Facebook destroys ‘Pravda’ in act of information war

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Until recently, the official page of Pravda.Ru on Facebook was developing actively with over 10,000 people joining us on a monthly basis. The page had the official status assigned by the social network. Yet, all is fair in war. All the principles of freedom of speech that US-based Facebook shareholders proclaim are just a screen […]

‘Indispensable Nation’ Hillary Clinton Pitches American Exceptionalism

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Clinton made a case for US exceptionalism, calling America “the global force for freedom, justice and human dignity.”

Posted August 31, 2016

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Turkey’s Move into Syria: Massacre of the Kurds, Overthrowing Rojava

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By Phil Hearse Global Research, August 31, 2016 Socialist Project 20 August 2016 Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria on 24 August was flagged up as a move to drive the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) out of the border town of Jarabulus. But that is just a cover: Turkey’s not very secret major objective is to […]

Secretive Tax Rulings and the Apple Tax Repayment: The EU Commission’s Apple Decision. The Beginning of the End of Tax Wars?

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The Beginning of the End of Tax Wars? By Tax Justice Network Global Research, August 31, 2016 Tax Justice Network 30 August 2016 Today, the European Commission has ruled that two tax rulings issued by the Irish tax administration on the tax treatment of Apple’s corporate profits represent illegal state aid under EU law. As […]

Crimes against Humanity: Seventy-two Daesh-ISIS Mass Graves Containing Up to 15,000 Discovered in Iraq and Syria. Who are the State Sponsors of ISIS? Who is Training, Who is Financing Them?

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By RT News Global Research, August 31, 2016 RT News 30 August 2016 As Islamic State retreats the true scale of its atrocities is becoming apparent. Associated Press collated existing documents and testimonies to produce the fullest picture yet – but activists say that thousands more victims buried in shallow mass graves are yet to […]

Historic Decision: First Australian State to Ban Fracking for Onshore Gas

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The State of Victoria Bans Fracking By Jax Jacobsen Global Research, August 31, 2016 EcoWatch 30 August 2016 The state of Victoria in Australia has voted to ban fracking on its territory, further cementing the moratorium first put in place in 2012. It is the first Australian state to impose such a ban. Premier Daniel Andrews announced […]

Selected Articles: Are You a Mind-Controlled CIA Stooge?

By Global Research News Global Research, August 31, 2016 The Conspiracy Theory Narrative: Are You a Mind-Controlled CIA Stooge? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, August 31 2016 Do you smirk when you hear someone question the official stories of Orlando, San Bernardino, Paris or Nice? Do you feel superior to 2,500 architects and engineers, to firefighters, […]

Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them?

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By Paul Craig Roberts August 30, 2016 “Information Clearing House” –  Paul Wolfowitz and the lies that he told in the high government positions that he held are responsible for a massive number of deaths and massive destruction in seven countries. Wolfowitz has announced his vote for Hillary Clinton. Does this make you feel reassured? […]

The Financial Times: Megaphone for Mass Murder

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By James Petras Introduction: The Financial Times editorial page carries a logo that proclaims: “Without fear and without favour”. Indeed the editors have shown no fear when it comes to. . . fabricating lies, promoting imperial wars decimating countries and impoverishing millions, whether in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and now Venezuela. The fearless “Lies […]

Washington’s Sunni Myth and the Wars in Syria and Iraq

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A Westerner with extensive on-the-ground experience in Syria and Iraq explains how the West’s understanding of sectarian identity in the Middle East is fatally flawed. By Cyrus Malik Editor’s Note: This author is writing under a pen name. I know the author’s identity and while his arguments are surely controversial, I am confident in his […]

Criminal Kiev Regime Gets a CNN Makeover… Cue More War

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By Finian Cunningham August 29, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “SCF” – This week Ukraine marks 25 years of independence following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and American news channel CNN was only too willing to lend an audacious rewriting of history to sanitize current conflict in that country. A TV newscast on Wednesday, featuring CNN anchorwoman Rosemary […]

Climate Science is NOT Settled

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A Statement by Viv Forbes, Founding Secretary of “Clexit” (Climate Exit) By Viv Forbes Global Research, August 30, 2016 CLEXIT – Climate Exit 30 August 2016 For at least a decade we have been told by the UN/IPCC, by most government media and officials, by many politicians, and by the Green “charities” and their media […]

Elections 2016: Trump, Clinton and Racism in American Politics

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By Abayomi Azikiwe Global Research, August 30, 2016 Press reports on the latest charges by both the Republican and Democratic Party candidates that their opponents have ties with the Ku Klux Klan are not surprising. Racist political culture is part and parcel of the history of the United States where the nation-state was founded through […]

US “Cultural Colonisation” in Asia Pacific

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By Joseph Thomas Global Research, August 30, 2016 New Eastern Outlook Ancient Roman historian Tacitus (c. AD 56 – after 117) would adeptly describe the systematic manner in which Rome pacified foreign peoples and the manner in which it would extend its sociocultural and institutional influence over conquered lands. In chapter 21 of his book […]

Indigenous Property Rights and the Dakota Access Pipeline

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By Logan Glitterbomb Global Research, August 30, 2016 Counterpunch As this article is being written, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe are preparing to challenge Dakota Access, LLC and the U.S. Army Corps in court over environmental concerns and property rights disputes. On July 26, 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux […]

Brzezinski vision for a power sharing world stymied by ignorant American leaders

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By John Stanton “A constructive U.S. policy must be patiently guided by a long-range vision. The alternative…and especially the quest for a one-sided militarily and ideologically imposed outcome, can only result in prolonged and self-destructive futility. For America, that could entail enduring conflict, fatigue, and conceivably even a demoralizing withdrawal to its pre-20th century isolationism. […]

What Syria’s Kurds “Think” They are Fighting For Versus Reality

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By Tony Cartalucci Global Research, August 30, 2016 New Eastern Outlook 29 August 2016 Reports are emerging of widespread armed conflict between Kurdish militants and  Syrian forces. Concentrated in and around eastern Syria and the city of Hasaka, reports indicate that Syrian forces may be on the verge of completely withdrawing. The Kurdish offensive is being […]

Does the U.S. “Support Terrorism” and “Regime Change” in Thailand? US Embassy Dismisses the Evidence…

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Trust Evaporates Between Nations By The New Atlas Global Research, August 30, 2016 The New Atlas 27 August 2016 US Embassy in Bangkok sidesteps evidence and calls claims that America supports terrorism and regime change ”ridiculous and reckless” even as it supports terrorism and regime change worldwide. On August 19, 2016, The Nation published an editorial titled, […]

Assessing the Russian Military as an Instrument of Power

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By The Saker Global Research, August 29, 2016 The Unz Review 25 August 2016 It has been a quarter of a century now since the fall of the Soviet Union and yet the memory of the Soviet Armed Forces is still vivid in the minds of many of those who lived through the Cold War […]

Banning Burkinis: The Politics of Beachwear

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 29, 2016 For as long as women have gone to the beach to try to enjoy themselves, it seems, people have followed them there to pester them about their clothes. Selina Cheng, Quartz, Aug 24, 2016 Revolutions are often sparked by folly driven ideas about regulating human behaviour.  Banning the […]

Fabricating Lies, Promoting Imperial Wars, Decimating Countries, Impoverishing Millions: Megaphone for Mass Murder

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The Financial Times Narrative By Prof. James Petras Global Research, August 29, 2016 The Financial Times editorial page carries a logo that proclaims: “Without fear and without favour”. Indeed the editors have shown no fear when it comes to. . . fabricating lies, promoting imperial wars decimating countries and impoverishing millions, whether in Libya, Syria, […]

The Dumbed-Down New York Times. Americans Know They’re not Getting the “Straight Story”…

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By Robert Parry Global Research, August 29, 2016 Consortiumnews 27 August 2016 In a column mocking the political ignorance of the “dumbed-down” American people and lamenting the death of “objective fact,” New York Times columnist Timothy Egan shows why so many Americans have lost faith in the supposedly just-the-facts-ma’am mainstream media. Egan states as flat fact, “If […]

Hillary Clinton’s Intimate Relationship with the Rothschild Banking Dynasty, The Shadowy Network of Super-Elites

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By Steven MacMillan Global Research, August 29, 2016 It’s hard to think of a presidential candidate that has been at the heart of more scandals than Hillary Clinton. Each passing day seems to bring a new revelation which shines more light upon the corrupt and murky world that Clinton operates in. If Clinton is installed […]

Sarkozy Launches French Presidential Bid Based on Anti-Muslim Hysteria

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By Kumaran Ira Global Research, August 29, 2016 World Socialist Web Site 29 August 2016 Last Thursday, former right-wing President Nicolas Sarkozy of the Les Républicains (LR) party declared his candidacy in November’s LR primary for next year’s presidential election, with calls for unprecedented attacks on Muslims’ basic democratic rights. Sarkozy served as president from 2007 to […]

The Privatization of Water: Nestlé Denies that Water is a Fundamental Human Right

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By Kevin Samson Global Research, August 29, 2016 Activist Post and Global Research 27 June 2013 Originally published in December 2013 The current Chairman and former CEO of Nestlé, the largest producer of food products in the world, believes that the answer to global water issues is privatization. This statement is on record from the […]

Update Your iPhone or iPad Israeli Cyber-spy Firm Can Hack You

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By Tim Johnson tjohnson@mcclatchydc.com August 27, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “McClatchy” -The much-talked-about hack that would allow governments to spy on your every move through your iPhone and iPad has become reality. Apple issued a security update for those devices Thursday after researchers discovered spyware that turns hand-held Apple devices into the mother of […]

George Galloway on the Purges of the UK Labour Party

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Audio The number of labour members now purged from voting in the Labour leadership election runs into the tens of thousands George Galloway talkRADIO 26 August 2016 – Posted August 27, 2016   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45370.htm

