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Key Fact Obscured in Immigration Coverage: MS-13 Was Made in US By Justin Anderson
In a piece for the Atlantic (6/20/18), former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum countered statements by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in which Hayes described a harrowing first-person account of a mother forcibly separated from her child at the US/Mexico border as reading like “the literature of a totalitarian government”: Continue reading
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Donald Trump was Elected by Russia? Mass Dementia in the Western Establishment By Diana Johnstone
Where to begin to analyze the madness of mainstream media in reaction to the Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki? By focusing on the individual, psychology has neglected the problem of mass insanity, which has now overwhelmed the United States establishment, its mass media and most of its copycat European subsidiaries. The individuals may be sane, but… Continue reading
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Helsinki Talks – How Trump Tries To Rebalance The Global Triangle By Moon of Alabama
The reactions of the U.S. polite to yesterday’s press conference of President Trump and President Putin are highly amusing. The media are losing their mind. Apparently it was Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin and 9/11 all in one day. War will commence tomorrow. But against whom? Continue reading
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Big Tech’s war on refugees and immigrants
Across the world, companies like Microsoft and Salesforce are helping ICE and Frontex lead their war against immigrants and refugees. Continue reading
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Under massive pressure, Trump backpedals on Russia “meddling” By Andre Damon
Trump’s about-face followed a full-court press campaign by all US media outlets, the US intelligence agencies, the Democrats, and leading figures in the Republican Party, who demanded that he reaffirm the US government’s confrontational stance toward the world’s second most powerful nuclear power. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #158 By William Blum: Why do they flee?
Those in the US generally opposed to immigration make it a point to declare or imply that the United States does not have any legal or moral obligation to take in these Latinos. This is not true. The United States does indeed have the obligation because many of the immigrants, in addition to fleeing from… Continue reading
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Can Truth Survive Trump? WaPo Fails to Ask How Well Truth Was Doing to Begin With By Dean Baker
Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post, promised “an honest investigation” of whether truth can survive the Trump administration in the lead article in the paper’s Sunday Outlook section. He delivered considerably less. Continue reading
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British and Ecuadorian authorities in talks to evict Julian Assange from London embassy By Oscar Grenfell
The London-based Times newspaper reported yesterday that the British and Ecuadorian governments have been holding secret discussions on plans to evict WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum six years ago. Continue reading
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Trump Marches Onward and Downward By Prof. James Petras
Journalists, academics, pundits and experts have ignored the complexity of President Trump’s impact on the state of the US Empire. To properly assess the geopolitical configuration of power, we will consider the military, economic, political and diplomatic advances and setbacks of the Trump regime in Latin America, the European Union and Asia (including the Middle… Continue reading
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FBI Chief Mueller Drops Indictments against Russia Intel Ops. as Deep State Panics Over Trump-Putin Summit By Helen Buyniski
On the eve of Trump’s historic meeting with Vladimir Putin – with Russia-US relations at their worst since the fall of the USSR – Grand Inquisitor Robert Mueller handed down 12 indictments of Russian military intelligence operatives accused of participating in the 2016 hacks of the DNC, DCC and Clinton presidential campaign. This is it,… Continue reading
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In Wake of AMLO Victory, US Media Fear Chavismo and Hope for 'Business-Friendly' Change By Gregory Shupak
Neoliberal capitalist dogma pervades mainstream media. A case in point is coverage of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election. Continue reading
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Trump, NATO and ‘Russian aggression’ By Pepe Escobar
The US President’s blitzkrieg at the Brussels summit, calling NATO obsolete and for member states to boost spending to defend themselves is correct, although maybe aimed at more weapons deals; meanwhile, the global balance of power is shifting Continue reading
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The US Is Empowering Nazis in Ukraine
The United States is helping Ukrainian neo-Nazis fight against Russia. Ex-Bush administration official turned whistleblower Larry Wilkerson warns this is the most dangerous kind of “the enemy of the enemy is my friend” politics. Ben Norton reports Continue reading
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NATO Shields U.S. From Its Military Adventures
It is the U.S. that needs NATO, which allows the US to bypass the UN Security Council and engage in military adventures abroad, while keeping a safe distance across the Atlantic, says Eirik Vold of the Red Party of Norway (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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NYT Sees 'Dystopia' in Chinese Surveillance—Which Looks a Lot Like US Surveillance By Jim Naureckas
There’s a category of story we call “Them Not Us”—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home. There’s a great example of that in the New York Times (7/8/18), headlined “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: AI, Shame and Lots of Cameras.” Continue reading
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Ukrainian Fascist Leader Speaks in US Congress, While Nazis Launch Racist Attacks
Journalist Max Blumenthal asked why a fascist leader was welcomed in the US Senate building. He discusses Andriy Parubiy, the founder of two neo-Nazi organizations and the chair of Ukraine’s parliament, and the violent white supremacist movement against Russia Continue reading
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'Data Needs to Serve a Public Safety Purpose'
6 July 2018 — FAIR by Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Tracy Rosenberg about ICE’s corporate collaborators for the June 29, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Anti-Muslim Bigotry Is Now US Law: Selected Articles
28 June 2018 — Global Research News Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban By Stephen Lendman, June 27, 2018 His policy has nothing to do with protecting national security, nothing about screening out “radical Islamic terrorists” Washington created and supports – everything to do with hyping fear, justifying endless wars, keeping unwanted Muslims out of America, along… Continue reading
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U.S. to Continue Supporting Al Qaeda Rebels
26 June 2018 — Global Research News U.S. to Continue to Use White Helmets As Long As the Western Public Accepts “Media War Lies” By Mark Taliano and The Syria Times, June 26, 2018 U.S. policymakers will go ahead with using not only the White Helmets but also the false flag chemical weapons events in Syria for as long… Continue reading
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The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert By Ron Ridenour
Ron Ridenour’s book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, writers and researchers about both what has been reported—mainly malicious propaganda—and what truly took place in the one hundred years from the 1917 Russian Revolution until the eruption of the distinct harbingers of… Continue reading
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