Here are 10 hand-picked articles from the best and most trusted independent media sources, focused on topics and angles you probably won’t see anywhere in the corporate media.
#1
Khashoggi’s Killing Took 7 Minutes, Chopped Into Pieces While Alive: Source
It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist’s last moments told Middle East Eye. Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door, the Turkish source said.
Horrendous screams were then heard by a witness downstairs, the source said.
“The consul himself was taken out of the room. There was no attempt to interrogate him. They had come to kill him,” the source told Middle East Eye.
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#2
Israeli Ambassador to France Slammed for Attempt to Censor News
Israeli Ambassador to France Aliza bin Noun is under fire for attempts to censor a news report on the situation in the Gaza Strip. The report aired on France 2, despite her demands that it never be aired.
The report, titled “Gaza’s disabled teens,” was an investigative story on Palestinian teens who had been crippled by Israeli sniper fire into the Gaza Strip.
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#3
Judge Considers Letting Monsanto Off the Hook for 'Cancer-Causing' Weedkiller
Learning that a judge may overturn their historic decision to hold the chemical company Monsanto-Bayer accountable for manufacturing cancer-causing weedkillers, several jurors are demanding that their verdict in a case decided in August be upheld.
"You may not have been convinced by the evidence, but we were."
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#4
Jamal Khashoggi Was No Critic of the Saudi Regime
Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist, who disappeared in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week is not quite the critic of the Saudi regime that the Western media says he is.
It’s been odd to read about Khashoggi in Western media. David Hirst in The Guardian claimed Khashoggi merely cared about absolutes such as “truth, democracy, and freedom”. Human Rights Watch’s director described him as representing “outspoken and critical journalism.”
But did he pursue those absolutes while working for Saudi princes?
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#5
US Companies Back Out of Saudi Events as Tensions Mount
Cash-rich oil exporter Saudi Arabia is always a sure thing for US companies. The recent controversy surrounding journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and apparent murder, along with rising international tensions, has many companies rethinking that.
An upcoming investment conference in Saudi Arabia is losing participants left and right. JP Morgan Chase, Ford, Mastercard, and Blackrock have all announced that their CEOs have cancelled their planned attendance in the past couple of days.
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#6
The Facebook Purge of Independent Media: What You're Not Being Told
Victims of Facebook’s most recent purge should not forget the connections between the social media giant and the Western Military-Industrial Complex.
Facebook’s statement that the pages and accounts were “often indistinguishable from legitimate political debate” begs the question – which pages and accounts are “legitimate political debate”?
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#7
Meet Ten Corporate Giants Helping Israel Massacre Gaza Protesters
As Israeli soldiers gun down unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the Great March of Return, their lethal operations depend on an array of contractors and suppliers, many of them companies based outside Israel.
“The Israeli military relies on a network of international companies, supplying everything from sniper rifles to tear gas, to carry out its massacres of protesters in Gaza,” Tom Anderson, a researcher for Corporate Occupation, told MintPress News. “These companies are knowingly supporting war crimes, and are complicit in state-orchestrated murder.”
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#8
Ecuador Restores Assange’s Internet, Phone and Visitation Privileges
Assange, who has lived in the embassy for over six years, had his phone and internet access taken away in March over political statements he made in violation of "a written commitment made to the government at the end of 2017 not to issue messages that might interfere with other states."
His visitor access was also limited to members of his legal team.
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#9
Mike Pompeo: The US Wants the Entire Middle East to Look Like Israel
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that “Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like going forward” and that US-Israel relations are “stronger than ever."
Speaking at an award ceremony held by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America in Washington DC, Pompeo hailed Israel as “democratic and prosperous," adding “it desires peace, it is a home to a free press and a thriving economy."
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#10
Anti-Media Shut Down by Facebook and Twitter
Facebook has purged more dissident political media pages today, this time under the pretense of protecting its users from “inauthentic activity."
This “inauthentic behavior”, according to Facebook, consists of using “sensational political content — regardless of its political slant — to build an audience and drive traffic to their websites,” which is the same as saying they write about controversial things, and posting those political articles “in dozens of Facebook Groups, often hundreds of times in a short period, to drum up traffic for their websites.”
In other words, the pages were removed for publishing controversial political content and trying to get people to read it.
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