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NYT Trumpwashes 70 Years of US Crime By Adam Johnson
Trumpwashing—defined as whitewashing, obscuring or rewriting the broader US record by presenting Donald Trump as an aberration (FAIR.org, 6/3/16)—was on full display Thursday in a nominally straight news report from the New York Times’ Mark Landler (12/28/17) on how Trump has reshaped US foreign policy. Buried in the otherwise banal analysis was this gem of… Continue reading
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US-North Korea Nuclear War: One Million Deaths on the First Day: Selected Articles
28 December 2017 — Global Research The Quad: US Searches Edge of Asia for Allies to Contain Beijing By Tony Cartalucci, December 28, 2017 There has been a recent buzz promoted around the so-called Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) – a coalition of sorts counting the United States, India, Australia, and Japan as members. Promoted by familiar corporate-financier… Continue reading
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North Korea – UN Security Council’s “Killer Resolution”,15 to 0: Choking a Country into Submission By Peter Koenig
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is being choked into submission if not starvation by the UN Security Council, by a vote of 15 : 0; i.e. unanimously. None of the 15 UNSC states, let alone the five permanent members, have had the guts to say no to a killer Resolution, drafted and proposed… Continue reading
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Trump Suppressing Biggest National Security Threat
While the Trump Administration censors the term ‘climate change’ for government institutions, the Pentagon highlights the urgency of the crisis Continue reading
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'Whataboutism' Runs Amok as Jake Tapper Rattles Off Trump Talking Points By Adam Johnson
For over a year, US media have insisted that the tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing to others’ flaws was the devious Soviet tool of “whataboutism,” and anyone using it was practicing “one of Russia’s favorite propaganda tactics.” If so, when it came time for CNN’s Jake Tapper (12/21/17) to spin for the Trump administration’s… Continue reading
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Suman Raghunathan on Muslim Ban Return, Bruce Stanley on Don Blankenship
22 December 2017 — FAIR by CounterSpin MP3 Link (cc photo: Fibonacci Blue) This week on CounterSpin: The Supreme Court has OKed full implementation of Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban—despite the fact that its constitutionality is still being challenged in lower courts. Despite the fact that even Department of Homeland Security reports show no relationship… Continue reading
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NYT Failed to Note Op-Ed Authors' Funder Has $2 Billion Motive for Attacking Argentina By Eli Clifton/LobeLog
Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times (12/11/17) to celebrate last week’s announcement that Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, would face treason charges for her alleged role in covering up Iran’s alleged involvement in… Continue reading
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US Strikes Out with New War-Mongering on Iran
US Ambassador Nikki Halley’s speech on alleged Iranian violations was even less convincing than Colin Powell’s fraudulent UN presentation on Iraqi WMDs, says Trita Parsi (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Judge Tells Jury: Informing Public May Be Criminal Conspiracy By Jim Naureckas
Reporting the news can be punished as criminal conspiracy, federal Judge Lynn Leibovitz told jurors at the so-called J20 trial in Washington, DC, where journalists and protesters alike are being prosecuted for property damage that they didn’t commit during the Donald Trump inauguration. Continue reading
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Digital Dystopia: FCC Ends Net Neutrality By Baynard Woods
Net neutrality was the result of activist campaigns in 2015. Craig Aaron, president of the advocacy group Free Press, calls net neutrality the “First Amendment of the internet,” which ensure that “when you go online, you can go wherever you want; do whatever you want; download whatever you want; and it’s not up to Comcast,… Continue reading
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Net Neutrality Repeal Is Only Part of Trump’s Surrender to Corporate Media By Reed Richardson
The FCC is under attack—and so too is the First Amendment. As the primary regulator of how media and information gets to our nation’s citizens, the Federal Communications Commission has a critical role to play in protecting the open Internet, free speech, and free press in our democracy. Though the agency has always enjoyed a… Continue reading
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Breaking News: Child Molester Loses Senate Race in Alabama
14 December 2017 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor 49.1 PERCENT OF NATION BREATHES SIGH OF RELIEF DEMOCRATS: “WE’RE BACK. BRING ON THE SERIAL KILLERS!” REPUBLICANS LEARN LESSON: TOO MANY BLACK PEOPLE VOTING McCONNELL PROMISES QUICK FIX: “NEVER AGAIN!” BANNON BLAMES JEWS: “NEVER AGAIN!” address all comments to: sartesian@earthlink.net Continue reading
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NYT Prints Government-Funded Propaganda About Government-Funded Propaganda By Adam Johnson
An op-ed by the president of the right-wing human rights group Freedom House, published in the New York Times Monday (12/11/17)—later boosted by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker—warned of the menace of “commentators, trolls, bots, false news sites and propaganda,” and their negative effects on democracy. Missing from its analysis was… Continue reading
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Russia or Corporate Tax Cuts: Which Would Comcast Rather MSNBC Cover? By Eoin Higgins
At the beginning of December, liberal TV hosts Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow—the anchors of MSNBC‘s primetime schedule—were confronted with ever-escalating breaking news. In the span of a week, from December 1 through December 7, President Donald Trump shrank two national monuments, recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saw his travel ban upheld by… Continue reading
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Media Downplay Class Warfare as 'GOP Victory' By Ben Norton
The fallacy of “neutral,” “both sides” journalism rings loud and clear in corporate media reporting on the Republican Party’s tax plan. The GOP bill, passed by the Senate in the early hours of December 2 and described by major media outlets as a “tax cut,” is in reality an explicit handout to large companies and… Continue reading
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Crisis in the Middle East, Change of Alliances? Selected Articles
6 December 2017 — Global Research Trump Gives Away Jerusalem to Settle $100m Campaign Debt By Hans Stehling, December 06, 2017 In a politically motivated move the repercussions of which will incite anger throughout the world, Donald Trump the elected President of the United States has made a dangerous decision, so stupidly inept as to be unbelievable, that could… Continue reading
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'This Is Very Much a US/Saudi War on Yemen By Janine Jackson
More than a half million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and millions more lack access to any healthcare at all. This while Yemen faces an outbreak of cholera that’s being called possibly the worst in history. Yet Americans have heard little about what’s happening in Yemen, and still less about how it relates to… Continue reading
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‘This Is Very Much a US/Saudi War on Yemen By Janine Jackson
More than a half million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and millions more lack access to any healthcare at all. This while Yemen faces an outbreak of cholera that’s being called possibly the worst in history. Yet Americans have heard little about what’s happening in Yemen, and still less about how it relates to… Continue reading
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Is Trump Contemplating Nuclear War against North Korea? Selected Articles
4 December 2017 — Global Research Will Trump Launch a Nuclear Holocaust? US Hysteria Blooms in Wake of North Korean Missile Splashdown By William Boardman, December 03, 2017 The most dangerous thing about the North Korean missile launch is the reaction of the unprincipled, under-informed, white identity extremist sitting in the Oval Office. If there’s a nuclear war coming… Continue reading
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Video Empire Files: Death & Biostitutes – The US Opioid Crisis
With the US government failing to address the opioid crisis, one law firm has taken to a massive lawsuit. Head of that case is Mike Papantonio, who also won major lawsuits against big tobacco, chemical corporations and more. Abby Martin interviews him about this new suit, and why he is pushing for many executives to… Continue reading
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