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Archives for February 2022

As Trudeau Cracks Down, the Left Drives Protesters Into the Arms of the Right Once Again

Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution.

Ramzy Baroud
Jonathan Cook
By Ramzy Baroud
And Jonathan Cook
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OTTAWA – If you were Canada’s prime minister, what would you be prepared to do to enforce Covid restrictions on large swaths of your population? No one need ask that question any longer. Now we know the answer. For the first time in the country’s history, Justin Trudeau has invested his office with sweeping and undemocratic powers under the 1988

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As US Renews Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Civilian Death Toll Nearly Doubles

“The civilian death toll in Yemen has almost doubled since the United Nations rights body dissolved its monitoring mechanism in the war-torn country.” – Norwegian Refugee Council Report

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen Arms Feature photo

HAJJAH, YEMEN – Two parallel but very different meetings took place recently -- one in search of peace, the other to plan more war. In Oman’s capital, Muscat, an official delegation headed by Ansar Allah, met with Omani and European officials to negotiate de-escalation and humanitarian assistance in Yemen. Meanwhile, the United States and the

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John Pilger: War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda

The war hysteria that has rolled in like a tidal wave in recent weeks and months is the most striking example. Known by its jargon, “shaping the narrative,” much if not most of it is pure propaganda.

John Pilger
By John Pilger
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Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened.  Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency

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Why Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon See No End in Sight for Their Suffering

The donors to the NGOs want us to remain as victims; they fear us being instrumental in the struggle for liberating our country. – A Palestinian living in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
Lebanon Palestinians Feature photo

NAHR AL-BARED, LEBANON – Without a political and legal solution, Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon will remain impoverished and at the mercy of international aid organizations who seek to depoliticize their suffering, according to experts on the crisis in Lebanon’s camps where they say the Palestinian people have been abandoned. Palestinian

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Biden’s $7 Billion Afghan Heist

The president’s order diverting frozen funds to American families of 9/11 victims will only make the humanitarian and economic crises in Afghanistan worse.

Cheryl Benard
Masuda Sultan
Medea Benjamin
By Cheryl Benard
And Masuda Sultan
And Medea Benjamin

MINNEAPOLIS — (Responsible Statecraft) With his Executive Order redefining Afghanistan’s Fiscal Reserve as a slush fund to be disbursed on his whim and with the stroke of his pen, President Biden has taken what may well be the final step in an experiment gone amok. The U.S. first attempted to make Afghanistan into a Western democracy, instead

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The New Domestic Terrorist: The Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers

This latest government salvo against consumers and spreaders of “mis- dis- and mal-information” widens the net to potentially include anyone who is exposed to ideas that run counter to the official government narrative.

John Whitehead
By John Whitehead
domestic terrorism

The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. What we are dealing with is a government so power-hungry, paranoid and afraid of losing its stranglehold on power that it is conspiring to wage war on anyone who dares to challenge its authority. All of us are in danger. In recent years, the government

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