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Media: WaPo Provides Platform for Calls to Imprison WaPo Sources
Last September, the Post controversially published “No Pardon for Edward Snowden” (9/16/16), an editorial calling for prosecution of the whistleblower who helped the paper win a Pulitzer Prize in 2014. Continue reading
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Trumped: 13 Resets in 13 Months
The White House’s latest self-inflicted scandal—this time, the incredible allegation via multiple news reports that the president shared high-level classified intelligence with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office—isn’t just an indictment of Donald Trump’s general incompetence. It also represents another damning rebuttal to a recurring, fictional narrative that has been propagated by the press for… Continue reading
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Media: Thomas Friedman’s Perverse Love Affair With ISIS
For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a proxy force against Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. The New York Times foreign affairs columnist made this suggestion in his Wednesday column, “Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS… Continue reading
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Kinda Kute By S. Artesian
Kinda Kute, isn’t it, watching the president of the United States whimper and moan about Russian “intervention” in the 2016 election? Kinda precious, isn’t it, watching the titular head of a government that has intervened before, during, and after elections, and with lawyers, guns, money, and drugs, in countries around the world and across decades,… Continue reading
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Can We Make Sense of Trump? By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
A month has passed since Donald Trump was declared president-elect soon to be the 45th president of the United States. Since his win, pundits, analysts, and experts continue to debate the victory – a surprise to most. While the reason/s for this victory depend on one’s perspective, most agree on one thing: Trump is unpredictable.… Continue reading
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EU Votes For Citizens To Fund Their Own Brainwashing By Finian Cunningham
A fledgling group set up by the European Commission to allegedly counteract “Russian propaganda” is to be expanded with more public cash and resources. European citizens will be funding mechanisms inducing their own ignorance and misinformation. Continue reading
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Video: Whether Clinton or Trump, Tensions Will Escalate with China and Russia Under Next U.S. President By John Pilger
Journalist John Pilger tells Paul Jay that the very real prospect of another World War is not being taken seriously by the American media Continue reading
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Syria Propaganda – The Death Rattle of the Corporate Media By Simon Wood
As corporate media rhetoric against the current priority targets – Russia and Syria – is ramped up to extreme levels, a battle is raging within the only remaining global space for freedom of thought and expression: the internet – social media. Two warring, diametrically opposed realities vie for supremacy over the perceptions of the world’s… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #145 By William Blum
2 October 2016 — Anti-Empire Report Cold War, today, tomorrow, every day till the end of the world. “Russia suspected of election scheme. U.S. probes plan to sow voter distrust.” That’s the Washington Post page-one lead headline of September 6. Think about it. The election that Americans are suffering through, cringing in embarrassment, making them… Continue reading
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Provoking Nuclear War by Media: Selected Articles
23 August 2016 — Global Research Provoking Nuclear War by Media By John Pilger, August 23 2016 The exoneration of a man accused of the worst of crimes, genocide, made no headlines. Neither the BBC nor CNN covered it. The Guardian allowed a brief commentary. Such a rare official admission was buried or suppressed, understandably. It would explain… Continue reading
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With DNC Leaks, Former ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Is Now True––and No Big Deal
This weekend, Wikileaks revealed thousands of hacked emails from within the DNC that showed what the New York Times described as “hostility” and “derision” towards the Sanders campaign from top party officials. Continue reading
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Cold War II By William Blum
In last month’s Anti-Empire Report I brought you the latest adventure of US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki trying to defend the indefensible. She said then: “As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means,” which prompted me to inform my readers: “If you know how to… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Conundrum – Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
It’s always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not. Thus, when Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez died in 2013, conventional coverage strongly suggested he had been a dangerous, quasi-dictatorial, loony lefty. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #134: Russia invades Ukraine. Again. And again. And yet again … using Saddam’s WMD
Since the February US-backed coup in Ukraine, the State Department has made one accusation after another about Russian military actions in Eastern Ukraine without presenting any kind of satellite imagery or other visual or documentary evidence; or they present something that’s very unclear and wholly inconclusive, such as unmarked vehicles, or unsourced reports, or citing… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #129 By William Blum
Is Edward Snowden a radical? The dictionary defines a radical as “an advocate of political and social revolution”, the adjective form being “favoring or resulting in extreme or revolutionary changes”. That doesn’t sound like Snowden as far as what has been publicly revealed. In common usage, the term “radical” usually connotes someone or something that… Continue reading
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China pivot fuels Eurasian century By Pepe Escobar
A specter is haunting Washington, an unnerving vision of a Sino-Russian alliance wedded to an expansive symbiosis of trade and commerce across much of the Eurasian land mass – at the expense of the United States. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #128 By William Blum: “The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!”
How did this latest example of American foreign-policy exceptionalism come to be? One starting point that can be considered is what former Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates says in his recently published memoir: “When the Soviet Union was collapsing in late 1991, [Defense Secretary Dick Cheney] wanted to see the dismemberment not… Continue reading
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The Strangelove effect – or how we are hoodwinked into accepting a new world war By John Pilger
The genius of Stanley Kubrick’s film is that it accurately represents the cold war’s lunacy and dangers. Most of the characters are based on real people and real maniacs. There is no equivalent to Strangelove today, because popular culture is directed almost entirely at our interior lives, as if identity is the moral zeitgeist and… Continue reading
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Why Obama paid a visit to Riyadh? By Alexander Orlov
The deterioration of the situation in Ukraine made substantial changes in the agenda of talks of U.S. President Obama with Saudi leadership in Riyadh on March 28 this year. The main subject of the discussion included the situation around Ukraine, possible joint steps to decrease energy prices, in order to weaken Russia’s economy, promotion of… Continue reading
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Missile Experts: White House Made False Claims Over Syrian WMD Use
Threatened with a possible impeachment procedure should he go to war over unverified WMD claims Obama was forced to go to Congress to ask for support. But the people of the United States were against another war in the Middle East and Congress, despite heavy lobbying from the Zionists, declined to act. Offered a deal… Continue reading
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