20 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report
– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor 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.
20 December 2018 — Global Research – Grey Zone Project
By Mohamed Elmaazi and Max Blumenthal
Recent hacked documents have revealed an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, researchers and military officers, all engaged in highly deceptive covert propaganda campaigns funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), NATO, Facebook and hardline national security institutions.
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20 December 2018 — Oriental Review – The Indian Punchline
The battle of wits between the US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan is getting curioser and curioser. Trump fancies himself to be the ultimate deal-maker. But he is underestimating the wily Turkish leader who may be one up on him.
19 December 2018 — Consortium News
Michael Isikoff, one of the biggest proponents of the Russia-gate story now says that Robert Mueller’s investigation is “not where a lot of people would like it to be,” says Ray McGovern.
By Ray McGovern
Special to Consortium News
Last Saturday, veteran Washington journalist Michael Isikoff began a John Ehrlichman/Watergate-style “modified limited hangout” regarding the embarrassing overreach in his Russia-gate “collusion” reporting. He picked an unctuous, longtime fan, radio host John Ziegler, to help him put some lipstick on the proverbial pig. Even so, the interview did not go so well.
20 December 2018 — Manifesto Club
Fined for charity Christmas lunch posters, ban on wearing bikini in own home, Nottingham council’s PSPO, Defra cracks down on private ‘litter police’, and more…
20 December 2018 — WSWS
An apparent order by US President Donald Trump for the withdrawal of all 2,000 US troops deployed in Syria over the next 60 to 100 days has sparked consternation and sharp opposition from the Pentagon, top Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as Washington’s NATO allies.
20 December 2018 — WSWS
On December 12, at the Turkish Defense Industry Summit, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to launch a new military operation east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria in coming days, targeting the Kurdish nationalist groups.
19 December 2018 — Climate & Capitalism
Michael Löwy initiates a wide-ranging debate on the great transition from capitalist destruction to a just and sustainable future
Michael Löwy was co-author, with Joel Kovel, of the first Ecosocialist Manifesto (2001). His published works include On Changing the World, and Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to the Capitalist Ecological Catastrophe.
This paper was first distributed for discussion in the Great Transition Initiative, “an online forum of ideas and an international network for the critical exploration of concepts, strategies, and visions for a transition to a future of enriched lives, human solidarity, and a resilient biosphere.”
20 December 2018 — Electronic Intifada
Israel doctored video footage in order to conceal its killing of two children in Gaza last summer, an investigation has revealed.
20 December 2018 — True Publica
Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Here is a seriously stark warning about the current trajectory of government policy and power being used against us all.
19 December 2018 — TRNN
Since 1976 Project Censored has been bringing us all the news the corporate media don’t want us to hear
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19 December 2018 — TRNN
Since 1976 Project Censored has been bringing us all the news the corporate media don’t want us to hear (inc. transcript)
Project Censored: All the News the Establishment Media Saw Fit not to Print (Pt 2/2)
