Month: October 2016

Will Hillary Make it to the White House? Selected Articles

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31 October 2016 — Global Research

Hillary e-mailThe Real Reasons Why FBI Director James Comey Reopened the Hillary Email Investigation

By Joachim Hagopian, October 30 2016

This year’s unending batches of Wiki-leaked DNC/Hillary emails and Project Veritas undercover campaign videos confirm that the entire US political as well as economic system is morally and financially bankrupt, irreparably broken and in need of complete overhaul. Voter fraud and election fraud are rampant. Soros funded electronic voting machines that are preprogrammed to vote for Hillary are operating in 16 key battleground states. America’s internal house now is in total disarray, badly in need of a deep cleaning purge like never before.

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The Real Reasons Why FBI Director James Comey Reopened the Hillary Email Investigation By Joachim Hagopian

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30 October 2016 — Global Research

Hillary e-mail

This last Friday it became public record that FBI Director James Comey reopened the Hillary Clinton email server investigation after repeatedly testifying before Congress and the world up to last July that he’d closed the case, after in his words not finding sufficient evidence of “any criminal wrongdoing” to indict her in spite of her four years as Secretary of State egregiously breaching our national security:’ 

-committing obstruction of justice and willful tampering with evidence, 

–deleting 30,000 emails after receiving a court subpoena constituting destruction of evidence,

-not to mention repeatedly engaging in perjury before Congress and the FBI.

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Video: Rebels of the 9th Art A documentary film by Nicoletta Fagiolo

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30 October 2016 — Youtube

Rebels of the 9th Art A documentary film by Nicoletta Fagiolo, 2009, 24images.

A rising generation of African editorial cartoonists is addressing corruption, violence and the difficulties of daily life What are their styles? Who are their heroes? What is the “African angle” they portray? How do they see the west? What censorship issues do they face? Why are cartoonists in Africa assaulted, jailed, sacked, banned and even assassinated? And some even forced to flee into exile?

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At DAPL, Confiscating Cameras as Evidence of Journalism

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29 October 2016 — FAIR

Interccpt footage of riot police at DAPL protest

Riot police confront demonstrators over the Dakota Access Pipeline. (image: The Intercept, 10/25/16)

While elite media wait for the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline to go away so they can return to presenting their own chin-stroking as what it means to take climate change seriously, independent media continue to fill the void with actual coverage.

One place you can go to find reporting is The Intercept  (10/25/16), where journalist Jihan Hafiz filed a video report from North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies continue their stand against the sacred site–trampling, water supply–threatening project.

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Bayer-Monsanto: We need to stop this nightmare merger

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29 October 2016 — SumOfUs

In just a few weeks Bayer and Monsanto are getting ready to file their merger with antitrust authorities in Europe and the U.S.. If they succeed, we are facing a nightmare scenario: more bee-killing neonics in our fields, more toxic glyphosate on our plates, and more corporate control over our food supply. 

Regulators can still stop this merger, but they’re already getting hammered by corporate lobbyists pressuring them to back off.

That’s why we need to move fast — antitrust regulators have a limited amount of time to take action, and the clock is already ticking.

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Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton and Trump: Selected Articles

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28 October 2016 — Global Research

hillary-clinton-donald-trumpInside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton and Trump

By John Pilger, October 27 2016

Propaganda is most effective when our consent is engineered by those with a fine education – Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia — and with careers on the BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, theWashington Post. These organisations are known as the liberal media. They present themselves as enlightened, progressive tribunes of the moral zeitgeist. They are anti-racist, pro-feminist and pro-LGBT. And they love war.

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The Russian are Coming: War Propaganda Goes into High Gear: Selected Articles

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27 October 2016 — Global Research

The Russians are Coming: War Propaganda Goes into High Gear. Renewed NATO Military Deployments on Russia’s Doorstep…

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 27 2016

The Headlines on Britain’s tabloids point to US-NATO war preparations in response to alleged Russian aggression. It is largely a display of war propaganda including an array of images and maps to intimidate Western public opinion. The Russians are Coming…

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Media Roll Out Welcome Mat for ‘Humanitarian’ War in Syria

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27 October 2016 — FAIR

Hillary Clinton (Gage Skidmore)

Hillary Clinton told Goldman Sachs that a no-fly zone is “going to kill a lot of Syrians.” (cc photo: Gage Skidmore)

As she marches toward the US presidency, Hillary Clinton has stepped up her promotion of the idea that a no-fly zone in Syria could “save lives” and “hasten the end of the conflict” that has devastated that country since 2011.

