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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
A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers – from 1948 until Today By Jonathan Cook, March 23, 2016
How African Slavery Civilized Britain By Garikai Chengu, March 23, 2016
The Biggest Human Rights Abuses in Cuba Happen at Guantanamo Bay By Telesur, March 22, 2016
European Union-Turkey Deal to Expel Refugees Comes into Force By Jordan Shilton, March 22, 2016
African American Votes Decline in Democratic Party Primaries By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 22, 2016
Australian Youth and Workers Denounce Media and Government Racist Hysteria By World Socialist Web Site, March 21, 2016
Israel’s Legal Warfare on BDS Fosters Repression and McCarthyism Across the World By Donia Al-Watan, March 21, 2016
Berta Caceres Colleague Murdered in Honduras By Oliver Tickell, March 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders Calls for Native American Justice in Arizona By Zach Cartwright, March 18, 2016
Reasons for Leaving: Refugee Stories from the Greek Island of Samos By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, March 18, 2016
The Global Refugee Crisis: Humanity’s Last Call for a Culture of Sharing and Cooperation By Rajesh Makwana, March 18, 2016
Urgent: Mumia Abu-Jamal is Incredibly Sick By Prison Radio, March 17, 2016
Will the EU Become a Criminal Union Tomorrow? By Jan Oberg, March 17, 2016
Psychological Warfare, NGO “Organizational Weapons”, Regime Change By Dr. Vladimir Prav, March 16, 2016
Israel Forces Routine Attacks against Palestinian Schools. Disabling the Educational Process By The Palestinian Information Center, March 16, 2016
“Free Speech Zones”, the Rigged Economy and Organized Crime By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, March 16, 2016
Boston Bombing: Release of Tsarnaev’s Interrogation Notes Leads to More Questions By James Henry, March 16, 2016
Alleged Assassin of Bobby Kennedy: The Tortured Logic behind Sirhan Sirhan’s Parole Denial By Dr. Shane O'Sullivan, March 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, March 16, 2016
Jews vs. Non Jews in Israel: The New York Times’ Whitewash of Israeli Public Opinion Poll By James J. Zogby, March 16, 2016
The Criminalization of Environmental and Human Rights Activists: Free Ethiopian Political Prisoners! By Grain, March 16, 2016
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad By Garikai Chengu, March 15, 2016
America’s Laughable ‘News’ Media By Eric Zuesse, March 15, 2016
Gay Rights and the Marriage Equality Vote in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 15, 2016
Defeating a Demagogue: It Has Happened Before. The McCarthy Era By Greg Guma, March 15, 2016
UK Bill Hands Vast Surveillance Powers to Police and Intelligence Agencies By Barry Mason, March 14, 2016
Former Agent of Swedish Security Police Dictated Amnesty Sweden’s Stance against Julian Assange By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, March 14, 2016
Donald Trump: You’re all Violent Communists Now! By Michael T. Bucci, March 14, 2016
Can Europe Survive? The EU’s Horses of the Apocalypse By Roberto Savio, March 14, 2016
The Future Doesn’t Like You By Anthony Freda, March 14, 2016
Drugs, Dams, and Power: the Murder of Honduras Activist Berta Cáceres By Danielle Marie Mackey, March 13, 2016
Imperialism via Data: The Digitization of Human Behavior, “Social Radar”, Sensors and Neuroscience By John Stanton, March 13, 2016
American Exceptionalism Presents an Election Made in Hell By William Blum, March 12, 2016
Killing Asylum: The Turkish-EU Deal on Migrants. Closed Borders, Camps, Barbed Wire… By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 12, 2016
Killing Asylum: The Turkish-EU deal on Migrants By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 11, 2016
Europe’s Attack on Refugees Produces Humanitarian Catastrophe By Martin Kreickenbaum, March 11, 2016
UK Government “Security and Policing” Fair Promotes “Military Solution” to Refugee Crisis By Mary Atkinson, March 11, 2016
Israeli Textbooks for Arab Schools: ‘Bad for Arabs, Bad for Jews’ By Jonathan Cook, March 11, 2016
War Zone Tactics Come Home as Pentagon Admits Domestic Spy Drone Use By Lauren McCauley, March 10, 2016
U.S. Government Backs Ukraine Fascists Who Want to Destroy Russia By Eric Zuesse, March 09, 2016
Refugee Bloodlines: America and Europe Can’t Be Hypocrites Any Longer By William Hawes, March 09, 2016
