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Trump Convenes Friends into “Humanitarian Warfare”: Selected Articles
20 September 2017 — Global Research Starve Them to Death: Wall Street Journal’s Solution to North Korea By Mike Whitney, September 19, 2017 In an article titled “Options for Removing Kim Jong Un” the WSJ’s editorial board suggests that the US use “all of its tools to topple the North Korean regime” including, of course, vital food imports… Continue reading
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NSA: Trump Hides Mar-a-Lago Records
Washington, D.C., September 15, 2017 – The Department of Homeland Security today released exactly two pages of Mar-a-Lago presidential visitor records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the National Security Archive, together with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in… Continue reading
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Mar-a-Lago Visitor Logs Release Delayed to Sept. 15
The widely anticipated release of Mar-a-Lago visitor records during President Trump’s first six weeks in office has been delayed until noon on Friday, September 15, at the request of the government. Continue reading
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Media: Centrist Pundits Paved Way for Trump’s ‘Alt-Left’ False Equivalence
President Donald Trump sparked outrage Tuesday afternoon after he equated Nazis and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. To do so, he referred to the anti-racist activists as the “alt-left,” with the implication that they were the equivalent of the “alt-right,” two sides to the same coin, showing there was, in his words, evil “on both sides.” Continue reading
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Video: 72 Years After Bombing Nagasaki, US Threatens Another Nuclear War
TRNN examines the myth that using nuclear weapons on civilian populations was necessary to force Japan to surrender Continue reading
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Geography 101: “Get Trump an Atlas”. Trump Wants to Bomb North Korea With Nuclear Weapons. Where is the Target Country? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While Americans are ignorant regarding the World’s geography, they nonetheless expect that their elected president as well as his foreign policy advisers know “where the countries are”, particularly those countries which are on the Pentagon’s hit list. Continue reading
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On the Beach 2017 – The Beckoning of Nuclear War By John Pilger
In his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study, Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior”, dropped 26,171 bombs – three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Having pledged to help “rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War. Continue reading
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Video: Russia Sanctions: Congress Obstructs Trump’s ‘One Good Policy’
Blaming Russia for the 2016 election outcome is an “extraordinarily dangerous game that’s leading us into a very dangerous new Cold War with a nuclear power,” says Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent Continue reading
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Video: Russia Sanctions: Congress Obstructs Trump's 'One Good Policy'
Blaming Russia for the 2016 election outcome is an “extraordinarily dangerous game that’s leading us into a very dangerous new Cold War with a nuclear power,” says Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent Continue reading
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How Media Spread CIA's Sectarian, Anti-Iran 'Mideast Cold War' Narrative
A new Vox video (7/17/17) is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald Trump’s vehemently anti-Iran administration, is ratcheting up aggression against that country. Continue reading
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How Media Spread CIA’s Sectarian, Anti-Iran ‘Mideast Cold War’ Narrative
A new Vox video (7/17/17) is the latest addition to a media onslaught that propagates numerous misleading talking points to demonize Iran—just as the US government, under Donald Trump’s vehemently anti-Iran administration, is ratcheting up aggression against that country. Continue reading
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Tensions in Hamburg: The G20 Fractures By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
9 July 2017 — Global Research “I think it’s very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated.” – Angela Merkel, BBC News, Jul 8, 2017 Such gatherings and summits are not always smooth, but on a planet bearing witness to a Trump presidency, there was always… Continue reading
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Book Review: We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’
There is much to admire in Naomi Klein’s new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn’t pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn’t high enough or far enough. Continue reading
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Trump, climate and the breakdown of multilateralism By Dorothy Grace Guerrero
For social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone. Continue reading
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Video: Arctic Climate Warming Twice as Fast As Anywhere Else
Prof. Subhankar Banerjee, Editor of “Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point,” talks about the effect President Trump’s climate policies will have on the Arctic and on the rest of the planet (inc. Transcript) Continue reading
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In a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump About Climate Change
President Donald Trump’s disastrous withdrawal of the US from the Paris Climate Change Accord understandably has the media in a frenzy. “Unconscionable and fatuous,” proclaimed The Economist (6/1/17). Trump “shamefully abandons the fight against humanity’s greatest threat,” wrote Bloomberg News (6/1/17). But when given the opportunity over the past four months of his presidency to… Continue reading
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China Ascends to World Leadership By Roy Morrison
President Trump’s decision to leave Paris Climate Treaty on the same day that the EU and Chinese Premier Li reached agreement on steps to move rapidly globally on climate also marks the day that China ascended to world leadership replacing the United States symbolically and in actuality. Continue reading
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Video: Exxon Climate Change Cover Up: What Did Exxon and CEO Rex TIllerson Know and What Did They Do About It?
Rex Tillerson now acknowledges climate change science, but as CEO of Exxon Mobile did he do anything about it? The New York State Attorney General wants to know says Investigative journalist David Hasemeyer (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Elite Media Need to Recognize Assaults on Reporters as a Pattern–and a Threat
Establishment journalists failed their “first they came for the Communists…” moment at the very beginning of the Trump administration, when DC police arrested and charged at least nine alternative journalists for covering protests at Trump’s inauguration that included property damage. Continue reading
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