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The Real Economic Numbers: 21.5 Percent Unemployment, 10 Percent Inflation and Negative Economic Growth

[Economic] The Real Economic Numbers: 21.5 Percent Unemployment, 10 Percent Inflation and Negative Economic Growth By Michael Snyder Posted June 20, 2018 Economist John Williams of shadowstats.com has been tracking what our key economic numbers would look like if...

Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good

[Media] Atlantic Council Explains Why We Need To Be Propagandized For Our Own Good by Caitlin Johnstone Posted June 20, 2018 The western empire is ruled by a loose transnational alliance of plutocrats and secretive government agencies. That loose alliance is your real...

The court’s decision to let AT&T and Time Warner merge is ridiculously bad

[Justice] The court’s decision to let AT&T and Time Warner merge is ridiculously bad By Nilay Patel Posted June 19, 2018 AT&T and Time Warner won a historic court victory this week, convincing Judge Richard Leon in the US District Court for the District of...

Do You like It, Senator, When The Deep State Works Against You?

[Politics] Do You like It, Senator, When The Deep State Works Against You? by Jeremiah Johnson Posted June 19, 2018 Too many middlemen between the event and the American people, to include elected officials and bureaucrats, and the press. Where is the news? Where has...

Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear

[Justice] Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear By John W. Whitehead Posted June 16, 2018 What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out...

Internal Emails Show FDA is Withholding the Fact that Foods in Your Pantry are Laced with Toxic Weedkiller

[Community] Internal Emails Show FDA is Withholding the Fact that Foods in Your Pantry are Laced with Toxic Weedkiller by Alex Pietrowski Posted June 15, 2018 Glyphosate is Monsanto’s flagship herbicide, appearing in hundreds of agricultural and gardening products,...

How Facebook, Etc., Suppress Key Truths

[Media] How Facebook, Etc., Suppress Key Truths by Eric Zuesse Posted June 14, 2018 What is especially pernicious is that Facebook deliberately imposes this censorship in a secretive way. The primary mechanism when a block is imposed by Facebook is that my posts to...

Syria – A Case Study in Propaganda

[Media] Syria – A Case Study in Propaganda by Chris Kanthan Posted June 13, 2018 Dear diary, many of my colleagues are unhappy about the recent events in Syria. They are unhappy that Assad is still in power. However, I see the metaphorical glass as being half full. In...

‘New York Times’ Teams Up with Israel to Smear Slain Medic Razzan al-Najjar as ‘Complex,’ Not Innocent

[Media] ‘New York Times’ Teams Up with Israel to Smear Slain Medic Razzan al-Najjar as ‘Complex,’ Not Innocent By Donald Johnson, James North, and Philip Weiss Posted June 12, 2018 The New York Times today printed a long article giving credence to Israeli claims that...

How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today

[Politics] How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today by Philip M. Giraldi Posted June 12, 2018 The lesson that should be learned from Syria and Skripal is that if “an incident” looks like it has no obvious motive behind it, there is a high probability that it is...

A Dangerous Escalation in “The War on Leaks”

[Justice] A Dangerous Escalation in “The War on Leaks” By Andrea Peterson Posted June 11, 2018 The New York Times reported that a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer, James Wolfe, was arrested Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of...

California Senate votes to restore net neutrality

[Media] California Senate votes to restore net neutrality By Makena Kelly Posted June 4, 2018 The California Senate voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December....

Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics

[Media] Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics By Nicholas West Posted May 31, 2018 Amid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users’ private data, there is an...

Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show

[Media] Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show by Joseph Cox Posted May 26, 2018 A Motherboard investigation has found that law enforcement agencies across the country have purchased GrayKey, a relatively cheap tool for bypassing the encryption...

When Zionism Rubs Up Against Reality

[Justice] When Zionism Rubs Up Against Reality by Stanley L. Cohen Posted May 25, 2018 Israel is good at what it does. Damn good. No, not its slaughter, torture and endless detention and land theft; these are givens. A dark, very public, almost proud record of...

The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping Off

[Social] The Friendly Mask Of The Orwellian Oligarchy Is Slipping Off by Caitlin Johnstone Posted May 24, 2018 It really couldn’t be more fitting that the US now has an actual, literal torturer as the head of the CIA. It also couldn’t be more fitting that it has a...

I Am Julian Assange

[Justice] I Am Julian Assange Raúl Ilargi Meijer Posted May 22, 2018 Julian Assange appears to be painfully close to being unceremoniously thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. If that happens, the consequences for journalism, for freedom of speech, and for...

RED FLAG: Homeland Security Hiring “Media Monitoring Services” to Compile Journalist and Media Influencer Database

[Social] RED FLAG: Homeland Security Hiring “Media Monitoring Services” to Compile Journalist and Media Influencer Database By The Daily Bell Staff Posted May 21, 2018 The DHS wants the ultimate surveillance dashboard where they can know real time anything anyone is...

Who is Behind “Fake News”? Fake Videos and Images

[Media] Who is Behind “Fake News”? Fake Videos and Images By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Posted May 18, 2018 While the independent and alternative media (including Global Research) are accused of publishing “fake news”, the routine publication of “fake news” by the...

Surveillance Self-Defense

[Media] Surveillance Self-Defense by Electronic Frontier Foundation Posted May 15, 2018 If you’ve ever worried about protecting the privacy of your digital data or your conversations with others, we’re here to help. Surveillance Self-Defense is a digital security...

