By Global Research News
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Below is a selection of recent articles which bring to the forefront the process of media disinformation which supports a corrupt and criminal political agenda.
In the words of award winning investigative reporter Robert Parry (see article below):
“The mainstream U.S. media is congratulating itself on its courageous defiance of President Trump and its hard-hitting condemnations of Russia, but the press seems to have forgotten that its proper role within the U.S. democratic structure is not to slant stories one way or another but to provide objective information for the American people.”
What this suggests is that more than ever we need to stand together to continuously question politics, false statements, and the suppression of independent thought.
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The Assassination of Seth Rich, the DNC Emails and the Russia Probe
By Caitlin Johnstone, May 25, 2017
This is unsurprisingly getting zero mainstream attention, but all the Russia hysteria that has engulfed American discourse has actually placed all terrestrial life in grave danger. Dr. Stephen Cohen, easily the foremost American authority on US-Russia relations, said in an interview with RT last week that this may be the most dangerous that tensions between the two nations have ever been in his lifetime. Cohen was born in 1938.
Never Mind the Real Russia, This Is All About Trump
By David Swanson and Ann Garrison, May 25, 2017
I jumped in and said, “Yes, you’re absolutely right. Get rid of these statues. There are some other reasons, too, to get rid of these statues. They’re war statues. The only statues we have here in Charlottesville are war statues. There are no peace statues. There are no anything else statues. There are no civil rights statues, no women’s rights statues, no labor movement statues.
