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What very few people know is that Facebook was officially partnering with the Atlantic Council in the form of an “election partnership […] to prevent [their] service from being abused during elections.” Indeed, the US midterm elections are only a couple of weeks away, so the Atlantic Council and its Digital Forensic Research Lab are now going at it with full force,
The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do
Mass media portray Islamic societies to be intolerant of other’s religious and ideological persuasions. Authentic Islam—as contained in the pristine revelation of the Qur-an—promotes tolerance, harmony, and goodwill of all peoples despite their differences.
Let us share the wealth, and not poverty! Let us put an end to social inequality! We demand the immediate increase in salaries, welfare benefits, allowances and pensions, and the unconditional right to housing and health, education, free public services, for all
Brexit Lobby Meetings Dominated by Big Business, Civil Society Marginalised By True Publica, December 21, 2017
“Build a New Social and Economic System with Human Rights and Justice at its Core”. Jeremy Corbyn By Jeremy Corbyn, December 21, 2017
Journeying to Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 21, 2017
Urgent: Hassan Diab Needs Your Help! By Hassan Diab Support Committee, December 20, 2017
Latin America: The Political Pendulum Swings to the Right By Prof. James Petras, December 20, 2017
Hungary-Ukraine Relations: Transcarpathia and the “Western Front” By Andrew Korybko, December 19, 2017
Communists Sweep the Nepali Elections, a Blow to the Establishment Parties By Prof. Vijay Prashad, December 19, 2017
Team Trump Add Insult to Injury for the Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, December 19, 2017
Why Netanyahu Is Upset About UN Security Council Resolution 2334: The Total Illegality of Israel’s Settlements By Karin Brothers, December 19, 2017
Why Don Quixote? Solidarity and Cuba’s “Medical Internationalism” By Prof Susan Babbitt, December 18, 2017
Trump Administration Censorship: Banning Seven Words By Stephen Lendman, December 18, 2017
Creating the 21st Century Internet By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, December 17, 2017
Christmas Gift-Buying and the West’s Consumer Society: An Advent Calendar to “Beat the Devil” By Edward Curtin, December 16, 2017
Resistance and Reality: The Plight of Syrian Refugees Detained in Greece’s Samos Island By Chris Jones, December 15, 2017
Net Neutrality Repeal Is Only Part of Trump’s Surrender to Corporate Media By Reed Richardson, December 15, 2017
Racism in America: After Mississippi and Alabama Debacles Trump Sinks Deeper into Political Abyss By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 15, 2017
Net Neutrality Killed as FCC ‘Hands Keys to Internet to Handful of Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations’ By Julia Conley, December 15, 2017
Net Neutrality Foregone? FCC Votes to Kill Digital Democracy. Towards a Corporate Swamp of Media Disinformation? By Stephen Lendman, December 15, 2017
Israel Invites Saudis to Broker Peace While Terror-Bombing Gaza By Stephen Lendman, December 14, 2017
Istanbul Summit, More Bark Than Bite. Meeting of Top Officials from Islamic Countries By Stephen Lendman, December 14, 2017
Israel Amps Up Ethnic Cleansing in Order to Further Judaize Jerusalem By Jonathan Cook, December 13, 2017
Trump Declaration on Jerusalem Unleashes Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations Worldwide By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 13, 2017
Québec Solidaire Clarifies Its Support for Quebec Independence, But New Debates Lie Ahead By Richard Fidler, December 13, 2017
Thailand: US Creating “Space” for Destabilisation By Joseph Thomas, December 13, 2017
Poll: By 2-to-1, Americans Oppose Moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem By Eric Zuesse, December 13, 2017
The Death Toll Behind Corporate America’s Record Profits By Jerry White, December 13, 2017
Venezuelan Municipal Elections: Chavistas Score Overwhelming Triumph By Stephen Lendman, December 13, 2017
Grenfell Tower: Worst Example of Criminal Negligence in Modern British History By Hans Stehling, December 12, 2017
Canada and Honduras: Election Fraud Is Only the Latest Outrage in an Eight Year Nightmare By Tyler Shipley, December 12, 2017
“Net Neutrality”: FCC Chairman Pai Attempts to Rewrite the Legal History of a Bogus Agreement By Free Press, December 12, 2017
Trump White House Preparing Sweeping Attack on the Poor By Patrick Martin, December 12, 2017
State and Labour During Erdoğan’s AKP Rule in Turkey By Dr. Mehmet Erman Erol, December 11, 2017
The Dangers of Fracking Waste By Dr. Wendell G. Bradley, December 11, 2017
ICAN Statement on Nobel Peace Prize 2017 By International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, December 11, 2017
Peaceful Protest against the Joint US-Australia Pine Gap “Spy Hub”: The Fate of the “Pine Gap Pilgrims” Activists By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 09, 2017
South Yemen Will Regain Independence If It Follows These Six Steps By Andrew Korybko, December 09, 2017
