Bernie Sanders Has All the Right Enemies
For the United States, oligarchy is the elephant—and donkey—in the room. Only one candidate for president is willing to name it.
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Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking.
The Link Between Drawing And Seeing In The Brain
Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. The finding demonstrates the importance of the visual processing system for producing drawings of an object.
China Detaining Millions of Uyghurs? Serious Problems With Claims by US-Backed NGO and Far-Right Researcher ‘Led by God’ Against Beijing
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz.
Newsweek Reporter Quits After Editors Block Coverage of OPCW Syria Scandal (VIDEO)
Journalist Tareq Haddad explains his decision to resign from Newsweek over its refusal to cover the OPCW’s unfolding Syria scandal.
‘A National Disgrace’: Trump Proposes Social Security Change That Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands
“The Trump administration is attacking another vulnerable population: those who are disabled and receiving Social Security Disability benefits.”
Medicare for All or Profits for a Few
On a level democratic playing field, the for-profit healthcare industry’s fear mongering would gain little traction, as its talking points are easily refuted.
‘Sexy Tricks’: How Journalists Demonize Venezuela’s Socialist Government, In Their Own Words
Journalists revealed to me the tactics they use to sell stories painting Venezuela as a socialist dystopia. One described himself as a “mercenary,” explaining how he aims to please his employer’s funders.
US and UK Military-Intelligence Apparatus Campaigns to Destroy Jeremy Corbyn
Days before Britain’s historic election, the UK’s military-intelligence apparatus is turning to the corporate media and US government-funded NATO cut-outs to smear Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with evidence-free Russiagate allegations.
Bolivia’s New Right-Wing Gov’t Targets Foreigners With “Anti-Terror” Death Squads
The new move creating an unaccountable armed security force directly aimed at foreign terror will do little to quash fears that Bolivia is heading down the road to a totalitarian dictatorship.
Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
The United Kingdom goes to the polls December 12 in a pivotal vote that will decide the future of the country. Like in 2017, the Labour Party, under the leadership Read More…
Insurance Companies Are Spending Millions on Attack Ads Against Medicare for All
The privatized, for-profit healthcare industry is close to panicking over the prospect of a nationalized system along the lines of other advanced countries.
WTO Shutdown: What Now and What Next
We remember Seattle 1999 in a moment when the world is exploding with people’s uprisings.
Fighting Opioids With An Unlikely Supplemental Painkiller: Anti-Itch Medicine
Researchers are investigating whether an anti-itch medication that targets a specific part of our nerve cells can make morphine — which targets a different part–more effective. The findings suggest it can.
Robert Pollin: The Emerging Divide Between Sanders and Warren on Medicare for All
The growing chasm between Sanders’ and Warren’s “Medicare for All” plans increasingly highlights which candidate is genuinely serious about fighting for universal healthcare, with the release of Warren’s extremely convoluted, regressively funded, and loophole-ridden so-called “Medicare for All” plan.