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The oligarchs behind the “humanitarian” regime change network now exploiting Jo Cox’s death to push for UK Labour split

Only by masking their otherwise unpopular policies in the cloak of Jo Cox’s tragedy, and humanity’s natural empathy for good samaritans and the downtrodden, has this small group of powerful individuals been able to launder disastrous wars and military adventurism as “the right thing to do.” by Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb Part 2 - The eBay billionaires and the Syria regime-change PR machine As previous reporting has detailed, the Jo Cox Fund — the posthumous fund created soon after the late MP’s death — was formed by a group of four individuals who have long been involved in manufacturing consent for foreign “regime change” wars, first in the Balkans and now in Syria, and have been aided in this effort by massive funding from governments and elite billionaires. Yet, of those elite billionaires, some have promoted the Jo Cox Fund founders — and, with them, their pet projects such as the White Helmets — more than others. One billionaire in particular stands out

The establishment apparatus fabricates another poll to 'adjust' popular preference in favor of Joe Biden, against Bernie Sanders

globinfo freexchange In late August, we identified an effort by Politico (rather sloppy), to present Joe Biden as the most suitable leader for the Democratic party, based on the fact that he could beat Donald Trump. The sloppiness of the effort was proved by the way in which Biden was promoted against Bernie Sanders, despite that the latest was beating Trump with the same percentage, according to Politico's poll. It was CNN that came now with another poll to contribute to this pro-Biden operation and actually verify the title of our article back then. That is, corporate Democrats will promote Joe Biden against Bernie Sanders. Indeed, as usatoday reports:            Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a wide lead over the other potential candidates to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020, a CNN survey found. About a third of respondents named Biden as their choice to carry the Democratic banner in the next presidential election (33 percent), while Vermont

30 years from Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, in which the authors propose that the mass communication media of the U.S. " are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion ", by means of the propaganda model of communication. The title derives from the phrase " the manufacture of consent, " employed in the book Public Opinion (1922), by Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). The book was first published in 1988 and was revised 20 years later to take account of developments such as the fall of the Soviet Union. There has been debate about how the internet has changed the public´s access to information since 1988. The propaganda model for the manufacture of public consent describes five editorially distorting filters, which are

Κατασκευάζοντας συναίνεση επί τριάντα χρόνια

Καθώς συμπληρώνονται τριάντα χρόνια από την κυκλοφορία του βιβλίου «Κατασκευάζοντας συναίνεση», ένας Αμερικανός δημοσιογράφος επιχειρεί να ανανεώσει την κλασική πλέον κριτική για την πολιτική οικονομία των ΜΜΕ. Και φυσικά ξεκίνησε ζητώντας τη βοήθεια του Νόαμ Τσόμσκι. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Πριν από 45 χρόνια οι πανεπιστημιακοί Έντουαρντ Χέρμαν και Νόαμ Τσόμσκι παρουσίασαν το βιβλίο τους «Counter-Revolutionary Violence» (H βία της αντεπανάστασης), στο οποίο αναφέρονταν στην ολοκληρωτική διαστρέβλωση της ενημέρωσης σχετικά με την εξωτερική πολιτική των ΗΠΑ στην Ινδοκίνα και στον πόλεμο του Βιετνάμ. Ο εκδοτικός οίκος ανήκε όμως στη Warner Brothers, ο διευθυντής της οποίας ζήτησε την άμεση απόσυρση του βιβλίου. Όταν οι εκδότες αρνήθηκαν να υπακούσουν, αυτός προτίμησε να κλείσει την εταιρεία τους και να καταστρέψει όλα τα αντίτυπα. Το συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο αποτέλεσε τη βάση για τα περίφημα πέντε σημεία του «μοντέλου προπαγάνδας» που ανέπτυξαν οι Χέρμαν και Τσόμσκι στο έρ

The Troika’s Policy in Greece: Rob the Greek people and give the money to private banks, the ECB, the IMF and the dominant States of the Eurozone

On 20 August 2018, the Greek government of Alexis Tsipras, the IMF and the European leaders celebrated the end of the Third Memorandum. On this occasion, the major media and those in power spread the following message: Greece has regained its freedom, its economy is improving, unemployment is on the decline, Europe has lent Greece 300 billion and the Greeks will have to start repaying that debt in 2022 or in 2032. The main claims are completely unfounded as Greece remains under the control of its creditors. In compliance with the accords that the Alexis Tsipras government signed, the country must imperatively achieve a primary budgetary surplus of 3.5% which will force it to continue brutal policies of reduction of public spending in the social sector and in investment. Contrary to the dominant message that Greece will not begin to repay its debt until some time in the future, it should be clearly understood that Greece has been repaying considerable amounts constantly all al

