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  America’s Trust in Mainstream Media Hits Rock Bottom posted by Robert Bridge via gayle, 2019-03-06 22:59:35
Gone are the days when US consumers looked to the nightly news and print media as a trusted source of information, and especially if they hold conservative views, according to a new poll by the Columbia Journalism Review. (full story)
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 Toilet PAPER Politics posted by james, 2019-03-06 21:49:03
Today the USA as a nation is failing on EVERY FRONT domestically (social dis-integration) and internationally, dominance/influence fading at speed. Now, there is always cause and effect for any change, and we are easily able to trace the reasons why. (full story)
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 An Atheist’s Reflections on Jesus Christ posted by sybil, 2019-03-06 00:19:34
Now, isn’t the title surprising, how could a non-believer involve themselves in Jesus? Easy, due to the large influence Christianity has had on the world. I have read the New Testament four times and studied it, furthermore, I have also studied the major belief systems of the East, for the very same reasons, and how very sweet they ALL are if one approaches them as pedagogic texts, not fogged out fantasies in the belief of an unattainable God, magic (the implausible, flying etc) and supra-normal. (full story)
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 Oink, Oink! posted by jake, 2019-03-05 18:03:30
“Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of pigs” -- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister (full story)
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 Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia’s Dr. Strangelove posted by Chris Hedges via stella, 2019-03-04 18:12:58
The most dangerous foreign policy decision of the Trump administration—and I know this is saying a lot—is its decision to share sensitive nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia and authorize U.S. companies to build nuclear reactors in that country. I spent seven years in the Middle East. I covered the despotic, repressive kingdom as the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. And I, along with most Arabists in the United States, have little doubt that giving a nuclear capability to Saudi Arabia under the leadership of the ruthless and amoral Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would see it embark on a nuclear weapons program and eventually share weaponized technology with Saudi allies and proxies that include an array of radical jihadists and mortal enemies of America. A nuclearized Saudi Arabia is a grave existential threat to the Middle East and ultimately the United States. (full story)
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 Attempt by Grand Jury to Coerce Chelsea Manning to Compromise Assange posted by Andrea Germanos via grace, 2019-03-02 20:29:46
Chelsea Manning's advocates are decrying what they they see as the Trump administration trying "to punish an outspoken whistleblower" following the revelation that she'd been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury. (full story)
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 US Urges ‘Calm’ While Stoking India-Pakistan Conflict posted by SCF Editorial via james, 2019-03-01 19:06:34
Prior to reading the repost below, it should be noted that US power and influence in the world are in rapid decline, as is well known. Contributors to this site warned of US interference against its two main competitors, Russia and China, by fomenting a major conflict in Asia and thereby disrupting plans to integrate Eurasia with the New Silk Road project (BRI) initiated by China. A failed provocation by Washington puppet Ukraine of Russia in the Azov Sea is one clear example. (full story)
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 Israel's role in India’s escalating conflict with Pakistan posted by Robert Fisk via jaxie, 2019-02-28 22:18:55
When I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Airstrikes on a “terrorist camp” were the first words. A “command and control centre” destroyed, many “terrorists” killed. The military was retaliating for a “terrorist attack” on its troops, we were told. (full story)
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What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order? posted by Alfred W. McCoy via jason, 2019-02-28 21:33:30
Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not U.S. global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted that, by 2025, it would be all over for American power, a then-controversial comment that’s commonplace today. Under President Donald Trump, the once “indispensable nation” that won World War II and built a new world order has become dispensable indeed. (full story)
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 MH-370 and Victory For The Chagos Islanders (Diego Garcia) posted by John Pilger via gary, 2019-02-27 19:11:58
John Pilger, an independent, traditional, investigative journalist of the old school must be congratulated for his tireless efforts in making this issue known to the world and pursuing the case of the displaced and dispossessed Chagossians, which efforts recently culminated in a favourable legal decision for the Islanders who were illegally removed from their home in order for the Americans to appropriate and install a highly sophisticated communications military base on Diego Garcia, which base is suspected to be implicated in the disappearance of Malaysian airliner, MH-370. (full story)
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The Truth Is ... posted by darcy, 2019-02-25 15:54:58
The entire WORLD is sick and tired of US military interventions and interference from Washington. However, that reality hasn’t dented the delusional neocon dream that America owns the world and is able to dictate foreign policy to other sovereign nations from Washington. (full story)
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The Radical Sayings of Jesus -- Ignored Today posted by Mike Rivage-Seul via jane, 2019-02-24 20:47:20
Jesus, according to the Gospel narratives was a social reformer much as was his radical cousin, John the baptist. The narratives clearly and unmistakably depict Jesus as a champion of the oppressed and a despiser of the rich, wealthy and powerful elites, yet modern popular preachers and churches swimming in wealth pay little regard to his clearly political teachings of social reformation. Jesus himself labelled such as hypocrites and wolves in sheep's clothing. . (full story)
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Venezuela Should Take US to International Court posted by Jay Janson via cyd, 2019-02-23 21:36:23
Reuters reported that even prior to last Friday's clarification from the US Treasury, European buyers were already slashing purchases because of concerns over payments. Reuters reported that two of the world's largest oil traders, Vitol and Trafigura, said that they would comply with all US sanctions. (full story)
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Microsoft Workers Demand Company End Army Contract posted by Andrea Germanos via stella, 2019-02-23 18:42:16
"As employees and shareholders we do not want to become war profiteers." (full story)
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China’s Australian Coal Ban posted by Binoy Kampmark via gus, 2019-02-23 18:11:47
Indeed, the 'hole-in-ground,' resource limited Australian economy is proving, as it should, the gross incompetence of the DUNCE Australian government that imagined that non-diversification would not make the nation economically vulnerable. The 'she'll be right mate' attitude of incompetent government has recently been challenged by China that is issuing a not so subtle hint to the dunce Australian conservative government to cease its absurd kowtowing to Washington's anti-China political policies, and that such servile obsequiousness has a price. After all America is barely able to manage its own military interventionist resource theft based economy which precludes assisting Australia by increasing Australian resource imports. And so a price will be exacted by China on knee-walking (to Washington), custard faced, incompetent, servile Australian politicians and their bereft of real diversified sovereign policies aimed at the benefit of the Australian nation/people as opposed to serving Washington's insane, counter-productive militaristic policies. (full story)
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