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Newsguard Turns to EU to Push Controversial Ratings System on Tech Companies, Smears MintPress as “Secretly Supported” by Russia

Archives for janvier 2019

US Rep. Calls Police on Supporters of Congresswoman Trying to Organize Delegation to West Bank

“Instead of her [Rep. Tlaib] talking about things, she’s new here, she ought to listen and learn and open her mind and then come to some conclusions.” — Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Alexander Rubinstein
Par Alexander Rubinstein
CODEPINK | Protest Brian Babin

WASHINGTON -- Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the first Palestinian American elected to Congress, is encountering roadblocks erected by a senior Democrat and a Republican lawmaker in her bid to bring a congressional delegation to the illegally occupied West Bank. Tlaib’s plans are meant as a rebuke of the tours of Israel sponsored by the

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“It Can’t Be Fixed:” Senior ICC Judge Quits in Protest of US, Turkish Meddling

ICC Judge Flügge said he realized that the “diplomatic world” did not value the independent judiciary that was the ICC.

Alexander Rubinstein
Par Alexander Rubinstein

THE HAGUE -- A senior judge at the United Nations’ International Court in The Hague has resigned in protest of “shocking” interference from the Trump administration into a preliminary war-crimes investigation into U.S. troops. The judge, Christoph Flügge, who hails from Germany, slammed National Security Advisor John Bolton over his response

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Listen | NewsGuard and the Fake News Watchdog Racket

First there was Prop or Not then there was Alliance for Securing Democracy now there is NewsGuard.

Robbie Martin
Par Robbie Martin
Steven Brill | Newsguard

In this special episode of Media Roots Radio Robbie Martin interviews journalist and writer Whitney Webb about her recent 'NewsGuard' expose for MintPress News. NewsGuard is the most recent iteration of the neocon/neoliberal/corporate agenda to soft-censor alternative news and status-quo-challenging viewpoints on the internet. First, there was

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U.S. House Commerce Committee Accuses FCC of Colluding with Big Wireless

The Chair of the U.S. House Commerce Committee has sent a letter to the FCC requesting copies of communications between the agency and the “Big Wireless” corporations.

Derrick Broze
Par Derrick Broze
FCC commissioner Ajit Pai presents his dissent during a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at the FCC in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

On January 24, Frank Pallone, Chairman of the U.S. House Commerce Committee, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking for copies of communications between the FCC and the corporations involved in the current roll out of 5th Generation (5g) cellular technology. The UK Register reports that Pallone’s letter seems to indicate that

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Controversial News Rating App NewsGuard Linked to Saudi Arabia’s PR Machine

The third-largest investor in the mainstream media narrative-enforcing tool is Publicis Groupe, a multinational advertising firm based in Paris whose subsidiaries include public relations and damage-control firms whose modus operandi is the manipulation of media narratives for a range of corporate clients.

Elias Marat
Par Elias Marat
Pompeo | Saudi Arabia | Yemen

Controversial news rating app NewsGuard has been found to not only have ties to politicians and figures spawned by the Homeland Security state, but is also tied to a Washington, D.C.-based PR firm that shielded Saudi Arabia from charges associated with the September 11th attacks and took generous payments from Riyadh to help spin its murderous war

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CNN Goes « Undercover » to Manufacture Consent for Venezuela Coup Attempt

Even after the Trump administration announced oil sanctions, CNN still largely ignored the effect of those sanctions when it aired this “undercover” report another time.

Kevin Gosztola
Par Kevin Gosztola
Venezuela coup

A CNN “exclusive” report from inside Venezuela aired multiple times on the network on January 28. It is a prime example of how influential media outlets in the U.S. effectively create propaganda for the opposition, which now is receiving funds from President Donald Trump’s administration. For the four-minute report, CNN correspondent Nick Paton

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