GLEN FORD—“Because in an age where there’s so much active misinformation and it’s packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television,” said Obama. “If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect.” Or, as he put it later in an interview with David Letterman: “One of the biggest challenges that we have to our democracy is the degree to which we do not share a common baseline of facts.”
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People Worldwide Will Soon Demand Americans Stop Planning Nuclear War Endangering Us All!
38 minutes readJAY JANSON—Given what we know about the expected deadly effect of nuclear war on the planet and all life on Earth, it would seem that a good amount of people everywhere would have come to realize the horrific danger to themselves, their loved ones, all fellow human beings, even animals and plants. There should be millions demanding that Americans respect the rest of us and our planetary home, and end all plans and preparations for nuclear war, and explain why a war with Russia and China is even contemplated.
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Does Social Media Sell Us a Rope to Hang Capitalism?
30 minutes readHIROYUKI HAMADA—The atmosphere concocted by the establishment to define certain countries as unconditionally evil gives a special meaning to stories from those countries. Those stories, whether they are true or false, fundamentally differ in their meaning within the imperial framework compared to, for example, someone from Africa talking about the French colonial atrocities of massacres and mutilations, a black youth talking about police shootings in the US, a Palestinian child talking about losing his or her entire family by Israeli bombing and so on.
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NICK PEMBERTON—Yes these globalists, at least the garden U.S. variety, do not come from places all that far away. They are inbred, much like Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, at prep schools on the East Coast. These globalists have spouted liberal doctrine, and even observed that hey, people are pretty poor these days! These globalists have overseen wars that have left entire countries in ruins, largely ignored the coming environmental apocalypse, empowered global corporations to run amok, and let the average person lose every means to survive.
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Duopoly Busters: Chris Hedges says morally he can’t and won’t vote for the Democrats
11 minutes readCHRIS HEDGES—If we don’t rebuild our movements, it doesn’t matter who we vote for. Power is the problem. We must organize to hold power accountable.As Ralph Nader pointed out, the last liberal president in America was Richard Nixon, not because he was liberal or out of conscience but because he was frightened of movements. That’s how we got OSHA, the mining safety act, the clean water act, most written by Nader.
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When Saudi Arabia’s Credibility is Damaged, So is America’s
12 minutes readPATRICK COCKBURN—How has the prospect for sanctions succeeding been affected since dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi embassy in Istanbul on 2 October and failed to re-emerge?
Saudi Arabia has certainly been weakened by turning a minor critic and dissident into a martyr and cause célèbre, a mistake that is convincing many US foreign policy and intelligence experts that the operational capacity of the kingdom is even more limited than they had imagined.