Suspected Bomb Discovered at New York Home of George Soros
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-10-23
The philanthropist has been a target of right-wing conspiracy theorists and even mainstream Republicans for the better part of a decade. | The post Suspected Bomb Discovered at New York Home of George Soros appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Will an Arms Race Follow Trump's INF Treaty Pullout?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2018-10-23
Trump is a geopolitical know-nothing, a businessman turned politician, America's first realty TV president. | He's captive to corporate interests and sinister political forces controlling him, capitulating to them virtually straightaway, likely after his electoral triumph — before entering office in … | The post Will an Arms Race Follow Trump's INF Treaty Pullout? appeared first on Global Research.
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The War on Terror is the Reign of Terror
Mary Troy Johnston | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-23
So, does an accidental killing lead to dismemberment of the body and hiding of all the evidence and waiting days before admitting to the killing? If the United States accepts this version of events for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, we are really living in a world of fake news and, worse, a conspiracy against…
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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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Purge of alt-media by FB is 'us pushing back, just a beginning' — censorship insider
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-23
An employee of a leading Washington DC think tank has reportedly taken credit for the resent purge of alternative media by Facebook and Twitter, claiming it to be necessary to fight against 'fake news' from Russia and China. | …
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Hipster Media Giant VICE Did Paid Propaganda For Saudi Arabia
Ben Norton | iranian.com | 2018-10-22
Hipster media giant VICE worked with Saudi Arabia's regime mouthpiece SRMG to create propaganda. The hipster corporate media giant VICE did paid propaganda for Saudi Arabia, according to a British report on Saudi astroturf efforts. Jim Waterson, the media editor for The Guardian, reported that VICE has worked with a soft-power arm of the Saudi royal family […] | The post Hipster Media Giant VICE Did Paid Propaganda For Saudi Arabia appeared first on The Iranian.
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The New York Times' Animal Cruelty Fetish
Michael Howard | counterpunch.org | 2018-10-22
In league with its fellow corporate media, The New York Times has for a very long time devoted itself to advertising, sanitizing and lying about American imperialism. From the Cold War to the War on (sic) Terror, the NYT has bent over backward to reassure the American people that their government's actions, however heinous, were and…
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MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice
Glenn Greenwald | theintercept.com | 2018-10-22
This is as extreme a perversion of journalism as can be imagined, yet it pervades the nation's largest corporate media outlets. | The post MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice appeared first on The Intercept.
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Assange Should Be Thanked — Not Smeared — for WikiLeaks' Service to Journalism
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2018-10-22
(MEE Op-ed) — Twelve years ago this month, WikiLeaks began publishing government secrets that the world public might otherwise never have known. What it has revealed about state duplicity, human rights abuses and corruption goes beyond anything published in the world's "mainstream" media. After over six months of being cut off from outside world, on 14 October Ecuador has partly …
Assange Should Be Thanked — Not Smeared — for WikiLeaks' Service to Journalism
War, censorship, and the invention of "fake news"
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-10-22
Under conditions of mounting social opposition and escalating plans for military conflict, the US political establishment is moving to ever more brazenly implement internet censorship.
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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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Elle Magazine forced to apologize as Kim & Kanye fake news completely backfires
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-19
Elle Magazine has apologized for their "bad joke" which saw the publication post a false 'breaking news' tweet about the break up of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, in an effort to lure readers to a voter registration site. | …
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Marijuana legalization linked to spike in car crashes, studies reveal
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-19
Marijuana legalization hit another milestone this week as Canada lifted its ban on the drug. But new research may undermine pot's march towards the mainstream, as two studies have linked legalization with a rise in car crashes. | …
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CNN's Acosta bizarrely tells former WH official to 'Fu*k off' for teasing tweet
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-19
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta has been outed for an abusive outburst following some mild trolling by a former White House official on Twitter. | …
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Hatewatch Headlines 10/18/2018
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-10-18
Are Proud Boys new face of the GOP? Fake news makes students doubt all news; 'Today' gives white supremacists a shiny platform; and…
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Twitter & NATO think tanks publish database of tweets, pics… and GIFs by 'Russian trolls'
RT | rt.com | 2018-10-18
Ahead of midterm elections, Twitter has reminded Americans that democracy is still under threat by releasing millions of tweets by pesky Russians (and Iranians) from the past decade. How do they know? Well, that's the question. | …
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Consortium News' Comment Policy
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-10-17
We are republishing our Comment Policy to remind readers to please adhere to it. We do not practice censorship based on political views but comments that violate the Policy will be removed to maintain a dignified and fact-based comments section. … Read more ?…
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Five Questions For: Author Suzanne Gordon on the VA as a 'Model for American Health Care'
Alexandra Tempus | progressive.org | 2018-10-14
"Many liberals and progressives who don't buy the propaganda about climate, or about education, buy the propaganda about the VA."
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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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