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Unmasked: Trump Doctrine vows carnage for new axis of evil By Pepe Escobar
This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of “principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller. One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in, slowly. The president… Continue reading
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Media: 'Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous'
Janine Jackson interviewed Shaye Wolf about Hurricane Harvey’s toxic aftermath for the September 8, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Media: ‘Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous’
Janine Jackson interviewed Shaye Wolf about Hurricane Harvey’s toxic aftermath for the September 8, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Joint civil society statement on US-led armed drones control process By Chris Cole
Work is now being undertaken by a group of states led by the US to draft more detailed politically binding international standards, building on the declaration. In this context, a group of civil society organisations have set out in an open statement, reproduced below, a range of concerns about the limitations of this initiative –… Continue reading
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CNN Celebrates ‘Joy’ of McCain a Day After His Genocidal Threat
Professional truth-teller and self-appointed Russian counter-propagandist Jake Tapper had Arizona Sen. John McCain on his State of Union show (CNN, 9/10/17) for a chummy interview Sunday night. The interview began with Tapper lobbing softballs at McCain about his mortality and reminiscing about buddying up on the 2000 campaign trail (Tapper was, according to his then-editor… Continue reading
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Proposal for a Lasting Korea Peace Agreement: Signing of a Bilateral North-South Korea Peace Treaty By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The US sponsored state of war de facto is directed against both North and South Korea. It is characterised by persistent military threats (including the use of nuclear weapons) against the DPRK. It also threatens the ROK which has been under US military occupation since September 1945. Continue reading
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Trump Visits Texas
30 August 2017 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor President Donald J. Trump visited the areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Harvey and announced his absolutely fabulous recovery and prevention plan. Said Trump: We will build a wall, a wall so high you can’t get over it; a wall so wide… Continue reading
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How Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
A coalition of Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, with minor support from several other Middle Eastern nations, has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. This August, the coalition ramped up the ferocity of its airstrikes, killing dozens of civilians. Major Western media outlets have, however, obscured the… Continue reading
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NYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan. Continue reading
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‘Media’s First Instinct Is to Strip Ideology From the Conversation’
Janine Jackson: The spectre of white supremacists marching with guns and torches, throwing KKK salutes, and screaming about Jews and Commies is a test for Americans, individually and institutionally, and we’re still seeing how various folks are responding. One of the primary institutions that should be asking themselves some questions right now are corporate media. Continue reading
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All The Countries America Has Invaded… in One Map
28 August 2017 — Global Research Watch: Brave Congressman Explains How US Keeps Afghan Heroin Trade Alive at Your Expense By Matt Agorist, August 28, 2017 Congressman Thomas Massie blows the lid off the US subsidized opium trade and taxpayer funds flowing into the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Washington’s Relentless Quest for Neo-colonies
26 August 2017 — Global Research Venezuelan Collapse? Wishful Thinking? Caracas Oil Deals with Russia and China By Marwan Salamah, August 26, 2017 From a geopolitical aspect, this means ever closer relations with Russia and China, which together with a couple more anti-western South American countries, could result in a ‘backyard’ full of pickles! Will it be… Continue reading
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Trump ‘Presidential’ Again–for Ramping Up War in Afghanistan
Foreign Policy‘s Paul Miller (8/22/17) liked the speech in part because “Trump said ‘win’ and ‘victory’ more times in 15 minutes than President Barack Obama did in eight years.” Donald Trump is finally “presidential” again, pundits insist, now that he is ratcheting up another US war. Continue reading
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More American Troops to Afghanistan, To Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The implication of Trump’s resolve is to plunder and steal Afghanistan’s mineral riches to finance the “reconstruction” of a country destroyed by the US and its allies after 16 years of war, i.e “War reparations” paid to the aggressor nation? Continue reading
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The 2014 Ukraine Coup Was as Much About China as Russia. Eurasian Trade and the New Silk Road By Adam Garrie
17 August 2017 — Global Research The events which led to the 2014 coup in Ukraine are generally blamed on anti-Russia actors, including the United States and EU. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was recently in the EU where he said the following, “The largely-provoked-from-the-outside Ukrainian crisis has become the direct consequence of such short-sighted policy of Washington and… Continue reading
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Media: Centrist Pundits Paved Way for Trump’s ‘Alt-Left’ False Equivalence
President Donald Trump sparked outrage Tuesday afternoon after he equated Nazis and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. To do so, he referred to the anti-racist activists as the “alt-left,” with the implication that they were the equivalent of the “alt-right,” two sides to the same coin, showing there was, in his words, evil “on both sides.” Continue reading
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Anarchy in Charlottesville, Where Is the President? Selected Articles
16 August 2017 — Global Research Why Were the Police Held Back in Charlottesville? By Scott Greer, August 16, 2017 When police were ordered to disperse the alt-right rally, that act directed the white nationalists into the antifa demonstrators, leading to further street brawls. Police didn’t seem to try to get in between the two groups or… Continue reading
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Charlottesville: A gun in his face, but he got the photo By Greg Palast
According to the President, the violence was perpetrated on “many sides.” The only sides I see are the beaters and the beaten; Deandre on the ground with the alt-Right storm troopers with weapons. Continue reading
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After Charlottesville By S. Artesian
The nazi-right, stoked on secret hand signals from Stephen Miller; stroked and groomed by Rupert Murdoch and Fox and Friends; decided to make the removal [of] the statue honoring the traitorous general of the traitorous army of the slaveholder traitors’ rebellion the call to arms, with the arms being this time a tricked out retro-new… Continue reading
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Hyping the Threat from North Korea
Embedded deep beneath the country’s mountainous zones are some 200 varieties of minerals, including gold, iron, copper, zinc, magnesite, limestone, tungsten, and graphite, Quartz reports. The total value of these minerals lies somewhere between $6 trillion and $10 trillion. Continue reading