Authored by Chris Hedges, originally posted at TruthDig.com,
The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly.
Submitted by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,
For half a century, Americans have been largely unable to visit Cuba and have had to rely on the US government and media for an understanding of the political, social and economic conditions there. What has been described as the “American Berlin Wall” has been successful in providing Americans with quite an inaccurate view.
Washington Prepares To Attack Russia
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/05/18/obama-ratchets-up-invade-russia.html
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The West Has No News Media, Only Propaganda
http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/putin-called-obama-big-lie-press-ignored/
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First it was the IRS, which several years ago launched countless headlines, and much laughter, when it announced the emails of Lois Lerner targeting conservatives had magically disappeared. Then, as we observed last week (again with great amusement), the State Department couldn't seem to find any of the email correspondence to or from Hillary Clinton's IT aide Bryan Pagliano during the time Hillary was there. Now it is none other than the CIA's Office of Inspector General that is having an issue with its handling of documents.