It has now been revealed, of course, that Clinton hasn’t always expressed the same optimism about the no-fly zone in private. The Intercept (10/10/16) reported on Clinton’s recently leaked remarks in a closed-door speech to Goldman Sachs in 2013:

To have a no-fly zone you have to take out all of the air defense, many of which are located in populated areas. So our missiles, even if they are standoff missiles so we’re not putting our pilots at risk—you’re going to kill a lot of Syrians.

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‘Drug Dependence Hasn’t Been Stopped by 45 Years of the War on Drugs’

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27 October 2016 — FAIR

Janine Jackson interviewed Tess Borden about drug criminalization for the October 14, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Tess Borden

Tess Borden: “Every 25 seconds, someone is arrested for possessing drugs for their personal use, and that’s a human being every 25 seconds.  

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Councillors must look before they leap into secret NHS cuts plans By John Lister

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25 October 2016 — OurNHS

Jeremy Hunt can no longer pretend he’s following ‘the NHS’s own plan’.  Expect fierce local battles ahead

Image: Simon Stevens, NHS England

It’s all going horribly wrong for Simon Stevens.

Theresa May has not taken kindly to the NHS boss’s belated admission that he had originally asked for considerably more than £8billion “extra” for the NHS (even as that £8bn figure was itself criticised as “misleading” by Sarah Wollaston MP, who points out the true amount given to the NHS is considerably less than the government claims, and the Nuffield Trust, which argues the £8bn may in reality be just £880m).

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Making the NHS a “hostile environment” for migrants demeans our country By Erin Dexter

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24 October 2016 — OurNHS

What kind of country treats migrants like this?

Image: Flickr/SMA

As the Calais “jungle” migrant camp closes today, high profile controversy over the UK’s external borders are only one side of the story.

Three years have passed since Theresa May, then home secretary, committed to creating a “hostile environment” for so-called “illegal” migrants in the UK. Since then the UK has reinforced and multiplied its inland borders, making border guards of teachers, landlords, and healthcare workers.

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Black Agenda Report for October 26, 2016: Malcolm on Hillary VS Trump, Fighting Ghost Facists Aiding Real Ones, Organizing in the Age of Hillary

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26 October 2016 — Black Agenda Report

Malcolm X on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon

When astute political commentary from a half century ago eloquently describes the current political conundrum it means we’ve been stuck in a bad place for a long time. Do we really want Malcolm’s observation to apply four or eight or twenty years further into the future? Continue reading →

Washington’s Intent is Economic Destabilization and “Regime Change” In Venezuela: Selected Articles

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26 October 2016 — Global Research

Washington’s Intent is Economic Destabilization and “Regime Change” In Venezuela

By Stephen Lendman, October 25 2016

Venezuela’s oil-dependent economy suffers greatly from low crude oil prices and US economic warfare – waged to destabilize the country, create enormous hardships, mobilize majority opposition to President Nicolas Maduro’s leadership, and end nearly 18 years of economic and social progress. The collapse in the price of crude oil was the result of a carefully designed speculative operation.

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The Iran Nuclear Deal – Debunking A Myth: Selected Articles

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25 October 2016 — Global Research

The Iran Nuclear Deal – Debunking A Myth. A Short List of “Negative” US Foreign Policy Decisions

By Don L. Durivan, October 24 2016

With the first anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA,  recently having passed, and the Obama Administration near its end, this seems to be a good time to consider one (there are a number) of the myths about the deal, and put it soundly to bed. Within the Obama Administration and in fact among those within the Beltway that support the JCPOA is the notion that “Iran needs the agreement, but we want it”.

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