Articles by Andre Damon
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False Flag: Documents Expose Israeli Conspiracy to Facilitate Hamas 7 Oct Attack
Andre Damon | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
2 Dec 2023 – Yesterday the New York Times published a report establishing conclusively that Israel was fully informed, in detail, of plans by Hamas to attack its border on 7 Oct. These revelations make clear that Israeli officials made a deliberate decision to stand down to facilitate the attack. 9/11 Redux.
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New York Times Cites US Torturer Michael Chertoff on Chinese “Repression”
Andre Damon | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
A Case Study in “Human Rights Imperialism” – There is one source quoted in the 1,500-word editorial, a report by Freedom House, an organization the Times says nothing about: “Freedom House receives 90 percent of its funding from the US government. Its current chairman is Michael Chertoff, who served as US Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, and co-authored the USA Patriot Act, which justified mass illegal surveillance, torture, and the assassination of American citizens. Chertoff has been accused of war crimes.”
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Markets Soar as the Corpses Pile Up
Andre Damon | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 was a disaster: 71,670 new cases of COVID-19, the second-worst day on record. Nearly 1,000 people lost their lives to the disease. With Texas hospitals at 90 percent capacity, mobile morgues are dispatched. In Florida, 54 hospitals have zero available beds in intensive care units. And one third of children who were tested in Florida were positive. Amid this death and economic devastation, the stock markets surged, with the Dow Jones closing up for the fourth day in a row. Goldman Sachs posted one of its most profitable quarters ever, doubling the predictions of analysts.
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Democrats Praise CIA Whistleblower on Ukraine, Persecute Manning, Assange and Snowden
Andre Damon |WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
30 Sep2019 -When Trump condemned the CIA agent as a “spy,” House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff praised him: “Congress must do all it can to protect this whistleblower and all whistleblowers.” All whistleblowers? Remind Schiff of what he wrote to Obama: “Do not pardon Edward Snowden. The US government must hold him accountable for his actions.”
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Google’s Alliance with the Military: The Ruling Class Responds to Social Unrest in America
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
10 Mar 2018 – Last week, Google confirmed that it has provided artificial intelligence software to assist the United States military and intelligence apparatus in analyzing data as part of its drone war and assassination program in the Middle East and beyond.
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Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
The U.S. Justice Department’s demand is aimed at delegitimizing RT America as a news source, intimidating its journalists and guests, and setting the precedent for taking similar actions against other news outlets. The fact that RT is being targeted because of its political positions sets an ominous precedent.
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Andre Damon and David North | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
wsws.org fell by 67 percent
alternet.org fell by 63 percent
globalresearch.ca fell by 62 percent
consortiumnews.com fell by 47 percent
socialistworker.org fell by 47 percent
mediamatters.org fell by 42 percent
commondreams.org fell by 37 percent
internationalviewpoint.org fell by 36 percent
democracynow.org fell by 36 percent
wikileaks.org fell by 30 percent
truth-out.org fell by 25 percent
counterpunch.org fell by 21 percent
theintercept.com fell by 19 percent
New Google Algorithm Restricts Access to Left-Wing, Progressive Web Sites
Andre Damon and Niles Niemuth | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
27 Jul 2017 – In the three months since Internet monopoly Google announced plans to keep users from accessing “fake news,” the global traffic rankings of a broad range of left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights organizations have fallen significantly.
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Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
On Monday [27 Mar 2017], the United States, together with Britain and France, walked out of a session of the United Nations General Assembly set to discuss a global ban on nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleThe Great Diversion: Democrats Focus on Sex Scandal as Conflict with Russia Escalates
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Behind a nearly total media blackout, the White House National Security Council held a closed-door meeting Friday [14 Oct] to review the US military’s campaign in Iraq and Syria. The only major media advance report on the meeting, carried by Reuters on Thursday and then quickly dropped, noted that US officials were weighing “air strikes on Syrian military bases, munitions depots or radar and anti-aircraft bases.”
→ read full articleThe “Major and Deadly” Wars to Come
Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
3 Oct 2016 – A report by a leading geopolitical strategy think tank makes clear that the US military is engaged in intensive planning for wars involving massive casualties.
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Andre Damon | WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
21 Sep 2016 – The 71st United Nations General Assembly convened this week beneath the shadow of a series of global crises that threaten to throw humanity into a new world war. Obama’s proclamation that the “shadow of nuclear Armageddon” has passed flies in the face of his own $1 trillion nuclear rearmament program.
→ read full articleImperialism, Political Corruption and the Real Face of Capitalism
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
The “Panama Papers” claimed its first casualty Tuesday [5 Apr 2016], when Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson was forced to resign. Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian legal firm at the heart of the scandal, made millions helping politicians and the super-rich evade taxation. They have exposed the criminality that pervades the financial elite and its political representatives.
→ read full articleCentral Banks Step In to Prop Up Global Financial Bubble
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
31 August 2015 – Once again, the world’s central banks and governments have made clear that they will do whatever it takes to preserve the wealth of the financial elite.
→ read full articleMass Layoffs Worldwide as Corporate Mergers Near New Record
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
Under conditions of slowing economic growth and record amounts of cash on corporate balance sheets, mergers and acquisitions are being used to intensify the assault on the working class.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t the Banksters in Prison?
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
The financial impact on JPMorgan and the other banks for pleading guilty to a felony will be effectively zero. As part of the deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued waivers exempting the banks from the legal repercussions arising from their status as criminal organizations, giving them continued preferential treatment in issuing debt, as well as the continued right to operate mutual funds.
→ read full articleThe Wall Street Bonanza
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The vast redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top that has taken place since the 2008 crash is expressed in the colossal rise in stock prices, which have nearly tripled since March 2009.
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Andre Damon and Barry Grey, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
The impoverishment of the working class and enrichment of the financial elite accelerated since the 2008 Wall Street crash. While the wealth of the world’s billionaires has doubled, there are today over 1 billion people living on less than a dollar per day, and nearly half the world’s population, more than 3 billion people, subsist on less than $2.50 per day.
→ read full articleWealth of World’s Billionaires Doubles Since 2009
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The collective wealth of the world’s billionaires hit $6.5 trillion, a figure that is nearly as large as the gross domestic product of China, the world’s second-largest economy. The number of billionaires has grown to 2,170 in 2013, up from 1,360 in 2009, according to the report.
→ read full articleThe Libor Swindle
Andre Damon, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
22 Dec 2012 – The latest sweetheart settlement with a major international bank, in this case involving criminal activities that financial regulators describe as “epic,” has once again lifted the lid on the cesspool of corruption otherwise known as the world financial system. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, admitted this week to systematically rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), the benchmark global interest rate to which hundreds of trillions of dollars of financial contracts are tied. It did so to increase its profits and conceal its financial problems.
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