Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-31). Faced With US 'Decapitation Drill'/DPRK Korea Missile Launch Is Self-Defense. orinocotribune.com By Sara Flounders Aug 26, 2022 | The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai'i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that provoked the DPRK's two warning shots. | An Aug. 19 article in the Daily Beast, an online news website, headlined a longer and upcoming military land, sea and air exercise this way: "U.S. to Enrage Kim Jong Un With Assassination Dry Run." The article then r…

Staff (2022-08-31). Oil Minister El Aissami Presents Evidence of Corruption by Former PDVSA CEO Rafael Ramírez. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, August 30, Venezuelan Minister for Petroleum, Tareck El Aissami, presented to the Public Ministry (MP) evidence of largescale fraud committed by former Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Rafael Ramírez, against Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), and asked Attorney General Tarek William Saab to open an investigation and issue an international arrest warrant. | At a press conference from the headquarters of the Public Ministry, in Caracas, El Aissami reported that evidence was filed with the attorney general in which the "most serious corruption plot that has ever been known against our oil industry" was…

Ulrich Thielemann (2022-08-31). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.

_____ (2022-08-30). Game Of Nuclear Chicken In Zaporozhye. popularresistance.org The Zaporozhye (also spelt Zaporizhzhia) Nuclear Power Plant has become a focal point in the Ukraine war, as any major nuclear incident risks radioactivity release over a vast area. In such an accident, not only Ukraine but large parts of Europe could face radioactive contamination and much higher cancer rates and other diseases. Russia has claimed the Ukrainian side shelled the Zaporozhye plant in July and August and, on August 23, submitted photographic and other documentary evidence to the UN Security Council. Ukraine contends Russia has been shelling the plant even though it is under Russia's occupation. | Th…

_____ (2022-08-29). DPRK Korea Is Faced With US 'Decapitation Drill'. popularresistance.org The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai'i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that provoked the DPRK's two warning shots. | An Aug. 19 article in the Daily Beast, an online news website, headlined a longer and upcoming military land, sea and air exercise this way: "U.S. to Enrage Kim Jong Un With Assassination Dry Run." The article then reads: | "For the first time in years, j…

Ulrich Thielemann (2022-08-30). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-29). Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War on Palestinians Possible. scheerpost.com Protest for Palestine. Brahim Guedich, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Ramzy Baroud / While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case.

Anonymous103 (2022-08-29). IAEA Mission On Its Way To Zaporozhie NPP. southfront.org IAEA experts are finally on their way to the Zaporozhye NPP in Ukraine. Head of the international agency Rafael Grossi who headed the support and assistance mission confirmed that the IAEA representatives will arrive to the plant 'later this week'. | According to the report by The New York Times, the mission of 13 experts led by the CEO of the organization should come to the power plant this week. According to the publication, it includes specialists "mainly from neutral countries": Poland,…

Vanessa Beeley (2022-08-29). Journalists Who Challenge NATO Narratives Are Now 'Information Terrorists'. orinocotribune.com By Vanessa Beeley — Aug 23, 2022 | | We will have to answer to the "law" as "war criminals": | A US state department sponsored round table on "countering disinformation" was recently held at the According to the press release: "NGOs, mass media and international experts" took part in the round table discussions. Delegates discu…

_____ (2022-08-29). DPRK Korea Is Faced With US 'Decapitation Drill'. popularresistance.org The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai'i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that provoked the DPRK's two warning shots. | An Aug. 19 article in the Daily Beast, an online news website, headlined a longer and upcoming military land, sea and air exercise this way: "U.S. to Enrage Kim Jong Un With Assassination Dry Run." The article then reads: | "For the first time in years, j…

Edward Curtin (2022-08-29). Impressions of Donald Trump. Celebrity Culture, Political Theater and Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-08-29). Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians. transcend.org 26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-08-29). Free Speech Doesn't Matter If Propagandists Determine What People Say. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. | None are more hopelessly ignorant than those who falsely believe they're informed. | None are more hopelessly propagandized than those who don't know they are propagandized. | Living in a liberal western democracy means having the freedom to criticize the tyranny of your government, but instead spending your time criticizing the tyranny of foreign governments who your government doesn't like. | Free speech in a liberal western democracy means you have the freedom to say whatever you want abo…

WSWS (2022-08-29). The New York Times calls for indictment of Trump—and covers up the roots of the crisis of American democracy. wsws.org If one takes seriously what the editorial asserts, the American political system is on the verge of disintegration. What it does not say and cannot say, however, constitutes an indictment of the entire response of the Democratic Party to Trump's coup.

