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 How China and the U.S. Are Spawning a Global Rivalry On the Seas posted by Prof. Alfred W. McCoy via claire, 2018-04-10 03:09:21
Amid the intense coverage of Russian cyber-maneuvering and North Korean missile threats, another kind of great-power rivalry has been playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The U.S. and Chinese navies have been repositioning warships and establishing naval bases as if they were so many pawns on a geopolitical chessboard. To some it might seem curious, even quaint, that gunboats and naval bastions, once emblematic of the Victorian age, remain even remotely relevant in our own era of cyber-threats and space warfare. (full story)
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People Stop Wars NOT Governments posted by james, 2018-04-10 02:24:58
The modern era is noted for wars based on lies, (Iraq, Afghanistan) false flag incidents (Vietnam, Syria) and pretexts (Libya) all of which wars were/are based on criminal DECEPTION. (full story)
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The Last War posted by Tyler Durden via jane, 2018-04-09 01:58:13
The fallout from the Salisbury nerve agent attack reminds us of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which was the most immediate catalyst - of many parallel narrative and sequences of events - that ultimately resulted in World War I. We are not alone in this reasoning, as one high-level retired Russian general warns the Salisbury poisoning could lead to the “last war in the history of mankind.” (full story)
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As Expected -- False Flag Chemical Attack in Syria posted by justin, 2018-04-08 03:30:07
We can thank buffoon Boris Johnson for blowing it regarding the 'poisoning' and subsequent clearly orchestrated (by Washington) propaganda exercise blaming Russia for the alleged attack on a Russian double agent and his daughter. So what do we see today? (full story)
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It Seems Russia DIDN'T do it! posted by Finian Cunningham via gus, 2018-04-08 02:39:50
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again. (full story)
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Mass Deception and the Prelude to World War posted by Colin Todhunter via claire, 2018-04-03 03:05:03
In Libya, NATO bombed a path to Tripoli to help its proxy forces on the ground oust Gaddafi. Tens of thousands lost their lives and that country’s social fabric and infrastructure now lies in ruins. Gaddafi was murdered and his plans to assert African independence and undermine Western (not least French) hegemony on that continent have been rendered obsolete. (full story)
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New Campaign Demands Tech Giants Pledge to Build 'Surveillance-Resistant Web' posted by Jake Johnson via ben, 2018-04-03 02:47:16
After Facebook allowed its data to be weaponized "it's time that big IT companies take steps to ensure that using their products doesn't mean that users have to sacrifice their rights." (full story)
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  Neoliberal Blairite Sharks Circling Corbyn Scent Blood posted by Jonathan Cook via claire, 2018-03-31 02:42:34
After a short reprieve following Jeremy Corbyn’s unexpected success in Britain’s general election last year, when he only narrowly lost the popular vote, most of the Labour parliamentary party are back, determined to bring him down. And once again, they are being joined by the corporate media in full battle cry. (full story)
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America's Dirty War on Syria posted by Joan Coxsedge via gus, 2018-03-31 02:35:48
I am sitting down nutting out what to write when most sensible people are going to the footie or watching sport on the telly, or going to the mind-numbing Grand Prix, or maybe trotting off to the flower show, which is as it should be, while out in the nasty world, we’re going down the toilet. I wish more Australians would fight back harder against all the rorts, the lies, the attacks on workers and the manipulated climate of hysteria being deliberately whipped up. We’re all supposed to believe the bullshit surrounding the ‘spy poisoning’ in London, with provocations multiplying to the point where they are becoming dangerous triggers for war, made more frighteningly real with the recent appointment of unhinged thug John Bolton as Trump’s new National Security Adviser. (full story)
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It begins with purity and ends with purity posted by jude, 2018-03-30 03:35:29
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Integrity Has Vanished From The West posted by Paul Craig Roberts via jude, 2018-03-28 02:34:34
Among Western political leaders there is not an ounce of integrity or morality. The Western print and TV media is dishonest and corrupt beyond repair. Yet the Russian government persists in its fantasy of “working with Russia’s Western partners.” The only way Russia can work with crooks is to become a crook. Is that what the Russian government wants? (full story)
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The Mind Benders -- the Weaponization of Your Data by Big IT posted by Roberto J. González via claire, 2018-03-26 02:17:57
In the days and weeks following the 2016 presidential elections, reports surfaced about how a small British political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, might have played a pivotal role in Donald Trump’s surprise victory. The company claimed to have formulated algorithms to influence American voters using individually targeted political advertisements. It reportedly generated personality profiles of millions of individual citizens by collecting up to 5000 data points on each person. Then Cambridge Analytica used these “psychographic” tools to send voters carefully crafted online messages about candidates or hot-button political issues. (full story)
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Bach and the Erotics of Spring posted by David Yearsley via shirl, 2018-03-26 02:08:34
Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, March 21st, falls on the first full day of spring, if one calculates that date by mercilessly quartering the calendar. The coincidence is a fitting one: if ever there were a composer who enacted the regeneration of the season, it is Bach. (full story)
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The Untold Story of Lunatic Warmonger John Bolton Recently Appointed by Trump posted by Gareth Porter via gail, 2018-03-25 02:57:03
In my reporting on U.S.-Israeli policy, I have tracked numerous episodes in which the United States and/or Israel made moves that seemed to indicate preparations for war against Iran. Each time—in 2007, in 2008, and again in 2011—those moves, presented in corporate media as presaging attacks on Tehran, were actually bluffs aimed at putting pressure on the Iranian government. (full story)
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 Boris Johnson A Categorical Liar posted by Craig Murray via james, 2018-03-24 01:48:16
Evidence submitted by the British government in court today proves, beyond any doubt, that Boris Johnson has been point blank lying about the degree of certainty Porton Down scientists have about the Skripals being poisoned with a Russian “novichok” agent. (full story)
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