One-Time Top Turkish Journalist on the Coup, the Repression, and Turkey's Future
James Carey | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-01
Erdoğan began moving against the press even before the coup, and one man who knows this all too well is Abdullah Bozkurt, an early target of AKP censorship who spoke to MintPress to explain how Erdoğan's imperial presidency came to be and what may come next. | The post One-Time Top Turkish Journalist on the Coup, the Repression, and Turkey's Future appeared first on MintPress News.
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"Fake News" Is Fake News
William Blum | globalresearch.ca | 2018-08-31
The people who created Facebook & Google must be smart. They're billionaires, their companies are worth multi-multi billions, their programs are used by billions around the world. But all these smart people, because of Congressional pressure, have swallowed the stories about "fake news". Facebook hired a very large staff of people to read everything posted by users to weed out the fake stuff.
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Hogan Adopts Trump's 'Fake News' Attack on Media
Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-08-30
Critics say the popular governor can't call himself a moderate if he supports policies backed by the Koch Brothers and Donald Trump | The post Hogan Adopts Trump's 'Fake News' Attack on Media appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Censored documentary a testament to 'incredible' power of Israel lobby, Max Blumenthal says (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-30
The suppression of a documentary produced by Qatar-funded Al Jazeera about Israeli influence in Washington demonstrates the incredible power and influence wielded by the Israel lobby, journalist Max Blumenthal told RT.
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Leaked Scenes from Censored Documentary Reveal Israel Lobbyist Noah Pollak Astroturfing an Anti-Palestinian Protest
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-08-29
Exclusive leaked scenes from Al Jazeera's "The Lobby — USA" documentary show how Emergency Committee for Israel Executive Director Noah… | The post Leaked Scenes from Censored Documentary Reveal Israel Lobbyist Noah Pollak Astroturfing an Anti-Palestinian Protest appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Leak From Censored Israel Lobby Film Exposes Anti-Palestinian Operatives
Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-08-29
The first leaked excerpt of Al Jazeera's censored film on the Israel Lobby in the U.S. claims to identify the funder behind the Canary Mission, an anonymous website devoted to smearing and silencing vocal supporters of Palestinian rights. We play a clip from the film and speak to Asa Winstanley of the Electronic Intifada, which… | The post Leak From C…
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WaPo column praises McCain as human rights champion with photo of him next to 'literal neo-Nazi'
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
Mainstream US media have been singing eulogies to the late Senator John McCain after he succumbed to brain cancer last weekend. Among them is a column in the Washington Post titled 'The human rights community lost a champion.'
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Honest mistakes or fake news? CNN's top Trump-related reporting gaffes
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
US President Donald Trump and CNN have been at loggerheads for years, with the president branding CNN part of the "fake news" media and even calling the network the "enemy of the people" on Twitter.
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Manufacturing dissent: Leaked footage reveals US Israel lobby astroturfing student event (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
A fake pro-Israel protest manufactured by US-based lobbying groups has been exposed in an exclusive clip from a censored Al Jazeera documentary on Israel's influence in the US.
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CNN's own source says Michael Cohen story is fake news, but network stands by it
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
A bombshell story that was supposed to be the end of President Donald Trump — until the celebrity source recanted. It sounds like a typical media screw-up, with one key difference: for whatever reason, CNN is standing by it.
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Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left
Justin Anderson | fair.org | 2018-08-28
US News ( 8/8/18): "A band of far-left candidates have suffered a string of defeats in Democratic primaries this year." | The insurgent left wing of the Democratic Party, sometimes self-identified as democratic socialists and exemplified by rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and associated with groups like Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution, the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), took some losses in primaries on August 7. These included high-profile candidates like Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for Michigan governor and Brent Welder in Kansas's 2nd district, along with losses by Cori Bush in Missouri's 1st district. Following the losses, corporate media outlets were quick to declare the Democratic left wing dead in the water: | "Bernie and His Army Are Losing 2018" (Politico, 8/8/18) | "Down Goes Socialism" (Politico, 8/8/18) | "Democratic Party's Liberal Insurgency Hits…
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World's Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2018-08-28
A blistering letter from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch calls a forthcoming search engine with blacklists "an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights." | The post World's Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google to Cancel Its China Censorship Plan appeared first on The Intercept.
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Trump calls out Google for 'rigged' search results, 'illegal' censorship, vows to take action
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-28
President Donald Trump has accused search giant Google of deliberately highlighting negative news about his administration, and "controlling what we can and cannot see." Trump vowed that the situation "will be addressed."
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Big Tech Corporations Are Now Banning Iranian Social Media Accounts — A Censored Student Journalist Speaks out
Ben Norton | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-08-24
Google, Facebook, and Twitter are removing social media accounts of real life Iranians who are falsely dubbed as "government trolls."… | The post Big Tech Corporations Are Now Banning Iranian Social Media Accounts — A Censored Student Journalist Speaks out appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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