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Jamie Kalven on the Laquan McDonald Cover-Up
The video that belied the official story of the police killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, along with an autopsy that also showed police’s initial story to be false, eventually came to light through the work of journalists—but not mainstream journalists Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist
The fact that a Supreme Court justice justifies eliminating affirmative action on the basis of openly racist views ought to be big news. By sugarcoating what Scalia actually said, the New York Times disguises that news–making the ethnic cleansing of America’s top schools a more palatable possibility. Perhaps that shouldn’t make me gasp. Continue reading
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Death-Squad Organizer Is NYT’s Source on Ben Carson’s Lack of Foreign Policy Smarts
As head of Reagan’s CIA division in Latin America in the 1980s, Clarridge took part in the effort to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista government by illegally supplying funds and arms to the Contras—a right-wing terrorist movement that committed brutal war crimes. Continue reading
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West Leverages Paris Attacks for Syria Endgame By Tony Cartalucci
With its serendipitously strengthened hand and with France taking a more prominent role, the West is attempting to reassert not only its narrative, but its agenda regarding the ongoing conflict in Syria, an agenda that has – as of late – been derailed by Russia’s military intervention and recent gains made on the battlefield by… Continue reading
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US Deploys F-15s To Syria, Targeting Russian Jets By Thomas Gaist
The US will send a squadron of F-15C fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik air base, the US Defense Department (DOD) announced on Friday. The nature of the US war planes, which are specifically designed for dogfighting with other highly advanced fighter jets, indicates that the deployment carries a significance far beyond what its small scale… Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin and the Patterns of Power By Adeyinka Makinde
The masterful deconstruction Putin gave before the United Nations laid bare the failings of American foreign policy during the decades succeeding the ending of the Cold War. The Russian president correctly characterised it as one abounding in mischief, negativity and hubris – an analysis which has been bolstered by the widely favourable reaction of swathes… Continue reading
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NYT Continues to Obscure Responsibility in US’s Bombing of Hospital
The New York Times followed up its euphemistic and equivocal coverage (FAIR Blog, 10/5/15) of the US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, with an article (10/6/15) that continued to downplay the US’s responsibility for the deaths of 12 hospital staffers and 10 patients. Continue reading
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Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
When US enemies like Russia carry out airstrikes, all nuance is thrown out the window; US media drop their standards and gleefully accuse the enemies of war crimes. Yet when the US and NATO carry out airstrikes, journalists suddenly have a newfound skepticism. Their language immediately becomes ambiguous, their writing unclear; murky passages written in… Continue reading
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The world’s shame: America expects a ‘cascading series of global crises’ & plans to increase drone flights in 90 ‘combat air patrols’ each day
The Pentagon plan grows the capacity for expanding surveillance and lethal airstrikes, the most controversial part of the U.S. drone program, with its rapid growth under President Barack Obama – killing 3,000 people or more as estimated by non-partisan groups. Continue reading
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America’s Dark History of Supporting Ukrainian Fascists and War Criminals By Andrey Panevin
1 The American support of contemporary Ukrainian fascism albeit shocking is in fact not a new political phenomenon. Documents declassified by the CIA under a FOIA request entitled The NAZI War Crimes Declassification Act show that not only was the CIA monitoring Ukrainian fascist groups during and after WWII, it was also actively aiding them… Continue reading
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Cops gun down un-armed journalist’s career
The story: On July 27, the LA Times fired their long-time columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall for fabricating a story of police misconduct. The LA Times’ evidence? A tape recording provided by the LAPD. Problem was, the tape was muffled—possibly tampered with. Continue reading
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War in Our Time By Andrey Panevin
1 August 2015 — Slavyangrad War In Our Time The Crisis of Distraction “Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.” –Albert Camus In 2015 we are barrelling towards a third world war at breakneck speed… Continue reading
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US Military Launches Jade Helm Domestic Training Operations By Thomas Gaist
The US Defense Department (DOD) officially began continental-scale drills across a broad swath of the southern and western United States, including areas of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas on Wednesday. The drills mark a new and ominous stage in the expansion of domestic military operations and planning. Continue reading
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Is Ukraine a Modern Day Colony? By Andrey Panevin
Western nations like to pretend that colonialism was all but wiped out in the years following the Second World War. However, those who know better than to trust the accounts of the western ‘victors’ of WWII understand that imperialism is alive and well. Constant military and political interventions in Latin America, the Middle East and… Continue reading
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US: Fast Track — tomorrow’s vote could be the last
Tomorrow may be the Senate’s final vote on Fast Track, and there are just 8 swing senators who will determine whether or not it passes. This process has dragged on for too long already — take action now and help us put down Fast Track for good. Continue reading
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Kissinger’s Plan: “Use Economics to Build a World Political Structure” By Andrew Gavin Marshall
It was on the 24th of May 1975 when President Gerald Ford was meeting with his Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, easily the two most powerful political officials in the world at the time. Kissinger told the President: “The trick in the world now is to use economics to build a… Continue reading
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America Admittedly Behind ISIS "Surge" By Tony Cartalucci
Taking advantage of a Syrian military stretched thin to protect everywhere at the same time, high concentrations of well-coordinated Al Qaeda forces, based in NATO-member Turkey as well as in US-allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have attacked across several fronts. The tactical and strategic gains are minimal compared to the initial stages of the West’s… Continue reading
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Anglo-American Money Owners Organized World War II (II) By Valentin KATASONOV
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) played an important role during the Second World War. It was created as an outpost of American interests in Europe and a link between Anglo-American and German businesses, a kind of offshore zone for cosmopolitan capital providing a shelter from political processes, wars, sanctions and other things. The Bank… Continue reading
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Anglo-American Money Owners Organized World War II (I) By Valentin KATASONOV
The war was not unleashed by frenzied Fuhrer who happened to be ruling Germany at the time. WWII is a project created by world oligarchy or Anglo-American “money owners”. Using such instruments as the US Federal Reserve System and the Bank of England they started to prepare for the next world conflict of global scale… Continue reading
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