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Egyptian authorities arrested Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein on Friday, accusing him of disturbing public security and spreading "false news." According to Reporters Without Borders, Egypt ranks among the worst countries on Earth for press freedom.

Egyptian Authorities Arrest Al Jazeera Journalist Mahmoud Hussein

Dozens of bloggers and reporters have been imprisoned by Egypt's government under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

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Reza Sharif Are other journalists being arrested too or only AlJazeera?
I ask because the latter is the propaganda machine for Qatar, the supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood...
Didn't you cover the link between Al Jazeera- Qatar- and the Muslim Brotherhood?

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Dan Whitesell This is the Egypt that the United States government and its leading Middle East client regime, Israel, support. The U.S. and Israel work together to undermine democracy in Egypt and other Middle East countries to prevent Arab nationalism from claiming their own resources and requiring the Zionist, apartheid state to submit to international law by withdrawing from the West Bank and discontinuing their strangling of Gaza, punctuated every few years by hideous atrocities against caged and defenseless men, women and children.

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"In some ways, the Obama administration, I think, was very successful in carving out this authority, this really unchecked authority to use lethal force against suspected enemies. And that power will now be available to President Trump." - Jameel Jaffer, Columbia University in the City of New York

What Will Happen When Donald Trump Takes Over U.S. Drone & Targeted Assassination Program?

In Syracuse, New York, four were arrested outside Hancock Air National Guard Base Friday at a nonviolent protest against the U.S. drone assassination program.

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Press freedom advocates are raising alarm over a little-known bill rolled into the National Defense Authorization Act, called the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act. It will create a national anti-propaganda center.

Obama Signs Defense Bill, Establishing Anti-Propaganda Center

President Obama on Friday signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, providing nearly $619 billion for war and military spending.

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Lawrence Libby A US Government Anti-Propaganda Agency. You know, like a Ministry of Truth.. George Orwell: “The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”

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Michael Mares Maybe you should elaborate

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Paul Eric McCarter So true. The American Dept of Defence was once called the Dept of War.

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Kory Dahl Michael Mares It's a quote from Orwell's 1984

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Alex M. Vélez Don't forget doublespeak

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Steve Heaton um, anyone on Trump's team is not allowed to say other people lie, lol.

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Lisa Michelle Its ORWELL-fiction. Not real.

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Jacob Aub Patriot Act, anyone?

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Amelia Gora Don't forget that Obama will be facing court cases about his fraudulent birth certificate, which means all that he did in office will be under scrutiny and his laws made can and will be negated.....

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Rudy Franco Americans are always outraged at things, but never against the obvious. While they chip away at everyone's rights.

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Michael Mares Americans being American. I feel fine

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Paul Eric McCarter Confirmed. This Mares character is a shill, or worse, a deluded military soldier. block or ignore, my advise

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Ronald Tippitt There goes free speech and funding for never ending war from the peaceful president who has bombed 7 countries, while the under informed cheer him on.

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Michael Mares Blame propaganda for not hearing about it

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Laura McGuire Wtf

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Eric Moran the under informed just love his handsome face but I always saw that lying mole on his face

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Paul Eric McCarter sad, isn't it?

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Ronald Tippitt Ohh I heard about it - Not thru the any of the Mainstream media sources though. And it's not as though we could have stopped it either - The sad truth is that most of country is suffering from social engineering and will not grasp the dangers here.

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Jack Schoonover Article says it was a veto-proof bill so not sure Obama had much say in the matter.

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Ronald Tippitt Jack Schoonover Obviously you don't understand how they do things in Washington. The repeal of Glass Steagall was also, but history tells us that Clinton rallied the bill thru several times before it had enough support to make it "Veto Proof". These assholes live by incentive, and the CFR can provide quite a bit of incentive for stepping right.

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Roksana Gabdul What Jack said. The article described it as a veto-proof bill, so how much could Pres. Obama could have done?

It also talks about FOREIGN not domestic state and non state interference. There could be grounds laid for lawsuits if they attempt to touch domestic sources.

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Ronald Tippitt Do I need to repeat myself... I'm willing to bet he initiated the legislation. It will eventually come out.

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Laurel Laurie Landes I can't wait to see what Trump will do. More nukes.

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Geoff Strevens Just in case anyone starts suggesting the US have been arming and training terrorists.

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Michael Mares Or maybe someone proposes that you should know what going rogue means

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Paul Eric McCarter Michael Mares wtf are you on about, Mares? Who do you work for?

Never read 1984? Think selling Saudis 80 Billion in arms to bomb Yemen was a fluke?
Those "moderate" rebels in Syria are coming back, and doing terrorism in Europe?

Wake up, man

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Damien Vasquez hahaha well "moderate rebels" tend to go rogue now don;t they.......it's also amazing how these "moderate rebels" seem to follow the same doctrines as folks like isis and al qaeda.... imagine the coincidence lol

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Geoff Strevens It's almost like what happened when the US armed and trained terrorists in Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Obviously these ones won't go rogue. The CIA aren't that stupid. They are an intelligence service after all. These terrorists must have an off switch they can flick from Washington.

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Angelica Toscano Basically banning any propaganda that counters the government's propaganda machine.

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Travis Bennett Did all of the commenters who think this is a drive for more US 'Orwellian' propaganda, somehow miss the fact that Trump was put into power with the help of a foreign oligarchy, of which he has financial ties to? It surprises me how many Americans somehow don't know that Russia Today is state sponsored...