124 Jewish Studies Scholars on Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration By Stephen Lendman, December 09, 2017
Israel Uses Live Fire Against Palestinian Protesters By Stephen Lendman, December 08, 2017
Ontario’s Election 2018: The Minimum Wage Hike and the Battle over #Fightfor15 By Quinton Ascah, December 08, 2017
Rage in Occupied Palestine By Stephen Lendman, December 08, 2017
Video: Slavery and NATO’s Libya Legacy By Robin Philpot and RT News, December 08, 2017
Can the American Left be Resurrected? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 07, 2017
Christian Community Responds: Open Letter to President Trump from Jerusalem’s Thirteen Heads of Churches By Patriarchs and Heads of Local Churches in Jerusalem, December 07, 2017
Honduras in Flames By Prof. Aaron Schneider, December 07, 2017
Muslim World Outrage While Trump Gloats over Jerusalem Decision By Stephen Lendman, December 07, 2017
Walking into Armageddon By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 06, 2017
Politicized Olympism: Banning Russia from the 2018 Winter Games By Stephen Lendman, December 06, 2017
Trump Tax Cut Plan Will Devastate Public Education By Patrick Martin, December 06, 2017
Protests Planned Nationwide as Vote on FCC’s ‘Catastrophic’ Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms By Jake Johnson, December 05, 2017
Washington Post’s One-Sided Cheerleading for Coup and Intervention in Venezuela By Adam Johnson, December 05, 2017
Canada’s Healthcare Funding Falls, Again By Doug Allan, December 05, 2017
No Money for Needy Children’s Healthcare in America By Stephen Lendman, December 05, 2017
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: Learning from Angerona, Cuba By Nora Fernandez, December 04, 2017
Jackboots in the Canadian Academy. Freedom of Expression and Inquiry Under Threat … Again. By Robin Mathews, December 04, 2017
The Not-So-Subtle Art of Protesting: Artists and the Public Space By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, December 04, 2017
Long Hours and Unequal Wage Gaps in Japan: Abe Shinzō’s Campaign to Reform the Japanese “Way of Work” By Shinji Kojima, Prof. Scott North, and Charles Weathers, December 03, 2017
Volunteers Create Worlds By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, December 02, 2017
Regime Change: Will Macedonia be Removed from the Map in 2018? By Andrew Korybko, December 02, 2017
Argentina Government Blocks Civil Society Attendance at WTO Summit in Buenos Aires, Critique of Neoliberalism Banned? By Friends of the Earth International, December 01, 2017
The US Congress Won’t Allow Palestinians To Complain to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Regarding Israel’s Land Theft and Settlements in the Occupied Territories. By James J. Zogby, December 01, 2017
The Imperialist Destruction of Libya. Impasse at the Fifth European Union-Africa Summit By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 30, 2017
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Case: Big Brother Society, CIA, NSA, FBI Spying on Americans By Stephen Lendman, November 30, 2017
Lawsuit Aims to Uncover How Government Surveils Journalists, Targets Them with Surveillance By Trevor Timm, November 30, 2017
We Will Not be Complicit in Israel’s System of Apartheid By Sawsan Bastawy, November 30, 2017
Hurricane Harvey Three Months On: Tens of Thousands Still Homeless from Worst Natural Disaster in US History By Joseph Kishore, November 30, 2017
Privatized Transport: Social Inequalities and the Neglect of Public Transit By James Wilt, November 29, 2017
Israel Plans to Block Arabs from Living in 1,000 Neighbourhoods By Middle East Monitor, November 29, 2017
Waiting for the American Dream By Edward Curtin, November 29, 2017
Farmers Storm India’s National Capital, Demanding Freedom from Debt and Better Price for Their Produce By Via Campesina, November 29, 2017
Subverting Authoritarianism by Empowering Learners and Democratizing Education By Anthony C. Clemons, November 28, 2017
The Responsibility of Freedom. Block the Despots. Turn the Tide of History By Julian Rose, November 28, 2017
The Dark Inevitability of Zionism By Prof. Lawrence Davidson, November 27, 2017
Glyphosate
Massive Citizen Initiative Demands Ban of Monsanto’s Glyphosate in All 50 States By Marcus Dorsum, November 27, 2017
Will Trump’s Telecom Deregulation & NAFTA Talks Undermine Net Neutrality in Canada? By Brent Patterson, November 27, 2017
Video: Treatment of Native Americans by Colonialists. Marlon Brando Denounces Fake US History By Marlon Brando, November 27, 2017
Libya Slave Trade Shows How Africans Are Treated as Subhuman By Fred Muvunyi, November 27, 2017
Trump Wants Welfare in America Ended By Stephen Lendman, November 26, 2017
FCC Commissioner Begs Nation to Stop GOP Colleagues from Killing Net Neutrality By Andrea Germanos, November 26, 2017
A Less than Modest Proposal to End the War in Yemen. “I am Writing This on Thanksgiving Eve” By George Capaccio, November 26, 2017
CNN Breaks Story on Slave Trade in Libya; French Government Voices Concern for African Migrants By Gerald A. Perreira, November 26, 2017