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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
Palestine and the Balfour Declaration, Explained in Eight Memes
 By Rima Najjar, November 05, 2017
US, UK, French Governments Call for Killing Citizens Affiliated with ISIS; Remembering Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution By Prof Susan Babbitt, November 05, 2017
What Is the Aim of Nippon Kaigi, the Ultra-Right Organization that Supports Japan’s Abe Administration? By Tawara Yoshifumi and Tomomi Yamaguchi, November 04, 2017
UN Security Council Sanctions Constitute a “Collective Punishment” against the People of North Korea By Carla Stea, November 04, 2017
The Post-Fukushima Legacy: Nuclear Energy in Asia, South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Industry By Lauren Richardson, November 03, 2017
South Koreans to Protest Against ‘War Maniac’ Trump By Julian Ryall, November 03, 2017
UN Panel: Sanctions Needed Against Israel to Stop Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine By Darius Shahtahmasebi, November 03, 2017
First Indigenous Map of Its Kind; US Map Displays “Our Own Names and Locations” By nativeamericanpride.co, November 03, 2017
The Toxic Legacy of Balfour and British Colonialism in Israel-Palestine By Richard Silverstein, November 03, 2017
Catalan Premier Appeals to EU as Opposition Mounts to Madrid’s Crackdown By Alex Lantier, November 02, 2017
Balfour Declaration: Britain Broke Its Feeble Promise to the Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, November 02, 2017
How the Corporate and State Sponsored Media Transform Reality into Fiction By Peter Dudink, November 02, 2017
Home Demolition in Delhi: Thousands Rendered Homeless, Kathputli Artists’ Colony Demolished, Death of Democracy! By Ankit Jha, November 01, 2017
New Israeli Police Unit Tasked with Tightening Grip on Aqsa Mosque By The Palestinian Information Center, November 01, 2017
Responding to Hysteria: Anti-Refugee Sentiment on Greece’s Samos Island By Chris Jones, November 01, 2017
Hope and Despair In Delhi: Impoverished Patients Living on the Pavements Outside AIIMS Public Health Clinics By Rajat Mishra, November 01, 2017
Hamas: Balfour Declaration Crime of Century By The Palestinian Information Center, November 01, 2017
The Balfour Declaration: A Country in Denial over 100 Years of Betrayal By Chris Doyle, November 01, 2017
Racism, Propaganda and Wars By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, November 01, 2017
Communiqué on the Situation in Catalonia By Anticapitalistas, November 01, 2017
The Canada-Israel Nexus By Jim Miles, October 31, 2017
US Congressional Hearings on “Extremist Content” Prepare Assault on Free Speech By Andre Damon, October 31, 2017
Socialism and Anti-imperialism Spirit in Caracas By Nino Pagliccia, October 31, 2017
Unfolding Peasant Rebellion in India By Sandeep Banerjee, October 30, 2017
20,000 Nazis March in Kiev. The Western Media Somehow Fails to Notice By Bryan Macdonald, October 30, 2017
What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter? By Paul Street, October 30, 2017
Chaos on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island: Australia’s Manus Island Refugee Detention Centre By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 30, 2017
There Are Human Beings in North Korea. Neither Wealthy Nor Poor By Kim Petersen, October 30, 2017
India, Travesty of Justice: Delhi University Professor G.N. Saibaba’s Life in Danger, Branded a Maoist, Sentenced to Life Imprisonment By Countercurrents.org, October 30, 2017
Detroit’s Invisible Majority and the Crises of Municipal Governance By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 30, 2017
Political Persecution of Norman Finkelstein By Stephen Lendman, October 30, 2017
The Catalan Declaration of Independence By Wee Ginger Dug, October 30, 2017
Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration By Stephen Lendman, October 30, 2017
Balkanisation, Myanmar and the US “Pivot to Asia” directed against China By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, October 29, 2017
Concerted Destabilization Campaign Seeks to Overthrow the Kenyan Government By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 29, 2017
Strafing Parliament: Australia’s High Court Citizenship Ruling By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 29, 2017
How Does South Korea View the US-North Korea Conflict? By Choi Eun-a and Zoom in Korea, October 29, 2017
Gandhi Jayanti
A Nonviolent Strategy to End Violence and Avert Human Extinction. The Teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King By Robert J. Burrowes, October 28, 2017
