February 2017
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End of the Trump Administration?, U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban Forum, Monsanto boss to visit UK, Queen Mother Moore’s Revolutionary Legacy: Selected Articles
7 February 2017 — Global Research Is The Trump Administration Already Over? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 07 2017 Hopes for the Trump administration are not burning brightly. Trump’s military chief, Gen. Mattis, is turning out to be true to his “mad dog” nickname. He has just declared that Iran “is the single biggest state sponsor Continue reading
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Media: On Iran, SPLC’s ‘Extremist’ Is NPR’s ‘Expert’
Last week, the Trump administration began ratcheting up hostilities with Iran, nominally in response to a ballistic missile test in late January. NPR (2/2/17) dutifully reported Trump’s announcement of new sanctions on Iran, framing the issue as the Trump White House responding to an Iranian “provocation” in regards to Iran’s agreement with the UN, rather… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Undermining Democracy – Corporate Media Bias on Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and Syria
Are we able to prove the existence of a corporate media campaign to undermine British democracy? Media analysis is not hard science, but in this alert we provide compelling evidence that such a campaign does indeed exist. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #148 By William Blum
4 February 2017 — The Anti-Empire Report “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Alice in Wonderland Since Yalta, we have a long list of times we’ve tried to engage positively with Russia. We have a relatively short list of successes in that regard. – General James Mattis, the Continue reading
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A Lesson Media Missed About the Dangers of Scapegoating
4 February 2017 — FAIR US news outlets were roughly six times more interested in Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (left) than in Alexandre Bissonnette—even though Bissonnette is accused of killing six times as many people. If you were unfamiliar with the way US corporate media works, you might assume that the murder of six people in a Continue reading
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ICH News Headlines 3 February 2017
3 February 2017 — Information Clearing House This Is How Russia and the United States are Cooperating in Syria By Federico Pieraccini The American deep state has deep, hidden links with terrorism in Syria. Continue reading
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US-NATO Supported Terrorism in Syria, Trump’s Policy on Iran and Ukraine Will Lead to War? Selected Articles
3 February 2017 — Global Research Video: US-NATO Supported Terrorism in Syria From Day One: Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 03 2017 From Day One, the Islamist “freedom fighters” were supported, trained and equipped by NATO and Turkey’s High Command. This initiative, which was also supported by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, involved a process of organized recruitment of thousands Continue reading
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Zaid Jilani on Trump's Yemen Raid, Andrew Rosenberg on Science and Resistance
No one should be surprised that the Trump White House declared the recent commando raid in Yemen that killed at least 23 civilians, including children, “a successful operation.” Some media accounts are describing the first raid on Trump’s watch as “botched,” but that’s not the same as questioning it, much less putting it in a… Continue reading
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Zaid Jilani on Trump’s Yemen Raid, Andrew Rosenberg on Science and Resistance
No one should be surprised that the Trump White House declared the recent commando raid in Yemen that killed at least 23 civilians, including children, “a successful operation.” Some media accounts are describing the first raid on Trump’s watch as “botched,” but that’s not the same as questioning it, much less putting it in a… Continue reading
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To Build an Autocracy, First Build an Oligarchy
How to build an autocracy? Frum leaves out the first step, which is to create an oligarchy that chooses to serve an economic elite rather than improving the lives of the majority—leaving the public ready to listen to a demagogue who promises to look out for them. Continue reading
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Video: Dzhangal
Gideon Mendel has created a powerful installation using objects he gathered during visits to the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais. Continue reading
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Glyphosate Banned… For 18 Months… in Europe
We made something amazing happen. The EU refused to give Monsanto’s cancer-causing ingredient – glyphosate – the green light. It’s delayed the decision 18 months while glyphosate is re-evaluated. Continue reading
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Trump’s first disastrous airstrike, followed by ‘boots on the ground’
American broadcasting network NBC was the first to report news from a senior US military official that in the first airstrike and military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Southern Yemen on Sunday. One was a member of SEAL Team 6 a U.S. Navy component of Joint Special Operations… Continue reading
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Trump and Climate Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
The alarm bells are ringing. The climate-change denialism of the Trump administration, coupled with its goal of maximizing fossil-fuel extraction and consumption at all costs, constitutes, in the words of Noam Chomsky, “almost a death knell for the human species.” As noted climatologist Michael E. Mann has declared, “I fear that this may be game… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for Feb 1, 2017: If Americans Cared About Muslims, Hypocrite of the Month, Trump as Less Effective Evil
1 February 2017 — Black Agenda Report If Americans Truly Cared About Muslims, They Would Stop Killing Them by the Millions by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Americans welcome only token numbers of people from countries devastated by U.S. wars of aggression. Donald Trump’s current ban on travelers affects nations that were already targeted by Continue reading
The New Dark Age 