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Activist outrage has exploded following the decision of Facebook, run by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, to remove pages and events related to the "No Unite the Right 2- DC," on the grounds that a page related to the protests may have been created by adversarial and inauthentic "bad actors," a term increasingly used to designate anyone online who promotes ideas outside the political consensus in the US and Europe. No real explanation is given at all for the removal of the pages, other than fear-mongering statements that a dastardly plot was supposedly unleashed to get people to attend a protest against white supremacists and alt-right frontmen who have been known to attack and even kill anti-racists like Heather Heyer. Promises to "release more data later," were foreshadowed by assessments that those involved in making them used VPNs and other tools, making them "more sophisticated" than previous alleged efforts by Russia to sw...

#JEFTA: Corporate Power Agreement Officially Signed By Japan, EU Over Wills Of Citizens, Will Go To Member States For Ratification From JEFTA To NATO, Rejecting Both The "Liberal Order" And Far-Right Conspiracies On "Globalism" WTO's Survival At Risk As Trade War Looms: Reports Helsinki Summit: 31 Left-Wing Protestors Against Repression Arrested, Beaten By Finnish Cops US Journalist Arrested Attempting To Ask Trump, Putin Questions On Nuclear Weapons Ban Intense Political Climate In US As Pro-War Democrats, Republicans Back Hearings, Claim "Treason" An Analysis Of The Summit Between US And Russia - Hysteria On All Sides BREXIT: FOUR LABOUR MPS DEFY WHIP, SAVE MAY FROM GENERAL ELECTION AS THRY BACK HARD LINE BREXIT Owen Jones: John Mann, Frank Field, Kate Hoey & Graham Stringer Must Be Kicked Out Of Party #London: A Quick Visit To The Home Office In Solidarity With Migrants Dijon: Large Refugee Squat Evicted By CRS (PHO...

UK Government Preparing For Anti-Trump Protests As “If London Was Burning Down” May Must Make Clear To Trump The Urgent Need To Tackle Climate Change Let's Make The Coming Protests A Challenge To An Unjust Order Three People Are Found Not Guilty After Protesting UK Arms Sales To Turkey DEFEATED........ Extreme-Right Sweden Democrats May Displace SocDems As Top Party For The First Time In A Century By Stoking Hatred Of Refugees #Antifa #NSU: Left Activists Analyse Neo-Nazi Terror Network And Ties To German State Is Media Focus On Refugee Boats, "Crisis" Boosting Far-Right Leaders Like Salvini? Switzerland: No Concentration Camps And Repression Offices! Solidarity Action MAGA Republican Congress Unveils Fascist "Unmasking Antifa Act" IGD News On #OccupyICE Movement, ICE Locking Up Journalists, Antifa Bill #OccupyICELou: One Week at Camp Compasión Behind the Blockades: Intersectional Organizing to Abolish ICE #NATOSummit: Trump A...

Right-Wing Smears Against Refugee Aid Workers In The Mediterranean Interview With Hungarian Journalist: What Is The "Stop Soros" Bill Really About? Novara Media Podcast- Lights in the Distance: Migration in Europe US Court Docs Reveal: Migrant Children Tied Down, Hooded, Beaten, Stripped And Drugged Gitmo-Style Camps See Refugee Children Tortured, Mocked With Racist Slurs Yes, US Immigration Prisons Are Absolutely ‘Concentration Camps’ Steve Miller, Trump's Anti-Migrant Advisor, Gets Off On Photos Of Caged Children, "Like SS" Young Socialists Confront 2nd Trump Aide, Steve Miller, As Fascist WikiLeaks Dumps ICE Agent Information In Return To Form For Whistleblowing Outlet Read The #ICEPatrol Leaks Here Unicorn Riot Releases Unredacted ICE Undercover Operations Handbook Trump Insider Wanted to Sell Social Media Surveillance Tools to Abusive Governments, Leaked Documents Suggest Snowden: Court Rules NSA Cellphone Tracking Unconsti...

The International Offensive Against Refugees Is An Attack On All Working People Greek Refugees Subjected To Rape And Other Forms Of Sexual Violence In Camps - Reports Spain: Roma Protest Planned On 26th In Solidarity Against Salvini's Fascist Legislation Italy's War On Migrants Sparks Fear For Country's Future Among Leftists Polls Show Neo-Nazi Sweden Democrats In The Lead With 29 Percent, First Party To Top Social Democrats In Over 100 Years Actions By Rubicon Activist Group In Greece Following Murder Of Worker Berlin, Germany: Actions Against Telekom, Deutsche Bahn, And Vodafone France: Bure Forest Struggle – House Searches, Arrests And Custodies Social Media Giants Choking Independent News Site Traffic to a Trickle Fracking PR Firms Regroup Gaslighting Efforts After Stinging Activist Defeat Artist Sued For Spoof Ads Targeting Shell Oil The Post-Growth Challenge: Secular Stagnation, Inequality, And The Limits To Growth The New Gentrification: Build...

The Establishment’s Question Times, commentators, and newspapers: how they long for a “sensible” and “responsible” opposition, and how the public vehemently rejects their every appeal. From the Centrist Dads’ knight in armour, David Miliband, to the ghost-like Liberal Democrats, the options on the table are unpopular at best and objects of ridicule at worst. Attempts at creating a prepackaged, out-of-the box neoliberal party along the lines of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche have flopped, despite the best efforts of Renew and similar elitist watering holes. Seeing this situation, it is only natural that Tony Blair, whose supporters can’t even muster 5 percent of the vote in the party he nearly destroyed, is seething with anger. His pet think tank, The Tony Blair Institute For Global Change, described by the New York Times of all outlets as “a front for the restoration of the global elite,” has worked overtime railing against “extremism” and “ideology,” as if it were still 1991...

At the time I am writing this, Donald Trump is getting a lot of flak for imposing tariffs on allied countries, skipping the G7 environmental meeting, and treating “dictators” like Kim Jong Un with more respect than Justin Trudeau and Theresa May. Trump, of course, deserves all the criticism directed at him. But is a man who pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement skipping a talk shop on ecology any worse than a known rapist attending a meeting on women’s empowerment? Is imposing tariffs on allies any worse than the entire G7- via the Trade In Services Agreement – imposing a marketisation of public services around the globe? Respecting Kim that much different than cozying up to Netanyahu and Mohammad Bin Salman, both engaged in active ethnic cleansing and genocide? The G7 hates Trump, not because his policies are much different from theirs. On the contrary. It should now be obvious to everyone that the promise of corporate-led globalization is not the breaking down of b...