Η ΕΕ χρηματοδοτεί συμμορίες για να καταστέλλουν πρόσφυγες

Μαρτυρία διασώστη στο Tvxs Φωτεινή Λαμπρίδη Μυστικοί πράκτορες και ο νέος εμφύλιος για την εκμετάλλευση των προσφύγων « Επειδή αυτή η αναγνωρισμένη κυβέρνηση στην Τρίπολη δεν μπορεί να ελέγξει τις εκατοντάδες συμμορίες που εμπλέκονται στη διακίνηση και κράτηση μεταναστών, ευρωπαίοι και Ιταλοί μυστικοί πράκτορες πήγαν στη Λιβύη και άρχισαν να λαδώνουν απευθείας τις λιβυκές συμμορίες για να κρατάνε τους μετανάστες στα κέντρα κράτησης. Η Corriere de la sera γράφει για 5 εκατομμύρια ευρώ αν όχι τα διπλάσια. Αυτό οδήγησε σε έναν νέο εμφύλιο στη Λιβύη, με τις συμμορίες να μάχονται μεταξύ τους για το ποια θα λάβει τη χρηματοδότηση από την Ε.Ε. Όποια συμμορία ελέγχει τα σημεία διακίνησης, παίρνει και την ευρωπαϊκή χρηματοδότηση. Οι πρόσφυγες αντιμετωπίζονται σαν ανθρώπινο εμπόρευμα που αλλάζει χέρια ανάλογα με το ποια ένοπλη ομάδα κερδίζει στην κάθε περιοχή. Για παράδειγμα, μας έλεγαν οι μετανάστες ότι ξαφνικά μια συμμορία επιτέθηκε στο κέντρο κράτησης που βρισκόντουσα

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is the fascist face of neoliberalism

Luísa Abbott Galvão / Inequality.org In less than a week, Brazil will vote to elect its next president in what’s widely considered the most consequential election in Brazil’s history. On one side is Fernando Haddad — a soft-spoken academic, former Minister of Education for the Workers Party (PT), and recent mayor of São Paulo most remembered for painting bike lanes across Brazil’s economic capital. Haddad faces Jair Bolsonaro — a former military man and long-time member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies representing Rio de Janeiro. Bolsonaro’s extreme far-right overtures have earned him the distinction of being compared to Trump, Duterte, and Hitler. Brazil’s democracy is younger than I am, and follows a brutal period of military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. Tragically, this election process hasn’t been a rigorous debate of ideas for the improvement of our country. Instead, it’s testing the very fate of our democracy. Bolsonaro, whose running mate is a ret

Και με την εταιρεία που «λάδωνε» τον Παπαντωνίου τι θα κάνουμε;

του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου It takes two to tango τραγουδούσε το 1952 η Περλ Μπάιλι, χάρη στην οποία μάθαμε την έκφραση «χρειάζονται δυο για να χορέψεις τάνγκο». Ο Γιάννος Παπαντωνίου, που βρίσκεται προφυλακισμένος με την κατηγορία ότι έλαβε 2.8 εκατομμύρια φράγκα, για να αναθέσει στην εταιρεία Thales Nederland B.V τον εκσυγχρονισμό φρεγατών του ελληνικού πολεμικού ναυτικού, είναι ο ένας χορευτής. Ο άλλος, κατά τα φαινόμενα, είναι η Thales. Όπως ήταν παλαιότερα και η Siemens και τόσες άλλες εταιρείες. Με αυτές τι κάνουμε; Όσο χαρμόσυνη και αν είναι για τον μέσο Έλληνα φορολογούμενο η είδηση της φυλάκισης διεφθαρμένων πολιτικών (ειδικά αυτών που του κουνούσαν το δάχτυλο), η συγκεκριμένη διαδικασία αγγίζει ένα μικρό τμήμα ενός γιγαντιαίου μηχανισμού, που ληστεύει τα ταμεία της Ελλάδας και συνήθως δεν βρίσκεται στο εσωτερικό της χώρας αλλά σε κάποια χώρα της ΕΕ. Ο μέσος φιλελεύθερος (αν τύχαινε να μην κυβερνά εκείνη την περίοδο το κόμμα του) αλλά και ο μέσος Ελλ

Civilian death toll keeps mounting as Saudi coalition targets cars travelling Yemen’s roads

Saudi and UAE bombardment has destroyed at least 421,911 houses, 930 mosques, 888 schools, 327 hospitals and health facilities, and 38 media organizations, while also halting the operation of 4,500 schools and leaving more than 4 million people internally displaced. by Ahmed Abdulkareem At least seven Yemeni civilians were killed on Sunday when Saudi-led coalition aircraft targeted residential areas in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, Sada’a, and the western coastal province of Hodeida. In Hajjah, Saudi airstrikes targeted a car as it was traveling on a road in the Bani Hassan area of the Abs district on Sunday afternoon, leaving four people dead and one injured, including one woman. In Sada’a, an Ansar Allah (Houthi) stronghold, a woman was killed and another injured when Saudi border guards fired artillery shells against a residential region in the border area of Shada. The thruway in Munabeh, a border area located east of Shada, was cut off after

The oligarchs behind the “humanitarian” regime change network now exploiting Jo Cox’s death to push for UK Labour split

Only by masking their otherwise unpopular policies in the cloak of Jo Cox’s tragedy, and humanity’s natural empathy for good samaritans and the downtrodden, has this small group of powerful individuals been able to launder disastrous wars and military adventurism as “the right thing to do.” by Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb Part 1 Jo Cox, the late Labour MP whose tragic death in 2016 shocked Britain and the world, has recently become a rallying cry for forces within the U.K. Labour Party who seek to weaken Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and to return the party to the pro-intervention Tony Blair era. As this article will show, this effort to manipulate Jo Cox’s death is the latest move in a wider effort to turn Cox’s legacy to the advantage of pro-intervention interests in Britain and abroad, particularly with regard to foreign intervention in Syria. While these moves — from support for “humanitarian” intervention in Syria to the drive to split the U.K. Labour Party — a