October 18, 2018
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Black Agenda Report for 18 October 2018: Facebook is NOT Your Friend; Womens’ March on the Pentagon; Jamal Khashoggi and U.S. Hypocrisy; Congo at the Abyss
18 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report Facebook is Not Your Friend – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule. Continue reading
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Killing Jamal Khashoggi Was Easy. Explaining It Is Much Harder By Philip M. Giraldi
If he was killed inside the building and dismembered, as seems likely, he could have had his body parts removed in the suitcases carried by the alleged fifteen official Saudis who had arrived that morning by private jet and left that afternoon the same way. The supposition is that the fifteen men, which may have… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 170 Mid-October 2018 – is now on line
18 October 2018 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia’s Great Tumbling Down – The Boy Who Wanted to be King is No More
Where has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gone? Since mainstream media broke news of the disappearance and alleged death of Jamal Khashoggi, MBS has gotten a little camera shy … and somewhat politically withdrawn. Continue reading
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Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime By Barry Grey
Leave it to Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator, to outdo his colleagues at the nation’s foremost sounding board for CIA propaganda when it comes to hypocrisy and deceit. This he has achieved in an op-ed piece on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi published in Wednesday’s print edition under the headline… Continue reading
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What sanctions on Russia and China really mean By Pepe Escobar
A crucial Pentagon report on the US defense industrial base and “supply chain resiliency” bluntly accuses China of “military expansion” and “a strategy of economic aggression,” mostly because Beijing is the only source for “a number of chemical products used in munitions and missiles.” Russia is mentioned only once, but in a crucial paragraph: as… Continue reading
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Mainstream Media Drives Getaway Car for Alt-Media Purge By Helen Buyniski
Facebook purged more than 800 accounts last week, continuing its scorched-earth campaign of eradicating dissent as Americans prepare to go to the polls. The social media platform is nicely settling into its role as official censor, working hand in glove with the imperialist Atlantic Council to silence all popular voices to the left and right… Continue reading
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Israeli Private Intelligence Companies Turn Civilians into Enemies
Shir Hever talks about Psy-Group and other Israeli private intelligence companies and the role which they play in undermining democracy when intelligence gathering is privatized Continue reading
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Congo in the Abyss By Ann Garrison
The aggression of Western governments has inflicted multiple holocausts on the Congolese people, Congolese historian Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko tells Ann Garrison. This week I spoke to Swiss Congolese historian and activist Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko about recent developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who said, “In Congo, globalized capitalism creates permanent chaos.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 