Death Toll Mounts in Togolese Governmental Repression of Mass Demonstrations By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 28, 2017
America’s Oligarchy: No Money for Opioid Crisis, Endless Funds for Corporate Tax Cuts By Andre Damon, October 28, 2017
Spain Imposes Military Rule in Catalonia to Preempt Independence Bid By Alex Lantier and Alejandro López, October 28, 2017
Canada: Labor Rights and Public Sector Unionization By Doug Allan, October 26, 2017
Antifa in Theory and in Practice By Diana Johnstone, October 25, 2017
How ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’. “The Violence-as-Beauty Rhetoric Is At the Core of These Movements” By Chris Hedges, October 25, 2017
The Weinstein Empire: Extreme as “Normal” By Barbara Nimri Aziz, October 25, 2017
Ten Reasons Why the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Won the Election By Prof. James Petras, October 25, 2017
Our Ever-Deadlier Police State By Chris Hedges, October 25, 2017
America’s Plans for its Myanmar Client State By Tony Cartalucci, October 25, 2017
South Korean Progressive Parties Merge to Complete Candlelight Revolution By Zoom in Korea, October 25, 2017
Setting the Stage to Commit a Massacre in Gaza By Ilan Pappe, October 24, 2017
Angels, Dolphins and the World Festival of Youth and Students: Condemning Lies that Violate By Prof Susan Babbitt, October 24, 2017
Cuban Workers Condemn US Blockade By ACN, October 24, 2017
Food, Agriculture and the Global Ecology: Rolling Back the Tide of Pesticide Poison, Corruption and Looming Mass Extinction By Colin Todhunter, October 24, 2017
Environmental Protest in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 24, 2017
Catalan Regional Government Coup? Images of Police Violence Fake? By Stephen Lendman, October 24, 2017
Medicaid Is a Scam By Richard Hugus, October 23, 2017
World Food Prize: Feeding the World a Slick Campaign of Lies By Katherine Paul, October 23, 2017
Madrid Imposes Direct Rule Over Catalonia By Stephen Lendman, October 22, 2017
Dickenson, Texas Residents Told No Hurricane Harvey Relief Funds If You’re Against Israel By Stephen Lendman, October 22, 2017
EU Summit Endorses Spain’s Threat of Police-Military Occupation of Catalonia By Alex Lantier, October 22, 2017
60 Parliamentarians Urge UK Government Action on Gaza Emergency By Medical Aid for Palestinians and Richard Burden, October 22, 2017
Video: Regime Change in Latin America By Timothy Alexander Guzman, October 21, 2017
Shattered Glass Houses of Zionist Pawns. Belgium and Norway Turn a Blind Eye to Israeli Atrocities By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, October 21, 2017
Mexico Awaits the NAFTA Bomb Blast By Ulises Noyola Rodríguez, October 21, 2017
Only Nonviolent Resistance Will Destroy the Corporate State By Chris Hedges and Prof. George Lakey, October 21, 2017
Unfolding Catastrophe: Mental Health Crisis of Refugees on the Greek Islands of Samos and Lesvos By Chris Jones, October 20, 2017
Texas City Tells People No Hurricane Harvey Aid Unless They Promise Not to Boycott Israel By American Civil Liberties Union, October 20, 2017
Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen Scandalously Allowed by UN, West: Ex-UN Official By Prof. Richard Falk and Tasnim News Agency, October 20, 2017
Israeli Forces Ransack, Shut Down Palestinian Media Companies By KhamakarPress, October 20, 2017
200,000 Protest Jailing of Catalonian Nationalist Leaders in Barcelona By Paul Mitchell, October 20, 2017
Childcare Now! The Struggle for Quality, Universal Childcare By Shellie Bird, Candace Rennick, and Michael Hurley, October 20, 2017
Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis and the United Nations By Canadian Boat to Gaza, October 19, 2017
Cuixart, Sànchez: Catalonia Political Prisoners in Today’s Europe for Holding Peaceful Rally By VilaWeb, October 19, 2017
Photo-Report: The North Korea Neither Trump nor Western Media Wants the World to See By Eva Bartlett, October 19, 2017
Australia’s Citizenship Bill Fails By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 19, 2017
NAFTA
NAFTA Talks Falter, Time to Increase Pressure By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, October 19, 2017
The Global Food and Health Crisis: Monsanto’s Science Is Bogus By Rosemary Mason and Colin Todhunter, October 19, 2017
The Greatest Indonesian Painter and ‘Praying to the Pig’ By Andre Vltchek and Rossie Indira, October 19, 2017
Who Owns Puerto Rico’s Debt, Exactly? We’ve Tracked Down Ten of the Biggest Vulture Firms By Joel Cintrón Arbasetti, Carla Minet, and Jessica Stites, October 18, 2017
Korea: Diplomacy that Opens the Door to Healing and Reunification By Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, October 18, 2017