20 September 2017 — Asia Times
This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of “principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller.
20 September 2017 — Media Lens
A standard technique deployed by corporate journalists to fend off challenges from the public is to point to selected examples of ‘abuse’ and then tar all reasoned criticism with the same mucky brush. Or, if that doesn’t work, to sneer at claims of ‘conspiracy’ or ‘plots’, thus permitting instant dismissal of the arguments made. Polly Toynbee managed to combine the two techniques in a recent Guardian column. It is a near-masterclass in liberal propaganda.
20 September 2017 — FAIR
Former Trump spokesperson Sean Spicer at the Emmys. (photo: Trae Patton/CBS)
When Stephen Colbert introduced a surprise guest at the end of his Emmys opening monologue on Sunday night, the audience didn’t seem to expect to see former Trump administration press secretary Sean Spicer. The Late Night host shocked most of the crowd—Veep actress Anna Chlumsky was particularly amazed—with the selection of one of comedy’s favorite targets of the last year.
Colbert brought on Spicer, complete with the rolling press office podium that Melissa McCarthy made famous in her Saturday Night Live impression, to mock President Donald Trump. From the New York Times transcript:
20 September 2017 — Information Clearing House
Trump Vomits Hatred All Over The United Nations General AssemblyVideo & Transcript
US may ‘have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea’. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47838.htm
20 September 2017 — Global Research
Starve Them to Death: Wall Street Journal’s Solution to North KoreaBy Mike Whitney, September 19, 2017
In an article titled “Options for Removing Kim Jong Un” the WSJ’s editorial board suggests that the US use “all of its tools to topple the North Korean regime” including, of course, vital food imports which keep women and children from facing an agonizing death by starvation. Continue reading
21 September 2017 — OpenMedia
Your right to have private conversations online is facing a huge threat — from our own governments.
Five powerful countries — the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States — have just recently agreed to combine their efforts to break the encryption that keeps our daily lives safe and private.1
It’s a frightening thought — our governments have decided that we should no longer be allowed the right to chat privately to one another on apps like WhatsApp without them being able to listen in to our conversations. Continue reading
19 September 2017 — Statewatch.org/
Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/sep/email-19-9-17.pdf
ANALYSES, BRIEFING & VIEWPOINT:
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. EU: New report: Market Forces: the development of the EU security-industrial complex
2. Analysis: A Pyrrhic victory? The ECJ upholds the EU law on relocation of asylum-seekers
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