November 2018
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Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one
Over the past weekend, the leaders of the world’s great powers met in France to commemorate the official end of World War I. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump pulled long faces, hugged each other and gave speeches lamenting the “horror” and “tragedy” of a war that claimed… Continue reading
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U.S. Refuses to Adopt a Nuclear Weapon No First Use Pledge – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (7/8)
Every President since Truman has used a nuclear first strike threat as leverage in U.S. foreign policy; it’s institutional insanity says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
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U.S. Planned Nuclear First Strike to Destroy Soviets and China – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (6/8)
U.S. cold-war nuclear plan called for all out attack on China, even if it was not involved in the war, says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
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Propaganda during World War I: An Illustrated Account By Terje Maloy
These stories are not unique cases from a remote war. The same methods are constantly rinsed and repeated, the mentality in our ruling elites is the same, and the risk of a major conflict is as great today as in 1914. These examples concentrate mostly on British/American perception management and propaganda. First of all, because… Continue reading
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World War I Centenary: “War Is a Racket”. Unlimited Imperialism By Prof. Francis
Ten Million People died for nothing. Smedley D. Butler had it right. War is a Racket. And Woodrow Wilson murdered 116,000+ Americans in that war. The American People and Congress did not want to fight in that God-forsaken war. Wilson lied, tricked, deceived, maneuvered and finagled us into that war. Continue reading
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Khashoggi, Ben Barka & PressTV’s Serena Shim: A 4-part series
IIn October of 1965, 2014 and 2018 three journalists were prominently assassinated: Mehdi Ben Barka, Serena Shim and Jamal Khashoggi. Most readers likely don’t know the first two, while the entire world seems to know about the last one. Continue reading
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Mark Taliano’s ‘Voices from Syria” Debunks Lies Fabricated by the Western Media By Basma Qaddour
Telling the truth about the events taking place in Syria before world public opinion is an uphill battle because the real agenda of the terrorism-backers who are seeking to destroy the Middle East, must remain unspeakable. Continue reading
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Israeli Forces Detain 8-year-old Palestinian Child Near Hebron
According to Defense for Children International, Israel is the only country in the world that automatically prosecutes children in military courts that lack basic and fundamental fair trial guarantees. Continue reading
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FBI: Neo-Nazi Militia Trained by US Military in Ukraine Now Training US White Supremacists By Whitney Webb
The training the U.S. provided to the Azov Battalion is coming back to roost in the U.S. as the neo-Nazi group is training and radicalizing U.S.-based groups with similar ideologies steeped in hatred and a belief in white racial supremacy. Continue reading
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World War I Homage – A Triumph of Lies and Platitudes By Finian Cunningham
World leaders gathered in Paris on Sunday under the Arc de Triomphe to mark the centennial anniversary ending World War I. In an absurd way, the Napoleon-era arc was a fitting venue – because the ceremony and the rhetoric from President Emmanuel Macron was a “triumph” of lies and platitudes. Continue reading
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Yemen – Holding Hodeidah Is The Houthi’s Last Chance
The attack led by the United Arab Emirates has nearly achieved to surround Hodeidah. The city and its port are the only way left to provide food to some 20 million people living in the capital Sanaa and the northern highlands. Should Hodeidah fall, the Houthi and their allies will have to submit to the… Continue reading
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UK: SNP-led Glasgow City Council uses gender politics and threats of blacklisting to isolate equal pay struggle By Stephen Alexander
The major parties, together with the trade unions and the capitalist media, have presented the dispute solely in terms of “institutionalized” gender discrimination and “sexism at work” to divide men and women workers and obscure the fundamental class issues at stake. Continue reading
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‘Fallism 2016’ – when SA students challenged the status quo By Terry Bell
Everything Must Fall, the hard-hitting, thought provoking documentary film that provides perhaps the best insight possible into the tumultuous events that disrupted South African university campuses in 2016 will feature in the Netherlandsat the world’s largest documentary film festival from November 15 to 25. It will be part of a programme section entitled Frontline at… Continue reading
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South Africa: Everything Must Fall – Documentary Trailer 2018
An unflinching look at the #FeesMustFall student movement that burst onto the South African political landscape in 2015 as a protest over the cost of education, and morphed into the most militant national revolt since the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. The story is told by four student leaders at Wits University and their… Continue reading
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Western Media “Discovers” Saudi Atrocities in Wake of Khashoggi Fallout By Tony Cartalucci
Nothing illustrates the cynical and deceitful nature of Western “journalism” better than the recent, apparent US-Saudi fallout in the wake of the alleged death of Washington Post Saudi correspondent, Jamal Khashoggi. Continue reading
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Trump’s Jaded View of Two World Wars By Wayne Madsen
Donald Trump traveled to Paris to, as he put it in a tweet, “celebrate” the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I. Trump not only decided to skip a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American cemetery at Belleau Wood, but also the inaugural ceremony of the Paris Peace Forum. T Continue reading
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Off the Leash: How the UK is developing the technology to build armed autonomous drones By Peter Burt
A new report published today by Drone Wars UK reveals that, despite a UK government statement that it “does not possess fully autonomous weapons and has no intention of developing them”, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is actively funding research into technology supporting the development of armed autonomous drones. Continue reading
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Jingoistic Perversion Of 1918 WW1 Armistice Centenary – Humanity Ignored Yields Genocidal History Repeated By Dr Gideon Polya
Prominent in the commemorations will be the modern equivalents of the mendacious politicians, journalists and jingoists who were criminally responsible for WW1 (20 million killed), the so-called war to end all wars, that inexorably led to WW2 (100 million killed) and the post-WW2 US world war on humanity that in the 21st century has focused… Continue reading
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UK government’s crocodile tears over burning of Grenfell Tower effigy backfire By Robert Stevens
The cardboard model had cut out paper figures with brown faces, looking out of the tower windows, with the perpetrators making derogatory comments about Grenfell Tower residents. As it is set on fire, one participant is heard saying, “Help me, help me!” and “Jump out the window!” Another says to laughter, in a reference to… Continue reading
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Why the U.S. Military is Woefully Unprepared for a Major Conventional Conflict
In the Department of Defense authored summary of the National Defense Strategy of the United States for 2018, Secretary James Mattis quite succinctly sets out the challenges and goals of the U.S. military in the immediate future. Importantly, he acknowledges that the U.S. had become far too focused on counter-insurgency over the past two decades,… Continue reading
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