July 28, 2018
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NATO coordinates the evacuation of the White Helmets
In the final analysis, it was the Organization of the Atlantic Alliance that coordinated the evacuation of 422 White Helmets and their families with the help of Israel and Jordan, both of which have an office which is linked to Nato headquarters in Brussels. Continue reading
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Palestine News Links 28 July 2018
28 July 2018 — williambowles.info Israel kills children in Gaza protests https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-kills-children-gaza-protests Gaza protests: All the latest updates https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/gaza-protest-latest-updates-180406092506561.html Continue reading
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‘Shock and Awe’ Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right By Gunar Olsen
It’s now conventional for corporate media pundits and centrist politicians to acknowledge that their support for the US invasion of Iraq was misguided. Most excuse their pro-war record on the grounds that there was no available alternate narrative to the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. How could they have… Continue reading
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'Shock and Awe' Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right By Gunar Olsen
It’s now conventional for corporate media pundits and centrist politicians to acknowledge that their support for the US invasion of Iraq was misguided. Most excuse their pro-war record on the grounds that there was no available alternate narrative to the Bush administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. How could they have… Continue reading
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Ex-Obama Officials Shill, and Bill, for Big Tech’s Pentagon Deals
As Google faced an internal employee revolt over its involvement in the Pentagon’s drone warfare program, the Obama-veteran firm WestExec stepped in to help. The case highlights the deep ties between the tech industry and government officials, says Yasha Levine, author of “Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.” (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Many Russians Think Climate Change is Propaganda to Weaken Their Economy – RAI with A. Buzgalin (11/12)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says Russian oligarchs find an oil based economy too profitable to consider transitioning away from it – with host Paul Jay (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Utility of the RussiaGate Conspiracy By Alan MacLeod
To the shock of many, Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections, becoming the 45th president of the United States. Not least shocked were corporate media, and the political establishment more generally; the Princeton Election Consortium confidently predicted an over 99 percent chance of a Clinton victory, while MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (10/17/16) said it could… Continue reading
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