Caitlin Johnstone (2021-10-21). Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will be Used for Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Oct 18, 2021 | The billionaire CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that In a

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-21). Covid Queries: Do I need the vaccine if I've had COVID-19? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Q: I already had COVID-19 and recovered. Why should I get the vaccine when my body is already immune to it now? A: When someone has had an infection, and the body has produced antibodies as a result, this is called "natural immunity." But early evidence suggests natural immunity to COVID-19 may not be very long-lasting. At least one study indicates that if you had COVID-19 and are not vaccinated, your risk of getting COVID-19…

Anonymous103 (2021-10-21). Baleful Intentions of USA — Future of Pakistan-US Relations. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Brig. General Asif H. Raja, originally published on "The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination … the so-called 'war on terrorism' is being used largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical objectives … In fact, 9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan into action. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for milit…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-20). Pentagon site issues writ of indictment, veritable declaration of war against Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From today's edition of U.S. European Command's webpage. European Command's top military commander is also that of NATO. The rhetoric emanating from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in recent days — claiming Russia occupies 20% of Georgian territory while he was in Georgia, stating Russia started and is continuing the seven-year war in the Donbass while …

Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-20). Colin Powell: Establishment Warrior. dissidentvoice.org History is strewn with the broken branches of twisted irony. An individual who found himself entangled in it was the late Colin Powell, who, as a military man, gave a doctrine his name only to forgo it as a diplomat. The Powell Doctrine was one of certitude and caution: do not engage in conflict except …

Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-20). Colin Powell: Establishment Warrior. dissidentvoice.org History is strewn with the broken branches of twisted irony. An individual who found himself entangled in it was the late Colin Powell, who, as a military man, gave a doctrine his name only to forgo it as a diplomat. The Powell Doctrine was one of certitude and caution: do not engage in conflict except …

Anonymous103 (2021-10-20). Desolate Democracy and Other Political Wonders of 2121. southfront.org Vladislav Surkov. IMAGE: Alexei Druzhinin / TASSSouthFront foreword: MSM and Western diplomats work hard to present Russia as an aggressive totalitarian regime ruled by an iron hand of Vladimir Putin. The only issue with this narrative is that in reality the structure of the Russian state system is more complex. Contrary to delusions of globalist propagandists, the modern Russia in many cases appears to be a more 'democratic' state than 'Western democracies' pretend to be. | Dear readers, SouthFront proposes to your attention an article of former personal adviser of President Putin — Vladislav Surkov. In th…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-10-20). The Cultural Genocide in Palestine: On Sally Rooney's Decision to Boycott Israel. dissidentvoice.org The pro-Israel crowd on social media was quick to pounce on award-winning Irish novelist, Sally Rooney, as soon as she declared that she had "chosen not to sell … translation rights of her best-selling novel, 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' to an Israeli-based publishing house". Expectedly, the accusations centered on the standard smearing used by Israel …

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-10-20). CNN And MSNBC TV Ratings Collapse More Than 50 Percent After Trump. moguldom.com CNN and MSNBC have both experienced a drastic drop in ratings since the end of former President Donald Trump's presidency. According to recent data, the two popular cable networks' respective viewership declined by over 50 percent when compared to ratings a year ago. "Primetime ratings for AT&T-owned CNN dropped 52 percent in the third quarter …

Staff (2021-10-20). Fundalatin Submits New Evidence to ICC on Damaging Effects of US Blockade on Venezuela. orinocotribune.com The Latin American Foundation for Human Rights and Social Development (Fundalatin) has submitted to the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) new evidence regarding the economic blockade imposed by the United States on Venezuela and how it is ending the lives of patients with chronic diseases. | Through a post published on Twitter, Fundalatin informed that it has requested the ICC that those responsible for the blockade and its damaging impact be sanctioned for committing crimes against humanity. | Entregamos a la Fiscalía de la Corte Penal Internacional nuevas evidencias de cómo el bloque…

Moderator (2021-10-20). Republicans Rebuked After Torpedoing Voting Rights Bill. scheerpost.com By Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a compromise voting rights bill—the Freedom to Vote Act—sparking a deluge of criticism from Democrats and progressive groups who said it was the latest evidence of the need to get rid of, or at least reform, the filibuster. "Like clockwork, you can always count on Senate …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-10-20). Covid Queries: Do I need the vaccine if I've had COVID-19? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Q: I already had COVID-19 and recovered. Why should I get the vaccine when my body is already immune to it now? A: When someone has had an infection, and the body has produced antibodies as a result, this is called "natural immunity." But early evidence suggests natural immunity to COVID-19 may not be very long-lasting. At least one study indicates that if you had COVID-19 and are not vaccinated, your risk of getting COVID-19…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-10-20). Colin Powell: Establishment Warrior. dissidentvoice.org History is strewn with the broken branches of twisted irony. An individual who found himself entangled in it was the late Colin Powell, who, as a military man, gave a doctrine his name only to forgo it as a diplomat. The Powell Doctrine was one of certitude and caution: do not engage in conflict except …

