(2019-09-11). Some airplanes did something?! New York Times article 'de-terrorizes' 9/11 attacks. rt.com 
On the anniversary of the most devastating terrorist attack on US soil, a story by the New York Times suggested that "airplanes" brought down the twin towers. The seeming shift of responsibility did not sit well with readers. | "18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center," read a tweet from the New York Times on Wednesday. "Today families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more than 2000 people died." Inside an accompanying article, the same bizarre sentence was repeated. | Though technological dystopia was all the rage in 2001, what with the success…
(2019-09-11). 'We don't want another FyreFest': 'Storm Area 51' event canceled over 'safety concerns'. rt.com 
"AlienStock," a music-festival spinoff of the "Storm Area 51" viral event, has been canceled out of fear for visitors' safety amid armed and angry locals, military police, and punishing desert conditions. | Alienstock, set to take place in Rachel, Nevada — the closest town to the secretive Area 51 airbase — was canceled out of fear it would turn into "FyreFest 2.0," the organizers announced on Tuesday, referring to the notorious music festival that bilked attendees for hefty ticket fees only to strand them on a tropical island in the Bahamas with no infrastructure and no festival. | Also on rt.com…
(2019-09-11). From a Lebanese refugee camp to Harvard, Ismail Ajjawi inspires other Palestinian students. nationofchange.org Today marks a week since Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who was denied entry into the United States, began classes with his fellow Harvard freshmen. Ajjawi was initially turned away at Boston's Logan Airport after immigration officials searched his phone and computer, and interrogated him about his religion and social media posts by friends …
(2019-09-11). Government Internet shutdowns on the rise internationally. wsws.org Instances of governments shutting down the Internet are on the rise in response to the growth of social conflict and protest, as well as the use of social media to organize political opposition.
(2019-09-11). Video: Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7: "The Bamboozle Has Captured Us" globalresearch.ca Below is a video showing several film sequences taken from different locations and documenting multiple angles of World Trade Center Building 7 collapsing at freefall speed eighteen years ago on September 11, 2001. | The four words "Building Seven Freefall Speed"…
(2019-09-11). New poll suggests increasing support for break-up of the UK. thecanary.co 
A new poll suggests that a majority of people living in the north of Ireland would vote to join the Republic of Ireland if there was a referendum. And with similar support also showing for an independent Scotland, the UK's days could well be numbered. | pic.twitter.com/muhAdZ5LUh<...
(2019-09-10). John Bolton, welcome to #Resistance? Media, Democrats lament Trump firing national security hawk. rt.com 
Within hours of his firing by President Donald Trump, the hawkish national security adviser John Bolton was embraced by mainstream media outlets and even some Democrats, even if only as an excuse to criticize the White House. | Trump announced Bolton's ouster via Twitter on Tuesday morning, stunning even those in Washington who have reported on the possibility of such a move for months. As the shock wore off, however, reporters and lawmakers figured they would offer their thoughts — which, unsurprisingly, went along the usual lines. | "Can't wait for the Resistance, led by Maddow & O'Donnell & Hayes, to e…
(2019-09-10). Bolton out: Trump ditches hawkish adviser he kept for 18 months despite 'disagreements'. rt.com 
Whatever prompted US President Donald Trump to decide the services of his national security adviser John Bolton were "no longer needed," the question now is if he intends to retreat from the hawkish path Bolton had blazed. | Trump made the announcement on Twitter, as usual, saying he "disagreed strongly with many of [Bolton's] suggestions" and therefore asked for his resignation — and received it on Tuesday. Bolton's response perhaps illustrated the nature of his relationship with Trump: he tweeted only a confirmation that he'd offered to resign, then leaked an account to the media disputing Trump's versi…
(2019-09-10). War and whiskers: Freshly-resigned John Bolton gets meme-roasting. rt.com 
US National Security Advisor John Bolton's departure from the Trump administration has been met with a mix of joy from the MAGA crowd and protests from dedicated neocons, but also with an avalanche of memes. | President Donald Trump announced Bolton's dismissal by tweet on Tuesday, saying he had "disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions," presumably meaning his advocacy for military-enforced regime change in Syria, Venezuela, North Korea and Iran. Bolton insisted that he attempted to resign before Trump's announcement. | Reaction flowed in swiftly, with some commenters in the media lamenting the war-haw…
(2019-09-10). Massive blaze as train carrying flammable liquid derails in Illinois (PHOTO, VIDEO). rt.com 
