The OPCW and Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused of Evidence-Tampering by Its Own Inspectors
Jonathan Steele | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-15
Claims that President Bashar al-Assad's forces have used chemical weapons are almost as old as the Syrian civil war itself. They have produced strong reactions, and none more so than in the case of the alleged attack in April last year on the opposition-controlled area of Douma near Damascus in which 43 people are said…
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Blockchain 'to challenge American hegemony over world finance' in next 5-7 years, analyst tells Boom Bust
rt.com | 2019-11-15
Chinese blockchain firm OneConnect has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, seeking to raise $100 million. The company deals with financial technology, including artificial intelligence. | RT's Boom Bust is joined by Jeffrey Tucker from the American Institute for Economic Research, who says the news is "very exciting." | "We're living at a time when blockchain technology is going mainstream, and with that come good things and bad things," says Tucker. | According to him, blockchain technology is "awesome" as it provides "50,000 transactions per second with 'permissionless,' effortle…
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Media Support for the CIA Coup in Bolivia
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-14
Without establishment media support, US planned aggression, color revolutions, old-fashioned coups, and other hostile to peace, equity and justice actions wouldn't get out of the starting gate. | Propaganda support is crucial, manipulating the public mind. Media operate as gatekeepers, proliferating …
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Catapulting Hong Kong into democracy? Media glorifies ANARCHY & 'novel, defensive' anti-police weapons of protesters
rt.com | 2019-11-14
As anti-China protesters transform Hong Kong universities into "weapons factories" and arm themselves with petrol bombs, mainstream media is increasingly impressed by their ingenious and "novel" methods of taking on riot police. | Universities across Hong Kong are shuttering their doors and foreign students fleeing the chaos, as protesters hurl bricks, fire javelins, construct "watchtowers" and start fires on campuses, insisting that they have "no choice" but to resort to the most violent methods. | pic.twitter.com/WKPPXvO0Wl
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Catapulting Hong Kong into democracy? Media glorifies ANARCHY & 'novel, defensive' anti-police weapons of protesters
rt.com | 2019-11-14
As anti-China protesters transform Hong Kong universities into "weapons factories" and arm themselves with petrol bombs, mainstream media is increasingly impressed by their ingenious and "novel" methods of taking on riot police. | Universities across Hong Kong are shuttering their doors and foreign students fleeing the chaos, as protesters hurl bricks, fire javelins, construct "watchtowers" and start fires on campuses, insisting that they have "no choice" but to resort to the most violent methods. | students at the Chinese Unive…
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Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-14
| | It's an open secret. The deep state is wo…
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Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-14
| | It's an open secret. The deep state is wo…
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5 fast facts about the military coup in Bolivia and what you can do
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-11-14
Despite what the mainstream media headlines would have you believe, a coup is underway in Bolivia. | Source…
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Ford workers describe UAW's intimidation tactics to pass Ford contract
wsws.org | 2019-11-14
Although the UAW and corporate media are gloating over the prospect of getting the new Ford contract ratified, 42 percent of the workers have voted "No" and thousands more are boycotting the vote out of disgust with the UAW.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/auto…
Trump's Classic Corporate Media Misdirection Has Only Strengthened His Base
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-14
As we approach the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., it is necessary to take a look at the coverage of Donald Trump by corporate media and how it allowed for some of Trump's greatest media manipulations. In this excerpt of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It), Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon discuss the ways in which Trump "has repeatedly redirected national attention … that have allowed him to evade accountability and strengt…
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Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-14
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out the news media on Wednesday evening for focusing coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely on wealthy CEOs' and investors' negative views of the plan—rather than those of the working families she says would benefit from its redistribution of wealth. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Germany: Berlin rent cap–a deceptive manoeuvre
wsws.org | 2019-11-13
The rent cap will not stop the enrichment of the rent sharks, provide affordable housing for all, or hide the right-wing and anti-social policies of the parties controlling the Berlin Senate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/13/berl…
Anti-semitism bandwagon rolled out again
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-13
For a few months over the summer the British corporate media largely lost interest in smearing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-semite. Maybe they had begun to worry that the constant drum-beat of the past three years was deadening the public's sensitivity to such claims. But an election is now weeks away, and the …
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Media hacks lionise a vicar with some serious skeletons in his closet to smear Jeremy Corbyn
