As Dems Focus on Impeachment, Trump Heads to "Imperial Governance"
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-10
The Trump administration is undermining our nation from immigration to the environment, while his tweets and impeachment distract us. Add it all up, says our guest, we can see how he threatens what remains of U.S. democracy.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-alters-us-impeachment

Mark Ruffalo called out for selective outrage over tweet shaming Ellen Degeneres and George Bush's war crimes
rt.com | 2019-10-10
Actor Mark Ruffalo was shredded for double standards after he posted a "callout" tweet assailing George Bush for the sins of the Iraq War, with many netizens noting his aversion to slamming Barack Obama's military adventures. | Weighing into a controversy kicked off by TV personality Ellen Degeneres, who came under fire for schmoozing it up with former President George W. Bush at a football game last weekend, Ruffalo insisted no quarter or kindness should be offered to perpetrators of heinous war crimes until they face consequences, including Bush. | "Sorry, until George W. Bush is brought to justice for the c…
rt.com/usa/470572-mark-ruffalo-bush-tweet/

The Apotheosis of Emperors. Understanding the History of Empires in the 21st Century
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-10
feature image: Augustus | Sometimes it may be instructive to look beyond foreign policy and pay attention to the actors and their words. I was struck by one of Trump's tweets of this week not because of the threatening reference to …
globalresearch.ca/the-apotheosis-of-emperors-understanding-the-history-of-empires-in-the-21st-century/5691563

Translating Neoliberal-Speak: Your 2020 Democratic Candidates
William Hawes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-10
Presented here is a short list of some of the most ridiculous statements, absolute gems really, from some of the hopefuls for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President. These are all either verbatim quotes from speeches, interviews, or official Twitter posts from the candidates. After I was initially rendered catatonic by examining the collective ignorance, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/translating-neoliberal-speak-your-2020-democratic-candidates/

Immanuel Wallerstein, a Belated Farewell
Boris Kagarlitsky | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-10
Alas, I have not written about Immanuel Wallerstein right after his death, as I should have. The electoral campaign for Moscow City Duma demanded all my time and attention, so I limited myself to a short post on social media and promised to write an article later. Now, after the election has come and gone,…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/10/immanuel-wallerstein-a-belated-farewell/

Fossil Fuel Firms Spend Millions on Social Media Ads Against Climate Regulations While Portraying Selves as Green Heroes
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-10-10
"This is the playbook: deny, delay, confuse, blame 'consumers', spread economic fear, #greenwash, repeat." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/california_fossil_fuels_0.png …
commondreams.org/news/2019/10/10/fossil-fuel-firms-spend-millions-social-media-ads-against-climate-regulations-while?cd-origin=rss

Coleen Rooney took on The Sun. It's just brilliant, and it shows what we're up against
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-10-09
Coleen Rooney has taken on the invasive reporting of the Sun. What she did was just brilliant. But it also showed exactly what we're up against with the establishment media now Boris Johnson's prime minister."I came up with an idea": On 9 October, Rooney shared a Twitter post explaining that "someone who I trusted" kept sharing "private posts and stories" with the tabloid. So she blocked everyone, bar one account, from her Instagram and started sharing fake stories. Sure enough, the Sun ran these, and Rooney was able to pinpoi…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/10/09/coleen-rooney-took-on-the-sun-its-just-brilliant-and-it-shows-what-were-up-against/

Venezuela Denounces Airspace Violation by US
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-09
Venezuelan Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino Lopez, expressed through his official Twitter account a new violation of the airspace of that Bolivarian nation by an intelligence aircraft belonging to the United States. | RELATED: | U.S: Eyes on Cuba and Russia for Supporting Venezuela | The publication explained that this irruption in the sovereignty of the South American country was captured and recorded by the sensors of the Integral Aerospace Defense Command (Codai), this Wednesday,…
telesurenglish.net/news/venezuela-denounces-airspace-violation-by-us-20191009-0023.html

Russian social media debate: clickbait or information warfare?
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-09
What is the Internet Research Agency, and are the claims of a Russian influence campaign against the U.S. well-founded? Aaron…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/09/russian-social-media-debate-clickbait-or-information-warfare/

