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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
Amnesty International Calls for End to Hassan Diab’s Imprisonment as New Evidence Further Confirms His Innocence By Hassan Diab Support Committee, June 23, 2017
After the Greek Experiment, a Sequel in the EU: Turning Cyprus into a Protectorate! By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, June 23, 2017
Video: War and Peace in Israel / Palestine: A Historical Perspective By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, June 23, 2017
Israel Displaced 67% of Palestinians in 1948 By Middle East Monitor, June 22, 2017
Death on the Road: Memory in Australia’s Tim Winton’s Shrine By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 22, 2017
Closing Democracy’s Doors Until the People Open Them By Ralph Nader, June 22, 2017
Huge Advances by Syrian Army Transform Syrian War By Alexander Mercouris, June 22, 2017
Towards a Legally Binding Ban on Nuclear Weapons By Kathy Kelly, June 22, 2017
“Self-determination”: Why Kosovo Will Never Become Part of Albania By Jasna Krivokapiceva, June 21, 2017
Israel’s Dirty Little Secret By Philip Giraldi, June 21, 2017
Criminal Investigation against Tory Government into Grenfell Tower Tragedy Rather than a Public Inquiry By Aamer Anwar and RT News, June 21, 2017
After Fifty Years of Occupation of Palestine, What’s Next: Open Letter to President Mahmoud Abbas By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, June 21, 2017
Rabbi Calls for Poisoning of Palestinian Water Supply By International Middle East Media Center, June 21, 2017
The Yemenite Children’s Affair: Israel’s National Wound That Cannot Heal By Haggai Matar, June 20, 2017
The ICC Should Be on Trial Not Saif Gaddafi By Richard Galustian, June 20, 2017
Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States By John Stanton, June 20, 2017
Facebook
UK and France Propose Automated Censorship of Online Content By Ed Johnson-Williams, June 20, 2017
Trump Cuba Policy: What Will Happen in Coming Months? By Arnold August, June 20, 2017
The Ineffable Reality of American Democracy. Who is Interfering in US Politics? Russia or Israel? By William Hanna, June 20, 2017
Mahatma Gandhi, We Need Your Voice Today! By John Scales Avery, June 19, 2017
Precarious Work: Contract Faculty in the Neoliberal University By Socialist Project, June 19, 2017
Culture and Criticism: The Radical Historical Promise of Wandering Dialogues in Cuba By Prof Susan Babbitt, June 19, 2017
Blockade or No Blockade? Saudi Arabia’s ‘Mission-Qatar’ Tumbles Down By Salman Rafi Sheikh, June 19, 2017
Trump Takes Aim at Obama’s Détente with Cuba By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, June 19, 2017
China’s Migrant Worker Poetry By Megan Walsh, June 19, 2017
Time to Revitalize the Anti-War Movement By Canadian Union of Postal Workers, June 19, 2017
Morsi May Die in an Egyptian Prison. It’s Time the British Government Spoke Up By Peter Oborne, June 18, 2017
The Threat to Indonesian Democracy in the New Gilded Age of Donald Trump By Prof Peter Dale Scott, June 17, 2017
Extrajudicial Executions and Torture of Palestinians: Israel Attempts to Block Yet Another UN Report By Middle East Monitor, June 17, 2017
Call to Action on June 21: Please Phone PM Trudeau to Free Hassan Diab! By Hassan Diab Support Committee, June 17, 2017
Palestinians
When Will Israel Realize Palestinians Shall Never Give Up? By Barbara Nimri Aziz, June 17, 2017
Labour’s Permanent Reformation By Prof. Benjamin Selwyn, June 16, 2017
Canada: Patients Subject to Thousands of Dollars in Extra User-Fees for Healthcare By Canadian Health Coalition, June 16, 2017
Venezuela: Grassroots Challenges Facing the Bolivarian Process By Stalin Perez Borges and Federico Fuentes, June 16, 2017
UN Last Hurdle Before Israel Can Rid Itself of the Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, June 15, 2017
Private Billing and Health Clinics: Rebuild Capacity in Canada’s Public Hospitals By Natalie Mehra, June 15, 2017
Palestine and the Unfinished Six Day War: Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, June 13, 2017
Israeli PM Calls for Dismantling of UN Palestinian Refugee Agency By Middle East Monitor, June 13, 2017
Going for Regime-Change in Doha By Abdel Bari Atwan, June 12, 2017
