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Media: Corporate Welfare Will Bring Back Jobs vs. Jobs Will Never Come Back
The Carrier company’s announcement that, after exhortations from Donald Trump, it was going to move a thousand jobs overseas—rather than the 2,000 that it had previously planned to move—led New York Times reporter Nelson Schwartz (11/29/16) to declare that “Mr. Trump is a different kind of Republican, willing to take on big business, at least… Continue reading
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If We Care About the Constitution, Trump Has to Sell His Empire
Donald Trump is about to become president and immediately begin violating the Constitution. The Constitution explicitly prohibits the president from taking payments and gifts from foreign governments. (Can we stop using the term “emolument“? No one has used it for a hundred years. We want to be clear on what the Constitution means.) Continue reading
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Video: Did Trump Win Through Vote Flipping and Vote Stripping?
Robert Fitrakis, election lawyer and international election observer, says had the outcome on November 8 occurred in another country the State Department would have questioned the integrity of the vote Continue reading
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‘People Can Protect the Rights of Everyone in Their Community’
Janine Jackson: Watching social media, interest and energy around issues seems to swell and dissipate. But moving toward a functioning, inclusive democracy requires sustained work: building institutions, organizing, so that in times of acute crisis we have structures, or at least models of ways to respond. Continue reading
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A Note on the Taboo Subject of Stolen Elections
Back in the spring of 2016, an intrepid ACLU voting rights expert in California named Lori Shellenberger was able to help inform state legislators of the dangers of a new computer program against voter fraud called Interstate Crosscheck. The program claimed to identify people who were voting in more than one state. What it really… Continue reading
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Media: Lashing Out at ‘Identity Politics,’ Pundits Blame Trump on Those Most Vulnerable to Trump
21 November 2016 — FAIR Over the past two weeks, pundits from all ends of the spectrum have been scrambling to explain Clinton’s unexpected loss, with reasons spanning from the plausible to the highly dubious; WikiLeaks, Bernie Sanders, fake news, Jill Stein, Russia, bad algorithms and the FBI have all been accused of having sole… Continue reading
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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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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