James Wright | thecanary.co | 2019-11-13
The corporate media spent 13 November reporting on a man who'd heckled Jeremy Corbyn with typical right-wing smears. But people quickly pointed out that this man had also previously expressed 'Islamophobic' and 'homophobic' views.Anything to smear Corbyn: Reverend Richard Cameron heckled Jeremy Corbyn, shouting the right-wing smear that he's somehow a "terrorist s…
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Pompeo's Iran Nuclear Lies Exposed Using Clear Evidence & The JCPOA Document Itself
Activist Post | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-12
Mike Pompeo continues to lead the propaganda push to get the public panicking about an Iran "nuclear breakout" even when all evidence shows that Iran is nowhere near capable of being a nuclear threat. Of course many other countries have far more robust nuclear programs, but because it's Iran we have to come together as …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/pom…
Marco Rubio blames 'Putin's disinformation' for coverage of Bolivia coup that he doesn't like
rt.com | 2019-11-12
Eager to find some way to implicate Russia in Bolivia's political crisis and control of the US narrative, Republican senator Marco Rubio branded any skeptical coverage of events as an example of how "Putin uses disinformation." | Rubio, an early and avid supporter of protests that ousted former Bolivian President Evo Morales this week, tweeted that those wishing to understand Russian disinformation should "study current coverage" of Bolivia. | In Rubio's world, Russia has created "fake news" on Bolivia and is spreading it via a "vast network of outlets" and "social media actors" before it is "echoed in mainstr…
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'Dictators? It's OK': Trump trolls critics, touting his ability to work with anybody if it benefits US
rt.com | 2019-11-12
World leaders flock to the US as it's where all the action is, Donald Trump, said, adding that he is willing to negotiate with each and every one of them, even dictators, to help America prosper. | "When I meet with the leaders of countries as they come in: kings and queens; and prime ministers; and presidents… and dictators. I meet them all," Trump said from the tribune of the prestigious Economic Club of New York, making the high-profile guests laugh. | "Anybody, who want to come in. Dictators? It's OK. Come on in. Whatever is good for the US. We want to help our people," he continued after a small pause.
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Mainstream news makes Democrats mad as hell, but they keep coming back for more – poll
rt.com | 2019-11-11
Every day, Democrats are driven to madness by the news they watch, read and listen to. Even their beloved CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times make them hopping mad, a new poll has found. | 'Trump derangement syndrome' is a phrase coined by the president's supporters to describe the rage that the mere mention of Donald Trump's name evokes in liberals. However, in the age of Trump, a new poll has found that the news really is driving Democrats batty with rage. | Seventy percent of Democrats or those who lean Democratic told Axios that they read or hear something in the news that makes them angry once a day or…
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By trying to silence Sanders, the corporate media de-legitimize themselves
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2019-11-11
Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom. | Source…
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Revealed: Breathalyzer Test Is "Fake Science" — What's NOT Fake Today?
Activist Post | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-10
So much of what we are confronted with in the mainstream media and from government sources is fake. So much so, that the question should be: what is NOT fake? Apparently, the science behind the much-touted breathalyzer used by police to nab drunk drivers ALSO can be added to the list of fakery. Given how …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/rev…
Private Equity Firms are Modern Day Vampires Sucking the Lifeblood Out of Our Society
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-08
Deadspin is the latest victim of private equity. Labor writer and activist Kim Kelly warns us that these 21st century "private equity vampires" have to be controlled.
therealnews.com/stories/private-equity-f…
Is 'OK Boomer' the 'New N-Word,' or Are Millennials Still Destroying Everything? – How media coverage of intergenerational divides obscures class conflict
Alan MacLeod | fair.org | 2019-11-08
Dividing generations? That's our job, say corporate media (NBC, 11/7/19). | In recent times, media have taken a great interest in highlighting and even generating intergenerational fighting. One example is the focus on the "OK boomer" meme, a witty two-word comeback gaining popularity on the internet. "OK boomer" is a pithy, cutting retort millennials (those born between 1981–96) and Generation Z (those "Zoomers" born even later than 1996) give to those born during the baby boom (1946–64).
fair.org/home/is-ok-boomer-the-new-n-wor…
Media Conceal Chile's State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2019-11-05
Chilean protester beaten by government forces (Twitter, 10/21/19) | Chile's anti-neoliberal rebellion is entering its third week, and the brutal crackdown continues. Hard-right President Sebastian Piñera and his generals have effectively decreed the country's oligarch-dominated democracy out of existence by sending soldiers into the streets to kill, maim and torture their own people. | And, for the most part, the Western corporate media blackout persists unabated. | October 25's historic 1.2 million–person march in Santiago–the…
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League of the South Resorts to Video Stunts as Membership Declines
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-11-05
The League of the South made a 25-second propaganda video over the weekend at the memorial of a civil rights icon in an apparent attempt to attract members to its neo-Confederate ideology.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/05/leagu…