January 2018
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US – More Hawkish Than Ever? Building an Empire, Fomenting a Unipolar World
12 January 2018 — Global Research News It’s Nato that’s Empire-building, not Putin By Peter Hitchins and True Publica, January 11, 2018 Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than Continue reading
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History of US-Iran Relations: “Regime Change” and the Islamic State in 1979? By Masud Wadan
According to Masud Wadan in this timely analysis of Iran’s 1979 Revolution, the US and its European allies favored the creation of an Islamic State headed by Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s spiritual leader, with a view to undermining Iran’s leftist-progressive revolutionary movement. Continue reading
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A “Harsh and Terrible … Solution”: Fidel Castro’s Armageddon Letter to Nikita Khrushchev
Homing in on the Cuban perspective, Dark Beyond Darkness aims to fill a persistent gap in the history – the general dismissal of Cuba’s stake – that not only skewed our understanding of the event for years but helped make the crisis so perilous in the first place. Continue reading
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Coverage of Iran Protests Illustrated With Protests Not in Iran–Organized by Fringe Cultists By Adam Johnson
When it comes to covering protests in other countries, it seems any vague picture of brown people protesting can stand in for those actually on the streets expressing their grievances. Since the outbreak of protests across Iran three weeks ago, several major outlets have used pictures of demonstrations in the United States, France, or United… Continue reading
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Sixteen Year Old Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi By Jonathan Cook
Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 11 January 2018
11 January 2018 — Black Agenda Report Weaponized Words: Are the Black Misleadership Class Race Traitors or Just Following Their Own Class Interests? Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor If they are race traitors, we need to look for “real” black leaders. If they are following their own class interest we need to raise Continue reading
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In Fusion GPS Testimony, More Questions Than Answers
As President Trump refuses to commit to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the long-awaited testimony of Glenn Simpson, founder of the firm behind the Steele dossier, has been released. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler and Aaron Mate discuss Continue reading
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Iran, Israel and Palestine: Selected Articles
January 10, 2018 — Global Research Demonizing Iran: Mainstream Media Madness and US-Israeli-Saudi ‘Behavior’ Problems By Robert Parry, January 10, 2018 There is a madness in how the mainstream U.S. media presents the world to the American people, a delusional perspective that arguably creates an existential threat to humanity’s survival. We have seen this pattern in the Continue reading
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There was a time…
10 January, 2018 When all I needed to do to connect to someone I know was to email them but obviously this is just too simple and obvious. Now, if I don’t have Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Linkedin, Tinder, and who knows what, I can’t do the simple, direct thing anymore, send him or her Continue reading
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Governments and corporations escalate Internet censorship and attacks on free speech
The year 2018 has opened with an international campaign to censor the Internet. Throughout the world, technology giants are responding to the political demands of governments by cracking down on freedom of speech, which is inscribed in the US Bill of Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and countless international agreements. Continue reading
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Thinking war is bloodless is a mistake.” Talking drones and remote war with Air Marshall Bagwell By Chris Cole
Air Marshall Greg Bagwell is a recently retired senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander Operations at RAF Air Command. While being a vocal supporter of the use of armed drones, in his role of President of the Air Power Association he has also argued for greater openness and engagement with the… Continue reading
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GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice By Colin Todhunter
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. Continue reading
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The campaign over the “unfitness” of Donald Trump
The publication of Michael Wolff’s insider account of the early months of the Trump administration, Fire and Fury, has become the occasion for a media firestorm powered by allegations that Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Media pundits and Democratic politicians have cited the book’s portrayal of Trump to claim that the president should… Continue reading
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Trashing the Planet for Profit By William Bowles
For the most part, us lefties are optimists. We believe in the future, in progress, that things will get better, eventually. That the ludicrous idea that capitalism is the ‘end of history’, that in spite of its relentless propaganda, and notwithstanding the defeat of the first socialist experiments, that there is a future beyond capitalism,… Continue reading
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Shocking Study Shows Glyphosate Herbicides Contain Toxic Levels of Arsenic
A shocking new study published in Toxicology Reports has shown that the current regulatory assessments of the world’s most used herbicides are wrong, with ingredients such as arsenic being regularly found in Glyphosate based herbicides and other pesticides at toxic levels. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #154 By William Blum
5 January 2018 — Anti-Empire Report Happy New Year 2018 is going to be a fun fun year. And to better prepare yourself for all the merrymaking here is a calendar of some of the more delightful things to look forward to. Continue reading
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The Two-FacedBook By William Bowles
The World Wide Web is very difficult to control without overt, and very public, central, i.e. state control. But control had to be reasserted. It was a dilemma for the elite. How to do it without blowing away the illusion of a free and democratic media? Enter ‘fake news’. Continue reading
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The Two-Faced Book By William Bowles
The World Wide Web is very difficult to control without overt, and very public, central, i.e. state control. But control had to be reasserted. It was a dilemma for the elite. How to do it without blowing away the illusion of a free and democratic media? Enter ‘fake news’. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 