Year: 2018
Netanyahu’s ‘hug-a-fascist club’: Duterte, Orban, Salvini, and now Bolsonaro
[Haaretz] “Until very recently, Jair Bolsonaro was a big player in domestic Brazilian politics. For years he’d been projectile-vomiting baleful rhetoric at…
Israel cosies up to the World’s far right
[The Washington Post] “Under Netanyahu’s watch, Israel has amassed a conspicuous crop of illiberal allies. Some, like Salvini and Hungarian Prime…
Fugitive Macedonian ex-PM Gruevski escapes with Hungarian diplomatic help, seeks asylum
[BalkanInsight] “Data from the Macedonian, Albanian and Montenegrin police now paint a relatively accurate picture of former prime minister Nikola…
REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major US Jewish Federation
[The Forward] “For three years, a website called Canary Mission has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political…
Israel secretly armed and funded Syrian rebels
[Foreign Policy] “Israel secretly armed and funded at least 12 rebel groups in southern Syria that helped prevent Iran-backed fighters…
Ukrainian Far-Right Fighters Trained by Major EU Security Firm in Poland
[bellingcat] “Since 2016, the European Security Academy (ESA) an EU-based company that offers advanced training programs for security, law enforcement and military…
Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo Received $25,000 From Weinstein as He Suspended Probe
[Capital & Main, BuzzFeed News] “Last year, a political firestorm erupted when journalists revealed that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer…
Amazon employs a ‘small army’ to tweet nice things about working conditions after horror stories
[Insider] “A small army of accounts have popped up on Twitter to tweet positive things about the working conditions at…
Latest research: Rohingya death toll in Myanmar massacres up to 25,000
[The Daily Star] “An estimated 25,000 Rohingyas were murdered and 19,000 Rohingya women and adolescents raped during the military crackdown…
Noam Chomsky: Israeli interference in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms’ anything Russia has done
[The Independent] “Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of “brazenly” interfering in US electoral politics in a way that vastly outweighs any efforts that…
Police Brutality: New allegations of secret tattooed deputy gangs within L.A. County Sheriff’s Department
[Los Angeles Times] “For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over…
Claim Investigated: George Soros was a Nazi collaborator involved in confiscating properties of deported Jews
[Vox, Snopes.com] “Donald Trump Jr. suggested George Soros is a Nazi. [He] is more than his father’s right-hand man —…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t think Sirhan Sirhan killed his father
[New York Post] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not convinced that Sirhan Sirhan fired the shot that killed his father…
Amnesty International: Rohingya armed group ARSA massacred Hindus in Myanmar
[Amnesty International] “A Rohingya armed group [Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or ARSA] brandishing guns and swords is responsible for at…
Basque militant group ETA announced its dissolution – Timeline of events
[AP News] “The Basque militant group ETA on Wednesday announced its dissolution in a much-awaited declaration that marked the end…
The Federalist admits gerrymandering, cronyism and undemocratic illiberalism in Hungary, claims Left’s hypocrisy creates leaders like Orbán
[The Federalist] “If you get your news from the mainstream media, you might think that Hungary just suffered a fascist coup….
False but True: “Clinton Email: We must destroy Syria for Israel”
[PolitiFact, Snopes.com] “Hillary Clinton’s emails are back in the news — the fake news, that is. […] The article cites…
Sky News cuts UK general when he says Assad winning in Syria, not in his interest to use chemical weapons
[Activist Post] “An interview between Sky News and one of Britain’s former senior military officials on reports of a chemical…
Change in Tone: The Irrawaddy, other ‘democratic’ media promote hate and fake news
[Financial Times] “The military’s rampage against the Rohingya last year was without Aung San Suu Kyi’s apparent consent or prior…
Mattis Admits There Was No Evidence Assad Used Poison Gas in Syria
[Newsweek, AP News] “Lost in the hyper-politicized hullabaloo surrounding the Nunes Memorandum and the Steele Dossier was the striking statement by…
Days after Jo Cox murder, media wrote ‘Kill Jeremy Corbyn’ – and a suspect of another terror attack wanted to kill him
[The Guardian] “The Mail on Sunday once ran an article by sometime Labour member Dan Hodges under the headline “Labour MUST kill…
The NY Times & U.S. Government Worked Together to Suppress Post-9/11 Reporting
[Democracy Now!, The Intercept] “interview with former New York Times reporter James Risen, who left the paper in August to…