Protesters of Arctic Drilling Block Seattle Port

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Published on May 18, 2015

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‘EU not concerned with humanitarian crisis it caused in Africa’

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Published on May 18, 2015

The EU has come up with a plan to battle immigration by launching a naval operation targeting people-smugglers in the Mediterranean. For more on this Lode Vanoost – a former deputy speaker of the Belgian Parliament joins RT.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders on income inequality, trade agreements and Islamic State

PBS NewsHour

Published on May 18, 2015

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is the second candidate to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. Judy Woodruff talks to the senator about rebuilding the middle class, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the U.S. role in the Middle East.

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Fossil Free UK on Twitter: “BREAKING: @UniofOxford agrees NOT to invest in coal and tar sands!

Success! The University of Oxford has just become the latest university to stand up to the fossil fuel industry. The University Council has said it will not directly invest in coal or tar sands, making it the fifth university in the UK to take a stance on divestment.

After

a long campaign, including a giant dinosaur and a stunt wedding (plus 10,000 students, 850 alumni and 100+ academics), the university management has chosen to listen to its own research rather than commit to future climate destruction and the marginalisation of First Nations people.

What we have achieved is a step forward. If the university can accept the economic, ethical and social arguments for divestment for coal and tar sands, they can follow through with other fossil fuels.

So in response to failure of the university to fully divest, Oxford alumni will be handing back their degrees. If you would like to join them, please fill in this form. We’ll be holding an alumni degree handback party this Saturday outside a university administrative building.

We hope this move will spur on other universities to make similar commitments in the coming months. We’re looking at you, Edinburgh!

Help us celebrate the success in Oxford today and put pressure on your own university to divest.

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John Nichols and Robert McChesney on Selling out Democracy

Moyers & Company

Published on Nov 8, 2013

This past Tuesday, special interests pumped big money into promoting or tearing down candidates and ballot initiatives in elections across the country. It was a reprise on a small scale of the seven billion dollars we saw going into presidential, congressional and judicial races in 2012. To sway the vote, wealthy individuals and corporations bought campaign ads, boosting revenues at a handful of media conglomerates who have a near-monopoly on the airwaves.

No one knows the dangers of this ‘money-and-media complex’ better than John Nichols and Robert McChesney, who speak with Bill this week on Moyers & Company. Nichols is Washington correspondent for The Nation and a pioneering political blogger. McChesney is a professor and leading scholar of communications at the University of Illinois. Their latest book is Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America.

“Democracy means rule of the people, one person, one vote,” McChesney says. “Dollarocracy means the rule of the dollars. One dollar, one vote. Those with lots of dollars have lots of power. Those with no dollars have no power.” Nichols tells Moyers: “Dollarocracy has the ability to animate dead ideas. You can take an idea that’s a bad idea, buried by the voters. Dollarocracy can dig it up and that zombie idea will walk among us.”

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Devastating Expose on American Journalism and Media Concentration: Leading Thinkers

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Published on Jan 23, 2013

Absolutely riveting documentary by Robert Kane Pappas “Orwell Rolls in his Grave”
Mark Crispen Miller, Danny Schechter, Robert W. McChesney
Charles Lewis Interviews Barlett & Steele
Tony Benn,Vincent Bugliosi, Jeff Cohen, Aurora Wallance
Senator Bernie Sanders
below comments Excerpted from another youtuber
3 Hour Documentary explaining a portion of the information about media censorship, consolidation and propaganda. Please check links for more information.

Walter Lippmann (Public Opinion) – Full Book Link @ http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/CD…

Chapter VII. Stereotypes As Defense – http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper2/…
Chapter VIII. Blind Spots And Their Value – http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHyper2/…

Adorno and Horkheimer – The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944)
The predictions in this essay are stunningly accurate @
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/ir……

Edward Bernays – Propaganda (1928) only 150 pages – http://www.scribd.com/doc/4057578/Pro…

(Books)
When Corporations Rule the World – David C. Korten (One of the best reads ever)
News: The Politics of Illusion – W. Lance Bennett (One of the best media
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky

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Bernie Sanders Explains How The CIA Destroyed Democracy In Latin America

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Published on May 9, 2015

Bernie Sanders Explains How The CIA Destroyed Democracy In Latin America

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Paul Krugman Drops Epic Truth Bomb on Latest Round of Lies About Iraq War

The war was no mere mistake: The Bush administration wanted a war and concocted the intelligence.

By Janet Allon / AlterNet
May 18, 2015
“Mistakes were made” just doesn’t get at the truth about how America was coerced into the disastrous war in Iraq,and the horrific consequences that are still unfolding. Paul Krugman sets the record straight in Monday’s column, beginning with the ironic statement, that “there’s something to be said for having the brother of a failed president make his own run for the White House.”

Yep, Jeb Bush has unwittingly ushered in the chance to have an honest discussion about the invasion of Iraq. About time.

Of course, Bush and a whole lot of other people would prefer not to have that honest discussion, or if they do, to make excuses for themselves (Judith Miller.)

…(read more).

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Graduating Class of 2015 Most Debt Burden in History

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Published on May 18, 2015

43 Million people carrying $1.3 Trillion in student debt, what can we do about it? Our panel with Josh Hoxie & Mayra Guizar examines the options on the table

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Protesters in Kayaks Oppose Docking of Shell Oil Rig in Seattle

15 May 2015
A Shell oil rig bound for drilling in the Arctic has docked in Seattle, Washington. Dozens of activists staged an “unwelcome party,” paddling out in kayaks and bearing signs reading “sHell no.” Despite opposition by the city, Seattle has become a base for Shell’s supplying of oil rigs bound for remote and pristine Arctic waters. The Obama administration granted Shell conditional approval for Arctic drilling this week in a major blow to environmentalists, who warn the drilling will be catastrophic for the climate. The move comes as NASA has confirmed the first four months of this year were the warmest start to any year in recorded history.

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