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Are the US and Israel Behind the Fresh Chaos in Libya’s Capital?

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As Monsanto Faces Over 8,000 Glyphosate Lawsuits, Vietnam Seeks Damages for Agent Orange

“The verdict serves as a legal precedent which refutes previous claims that the herbicides made by Monsanto and other chemical corporations in the U.S. and provided for the U.S. army in the war are harmless.” — Vietnamese Foreign Ministry

Whitney Webb
Par Whitney Webb
us war crimes

HANOI, VIETNAM -- After a landmark court case in California held Monsanto liable for the carcinogenic effects of its best-selling herbicide, glyphosate, things have only been getting worse for the corporate giant and its new parent company, Bayer. Indeed, the $289 million court verdict has unleashed a slew of other related lawsuits related to

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Hillary Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Hacked by « Foreign Entity »

The code embedded in the server generated an instant “courtesy copy” for nearly all of her emails and forwarded them to a company in Virginia.

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
hillary clinton's email

A Chinese-owned firm with operations in Washington D.C. hacked Hillary Clinton's private server "throughout her term as secretary of state and obtained nearly all her emails," reports the Daily Caller's Richard Pollock. The Chinese firm obtained Clinton’s emails in real time as she sent and received communications and documents through her

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Corbyn is Being Destroyed, Like Blowing Up a Bridge to Stop an Advancing Army

The corporate elite weaponised anti-semitism not because they care about the safety of Jews, or because they really believe that Corbyn is an anti-semite.

Jonathan Cook
Par Jonathan Cook
anti-Semitism

The latest “scandal” gripping Britain – or to be more accurate, British elites – is over the use of the term “Zionist” by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the head of the opposition and possibly the country’s next prime minister. Yet again, Corbyn has found himself ensnared in what a small group of Jewish leadership organisations, which claim

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Facebook Kills ‘Inauthentic’ Foreign News – US Propaganda Stays Alive

Who will shut down the tons of « inauthentic » accounts run by U.S. spies, the British military, and Israeli propaganda organizations?

Moon of Alabama
Par Moon of Alabama
Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Millham, 31, from New Paltz, N.Y., a former reporter for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, checks a Facebook site in Kabul, Afghanistan as part of a new communications effort to reach a non-newspaper reading Internet audience. (AP/Musadeq Sadeq)

The creation of digital content led to the re-establishment of claqueurs: By 1830 the claque had become an institution. The manager of a theatre or opera house was able to send an order for any number of claqueurs. These were usually under a chef de claque (leader of applause), who judged where the efforts of the claqueurs were needed and to

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Google, Facebook, and Twitter Are Censoring Iranians – A Censored Student Journalist Speaks Out

Google, Facebook, and Twitter are removing social media accounts of real life Iranians who are falsely dubbed as “government trolls.” Student journalist Sayed Mousavi warns “this is just the tip of an iceberg.”

Ben Norton
Par Ben Norton

Under apparent government pressure, big tech corporations in the United States have tightened their social media grip, censoring accounts that criticize the US government and its allies. Under the spell of Russiagate hysteria promoted incessantly by the US government and corporate media, social media accounts that were identified by shady

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The United States Is Okay With This Kind of Russian Interference

Russian interference in American politics is totally welcome so long as it helps turn public opinion against a “multipolar” Russia, glorifies American democracy, and serves U.S. interests.

Diana Johnstone
Par Diana Johnstone
Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former owner of the Yukos Oil Company, poses for a photograph after being interviewed by The Associated Press in London, July 24, 2018. Matt Dunham | AP

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was ostensibly a conflict between two ideologies, two socio-economic systems. All that seems to be over. The day of a new socialism may dawn unexpectedly, but today capitalism rules the world. Now the United States and Russia are engaged in a no-holds-barred fight between capitalists.

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