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Western Media Launch Attack on Critics of Controversial White Helmets Group

The media and political impact of the White Helmets show what money and marketing can do.

Rick Sterling
Par Rick Sterling
White Helmets Award

The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.     A Crude & Disingenuous Attack Giovani’s article attacks several

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Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning,” Says Top Neocon Insider

At a Berlin security conference, hardline neocon Jamie Fly appeared to claim some credit for the recent coordinated purge of alternative media.

Jeb Sprague
Max Blumenthal
Par Jeb Sprague
Et Max Blumenthal
Jamie Fly

Grayzone Project -- This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including many alternative media outlets maintained by American users. Among those wiped out in the coordinated purge were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. interventionism, like The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop

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New Study Highlights Devastating Global Effects of War on Drugs

An International group has called for a major rethink of global policy on narcotics and an end to the failed efforts that governments refuse to relinquish

Jon Queally
Par Jon Queally
MARJAH, Helmand province, Afghanistan - Corporal Mark Hickok, a 23-year-old combat engineer from North Olmstead, Ohio, patrols through a poppy field during a clearing mission April 9. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. John M. McCall)

Another major study designed to assess how national governments wage their so-called "war on drugs" shows that the last ten years of such policies have not only failed to put a dent in the illegal drug trade, the tactics have had serious negative impacts for global health, human rights, public safety and economic progress. As a result, the

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Intelligence Operative Who Oversaw Khashoggi Killing Was the « Saudi Steve Bannon »

Qahtani has earned a reputation in Saudi as a violent enforcer for the royal family, and also as a vocal nationalist who, in blogs and on social media, relentlessly pushes the family’s line.

ZeroHedge.com
Par ZeroHedge.com
Saud al Qahtani

Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative kicked off on Tuesday despite reports that one of its most high-profile guests, Softbank's Masayoshi Son, has decided not to speak at the event (though he will reportedly still attend and hold meetings on the sidelines). However, the event was overshadowed by remarks from Turkish President Recep Tayyip

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Black Panthers and Young Patriots, An Unlikely Alliance

Can the unlikely alliance of the Black Panthers and a group of transplanted Southern Whites in 1969 hold any lesson today?

Colette Gaiter
Par Colette Gaiter
Black Panther | Young Patriots

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump won the white vote across all demographics except for college-educated white women. He did especially well among working-class white voters: 67 percent of whites without a college degree voted for him. Some post-election analysis marveled at how the white working class could vote against its own

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Civilian Death Toll Keeps Mounting as Saudi Coalition Targets Cars Travelling Yemen’s Roads

Saudi and UAE bombardment has destroyed at least 421,911 houses, 930 mosques, 888 schools, 327 hospitals and health facilities, and 38 media organizations, while also halting the operation of 4,500 schools and leaving more than 4 million people internally displaced.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
Par Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen Saudi Coalition

YEMEN -- At least seven Yemeni civilians were killed on Sunday when Saudi-led coalition aircraft targeted residential areas in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, Sada’a, and the western coastal province of Hodeida. In Hajjah, Saudi airstrikes targeted a car as it was traveling on a road in the Bani Hassan area of the Abs district on

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