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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
Free Speech in Canada Suppressed and Negated By Mark Taliano, May 06, 2017
UK’s Extreme Surveillance Laws – Bolstered By New Extreme Anti Free Speech Laws By True Publica, May 05, 2017
Greater Albania and the Balkans By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 05, 2017
Trump’s Indonesian Allies in Bed with ISIS-Backed FPI Militia: They Seek to Oust Elected President Jokowi By Allan Nairn and Prof Peter Dale Scott, May 05, 2017
Is France’s Fifth Republic About to Marry Macron? A Proxy for Globalist Forces By Oriental Review, May 05, 2017
May Day Marches Against Trump: Confusion or Worse? By Prof Susan Babbitt, May 05, 2017
Chemical Weapons and Media Disinformation: Venezuela’s President Maduro Accused of Using “Toxic Weapons” against Protesters By Nino Pagliccia, May 04, 2017
Slavehood 2017: Social Chaos and Global Warfare. “Puppet Leaders’ Greed for Power and Money” By Peter Koenig, May 04, 2017
The General Strike in Brazil. History and Analysis By Luísa Monteiro, May 03, 2017
May Day 2017 in Detroit Focuses on the Economic Crises and Racial Oppression By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 03, 2017
Myanmar Dodges Human Rights Abuses against the Rohingya Minority, with US-EU Help By Joseph Thomas, May 03, 2017
American Democracy: A Dead Man Walking By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 03, 2017
May Day in France: Trade Union Calls to Support Macron Fall Flat By Francis Dubois, May 02, 2017
Abbas Fears the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike; 6500 Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails By Jonathan Cook, May 02, 2017
Killing Your Own People By John Kozy, May 02, 2017
Who Is Behind Washington’s Coup Plot in Venezuela? By Misión Verdad, May 01, 2017
No, the NSA Has NOT Stopped Spying On Americans’ Emails By Washington's Blog, May 01, 2017
Trump v. FDR’s First Hundred Days. “Sold out to Wall Street, War-profiteers, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Breaking every Positive Promise Made” By Stephen Lendman, April 30, 2017
Brazil’s National Strike Against Temer’s Neoliberal Reforms: Photo Gallery By The Dawn News, April 30, 2017
35 Million-Strong Strike Against Temer’s Neoliberal Reforms Brings Brazil to a Halt By Telesur, April 30, 2017
Mass Movement in South Korea against THAAD Missile Deployment By Zoom in Korea, April 29, 2017
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! The Potential Reopening of Mumia’s Appeals By Prison Radio, April 28, 2017
Blairites Declare UK Labour Party Unelectable. Tony Blair Sides with Tories and Liberals against Jeremy Corbyn By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden, April 28, 2017
Free Marwan Barghouti! Free The Prisoners! Free Palestine! By Christopher Black, April 28, 2017
Trump’s Hundred Days of Rage and Rapacity By Ralph Nader, April 28, 2017
Illegal Occupation: Israeli and Palestinian Women Must Raise the Banner of Revolt By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, April 28, 2017
Fake Terrorist Accusations against University of Ottawa Prof. Hassan Diab. Bring Him Back to Canada By Hassan Diab Support Committee, April 27, 2017
India and the British Empire: Historical Origins of The Contemporary Naxalite Insurgency By Great Game India, April 26, 2017
Haiti and the Empire’s “Collaborators”: Guy Philippe Is A Criminal, Not a Hero By Ezili Dantò, April 26, 2017
Finance Capital and Neo-Fascism: The French Elections Mirror the Crises of Western States By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 26, 2017
‘Il Duce’ Sultan: Will Turkey Turn Into an Islamofascist State? By Dr. Can Erimtan, April 26, 2017
Critical Thinking: A Bridge to the Future By Arthur D. Robbins, April 26, 2017
The Legacy of Lynne Stewart, The People’s Lawyer By Barbara Nimri Aziz, April 26, 2017
Populism, Neoliberalism, and Distributive Justice By Lawrence R. Alschuler, April 25, 2017
Kosovo Serbs ‘Terrified’ by Proposed Creation of “Greater Albania” By Sputnik, April 24, 2017
Neoliberal Globalization: In the Shadow of Social Democracy, Right-Wing Challenges and Left Alternatives By Ingo Schmidt, April 24, 2017
Venezuela Calls for Expanding Armed Civilian Militias To Counter U.S.-Backed Opposition By Mint Press, April 24, 2017
Breaking, French Elections: Macron versus Le Pen in Run-off. Discredited Socialist Party. A Vote against Neoliberalism By Diana Johnstone, April 23, 2017
