The "Trump Recovery": Behind Right-Wing Populism's Radical Transformation
Anthony DiMaggio | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
Trump's unique brand of right-wing populism has long been sold in "mainstream" discourse via a narrative that his supporters are angry as hell over mounting personal and economic insecurity, in an age that affords fewer and fewer opportunities to the "working class." This story was popularized in part because of Trump's rhetoric, and because of…
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An offer they can't refuse? Facebook offers mainstream news millions in licensing fees
rt.com | 2019-08-09
Facebook is dangling a multimillion-dollar carrot before cash-strapped news outlets, offering a hefty licensing fee in return for the right to use headlines and even entire stories in a new "news section," insiders say. | …
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'Data Is the New Oil, Watch Out for Mass Mining': Netflix Film
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-09
Big business and politics are mass-mining everyday, data mining, that is. Fom Facebook 'likes' to online subscriptions the already powerful are cultivating this information from average people with the objective to gain more profit and power, according to a Netflix documentary released Wednesday. | RELATED: | Facebook to Censor Ads that Discourage People from Voting | "There are people out there who are trying to figure out how you think. If you don't understand how you think, they…
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Obama, Biden, Mattis and Clapper Expressed Skepticism on Syria, so Why Is Gabbard Singled Out?
Ali A. Taj | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-08
Why must Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard be smeared and attacked for questioning the mainstream narrative on Syria when even Barack Obama has done the same?
mintpressnews.com/skepticism-syria-why-t…
Informe de empleo del gobierno de EE. UU .: la realidad detrás de la falsificación
Paul Wilcox | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-08
Detrás de la propaganda, la realidad es muy diferente. Cada vez más personas que trabajan están desempleadas, subempleadas y / o no ganan lo suficiente para satisfacer las necesidades más básicas.
liberationnews.org/informe-de-empleo-del…
Here's the astonishing amount of members Labour has after all those smears and mutinies
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-08-08
On 8 August, the Guardian reported that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party still had over 500,000 members at the end of 2018.In other words, the endless smears from the right and its corporate media allies are failing to make a serious dent i…
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That'll show them! Republicans BOYCOTT Twitter ads over McConnell censorship
rt.com | 2019-08-08
The Republican Party has halted advertising on Twitter after the campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was locked for quoting death threats made against him. It is unclear if this will change Twitter's mind. | …
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Trump mulling executive order against tech censorship… while demanding more tech censorship?
rt.com | 2019-08-08
The White House is poised to issue an executive order addressing Big Tech censorship against conservatives, insiders say, paying lip service to free speech even while insisting platforms filter online 'hate' and 'extremism'. | …
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A New App Allows Readers in China to Bypass Censorship of The Intercept
Ryan Gallagher | theintercept.com | 2019-08-08
Since June, people in China have been unable to read The Intercept, after the country's government apparently banned our website, along with those of several other media organizations. Today, we are happy to announce a workaround that will allow people in China to circumvent the restrictions, access our full site, and continue to read our award-winning journalism. | In partnership with Psiphon, an anti-censorship organization based in Canada, we are launching…
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The real threat to free speech
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-08
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Policing the borders of suffering
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-07
Both mainstream Jewish institutions and non-Jewish liberal and conservative commentators took it upon themselves to censure Ocasio-Cortez's use of "concentration camps," with Rep. Liz Cheney accusing the freshman representative of "demean[ing]" the memory of those who died in the Holocaust. | Source…
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Truth against the rules? Twitter censors videos of protesters threatening to KILL Mitch McConnell
rt.com | 2019-08-07
After a mob of protesters surrounded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's Kentucky home screaming death threats at the Republican, Twitter punished those who shared videos and quotes of the incident. | …
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The Sun paid £30k to a Labour MP over a 'misleading' story, and he's using the cash brilliantly
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-08-07
As The Canary reported in February, the Sun was forced to pay £30,000 to Labour MP Richard Burgon in a libel case: The legal dispute was over a story the Sun ran in April 2017. It asserted that an image posted by the band Dream Troll mirro…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/07/the-sun-paid-30k-to-a-labour-mp-over-a-misleading-story-and-hes-using-the-cash-brilliantly/
U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement, Hatewatch Determines
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-08-06
A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online, Hatewatch has determined.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/07/us-st…
NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2019-08-05
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. | As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration's Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted "a special consultant service [to listen] to all NPR programs" on Central America. Dependent on state funding, NPR promptly buckled under pressure, reassigning reporters viewed as "too easy on the Sandinistas," and…
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The Politics of Petulance, from Donald Trump to Boris Johnson
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-08-01
Four decades of relentless there-is-no-alternative propaganda has so many people believing that change is impossible, so you might as well stick your middle finger up at the world instead.
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Cornel West: Corporate Media's Superficial Coverage Helped Create "Fascist Frankenstein Trump"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-01
On Tuesday night, Senator Bernie Sanders openly criticized CNN's handling of the debates. He told CNN's Jake Tapper, "Your question is a Republican talking point. And by the way, the healthcare industry will be advertising tonight on this program." We speak with Cornel West and Dolores Huerta about the media coverage and the structure of the debate.
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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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