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Nat Parry ConsortiumNews 28 January 2018 It is with a heavy heart that we inform Consortiumnews readers that Editor Robert Parry has passed away. As regular readers know, Robert (or Bob, as he was known to friends and family) suffered a stroke in December, which – despite his own speculation that it may have been brought on by the stress of covering Washington politics – was the result of undiagnosed pancreatic cancer that he had been unknowingly living with for the past 4-5 years. He unfortunately suffered two more debilitating strokes in recent weeks and after the last one, was moved to hospice care on Tuesday. He passed away peacefully Saturday evening. He was 68. Those of us close to him wish to sincerely thank readers for the kind comments and words of support posted on  recent   articles  regarding Bob’s health issues. We read aloud many of these comments to him during his final days to let him know how much his work has meant to so many people ...

Ne News 28 January 2018 The first names for the fourth season of Network Ten's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here has been announced. The entertainment at the Superbowl announced. But if you are not interested in that, then you are interested in the Week in Review, news that were covered in the previous week, some of which were not reported by Ne News . And sorry that it is one day late. The Media: Are They Giving Us What We Want? In the past year, there has been talk of the so-called "fake media" by US President Donald Trump (mostly aimed at outlets like CNN), but the question is: Are the media giving us what we want, or the elite want? But this section is not about debating about the so-called "fake media", but the gradual "dumbing down" of the media, in which real, investigative journalism has been replaced by short stories and stories that don't really affect us (such as the world of celebrities). In the past, the mainstream media ...

Ne News 26 January 2018 Tomorrow, people around Australia will be celebrating Australia Day. Some will be celebrating, while others will be protesting. And there is a debate over when to celebrate Australia Day. And while Ne News supports changing the day to say the day of the Mabo Decision or Wattle Day (September 1), we need to appreciate the complexity of the issue at hand. It is simplistic to just celebrate it on January 26 or move it to a different date (in fact, the original Australia Day was on 30 July 1915, and January 26 has been a public holiday since 1994 - http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/australia-day-must-be-preserved-as-history-intended-in-july-20161204-gt3xmx.html ), and we need to look beyond the black and white nature of this issue. For some people, January 26 is a day of mourning (and we need to look at that), but January 26 is also a date of new beginnings (such as citizenship ceremonies around Australia, and we need to look at that as well, ...

Strategic Culture Foundation 19 January 2018 This past week saw a spate of international security alarms which underlines the danger of the world stumbling into catastrophic war. Those alarms, which were either false or hyped up, stem from a Cold War mentality.   Such a mentality is not only dangerous, it is also unacceptable in today’s world.   First, we saw the US territory of Hawaii being put on full-scale alert over a supposed incoming ballistic missile. The alarm turned out to be false. There was no such incoming missile, but the entire population on the Pacific island were put through 38 minutes of sheer torment.   A day after that incident, Japan’s air-raid system also put a similar false alert.   In both cases, it was assumed that the non-existent missiles had been fired from North Korea.   Meanwhile in Europe, fighter jets from Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain – all members of the US-led NATO alliance – we...

Eric Zuesse Global Research 20 January 2018 Gallup  surveyed in 134 countries in 2017 , and on January 18th reported that: Median approval of U.S. leadership across the 134 countries surveyed in 2017 reached 30%, the lowest point since Gallup began tracking this measure annually in 2007. Disapproval of U.S. leadership increased almost as much as approval declined. The 43% median disapproval, up 15 points from the previous year, was a new record as well, not only for the U.S. but for any other major global power  [there were three others — Germany, Russia, and China — that]  Gallup asked  [this question]  about in the past decade. The map showing country-by-country results indicates declining approval of U.S. leadership in all countries in the Western Hemisphere, except no change in Jamaica and Trinidad-&-Tobago. There were 9% decline of approval of America’s leadership in Venezuela, and declines ranging from 14% to 40% in all o...

Ne News 20 January 2018 Debate over what date Australia Day should be celebrated, Kayne West and Kim Kardashian has announced the name of their new baby, and celebrities behaving badly...again. These are the news that has shaped the mainstream media landscape this week (at least in the West), but what have we missed out on that the alternative media has been reporting. The Move Towards The Right In The Media Throughout the world, there are divisions between the so-called "liberal" media and the "conservative" media, with the so-called "liberal" media getting a serving from people in both the mainstream media and the alternative media ( https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-liberal-pillar-of-the-establishment-new-look-guardian-old-style-orthodoxy/5626504 ) . But what is worth noting is that throughout the Western world, the media (both "liberal" and "conservative") are moving towards the far-right, and this is best evident in Australia ...

Ne News 19 January 2018 The United States of America (and in particular the regime in Washingon) often talks about democracy and freedom and how Washington supports democracy and freedom throughout the world. Just yesterday (at the initiative of both North Korea and South Korea), the two Koreas will march in together at the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, with the White House saying that a joint march will give North Koreans a 'taste of freedom' ( http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/01/103_242660.html ). It is worth noting that the United States of America doesn't support freedom or democracy for the people. In fact, in the United States of America, the American people are losing their freedoms and their democracy. In the United States of America, 90 percent of the American media landscape is controlled by just five large media conglomerates (Disney, Time Warner, News Corp, National Amusements and Comcast), and this increasingly con...

William Bowles Global Research 15 January 2018 “…we have the certainty that matter remains eternally the same in all its transformations, that none of its attributes can ever be lost, and therefore, also, that with the same iron necessity that it will exterminate on the earth its highest creation, the thinking mind, it must somewhere else and at another time again produce it”. — Frederick Engels , from the introduction to ‘The Dialectics of Nature’, 1883. In 1945, following the second ‘war to end all wars’, or something like that, the people of Britain put their faith, at least temporally, in an alleged socialist, Labour government. A government that vowed that there would be no return to the ‘bad old days’ of prewar Britain. So we got the National Health Service, public housing, a nationalised transport system, even the canal network was nationalised (telecommunications was already a state-owned monopoly, the capitalists weren’t prepared to risk  their ...