September 2017
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ICH Headlines 22 September 2017
22 September 2017 — Information Clearing House Barbarism and Shame: Why the US Refuses a Korea Peace Treaty By Finian Cunningham The US is more interested in maintaining conflict on the Korean Peninsula than pursuing peace. Continue reading
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Trump’s “Imprudence” Before the UN General Assembly: Selected Articles
22 September 2017 — Global Research Trump’s UN Address to Call for Action Against Nonexistent North Korean and Iranian Threats By Stephen Lendman, September 19, 2017 Trump is hostage to hawkish generals running his administration’s geopolitical agenda. Instead of being a peace and stability leader, he’s the latest in a long line of US warrior presidents – Continue reading
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Video: John Pilger on ‘Watching the Hawks’
18 September 2017 — Watching the Hawks RT With all eyes on the nuclear standoff with North Korea, what is the over-arching agenda in play behind the politics of crisis? Tyrel Ventura sits down with documentary filmmaker and journalist John Pilger to learn more about the unfolding behind-the-scenes power play, and to discuss his latest Continue reading
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NHS Cuts: The Worst Winter in Recent History!
Last winter, NHS services across the country hit breaking point. Several patients died in A&E, stuck on hospital trolleys. They were desperately ill, but left waiting for hours in the corridor. There just weren’t enough beds for them. This year might be even worse. Experts say that increased demand, not enough doctors and nurses, and… Continue reading
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NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov't and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn't Huge Enough
The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.” Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 21 September 2017
21 September 2017 — Information Clearing House The Killing of History By John Pilger The revisionism never stops and the blood never dries. Continue reading
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'The World May Conclude the US Is No Longer Capable of Diplomacy'
Janine Jackson interviewed Murtaza Hussain about attempts to undermine the Iran nuclear deal for the September 15, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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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
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Unmasked: Trump Doctrine vows carnage for new axis of evil By Pepe Escobar
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. One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in, slowly. The president… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bowing Down Before The BBC: Polly Toynbee and The Role Of A Liberal Propagandist
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… Continue reading
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Media’s Instinct to Rehabilitate the Powerful Has Not Changed Under Trump
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… Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 20 September 2017
20 September 2017 — Information Clearing House Trump Vomits Hatred All Over The United Nations General Assembly Video & Transcript US may ‘have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea’. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47838.htm Continue reading
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Trump Convenes Friends into “Humanitarian Warfare”: Selected Articles
20 September 2017 — Global Research Starve Them to Death: Wall Street Journal’s Solution to North Korea By 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 Continue reading
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