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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Believe India Isn’t Grateful For Facebook’s Free Internet

“Who could possibly be against this?” he asks passive-aggressively. “Surprisingly, over the last year there’s been a big debate about this in India.”

Quartz India
By Quartz India
Indians use mobile phone as they sit at a market area in New Delhi, India ,Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)

All Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to do is make the world a better place for his new daughter. While he’s technically on paternity leave, he couldn’t sit idly by as India attempts to halt Internet.org, Facebook’s initiative to provide free but limited internet to the developing world. Last week, the Times of India reported that the

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12,000 Oil Smuggling Trucks Photographed Crossing Into Turkey From Iraq

This kind of news could lead to Baghdad allowing Russian strikes over Iraq, and raises questions over how Russia will deal with the mixing of Kurdish and ISIS barrels as they strive to cut off the terrorist’s life blood.

Abisha Rabiyah | Oil Pro
By Abisha Rabiyah | Oil Pro
Syria Oil ISIS Turkey

Russian intelligence officers say they have spotted approximately 12,000 tanker trucks carrying oil parked at the Turkish-Iraqi border. Russian intelligence identified the oil route during reconnaissance missions, and Russia says the vehicles' final destination was Turkey. It is widely believed that most ISIS oil goes to Turkey and is sold at

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From Vice Co-Founder To Donald Trump Supporter: The Strange Tale Of Gavin McInnes

“They’re all wimps,” McInnes said of competing Republican candidates before adding that Trump “sounds like the real America” when he speaks.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
What Do Vice Co-Founder Gavin McInnes & ISIS Have In Common? An Appreciation For Donald Trump

MINNEAPOLIS --- While the alternative media outlet Vice is associated with reporting on a decidedly liberal flavor of the American and international counterculture, one of its original co-founders is today a strong supporter of Donald Trump and his extremely conservative agenda. Along with Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes founded a

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Alex Jones Is ‘No Better Than ISIS’: How The Infowars Host Spreads Fear For Profit

Disseminating misinformation about Muslims is the controversial talk show host’s latest attempt at nurturing a climate of fear that earns big money for Jones and his advertisers.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Alex Jones

AUSTIN, Texas --- Allying himself with figures like Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, infamous talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is spreading misinformation about Muslims online and in his weekly radio program. This tactic is Jones’ latest effort to use fear to generate clicks for his popular website and weekly

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Vox’s Max Fisher Is Wrong About Seymour Hersh, Explained

Individuals like Fisher should be inspired to dig deeper when Hersh publishes investigative reports, but instead, they publish hammy explainers and demonstrate they are nothing more than ornamented stenographers of power.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Seymour Hersh (novecentino on Flickr)

Published in partnership with Shadow Proof. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report on how the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff deviated from President Barack Obama’s policy on Syria by sharing military intelligence indirectly with Bashar al-Assad’s government. It also indicated the Joint Chiefs dissented against Obama’s

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A Call For Proof On Syria Sarin Attack

One reason why Official Washington continues to insist that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “must go” is that he supposedly “gassed his own people” with sarin on Aug. 21, 2013, but the truth of that allegation has never been established and is in growing doubt, U.S. intelligence veterans point out.

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
A Syrian man mourning over a dead body after an alleged sarin poisonous gas attack in Douma town, Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Media Office Of Douma City)

MEMORANDUM FOR: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Sarin Attack at Ghouta on Aug. 21, 2013 In a Memorandum of Oct. 1, 2013, we asked each of you to make public the intelligence upon which you based your differing conclusions on

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