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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
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Video: 72 Years After Bombing Nagasaki, US Threatens Another Nuclear War
TRNN examines the myth that using nuclear weapons on civilian populations was necessary to force Japan to surrender Continue reading
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Geography 101: “Get Trump an Atlas”. Trump Wants to Bomb North Korea With Nuclear Weapons. Where is the Target Country? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While Americans are ignorant regarding the World’s geography, they nonetheless expect that their elected president as well as his foreign policy advisers know “where the countries are”, particularly those countries which are on the Pentagon’s hit list. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 9 August 2017
9 August 2017 — Information Clearing House The Madman With Nuclear Weapons is Donald Trump, Not Kim Jong-un By Mehdi Hasan Think I’m being unfair? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47579.htm Continue reading
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1953 Iran Coup: New U.S. Documents Confirm British Approached U.S. in Late 1952 About Ousting Mosaddeq
Washington, D.C., August 8, 2017 – The British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration on more than one occasion in late 1952 to propose a coup to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, according to freshly declassified State Department documents. Posted today for the first time, two previously Top-Secret memoranda from senior officials at State… Continue reading
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On the Beach 2017 – The Beckoning of Nuclear War By John Pilger
In his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study, Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior”, dropped 26,171 bombs – three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Having pledged to help “rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War. Continue reading
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Dark Side of Mr. Moon – Pushing for War on Korean Peninsula
Activists in South Korea were excited and fairly optimistic that the election of liberal President Moon Jae-in might help deescalate tensions on the peninsula. They hoped that he would block further deployments of the provocative THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense system and even demand that the US pull back the two THAAD… Continue reading
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Remembering the Gulf of Tonkin, and the Consequences of Wanting to Believe
The front page of that day’s New York Times reported: “President Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and ‘certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam’ after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.” Of course, as historians now acknowledge, there was no “second attack” by North Vietnam—no “renewed attacks against American destroyers.” Continue reading
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Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
3 July 2017 — FAIR You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college (ABC7, 2/8/17), a man with unmatched moxie walks 15 miles to his job (Today’s Show, 2/20/17), a low-wage worker buys shoes for a kid whose mother can’t afford… Continue reading
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Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? Selected Articles
3 August 2017 — Global Research Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 03, 2017 Following the completion of the investigation, Washington threatens to “impose steep tariffs on Chinese imports [into the US], rescind licenses for Chinese companies to do business in the United States, or… Continue reading
