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source: consortiumnews.com Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert’s unwavering commitment to independent journalism. Robert Parry, 1949-2018 By Nat Parry 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 h is 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…

Published on RT.COM: 20 Nov, 2017 19:58 Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, says the company will “engineer” specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their articles less prominent on the search engine’s news delivery services. “We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt said during a Q & A session at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada on Saturday, when asked about whether Google facilitates “Russian propaganda.” Schmidt appearance begins at 1:07:00 mark, relevant question at 1:33:00 “We are well of aware of it, and we are trying to engineer the systems to prevent that [the content being delivered to wide audiences]. But we don’t want to ban the sites – that’s not…

October 11 2017     Although the U.S. news media’s fancies itself the world’s “gold standard,” it operates with stunning hypocrisy and huge blind spots, none bigger than its fawning coverage of Israel that ignores critics like Miko Peled, notes Rick Sterling. By Rick Sterling on Consortium News Despite the U.S. media’s extensive coverage of Israel, what Miko Peled says is seldom heard by Americans, although he was born in Jerusalem and comes from a famous Israeli family. Peled’s grandfather was one of the signers of the Israeli founding documents. His father was a soldier in the war which led to the creation of Israel and later a senior army general during the 1967 war. And one of Peled’s nieces was killed in a suicide bombing attack. However, in contrast to what…

Why North Korea Wants Nuke Deterrence published October 12, 2017 on consortiumnews.com   Exclusive: The revelation that North Korea hacked into South Korea’s military secrets and found U.S. plans for a preemptive “decapitation” of Pyongyang’s leadership explains its rush to build a nuclear deterrent.   By Nicolas J S Davies The Western media has been awash in speculation as to why, about a year ago, North Korea’s “crazy” leadership suddenly launched a crash program to vastly improve its ballistic missile capabilities. That question has now been answered. Near the ceasefire line between North and South Korea, President Barack Obama uses binoculars to view the DMZ from Camp Bonifas, March 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) In September 2016, North Korean cyber-defense forces hacked into South Korean military computers and…

Injustice and wars go along with unchecked and false information by the mainstream media, the self proclaimed experts and the NGO outlets. Internet services as Google, Yahoo and Bing are owned by big corporations. Their search algorithm blacklists the alternative and free media. We made an alternative Index, to enable you to find articles that are excluded in the mainstream search service results. You can put more search items (max 10), to refine your search. You can use the index as your 1st source of information,  as a 2nd opinion to the mainstream narrative or as an introduction to the various alternative information sources

[Note FPSN: As quality journalism has no access to the Main Stream Media anymore, we assume it a duty to re-publish their articles on our Free Press Support Networks website.] By Jonathan Cook Published before, on: CounterPunch , 27 June 2017 Global Research, June 28, 2017 Featured image: An area allegedly hit by the “sarin gas” attack in Khan Sheikhoun (Photo from Zaman al-Wasl) Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era, with the possible exception of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the pair who exposed Watergate. For decades, Hersh has drawn on his extensive contacts within the US security…

President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack. By Seymour M. Hersh Previously published on: Die Welt 25 June 2017 Global Research, June 26, 2017 Publication was refused by: The New Yorker London Review of Books On April 6, United States President Donald Trump authorized an early morning Tomahawk missile strike on Shayrat Air Base in central Syria in retaliation for what he said was a deadly nerve agent attack carried out by the Syrian government two days earlier in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. Trump issued the order despite having been warned by the U.S. intelligence community that it had found no evidence that…

If official human rights reports  get removed from publication, it's our duty to get them back in the public as much as possible. For that reason I copied it here. An article of Richard Falk, one of the investigators/authors of the march 15 2017 UN report, that was immediately removed after pressure and treat from Israel and the US. (more…)

The ESCWA report by Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley, entitled:  Israel Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid  ,   has been removed from the UN ECSWA website. It is available in pdf here Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) head Rima Khalaf  was forced to resign for refusing to retract the damning report, calling Israel an apartheid state, an indisputable fact – written by Israel Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid  ,   has been removed from the UN ECSWA website.distinguished academics Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley. They proved their accusation “beyond a reasonable doubt” – based on definitions of apartheid by the International Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (the Apartheid Convention) and Rome Statute of the International Criminal…

The russian Foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov delivered remarks at the international security conference in Munich. He accused the United States of escalating the crisis in Ukraine, but expressed optimism that a deal could be reached. (more…)