December 2016
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Mass Protests in South Korea, Political Crisis in Italy, Housing Crisis in America: Selected Articles
6 December 2016 — Global Research South Korea Influence-Peddling Scandal, Mass Protests, Impeachment Process By SooKyung Nam, December 06 2016 For the sixth straight weekend, hundreds of thousands of Koreans came out in Seoul (and with other Korean cities estimates approaching 2 million people on the streets) to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. This Saturday December 3, Continue reading
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Video: Part 1 – The Empire Files: Home Demolitions for Illegal Settlements Surging
The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government. Continue reading
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Video: Part 2 – The Empire Files: Inside the Hotbeds of Israeli Settler Terror
Abby Martin goes on-the-ground to the epicenters of state-backed settler terrorism in Palestine’s West Bank, in Part II of her report on illegal Israeli settlements and home demolitions. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Fake News About ‘Fake News’ – The Media Performance Pyramid
In the wake of Brexit and Trump, ‘mainstream’ media have done the formerly unthinkable by focusing on media bias. The intensity of focus has been such that the Oxford Dictionaries have announced that ‘post-truth’ is their ‘Word of the Year 2016’. Continue reading
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Blaming Trump’s Win on the Age Group Least Responsible for It
Before the election, corporate media nonsensically tried to blame the rise of Donald Trump on Millennials (FAIR.org, 10/10/16)—and now, after the election, the Washington Post is still at it. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 3 December 2016
3 December 2016 — ICH The Coming War on China By John Pilger The greatest build-up of American-led military forces since the Second World War is well under way. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #147 By William Blum
30 November 2016 — The Anti-Empire Report What can go wrong? That he may not be “qualified” is unimportant. That he’s never held a government or elected position is unimportant. That on a personal level he may be a shmuck is unimportant. What counts to me mainly at this early stage is that he – as Continue reading
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What a Trump Presidency Might Look Like: Selected Articles
2 December 2016 — Global Research “Taming Trump”, Key Republican Appointments: What a Trump Presidency Might Look Like By Jack Rasmus, December 02 2016 In the weeks since the November 8 US presidential election, the dim outlines of what a Trump presidency might look like are beginning to appear. Trump continues to retreat on several fronts Continue reading
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ICH News Headlines 1 December 2016
1 December 2016 — ICH Trump Selects Retired Marine Gen.”Mad-Dog” Mattis for Secretary of Defense By Dan Lamothe Like Trump, Mattis favors a tougher stance against U.S. adversaries abroad, especially Iran. Continue reading
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Media: Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited ‘Fake News’ Blacklist?
The Washington Post (11/24/16) last week published a front-page blockbuster that quickly went viral: Russia-promoted “fake news” had infiltrated the newsfeeds of 213 million Americans during the election, muddying the waters in a disinformation scheme to benefit Donald Trump. Craig Timberg’s story was based on a “report” from an anonymous group (or simply a person,… Continue reading
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The CIA and Fake News, Analyzing Trump’s Potential Global Impact: Selected Articles
1 December 2016 — Global Research The Major Purveyor of ‘Fake News’ is the CIA-Corporate Complex By Wayne Madsen, December 01 2016 The US corporate media, its strings pulled by the modern version of the Central Intelligence Agency’s old Operation MOCKINGBIRD media influencing operation, is laughably accusing Russia of generating «fake news» to influence the outcome Continue reading
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What did I say! By William Bowles
1 December 2016 Further Update: It gets even more interesting. It’s clear that the morons in government are totally clueless about what to do about Brexit (I have sneaking suspicion that they hope it’ll just go away, somewhere). So I read that now, David Davies the ‘Brexit Minister’ is advocating paying to stay in the Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 129 December 2016 – is now on line
1 December 2016 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Media: Corporate Welfare Will Bring Back Jobs vs. Jobs Will Never Come Back
The Carrier company’s announcement that, after exhortations from Donald Trump, it was going to move a thousand jobs overseas—rather than the 2,000 that it had previously planned to move—led New York Times reporter Nelson Schwartz (11/29/16) to declare that “Mr. Trump is a different kind of Republican, willing to take on big business, at least… Continue reading
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Fascism with a Democratic Party Face By Glen Ford
BAR and 12 other leftwing web sites have been put on a hit list publicized by the Washington Post. Fascists of the Democratic kind are responsible. “Had Clinton won the election, she would have begun a campaign of repression against the Left along the same national security lines as the Washington Post article, with that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for November 30, 2016
30 November 2016 — Black Agenda Report Fascism with a Democratic Party Face by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Fascism Last Stage of Capitalism BAR and 12 other leftwing web sites have been put on a hit list publicized by the Washington Post. Fascists of the Democratic kind are responsible. “Had Clinton won the election, Continue reading
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Syria: The Liberation of Aleppo and the Turkish Invasion: Selected Articles
30 November 2016 — Global Research The Liberation of Aleppo: Tears, Hugs and Smiles, the Relief of Escaping Imprisonment in East Aleppo By Vanessa Beeley, November 30 2016 These images and videos will never see the light of day in the corporate media editing rooms because they expose their almost six year narrative on Syria as one Continue reading
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If We Care About the Constitution, Trump Has to Sell His Empire
Donald Trump is about to become president and immediately begin violating the Constitution. The Constitution explicitly prohibits the president from taking payments and gifts from foreign governments. (Can we stop using the term “emolument“? No one has used it for a hundred years. We want to be clear on what the Constitution means.) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 