April 2018
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NYT Examines How History Impacts Korean Talks–but Its Own Memory Is Fuzzy By Jim Naureckas
It’s not surprising that the US and North Korea view the history of Libyan disarmament differently, when the New York Times (4/29/18) can’t even agree with the New York Times about it. Continue reading
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As Israel Kills Dozens and Maims Thousands, Palestinian ‘Violence’ Under Media Microscope By Gregory Shupak
Corporate media help set the terms of debate about the issues they cover by pointing toward specific sets of questions and ignoring others. When news outlets highlight particular points of contention, they encourage audiences to see these as the central aspects of the story and discourage consideration of other facets of the topic. Recent reporting… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 30 April 2018
30 April 218 — williambowles.info Syria announces Yarmouk camp evacuation agreement https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/syria-announces-yarmouk-camp-evacuation-agreement-180430162239804.html Two killed, 13 wounded in shelling in Syria’s Homs – Russian reconciliation center http://tass.com/society/1002574 Aggression: Imperialism strikes Syria again http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGreanvillePost/~3/aLfoKRGRkgA/ Continue reading
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Racism, Russophobia and the Western Media: Selected Articles
29 April 2018 — Global Research Whether It’s Russiagate, Skripal or Syria, the Media Have Lost Their Grip on Reality By Paul Mansfield, April 29, 2018 “Blame Russia” for absolutely everything world we currently occupy has reached a point almost beyond return and is scaling heights that would turn Joseph McCarthy green with envy. Whether it is internally Continue reading
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Syria News Links 25-29 April 2018
30 April 2018 10:21:09 — williambowles.info 29 April 2018 Syria: SDF reclaim territory hours after government capture https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/syria-sdf-reclaim-territory-hours-government-capture-180429184747155.html Pro-Regime Syrian Forces Take Control Of At Least Two Villages Near Iraq Border http://kclu.org/post/pro-regime-syrian-forces-take-control-least-two-villages-near-iraq-border Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 28 April – 30 March 2018
29 April 2018 — williambowles.info 28 April 2018 Israeli snipers shoot another 178 Palestinian protesters, killing three http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/israeli-palestinian-protesters/ Israel needs Palestinian violence to shift world opinion — and ‘The New York Times’ helps out! http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/palestinian-violence-opinion/ Continue reading
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EU Bans Neonics!
I’m writing quickly to let you know some breaking news: WE WON! The EU neonics ban just passed. Continue reading
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NSA: Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File
The Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions, subsequently drafted the cable that ordered destruction of the videotape evidence of torture, and served as a senior CIA official while the Agency was lying to itself, Presidents… Continue reading
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Organic Bytes: What will it take to get this chemical banned?
26 April 2018 — Organic Consumers Association [First, a whinge about the the UK environmental movement: It sucks! Organisations like Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace with millions in resources can’t even manage a weekly newsletter like this one from OCA, a US-based organisation or another I carry here, Sustainable Pulse. Greenpeace do have Continue reading
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Media Lens: Douma: Part 2 – ‘It Just Doesn’t Ring True’
Jonathan Freedland’s ‘committed denialists and conspiracists’, and Paul Mason’s victims of Putin’s ‘global strategy’ clutching at ‘false flag theories’, presumably include Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Intelligence. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 April 2018: Dems Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020, RussiaGate Shows Democrats' Warmongering Colors, Windrush and Britain’s Crimes Against Black People
25 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report Democrats Prepare to Pimp the Left in 2018 and 2020 – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Democrats allow their left activists out of the hole every 2 or 4 years to campaign for justice at home and peace abroad. Democrats are a party of capital and Continue reading
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Media Lens: Douma: Part 1 – Deception In Plain Sight
UK corporate media are under a curious kind of military occupation. Almost all print and broadcast media now employ a number of reporters and commentators who are relentless and determined warmongers. Despite the long, unarguable history of US-UK lying on war, and the catastrophic results, these journalists instantly confirm the veracity of atrocity claims made… Continue reading
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Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace”: Selected Articles
25 April 2018 — Global Research South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor” By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018 In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power Continue reading
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Let’s See Who Pushes War for “Peace”: Selected Articles
25 April 2018 — Global Research South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor” By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018 In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER MAY 2018
25 April 2018 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans Writer in Residence 2018: Eleanor Penny 2. Marx’s 200th Birthday: conference / shop event / 2nd hand books / tote bag give away 3. Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Shortlist 2018 + London Radical Bookfair 2018 4. Bank Holiday Closures Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 25 April 2018
25 April 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks UCSF Places Secret Agrichemical Industry Documents including Monsanto Papers Online The University of California, San Francisco Industry Documents Library placed online several collections of agrichemical industry documents on Thursday, including some acquired and donated by U.S. Right to Know, a consumer and public health watchdog group. The Continue reading
The New Dark Age 