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“Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”, 204 Atomic Bombs against Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned Prior to End of World War II By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
As early as September 1945, “the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated attack directed against major urban areas. Continue reading
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Media Spent Months Lionizing General Who Defended Slaveholders' Revolt
According to corporate media, the top general who just complimented the commander of the slavery-defending Confederacy is the greatest hope to rein in President Donald Trump’s extremism. Continue reading
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Donna Brazile Confesses that DNC Rigged Primaries By Michael Sainato
On November 2, Donna Brazile published an excerpt from her upcoming book, “Hacks,” in Politico. In the passage, Brazile outlines how she first discovered the joint fundraising agreement between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC that created the Hillary Victory Fund. The agreement is the most overt evidence that the DNC rigged the 2016 Democratic… Continue reading
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Video: After Indictments, Where is Russiagate Headed?
Paul Manafort and former business partner Rick Gates, along with former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, have been the first people indicted in the Trump-Russia probe. Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler, economist James Henry, and TRNN’s Aaron Mate discuss. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Media: For NYT, Making the Democrats Safe for the Oligarchy Is Literally Job One By Jim Naureckas
Last week, the paper published an op-ed by Douglas Schoen, “Why Democrats Need Wall Street” (10/18/17). Who is Douglas Schoen, you might ask? He’s billed by the Times as having been “a pollster and senior political adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000.” More relevantly to the current century, he’s a corporate PR… Continue reading
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Lessons of Previous Septembers (and Octobers, and Februarys etc etc), Part 1 By S.Artesian
29 October 2017 — Anti-Capital 1. On September 18, 1850, the 31st Congress of the United States passed “An Act to amend, and supplementary to, the Act entitled ‘An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters,’ approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.” This 1850 supplement was… Continue reading
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Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu Is Leading US President Trump to War with Iran By Prof. James Petras
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Presidents of the 52 Major Jewish American Organizations are leading President Trump, like a puppy on a leash, into a major war with Iran. The hysterical ’52 Presidents’ and ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu are busy manufacturing Holocaust-level predictions that a non-nuclear Iran is preparing to ‘vaporize’ Israel, The buffoonish US… Continue reading
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Audio: Alex Vitale on The End of Policing
Thanks mainly to independent and social media, and of course activism like Black Lives Matter, Americans have been forced to confront, and to know more about, police brutality and racism in the criminal justice system than just a few years ago. But corporate media conversation about what to do with that knowledge is constrained. Continue reading
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Video: Twitter Bans RT and Sputnik Ads, Who's Next?
Twitter has announced it will ban advertising from the Russian-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik. We speak to journalist and best-selling author Max Blumenthal. Continue reading
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Reposting Amazon Press Releases at Bezos-Owned Washington Post By Adam Johnson
A matter of huge political import is taking place in scores of cities throughout the country. From Chicago to Charlottesville, San Diego to St. Louis, metropolitan areas big and small are making their best pitches to Amazon to move its second headquarters to their towns. These pitches typically involve some combination of groveling by city… Continue reading
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Audio: 'The Bureau Is Once Again Profiling Black Activists Because of Their Beliefs and Their Race'
Janine Jackson interviewed Nusrat Choudhury about the FBI’s “black extremist identity” designation for the October 20, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Video: US Military Breeds Violence in Africa
After the killings of U.S. soldiers in Niger and a potential U.S. link to the Mogadishu attack, author Bill Fletcher says that an increased American military role in Africa threatens even more violence Continue reading
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The Harmful Effects of Antifa. Crisis of America’s Left By Diana Johnstone
The first step toward preventing such a constructive movement was a false interpretation of the meaning of the Trump victory, massively promoted by mainstream media. This was essentially the Clintonite excuse for Hillary’s loss. Trump’s victory, according to this line, was the product of a convergence between Russian interference and the votes of “misogynists, racists,… Continue reading
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Economic reconstruction, debt cancellation and self-determination in Puerto Rico!
President Trump tweeted suggestions that Puerto Rican workers are lazy and that FEMA and other agencies cannot remain in Puerto Rico forever. This spins the notion that Puerto Ricans are themselves to blame and should not expect any more handouts. Trump aims to build a wall between us, which doesn’t come as much of a… Continue reading
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US-Israel’s Long-standing War Plan Against Iran – Now Coming to Life? Selected Articles
21 October 2017 — Global Research Donald Trump’s Likudist Campaign Against Iran By Gareth Porter, October 20, 2017 President Donald Trump’s new Iran policy clearly represents a dangerous rejection of diplomacy in favor of confrontation. But it’s more than that: It’s a major shift toward a much closer alignment of U.S. policy with that of the Israeli… Continue reading
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Please Stop Using ‘Woman in Chador Walks by Anti-US Mural’ Stock Photo for Every Article About Iran By Adam Johnson
The general mindlessness in choosing a stock photo is what makes them so pernicious. Editors reach for an image that captures the overall theme of the article while drawing the eye of distracted media consumers—typically as an afterthought, something that accents a piece rather than defines it. It’s not an easy task, but it’s one… Continue reading
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No, US Didn’t ‘Stand By’ Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated
“Standing by,” however, is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times. Continue reading
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No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide—It Actively Participated
“Standing by,” however, is not what the United States did during the Indonesian genocide of 1965–66; rather, it actively supported the massacres, which were applauded at the time by the New York Times. Continue reading
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The Iran Dilemma – The Tyrant Has Spoken By Peter Koenig
This Nuclear Deal was an agreement reached after 9 years of meticulous, often perilous and at times for Iran demeaning and offending negotiations. But Iran endured, because Iran’s negotiators, notably the Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, knew what they were talking about, namely that Iran had never any plans to develop nuclear weapons, but using the… Continue reading
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US-DPRK Relations: The Calm Before the Storm? Selected Articles
14 October 2017 — Global Research North Korea and Trump’s “Reality Free Zone”: Tweeting About Armageddon By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 14, 2017 When US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, stated of North Korea (4th September 2017): “When a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an ICBM pointed at you, you do not take steps to lower your… Continue reading
