October 5, 2018
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COLDTYPE Issue 169 October 2018 – is now on line
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Marjorie Cohn on Brett Kavanaugh, Neil DeMause on Amazon
5 October 2018 — FAIR This week on CounterSpin: As we record October 4, it looks like Brett Kavanaugh ill be confirmed for the Supreme Court—despite, well, despite so very many things. Why are Republicans so set on pushing through a candidate opposed by a coalition of Christian churches, as well as thousands of law professors, as well as Continue reading
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Video: The Political Power of Weapons By Manlio Dinucci
European Markets and Union on alert, opposition on the attack, a reminder about the Constitution by the President of the Republic, all this because the government-planned financial manoeuvre, which has already been announced, would lead to a deficit of about 27 billion Euros. On the other hand, absolute silence from the government and the opposition… Continue reading
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How to communicate the climate emergency
What are effective ways of engaging people in conversation about the gathering climate crisis and the need for an emergency response? Let’s start with some key content: Continue reading
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Fake News and False Flags: Pentagon Paid Millions to Create Fake Terrorist Videos By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith
terrorist videos. The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Continue reading
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How The U.S. Runs Public Relations Campaigns – Trump Style – Against Russia And China By Moon of Alabama
Yesterday several NATO countries ran a concerted propaganda campaign against Russia. The context for it was a NATO summit in which the U.S. presses for an intensified cyberwar against NATO’s preferred enemy. Continue reading
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Gaza “laboratory” boosts profits of Israel’s war industry By Gabriel Schivone
After exploring the vast surveillance regime along the US-Mexico border and finding Israeli systems installed at every turn, the author Todd Miller and I were drawn to investigate Israel as the largest homeland security industry in the world. Israel’s arms industry is twice the size of its US counterpart in exports per capita and employs… Continue reading
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NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia
The US, Britain and other NATO allies upped the ante this week with a coordinated campaign of information war to criminalize Russia. Moscow dismissed the wide-ranging claims as “spy mania”. But the implications amount to a grave assault recklessly escalating international tensions with Russia. Continue reading
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The Lies of our (Financial) Times By James Petras
The leading financial publications have misled their political and investor subscribers of emerging crises and military defeats which have precipitated catastrophic political and economic losses. The most egregious example is the Financial Times (FT) a publication which is widely read by the business and financial elite. Continue reading
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The US military’s vision for state censorship By Andre Damon
In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of “Sovereignty in the information age.” The conference brought together Special Forces officers with domestic police forces, including officials from the New York police department, and representatives from technology companies… Continue reading
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US, UK and NATO allies ramp up anti-Russia offensive over “cyber spying” and Skripals By Robert Stevens
The US Department of Justice is seeking the arrest of seven Russian nationals it claims worked for the GRU, the main Russian military intelligence agency. They are accused of hacking, with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as the most important target, as well as wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Continue reading
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Trump Admin Follows Corporate Media Playbook for War With Iran
Three years ago, as Americans debated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran—popularly known as “the Iran deal”—I highlighted a troubling media trend on FAIR.org (8/20/15): “For nearly all commentators, regardless of their position, war is the only alternative to that position.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 4, 2018: Amazon Concession to $15 per Hour Not Bernie’s Doing; Democratic Fascism vs the Trump Kind; Kavanaugh Farce
4 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report Democratic Corporate Fascism vs the Trump Kind – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Modern American corporate fascism is rooted in multinational corporate structures and wedded to a concept of racial and cultural “diversity” that (they hope) is compatible with corporate dictatorship. Continue reading
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Trump Regime Refuses World Court Rulings on Palestine and Iran, US Withdrawal from the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations By Stephen Lendman
Is Trump being held captive by political operatives within his Cabinet – notably Pompeo, Bolton and Haley on geopolitical issues? They’re hostile to world peace, democratic values, and respect for international law. Continue reading
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On Capitalism and Eternal War. NATO as a “World Government”? By Christopher Black
On September 14, in an address to the far right American organisation called The Heritage Foundation, the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, described NATO in effect to be a world government prepared for eternal war. He declared NATO to be the “guarantor of peace and stability in Europe since 1949,” when in fact it has… Continue reading
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US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age By Peter KORZUN
US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison is a highly placed diplomat. Her words, whatever they may be, are official, which includes the ultimatums and threats that have become the language increasingly used by US diplomats to implement the policy of forceful persuasion or coercive diplomacy. Bellicose declarations are being used this way as a… Continue reading
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