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Unsealed documents shed light on state conspiracy against Chelsea Manning By Kevin Reed
On Wednesday, the U.S. Eastern District Court of Virginia unsealed several filings concerning Chelsea Manning’s legal challenge to the subpoena attempting to force her to testify before a grand jury involved in fabricating charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin as Mad Max and the Impending Oil Disaster By Phil Butler
The US withdrawal of all remaining diplomatic personnel from its embassy in Caracas means the real geostrategy show is about to start. For months now US policymakers have been on the rhetorical, economic, subversive interference offensive against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. But the reasons for the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against Venezuela are… Continue reading
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US Troll Factories, Artificial Intelligence And Cyberwarfare (II) by Leonid SAVIN
In Part I, we looked at a few manipulation techniques using artificial intelligence. However, it should be noted that the most effective influence is only possible with human involvement. In fact, cybernetics is essentially a human-machine interface, with people usually defining the objectives and carrying out the strategic analysis. Continue reading
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US TO ICC – WE WILL BREAK YOUR LEGS BY Andre Vltchek
Well, not exactly like that, but in a way, yes. Now, finally, ‘the gloves are off’. The U.S. is openly threatening the historically timid ICC (International Criminal Court) and its judges. And unexpectedly, the ICC is hitting back. It refuses to shut up, to kneel, and to beg for mercy. Continue reading
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The Threat to the Media Posed by the Trump Administraion’s Prosecution of Julian Assange
The Trump Administration has confirmed that it has charged WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange and that it seeks his extradition from the United Kingdom.[5] The charges relate to WikiLeaks’ 2010-2011 joint publications on war, diplomacy and rendition with a range of media organizations; these were published in Europe while Julian Assange was in Europe.[6] In the… Continue reading
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The Assault On UK Food and Environment Rules in Brexit Trade Deal With USA
By Lawrence Carter – Unearthed: US agribusiness lobby calls on Trump to target UK food and environment rules in Brexit trade deal. American agriculture interests have flooded the US government’s trade agency with demands to pressure the UK into slashing food standards after Brexit, official documents show. Continue reading
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The guilty silence over the jailing of Chelsea Manning By Andre Damon
It has been ten days since a federal judge imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning for refusing to testify before the secret grand jury in Virginia, which is preparing an indictment against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Can China and Russia Survive in this Unharmonious World? By Andre Vltchek
Does it pay ‘to be good’? Is it still possible to play by the rules in this mad world, governed by brigands?What if the rules are defined and ratified by all countries of the world, but a small group of the strongest (militarily) nations totally ignores them, while using its professional propagandists to reinterpret them… Continue reading
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CIA Blames Its Proxy For Its Raid On North Korea’s Embassy In Spain
The CIA is the main suspect in the military style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. It now launched a somewhat hapless effort to deflect from it. Continue reading
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The CIA and the War Against Socialism By Raúl Antonio Capote
After the Second World War with the creation of the ideological front to dominate the world, Allen W. Dulles, director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961, conceived of culture as the stage for a long-term war in the devastated post-war Old Continent. Continue reading
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RussiaGate as Organised Distraction by Professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett
The RussiaGate discourse is profoundly mendacious and hypocritical. It presumes that the US is a State whose electoral system enjoys a high degree of public trust and security. Nothing could be further from the truth. The US democratic system is deeply entrenched in a dystopian two-party system dominated by the rich and largely answerable to… Continue reading
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President Trump and the Democratic Congress: The Score Sheet
Going into the third year of President Trump’s presidency, it is necessary to draw a balance sheet on who is winning and/or losing. Continue reading
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Pompeo enlists US energy conglomerates for global oil war By Bill Van Auken
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered an extraordinary speech this week to a conference attended by representatives of the major US energy conglomerates in which he appealed to “Big Oil” to play an increasingly direct role in the drive by US imperialism for global dominance and the preparation for war on every continent. Continue reading
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The People’s Climate Movement. No Mention of War By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While millions of people across the World will be protesting on March 15 under the banner of “Global Warming”, today’s wars including Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela are not mentioned. Continue reading
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Under the spotlight: European assistance to the ‘War on Terror’ drone strikes
President Donald Trump, who has stepped up the use of drones in Somalia and other areas, recently revoked a requirement for U.S. intelligence officials to give public reports listing the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and other attacks on terrorist targets outside war zones – a practice which was part of an accountability effort… Continue reading
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Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques By Grete Mautner
As it’s been pointed out by a number of prominent statisticians, over the last hundred years Washington has interfered in the internal affairs of at least 50 countries for a total of 130 individual cases. As for the last three decades, there’s been more than 40 instances of such interference, including cases of elections meddling and… Continue reading
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The price of US « protection » is skyrocketing by Manlio Dinucci
The United States intend to consider their allies as protectorates no longer. Consequently, the US is asking them to pay the cost of their protection, failing which, it will withdraw. Such was President Trump’s announcement on 17 January at the Pentagon. It was presented at NATO in February, but was only made public this week.… Continue reading
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RussiaGate as Organised Distraction By Prof. Oliver Boyd-Barrett
For over two years RussiaGate has accounted for a substantial proportion of all mainstream US media political journalism and, because US media have significant agenda-setting propulsion, of global media coverage as well. The timing has been catastrophic. Continue reading
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Washington is Waging a New Dimension War Against China – and will Lose out Bitterly By Peter Koenig
Once the all-encompassing chittering and chattering about tariffs on Chinese imports by the western corporate media subsided, Trump, egocentric businessman rather than the President of the Empire, “out of the blue”, one could almost say, under the pretext of ‘unfair’ Chinese trading, launches a new ferocious and as usual totally illegal campaign of aggression against… Continue reading
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Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel? By Alastair Crooke
It was the eleventh, and perhaps the most important meeting between President Putin and PM Netanyahu on 27 February, writes the well-informed journalist, Elijah Magnier: “The Israeli visitor heard clearly from his host that Moscow has no leverage to ask Iran to leave – or, to stop the flow of weapons to Damascus … Moscow [also] informed Tel Aviv about… Continue reading