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No Matter How You Frame It, the ADL is a Racist Organization

Miko Peled explores the controversy surrounding the Biden administration’s plan to use the ADL to silence Palestinian voices under the guise of combating antisemitism.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
ADL is a Racist Organization Feature photo

The Biden administration has released the country's first national strategy for combating antisemitism, a landmark plan aimed at addressing a growing problem." This is from a piece in NPR titled, "The first national strategy for fighting antisemitism is finally here. What's in it?" Spoiler alert: it is not about fighting antisemitism or any other

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How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine

The prominent role of Banderite Neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s government propaganda operations suggests that Nazi apologism has spread into the core institutions of its government – perhaps more than the dominant Western view is able to admit.

David Miller
By David Miller
AM How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine Feature photo

A MintPress investigation has found that a host of Western government officials, intelligence agents and assets have been directly involved in intimate collaboration with Nazi groups and individuals since at least 2014. This has included involvement in creating and operating the Nazi-run kill list in Ukraine, which MintPress revealed

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Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism

Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism Feature photo

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — High Court Judge Jonathan Swift — who previously worked for a variety of British government agencies as a barrister and said his favorite clients are “security and intelligence agencies” — rejected two applications by Julian Assange’s lawyers to appeal his extradition last week. The extradition order was signed last

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False Witnesses and Sinister Plots: Exposing the CIA Connection in the ‘Chinese Police Station’ Narrative

Kit Klarenberg reveals how much of the hysteria surrounding ‘Chinese police stations’ in the West is being fueled by a shadowy CIA-linked organization called Safeguard Defenders.

Kit Klarenberg
By Kit Klarenberg
Chinese Police Stations Feature photo

For months, mainstream media across the Western world – in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the ‘Five Eyes’ global spying network – have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret “Chinese police stations” operating the world over. It is claimed these “stations” are unofficial, covert Chinese

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Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: Why Israel Wants to Reactivate The E1 Plan

The price of Israel’s major plans in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank is not just humanitarian. It is essentially political, aimed at cutting off Palestinian communities from one another, isolating Jerusalem completely, and ensuring a Jewish demographic majority for generations to come.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Israel e1 plan Feature photo

The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as E1. Though Israeli construction in the East Jerusalem area has supposedly been halted under international pressure, the Israeli government has found ways to keep the plan

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Vienna Summit: Anti-War Activists From 32 Countries Call For Diplomacy to End Ukraine War

Over 300 activists from 32 countries gathered in Vienna, Austria to demand an end to the war in Ukraine and issue a powerful declaration of peace.

Medea Benjamin
By Medea Benjamin
Russia Ukraine war

During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to demand an end to the fighting. In a formal conference declaration, participants declared, “We are a broad and politically diverse coalition that represents

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