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Bloomberg CIA Apologia accidentally vindicates China’s strict domestic policies
Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media.
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451 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians since early 2020, says new B’Tselem report
The Israeli human rights group said that these settler attacks are used as a “major informal tool” by the state of Israel to displace Palestinians in order to confiscate and annex their lands.
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Fake ‘shoplifting surge’ is just the latest in crime wave propaganda
The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.
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Friends of Cuba: oppose U.S. intervention
Seizing on small protests over shortages on the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN
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Debunking myths about Nicaragua’s 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS
The U.S., EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections. The Grayzone observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process.
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U.S. threatens regime change in Nicaragua
Nicaragua has been a target of U.S. aggressions since the 1850s. The Biden administration’s attack on the newly elected government is the latest chapter in a long and sordid history. Eyewitness accounts of the electoral process reveal the manipulations and lies concocted by the U.S. and its corporate media partners in this latest regime change effort.
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Military knows it looks bad but works with neo-Nazis anyway
The Canadian military seem willing, even eager, to work with neo-Nazis in the Ukraine in order to weaken Russia, something the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian–Canadian groups support.
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Politico’s Staff must toe new owner’s line—including endorsing Israel
It’s been a rough time for German media giant Axel Springer. The company ousted the top editor at Bild, one of its most influential right-wing newspapers, over sexual harassment charges (New York Times, 10/18/21).
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The Facebook team that tried to swing Nicaragua’s election is full of U.S. spies
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.
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SFSU President sides with tech giants on silencing of Palestinian voices
President Mahoney’s decision upholds the University’s acceptance of Big Tech’s increasing control over academic discussion, and its complicity with Zionist organizations.
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We have been lied to! Caleb Maupin from polling place in Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s electoral process far proceeds that of which the U.S. media has led the people of the United States to believe.
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Sandinistas poised to win election in Nicaragua despite U.S. sabotage and smears
Media repeats big lie that Nicaraguan migrants to the U.S. are escaping Ortega’s repression.
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‘Scandalize My Name: Stories From the Blacklist’
Documentary about the impact of the McCarthy era on African Americans in the film industry.
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“Dealin with the Devil”: musicians confront Joe Manchin at Kennedy Center concert
Senator Joe Manchin has emerged in recent weeks as the leading opponent of vital social programs to provide relief to working people in the areas of education, healthcare, the environment and much more.
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Miami’s ultra-right and its coercion against Cuban artists
Havana, Nov. 4 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Cuba highlighted today the methods of pressure that the extreme right of Miami, U.S., exerts on Cuban artists to take sides against the government of the island.
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Tripura Police books 102 people under UAPA for social media posts against communal violence
Opposition leaders have lashed out at the police’s ‘highhanded’ behaviour.
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Ecuador’s neoliberal government announces state emergency to impose austerity
The declaration of a state of emergency by Guillermo Lasso is more likely about quelling opposition than guaranteeing security for Ecuadorians.
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Words without action: the West’s role in Israel’s illegal settlement expansion
The international community has a political, and even legal, frame of reference regarding its position on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Unfortunately, however, it has no genuine political mandate, or the inclination to act individually or collectively, to bring this occupation to an end.
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Manufacturing ignorance: keeping the public away from power
Significant public activism and opposition to state-corporate power need to be rooted in widespread shared public knowledge.
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Facebook does the U.S. government’s censorship work in Nicaraguan elections
A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega.