September 2016
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BREAKING: The Link Tax is Officially on its Way
The EU Commission has officially released some of the worst copyright laws in the world, including unprecedented new Link Tax powers for publishing giants. Earlier today, the Commission presented these new rules to the world. Over the past few weeks, leaks suggested the rules were worse than originally feared,3 and today’s announcement proved it. We… Continue reading
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NSA: Did Nixon Even Read the CIA’s Daily Briefs?
President Richard Nixon may never have even read the President’s Daily Briefs partially declassified and released by the CIA with great fanfare on August 24, 2016. The CIA’s claim that the PDBs were “the primary vehicle for summarizing the day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis … for the White House” is partly true, but Nixon’s prejudices… Continue reading
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Brazil Coup: ‘They Let Everybody Know the US Was on the Side of This Coup’
Janine Jackson interviewed Mark Weisbrot about the ouster of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff for the September 9, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 14 September 2016 (16/16)
13 September 2016 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/sep/e-mail-gen-14-sep.pdf NEWS 1. ECRE-AIDA: Report: Admissibility, responsibility and safety in European asylum procedures 2. UK: Downing Street ‘used police and courts to smear Orgreave miners’ 3. European Parliament: Implementation of Lisbon Treaty – Improving Functioning of Foreign Affairs Continue reading
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False Flag Terror Has Consistently Succeeded To Compel War: Selected Articles
14 September 2016 — Global Research False Flag Terror “Has Succeeded Consistently Against Audiences Around The World, For Millennia, To Compel War” By Washington’s Blog, September 13 2016 Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed Continue reading
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‘We Are Criminalizing Transparency to Protect Illegitimate Uses of Power’
Janine Jackson: If the expression “I can’t breathe” holds power for you, it’s because of Ramsey Orta. He’s the one who held his cellphone camera steady while New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked the life out of Eric Garner in July of 2014. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 124 September 2016 – is now on line
13 September 2016 — Coldtype Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net This month’s cover story highlights Chris Hedges’ alarming essay about the effect voter illiteracy has on democracy in America in the 21st-century. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Menwith Menace: Britain’s Complicity In Saudi Arabia’s Terror Campaign Against Yemen
The ‘mainstream’ Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a ‘coalition’ of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and… Continue reading
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Media Undermine Democracy by Speculating Wildly About Undermining Democracy
The relentless drumbeat of Trump–as–Russian agent takes hasn’t ceased since the news broke of a likely Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee in June—and it probably won’t stop until Election Day. One sub-genre of this line of thinking however—that Russia will literally hack our election process and throw the US into a dystopian constitutional… Continue reading
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Welcome to Your Delusional Democracy By Global Research News: Selected Articles
12 September 2016 — Global Research Welcome to Your Delusional Democracy By Joel S. Hirschhorn, September 11 2016 For some years I have used the term “delusional democracy” to describe the condition of the US . It seemed obvious to me that the vast majority of Americans have deliberately chosen to fool themselves. They have been brainwashed to believe Continue reading
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The NHS under Threat!
NHS hospitals don’t have enough money to survive. That was the stark warning from NHS leaders this weekend. And now it’s reported that an influential group of MPs might call a special inquiry into the state of the NHS. And that they’re making the decision tomorrow. Continue reading
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Video: 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism: Michel Chossudovsky on GRTV By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett
9/11 marks the onslaught of the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a “war without borders”, a global war of conquest. Continue reading
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NSA: CIA Cover-Up on Chile
Forty-three years after the U.S.-supported military coup in Chile, the Central Intelligence Agency continues to withhold information on what it knew about planning for the putsch, and what intelligence it shared with President Richard Nixon, according to redacted documents posted today by the National Security Archive. Continue reading
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September 11, 2001. 9/11 Truth versus the Official Narrative: Selected Articles
9 September 2016 — Global Research September 11, 2001: The 15th Anniversary of the Crime and Cover-up of the Century By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, September 07 2016 WTC Building exploding into fine dust (it is not burning down) by pre-planted explosives in an obvious controlled demolition. The arrow points to a “squib” of exploding gas which is Continue reading
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Mayhem! what we are we doing? Adding political to military strikes.“UN, US, UK devastation, complicity and double standards”
These words of journalist Felicity Arbuthnot reverberated as the writer belatedly discovered Josie Ensor’s report from Istanbul that a US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee in one of the single deadliest… Continue reading
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Fabricated Claims About Russian “Covert Plot” to Disrupt US Elections: Selected Articles
8 September 2016 — Global Research Fabricated Claims About Russian “Covert Plot” to Disrupt US Elections By Stephen Lendman, September 08 2016 Hillary is so irreparably tainted and unfit to serve, her key strategy is diverting attention from her wrongdoing two ways – bashing Trump beyond customary campaign jousting and spreading misinformation and Big Lies about Russia, Continue reading
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Is Putin a Lousy Dancer? By Israel Shamir
Did Putin ask her to rake millions of dollars from Haim Saban, the Zionist billionaire, or from Wal-Mart, the scrooge of American trading companies? Did Putin beseech her to use a private email server and to mix official and personal business? Did Putin force her to swear she will destroy American coal mines if and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for September 7, 2016: Young, Black and Discovering Duopoly; Trump Might Call For 4-Way Debates If…
8 September 2016 — Black Agenda Report Young Blacks are Learning the Nature of the Duopoly Beast by BAR executive editor Glen Ford While Hillary Clinton runs rightward at breakneck speed, attempting to suck every stray Republican into her nasty Big Tent, Black Democrats worry that young African Americans have rejected both major parties. Black Continue reading
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I Am A Syrian Living in Syria: “It was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists are sent by your Government”: Selected Articles
7 September 2016 — Global Research I Am A Syrian Living in Syria: “It was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists are sent by your Government” By Mark Taliano, September 07 2016 Two years ago, “Majd” wrote these words on a Facebook posting: “ I am Syrian… living in Syria in the middle of everything. We Continue reading
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Expose Jeremy Hunt’s Secret Plans for the NHS
These plans are huge and complicated. Together we’ve started to shed light on them. But we just don’t know enough yet. If we want to have our say on our local NHS services before it’s too late, we need to see every detail. Continue reading