August 2016
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How We Know ISIS Was Made In The USA By Roger Stone
Judicial Watch proved it. Under a Freedom of Information Act request, Judicial Watch was able to obtain a (heavily redacted) copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) directive that initiated the creation of ISIS in 2012. the DIA report states: “THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION . . . [SUPPORT]… Continue reading
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Video: Greek Professor: Refugee Policies of European States Are State Crimes
Aegean University Professor Stratos Georgoulas: Refugees in Greece are often forced to choose between imprisonment in camps or deportation to Turkey Continue reading
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Sign the petition – Blair must be held to account
A new petition has been launched to bolster the campaign to hold Tony Blair to account by obtaining a House of Commons’ vote holding him in contempt of Parliament. Get 10,000 then Parliament has to respond (no response so far). Get 100,000 signatures and they have to debate it in Parliament. Continue reading
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Video: Who said it, Trump or Clinton? Democrats Can’t Decide By Rania Khalek
Got nothing else to do for five minutes? Check out this witty (but utterly depressing) video of Khalek interviewing Democratic Party members at their convention on who said what? The term ‘lesser of two evils’ was always stupid but now it’s totally meaningless. Continue reading
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‘They Are Incentivized to Arrest People Because It Raises Money’
Donna Murch: “Nearly everyone who’s being arrested or incarcerated is incurring criminal justice debt. And in many states you can be stripped of your right to vote until you pay off all of your criminal justice debt. So I talk about that essentially as a modern day poll tax.” Continue reading
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Felicia Kornbluh on the Politics of Welfare
It was 20 years ago this month that Bill Clinton eliminated the federal guarantee of assistance to poor families. Corporate media played a key role in persuading the public that Aid to Families with Dependent Children—representing less than 1-and-a-half percent of federal outlay from 1964 to 1994—was somehow bleeding the country dry. Continue reading
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GMO: ‘If You’re So Proud of This Technology, Put It on the Label’
Janine Jackson: “Obama Signs Bill Requiring Labeling of GMO Foods” was the headline in the Washington Post. But then why are many of the activists who’ve been fighting for the labeling of genetically engineered foods calling the legislation the DARK Act, for Denying Americans the Right to Know? Continue reading
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Do you want GP records shared, even if you’ve opted out?
Care.data may be gone, but Jeremy Hunt is asking whether you want to keep your opt out of your medical records leaving your GP’s practice. Will you tell him what you think? Continue reading
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One World Governance and the Council on Foreign Relations: Selected Articles
18 August 2016 — Global Research News One World Governance and the Council on Foreign Relations.“We Shall have World Government… by Conquest or Consent.” By Joachim Hagopian, August 18 2016 The fact is the Council on Foreign Relations has been controlling US foreign policy for almost a century, and chief among its most obvious agendas has Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for August 18, 2016: Ajamu Baraka Green VP Nominee, Obama DID Help Invent ISIS But Trump Can't Explain Why
18 August 2016 — Black Agenda Report Why Ajamu Baraka? Why Vice President? And Why the Green Party? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What does the Green Party nomination of longtime Black Agenda Report contributing editor Ajamu Baraka for Vice President mean for the Green Party and the 2016 presidential election? Is he Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for August 8, 2016: Trump, Russia and Democratic Lies – Baltimore: Impunity for the Police and Prison for the Resisters
8 August 2016 — Black Agenda Report BAR didn’t send out an issue last week, so here are the links to the stories I could have published: Freedom Rider: Trump, Russia and Democratic Lies by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The real story was that the Democrats rigged the primary elections. The manufactured Continue reading
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Growing disquiet in Washington over Russian-Iranian actions in Syria By Bill Van Auken
The air strikes, carried out by Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers and SU-34 tactical bombers, mark the first time that Russia has used a base inside a third country to prosecute the bombing campaign that it began last September against Al Qaeda-linked militias and in support of the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. The move provoked… Continue reading
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We help our sinister friends to commit war crimes in Yemen
18 August 2016 — Drone Warfare A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. And who is in the coalition? US and Britain have deployed their military personnel in the command and control Continue reading
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Donald vs. Hillary: A Still Uncertain Election: Selected Articles
17 August 2016 — Global Research Donald vs. Hillary: A Still Uncertain Election. Both Candidates Remain Unpopular with the Majority of Americans By Jack A. Smith, August 16 2016 Is it possible that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will self-destruct well before the election? It certainly looked that way, given one major blunder after another in the Continue reading
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NYT Touts Honduras as Ad for 'American Power'–Leaving Out Support for Murderous Coup Regime
17 August 2016 — FAIR “How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer” was the headline over the lead article in the New York Times‘ “Week in Review” (8/11/16), with the teaser reading, “Programs funded by the United States are helping transform Honduras. Who says American power is dead?” Continue reading
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NYT Touts Honduras as Ad for ‘American Power’–Leaving Out Support for Murderous Coup Regime
17 August 2016 — FAIR “How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer” was the headline over the lead article in the New York Times‘ “Week in Review” (8/11/16), with the teaser reading, “Programs funded by the United States are helping transform Honduras. Who says American power is dead?” Continue reading
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The “Hatred of Life”: The World System which is Threatening All of Us: Selected Articles
17 August 2016 — Global Research The “Hatred of Life”: The World System which is Threatening All of Us By Prof. Claudia von Werlhof, August 16 2016 I only have a few minutes to convince you of the usefulness of a new term; a term that will help us understand the dangerous times we are living in Continue reading
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Protect our Bees! Email your MP
Breaking: toxic pesticides are killing our bees. That’s the headline that pesticide company bosses have been dreading. And it’s splashed all over the news thanks to new research out today. Continue reading
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America’s “Humanitarian War” against the World: Selected Articles
15 August 2016 — Global Research America’s “Humanitarian War” against the World By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 14 2016 We are not dealing with piecemeal military and intelligence operations. Major military and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Asia Pacific region. A US-NATO war Continue reading
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Election Meddling: Bad if Done to USA, Bad to Complain About if Done by USA
The Washington Post (8/10/16) published what has to be one of the most naked examples of projection ever displayed by a major American paper. The Post’s editorial board, in another effort to bash Russia, lumped its President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s increasingly autocratic ruler President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into a generic “strongman” category, and warned… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 