Mark Zuckerberg Buckles and Will Testify to Congress on Facebook's Cryptocurrency
Akela Lacy | theintercept.com | 2019-10-09
The hearing comes after Chair Maxine Waters and committee Democrats sent a letter to Facebook calling on the company to suspend plans to launch the cryptocurrency, Libra.
theintercept.com/2019/10/09/mark-zuckerberg-will-testify-house-financial-services-committee/

Facebook's Libra faces tough scrutiny before 2020 launch, warns Bank of England
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-09
The Bank of England has warned Facebook that its new digital coin, Libra, will face tough regulatory scrutiny ahead of its launch. | In minutes of the latest financial policy committee (FPC) meeting, the Bank said Libra had the potential to become a "systemically important" payment system and would need to show resilience across the entire chain. | The comments came as the Bank also gave its latest assessment of the UK's financial stability, confirming that lenders remain able to withstand a worst-case disorderly Brexit. | It added that "extensive" contingency planning has helped mitigate most of the threats of a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/09/facebooks-libra-faces-tough-scrutiny-before-2020-launch-warns-bank-of-england/

China vs NBA: That Tweet Is No Slam Dunk
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-08
A tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey provoked Chinese TV into banning an upcoming NBA game. So instead of talking about Uighur concentration camps, the murder of Chinese protestors, or the upcoming trade war, US media is asking about the future of NBA-China relations.
therealnews.com/stories/china-nba-tweet-no-slam-dunk

'Don't tempt me': Hillary threatens to enter 2020 race after Trump Twitter jab
rt.com | 2019-10-08
Hillary Clinton has threatened to enter the 2020 presidential race for president after President Donald Trump suggested on Twitter that she throw her hat in the ring in an effort to "steal it away" from Elizabeth Warren. | Trump tweeted Tuesday that "Crooked Hillary" should run for president again to deprive the "Uber Left" Warren of a shot at the White House, but only on "one condition" to be subpoenaed to "explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors." | I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try and steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren. Only one condition. The Crooked one…
rt.com/usa/470478-clinton-trump-run-elections-tempt-me/

Hezbollah took over Pentagon? Defense reporters baffled by bizarre glitch on TV screens showing CNN
rt.com | 2019-10-08
Reporters are scratching their heads following an odd tech glitch at the Pentagon, in which the name of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah flashed across TV screens tuned to CNN in the building's press pen. Nobody's sure why. | A number of journalists in the Defense Department press corps took to Twitter with alarm on Monday afternoon to share pictures and videos of the mysterious malfunction, some wondering aloud whether the militant group had successfully infiltrated the Pentagon. During the glitch, an image with the word "Hezbollah" in all-caps at the top and bottom of the screen, with indecipherable tex…
rt.com/news/470408-hezbollah-take-over-pentagon/

Militia Movement Rhetoric Elevated to National Level
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-10-03
A weekend tweet by President Donald Trump mirrors the language of a militia movement that has been calling for civil war for at least three years and gives extremist groups a powerful seal of approval.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/03/militia-movement-rhetoric-elevated-national-level

Black Dean of Students Jamie Riley fired in Alabama for telling the truth
Rob Dunn | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-02
Riley fired for tweets about racist foundations of US society.
liberationnews.org/black-dean-of-students-jamie-riley-fired-in-alabama-for-telling-the-truth/

NYT Perp Walks a Bronx Neighborhood
Josmar Trujillo | fair.org | 2019-10-02
"Sources" gave NY1 reporter Dean Meminger (Twitter, 9/29/19) an entirely inaccurate account of a NYPD "friendly fire" incident. | Two people died in a hail of bullets last weekend in the Bronx. One, a plainclothes New York City police officer, Brian Mulkeen; the other, Antonio Williams, accused of wrestling with the cop and possessing a weapon. It turned out to be the second case this year of a fatal so-called "friendly fire" incident, but the New York Times took its cue from law enforcement officials in shaping the early narrative around…
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