Elias Khalil Jabbour (2022-08-28). How China and its anti-neoliberal globalization challenges US-led imperialism and its Monroe Doctrine. multipolarista.com The hegemony of US imperialism led to a global consolidation of capitalism. But the rise of China and its model of productive, anti-neoliberal globalization offers an opportunity for Latin America, and the world, to challenge neocolonialism.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). The Ethiopian Embassy in the US Decisively Responded to the New York Times' Disinformation. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko What's so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). Faced with U.S. 'Decapitation Drill', DPRK Korea Missile Launch is Self-Defense. libya360.wordpress.com Sara Flounders Tens of thousands of South Koreans demonstrate Aug. 13, during the first round of military drills Aug. 8-14. This "military drill" was described as preparation for a larger 11-day U.S.-South Korean military operation Aug. 22 to Sept. 1. Credit: Xinhua The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of…

Vanessa Beeley (2022-08-29). Journalists Who Challenge NATO Narratives Are Now 'Information Terrorists'. orinocotribune.com By Vanessa Beeley — Aug 23, 2022 | | We will have to answer to the "law" as "war criminals": | A US state department sponsored round table on "countering disinformation" was recently held at the According to the press release: "NGOs, mass media and international experts" took part in the round table discussions. Delegates discu…

Edward Curtin (2022-08-29). Impressions of Donald Trump. dissidentvoice.org Neurosis to a greater or lesser degree is the norm in western industrialized societies. Drawing on this fact is the key to effective propaganda. It is well known that neurotics always return to the place they are running away from. It's a circle game of frustration in which being frustrated is actually the "solution," because …

WSWS (2022-08-29). The New York Times calls for indictment of Trump—and covers up the roots of the crisis of American democracy. wsws.org If one takes seriously what the editorial asserts, the American political system is on the verge of disintegration. What it does not say and cannot say, however, constitutes an indictment of the entire response of the Democratic Party to Trump's coup.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-28). The Ethiopian Embassy in the US Decisively Responded to the New York Times' Disinformation. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko What's so devious about their latest report is that it masquerades as objective but deliberately twists some key facts while purposely omitting others in order to artificially manufacture a false perception of the conflict that entirely blames the central government for everything. Casual news consumers might therefore easily be misled into falling for…

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2022-08-28). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Scorinoco (2022-08-28). The Lion Has Awoken: Macrismo Opposition Blindsided by Popular Mobilization Against the Persecution of Cristina Kirchner. orinocotribune.com By Luis Bruchstein Aug 27, 2022 | Media corporations underestimated the spontaneous mobilizations that took place throughout the country in support of Kirchner and tried to cover them up by forcing statements from President Alberto Fernández. However, the maneuver was so obvious that it exposed concerns that existed in corporate media circles and in Macrismo. | The corporate media went full speed ahead in an unprecedented effort to compete with the unexpected popular mobilizations against the prosecution of Cristina Kirchner in the "Vialidad" case. Virtual, doctored, and monopolized information controlled r…

Oneworld.press (2022-08-27). CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A "Disinformation" Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy. oneworld.press Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It's precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order's secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a "disinformation" agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.

_____ (2022-08-27). Western Media Bias Makes Israeli War On Palestinians Possible. popularresistance.org While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. | Take the New York Times coverage of the latest Israeli war on Gaza as an example. Its article on August 6, "Israel-Gaza Fighting Flares for a Second Day" is the typical mainstream western reporting on Israel and Palestine, but with a distinct NYT flavor. | For the uninformed reader, the article succeeds in finding a balanced language between two equal sides. This misleading moral equivalence is one of the biggest intellectual blind spots for…

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-27). Patrick Lawrence: When Correspondents Came Home. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the first of a two-part series examining the collapse of foreign coverage in mainstream media. I have never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It was a lengthy profile …

Nyla Samee (2022-08-27). Stop Using Islamophobic Rhetoric to Condemn Christian Extremism. commondreams.org When liberals call Christian nationalists "the Taliban," they're making Islam the standard for extremism—rather than the Christian far right that threatens our democracy.

TeleSUR, hvh, JDO (2022-08-27). Comienza propaganda electoral gratuita ante comicios en Brasil. telesurtv.net Durante esta primera jornada se colocará propaganda para los candidatos a gobernador, diputado estadual y senador.

_____ (2022-08-26). What is the Real Target/Objective of US Offence Policy in Europe? journal-neo.org The propaganda machine in the US is fueled by the ignorance of the American public, who still believe, with hand on heart, that the US government is on their side and motivated by altruism. However, the rest of the world is not so naàØve, as more and more countries are waking up to the fallout …

Nyla Samee (2022-08-27). Stop Using Islamophobic Rhetoric to Condemn Christian Extremism. commondreams.org When liberals call Christian nationalists "the Taliban," they're making Islam the standard for extremism—rather than the Christian far right that threatens our democracy.

TeleSUR, hvh, JDO (2022-08-27). Comienza propaganda electoral gratuita ante comicios en Brasil. telesurtv.net Durante esta primera jornada se colocará propaganda para los candidatos a gobernador, diputado estadual y senador.

