April 7, 2014
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Seymour Hersh unearths more lies on Syria By Jonathon Cook
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has a second fascinating essay that rewrites the official record of the sarin gas attack on Ghouta, near Damascus, in August last year. As usual, Hersh uses his sources in the US security establishment to throw light on what really took place. The bottom line: Turkey was almost certainly the party… Continue reading
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Media Blackout over Syria By Brad Hoff
On April 6, The London Review of Books published in its online journal Seymour Hersh’s “The Red Line and the Rat Line.” Hersh continues to expose details surrounding the staged August 21 chemical attack incident in Syria, which apparently pretty much everyone in Washington’s intelligence bureaucracy suspected was carried out by the rebels as soon… Continue reading
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Frame of Reference and Journalistic Integrity By Kim Petersen
Can writers, can anyone be truly objective? In his article, “Journalism and the Illusion of Objectivity,” Michael Holtzman tackles a topic that impacts media and journalistic integrity. It is correct to question claims to journalistic objectivity and to question the very existence of such a beast as objectivity. Continue reading
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Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging drone assassinations of US citizens By Tom Carter
On Friday, federal Judge Rosemary M. Collyer entered an order dismissing a civil rights case that challenged the Obama administration’s “targeted killing” program. Judge Collyer ruled that there is no legal remedy for the extrajudicial killings of US citizens, endorsing a battery of totalitarian pseudo-legal doctrines advanced by the Obama administration. Continue reading
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Harvard University report endorses police state measures in Boston Marathon lockdown By Nick Barrickman
A new report by the Program on Crisis Leadership of Harvard University’s Kennedy School, entitled “Why was Boston Strong?”, examines the response of police and other government agencies to the events of April 15 last year, when two pressure cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The report purports to “analyze… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 5 April 2014: Israeli Settlers Uproot 750 Grape Vines near Bethlehem
5 April 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Troops Detain Gazan For Crossing BorderIMEMC – The Israeli occupation army detained a young Palestinian man near the northern border with the Gaza Strip, raising the month’s number of detentions to six. … Continue reading
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