May 2017
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UK Govt wants real-time access to our communications!
Leaked docs reveal the UK Home Office’s secret plan real-time access to our text messages and online communications AND force companies like WhatsApp to break the security on its own software. This reckless government plan will make all of us more vulnerable to attacks like yesterday’s ransomware assault against the NHS. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 10 May 2017
10 May 2017 — Black Agenda Report Criminal Nation: Obama and Trump Both Should Be Jailed for War Crimes by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The corporate media feed us fake news and the lawyers provide us with fake legality. A group of former Obama White House lawyers — the same guys that defended the Continue reading
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Media: ‘Chevron Was Just Fabricating a Lie to Get Out of Paying for a Cleanup’
When we talk about environmental justice, the emphasis is usually on the first word. That might be what comes to mind first when you think about Chevron, formerly Texaco, dumping some 16 billion gallons of toxic oil waste into the land and water of indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador. But when, having poisoned these… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 11 May 2017
11 May 2017 — Information Clearing House Criminal Nation: Obama and Trump Both Should Be Jailed for War Crimes By Glen Ford The U.S. is allied with al-Qaida, whose jihadists act as imperialism’s foot soldiers in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: What is Happening in Syria Now?
10 May 2017 — Global Research While Iran, Russia and Turkey signed a memorandum on the de-escalation zones in Syria which likely signals a further cessation of hostilities, the US and its allies, on the other hand, continue to advance their destabilization plot in the region. Global Research brings you the following articles on the crisis Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 10 May 2017
10 May 2017 — Information Clearing House The Silent Slaughter of the US Air War By Nicolas J S Davies U.S. mainstream media voiced moral outrage when Russian warplanes killed civilians in Aleppo but has gone silent as U.S. warplanes slaughter innocents in Mosul and Raqqa. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Meltdown’: The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland Writes Jeremy Corbyn’s Obituary
We will examine the thinking behind Freedland’s sweeping dismissal in what follows. But first, we need to remind ourselves of the incessant media vitriol and opposition faced by Jeremy Corbyn since he first ran for the Labour leadership in 2015. Extensive evidence of this corporate media bias has been presented in studies published by Media… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: What Will Happen to France Now that Macron is Elected?
8 May 2017 — Global Research French Presidential Election 2017: Nothing Succeeds Like Success. Macron “Selected”. Billionaires and Bankers Rejoice By Diana Johnstone, May 08, 2017 The list is long of billionaires, bankers and establishment figures who have a right to rejoice at the extraordinary success of a candidate who got elected President of the French Republic Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 8 May 2017
8 May 2017 — Information Clearing House Who Is Destroying Syria? By Philip Giraldi The Arab Gulf States, Israel, and Turkey all prefer anarchy to Assad. Continue reading
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Lockheed Martin-Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
In the past year, FAIR has noted 30 media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system or its underlying value proposition in US media, most of them in the past two months. Business Insider was the most eager venue for the think tank’s analysts, routinely copying–and–pasting CSIS talking points in stories warning of the… Continue reading
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Media: Trump Uses Power of FCC to Pay Back Friends at Sinclair Broadcasting
This morning Sinclair Broadcast Group, the conservative media behemoth that owns more local news stations than any other company in the country, just got even bigger. It announced it was buying Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, creating what Bloomberg (5/8/17) calls a “TV goliath.” Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Elections in France and Britain
8 May 2017 — Global Research Macron, who in all likelihood will be elected president of France, is a servant of this global corporate imperialism, but so is Trump despite his original nationalistic and non-interventionist rhetoric of a supposed outsider. Plus ce la change, plus c’est la même chose, until la France Insoumise decides to forget the ballot box and Continue reading
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ICH Headines 7 May 2017
7 May 2017 — Information Clearing House Washington is Leading the U.S. and its Vassal States to Total Destruction By Paul Craig Roberts Neoconservatives are sufficiently evil to launch a preemptive nuclear attack. Continue reading
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‘The Internet Should Be Treated as a Public Utility’
Janine Jackson: If it weren’t for an open internet, how much do you think you’d know about Black Lives Matter, or NoDAPL? If it were up to private corporations to determine which websites you can access and which you can’t—based on which ones pay them—what are the odds that you’d be able to keep up… Continue reading
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Media: Declining to Label Lies, NPR Picks Diplomacy Over Reality
NPR is notorious for bending over backwards to avoid the appearance of a liberal bias, even refusing to carry an opera program in 2011 after its host participated in an Occupy protest. But, in the age of Trump and his unprecedentedly loose relationship with reality, the network’s strict adherence to “both sides” journalism does a… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: An Era of Global Warfare
6 May 2017 — Global Research “The holding of mass demonstrations and antiwar protests is not enough. What is required is the development of a broad and well organized grassroots antiwar network which challenges the structures of power and authority.” (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky) “This extreme danger is the new global reality. If the elimination of the threat Continue reading
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‘It Comes Down to Monopoly Control of the Aftermarket’
Janine Jackson: Copyright and farmers don’t generally appear in the same story. They do now, thanks to the argument, recently reiterated by agricultural machine maker John Deere, that farmers shouldn’t be able to independently access the operating software in their tractors, for example, because they don’t own that part, they just license it. As our… Continue reading
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How to Reverse the Tide of War. A Global People’s Movement. Say No to Nuclear War By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an “instrument of peace”, condoned and accepted by the World’s institutions and the highest authority including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction. Continue reading
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Selected Stories: How the US Supports Al-Qaeda
5 May 2017 — Global Research The US Supplies Weapons to Al Qaeda in Syria, via Bulgaria? By Sophie Mangal, May 03, 2017 The Bulgarian newspaper Trud which initiated a journalistic investigation sent an official request to both companies to clarify what the received money was spent on. Chemring responded some ammunition for the U.S. and its Continue reading
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