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Google Maybe Partnering With Brazil’s Government to Influence Public Opinion

Members of Brazil’s President Michel Temer’s administration met with Google representatives to discuss the viability of directing users’ queries to official content produced by the government.

Netizen Report
بواسطة Netizen Report
A demonstrator carries a statue in the likeness of Brazil's president Michel Temer during a protest against Brazil's president Michel Temer at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 28, 2017. People gathered on Copacabana beach ahead of a concert by Brazilian musical performers calling for new presidential elections while pressure mounts on the country's leader to resign amid corruption allegations. (AP/Leo Correa)

A January 12 article on the website of O Globo, one of Brazil’s most widely read daily newspapers, alleges that Brazil's government is seeking to work with Google to customize search results for Brazilian users, based on their location and possibly other characteristics. According to the O Globo article, which did not name its sources, the

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Poverty: American Style

“The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion.”

Kenneth Surin
بواسطة Kenneth Surin
Homeless tents are dwarfed by skyscrapers in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In December last year, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, issued a statement on his 15-day fact-finding mission of some of the U.S.’s poorest neighborhoods.   Alston, the author of the quoted phrase in the excerpt, is an Australian who is a professor of law at New York University.  During

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The Plot To Franchise The White Helmets Worldwide

Syria’s White Helmets have been boosted by the West as a trusted humanitarian organization, but their origins and motives remain murky. Now, the White Helmets effort appears to be spreading to other countries.

Caitlin Johnstone
بواسطة Caitlin Johnstone
The women of the White Helmets , also known as the Syrian Civil Defence.

I sat down with my coffee this beautiful Australian morning to watch two of my favorite independent media figures jam together in a Corbett Report interview of renowned independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley. About two-thirds of the way through, I nearly fell out of my chair. At 24:30 of the clip, the following bone-chilling

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The Fear That Drives U.S. Nuclear Strategy

Our world is poised perilously on the brink of catastrophic nuclear war. This has happened because we have given responsibility for holding the nuclear trigger to a handful of men who, emotionally speaking, are terrified little boys.

Robert J. Burrowes
بواسطة Robert J. Burrowes
Illustration by Max Pixel, Creative Commons.

The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. The Executive Summary of the NPR is also available if you prefer. Several authors have already thoughtfully exposed a phenomenal variety of obvious lies,

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New Footage Reveals the British Empire’s Hidden Workings in India and Iran

A newly released trove of films sheds new light on aspects of the British Empire’s imperial science, administration and colonial travel through India and Iran.

Jonathan Westaway
بواسطة Jonathan Westaway
Britain's Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, centre, with Lieutenant General Leslie Morshead and General Henry Maitland Wilson in Iran, on June 21, 1942, during the Duke's tour of the Middle East. (AP Photo)

In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitized recently by the society and the British Film Institute. They are now free to watch on the BFI website. The collection ranges from

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America’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking of Young Girls

Our culture is grooming these young people to be preyed upon by sexual predators. And then we wonder why our young women are being preyed on, trafficked and abused?

John Whitehead
بواسطة John Whitehead
Mebers of the industry group Club Owners Against Sex Trafficking sit for a talk given by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent teaching owners of strip clubs and strippers how to spot sex traffickers, at the Burbank Community Services Building in Burbank, Calif. A year-long academic study of sex trafficking in Las Vegas is providing a glimpse at a shadowy world behind the neon where underage girls threatened by pimps solicit for business in casinos, on streets and online. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

They’re called the Little Barbies. Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. This is America’s dirty little secret. Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big

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