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Kathy Lane More Orwellian doublespeak. Just goes to prove we have not had a real president since jfk.
If you care about anything that matters, speak up now while you still can

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Steve Vose And when Trump takes over that administration, it will become the government arm of calling all legit news "fake news." Congrats, you just created the Propaganda department for Goebbels, er, Bannon.

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Jane Demian Mainstream media would have to be censored since its core elements are propaganda designed to be the mouthpiece of the government.

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Peter Zaic Good!!!! So you all media outlet will now be scrutinized to ensure it is objective and factual, no hatred or fake news, truth and reason. Thank you Pres. Obama for your common sense leadership, and fuck you media for brainwashing everyone without repercussions. Reason you made the afore-mentioned comment, the alarm is fake news and propaganda. This must change now.

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Rory Mouttet Er Mich Monge. Can you provide some credible facts on the Russian hacks? While you're at it can you explain why your credible and incredibly powerful corporate entities with such strange idol like tags such as 'The Grey Lady' were unable to combat a se...See More

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Ek Squad The U.S is getting scared because people are becoming more free thinkers and the U.S dont like that im sorry empire but you ain't bringing us down the revolution is going to happen.

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Brad House Yes! Only the government should be allowed to spread propaganda. 😂😂😂😂

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Matt Marrin The question is why censor false information. Because it's not false. The internet has had false info for forever. This recent shift to censor is for something completely different obv.

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Abdullah Mace We need to start asking ourselves how bills are allowed to "slide" through Congress without the People ever having a clue what they are? America no longer has a government of the People, by or for them. It is being insidiously hijacked by old farts and...See More

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Draganone Lončar it's already covertly happening, but this step would seal it... corporatism is very close to fascism anyway, and I'm afraid people already allowed to be controlled by the corporations via corrupt politicians

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Jennifer Gopinathadasi Woodward Education has "failed" in the USA. You got a better idea than this bill? Actually education has been deliberately undermined, defunded, and dumbed down for the last 30+ years by arch conservatives starting here in California when Grey Davis was gover...See More

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Robin Creager Wow..that means ALL liberal media, main stream media will have to shut down since they are the ones causing much of the chaos in this country. Seems they are always adding fuel to the fire.

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Jeanette Eastman Yeah right, more like a Pro-Military-Industrial-Corporate Propaganda, Pro-Censorship, Anti-Free Speech / Journalism / Whistleblowing / Peaceful Dissent Center.

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Janelle Higgins Opening the door for more arrests no doubt? We are living under a fascist regime.

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Kelly Rose Colyette Sounds alot like a registry, this ia beong put on plave so repierters like brenda norrell of censored and democracy now can be legally shut down and make it illegal to continue to fund any organizations ,that run contradictoryto the "process" byebye freedom if speech

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Benjamine Johnson so the other day when his wife told oprah people are gonna miss having an "ADULT" in the white house, guess she was pre-empting the childish way barry was gonna carry on for the next 3 weeks

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Mike Huser Good luck trying to control. The more you tighten your grip, the more our support slips through your fingers.

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Aaron McCann So will that bill mean that we can finally shut down Donal Trump's twitter account?

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Patricia Barnett Something has to be done about the Zionist hold on our media. I'm not sure this is it, but maybe that is the spirit of the bill.

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Frankie Gentile shut down Fox News and the world will be a better place !!

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Jesse Hogan-ator Not the first bill to be passed. Obama already overtook Snopes with fake accounts

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Ray Richmond Anderson Very disturbing. I want freedom of speech. Even for the Conservatives I oppose.

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Jeffrey Fox The fool. Under Trump that will become a ministry of state propaganda.

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Jamie Jamison Ha! He made a Ministry of Truth!? This guy needs to read 1984 again, that was a warning, not a manual...

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Raman Grandon obama ensures US has a complete apparatus for global terror. its fitting then he got the nobel prize

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Corrie Jagger can we call it the ministry of truth? can we? seems like a perfectly terrible thing to hand to donald trump.

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Jess James YOU SEE!!! all you sheep screaming FAKE NEWS!! It was a PLOY orchestrated by the Gov to trick u into begging for CENSORSHIP!!

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Steve Middendorf Oh this should be good. We can't agree on what is factual. How are we ever going to agree on what is propaganda?

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Je Rolo Damn, Americans mad cos someone wants to protect them from liars.

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Robert Wentworth WHOA... if this works, then the Right Wing will "HATE IT" ...😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA😊

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Sue Taylor Absolutely lame element to include. Jeez Loueeze. Be sure to send the memo to Google.

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Davenile Pelte No more Military spending !!!! Feed the hungry but no more military spending !!!!

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Cyril Penn is the propaganda center going to create more fake news?

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Mike Humphrey The Ministry for Dis-Dis-Information? How does that not implode under its own self-contradiction?

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Mich Monge The phenomenon of FALSE FACTS in the news has already taken place with the election of President Trump in the United States and the rise of adherents to populist political parties worldwide.
Education in critical THINKING and the constant FACT CHECKING...See More

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Richard Torres ... paved with good intentions.

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Ruth Sakiestewa Therefore I better put this out before someone deletes information that was known in 1993...about the founding of Israel---TARGETING "PALESTINE" TO STEAL THE LAND!*

The well written documents by the famous Mark Weber, a revisionists...writes 6 Chapter...See More

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