Plumes of huge black smoke have been seen miles away from the crash site after a freight train carrying flammable liquid derailed near Dupo, Illinois, prompting an evacuation of railroad staff. | The accident occurred at around 12: 45 pm local time at Union Pacific's Dupo Yard, when the train was being prepared for departure, the railroad said. The derailment caused a tank car with methyl isobutyl ketone solvent to catch fire. | There have so no reports of deaths and injuries far been, with railroad staff safely evacuated from the yard. | www.facebook.com/herb.simmons.5/videos/10221191145874015/ | Foota…
(2019-09-10). Publishers beg Congress to save them from extinction at the hands of Big Tech. rt.com 
Newspaper executives are begging Congress to rescue their business model from predatory tech platforms, urging lawmakers to pass a bill that will allow them to bargain collectively and presumably restore their former glory. | Seven major newspaper publishers are lobbying for the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would give the newspaper industry four years of immunity from antitrust laws. That would enable them to bargain collectively with companies like Google and Facebook — which are, ironically, subject to several antitrust probes of their own, due to their outsize presence in the tech…
(2019-09-10). 'The Nation' Launches 'Signal:Noise,' a New Column Confronting Mainstream Media Myopia. thenation.com 'The Nation' Launches 'Signal: Noise,' a New Column Confronting Mainstream Media Myopia…
(2019-09-10). From a Lebanese Refugee Camp to Harvard, Ismail Ajjawi Inspires Other Palestinian Students. democracynow.org 
Today marks a week since Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who was denied entry into the United States, began classes with his fellow Harvard freshmen. Ajjawi was initially turned away at Boston's Logan Airport after immigration officials searched his phone and computer, and interrogated him about his religion and social media posts by friends that were critical of U.S. policy. He was then forced to return home to Lebanon, but his case provoked outrage on the Harvard campus and among some Palestinian rights and academic freedom groups. Ajjawi, who is attending Harvard on a full scholarship, was edu…
(2019-09-09). Trump, John Legend and 'filthy-mouthed' Chrissy Teigen spar about US criminal justice reform. rt.com 
President Donald Trump has sparked a Twitter spat with John Legend and Chrissy Teigen after he accused them of stealing the credit for his criminal justice reforms, prompting them to clap back and call him a "p*ssy-ass b**ch." | Trump had tweeted that he'd been able to do what "no one else did" in passing criminal justice reform into law, and slammed "boring musician" Legend, "his filthy mouthed wife" Teigen and others for "taking the praise" for his work, which, he boasted, President Barack Obama "couldn't come close" to achieving. | When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unab…
(2019-09-09). As Biden Invokes Dead Family Members Against Medicare for All, Media Play Along. fair.org 
by Joshua Cho | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last month released a new Iowa TV ad called " Personal," which recounts the former vice president's personal tragedy of losing his wife and daughter to a car crash, and the subsequent loss of his son Beau Biden from brain cancer. | Biden presented his story as a celebration of for-profit health insurance by saying that he "couldn't imagine" what it would've been like if their insurance didn't cover the healthcare required "immediately," and that…
(2019-09-09). You've got to hand it to the Irish PM, he just out-Boris-ed Boris right to his face. thecanary.co You've got to hand it to Ireland's PM Leo Varadkar — he played a blinder on 9 September. In a press conference with Boris Johnson, he proved he's got the UK PM's number: by out-Boris-ing the man himself. | Classic: | In the press conference in Dublin, Johnson reaffirmed his desire to leave the EU on 31 Oc…
(2019-09-08). Four missing, 20 rescued after cargo ship capsizes off Georgia coast. rt.com 
The US Coast Guard is searching for four crew members of a large cargo vessel that capsized while a fire on board still raged. Twenty people have so far been rescued, and four remain missing. | The 656-foot vehicle carrier, the M/V Golden Ray, is listing heavily in the St. Simons Sound. Images from the scene show smoke rising from its side. | 71,000-ton GRT vehicle carrier GOLDEN RAY is in distress in St Simon Sound off Brunswick, Georgia. US #Coast Guard photos show the 200-meter-long vessel with an extreme list and an internal fire…
(2019-09-06). Denmark passes landmark consent-based rape laws. greenleft.org.au 
sexual consent Lisbeth LathamIssue 1236 Denmark rape lawsSeptember 6, 2019Denmark's Red-Green Alliance or Enhedslisten (United List) announced on July 14 that the g…
(2019-09-03). Identity Unmasked: Meet the Proprietors of the Internet's Largest Neo-Confederate Propaganda Machine. splcenter.org A small Facebook campaign predicated on keeping Confederate monuments in place has morphed into a group of more than 200 ardent, secretive separatists planning to make the South a separate nation.
(2019-09-03). Out of the Darkness: Conversion Therapist Quits 'Ex-Gay' Movement. splcenter.org According to Truth Wins Out, Matheson's fellow ex-gay leader Rich Wyler announced his exit in a post to a private Facebook group. TWO "goes undercover to expose 'ex-gay' conversion leaders as hypocritical frauds that have not actually changed their sexual orientation," its website states.