The Refugee Crisis: EU’s Derisory Offer of $3.3 Billion to End Existential Migrant Threat By Anthony Bellchambers, March 09, 2016
45 Years After COINTELPRO, FBI Still Thinks ‘Dissent is the Enemy’ By Lauren McCauley, March 09, 2016
Jewish Settlers Social Media Campaign against EU Aid to Palestinian Bedouins By Jonathan Cook, March 09, 2016
Turkish Police Raid Zaman HQs, Fire Tear Gas on Readers after Government Takeover By Todays Zaman, March 09, 2016
Palestinians Sue US Tycoons for $34.5 Billion over Jewish West Bank Settlements By Sputnik, March 09, 2016
Conflating Anti-Likud “Political Zionism” with Anti­-Semitism By Anthony Bellchambers, March 09, 2016
Black Lives Matter, Just Not to Hillary Clinton. African American Voters Support a “Fantasy Champion for Black Lives” By William Boardman, March 07, 2016
The Refugee Crisis and “Free Movement of People across the EU”: While Schengen Shatters, Greece Is The Scapegoat By Fatma Yilmaz-Elmas, March 07, 2016
Leaked Australian Document Reveals Plans for Mass Surveillance of Immigrants By Max Newman, March 07, 2016
“Urban Warfare Training” and the Militarization of America By Bill Van Auken, March 06, 2016
The Social Crisis in Detroit. On the Verge of an Urban Rebellion By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 05, 2016
US Role in the Assassination of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Goes Unmentioned in US Media By Adam Johnson, March 05, 2016
Turkey’s War on Free Expression. Journalists Imprisoned for Doing Their Job By Stephen Lendman, March 05, 2016
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism By Chris Hedges, March 05, 2016
Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left. Neo-Liberal Restoration in Latin-America By Prof. James Petras, March 05, 2016
“Privacy Crisis”: Why the FBI’s Case Against Apple is Falling Apart By Shawn Helton, March 04, 2016
Victory of Neoliberalism? Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End? By Claudio Katz, March 04, 2016
Sudanese Journalists Launch Historic Hunger Strike against Free Press Crackdown By Nadia Prupis, March 04, 2016
European Union Threatens Summary Mass Deportations of Refugees By Alex Lantier, March 04, 2016
Confiscating the African American Vote? How the Clinton Media Machine Blocked Sanders Civil Rights Play By WhoWhatWhy, March 04, 2016
Diminishing Democracy: The Australian Senate Changes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 03, 2016
Call It What It Is: America Is a Police State By Brandon Turbeville, March 03, 2016
German Chancellor Merkel’s Refugee Policy and the Call for a European Army By Ulrich Rippert, March 02, 2016
Haitian People: Let Us Recover Our Dignity By Michel-Ange Cadet, March 02, 2016
500 Signatories Condemn Sweden and UK Over UNWGAD Assange Reaction By Justice for Assange, March 01, 2016
Three South African Universities Closed Due to Student Unrest. ANC Charges “Regime-Change Strategy” Implicating US By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 01, 2016
The Graveyard of the Elites. “Politicians are Little more than Brands” By Chris Hedges, March 01, 2016
Emergence of “Right Sector” in Lithuania? By Adomas Abromaitis, February 29, 2016
The Scandal of Voter Suppression in America By William John Cox, February 29, 2016
Only In America: An Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid In Prison By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 29, 2016
NSA Spying, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: The Views of U.S. Presidential Candidates By Michael T. Bucci, February 29, 2016
Funding Fictions: Australia, China and the Defence White Paper By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 28, 2016
Coping with Oppression in Canada, Guatemala, Ethiopia, By J. B. Gerald, February 27, 2016
Offshoring Justice: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 26, 2016
NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Mapping “Political Alignments” of Millions of Smartphone Users Worldwide. By Eric London, February 26, 2016
Torture of U.S. Political Prisoners. A Review By J. B. Gerald, February 26, 2016
Detroit Race Terror of 1863: Emancipation Proclamation and Draft Sparked Riots in the United States By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 26, 2016
Polish Government Expands Police State Powers By Clara Weiss, February 25, 2016
UK Government Proposes to Set Up Muslim-only Jail By Barry Mason, February 25, 2016