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The ‘Noble Lie’ of a Democratic West

August 30, 2022

Interviews with Volodymr Zelensky, Keir Starmer and Sam Harris strip away the illusion that we control our political system, writes Jonathan Cook.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Joe Lauria, Julian Assange, Militarism, NATO, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

Chris Hedges: Ukraine & the Politics of Permanent War

August 29, 2022

Critics, already shut out from the corporate media, are relentlessly attacked and silenced for threatening the public’s quiescence while the U.S. Treasury is pillaged and the nation is disemboweled. 

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Media Bias Enables Israel’s War on Palestine

August 29, 2022

The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza, including the slaying of children, are made possible by an endless stream of Western media misinformation and misrepresentation, writes Ramzy Baroud.

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How Murdoch’s Rogue News Corp Operates

August 29, 2022

In his early days, Rupert Murdoch offered promise and hope, but his media empire instead has diminished democratic life, writes John Menadue.

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Gough, Rupert and the London Job

August 29, 2022

Rupert Murdoch certainly believed that he had played a major part in the 1972 Australian election result and that something was due to him, writes John Menadue.

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Campaign 2020, Censorship, Commentary, Intelligence, Press Freedom, Secrecy, Social Media, U.S.

Caitlin Johnstone: FBI’s Muting of Hunter Biden Story

August 26, 2022

Zuckerberg’s deployment of algorithms to please the F.B.I. is a glaring example of how billionaires and government work together to control information in an oligarchy.

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Indian Workers Defend Steel With Their Lives

August 26, 2022

What we have here, writes Vijay Prashad, is a government adhering to the religion of privatization and eager to cannibalize Visakha Steel.

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When People Want Housing in India, They Build It

August 26, 2022

These land occupations are filled with tension and joy, writes Vijay Prashad. The perils of being beaten by the police mix with the promise of collective life. 

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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Don’t Charge Trump With Espionage

August 26, 2022

Nobody should face the charge unless they are working for a foreign power and mean harm to the United States. 

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The ‘Fact-Checking’ Liberal Media

August 25, 2022

Sam Husseini flags an unhinged exchange between NPR’s Terry Gross and New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper. 

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Caitlin Johnstone: If Everyone Is King, No One Is

August 25, 2022

The notion of vast wealth as a hoarding behavior misses the mark.

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‘Blowback:’ UK, Libya & the Manchester Attack

August 25, 2022

Phil Miller introduces a film probing the role of British foreign policy in contributing to the atrocity.

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WATCH: Ukraine — Causes & Solutions

August 24, 2022

Jake Lynch, chair, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies (DPACS), University of Sydney in a discussion at Politics in the Pub on the origins of the Ukraine conflict and a way out of it.

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US, Israel & Procrastinating on Iran Nuclear Deal

August 24, 2022

The talks, which have proceeded haltingly for months, are aimed at bringing the U.S. back into compliance with an accord that Trump violated in 2018.

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The Western Narrative on Russia & China

August 24, 2022

It’s past time that the U.S. recognized the true sources of security: internal social cohesion and responsible cooperation with the rest of the world, rather than the illusion of hegemony, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.

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Bolivia, Chile, Climate Change, Commentary, Human Rights, Indigenous People

Lithium Power Politics

August 23, 2022

The people of Potosí, Bolivia, like those of Tierra Amarilla, Chile, want to imagine a different kind of extraction, write Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva.

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Nationalizing UK Energy Companies

August 22, 2022

Many people will say this can’t be done, but of course it has been done before, writes Andrew Fisher, a former Labour policy chief.

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Biden Administration, Climate Change, Cold War, Column, Commentary, NATO, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin & the Emerging Order

August 22, 2022

The baton of “global leadership,” which Joe Biden mentions every chance he gets, is passing to non-Western leaders. 

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Books, Censorship, Column, Commentary, Iran, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestine, Religion, Saudi Arabia

THE ANGRY ARAB: The Attack on Salman Rushdie

August 22, 2022

The debate between Muslims and Westerners about the parameters of freedom of speech has been reignited, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.

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Books, Censorship, Commentary, Consortiumnews.com, Iran-Contra, Media, October Surprise, Pentagon, Press Freedom, Propaganda, Robert Parry

The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media

August 19, 2022

Anyone in journalism who wants to regain that trust would do well to read American Dispatches and internalize the lessons that Robert Parry offers, writes Nat Parry.

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