Staff (2021-10-19). Headlines for October 19, 2021. democracynow.org Trump Sues to Block Release of Documents to Congressional Committee on Jan. 6 Riots, FDA Panel Recommends Third Shot of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for Certain Groups, Colin Powell Died of COVID-19 Complications After Blood Cancer Left Him Immunocompromised, Sen. Joe Manchin Wants Strict Limits and Work Requirements for Child Tax Credit, Justice Department Asks Supreme Court to Halt Texas's Near-Total Ban on Abortions, SCOTUS Decisions Bolster Doctrine of Qualified Immunity for Police Officers, Kenosha, WI Police Accused of "Deputizing" White Nationalists Ahead of Shooting Deaths, Venezuelan President Maduro Says U.

WSWS (2021-10-19). Hitler's "Divinely Gifted" artists and documenta: Politics and Art: Two important exhibitions in Berlin. wsws.org Two exhibitions in Berlin throw light on a group of artists, academics and curators who rose to prominence under Nazism and were able to continue their careers virtually unhindered in post-war West Germany.

Shawn Fremstad, Julie Yixia Cai, Tamara Sokolowsky (2021-10-19). Young Men Aren't Falling Behind Young Women. counterpunch.org A recent Wall Street Journal article painted recent pandemic-driven declines in men's postsecondary enrollment as an escalating crisis with "no reversal. . .in sight." Responding a few days later in the New York Times, Kevin Carey wrote that the picture is a more complex with "women keep playing catch-up in an economy structured to favor

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-19). WP: U.S. expands military pact with Georgia as showdown with Russia looms. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com For the significance of the expression Europe whole, free and at peace see: Berlin Wall: From Europe Whole And Free To New World Order ==== U.S. extends security pact with Georgia as Russia tensions flare — The Washington Post "U.S. extends security pact with Georgia as Russia tensions flare" — the Washington Post writes an …

WSWS (2021-10-19). Hitler's "Divinely Gifted" artists and documenta: Politics and Art: Two important exhibitions in Berlin. wsws.org Two exhibitions in Berlin throw light on a group of artists, academics and curators who rose to prominence under Nazism and were able to continue their careers virtually unhindered in post-war West Germany.

Staff (2021-10-19). Headlines for October 19, 2021. democracynow.org Trump Sues to Block Release of Documents to Congressional Committee on Jan. 6 Riots, FDA Panel Recommends Third Shot of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for Certain Groups, Colin Powell Died of COVID-19 Complications After Blood Cancer Left Him Immunocompromised, Sen. Joe Manchin Wants Strict Limits and Work Requirements for Child Tax Credit, Justice Department Asks Supreme Court to Halt Texas's Near-Total Ban on Abortions, SCOTUS Decisions Bolster Doctrine of Qualified Immunity for Police Officers, Kenosha, WI Police Accused of "Deputizing" White Nationalists Ahead of Shooting Deaths, Venezuelan President Maduro Says U.

Shawn Fremstad, Julie Yixia Cai, Tamara Sokolowsky (2021-10-19). Young Men Aren't Falling Behind Young Women. counterpunch.org A recent Wall Street Journal article painted recent pandemic-driven declines in men's postsecondary enrollment as an escalating crisis with "no reversal. . .in sight." Responding a few days later in the New York Times, Kevin Carey wrote that the picture is a more complex with "women keep playing catch-up in an economy structured to favor

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-19). WP: U.S. expands military pact with Georgia as showdown with Russia looms. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com For the significance of the expression Europe whole, free and at peace see: Berlin Wall: From Europe Whole And Free To New World Order ==== U.S. extends security pact with Georgia as Russia tensions flare — The Washington Post "U.S. extends security pact with Georgia as Russia tensions flare" — the Washington Post writes an …

Brian Berletic (2021-10-18). Behind the 'Uyghur Tribunal', US govt-backed separatist theater to escalate conflict with China. thegrayzone.com US-backed activists and regime-change operatives convened the Uyghur Tribunal to ramp up conflict with China, but wound up exposing major inconsistencies in their narrative. As the US government's propaganda campaign against China drags on, a mock tribunal has become a central node for the dissemination of allegations of Uyghur genocide to Western media. But behind the carefully scripted horror stories conveyed to the public by an uncritical media are massive discrepancies, overt separatist sentiments, and huge sums of US government …

Mickey Z. (2021-10-18). Unholy Trinity: Medicine, Science, and Corporate Power. dissidentvoice.org This one goes out to all of you who still "trust the science." Edward Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. He was a public relations pioneer, one of America's most innovative social engineers, and the author of a 1928 book brazenly entitled Propaganda. In 1929, Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to …

Edward Curtin (2021-10-18). The Banners of the King of Hell Advance. A World of Endless Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-10-18). UK: Corporate-backed groups promote mass infection of children with Covid-19. wsws.org A massive, well-funded and well-connected campaign of disinformation is being deployed to legitimise the murderous policy of herd immunity.

sputniknews (2021-10-18). Whereabouts of American Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti Remain Unknown, Reports Say. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US authorities remain unaware of the whereabouts of the American Christian missionaries and their families abducted in Haiti, The New York Times reports.

Pablo Manríquez (2021-10-18). Hispanic Caucus Chair Abandons Pathway to Citizenship in Budget Negotiations. latinorebels.com In an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Dr. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), said he's seeking a bipartisan solution for permanent immigrant relief.

Joe Lauria (2021-10-18). What Baraitser Thought About the Plot to Kill or Abduct Assange. orinocotribune.com By Joe Lauria — Oct 16, 2021 | In her ruling in January against extraditing the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser expressed a high degree of understanding for the CIA wanting to rub out Assange, writes Joe Lauria. | Lawyers for Julian Assange may try at the U.S. appeal hearing later this month to introduce weightier evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency seriously discussed killing or abducting the imprisoned journalist. | The lower court hearing before Judge Vanessa Baraitser in September last year already heard sworn testimony from a former partner and former employee of t…

Brian Berletic (2021-10-18). Behind the 'Uyghur Tribunal', US govt-backed separatist theater to escalate conflict with China. thegrayzone.com US-backed activists and regime-change operatives convened the Uyghur Tribunal to ramp up conflict with China, but wound up exposing major inconsistencies in their narrative. As the US government's propaganda campaign against China drags on, a mock tribunal has become a central node for the dissemination of allegations of Uyghur genocide to Western media. But behind the carefully scripted horror stories conveyed to the public by an uncritical media are massive discrepancies, overt separatist sentiments, and huge sums of US government …

Mickey Z. (2021-10-18). Unholy Trinity: Medicine, Science, and Corporate Power. dissidentvoice.org This one goes out to all of you who still "trust the science." Edward Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud. He was a public relations pioneer, one of America's most innovative social engineers, and the author of a 1928 book brazenly entitled Propaganda. In 1929, Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to …

Edward Curtin (2021-10-18). The Banners of the King of Hell Advance. A World of Endless Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-10-18). UK: Corporate-backed groups promote mass infection of children with Covid-19. wsws.org A massive, well-funded and well-connected campaign of disinformation is being deployed to legitimise the murderous policy of herd immunity.

sputniknews (2021-10-18). Whereabouts of American Missionaries Kidnapped in Haiti Remain Unknown, Reports Say. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US authorities remain unaware of the whereabouts of the American Christian missionaries and their families abducted in Haiti, The New York Times reports.

Pablo Manríquez (2021-10-18). Hispanic Caucus Chair Abandons Pathway to Citizenship in Budget Negotiations. latinorebels.com In an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Dr. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), said he's seeking a bipartisan solution for permanent immigrant relief.

Joe Lauria (2021-10-18). What Baraitser Thought About the Plot to Kill or Abduct Assange. orinocotribune.com By Joe Lauria — Oct 16, 2021 | In her ruling in January against extraditing the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser expressed a high degree of understanding for the CIA wanting to rub out Assange, writes Joe Lauria. | Lawyers for Julian Assange may try at the U.S. appeal hearing later this month to introduce weightier evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency seriously discussed killing or abducting the imprisoned journalist. | The lower court hearing before Judge Vanessa Baraitser in September last year already heard sworn testimony from a former partner and former employee of t…

Noam Chomsky (2021-10-16). Ireland has robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars. zcomm.org Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the morality of Ireland's tax regime and whether the human race can avoid the twin catastrophes of global warming and nuclear war…

Staff (2021-10-16). President Maduro Sends Letter to King of Spain Demanding Respect for Victims of Colonial Occupation. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 14, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, sent a letter to the King of Spain, Felipe de Borbón, demanding respect for the memory of the ancestors of the American peoples, who, 529 years ago, were subjugated under the occupation of the Spanish empire, and suffered centuries of violence, genocide and destruction. Through his Twitter account, the Venezuelan president shared the letter in which he expressed his condemnation of the fact that Spain "intends to minimize and falsify the events that occurred during the so-called Conquest of America in the 15th century." | In this regard, the Ven…

Noam Chomsky (2021-10-16). Ireland has robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars. zcomm.org Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the morality of Ireland's tax regime and whether the human race can avoid the twin catastrophes of global warming and nuclear war…

Staff (2021-10-16). President Maduro Sends Letter to King of Spain Demanding Respect for Victims of Colonial Occupation. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, October 14, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, sent a letter to the King of Spain, Felipe de Borbón, demanding respect for the memory of the ancestors of the American peoples, who, 529 years ago, were subjugated under the occupation of the Spanish empire, and suffered centuries of violence, genocide and destruction. Through his Twitter account, the Venezuelan president shared the letter in which he expressed his condemnation of the fact that Spain "intends to minimize and falsify the events that occurred during the so-called Conquest of America in the 15th century." | In this regard, the Ven…

Noam Chomsky (2021-10-15). The GOP Is a "Gang of Radical Sadists" zcomm.org Noam Chomsky notes, there is plenty of room for despair in America right now. But he insists that, despite it all, we have ample reason for hope…

_____ (2021-10-15). Women Hold Up More Than Half The Sky. popularresistance.org The farmers' protests, which began in October 2020, are a sign of the clarity with which farmers have reacted to the agrarian crisis and to the three laws that will only deepen the crisis. No attempt by the government — including trying to incite farmers along religious lines — has succeeded in breaking the farmers' unity. There is a new generation that has learned to resist, and they are prepared to take their fight across India.

_____ (2021-10-15). David Miller Speaks Out About Firing And Israel Lobby Smears. popularresistance.org Instead of simply stopping its human rights abuses, the Israeli government has built an extensive and sophisticated public relations network across the West in order to protect itself from criticism. | Today, Lowkey speaks to one of the latest victims of that smear campaign, Professor David Miller. A prominent critic of the state of Israel's policies, Miller was recently sacked from his position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, after a pressure campaign involving Zionist student groups and even members of parliament, who accused him of "inciting hatred against Jewish students." | Miller, a…

Latino Rebels (2021-10-15). Haitian Advocacy Groups Call on Biden to End 'Cruel Asylum Policies'. latinorebels.com On Thursday, groups advocating for better treatment of Haitian asylum seekers published a full-page ad in the Washington, D.C. edition of the New York Times, calling on Pres. Joe Biden to end Title 42 and the continued expulsion of Haitian migrants.

John V. Walsh (2021-10-15). French Finance Minister Issues Declaration of Independence — From the U.S. counterpunch.org "Clear Differences Remain Between France and the U.S, French Minister Says," is the headline to a remarkable piece appearing in the New York Times today. The Minister, Bruno Le Maire, is brutally frank on the nature of the differences as the quotations below Illustrate. (Emphases in the quotations are mines.) In fact, they amount to

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2021-10-15). Cherry-Picking Polls to Hide Public Support for Biden's Spending Plan. fair.org Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen ( Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen ( That opinion,…

Ron Jacobs (2021-10-15). The American Way—2021. counterpunch.org The evidence surrounds most of us, no matter where we live—city, suburb or country. Europe, Asia and the Americas. The concept we understood to be the USA is unraveling in a manner many might never have considered. I've always been a bit of a pessimist despite a reasonably cheery disposition. The fact of an economy

WSWS (2021-10-15). Pandemic continues to kill in America, while the ruling elite squabbles over mandates. wsws.org While the corporate media and political establishment declare the worst of the pandemic over, the death toll continues at 10,000 or more a week.

Derek Royden (2021-10-15). The CIA's illegal plots against Wikileaks and Julian Assange. nationofchange.org There should be more sympathy for Assange and the outlet he founded in corporate media.

Noam Chomsky (2021-10-15). The GOP Is a "Gang of Radical Sadists" zcomm.org Noam Chomsky notes, there is plenty of room for despair in America right now. But he insists that, despite it all, we have ample reason for hope…

John V. Walsh (2021-10-15). French Finance Minister Issues Declaration of Independence — From the U.S. counterpunch.org "Clear Differences Remain Between France and the U.S, French Minister Says," is the headline to a remarkable piece appearing in the New York Times today. The Minister, Bruno Le Maire, is brutally frank on the nature of the differences as the quotations below Illustrate. (Emphases in the quotations are mines.) In fact, they amount to

WSWS (2021-10-15). Pandemic continues to kill in America, while the ruling elite squabbles over mandates. wsws.org While the corporate media and political establishment declare the worst of the pandemic over, the death toll continues at 10,000 or more a week.

Ron Jacobs (2021-10-15). The American Way—2021. counterpunch.org The evidence surrounds most of us, no matter where we live—city, suburb or country. Europe, Asia and the Americas. The concept we understood to be the USA is unraveling in a manner many might never have considered. I've always been a bit of a pessimist despite a reasonably cheery disposition. The fact of an economy

Ajamu Baraka (2021-10-14). Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt? dissidentvoice.org For more than a week the country has been caught up in the ongoing melodrama of the "Build Back Better" (BBB) legislation, the Democrat Party's "social investment" bill now languishing in the House because of the inability of the Democrats to come to an agreement. The fight is characterized by the corporate media as an …

_____ (2021-10-14). Propaganda War Against China To Eradicate Socialism. popularresistance.org Friends of Socialist China formed out of what we saw as a dire need to gather all information, original and otherwise, to counter the misinformation being spread about China. We didn't include the word "socialist" in our title for gimmick or display but rather to send a firm message of respect and admiration to the Chinese people's socialist path. In many ways, the propaganda war against China possesses a dual mission: the ramping up of a dangerous U.S.-led New Cold War against China and the demonization of the socialist mode of development. | We at Friends of Socialist China have identified an immense gap in the…

Dr. Robert Malone (2021-10-14). Confronting the Medical "Experts" Propaganda Ministry. The Italian Hippocratic Association Advocates for Treatment Instead of Profit. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-10-14). Venezuela Points Finger at Iván Duque for the Murder of Venezuelan Children—VP Rodríguez to File Complaint with International Criminal Court. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General has blamed the government of Iván Duque for the murder, on October 8, of two young Venezuelans, one of them a minor, in the municipality of Tibu in the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia | Tarek William Saab offered a press conference this Tuesday, October 12, to speak about the actions that the Attorney General's Office will take, and assured that justice will be demanded for the events in question. | "We speak about the existence of structural violence against Venezuelans in that country, provoked by the anti-Venezuelan discourse that predominates within the po…

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano (2021-10-14). Lies and Torture Cover-up: U.S. State Secrets Doctrine Is a Fraud. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-10-14). Threats Are Being Made Against Teachers Who Are Teaching The Truth. popularresistance.org Biden rescinded the Trump executive order that threatened efforts to address racial disparities in the workplace under the implausible guise of "combating anti-American race and sex stereotyping." | But just because the push to stop people from talking or learning about racism, sexism, heterosexism or this country's history of oppression has moved off the front page does not mean that it's gone away. Legislators in some 27 states are trying to require teachers to avoid what are termed "divisive concepts" in classrooms and curricula, an extremely thinly veiled effort to force teachers to propagandize about US hist…

_____ (2021-10-14). French Finance Minister Issues Declaration Of Independence. popularresistance.org "Clear Differences Remain Between France and the U.S, French Minister Says," is the headline to a remarkable piece appearing in the New York Times. The Minister, Bruno Le Maire, is brutally frank on the nature of the differences as the quotations below Illustrate. (Emphases in the quotations are jvw's.) In fact, they amount to a Declaration of Independence of France and EU from the U.S. | It is not surprising that the differences relate to China after the brouhaha over the sale of U.S. nuclear submarines to Australia and the surprising (to the French) cancellation of contracts with France for submarines. Mr. LeMa…

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2021-10-14). Corporate greed a key factor in the pileup at the ports. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Vice President Kamala Harris met in a closed-door session Wednesday with corporate execs, union leaders, and transport giants to break the bottleneck at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in California, which combined handle 40% of all containerized U.S. commerce. While the major media have been reporting on some of the decisions made at …

Ted Kelly (2021-10-14). Free Leonard Peltier and all Native prisoners! workers.org Leonard Peltier During the era of colonial theft and conquest, North America became a proving ground for European imperialists. This was where strategies of biological warfare and genocide were honed, as well as the industry that has become a pillar of modern global capitalism: mass incarceration. One cannot talk about . . . |

Anonymous103 (2021-10-14). US Military Presence In The Middle East: The Less The Better. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by It may not have been planned or coordinated but efforts by Middle Eastern states to dial down tensions serve as an example of what happens when big power interests coincide. | It also provides evidence of the potentially positive fallout of a lower US profile in the region. | Afghanistan, the United States' chaotic withdrawal notwithstanding, could emerge as another example of the positive impact when global interests coincide. That is if the Taliban prove willing and capable of policing militant…

Staff (2021-10-14). Former Trump Official Is Head of Wisconsin GOP's "Audit" of the 2020 Election. truthout.org An effort by Republicans in Wisconsin to conduct an "audit" of the 2020 presidential race has the chance of becoming a more embarrassing affair than The so-called audit in Wisconsin is unnecessary, as there is no evidence of widespread fraud affecting the outcome of the election. (Presi…

Ajamu Baraka (2021-10-14). Build Back Better Legislation: New Keynesianism or Neoliberal Public Relations Stunt? dissidentvoice.org For more than a week the country has been caught up in the ongoing melodrama of the "Build Back Better" (BBB) legislation, the Democrat Party's "social investment" bill now languishing in the House because of the inability of the Democrats to come to an agreement. The fight is characterized by the corporate media as an …

Staff (2021-10-14). Venezuela Points Finger at Iván Duque for the Murder of Venezuelan Children—VP Rodríguez to File Complaint with International Criminal Court. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General has blamed the government of Iván Duque for the murder, on October 8, of two young Venezuelans, one of them a minor, in the municipality of Tibu in the department of Norte de Santander, Colombia | Tarek William Saab offered a press conference this Tuesday, October 12, to speak about the actions that the Attorney General's Office will take, and assured that justice will be demanded for the events in question. | "We speak about the existence of structural violence against Venezuelans in that country, provoked by the anti-Venezuelan discourse that predominates within the po…

Dr. Robert Malone (2021-10-14). Confronting the Medical "Experts" Propaganda Ministry. The Italian Hippocratic Association Advocates for Treatment Instead of Profit. globalresearch.ca

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano (2021-10-14). Lies and Torture Cover-up: U.S. State Secrets Doctrine Is a Fraud. globalresearch.ca

Ted Kelly (2021-10-14). Free Leonard Peltier and all Native prisoners! workers.org Leonard Peltier During the era of colonial theft and conquest, North America became a proving ground for European imperialists. This was where strategies of biological warfare and genocide were honed, as well as the industry that has become a pillar of modern global capitalism: mass incarceration. One cannot talk about . . . |

Anonymous103 (2021-10-14). US Military Presence In The Middle East: The Less The Better. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by It may not have been planned or coordinated but efforts by Middle Eastern states to dial down tensions serve as an example of what happens when big power interests coincide. | It also provides evidence of the potentially positive fallout of a lower US profile in the region. | Afghanistan, the United States' chaotic withdrawal notwithstanding, could emerge as another example of the positive impact when global interests coincide. That is if the Taliban prove willing and capable of policing militant…

_____ (2021-10-13). Build Back Better Legislation. popularresistance.org For more than a week the country has been caught up in the ongoing melodrama of the "Build Back Better" (BBB) legislation, the Democrat Party's "social investment" bill now languishing in the House because of the inability of the Democrats to come to an agreement. The fight is characterized by the corporate media as an intra-party struggle between the emerging "progressive/left" pole of the Party and the "center," represented by the recalcitrant neoliberal corporate Democrats in the persons of Senators Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona. | But the media's tendency to reduce this strugg…

Brittani Banks (2021-10-13). The U.S. Killer Drone Program Stays Afloat on the Back of Lies and Pentagon Propaganda. independentmediainstitute.org On August 29, in the final days of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the United States launched a drone strike, firing a 20-pound Hellfire missile at an aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi as he parked his car outside his home in a residential neighborhood of Kabul. The lethal strike killed Ahmadi and nine members of …

Staff (2021-10-13). Chomsky, Pollin and Lapavitsas: Are We Witnessing the Demise of Neoliberalism? truthout.org After 40 years of neoliberal rule, in which the state actively sought to eradicate the boundary between market, civil society and governance by making economic rationality the cornerstone of every human activity, advanced capitalism appears to be at a crossroads on account of the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. So-called "big government" has staged a dramatic comeback, and even conservative leaders have broken with some of the basic orthodoxies of neoliberalism. | Are we i…

The Tricontinental (2021-10-13). Dossier No. 45: Indian women on an arduous road to equality. mronline.org The current situation might present an opportunity to strengthen mass movements and to steer the focus towards the rights and livelihoods of women and workers. The ongoing Indian farmers' movement, which started before the pandemic and continues to stay strong, offers the opportunity to steer the national discourse towards such an agenda.

Kevin Mwanza (2021-10-13). Fact Check: Less Than 499 Americans Under Age 18 Have Died from Covid Since February 2020. moguldom.com Fewer than 499 Americans under age 18 have died from covid since February 2020, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and researchers want to know why. Respiratory diseases typically hit the young and the old hard, and children are often very vulnerable to infectious diseases. Yet covid-19 was more …

Ali Abunimah (2021-10-13). Sweden moves to criminalize support for Palestine. electronicintifada.net Holocaust scholars reject use of anti-Semitism smears against Palestine campaigners.

John V. Walsh (2021-10-13). French Finance Minister Issues Declaration of Independence from the U.S. dissidentvoice.org "Clear Differences Remain Between France and the U.S, French Minister Says," is the headline to a remarkable piece appearing in the New York Times today. The Minister, Bruno Le Maire, is brutally frank on the nature of the differences as the quotations below Illustrate. (Emphases in the quotations are writer's.) In fact, they amount to …

WSWS (2021-10-13). The Wuhan lab libel: The Washington Post teaches America to hate. wsws.org The renewed promotion of the Wuhan lab libel by the US media is part of a systematic effort to demonize China and the Chinese people and lay the grounds for military conflict.

ecns.cn (2021-10-13). Relevant question concerns not COVID-19 origins but how to prevent future pandemic: new thesis. ecns.cn The real relevant question is how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can emerge as the pandemic virus and what the society can do to prevent the future emergence of pandemic viruses, a new thesis has argued.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-13). Indigenous Resistance Day: Venezuela Condemns Historic Crimes of Europe. orinocotribune.com Venezuela joins the voice of the peoples of America who suffered for over 300 years from the genocide that followed the invasion by the Spanish empire, and announced forceful political actions of an international scope to vindicate the struggle of the peoples, when commemorating the Day of indigenous Resistance, this Tuesday, October 12. | President Nicolás Maduro reported that his government will issue formal communications directly to the King of Spain, with reflections on the historical consequences of the conquest. Venezuela will also petition the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to tr…

WSWS (2021-10-13). The Wuhan lab libel: The Washington Post teaches America to hate. wsws.org The renewed promotion of the Wuhan lab libel by the US media is part of a systematic effort to demonize China and the Chinese people and lay the grounds for military conflict.

ecns.cn (2021-10-13). Relevant question concerns not COVID-19 origins but how to prevent future pandemic: new thesis. ecns.cn The real relevant question is how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can emerge as the pandemic virus and what the society can do to prevent the future emergence of pandemic viruses, a new thesis has argued.

_____ (2021-10-13). Build Back Better Legislation. popularresistance.org For more than a week the country has been caught up in the ongoing melodrama of the "Build Back Better" (BBB) legislation, the Democrat Party's "social investment" bill now languishing in the House because of the inability of the Democrats to come to an agreement. The fight is characterized by the corporate media as an intra-party struggle between the emerging "progressive/left" pole of the Party and the "center," represented by the recalcitrant neoliberal corporate Democrats in the persons of Senators Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona. | But the media's tendency to reduce this strugg…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-13). Indigenous Resistance Day: Venezuela Condemns Historic Crimes of Europe. orinocotribune.com Venezuela joins the voice of the peoples of America who suffered for over 300 years from the genocide that followed the invasion by the Spanish empire, and announced forceful political actions of an international scope to vindicate the struggle of the peoples, when commemorating the Day of indigenous Resistance, this Tuesday, October 12. | President Nicolás Maduro reported that his government will issue formal communications directly to the King of Spain, with reflections on the historical consequences of the conquest. Venezuela will also petition the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to tr…

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-12). NATO's counter-cognitive combat challenge. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The cognitive warfare described below (only ascribed to the enemy, of course) is, in layman's language, the practice of attempting to inform people and perhaps add to their store of knowledge in a manner that could contribute to broadening their perspective; what has been referred to as white propaganda. That, according to NATO, must be …

Peninsula Peace, Justice Center (2021-10-12). Tuesday 10/26: Confronting Disinformation w/ Prof. David Sloss of Santa Clara Univesity School of Law. indybay.org Free Zoom Webinar…

Tamara Nassar (2021-10-12). Sally Rooney stands up for Palestine in face of smears. electronicintifada.net Respecting boycott, award-winning author won't let Israeli company publish her work.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-12). The Pandemic Is a Consequence of the War Against Life. libya360.wordpress.com Vandana Shiva ITT Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from Vandana Shiva's book %: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (Chelsea Green Publishing, August 2020) and was originally published by Independent Science News. The health emergency of the coronavirus is inseparable from the health emergency of extinction, biodiversity loss and climate change In March 2015, Bill Gates…

Peninsula Peace, Justice Center (2021-10-12). Tuesday 10/26: Confronting Disinformation w/ Prof. David Sloss of Santa Clara Univesity School of Law. indybay.org Free Zoom Webinar…

teleSUR (2021-10-11). US: On Indigenous Peoples Day, Activists Demand Climate Action. telesurenglish.net The Washington Post reported that Native American leaders and tribal members from across the country are in Washington for five days of protests beginning Monday. | The demonstrations, according to…

John Buell (2021-10-11). Our Health depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants that are rapidly being Destroyed. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — While mainstream media celebrate the remarkable development in record time of vaccines spectacularly effective against the Covid virus, knowledge that might contribute to other medical breakthroughs is being steadily undermined. This decline is not the result of some dramatic lawsuit or corporate takeover. It is one of …

Renée DiResta (2021-10-11). It's Not Misinformation. It's Amplified Propaganda. zcomm.org You don't need fake accounts to spread ampliganda online. Real people will happily do it…

ecns.cn (2021-10-11). Pulitzer Prize winner urges end to lab-leak propaganda by Wall Street Journal. ecns.cn Long famous as a font of political and economic distortion, the Wall Street Journal's opinion section has more recently become a center of lab-leak speculation, Michael Hiltzik, a U.S. columnist with The Los Angeles Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, said on Friday.

WSWS (2021-10-11). New Zealand's Daily Blog attacks WSWS as "sectarian" wsws.org The pseudo-left Daily Blog contributor Chris Trotter objected to the WSWS's exposure of the blog's support for the Labour Party-led government's alignment with US imperialism, and its war propaganda against China.

Thom Hartmann (2021-10-11). Hungarian-Style Soft Fascism is the GOP's Ruthless New Brand. counterpunch.org While it's fashionable in some circles to compare Donald Trump and the modern-day GOP to Hitler or Mussolini and their fascist movements from the 1930s, what's happening on the international stage right now is actually somewhat different and, once in power, far harder to stop or overthrow. Call it "soft fascism" or neofascism. The problem

Staff (2021-10-11). 'Badly Made Fake News': Venezuelan Minister for Defense on Semana Magazine's 'Maduro's Missiles' Piece. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Minister for Defense Vladimir Padrino López described an article about alleged Venezuelan arms purchases from Iran and Russia, published by Colombia's Semana magazine, as "a mess" and "badly assembled fake news." | On Sunday, October 10, the journalist Madelein García shared a video on Twitter about the statements offered by the senior military commander. She indicated that the "investigation" published on Saturday, October 9, by the Colombian media outlet was full of "lies," and was "a badly made montage." However, she added, "that is not surprising" because "it is a news outlet that belongs to the Co…

Robert S. Becker (2021-10-11). Where's the 'justice vaccine' against the pandemic of system-smashing scofflaws? nationofchange.org Why have no apt penalties for sedition or treason yet been applied to insurrection-inciters or enabling officials?>

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-11). Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry escalates threats against Iran. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Iranian MFA continues smear campaign against Azerbaijan, says official The Iranian Foreign Ministry does not stop conducting a slanderous campaign against Azerbaijan, Spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Leyla Abdullayeva said…. She was commenting on the interview of Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on the Lebanese Al-Manar TV channel. *** Azerbaijan liberated …

Staff (2021-10-11). Unvaccinated US troops still number in 'hundreds of thousands' despite looming deadlines — reports. rt.com Hundreds of thousands of US military service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against Covid-19 despite looming mandate deadlines, as rates vary significantly across individual services. | In August, members of the US military services were informed that immunization against Covid-19 would be required as part of new directives from President Joe Biden. According to data analyzed in a Washington Post report, however, inoculation rates among America's more than two million soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are lagging in many areas. | Deadlines for individual services vary, but many ar…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-10-11). Italians hold national strike in response to attacks on labor. peoplesdispatch.org On October 11, Monday, trade unions, student and youth groups, leftist political parties, anti-imperialists and housing rights groups organized nationwide mobilizations and general strikes against the government's anti-people policies and the deterioration of social and economic conditions in the country. In this sense they highlighted the government's assault on labor rights and imposition of austerity policies, the continued COVID-19 crisis, inflation, the housing crisis, privatization of state enterprises, and the upcoming G20 Summit in Rome, as evidence. | The workers have also protested the far-right attack…