Daily Archives: July 17, 2019

2019-07-17: News Headlines

RT (2019-07-17). Election-meddling & 'good censorship': Google 'pushes the boundaries till its hand gets slapped'. rt.com Senate Republicans tore into Google during a hearing, demanding accountability for its biased, election-skewing algorithms, while Democrats ran interference, denying the company was censoring anyone — and suggesting it should.

RT (2019-07-17). Twitter CEO maxes out donations to Tulsi Gabbard… conspiracy machine kicks into overdrive. rt.com Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated thousands of dollars to anti-war Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard — and Twitter users and mainstream media journalists are (rather ironically) up in arms about it.

Staff (2019-07-16). "We Love All People in This Country": AOC and the Squad Respond to Trump. truthout.org 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. | TRANSCRIPT: | JUAN GONZÁLEZ: President Trump is doubling down after he was widely condemned for his racist attack on four progressiv…

Staff (2019-07-16). "Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack. democracynow.org 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.

Henry Giroux (2019-07-16). History Holds the Antidote to Trump's Fascist Politics. truthdig.com "[T]he great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations." —James Baldwin | America is in a state of crisis that touches every aspect of public life, extending from a crisis of economics produced by massive inequality to a crisis of ideas, agency, memory and politics, aided and abetted by controlling apparatuses that induce ubiquitous forms of historical amnesia…

Dr. Dennis Etler (2019-07-16). Henry Wallace's Internationalism: A Path that American Foreign Policy Could Have Taken and Still Can. globalresearch.ca As America fumbles around for a way out of "forever wars," can we draw inspiration from an alternative vision that once was mainstream? | Following twenty years of decay, US foreign policy has spun out of control since Donald Trump's …

John Perry (2019-07-16). A year after Nicaragua's coup, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling. thegrayzone.com Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…

RT (2019-07-16). Instagram slammed for allowing photos of slain teen's corpse to remain online for an entire day. rt.com Instagram is facing a barrage of criticism after it allowed photos of murdered teen Bianca Devins' corpse to remain online for a day. The tardiness comes in stark contrast to its strict censorship policies in other areas.

Global Research News (2019-07-16). Selected Articles: Wake Up, America! globalresearch.ca In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …

Miri Wood (2019-07-15). More Families Freed from US Controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca While the partisan, fake faction fight over usage of concentration camp persists domestically, American politicians and US media continue to ignore the US Rukban concentration camp in Syria. US occupation criminals continue as illicit armed guards, dictating which Syrians may …

Ben Norton (2019-07-10). The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson. thegrayzone.com Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…

Julie Hollar (2019-07-02). Warning to Progressive Dems: You're Leaving Corporate Media's Comfort Zone. fair.org by Julie Hollar After the first round of Democratic primary debates, the line from corporate media and their overwhelmingly centrist sources was clear: The Democrats are moving dangerously to the left, at their own peril. | Washington Post reporter Michael Scherer ( 6/30/19), under the headline "Democratic Candidates Veer Left, Leaving Behind Successful Midterm Strategy," pushed the media conventional wisd…

Michael Edison Hayden (2019-06-27). Far-Right Extremists Are Calling for Terrorism on the Messaging App Telegram. splcenter.org Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.

2019-07-17: Social Media Postees

Twitter CEO maxes out donations to Tulsi Gabbard… conspiracy machine kicks into overdrive
rt.com | 2019-07-17
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated thousands of dollars to anti-war Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard — and Twitter users and mainstream media journalists are (rather ironically) up in arms about it. | …
rt.com/usa/464340-jack-dorsey-tulsi-gabb…

Election-meddling & 'good censorship': Google 'pushes the boundaries till its hand gets slapped'
rt.com | 2019-07-17
Senate Republicans tore into Google during a hearing, demanding accountability for its biased, election-skewing algorithms, while Democrats ran interference, denying the company was censoring anyone — and suggesting it should. | …
rt.com/usa/464349-google-hearing-censors…

"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…

"We Love All People in This Country": AOC and the Squad Respond to Trump
Staff | truthout.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. | TRANSCRIPT: | JUAN GONZÁLEZ: President Trump is doubling down after he was widely condemned for his racist attack on four progressiv…
truthout.org/video/we-love-all-people-in…

History Holds the Antidote to Trump's Fascist Politics
Henry Giroux | truthdig.com | 2019-07-16
"[T]he great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations." –James Baldwin | America is in a state of crisis that touches every aspect of public life, extending from a crisis of economics produced by massive inequality to a crisis of ideas, agency, memory and politics, aided and abetted by controlling apparatuses that induce ubiquitous forms of historical amnesia…
truthdig.com/articles/history-holds-the-…

Henry Wallace's Internationalism: A Path that American Foreign Policy Could Have Taken and Still Can
Dr. Dennis Etler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
As America fumbles around for a way out of "forever wars," can we draw inspiration from an alternative vision that once was mainstream? | Following twenty years of decay, US foreign policy has spun out of control since Donald Trump's …
globalresearch.ca/henry-wallaces-interna…

A year after Nicaragua's coup, 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-…

Instagram slammed for allowing photos of slain teen's corpse to remain online for an entire day
rt.com | 2019-07-16
Instagram is facing a barrage of criticism after it allowed photos of murdered teen Bianca Devins' corpse to remain online for a day. The tardiness comes in stark contrast to its strict censorship policies in other areas. | …
rt.com/usa/464317-instagram-bianca-devin…

Selected Articles: Wake Up, America!
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-wake…

More Families Freed from US Controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Northern Syria
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
While the partisan, fake faction fight over usage of concentration camp persists domestically, American politicians and US media continue to ignore the US Rukban concentration camp in Syria. US occupation criminals continue as illicit armed guards, dictating which Syrians may …
globalresearch.ca/more-families-freed-us…

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-…

Warning to Progressive Dems: You're Leaving Corporate Media's Comfort Zone
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-07-02
by Julie Hollar After the first round of Democratic primary debates, the line from corporate media and their overwhelmingly centrist sources was clear: The Democrats are moving dangerously to the left, at their own peril. | Washington Post reporter Michael Scherer ( 6/30/19), under the headline "Democratic Candidates Veer Left, Leaving Behind Successful Midterm Strategy," pushed the media conventional wisd…
fair.org/home/warning-to-progressive-dem…

Far-Right Extremists Are Calling for Terrorism on the Messaging App Telegram
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-06-27
Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/06/27/far-r…