The Dangers of Big City Subsidies

[Media] The Dangers of Big City Subsidies by Susan Crawford Posted May 14, 2018 America, alone among developed nations, never thought of basic telecommunications services as a public service, to be built and controlled by the government. Instead, we have traditionally...

2018: When Orwell’s 1984 Stopped Being Fiction

[Media] 2018: When Orwell’s 1984 Stopped Being Fiction By Jonathan Cook Posted May 10, 2018 This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog on power – formally abandons the task. This is...

Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall

[Media] Cloak and Data: The Real Story Behind Cambridge Analytica’s Rise and Fall by Andy Kroll Posteed May 7, 2018 The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasn’t its real victory. The blowback from the Cambridge Analytica...

It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked. I Spent Two Years Finding Out

[Media] It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked. I Spent Two Years Finding Out by Micah Lee Posted May 3, 2018 Digital security specialists like me get some version of this question all the time: “I think my laptop may have been infected with malware....

Unmitigated Failure: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 15 Years Later

[Politics] Unmitigated Failure: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 15 Years Later by Major Danny Sjursen Posted April 30, 2018 The story has been told so many times, that the tragedy doesn’t warrant a full recounting. Here’s the short version: poor intelligence and dubious...

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech

[Justice] The Palestine Exception to Free Speech by Center for Constitutional Rights Posted April 29, 2018 Over the last decade, a dynamic movement in support of Palestinian human rights, particularly active in US colleges and universities, has helped raise public...

Canadian authorities charging teenager for downloading public records

[Justice] Canadian authorities charging teenager for downloading public records By Katitza Rodriguez and Aaron Mackey Posted April 26, 2018 Canadian authorities should drop charges against a 19-year-old Canadian accused of “unauthorized use of a computer service” for...

The Pentagon & Hollywood’s successful and deadly propaganda alliance

[Media] The Pentagon & Hollywood’s successful and deadly propaganda alliance by Michael McCaffrey Posted April 23, 2018 The Pentagon helps Hollywood to make money and, in turn, Hollywood churns out effective propaganda for the brutal American war machine. The US...

7 Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren’t Being Asked

[Media] 7 Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren’t Being Asked by Richard Eskow Posted April 18, 2018 The national security establishment and the corporate media have been promoting a confrontational approach, but they’ve been unable to explain how that would...

Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies

[Media] Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies By Zack Whittaker Posted April 15, 2018 Got nothing to hide? Think again. Privacy is what sets us apart from the animals. It’s also what sets many countries and citizens apart...

Entering the Ring of War Propaganda

[Media] Entering the Ring of War Propaganda By Mark Taliano Posted April 13, 2018 Western populations are inundated with war propaganda, and all of the main stream media is guilty. It serves to promote criminal warfare rather than peace. Once we enter the ring of...

When A Government Declares A Verdict Before An Investigation, It’s Because There’s A Preexisting Agenda

[Politics] When A Government Declares A Verdict Before An Investigation, It’s Because There’s A Preexisting Agenda by Caitlin Johnstone Posted April 11, 2018 Hours after an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria, long before any investigation into the...

America’s News Media Foment Hate

[Media] America’s News Media Foment Hate by Eric Zuesse Posted April 10, 2018 The American people would not tolerate, even for just ten seconds, Russia overthrowing Canada’s Government — our next-door neighbor — in order to place missiles on our border, but people who...

The Upside of Corporate Internet Censorship

[Media] The Upside of Corporate Internet Censorship by Dylan Charles Posted April 9, 2018 In 2015, Matt Drudge of Drudge Report issued a warning to all independent journalist and individuals participating in the information revolution. He warned that we were swiftly...

I’ve been targeted by US propagandists: Washington’s Information Warfare has included Fake News and Trolling for Years

[Media] I’ve been targeted by US propagandists: Washington’s Information Warfare has included Fake News and Trolling for Years By Dave Lindorff Posted April 7, 2018 The howling in government and the corporate media and among many liberals about an alleged...

Where Is the Outrage About Julian Assange’s Silencing?

[Media] Where Is the Outrage About Julian Assange’s Silencing? by Teodrose Fikre Posted April 6, 2018 Tyrants throughout history have targeted journalists and reporters for a reason. Napoleon Bonaparte, a savage dictator, once noted that four hostile newspapers...

To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did

[Media] To Stop War, Do What Katharine Gun Did By Norman Solomon Posted March 29, 2018 Daniel Ellsberg has a message that managers of the warfare state don’t want people to hear. “If you have information that bears on deception or illegality in pursuing wrongful...

Stanford Researcher: Americans Aren’t More Polarized; Only The Media and Political Elite Are

[Politics] Stanford Researcher: Americans Aren’t More Polarized; Only The Media and Political Elite Are by Shawn M. Griffiths Posted March 29, 2018 A Stanford political scientist is stating what Independent Voter Network has reported for a long time now: Americans are...

Russia Did It! Or maybe not…

[Politics] Russia Did It! Or maybe not… by Chris Martenson Posted March 28, 2018 While the rush to judgment against Russia has been nearly universal by western countries, I would ask us all to please take a deep breath and to remember this: Saddam...

Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes. Will Erode Privacy Protections Worldwide

[Media] Responsibility Deflected, the CLOUD Act Passes. Will Erode Privacy Protections Worldwide By David Ruiz Posted March 26, 2018 Make no mistake—you spoke up. You emailed your representatives. You told them to protect privacy and to reject the CLOUD Act, including...