30 June 2017 — Information Clearing House
U.S. Retreats From Al-Tanf – Gives Up On Occupying South East Syria
By Moon Of Alabama
The U.S. mission to occupy the whole Iraqi-Syrian border and all of east Syria is lost. Continue reading
Day: July 1, 2017
Selected Articles: Global Destruction and US Foreign Policy
30 June 2017 — Global Research
Global destruction is perhaps the underpinning for the US foreign policy. It seeks to destabilize genuine representative democracies so as to install their pseudo/puppet governments. It’s the Washington Consensus and and they’re not ready to give up! What are the implications of their actions? Read our articles below…
A re-built Syria which controls its own central bank and can issue its own currency as it needs with no outside control and no debt to the International Monetary Fund or anyone else, (The most fundamental and essential of freedoms that most western countries have not experienced for at least a hundred years.) which, because of this, is able to offer its citizens, even during the war, free education and higher education, health care and extremely low or non existent utility charges is totally anathema to the real leaders of the western world. (Marcus Godwyn)
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Should Media Expose Sources Who Lied to Them?
30 June 2017 — FAIR
CNN (6/27/17) reported the retraction of a Trump/Russia story, but the original is no longer available to see what CNN‘s source had claimed.
If an anonymous source knowingly and maliciously feeds a media outlet false information, should they continue to be granted anonymity? If media continue to protect the deceptive source’s identity, doesn’t that ensure the continuance of a disinformation conveyor belt?
On Monday, three CNN journalists resigned after an article alleging Trump associates’ ties to Russia was retracted by the network. Brian Stelter, CNN‘s media reporter (6/27/17), wrote:
The story, which reported that Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials,” cited a single anonymous source. These types of stories are typically reviewed by several departments within CNN—including factcheckers, journalism standards experts and lawyers—before publication.
The New Dark Age 