USA
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Chelsea Manning Ordered Free From Prison — but Will Still Have to Pay Massive Fines
On Thursday afternoon, a District Court judge in Virginia orderedthat Chelsea Manning be released from jail, where she has been held since last May for refusing to testify before a grand jury. Continue reading
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Total Nonsense: UK publishes digital rights in free trade agreement with USA
The UK government has published its negotiation objectives for the free trade agreement with the US. The document includes Digital Trade measures that could define British regulation of the internet and our online activities for years to come. Continue reading
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The Big Heist: U.S. Imposed Economic Sanctions on One Third of Humanity
The US has become increasingly dependent on the use of unilateral economic sanctions to achieve its policy objectives against its declared targets since the start of the great recession in 2008. Presently, sanctions impact one-third of humanity in 39 countries. Economic sanctions not only cause untold death and devastation to a given country by denying… Continue reading
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The Virus & the Working Class
US politicians and media are reporting approximately 500 cases of the virus in the US as of March 8. The actual number is almost certainly much higher, however. Perhaps as much as 10-fold that number, according to some sources. Why? Continue reading
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Coronavirus: New York Won’t Close Schools Because Homeless Kids Have Nowhere Else to Go
9 March 2020 — Mint Press For many thousands of students across New York City and the United States, school is the only place they receive regular meals, shelter, medical care, and other vital services. By Alan Macleod @AlanRMacLeod Continue reading
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US-Israel Predictably Behind Turkish Aggression in Syria
(Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – Turkey’s ongoing fighting in northern Syria’s Idlib governorate was – from the beginning of recent escalations – clearly a continuation of Washington’s wider now 9 year-long proxy war against Damascus. Continue reading
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US Cyber Forces Manipulate Public Opinion
The influence on public opinion is one of the primary functions of the information space, presented today not only by TV, radio and print media, but also by the Internet and social networks. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that the CIA is especially focused on obtaining control of the information field and seeks ways to influence… Continue reading
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Australian government moves to boost data-swapping with US spy network
The Australian government is helping spearhead moves by the Trump administration to force internet companies to hand over encryption-cracking capabilities, and to intensify data-swapping within the US-dominated “Five Eyes” global surveillance network. Continue reading
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How the ‘Bernie Bros’ were invented as sexist, racist, antisemitic and unAmerican as borscht
The Democratic presidential nomination race is a fascinating case study in how power works – not least, because the Democratic party leaders are visibly contriving to impose one candidate, Joe Biden, as the party’s nominee, even as it becomes clear that he is no longer mentally equipped to run a local table tennis club let… Continue reading
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Primary Notes from a Shit-Hole Superpower: Crashing the Party from the Top Down
12 noon: Just to be clear, the Dem establishment will gladly enable a second fascistic and ecocidal Trump term before it will get behind a progressive Dem/Sanders nomination. The neoilberal Dem masters will do everything they can, including sabotage of Sanders, to sustain the party’s status as a thoroughgoing ruling class institutional asset. They are… Continue reading
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Coronavirus – Its Time To Press Your Government To React Faster
The New York Times abuses the coronavirus pandemic to push more of its anti-China propaganda: Continue reading
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Black America, Endless War and the Evil Genius of Russiagate
The Democrats — who are now the most aggressive war party – have succeeded in linking Donald Trump to Russia, and then lumping all critics of U.S. war-making with Russia and, thereby, with Trump. Continue reading
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Harvard Genetic Research Team Collected and Transferred China Blood and DNA Samples Back to the US
We bring to the attention of Global Research readers, excerpts from an important study entitled “An International Collaborative Genetic Research Project Conducted in China” which has a bearing on our understanding of China’s coronavirus epidemic. Continue reading
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Switzerland at the Heart of a Far-Reaching Surveillance Network Facilitating the U.S.-Backed Operation Condor
The atrocities of Operation Condor – the U.S.-backed covert plan by Argentina, Chile, Brazil Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia to eliminate left-wing influence in Latin America – have been gradually revealed through declassified documents that detail the diplomatic manoeuvring and state terror that left tens of thousands of people killed, tortured and disappeared. Argentina is estimated… Continue reading
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Subcomandante Bloomberg
Break out the pussyhats and vuvuzelas, folks, because the neoliberal Resistance is back, and this time they’re not playing around. No more impeachments and investigations. It’s time to go mano-a-mano with Trump, and they’ve finally got just the bad hombre to do it. No, not Bernie Sanders, you commies. A battle-hardened Resistance fighter. El Caballo… Continue reading
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Legal Team Files Motion to Release Chelsea Manning
Today, attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen filed a Motion to Release Chelsea Manning, based on evidence, including an expert’s assessment of Chelsea’s personality profile, and a public condemnation of her “coercive confinement” by Nils Melzer, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Continue reading
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The West Displays Its Insecurity Complex
The only complaint the U.S. allows is that the United States might not defend us enough, when the greater danger comes from being defended too much, writes Diana Johnstone on the Munich conference. Continue reading
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Seeing Through the Lies – US Edition
The Guardian newspaper has taken the art of obfuscation, false implication and the subtler forms of journalistic lying to new heights in its very extensive coverage of the Roger Stone sentencing saga. It has now devoted fourteen articles in the last fortnight to this rather obscure episode of American political history. Yet in not one of those articles – nor in more… Continue reading
