February 2017
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Video: 'J is for Junk Economics': Michael Hudson on TRNN (2/5)
28 February 2017 — The Real News Network Trump’s infrastructure plan will privatize all the benefits for the financiers and make sure that the population at large gets zero benefit from it while paying the costs, says economist Michael Hudson (inc. Transcript) Part One – Part Three – Part Four – Part Five Continue reading
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Video: 'J is for Junk Economics': Michael Hudson on TRNN (1/5)
Michael Hudson, author of the newly released ‘J is for Junk Economics,’ says the media and academia use well-crafted euphemisms to conceal how the economy really works Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 February 2017 (04/17)
27 February 2017 — Statewatch ANALYSIS & BRIEFING http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm 1. Analysis: Opaque and unaccountable: Frontex Operation Hera 2. EU: Briefing: EU-wide biometric databases, “soft targets”, cybersecurity and data protection: Commission’s 4th report on building the ‘Security Union Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 135 March 2017 – is now on line
28 February 2017 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter March 2017
28 February 2017 — Housmans NEWS 1. Confronting Rape Culture workshops at Housmans 2. Poet In Residence: Siana Bangura 3. Spark! 1917-2017 Russian Revolution Centenary event in Brixton Continue reading
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Media: Downplaying US Contribution to Potential Yemen Famine
For almost two years, the United States has backed—with weapons, logistics and political support—a Saudi-led war in Yemen that has left over 10,000 dead, 40,000 wounded, 2.5 million internally displaced, 2.2 million children suffering from malnutrition and over 90 percent of civilians in need of humanitarian aid. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 27 February 2017: Trump, Trump yet more Trump
27 February 2017 — Information Clearing House Military Industrial Complex Wins White House Calls for $54B Bump in “Defense” Spending, Sharp Domestic Cuts By Alex Guillén, Sarah Ferris and Jeremy Herb Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney called it one of the “largest increases in history.” Continue reading
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Al-Qaeda Gets An Oscar By Moon Of Alabama
One of this years prizes went to a fake “documentary” about a fake “rescuer” group which makes and distributes fake videos, staged photos and fake victims of the war on Syria. These al-Qaeda propaganda sidekicks, the White Helmets, are a British disinformation operation that is financed by more than $100 million of U.S. and UK… Continue reading
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ISIS-Al Qaeda at the Oscars, GMO’s and Population Control, Intellectual Property: Extradition of Kim Dotcom
27 February 2017 — Global Research And the Oscar for Best Documentary Short goes to…”ISIS – Al Qaeda” By Alex Christoforou, Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, and Patrick Henningsen, February 27 2017 It should come as no surprise that a film celebrating the White Helmets scooped up an Oscar for best short documentary. Might as well hand the Oscar to ISIS leader Ab? Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 14 February 2017
24 February 2017 — Information Clearing House Trump Relinquishes Control of Foreign Policy By Mike Whitney The war party is back in power and the odds of normal relations with Russia have dropped to zero. Continue reading
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‘Ajit Pai Wants to Shut Down the Way We Communicate and Organize’
Regulators who don’t much believe in regulation are looking like a hallmark of the Trump administration. What does that mean for the access to communication and information that’s critical to our daily lives? The newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, doesn’t want to actually eliminate the agency, as far as we… Continue reading
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Media: Mizue Aizeki on Criminalizing Immigrants
Early morning deportation raids are stoking fear in immigrant communities, pulling parents from children and shipping people who’ve lived in the US for decades to places they don’t remember. Donald Trump talks about rounding up “drug lords” and murderers, but not only is that not who is being targeted, recently released executive orders expand the… Continue reading
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Trump Caves to Wall Street and War Profiteers, Iraq: ISIS Drones and Fake Counter-terrorism, Artificial Intelligence and the Ruling Class
24 February 2017 — Global Research Trump: America’s Latest Warrior President, Surrenders to Wall Street and War Profiteers By Stephen Lendman, February 23 2017 The hoped for antidote to Hillary appears no different when on policymaking – both subservient to monied interests at the expense of popular ones, both warriors, not peacemakers, both intolerant of challenges to Continue reading
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Open Borders? No, open your media, or else
In the U.S., a disturbing proposal is on the table: Key U.S. politicians want to force every single traveller crossing the border to hand over their digital devices, unlock them, and provide their social media passwords. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report Feb 22, 2017: Hi-Speed Sellout Black Misleadership Class, EZ-Pass Privatizatn, Corporate Media Enemy
22 February 2017 — Black Agenda Report Black Misleadership Class: High-Speed Sell-Outs by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The NAACP and the Urban League want to leave Internet neutrality to the tender mercies of the Republican-controlled Congress. But that’s nothing new. The Black Misleadership Class has been selling out the people’s interests to giant telecom Continue reading
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Humanity on Brink of Extinction, Syria: Fake US “Counter-terrorism”, Trump: Deep State Coup d’Etat
22 February 2017 — Global Research The Cliff of Nuclear Annihilation: Humanity is on the Brink of Extinction! Thirty Seconds to Midnight By Regis Tremblay, Helen Caldicott, Ray McGovern, David Vine, Chris Hedges, and Colonel Ann Wright, February 20 2017 Filmmaker Regis Tremblay states what few others dare to say. Humanity is on the brink of extinction! Nuclear power is not safe. 48 of Continue reading
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Media Lens: The ‘Superficial, Arrogant Smugness’ Of BBC News – Peter Oborne Delivers Some Home Truths On BBC Radio 4 Today
In a recent media alert, we noted the occasional tell-tale signs of uncomfortable truths that slip through cracks in the propaganda façade of BBC News. Very occasionally, the propaganda nature is clearly highlighted and can be enjoyed for its directness and the flustered BBC response it provokes. Continue reading
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Media: Jessica Gonzalez on FCC Chair Ajit Pai
“T-Mobile Very Pleased with Direction of Change under Trump Administration, CEO Says.” That headline tells you pretty much what you need to know about Ajit Pai, Trump’s choice of chair for the FCC—the entity charged with representing the public interest in the communications industry. The phone company exec is pleased, he says, because Pai’s appointment… Continue reading
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ICH News Headlines 17 February 2017
17 February 2017 — Information Clearing House Blood in the Water: the Trump Revolution Ends in a Whimper By Mike Whitney This isn’t about the law and it isn’t about the truth. It’s about bare-knuckle geopolitics and global hegemony. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Paul Mason And The Grand Propaganda Narratives
Where once a handful of dissidents was allowed to challenge the Grand Propaganda Narratives (GPN) of the day, modern leftists are tolerated only if they accept these narratives even as they talk radical change. A Guardian regular who stands out in this regard is Paul Mason, formerly BBC Newsnight Business Editor and Channel 4 News… Continue reading
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