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GQ correctly points out that billionaires are the leading cause of climate change; pisses off libertarians
15 minutes readLUKE DARBY—But the scope goes far beyond merely sowing dissent and skepticism. While billionaires and the companies they run have spent years insisting that climate change either doesn’t exist or is overblown, they’ve known the reality of the situation for a long time. PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, for example, used to donate to the Seasteading Institute, which aimed to build floating cities in order to counteract rising sea levels. And Exxon Mobil allegedly knew about climate change in 1977, back when it was still just Exxon and about 11 years before climate change became widely talked about. Instead of acting on it, they started a decades-long misinformation campaign.
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Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry on newly discovered evidence pertaining to the crash of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
9 minutes readEditor’s Note: The power of Western mass media disinformation continues to hold world public opinion (at least where it counts, among the brainwashed “Western” publics) in its toxic stranglehold. While the downing of MH17 instantly made the prime time news around the world—all reports also instantly fingering the Ukrainian separatists and Moscow as the sordid malefactors—resulting in a huge and obsessive wave of media frenzy and near-universal condemnation of Russia, now, that the Russians after patiently disposing of a huge number of obstacles and complete lack of cooperation by the West (which essentially hijacked the remains of MH17 and refused to allow Russian or Malaysian experts to the forensic processes, with not a single protest from the “western journalists”), a handful of people seem to know about it. The numbers are telling. Idiocies reach millions on YouTube every day, and same goes for any mass media-launched storyline later reflected on social media. But this story, which has enormous importance for world peace, and can help to dismantle the edifice of lies used by the West to attack Russia and justify its own crimes, goes begging for an audience.
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BILL VAN AUKEN—The launching of a major US military escalation in Syria would provide Trump with the means of blunting the attacks on his presidency. At the same time, it would raise the risk of a military confrontation that could quickly escalate into a region-wide and global war.
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RICHARD HARDIGAN—Hamas’ charter does state that it refuses to accept Israel’s existence. However,scholarNoam Chomsky argues that Hamas long ago renounced this charter, while Hamas does offer de-facto recognition of Israel, since it was willing to enter a unity government with the Palestinian Authority (PA), an action that implies acceptance of all previous PA-Israel agreements. What Zionists often neglect to mention is that it is Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party that refuses to accept the notion of a Palestinian state, not merely by its actions, but in an official platform, which includes the statement: The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian/Arab state west of the Jordan River.