December 2017
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UK & US continue to honour and supply Saudi Arabia despite slaughter at weddings, funerals & in everyday life
As decision-makers and most voters in America and Britain enjoy comfortable lives, the Times and Yemen’s al-Masirah TV report that Saudi warplanes near Yemen’s rebel-held capital struck and killed several people on Wednesday, according to medical officials. These included a group of ten women attending the funeral in Arhab, 25 miles from Sanaa, according to… Continue reading
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Why the Revolution Will Not (but Must) Be Televised By Jim Naureckas
The problem is, the energy companies are some of the richest, most powerful entities on Earth. Corporations are designed to act like organisms with a single goal, maximizing profits. And the fossil fuel industry’s future profits—roughly four-fifths of them—depend on extracting that excess carbon and burning it, climate and civilization be damned. They have been… Continue reading
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The Istanbul Summit and US-Palestine Relations: Selected Articles
18 December 2017 — Global Research Why the Istanbul Declaration Must Succeed: “The Whole World to Recognize East Jerusalem as the Occupied Capital of Palestine” By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, December 18, 2017 To obtain the support of the whole world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which initiated the Summit will have to go beyond the OIC. Continue reading
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Fight Within UK Labour Party Pits the Political Elite Against its Left Pt. 1/2
The fight between pro-Corbyn and anti-Corbyn forces within the UK’s Labour Party is intensifying as the anti-Corbyn camp attempts to stop Corbyn supporters from being on the ballot. Prof. Leo Panitch of York University explains (inc .transcript) Continue reading
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NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors' Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina By Eli Clifton/LobeLog
Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times (12/11/17) to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face treason charges for her alleged role in covering up Iran’s alleged involvement in… Continue reading
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US Strikes Out with New War-Mongering on Iran
US Ambassador Nikki Halley’s speech on alleged Iranian violations was even less convincing than Colin Powell’s fraudulent UN presentation on Iraqi WMDs, says Trita Parsi (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Judge Tells Jury: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy By Jim Naureckas
Reporting the news can be punished as criminal conspiracy, federal Judge Lynn Leibovitz told jurors at the so-called J20 trial in Washington, DC, where journalists and protesters alike are being prosecuted for property damage that they didn’t commit during the Donald Trump inauguration. Continue reading
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Is It the Demise of Online Digital Democracy? Selected Articles
15 December 2017 — Global Research Net Neutrality Killed as FCC ‘Hands Keys to Internet to Handful of Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations’ By Julia Conley, December 15, 2017 The nonpartisan First Amendment advocacy group Free Press vowed to take the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to court Thursday after the Republican-controlled panel moved to gut net neutrality protections that Continue reading
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Cuba: Documents Chart History of Secret Communications
With the approach of the 3rd anniversary of “17-D”—the iconic date of December 17, 2014, when President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro made public a historic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations—the National Security Archive today announced the publication of a major collection of declassified records on the history of talks between the two nations. Continue reading
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The Fight for Net Neutrality Isn't Over
16 December 2017 — TRNN The FCC repeal of net neutrality is dangerous, but with court challenges and more grassroots activism on the way, it can still be stopped, says says Craig Aaron of Free Press (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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UK: Deporting a champion
It’s been all over the press. The champion boxer set to be deported to Nigeria, a country where he has no family and knows no one. A country he’s even competed against for England. Sharlot, a 38 Degrees member, thinks Kelvin deserves to stay in England where he’s lived for over half his life. So… Continue reading
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NSA: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner Continue reading
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Digital Dystopia: FCC Ends Net Neutrality By Baynard Woods
Net neutrality was the result of activist campaigns in 2015. Craig Aaron, president of the advocacy group Free Press, calls net neutrality the “First Amendment of the internet,” which ensure that “when you go online, you can go wherever you want; do whatever you want; download whatever you want; and it’s not up to Comcast,… Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 14 December 2017
14 December 2017 — Black Agenda Report Our Open Letter To NAPO, MXGM, and Dr. Akinyele Umoja on Ultra-Leftism, the Democratic Party and the Movement in Jackson MS by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In a Dec. 1 article, our friend and comrade Akinyele Umoja of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement branded this publication, Continue reading
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Net Neutrality Repeal Is Only Part of Trump’s Surrender to Corporate Media By Reed Richardson
The FCC is under attack—and so too is the First Amendment. As the primary regulator of how media and information gets to our nation’s citizens, the Federal Communications Commission has a critical role to play in protecting the open Internet, free speech, and free press in our democracy. Though the agency has always enjoyed a… Continue reading
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IRR News (1 – 14 December 2017)
14 December 2017 — IRR Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This has been a horrendous year for deaths of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign nationals across Europe, whether it be in the Mediterranean, at land borders, during the deportation process, in prisons, immigration removal centres or inadequately funded Continue reading
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Breaking News: Child Molester Loses Senate Race in Alabama
14 December 2017 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor 49.1 PERCENT OF NATION BREATHES SIGH OF RELIEF DEMOCRATS: “WE’RE BACK. BRING ON THE SERIAL KILLERS!” REPUBLICANS LEARN LESSON: TOO MANY BLACK PEOPLE VOTING McCONNELL PROMISES QUICK FIX: “NEVER AGAIN!” BANNON BLAMES JEWS: “NEVER AGAIN!” address all comments to: sartesian@earthlink.net Continue reading
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PCHR: No to Repeating Balfour Declaration
The undersigned Arab Civil Society Organizations and Coalitions believe that the irresponsible statements by the U.S. President would not change the legal status of the City but convict its issuer and make him a criminal at the international level. Jerusalem has been and will always be an integral part of Land of Palestine based on… Continue reading
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It’s Not Simply Jerusalem, It’s All of Palestine By Rima Najjar
What’s going on in Jerusalem is what has always been going on in Palestine since 1948 –the forced dispossession of Palestinian Arabs of their identity, land and heritage. Because of Donald Trump’s declaration to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and the resultant global outrage regarding this decision, many people have become interested in understanding… Continue reading
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US Promotes War and Regime Change: Selected Articles
14 December 2017 — Global Research Washington’s Secret Wars By Bill Van Auken, December 13, 2017 The latest letter from the Trump administration, however, represents another qualitative step in this protracted degeneration of American democracy and the elimination of the last pretenses of civilian control over the military. Failing to even keep Congress “informed” about US combat Continue reading
The New Dark Age 