Headlines for November 1, 2018
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-01
Pittsburgh Funerals Continue as Trump Focuses on Protests and "Fake News", Racist Kentucky Shooter Indicted for Murder, Trump Threatens to Send 15,000 Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border, Trump Attacks Paul Ryan for Birthright Citizenship Rebuke, Trump Tweets Racist Campaign Ad Ahead of Midterms, Multiple Caravans Head to U.S. Border as Humanitarian Concerns Grow, Trump Tells Reporter "When I Can, I Tell the Truth", Native American Tribe Sues over North Dakota Voter ID Law, Judges Order Ohio to Let Purged Voters Cast Midterm Ballots, Turkey Says Khashoggi Strangled in Consulate as International Fallout Continues, U.S. C…
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Why Is WWE Creating Propaganda for Saudi Arabia?
David Bixenspan | thenation.com | 2018-11-01
Why Is WWE Creating Propaganda for Saudi Arabia?
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Venezuela Launches Media Response Plan to Fake News Attacks
Paul Dobson | mintpressnews.com | 2018-11-01
Venezuelan authorities claim that US-led media outlets, as well as important European outlets such as El Pais in Spain, look to damage the reputation of the nation and create spin which justifies coercive measures against the country. | The post Venezuela Launches Media Response Plan to Fake News Attacks appeared first on MintPress News.
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Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered by Our Media
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-01
Social media and fake news are apparently the reasons Bolsonaro won at the ballot box. Without the gatekeepers in place to limit access to the "free press", itself the plaything of billionaires and global corporations, with brands and a bottom line to protect… | The post Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered by Our Media appeared first on Global Research.
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Selected Articles: How Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-01
Dear Readers, | More than ever, Global Research needs your support. Our task as an independent media is to "Battle the Lie". | "Lying" in mainstream journalism has become the "new normal": mainstream journalists are pressured to comply. Some journalists refuse. | Lies, … | The post Selected Articles: How Google Wipes Palestine Off the Map appeared first on Global Research.
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The quiet Pittsburgh morning that was shattered by hate
Denise Winebrenner Edwards | peoplesworld.org | 2018-11-01
PITTSBURGH — Weekend mornings are slow in Pittsburgh. Folks off to sports practices or games, errands, breakfast at a walking distance diner or café or to worship. Joggers, bicyclists, skate boarders, baby strollers fill the sidewalks in Squirrel Hill, the heart of the area's Jewish community. Mr. Rodgers of PBS "Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood" lived here. …
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Facebook's vaunted transparency tool spectacularly fails to catch fake ads by 'US Senators & ISIS'
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-01
Facebook's new political transparency disclosure tool failed to catch 100% of the fake ads submitted by journalists — even recycled "Russian troll" posts from 2016. Fake candidates, Cambridge Analytica and even ISIS were accepted. | …
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SJW weaponized: Target Corp 'fell' for troll's outrage with white kid wearing Black Panther costume
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-01
A conservative blogger says he has managed to force US's second-largest retailer to change the photo for a Black Panther costume so that the model kid didn't look white. | …
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Venezuela Launches Media Response Plan to Fake News Attacks
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-10-31
The 'Zero Tolerance Media Plan' is to be run by the Foreign Office and will look to offer responses to misleading and false international coverage of Venezuela.
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America's Holy Places in the Age of Trump: Greta Ronningen's Prison Pilgrimage
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-31
Can churches and organized religions counter the noxious force of Trump's America, a country pushed toward fascism by Evangelicals, racists and anti-Semites? The answer is "Yes," though religious men and women on the Left usually don't make it into mainstream media. Greta Ronningen is one of them, and she is not alone. For much of…
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Tweets with US flags fooled gullible Americans: New 'deep' media analysis
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-31
If there's one thing the mainstream media never tires of, it's stories about so-called Russian trolls infiltrating vulnerable Western minds on social media — but a new "analysis" by the Daily Beast might just take the biscuit. | …
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Trump Wants to Change the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
Jon Queally | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-30
(CD) — Denouncing the U.S. right to birthright citizenship–guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution–as "ridiculous," President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that he has the power to subvert that guarantee by presidential fiat — his latest effort to mainstream a noxious lie and xenophobic trope while also furthering what critics call his authoritarian approach …
Trump Wants to Change the 14th Amendment of the Constitution
ShamiWitness: How Bellingcat and Neocons Collaborated with the Most Influential ISIS Propagandist on Twitter
Mark Ames | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-29
How some of the best known Syria regime-change hustlers and "experts" helped transform the @ShamiWitness account from a cretinous troll into a… | The post ShamiWitness: How Bellingcat and Neocons Collaborated with the Most Influential ISIS Propagandist on Twitter appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Patriot Movement AZ members say their reputations have been damaged over a tweet about the 'OK' gesture
Nick R. Martin | splcenter.org | 2018-10-29
Members of the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim extremist group Patriot Movement AZ (PMAZ) have often bragged about "triggering liberals." Now they say they've been defamed by an Arizona lawmaker who called them out for flashing the "OK" gesture — a favored method of trolling by many on the far-right.
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Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media 'Just the Beginning,' Warns Top Neocon Insider
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-24
At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media, report Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague. By Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague Gray Zone Project This October, Facebook… Read more ?…
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Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media "Just the Beginning," Says Top Neocon Insider
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-23
At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of… | The post Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media "Just the Beginning," Says Top Neocon Insider appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Blaming Saudis for Corrupting Otherwise Human Rights–Loving US
Adam Johnson | fair.org | 2018-10-22
As FAIR has noted for years, one of the primary ideological functions of US corporate media is to maintain the mythology that the US is a noble protector of democracy and arbiter of human rights. When material facts–like wars of aggression, massive spying regimes, the funding and arming right-wing militias and the propping up of dictators–get in the way of this mythology the response by most pundits is to wave away these inconsistencies (FAIR.org, 2/1/09), ignore them altogether (FAIR.org,
Imperial-Hipster Bible VICE Did Paid Propaganda for Saudi Arabia
Ben Norton | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-21
Hipster media giant VICE worked with Saudi Arabia's regime mouthpiece SRMG to create a video promoting tourism and a camel… | The post Imperial-Hipster Bible VICE Did Paid Propaganda for Saudi Arabia appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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After Chemnitz: Germany's Extreme Right Exploits Government Passivity and Public Resentment to Enter the Mainstream
Denijal Jegić | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-10-02
While the AfD party emerges as a leading voice of political opposition, the government downplays its danger and even co-opts… | The post After Chemnitz: Germany's Extreme Right Exploits Government Passivity and Public Resentment to Enter the Mainstream appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Presenting The Syria Deception: Al Qaeda Goes to Hollywood (VIDEO)
Dan Cohen | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-09-16
An exclusive Grayzone investigative documentary rips the cover off of the most sophisticated and expensive campaign of humanitarian interventionist propaganda… | The post Presenting The Syria Deception: Al Qaeda Goes to Hollywood (VIDEO) appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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Censored Documentary Exposes the Israeli Government's Attack on Black Lives Matter
Max Blumenthal | grayzoneproject.com | 2018-09-05
Exclusive footage from the censored Al Jazeera documentary, "The Lobby — USA," shows Israeli government officials taking credit for attacks… | The post Censored Documentary Exposes the Israeli Government's Attack on Black Lives Matter appeared first on Grayzone Project.
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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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