff
Number of employees	8
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MintPress News is a left-leaning Statesian online news website founded and edited by Mnar Muhawesh which was launched in January 2012. It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues.

In 2022, MintPress's PayPal account which is used for donations was censored by PayPal.

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Free Press (and Speech) by Robinn
Published: 2023-09-13 (last update: 2024-12-22)
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The vestiges of the feudalist press and suppression were replaced with free press, free speech, and free expression. These phrases obscured the real essence of capitalism; where the press became an economic institution (the bourgeoisie possessing the masses of capital), it had at once reformed itself into a direct expression of class interest to which the proletariat were excluded on the very basis of their essence as a class.

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