Padre Miguel d’Escoto: Nicaragua’s Chancellor of Peace and Dignity By Tortilla Con Sal, June 11, 2017
Dreams of Detention By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 09, 2017
How Britain Helped Create ISIS By Steven MacMillan, June 09, 2017
Lessons from Portland’s Clash with Fascists By Shamus Cooke, June 09, 2017
Fifty Years Later: Myths and Facts About the Six Day War By Richard Becker, June 09, 2017
London Wolves: Third London Bridge Attacker Was on EU Watch List – Talked Terrorism with Security By Shawn Helton, June 08, 2017
The London Bridge Attack and What Is Behind the String of Terrorism By Brandon Turbeville, June 08, 2017
Cambodia: Communities in Protracted Struggle Against Chinese Sugar Companies’ Land Grab By Grain, June 08, 2017
Western Sanctions Hit Syrian Medical Services and Hospitals, Aggravate Humanitarian Crisis By Firas Samuri, June 08, 2017
Tyranny in Britain. Theresa May’s Domestic War against Muslims By Stephen Lendman, June 08, 2017
Six-Day War, 50-Year Occupation — What Really Happened in June 1967? By Norman Finkelstein and IMEMC, June 07, 2017
When Will the Israeli Left Accept the Occupation Started in 1948, Not 1967? By Rami Younis, June 07, 2017
The Amnesty Decree for Militants at Work for Syrian People’s Benefit By Sophie Mangal, June 06, 2017
London, Manchester, Paris et al – State Sponsored Terror, Again and Again? By Peter Koenig, June 06, 2017
The West’s War on Free Speech By Tony Cartalucci, June 06, 2017
Net Neutrality’s Days Are Numbered: Trump and Theresa May Want Internet Freedom Curbed By Stephen Lendman, June 05, 2017
Palestine’s West Bank: Fifty Years of Immoral Occupation By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, June 05, 2017
Dubious Protest “#March for Truth”. Targeting Trump for the Wrong Reasons By Stephen Lendman, June 04, 2017
The Solution is in the Hands of the People of Afghanistan: The US Must Leave for Peace to Reign in Afghanistan By RAWA and Edu Montesanti, June 04, 2017
London Bridge/Borough Market Incident: What’s Going On? By Stephen Lendman, June 04, 2017
London Bridge Attacks: Who Knew, Who Benefits the Most? By Shawn Helton, June 04, 2017
Bahraini Court Convicts Shiites’ Spiritual Leader as Trump Meets King Hamad By Alwaght, June 03, 2017
Serbia and the Balkans Wars: The Future Belongs to Those Who Do Not Surrender By Milos Kovic, June 03, 2017
The Differences Between the Conservatives and Labour Are Defined and Stark By Graham Peebles, June 02, 2017
The Plot to Scapegoat Russia By W.T. Whitney Jr., June 02, 2017
Why is ISIS Operating in the Philippines? By Stephen Lendman, June 02, 2017
Israel’s Occupation Is Morally Indefensible By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, June 02, 2017
Left Forum Bans “Deep State” Panels: Speakers Refuse to be Silenced, Come to the “Left Out Forum”! By Left Forum, June 02, 2017
Jihad 2.0: The Making of the Next Nightmare By Pepe Escobar, June 02, 2017
War, Martial Law, and the Economic Crisis By Prof Peter Dale Scott, June 01, 2017
Israel Has No Legal Right to Offer Land Tenders in West Bank By PNN, June 01, 2017
Former ICC Official Says Israel Will Be Convicted of War Crimes By Middle East Monitor, June 01, 2017
Rwanda: Starvation in the Shadow of a Star. What is Kagame Trying to Hide? By Ann Garrison, June 01, 2017
Tennis Player Margaret Court and Same-Sex Woes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 31, 2017
Brazil’s Movement against Temer: 150,000 People Filled the Enormous Copacabana Beach Demanding “Direct Elections Now!” By Fania Rodrigues and Mariana Pitasse, May 31, 2017
Prime Minister Trudeau does not Conflate Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, May 31, 2017
How Israeli Moves in Jerusalem Are Scotching Trump’s ‘Ultimate Deal’ By Jonathan Cook, May 30, 2017
The Manchester Bombing: A Case of State Criminal Negligence or Worse? By Adeyinka Makinde, May 30, 2017
The Meaning of Assange’s Persecution By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, May 30, 2017
Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Company Hired “War on Terror” Contractors to Suppress Native Uprising By Lauren McCauley, May 29, 2017
Right-Wing Terrorism in Venezuela By Frederick B. Mills and William Camacaro, May 29, 2017