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40,000 Dead Venezuelans Under US Sanctions: Corporate Media Turn A Blind Eye
30 April 2019

40,000 Dead Venezuelans Under US Sanctions: Corporate Media Turn A Blind Eye

A new report on April 25 by a respected think tank has estimated that US sanctions imposed on Venezuela in August 2017 have caused around 40,000 deaths. This atrocity has been almost entirely blanked by the British 'mainstream' media, including BBC News. Additional sanctions imposed in January 2019 are likely to lead to tens of thousands of further deaths.

The report was co-authored by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs for the US-based Center for Economic ...

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Assange Arrest – Part 2: ‘A Definite Creep, A Probable Rapist’
18 April 2019

Assange Arrest – Part 2: ‘A Definite Creep, A Probable Rapist’

 

In December 2010, Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore commented on Julian Assange in the Mail on Sunday:

'Indeed it's difficult to get a clear picture of the complaints by two women he had sex with in Sweden in August... The sex appears to have been consensual, though his refusal to use condoms was not. His behaviour looks bad rather than illegal but who really knows? The Swedish prosecutors themselves say they believe these women's stories but d...

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Assange Arrest - Part 1: 'So Now He's Our Property'
16 April 2019

Assange Arrest - Part 1: 'So Now He's Our Property'

If 'journalism' meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial 'fourth estate' to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afgh...

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The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly
1 YEAR AGO

The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly

Last week, Jeremy Corbyn humbled the entire political and corporate media commentariat. With a little help from Britain's student population. And with a little help from thousands of media activists.

Without doubt...

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