September 2017
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48 hours to stop the US govt from spying on its visitors!
This is urgent: There’s less than 48 hours until the U.S. State Department closes public feedback on whether they should be gathering the social media history of people applying for U.S. visas. Under new rules, 65,000 people a year are being asked to provide every social media handle they used over the past five years… Continue reading
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NY Times interviews David North on Google censorship of the Left
Technology reporter Daisuke Wakabayashi reviews the extensive evidence presented by the World Socialist Web Site that Google is censoring left-wing websites in the name of fighting “fake news.” Research by the WSWS has found that search traffic to thirteen left-wing, anti-war, and progressive sites has fallen by 55 percent since Google announced changes to its… Continue reading
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Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens
The most famous battlefield atrocity, the 1968 My Lai massacre, which was mostly covered up and pinned on one Lt. William Calley, again shows Burns putting his directorial thumb on the scale. Rather than call the massacre “murder,” as it was originally described by Novick, Burns switched the script to read that “the killing of… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 28 September 2017
28 September 2017 — Black Agenda Report Bernie Sanders Can’t Shake His Imperial Piggishness Glen Ford , BAR executive editor In case you thought candidate Bernie Sanders was fuzzy on global affairs, he’s delivered a major foreign policy address. He’s still an imperialist. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 146 October 2017 – is now on line
28 September 2017 — COLDTYPE Continue reading
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Analysis by Analogy: Myanmar Is Not Syria By Tony Cartalucci
Particular focus has been placed on evidence emerging that US-ally Saudi Arabia is serving as an intermediary fueling militancy in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. The militants, however, consist of a foreign armed, funded, and led cadre, constituting a numerically negligible minority of the Rohingya population they claim to represent, and are in fact no more… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #151: Cold War then. Cold War now By William Blum
The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they would have enough self-awareness and enough journalistic integrity -– just enough -– to be concerned about their image. But it keeps on coming, piled higher and deeper. Continue reading
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Media: While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
The Korean War, in which the United States invaded the North on behalf of South Korea, claimed the lives of over 2 million North Koreans. The US dropped as many munitions as it had dropped on the entire Pacific Theater in World War II—a four-year conflict ranging over tens of millions of square miles, as… Continue reading
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Kurdistan Referendum: “Ethnic Cleansing” or Total Independence? Selected Articles
26 September 2017 — Global Research The Myth of the Kurds in Syria YPG’s Moral Excellence By Stephen Gowans, September 26, 2017 Kurdish forces are not only “retaking” Christian and Muslim Arab towns in Syria, but are doing the same in the Nineveh province of Iraq—areas “which were never Kurdish in the first place. Kurds now regard Continue reading
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Corporate Media Analysts Indifference to US Journalists Facing 70 Years in Prison
The New York Times (1/13/17) warned of “Donald Trump’s Dangerous Attacks on the Press,” and the Atlantic (2/20/17) declared it “ A Dangerous Time for the Press and the Presidency.” It’s strange, then, that the attack on the press that kicked off the Trump administration—the arrest and subsequent threatening of two journalists with 70 years… Continue reading
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Washington’s Deep-seated Aversion to Independent States: Selected Articles
25 September 2017 — Global Research North Korea versus the United States: Who are the Demons? North Korea Lost 30% of Its Population as a Result of US Bombings in the 1950s By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 25, 2017 What most people in America do not know –and which is particularly relevant Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 25 September 2017
25 September 2017 — Information Clearing House Western Propaganda in Southeast Asia – a True “Success Story” By Andre Vltchek The entire Southeast Asia is imprisoned in the tight straightjacket of Western and Japanese pro-Western propaganda. Continue reading
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Google is intensifying its censorship of left-wing web sites
The world’s biggest corporations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are intensifying efforts to block internet users from accessing left-wing web sites like the World Socialist Web Site. Continue reading
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Facing Irma in Cuba: “¡Saldremos adelante!” (“We Can Only Move Forward!”) By Arnold August
25 September 2017 — Global Research “Saldremos adelante!” (“We can only move forward!”). This is what a colleague exclaimed during one of my several phone calls to Havana in the days after Irma unleashed its wrath on the capital. Others, when asked how they, their families, colleagues and neighbours were faring, declared in a similar manner, Continue reading
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Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels by Tyler Durden
A new bombshell joint report issued by two international weapons monitoring groups Tuesday confirms that the Pentagon continues to ship record breaking amounts of weaponry into Syria and that the Department of Defense is scrubbing its own paper trail. On Tuesday the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network… Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: New Warfare & Transparency
Chris Cole of Drone Wars UK talks about the current state of the technology, the march to lethal autonomous warfare, and the absolute secrecy and lack of democratic scrutiny around the developing drone program Continue reading
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The Killing of History By John Pilger
In the series’ press release in Britain — the BBC will show it — there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans. “We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying. How very post-modern. All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 23 September 2017
23 September 2017 — Information Clearing House North Korea Addresses United Nations Responds to US President Trump’s Speech Must Watch “None other than Trump is on a suicide mission” – Trump will pay “dearly” for his speech. Continue reading
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