Breaking: French Presidential Election: Macron and Le Pen in Run-Off? By Stephen Lendman, April 23, 2017
A Personality Cult that Plays on Popular Fears: How Erdogan Won the Turkish Referendum By Prof. Tahir Abbas, April 23, 2017
France’s Election at Gunpoint By Alex Lantier, April 23, 2017
Ice and Busts: The Lost War on Drugs in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 21, 2017
If This is Freedom and Democracy, What is Tyranny? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and John W. Whitehead, April 21, 2017
A Sad Day for Turkey By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, April 21, 2017
Cyprus and the Death of Democracy in Turkey By Andreas C Chrysafis, April 20, 2017
End Game: The War Machine Goes On By Arthur D. Robbins, April 20, 2017
Referendum Result Sets Up Authoritarian Rule in Turkey By Asad Ismi, April 20, 2017
Just How Bad Has The Police State in America Really Got? By John W. Whitehead, April 19, 2017
Military
Trump, a Symptom of What? By Prof. Ira Chernus, April 18, 2017
The Return of Commercial Prison Labour By Christoph Scherrer, April 18, 2017
Historical Origins of the State: Barbarians at the Gate By Arthur D. Robbins, April 12, 2017
Vietnam War: The Life and Times of a South Vietnamese Special Police Officer By Douglas Valentine, April 11, 2017
Russia-Baiting Pushed Trump to Attack Syria — and Increases the Risks of Nuclear Annihilation By Norman Solomon, April 10, 2017
The US has Committed heinous Crimes in Afghanistan: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) By Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan and Edu Montesanti, April 07, 2017
Love, Western Nihilism and Revolutionary Optimism By Andre Vltchek, April 05, 2017
“Prison Aid” to Haiti for Captive Slave Labor By Dady Chery, April 05, 2017
The Silent Cries of Hiding Children: Fifty Years After MLK’s Riverside Church Speech By Edward Curtin, April 05, 2017
Israel Steps Up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott BDS Leaders By Jonathan Cook, April 05, 2017
George Orwell and Martin Luther King: April 4th, 1984 and April 4th, 1968 By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, April 05, 2017
Energizing the Anti-War Movement: The Black Alliance for Peace By Ajamu Baraka, April 05, 2017
The Bloodstained Rise of Global Populism By Prof Alfred McCoy, April 04, 2017
The Hijacking of France (from Donald Trump to Marine Le Pen) By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, April 04, 2017
UN Investigators By Common Dreams, April 03, 2017
War and the State: Federated Governments, the Nation versus the State By Arthur D. Robbins, April 02, 2017
Video: The Russian-Iranian Alliance: Aims, Objectives and Differences By South Front, March 31, 2017
Did the US Government Spy on Trump? Of Course. It Spies on All of Us! By Rep. Ron Paul, March 31, 2017
African Politics and the World Situation By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 31, 2017
Remembering Ahmed Kathrada, South Africa’s National Liberation Icon By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 31, 2017
South Africa: Why Mining and Violence are Inextricably Linked By Jasper Finkeldey, March 30, 2017
So Who Annexed the Crimean Peninsula Then? By Arina Tsukanova, March 30, 2017
Peace Accords or Political Surrender? Latin America, the Middle East, Ukraine By Prof. James Petras, March 27, 2017
Democracy
Airport Security, Tablets and Laptops: The Electronics Ban and Lessons in Futility By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 27, 2017
The Pro-Europeans Make Their Voice Heard – London’s Anti-Brexit March By Lesley Docksey, March 27, 2017
Trump = Obama = Bush = Clinton, On Four Core Issues By Washington's Blog, March 27, 2017
Somalia: US Covert Operations (2001-2016) By The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, March 26, 2017
“The Whole Brou-Ha-Ha Over Contacts with Russian Diplomats Has Taken On All The Earmarks of a Witch Hunt … “ By Jack Matlock, March 24, 2017
Democratic Party Floats “Proposal” For A “Palace Coup” against Trump By Andre Damon, March 24, 2017
Resistance against South African Apartheid, Racism and Settler-Colonialism: Remembering Peter Tosh and the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre By Ajamu Nangwaya, March 24, 2017
Australia Blows Israel’s Credibility on Its “World Vision” Sham Accusations By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, March 23, 2017
Palestine: “There’s No Conflict, There’s An Illegal Occupation” By Edu Montesanti, March 23, 2017