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The War on Fake News by Anthony Freda

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  Fake News by Anthony Freda As it becomes increasingly clear that yesterday’s conspiracy theories are today’s real news, the call to kill the messengers just gets more shrill and hysterical.  The attacks on free speech with high-tech censorship campaigns and old-fashioned hit pieces in the "War on Fake News" are massive and concerted.  The book burners are starting so many fires it’s impossible to stamp them all out.  What are the horrible thought crimes committed by the alternative press?  The new media has consistently exposed the lies and crimes of our corrupt and broken institutions.  Pioneers of alt media have passionately and convincingly made the case that The Patriot Act literally reversed the gains to human liberty codified in The Bill of Rights.  Independent media dismantled the lies that were presented as the pretexts to the invasion of Iraq. The same lies aggressively promoted by Bush, Hillary Clinton, CNN and The New York Times and

Football Wars by Anthony Freda

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Football Wars by  Anthony Freda How appropriate it is that the culture war is being fought on the ritual battlefields of the football stadiums. People seem to care more about ritualized warfare than they do about actual wars being fought with our money and our children's lives.   Shallow and hollow patriotism is on full-throated display in NFL spectacles. They are the new Roman games designed to reflect the glory of the Empire.   U.S. military might has always been projected onto the faux warriors of the football circuses, and dissent was never even considered to be possible.   How can you play football and question America at the same time?    The ideals that guide our policy are to be reenforced in the games and not challenged.   The tradition of standing with your hand on your heart as the National Anthem is played before every game is proof that these are Imperial games and not private sporting events.   The concussion-inducing com

Actors and other Useful Idiots for Empire by Cindy Sheehan

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In 2005 while I was roasting for peace under the hot Texas sun at Camp Casey in Crawford, Tx, Rob Reiner sent his wife Michelle and a crew there to film a commercial with me. Before the end of 2005, a lot of the people/groups who supported our antiwar effort kicked us to the curb when they figured out we really were against war and not just against Bush's wars.  The Reiners were among the ones that I discovered didn't so much care about the wars, but cared more about getting Demo-quacks elected. Soon after Camp Casey temporarily shut-down that summer, I was invited to the Reiner's house to have a meeting. I was never the kind of person who got all twittery over so-called celebrities, but if the Reiners could help our cause, I was anxious to further our collaboration. Rob Reiner and his team had already offered to do the paperwork and pay for getting Gold Star Families for Peace (my organization at the time) non-profit (501c3) status which we gratefully accepted.

President Business, Lord White Supremacy, the Reigning Patriarch of Global Murder and Mayhem, the Eugenicist Chief and Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Kleptocracy Donald J. Trump addresses the World or: Did He Really Just Call a Head of State “Rocket Man?”

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GUEST POST BY MATT SEDILLO Original Link The Southwest Political Report President Business, Lord White Supremacy, the Reigning Patriarch of Global Murder and Mayhem, the Eugenicist Chief and Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Kleptocracy Donald J. Trump addresses the World or: Did He Really Just Call a Head of State “Rocket Man?” By: Matt Sedillo “We do not expect diverse countries to share the same cultures, traditions, or even systems of government, but we do expect all nations to uphold these two core sovereign duties, to respect the interests of their own people and the rights of every other sovereign nation.”- Donald Trump “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”- Also Donald Trump The Imperial Overlord in Chief’s reign of absurdist terror,  knows no bounds. It has no end in sight. This disgusting megalomaniac, this free associat

Neocons and Meatheads Want WW3 by Anthony Freda

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Morgan Freeman appears in a PSA video that hysterically and without a shred of actual evidence, claims we are "at war with Russia" due to allegations of meddling in U.S. presidential election. https://www.youtube.com/watch? time_continue=4&v=1cjrZZyxowo This conspiracy theory has been widely discredited, but facts have no hope of tempering the Russophobic blood lust of the Neo-McCarthyities. The Kremlin reacted to the video by asserting that the actor Morgan Freeman is suffering from “stress”. The two minute clip features Freeman announcing that Russia attacked the United States by interfering in the presidential election. Apparently, this imaginary attack is their moral pretext to start World War 3. The group behind the video, the Committee to Investigate Russia, claims to be “non-partisan” yet is made up of Never Trump neo-cons like Max Boot and David Frum in an unholy alliance with Hillary Clinton lapdogs like Rob "Meathead

Venezuela and ALBA Weekly 9.15.2017 Venezuela's New Economic Measures and Aid for Hurricane Hit Countries

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        September 15, 2017 This weekly email contains a few useful articles on Venezuela and ALBA Countries that contain bite-sized dose of the truth so that you can fight the disinformation in your own community, that so much of the media, including alternative media are putting out.    It is AfGJ's conviction that we in the US defend Venezuela's sovereignty and recognize that the Bolivarian Revolution has improved the lives of its citizens, led the movement toward Latin America integration, and is building participatory democracy structures that are an example for us in the US as well. -AfGJ staff AFGJ Friends – we would like to include statements, events, and actions in solidarity with Venezuela. If you are aware of any or are planning any, please send them to us: stansfieldsmith100@gmail.com . These may also be used as part of the redesigned international solidarity page on Venezuelanalysis.com   Monthly Review: Peop

ROL, USA NEWSLETTER #104 (SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 2017)

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CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL NEWSLETTER ARTICLES: Fight Back Begins — But Will It Be Enough? by RAY LIGHT **** Heather Heyer: A New Martyr in the Struggle For Black-white Unity and Social Justice  by PAT KELLY **** “On Rebuilding an Anti-Imperial Movement in the US” (Address to ILPS, Solidarity and Fightback Conference, Toronto) by CINDY SHEEHAN ****  The October Revolution and the Issue of War and Peace by RAY LIGHT    *** NEW BOOKS FROM ROL, USA CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO    **** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX