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UN warns civilian casualties are much larger than reported.

A most learned denizen of #LionelNation wrote as follows.

This is the long goodbye. The adios. The toodle-oo. To the MSM, party pols and pusillanimous posturing — not to mention excessive alliteration. Trump is the catalyst. The revolutionary cofactor. You’ll see. reluctantly perhaps.
Agonist of Antiestablishment Agitprop. Reporting for duty. 

It’s time to put a critical lens to the propaganda in the news and social media.

Myopic modern day liberalism never scared the imperialists. And why should it? The corporate state and statism are the enemies. The infantilized alt-left with its preoccupation with social issues of no consequence like multiculturalism and diversity and transgender bathrooms subverted the argument. It’s not politics. It challenges nothing of consequence. Not neoliberalism, imperialism, globalism, nada. They are the party of not-Trump. They’re defined in the inverse. Corporatocracy, the military and prison industrial complexes remain sacrosanct, inviolate and unchallenged.

Debunking the media's myth of Obama's "hands off" approach to Syria.

Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire 
The New Year’s Eve Reina Nightclub Shooting may not have been the work of a lone wolf  terrorist according to Cevet Ones, a former deputy head for intelligence at Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT). 

The Iraqi army’s offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS has achieved its first important success, with confirmation that after 12 weeks of gruelling fighting Iraqi troops have finally reached the Tigris river.
The Iraqis also claim that their troops are present in 35 of the 47 residences of Mosul which lie east of the Tigris river.

LONDON — A comedy sketch putting the real victims of terrorism in the framework of the “Real Housewives” reality TV series has divided social media users and media analysts alike.
Produced by the new BBC sketch comedy show “Revolting,” the short video appears as a trailer for a fictional TV program, “The Real Housewives Of ISIS.” The video has been viewed over 26 million times since it was posted on the BBC Two’s Facebook page on Jan. 3.

Liberal, Hollywood love for Al Qaeda and ISIS wrapped up in a featured film.
In December, Variety reported that George Clooney is in early development on a feature film of Netflix’s “The White Helmets” documentary, about “first responders” in Syria’s war.