September 21, 2017
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Black Agenda Report 21 September 2017
21 September 2017 — Black Agenda Report Ken Burns Vietnam Documentary? Or Should I Watch Game of Thrones Again? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Ken Burns latest documentary series “Vietnam” leads with the claim that the US war in Vietnam was a mistake, a tragic miscalculation. In fact it was a crime that cost Continue reading
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Trump at the United Nations By Kim Petersen
Critical thinking demands an analysis of Trump’s words that is not provided by a cursory reading of the speech transcript, TV video coverage, or corporate media reporting. It is a given of corporatism that the US is unquestioningly not only great and good but the best of the best. Donald Trump would beg to differ,… Continue reading
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Video: Trump is Threatening More than Just the Iran Deal
As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani responds to Trump at the UN, former Iranian diplomat Seyed Hossein Mousavian says that an American withdrawal from the nuclear deal would lead Iranians to no longer trust the U.S. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower fire eyewitnesses: “It’s because of our class—we are the lowest socioeconomic class on the food chain”
20 September 2017 — WSWS Salma was an eyewitness to the Grenfell Tower fire. She knew the Wahabi family, of whom all five members perished in the inferno. She explained to the WSWS, “I live quite close to the block and what I saw that night was a catalogue of errors. It started as a Continue reading
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The New York Times sets out its brief for Internet censorship
In the US, the drive for Internet censorship has been spearheaded by the so-called “liberal” wing of the political establishment, concentrated in the Democratic Party, whose chief media organ is the New York Times. On the eve of the UN assembly, the Times published an unambiguous brief for censorship of the Internet in the form… Continue reading
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Update on Save the Link Campaign
A leak from the European Council1 has revealed that Germany, the largest and most powerful member of the EU, is adding its voice to criticism of the controversial mass content filtering proposal we’ve been fighting together. Article 13 of the European Commission’s proposed Copyright Directive would put bots — automated censorship mechanisms — in charge… Continue reading
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Trump and Netanyahu Are on the Loose: Selected Articles
20 September 2017 — Global Research Fact Checking Benjamin Netanyahu’s General Assembly Speech By Adam Garrie, September 20, 2017 The other country on Netanyahu’s list that has been occupied by Israel and not Iran is Lebanon. After invading Lebanon in 1982, Israel set up a permanent occupying force in southern Lebanon between 1985 and the year 2000. Israel Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 20 September 2017
20 September 2017 — Information Clearing House Descent into Barbarism: Trump Makes Virtue Out of War And Genocide at The UN By Finian Cunningham Trump’s warning to “totally destroy North Korea is advocating the genocide of an entire people.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 