The US: A Dead Nation Walking

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By Paul Craig Roberts August 27, 2016 “Information Clearing House” -Here is an informative article by Dmitry Orlov: http://www.cluborlov.com I use the writings of Orlov and The Saker as checks on my own conclusions. In his article Orlov concludes that the United States is a dead nation, still walking, but no longer a uni-power. I […]

‘It’s Not A Civil War – This Is A War ON Syria’

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By Eva Bartlett The Syrian Conflict is a PR war mounted by the western powers and their surrogates. Eva Bartlett, independent journalist and blogger at “INGAZA,” joins Sean Stone from Beirut to discuss the time she spent in Syria and how what she has seen and heard directly challenges the western media’s narrative of the […]

US Killing Far More Civilians in Syria Than They’ll Admit

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CENTCOM Won’t Even Look Into Most Incidents By Jason Ditz Global Research, August 28, 2016 Antiwar.com 26 August 2016 On July 19, US warplanes dropped bombs on a crowd of civilians in the Syrian village of Tokhar. When the dust cleared, a minimum of 95 people were killed, and some groups claimed that as the […]

China Threatens “US Primacy in Asia”? Hague Tribunal Ruling on South China Sea Falls Short

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By Tony Cartalucci Global Research, August 28, 2016 New Eastern Outlook 27 August 2016 A recent “international tribunal” ruling regarding China’s claims in the South China Sea was more than just anticlimactic – it was indicative of the United States’ waning influence as well as the waning legitimacy of the many international institutions it has […]

Turkey, the Kurds and the US Debacle in North East Syria

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By Alexander Mercouris Global Research, August 28, 2016 The Duran 26 August 2016 US policy in north east Syria has hugely complicated and exacerbated the situation there, setting the Turks and the Kurds against each other, and provoking threats of US military action in support of a misconceived policy that has not been thought through. […]

Hillary Clinton’s Extreme End Game: Tags Trump Supporters as “Delinquents” and “Hate Groups”

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, August 28, 2016 The loathsome two are moving into full view, mustering weapons and taking aim at each other in a US election campaign that continues to be filled with colourful missives. But the one to lose most is Hillary Clinton, whose nasty appropriation of the high ground of […]

For Britain’s Media and Secret Service (MI6) War Propaganda Is an Art

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By Thierry Meyssan Global Research, August 28, 2016 Voltaire Network Just as in all wars, the war against Syria has triggered an avalanche of propaganda. And the use of children is always a winning strategy. So, at the beginning of the war, Qatar wanted to demonstrate that the Republic, far from serving the general interest, […]

GMO Maize Triggers Tumors in Rats: New Email Leak Shows How Monsanto Stifles Criticism

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By James Corbett Global Research, August 28, 2016 The International Forecaster 27 August 2016 The Seralini debacle is a perfect case study of how industry conspires with cooperative scientists to help bury information that is harmful to its commercial interests. Monsanto is one of the most hated companies on the planet. …Unless you ask FORTUNE Magazine, that […]

The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

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By Vicky Pelaez Global Research, August 28, 2016 El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global Research 10 March 2008 This article was first published by Global Research in March 2008 Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, […]

Hillary Clinton: “If I’m President, We Will Attack Iran… We would be Able to Totally Obliterate Them.”

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By Stephen Lendman Global Research, August 28, 2016 Global Research 5 July 2015 Note: This piece which is of relevance to the US election campaign was originally published in July 2015. Hillary is Dangerous. She Means What She says? Or Does She?  (M. C. GR. Editor) *      *      * On July […]

Invading sovereign states, ignoring UN

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AP photo Turkey launched Euphrates Shield military operation in Syria on August 24. The official purpose of the operation is to destroy Islamic State militants in the border zone. However, the UN has not authorized the operation, and the Syrian authorities said that Turkey violated Syria’s sovereignty. The press secretary of the UN Secretary General […]

Thousand Balls of Flame: A Whiff of World War III Hangs in the Air. Cold War 2.0 is On…

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A Russian Perspective: Russia is ready to respond to any provocation, but the last thing the Russians want is another war By Dimitry Orlov Global Research, August 27, 2016 Club Orlov Russia is ready to respond to any provocation, but the last thing the Russians want is another war. And that, if you like good […]

Pentagon Has No Idea Where Hundreds of Thousands of Guns Went in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Pentagon Delivered 1.4 Million Guns to Iraq and Afghanistan. Who Got Them, Where Are They? By Nika Knight Global Research, August 27, 2016 Common Dreams 25 August 2016 Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted for in DoD’s own records, watchdog discovers The U.S. government has […]

NATO’S “Holy Trinity”: Neoliberal Capitalism, Privileges of the West and Unipolar World

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By Živadin Jovanović and People’s Daily Global Research, August 27, 2016 People’s Daily Interview to Chinese daily newspaper “People`s Daily” (Renmin Ribao) Recently NATO held its summit in Warsaw. Warsaw used to be the place where the Warsaw Treaty was signed. Is there something special for NATO to choose such place to hold its summit? Choosing Warsaw […]