Hey everyone, and welcome to #MintCasts, our MintPress podcast series. I’m Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief of MintPress, and I’ll be your host. Joining me today is Alex Fidel, a 22-year-old independent media entrepreneur and host of Free Thought Media, a news program which he founded in 2010 while he was in college. He is currently running for mayor in Encinitas, California, as the Liberty candidate, with a platform focused on peace, liberty, freedom, and equality. His goals include such initiatives as banning GMO crops, ending corporatism, getting money out of politics, electoral reform, protecting medical cannabis patients' rights, and putting an end to police militarization and the police state. He recently hit the media spotlight when he exposed the idiocy and hypocrisy of the two-party system on live television. With his acute honesty and refreshing take on the American electoral process, could he be the future of politics? You can find this podcast through our MintPress iTunes channel and on our website. But the conversation is far from over, as we’d like to hear more from our readers and listeners on the subject of reforming the system from a hyper-local level, including elections, militarization of the police, and protecting medical marijuana patients from the feds. Tweet at us using hashtag #MintCasts, and tell us what you think. You can also post on our Facebook page in the comments section of our pinned post featuring this podcast. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33iVZI-aF4

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MintPress News' Dan Cohen and Haiti Liberté journalist Kim Ives to discuss the ongoing battle for Port-au-Prince, with current clashes between the G9 and the G-Pèp centered in the slum of Cité Solieil. Read Ives' latest article on the battle here: https://haitiliberte.com/in-cite-soleil-the-g9-federation-in-all-out-war-with-g-pep/ Watch the trailer for Cohen and Ives' forthcoming documentary 'Another Vision: Inside Haiti's Uprising' https://youtu.be/K_lf6KgmRJs ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtW3CzICRcc

WATCH: A session of France's parliament is suspended after a far-right MP yells, "Go back to Africa," during a statement from MP Carlos Martens Bilongo about a rescue boat being denied entry to port with hundreds of passengers on it. “Today I was sent back to my skin color. I was born in France. I am a French deputy,” said MP Bilongo about the incident. France's Parliamentary left wing has called for the far-right MP Gregoire de Fournas to be expelled. Support independent watchdog journalism https://www.patreon.com/MintPressNews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE97pNti_MU