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Month: April 2019

Alerts

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

30th April 2019

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 →

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

18th April 2019

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 →

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Assange Arrest – Part 1: ‘So Now He’s Our Property’

16th April 2019

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 →

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Fake News Tsunami – Trump’s ‘Collusion’ And Corbyn As ‘Dangerous Hero’

5th April 2019

According to corporate journalism, a tidal wave of ‘fake news’ has long been threatening to swamp their wonderful work reporting real news. The ProQuest media database finds fully 805,669 hits for newspaper articles mentioning the →

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