December 1, 2017
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Video: Puerto Rico Rising
1 December 2017 — Vimeo On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. A category 4 storm, it was the strongest hurricane to hit the island in almost a century. Now, the people of Puerto Rico are hungry, homeless and dying. Many towns lack access to clean water, communication and transportation. And Continue reading
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The FCC's Order Is Out, We've Read It, and Here's What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet
Pai’s draft is a lot of things: thin on substance and reasoning, cruel, willfully naive — and it’s everything that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon could have wanted (and more). But what it’s not is sensible or grounded in reality. It will take away every safeguard we need to protect the open internet we’ve… Continue reading
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The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet
Pai’s draft is a lot of things: thin on substance and reasoning, cruel, willfully naive — and it’s everything that ISPs like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon could have wanted (and more). But what it’s not is sensible or grounded in reality. It will take away every safeguard we need to protect the open internet we’ve… Continue reading
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How the People of South Africa were Misled and Can Rise Again By John Pilger
Returning to South Africa, John Pilger delivers an inaugural lecture in Cape Town in memory of the anti-apartheid campaigner, Abdulhay Ahmed Saloojee. He asks why the struggle for freedom has yet to be won, why a form of apartheid still rules and why this oppression has become a model for much of the world in… Continue reading
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Russian and Now Chinese Media are “Foreign Agents”? Selected Articles
30 November 2017 — Global Research Russia-Gate Gone Wild: Congressional Press Office Strips RT’s Capitol Hill Credentials By Stephen Lendman, November 30, 2017 Things are worse under Trump. Hostile actions against RT America and Sputnik News may be prelude to criminalizing their US operations, forcing them to shut down if things go this far. Continue reading
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NSA: U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo
U.S. presidents sometimes made nuclear threats in the course of Cold War crises and confrontations, but powerful social norms – not just military considerations – inhibited them from initiating the combat use of nuclear weapons, according to declassified documents posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 November 2017
30 November 2017 — Black Agenda Report Even Russian Dissidents Say Americans Have Gone Crazy Over Putin by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Even Russians who oppose Vladimir Putin think the US has gone crazy in its allegations of Russian interference in the US elections. Continue reading
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Anti-Populism, Smug Centrism and the Defense of Elitism By Chip Berlet
Both the leadership of the Democratic Party and the “moderate” wing of the Republican Party seem obsessed with challenging Trumpism by calling for a return to a mythical political “center” and by elevating “elitism” as an antidote to “populism.” This while the political “center” under Trump means scapegoating our nation’s problems to Muslims, Mexicans and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 