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The Grayzone Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein responds to Hillary Clinton calling her a "Russian asset" and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard a potential Russian dupe. Clinton and centrist Democrats, Stein says, are following a " well-worn script " of trying to undermine progressive candidates that challenge party elites' militarist and corporatist policies.

"Just one of those crazy things about the U.S. Congress, that we all know and love: members can hold stock in companies they oversee on their committees!" by Eoin Higgins As the House Financial Services Committee questioning of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got underway Wednesday morning, a number of observers pointed to a new report that shows four of the committee's Democratic members own stock in the social media giant. " Just one of those crazy things about the U.S. Congress, that we all know and love, " tweeted Sludge reporter David Moore, " members can hold stock in companies they oversee on their committees! " Moore's colleague Alex Kotch reported the story on Tuesday evening. Detailing how Democratic Reps. Joyce Beatty (Ohio), Josh Gottheimer (N.J.), Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), and Dean Phillips (Minn.) and/or their immediate families have " a total of between $126,000 and $365,000 invested in Facebook, " Kotch questioned h

Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats by Lois Beckett Part 1 For Adam Jasinski, a technology director for a school district outside of St Louis, Missouri, monitoring student emails used to be a time-consuming job. Jasinski used to do keyword searches of the official school email accounts for the district’s 2,600 students, looking for words like “suicide” or “marijuana”. Then he would have to read through every message that included one of the words. The process would occasionally catch some concerning behavior, but “it was cumbersome”, Jasinski recalled. Last year Jasinski heard about a new option: following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the technology company Bark was offering schools free, automated, 24-hour-a-day surveillance of what students were writing in their school emails, shared documents and chat messages, and sending alerts to school officials

Former and current US officials have slammed the Turkish mercenary force of “Arab militias” for executing and beheading Kurds in northern Syria. New data from Turkey reveals that almost all of these militias were armed and trained in the past by the CIA and Pentagon. by Max Blumenthal Part 3 - Prolific promoters of the “moderate rebels” run from their records When the Turkish military and its proxy force overwhelmed the Kurdish YPG this October, Hillary Clinton angrily denounced their brutality. Back in 2012, however, when Clinton was Secretary of State, she junketed to Istanbul to rally support for those very same militias during a “Friends of Syria” conference convened by Erdogan. She later remarked, “ The hard men with the guns are going to be the more likely actors in any political transition than those on the outside just talking. And therefore we needed to figure out how we could support them on the ground, better equip them… ” One of those “hard men” is Sali

Ecuador’s workers are rising up against the IMF-mandated neoliberal economic reforms of President Lenin Moreno, a close ally of Washington who calls them “zánganos,” or drone bees. by Denis Rogatyuk Part 6 - Moreno’s right-wing turn While Moreno has proved himself a loyal steward of the IMF agenda, Ecuador has  witnessed a steady breakdown of constitutional law. Moreno’s repressive turn has manifested itself on numerous fronts, from his turning over of WikiLeaks publisher and political refugee Julian Assange to the British authorities to his persecution and imprisonment of the former Vice President Jorge Glas on dubious charges to his continuous political witch hunt against Correa and other leaders of the Citizens’ Revolution, such as the former Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño and former assembly member Sofia Espin. The Moreno government has also censored several critical media outlets, making concerted efforts to silence discussion of the INA Papers corruption scandal

globinfo freexchange A 2017 US Department of State unclassified document reveals interesting details about a new strategy that the then new Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was about to follow. The document refers to a 2009 memo that was proposing this strategy to the Clinton team. The memo identifies that " Politics and public policy have become staple topics of daytime talk shows like no other time in history. The line between daytime talk shows and hard news becomes more and more blurred as headlines in one realm make headlines in the other. ", and suggests methods through which some of the most famous liberal celebrities and their daytime talk shows could be used to " shape Americans' opinion of foreign policy and provide a human face to the issues that the State Department is promoting. " Some key parts (most important highlighted): Unlike the elite, Inside-the-Beltway reporters who are constantly on the hunt for controversy and internal fric

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goingundergroundRT Whistleblower Katharine Gun speaks about the film ‘Official Secrets’, depicting her attempts to stop the Iraq War. She discusses how the US tried to spy and blackmail countries in the UN to support the Iraq War, Britain’s role in the US’ methods, the aftermath of the leaks and more.

President Bashar Assad said on Tuesday that Syria would support Kurdish fighters in the northeast of the war-torn country against Turkish soldiers and their Syrian proxies. “ We are prepared to support any group carrying out popular resistance against the Turkish aggression, ” he said in a video shared by the presidency. “ This is not a political decision… We are not taking any political decisions now, ” he told government troops on the frontline in the Idlib province, AFP reported. “ It is a constitutional duty and a national duty. ” Ankara and its Syrian proxies launched a cross-border attack against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria on October 9 after an announced US military pullout. https://www.rt.com/newsline/471555-syria-assad-kurds-turkey/

European Council President Donald Tusk said he will ask for another 90-day extension for Britain’s exit from the EU to avoid a no-deal scenario, after Parliament failed to approve the timetable for a negotiated departure. The previous Brexit deadline of October 31 should be moved to January 31, 2020, Tusk said on Tuesday. While Parliament approved Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s negotiated exit in a 329-299 vote earlier in the day, the "programme motion" to fast-track it through all the stages of the House of Commons failed with 308 votes in favor and 322 against, just minutes later. Updates: https://www.rt.com/uk/471579-tusk-backs-brexit-extension/