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Protesters demonstrate in solidarity with members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota over the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

#NoDAPL Day Of Action Sees Hundreds Of Protests Nationwide

Archives for novembre 2016

Google Declares War On Alternative Media: Plans To Punish “False News” By Halting Ad Revenue

Google has decided to make itself the arbiter of what is “true” and what is “false,” placing alternative media in the cross-hairs of its war on free speech and the free flow of information.

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
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Since the US Election’s “surprise” outcome, supporters of Hillary Clinton have been searching for who and what to blame. One of the more bizarre theories circulating has been that Google, Twitter, and Facebook, who WikiLeaks revealed were actually colluding with Clinton’s campaign to get her elected, were to blame for distributing “fake” and

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Tohono O’odham Nation Tribal Leaders Say Wall With Mexico Will Not Be Built On Their Land

“Over my dead body will a wall be built.”

Ivan Stiv
Par Ivan Stiv

Tribal leadership of Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona said they won’t support a border wall project on their land. Part of their reservation extends into Mexico and covers 75 miles of the international border. The tribe’s chairman and vice chair said the plan was always to try to work with whoever holds the office of the United States

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The Election Revealed More About The Democratic Slump Than A ‘Trump Surge’

The biggest story of the 2016 presidential election is not a ‘Trump surge,’ but a Democratic collapse.

Joe Catron
Par Joe Catron
A woman in the audience hold up fabric that reads "Ignoring DNC's Corruption Condones It!" as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Adams City High School in Commerce City, Colo., Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

NEW YORK --- Few observers were surprised by Donald Trump’s weak performance in last week’s presidential election. The Republican candidate’s 60.5 million popular votes put him on a par with his predecessors, Mitt Romney and John McCain, neither of whom came close to beating President Barack Obama in 2012 or 2008. But even fewer expected the

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House Votes To Extend Iran Sanctions For 10 Years

Libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only member to vote against the measure.

Jason Ditz
Par Jason Ditz
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, during official talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, May 30, 2015.

In a 419-1 vote (Rep. Thomas Massie (R – KY) was the lone no vote), the House of Representatives today voted to renew the Iran Sanctions Act for an additional 10 years. The act is scheduled to expire by year’s end, barring its renewal. Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R – CA) condemned the P5+1 nuclear deal in justifying the

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Ugly And Unprepared, ‘Knife Fight’ Breaks Out In Trump Transition

« Stay away. Will be ugly, » one former Bush official advised after an exchange with Trump’s transition team

Lauren McCauley
Par Lauren McCauley
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is greeted by his family on stage after the third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016.

While Republicans have been outwardly celebrating their victories, President-elect Donald Trump's transition to power is reportedly mired in chaos and infighting as competing factions duke it out to see whose version of "Make America Great Again" will dominate under the new world order. A "knife fight" is how one source described the backroom

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5th Day Of Anti-Trump Protests Rage On Across The US

“People are upset. And they want to express … strong disagreement with Mr. Trump, who has made bigotry the cornerstone of his campaign,” Bernie Sanders said of protesters.

teleSUR
Par teleSUR
A protesters unhappy with the presidential election blocks traffic on JFK Blvd. as they march between cars on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, in Philadelphia. (Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

From San Francisco to St. Louis, Denver to Detroit, the fifth day of protests against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continue to sweep across the nation. In Manhattan, protesters carried placards in both English and Spanish, chanting maxims such as "Hate won't make us great!" and "We are here to stay!" as they swarmed the president-elect’s

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