Black Agenda Report 9 August 2018

9 August 2018 — Black Agenda Report

When the Resistance is Really the Assistance 

– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Democrats voted almost 2 to 1 to approve the Pentagon budget, including the Space Force. Half the House Progressive Caucus and Most of the Black Caucus endorsed it too. It’s official. The resistance IS the assistance.

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Failed Social Activism, Complicity of News Media: Selected Articles

9 August 2018 —  Global Research News

Butina Case: Neo-McCarthyism Engulfs America

By Philip Giraldi, August 09, 2018

The United States Department of Justice would apparently have you believe that the Kremlin sought to subvert the five-million-member strong National Rifle Association (NRA) by having two Russian citizens take out life memberships in the organization with the intention of corrupting it and turning it into a mouthpiece for President Vladimir Putin.

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Fight back against internet censorship! By Andre Damon

10 August 2018 — WSWS

In July 2017, the World Socialist Web Site published an exposure of the fact that changes to Google’s search algorithms had massively slashed traffic to left-wing, anti-war and socialist publications. Over the course of dozens of articles, we established that Google, together with the other technology monopolies, was engaged in a campaign of censorship of oppositional viewpoints, in close collaboration with the US intelligence apparatus.

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