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BLOOD-SOAKED TRUMP "VOTING MACHINE" PROTEST LEAVES TRUMP SOHO RED
19 November 2016 — YesLab FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hoax Highlights Voter Suppression, Russian Intervention, Stains Trump Hotel Floor But seriously, folks—in the face of fascism, what are strategic next steps Continue reading
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TV Pundits Eager to Make Trump the New ‘Normal’
After wrongly predicting the election, political pundits are returning to TV talkshows to explain what will happen under a Trump presidency. But these predictions aren’t like TV anchors predicting the weather; these forecasts have a profound impact on the public reception to the Trump administration and the future course of US politics. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Filtering The Election
When the likes of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Bashar Assad, and now Donald Trump, are declared the latest ‘New Hitler’, we learn little except that they are enemies of the establishment. It means the ‘On’ button has been pressed on a propaganda machine designed for maximal demonisation, leaving no room for public doubt. This inevitably… Continue reading
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US, British ‘Clean House’ to Delete Syria Terror Links By Finian Cunningham
US President Barack Obama has just given the Pentagon orders to assassinate commanders of the Al Nusra terror network in Syria. American media reports over the weekend say the new urgency arises from US intelligence fears that al Qaeda-affiliated groups are preparing to mount terror attacks against Western targets from strongholds in Syria. Continue reading
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Trump, the “Alt-right”, and “The Deep State” : Selected Articles
16 November 2016 — Global Research President-Elect Donald Trump and “The Deep State”: Vote Rigging by Both Sides… Key Appointments By Peter Koenig, November 15 2016 The elections may have been rigged, probably by both sides, as the elusive elite, or what’s also called the ’Deep State’, may be divided. It looks like the better ‘rigger’ emerged… Continue reading
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Media: How Trump’s ‘Chief Strategist’ Provided a ‘Platform for the Alt-Right’
Stephen Bannon, the Trump campaign chief executive and the announced “Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President” in the Trump administration, has declared of Breitbart, the website he still heads, “We’re the platform for the alt-right.” What did he mean by that? Continue reading
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Billionaires & Big Business Line Up To Help U.S. President Elect-Donald Trump By Pratap Chatterjee
14 November 2016 — Corpwatch Billionaire businessmen and lobbyists are lining up to help Donald Trump after his victory in the U.S. presidential election. Trump appears to be welcoming them with open arms, despite his claim to bring change to Washington DC and get rid of special interests. See http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=16100 Continue reading
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What’s Important and What’s Really Important By S. Artesian
It’s important to grasp that the reduction in manufacturing jobs with a higher wage rate, the increase in service jobs with a lower wage rate; the increase in part-time and temporary employment; the destruction of benefits, is not the result of globalization or “open borders” or NAFTA, or the WTO or free trade agreements, but… Continue reading
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Does Donald Trump Have a Strategy? Selected Articles
10 November 2016 — Global Research President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People? By Prof. John McMurtry, November 10 2016 On the face of it, Trump is an ideal leader for US empire. He is like Ronald Reagan on steroids. His long practiced camera image, his nativist US supremacism, his down-home talk,… Continue reading
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Polls Showed Sanders Had a Better Shot of Beating Trump–but Pundits Told You to Ignore Them
There was a debate last spring, when the Sanders/Clinton race was at its most heated, as to whether Bernie Sanders’ consistently out-polling Hillary Clinton was to be taken as a serious consideration in favor of his nomination. Before, during and after the race was competitive, this was the Vermont senator’s strongest argument: He was out-polling… Continue reading
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The Election was Stolen – Here’s How By Greg Palast
Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states. Continue reading
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The Importance of Being Wrong By S. Artesian
9 November 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that my unblemished record of incorrectly predicting the winner of presidential elections is…….still unblemished. That’s 36 years and 10 presidential elections in a row, and I defy anyone to show me a record… Continue reading
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The Comey Non-Story and the Problem of Meta-Scandals
On October 28, FBI Director James Comey dropped a “bombshell” on Clinton, informing congressional committee chairs that his agency had found more emails “pertinent to the investigation” of her private email server, and was looking into the matter. Just like that, chaos broke out, and the entire presidential election hung in the balance. Continue reading
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Vote machines audit function disabled—and worse By Greg Palast
[Columbus, Ohio, Election Day 2016.] For two decades, computer touch-screen voting machines have been derided as “push and pray” voting. You had to take it on faith that the machine records your vote as you intend. The machines lacked a “paper record” to audit and recount. Continue reading
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War, Elections, and the Morning After: Selected Articles
9 November 2016 — Global Research Race and Class in America: Social Unrest and Political Tensions in the Wake of the 2016 Elections By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 08 2016 Irrespective of who wins the poll on November 8 it will not resolve the ongoing social and racial tensions in the U.S. Neither candidate has been seriously questioned… Continue reading
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Video: The 'Greater Danger' Election Debate
Bruce Dixon and Bill Curry debate whether Trump or Clinton is the greater danger, and if people should vote Green Continue reading
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Video: The ‘Greater Danger’ Election Debate
Bruce Dixon and Bill Curry debate whether Trump or Clinton is the greater danger, and if people should vote Green Continue reading
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US Elections 2016: Political Crisis in the Aftermath? Selected Articles
8 November 2016 — Global Research US Presidential Election: Deeply Flawed Candidates. Who Will Win and Who Deserves to Win? By David Morgan, November 06 2016 It has been widely commented that the two main contenders in the US presidential race are both deeply flawed candidates, even that they are both unfit to hold high office. Whoever next takes… Continue reading
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Note Insurgency By S. Artesian
The comrades at Insurgent Notes have published an editorial regarding the possible election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. The editorial is both confused and mistaken, and gives credit to the notion that Trump has attracted considerable support because of working class resentment and alienation, or at least in “white working… Continue reading
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U.S. Elections “November Chaos”: What You’re Not Being Told
5 November 2016 — Global Research GR Weekend Reader – U.S. Elections Special Edition U.S. Elections “November Chaos”: What You’re Not Being Told By James Corbett and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 04 201 The FBI’s October surprise has thrown the 2016 election into November chaos. But an examination of the trigger mechanism behind this event reveals a deeper… Continue reading
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