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The Trump regime is sending thousands more US troops to the Middle East in a blatant act of aggression against Iran — but CNN is willingly acting as a US gov. mouthpiece, outlandishly claiming that this is to "counter Iran," even though Iran is the victim!
cnn.com/2019/05/24/pol…
This is blatant US government propaganda. CNN is justifying the Trump regime's military aggression by claiming it's to "deter Iranian threats"

CNN hasn't changed since the Iraq War because it never will change: its role is to manufacture consent for illegal US wars of aggression
While the Trump regime is aggressively threatening Iran for merely existing, it is simultaneously considering an emergency declaration that would allow it to make arms shipments to the blood-soaked Saudi monarchy without the approval of Congress
apnews.com/2c23a62730ef44…
The Trump regime's aggression against Iran has nothing whatsoever to do with "freedom" and "democracy." How do we know? Because at the same time, Trump is trying to expedite arms sales to the Wahhabi Saudi dictatorship that beheads and crucifies protesters
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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I wrote about how it is not just Trump, but the media, Obama, Bush, mainstream “human rights” organizations, Republicans and Democrats alike that put the noose around the neck of @WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange — threatening all journalists.
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The NY Times has spent years demonizing @WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, smearing them as Kremlin tools without any evidence.

Last month, it published this embarrassing article indirectly admitting that there is still no evidence for their bogus attacks.
nytimes.com/2019/04/11/us/…
A CNN columnist published this shameful article last month claiming political prisoner Julian Assange is "not a journalist.” Trump’s assistant attorney general echoed this *exact same language* last night when he announced the indictment.
cnn.com/2019/04/11/opi…
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Ben Norton
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Even the NY Times—which has been lying about political prisoner Julian Assange, smearing him as a supposed Russian tool—is warning that the US government's draconian charges against him and WikiLeaks are a blatant assault on the freedoms of speech & press
nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/…
The director of the First Amendment Institute at Columbia University said the US government's charges against Assange "rely almost entirely on conduct that investigative journalists engage in every day."

"The indictment should be understood as a frontal attack on press freedom."
After spending years attacking and smearing political prisoner Assange, the NY Times is finally admitting that he is a journalist — albeit in the most roundabout way possible

Typical NYT: Eventually it admits the truth, but only when it is much too late ()
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Ben Norton
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This is the US/Saudi/Qatar-backed "Syrian Revolution" for you: Some Shia Lebanese boys died in a horrific car accident, and his response is to condemn them for opposing Salafi-jihadist CIA contras that terrorized Syrians and ethnically cleansed minorities
This blatant anti-Shia sectarianism, and even whitewashing of Saddam Hussein (who just so happened to be Sunni — while the US helped him use chemical weapons on Iranian Shia civilians), is common among supporters of the US/Saudi/Qatari "Syrian Revolution"
CIA files prove the US helped Saddam Hussein as he launched some of the worst chemical attacks in history on Iran
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Heshmat Alavi
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Heshmat Alavi
@HeshmatAlavi
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So #Trump is holding a news conference in about five minutes. I’ll be watching (and probably tweeting). Follow/mute at will!
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