October 2017
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Video: Homegrown Terror: JFK Docs Show US Considered Attacks at Home to Blame on Cuba
The new round of documents on the Kennedy assassination shed light on the long-running U.S. government effort to overthrow Fidel Castro — including discussions to stage attacks on U.S. soil and blame Cuba Continue reading
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Housmans Books Newsletter November 2017
31 October 2017 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Four special late night openings with 20% discount 2. White Poppies + Housmans Peace Diary 3. Spycops Plaques Project Continue reading
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Video: After Indictments, Where is Russiagate Headed?
Paul Manafort and former business partner Rick Gates, along with former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, have been the first people indicted in the Trump-Russia probe. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler, economist James Henry, and TRNN’s Aaron Mate discuss. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800 000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. The abrupt changes in the atmosphere witnessed in the past 70 years are without precedent. Continue reading
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Release of Classified JFK Files: Selected Articles
30 October 2017 — Global Research What Happened to the JFK Records? By Rex Bradford, October 30, 2017 What happened on Thursday, Oct. 26, with the JFK records scheduled for release under the JFK Records Act? A travesty. Most news reports correctly noted the release of about 2,800 documents, but added that only a few were held Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 148 November 2017 – is now on line
30 October 2017 — Coldtype Continue reading
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There Are Human Beings in North Korea. Neither Wealthy Nor Poor By Kim Petersen
Given this deplorable media state-of-affairs, it goes to reason that coverage of North Korea must be regarded with an Olympus Mons of salt. So the question is: how best to obtain a more credible insight into what the reality is in North Korea? Continue reading
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Spain Imposes Military Rule in Catalonia to Preempt Independence Bid By Alex Lantier and Alejandro López
Yesterday’s events mark a historic collapse of democratic forms of rule in Western Europe and a return to authoritarianism with far-reaching implications. The Spanish political set-up created 39 years ago, in the so-called Transition from the 1939-1978 fascist regime established by General Francisco Franco, has burst asunder. With the full support of the European Union… Continue reading
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Media: For NYT, Making the Democrats Safe for the Oligarchy Is Literally Job One By Jim Naureckas
Last week, the paper published an op-ed by Douglas Schoen, “Why Democrats Need Wall Street” (10/18/17). Who is Douglas Schoen, you might ask? He’s billed by the Times as having been “a pollster and senior political adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000.” More relevantly to the current century, he’s a corporate PR… Continue reading
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Lessons of Previous Septembers (and Octobers, and Februarys etc etc), Part 1 By S.Artesian
29 October 2017 — Anti-Capital 1. On September 18, 1850, the 31st Congress of the United States passed “An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled ‘An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,’ approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.” This 1850 supplement was Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: Media & Mistrust
Sociologist and author Tom Mills talks about growing public mistrust of the media, who owns the print media, and how the broadcast media tends to draw its journalists from certain sectors of society Continue reading
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Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu Is Leading US President Trump to War with Iran By Prof. James Petras
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Presidents of the 52 Major Jewish American Organizations are leading President Trump, like a puppy on a leash, into a major war with Iran. The hysterical ’52 Presidents’ and ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu are busy manufacturing Holocaust-level predictions that a non-nuclear Iran is preparing to ‘vaporize’ Israel, The buffoonish US… Continue reading
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Seni’s Law – please share the campaign
This should never have happened. 23-year-old Seni Lewis died in a mental health hospital after being held down by 11 police officers whilst seeking help for his mental health. His death was ruled the result of excessive force, and too often, too much force is used on vulnerable people who are struggling. Continue reading
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Audio: Alex Vitale on The End of Policing
Thanks mainly to independent and social media, and of course activism like Black Lives Matter, Americans have been forced to confront, and to know more about, police brutality and racism in the criminal justice system than just a few years ago. But corporate media conversation about what to do with that knowledge is constrained. Continue reading
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Video: Twitter Bans RT and Sputnik Ads, Who's Next?
Twitter has announced it will ban advertising from the Russian-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik. We speak to journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal. Continue reading
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Reposting Amazon Press Releases at Bezos-Owned Washington Post By Adam Johnson
A matter of huge political import is taking place in scores of cities throughout the country. From Chicago to Charlottesville, San Diego to St. Louis, metropolitan areas big and small are making their best pitches to Amazon to move its second headquarters to their towns. These pitches typically involve some combination of groveling by city… Continue reading
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Spycops Plaques Project and Anarchist Bookfair
This Friday, 27th October, sees the official launch of the new Spycops Plaques Project. The project is about marking some of the places where #spycops operated in the past, with a specially designed plaque being installed at locations across London. Continue reading
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Video: Pollution Kills 9 Million People a Year
Pollution causes far more deaths than tobacco, infectious disease or war, and causes 4.6 trillion dollars of economic damage per year, according to a major new study published in the British medical journal The Lancet (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Serving the Corporate Interests of the “One-Percenters”: Selected Articles
26 October 2017 — Global Research Pharmaceutical Firm Makes Billions by Fueling Opioid Crisis By Mark Karlin, October 26, 2017 Although there are many factors that fuel the opioid crisis in the United States — including social injustice and economic inequality issues — Keefe’s thoroughly researched article is a telling reminder that the biggest drug pushers in Continue reading
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Video: Brexittania – Official Trailer
On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history: old pitted against young, nationalists against migrants, the countryside against the city, and “the people” against “the elite”. But underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this… Continue reading
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