December 2018
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EXCLUSIVE: 4 Year Old Killed By Israel | Interview With Family
Following the death of a 4 year old child in Gaza, at the hands of Israeli snipers, not one mainstream corporate media organization bothered to go and interview the family and find out what happened, in fact, most didn’t cover the story at all. Continue reading
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US intelligence think tank conducted “false flag” operation impersonating Russian election interference By Will Morrow
A series of articles published in the past week have revealed that the New Knowledge think tank conducted a “false flag” operation to influence the 2017 Alabama state election and make it appear that Russia was conducting a Twitter campaign to back its preferred candidate. New Knowledge is closely connected to the US intelligence agencies… Continue reading
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One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countries
The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According to a recent Gallup study, a sixth of the world’s adult population—some 750 million people, not including children—want to flee their home countries to escape war, poverty, conflict and disease. Continue reading
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Germany, France Struggle With Resurgent Russia By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
A German-French joint statement on Friday regarding Ukraine condemned Russia and demanded the immediate release of the sailors detained following the so-called Kerch incident in November. Moscow hit back in equally strong language summarily rejecting the Franco-German demand. Continue reading
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MH17 Turnabout: Ukraine’s Guilt Now Proven By Eric Zuesse
Finally, a clear and convincing — and unrefuted — case can now be presented to the public, as to precisely whom the guilty party was, that downed the MH17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine on 17 July 2014, and why it was done. The complete case, which will be fully documented here, displays unequivocally who needed… Continue reading
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Twitter and the Smearing of Corbyn and Assange: A Research Note on the “Integrity Initiative” By Mark Curtis
The UK government-financed Integrity Initiative, managed by the Institute for Statecraft, is ostensibly a “counter disinformation” programme to challenge Russian information operations. However, it has been revealed that the Integrity Initiative twitter handle and some individuals associated with this programme have also been tweeting messages attacking Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. [i] This takes on special… Continue reading
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Trump’s Syrian Gambit Again Exposes Australian Foreign Policy Bankruptcy By James O’Neill
The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw US troops from Syria clearly caught Australian political, military and intelligence leaders by surprise. Despite claims of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that Australia and the US were “joined at the hip” the link is clearly metaphorical and does not extend to actual consultation. Continue reading
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The West Is in Disarray, and It Will Only Get Worse By Federico Pieraccini
We are witnessing the withdrawal from Syria of the American military contingent, protests in France, the prospect of a British hard Brexit, the political decline of Angela Merkel in Germany, Netanyahu in crisis, and Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia suddenly becoming an international pariah. The contemporary crisis of leadership in Europe, the United States… Continue reading
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UK: Investigation into Grenfell fire will “take years, not months,” police say
London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick reiterated that it will be years before the “criminal investigation” into the Grenfell Tower fire is concluded. Continue reading
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The only ‘Russian bots’ to meddle in US elections belonged to Democrat-linked ‘experts’
So, it turns out there really was meddling in American democracy by “Russian bots.” Except they weren’t run from Moscow or St. Petersburg, but from the offices of Democrat operatives chiefly responsible for creating and amplifying the “Russiagate” hysteria over the past two years in a textbook case of psychological projection. Continue reading
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Stax Records President Al Bell Honors Aretha Franklin, a Lost Icon in 2018
As part of our end-of-year round up, iconic record label executive Al Bell, responsible for soul legends like Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding, tells personal stories about meeting Aretha Franklin when she was 16 and her cultural legacy Continue reading
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Facebook: The global censor
The year 2018 has seen a vast intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming them from tools for exchanging information and communicating around the world into massive censorship dragnets for policing what their users say, do and think. Continue reading
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UK: New ‘secure school’ as part of wave of new children’s prisons
The Government has announced its plans to create a new ‘Secure School’ that will lock up children aged 12-17 as part of a bigger programme to construct more purpose-built secure schools in the coming years ahead. Continue reading
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Trump’s visit to Iraq and Washington’s never-ending war in the Middle East
Donald Trump’s brief, unannounced visit to Iraq on the day after Christmas was staged with a patent political motive. His appearance with assembled troops—for a grand total of 45 minutes—was aimed at shoring up support within the Pentagon as well as among rank-and-file soldiers in the wake of the resignation in protest of his defense… Continue reading
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Trump Extricates Himself from the Trap in Syria, Abandoning the Kurds By Dimitri Minin
It is not only many members of the US establishment who have labeled President Trump’s order to withdraw America’s forces (2,200 troops) from Syria as a betrayal, but also the allies of the United States. They claim that Trump is throwing the Syrian Kurds under the bus and leaving Israel in a state of “strategic… Continue reading
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Trump’s Troop Pullout Not Peace, More Imperialist Reconfiguration
President Trump’s sudden call for US troops to withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan has left many observers scratching their heads. Continue reading
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Labour and anti-Semitism in 2018: The truth behind the relentless smear campaign against Corbyn By Jonathan Cook
Bombarded by disinformation campaigns, many British Jews are being misled into seeing Corbyn as a threat rather than as the best hope of innoculating Britain against the resurgence of right-wing anti-Semitism menace Continue reading
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Trump stages visit to Iraq amid mounting crisis over Syria troop withdrawal By Bill Van Auken
US President Donald Trump staged a surprise visit to an American airbase in western Iraq Wednesday in what appeared to be an attempt to both mollify intense criticism within the military-intelligence apparatus of his decision to pull troops out of Syria, and to reassert his commitment to continued US military operations in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China By Glen Ford
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region. Continue reading
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Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan plans to demolish 8,000 council homes By Charles Hixson
Residents in working class housing estates are organising in opposition to the Labour Party mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s proposed social cleansing “regeneration” schemes. Continue reading
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