The Top 5 Ways to Defeat ICE Agents
Lee Camp | truthdig.com | 2019-07-24
The Democrats and the corporate media will breathlessly tell you how Donald Trump is a racist (he is). They'll relay the gut-wrenching horror of having your family ripped apart by Border Patrol (I'm sure it is). They'll let you know that keeping children in cages is not what America stands for and not who we are (it kinda is). But despite all of this, they practically never tell everyone how to actually fight back against ICE raids and Border Patrol detentions. | Welcome to the paradoxical sales pitch of the neoliberal morass–"Act like you hate racism while doing almost nothing to stop racist policies that…
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Trump Sues House Panel, NY, to Protect State Tax Returns
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-24
NEW YORK — Opening up another legal front against the Democrats investigating him, President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials to prevent his state tax returns from being turned over to the congressional committee. | The lawsuit seeks an injunction to block the application of a new New York state law that could allow the Democratic-controlled House and Ways Means Committee to obtain the returns. The lawsuit, filed in Was…
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May launches one final attack on Corbyn at her last PMQs, but it totally backfires
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-07-24
Theresa May threw one last jab at Jeremy Corbyn during her final Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) on 24 July. But it failed to land. | Propaganda to the last moment: | The outgoing prime minister accused Corbyn of using "fake news and fake information" at PMQs. | Corbyn has shared numerous statistics in parliament since becoming the leader of the Labour Party. And 24 July was no different. Holding May to a…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/24/may-launches-one-final-attack-on-corbyn-at-her-last-pmqs-but-it-totally-backfires/
Local is Our Future
Helena Norberg-Hodge | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-24
For our species to have a future, it must be local. The good news is that the path to such a future is already being forged. Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude 'bigger is better' narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged by a much gentler, more…
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Remember 2016? Don't Put Your Faith in Political Polls
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-24
| "Averages and relationships and trends and graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less." –Darrell Huff, How to Lie With StatisticsHuff wrote his famous warning in 1954. Sixty-five years later, political polling somehow still dominates the "mainstream" national discourse. Even after what I call The Great Polling Uberfail of 2016, we still find ourselves mired in the statistical mud; "facts" are as malleable as mood, and clarity has…
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Remember 2016? Don't Put Your Faith in Political Polls
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-24
| "Averages and relationships and trends and graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less." –Darrell Huff, How to Lie With StatisticsHuff wrote his famous warning in 1954. Sixty-five years later, political polling somehow still dominates the "mainstream" national discourse. Even after what I call The Great Polling Uberfail of 2016, we still find ourselves mired in the statistical mud; "facts" are as malleable as mood, and clarity has…
truthout.org/articles/remember-2016-dont…
Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2019-07-23
When previously unknown Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaidó stood up in an East Caracas plaza and declared himself "interim president" of the South American country, Western corporate media were ebullient. | In those heady early days, corporate journalists could scarcely conceal their love affair with the 35-year-old politician, whom they likened to Barack Obama (CNN, 2/7/19) and described as a "freedom fighter" (Fox Business, 1/29/19)…
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Trudeau's "America First" Policy
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-23
Wouldn't you think the corporate media would be interested in the US embassy's reaction to the appointment of a new Canadian foreign minister? Especially if that reaction was to claim Ottawa had decided to adopt an "America First" foreign policy? Wouldn't some big newspaper or TV station, dedicated to telling the truth about what our …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/trudeaus-amer…
Trump campaign is selling plastic straws to 'make straws great again'
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-23
The campaign to re-elect President Donald Trump has found a new way to troll liberals and sea turtles. | The campaign website is selling packs of 10 plastic straws for $15, Trump re-election campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted on Thursday, as USA Today reported. | "Liberal paper straws don't work. STAND WITH PRESIDENT TR…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/23/trump-camp…
War Propaganda: Iran Sleeper Cells Ready to Kill Brits
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-23
On Monday, The Sun ran a scary story insisting evil Hezbollah sleeper cells are "preparing to strike" the UK in the wake of Iran's tit-for-tat seizure of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The newspaper picked up the …
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Do You Choose the Truth or War Propaganda? Your Choice Makes a Difference
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-23
We first start to lose the truth when we enter the ring of war propaganda, which is the Western press. The lies, the omissions, the false equivalencies, the fabricated narratives, all grow there, mostly undetected. | In Western books promoted by …
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Another State Could Soon Insert Anti-Abortion Propaganda Into Public Schools
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-23
| As GOP-majority state legislatures pass laws aimed at drastically restricting access to abortion care, Republican lawmakers are seeking to control education and public messaging about abortion, pregnancy, and reproductive health. | Ohio Republicans are pushing a measure that would create a public school curriculum infusing anti-abortion language …
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Selected Articles: Truth or War Propaganda? Your Choice Makes a Difference
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-23
Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | Click to | * * * | | Modi Must be Mad Beyond …
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The Campaign To Stop Corbyn: Smears, Racism And Censorship
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-22
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must …
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Arkansas Wants to Make Sure You Know 'Almonds Don't Lactate'
aclu.org | 2019-07-22
An Arkansas law censoring plant-based products isn't just absurd and unnecessary, it's unconstitutional. | The state of Arkansas thinks you're confused about whether a veggie burger comes from a cow. In fact, it thinks you're so confused that it passed a law making it illegal for companies to use words like "meat," "roast," and "sausage" to describe products that are not made from animals. Under the law, it doesn't matter if those words are modified by "vegan…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/arkansas-wants…
Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-18
Guaido's team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.
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Broken Hill: 'Give us our river back'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-18
The Murray-Darling river system is the lifeblood of Australian agriculture, but it is now in serious crisis. | The river system is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, and with mass fish deaths in the headlines and farmers struggling to survive, the water crisis is deepening. | But the current crisis has long-term roots in a river system that for years has been controlled by big business and corrupt governments. | In early July, we travelled to the far-western NSW towns of Broken Hill and Menindee and spoke to a number of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous locals who are at the forefront of the fight to s…
greenleft.org.au/content/give-us-our-river-back
"Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-16
Congressmembers Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar condemned President Trump's spate of racist attacks against them in a news conference Monday. Their public rebuke followed Trump tweeting Sunday telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." The comments have been widely condemned as racist and xenophobic. We hear from the progressive congresswomen in their own words.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/16/trump_rac…
A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-16
Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/15/a-year-after-…
The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-10
Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/10/the-guardian-…