Kyle Anzalone (2022-08-26). NYT: Russian Annexation Plans Pressure Zelensky To Retake Territory Soon. news.antiwar.com The New York Times reports Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing pressure on multiple fronts to launch a counter-offensive and bring the war to a military end. Russia is planning a series of referendums, and likely annexations, of captured territory in the coming months. A former defense minister is publicly warning Kiev that war fatigue …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-08-26). Western Ruling Elites Show Their True Colors by Revering a Moral Monster—Winston Churchill. covertactionmagazine.com None of the above. The correct answer is Winston Churchill. In a March address to the U.S. Congress which earned him a standing ovation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, fashioning his country's struggle against the Russians as one of good versus evil, echoed some of the rhetoric of British wartime leader Winston Churchill. The ranking Republican …

Ramzy Baroud (2022-08-26). Western media bias makes Israeli war on Palestinians possible. peoplesworld.org While U.S. and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. Take the New York Times coverage of the latest Israeli war on Gaza as an example. Its article on August 6, "Israel-Gaza Fighting Flares …

Sara Flounders (2022-08-26). Faced with U.S. 'Decapitation Drill'/DPRK Korea missile launch is self-defense. workers.org The western corporate media described the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's launch of two missiles Aug. 17 as threatening, aggressive and paranoid. What most media failed to report was the prior U.S. military exercises with Japan and South Korea off Hawai'i, in preparation for extensive war exercises off Korea, that . . . |

_____ (2022-08-26). What is the Real Target/Objective of US Offence Policy in Europe? journal-neo.org The propaganda machine in the US is fueled by the ignorance of the American public, who still believe, with hand on heart, that the US government is on their side and motivated by altruism. However, the rest of the world is not so naàØve, as more and more countries are waking up to the fallout …

_____ (2022-08-26). UPS Is Firing Union Activists In The Middle Of Contract Negotiations. popularresistance.org During the first week of August, UPS Teamsters organized rallies across the country with thousands of workers to kick off their 2023 contract campaign. From now to July of next year when the current contract is set to expire, UPS workers will be fighting for their demands and preparing to strike if they are not met. Among those demands are: air-conditioned trucks, no more excessive overtime, an end to the two-tier system of "22.4s," higher part-time pay, more full-time jobs, an end to harassment, and an end to outsourcing. If UPS Teamsters don't reach a suitable agreement with the company, over 340,000 workers co…

_____ (2022-08-26). Why People Say There's A 'Nonprofit Industrial Complex'. popularresistance.org Lots of nonprofits do important work‚Äâ—‚Äâlike, say, In These Times, which is a reader-supported 501(c)(3). But the "nonprofit-industrial complex" refers to the larger ecosystem of elite foundations and corporate influence-peddling. | Incite, a network of radical anti-state violence activists, convened a conference to detail this relationship in 2004, titled, "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex." Incite had been grant-funded by the Ford Foundation— funding Incite lost because of its support for Palestine. | As outlined at the…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). Journalists Who Challenge NATO Narratives Are Now 'Information Terrorists'. libya360.wordpress.com Vanessa Beeley Nazis congregate on Google Plus 2019. A US state department sponsored round table on 'countering disinformation' was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. "Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals" Andrii Shapovalov According to the press release — "NGOs, mass media…

_____ (2022-08-25). Reality Is Not What It Seems And That Might Just Save the Climate. popularresistance.org Anti-science rhetoric and special interests have pushed us to the edge of climate chaos. But just as quantum physics disrupted our view of matter and energy, quantum social change disrupts our beliefs about what's possible, how fast, and by whom. | As the world gasped in wonder at the first images of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope last month, we were reminded that human beings are still capable of acts that elevate us all and advance our collective potential. | "[When] my grandchildren … look up at a star, point to it and say 'there's life!' — that's going to be a moment more prof…

Ramzy Baroud (2022-08-26). How Coverage of Palestinians and Israel in NYT and Western Press Obscures the Occupation. juancole.com ( Middle East Monitor ) While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favour of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. Take the New York Times coverage of the latest Israeli war on Gaza as an example. Its article …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-25). Journalists Who Challenge NATO Narratives Are Now 'Information Terrorists'. libya360.wordpress.com Vanessa Beeley Nazis congregate on Google Plus 2019. A US state department sponsored round table on 'countering disinformation' was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. "Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals" Andrii Shapovalov According to the press release — "NGOs, mass media…

Oneworld.press (2022-08-25). India's "Business Standard" Is Spewing Fake News About Bilateral Relations With Russia. oneworld.press All reports alleging that India inexplicably abandoned its passionate practice of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian Conflict in favor of jumping on the US-led West's anti-Russian bandwagon are always nothing but fake news.

Andrew Korybko (2022-08-25). Zelensky Is Scared That Detained Azov Members Will Spill the Beans About Kiev's War Crimes. orinocotribune.com By Andrew Korybko Aug 22, 2022 | The last thing that Zelensky wants is for those fighters to admit to the war crimes that they carried out on the orders of senior officials answerable to him personally, which would therefore implicate him since he ultimately sits atop the chain of command. Just last week, "The Washington Post Admitted That Zelensky Lied, People Died, And Ukrainians Are Upset", and his people would be even more enraged if they learned how many human shields he sacrificed in Mariupol. | Zelensky demanded that detained members of the Azov Battalion not face trial in Donbass otherwise he'll ref…

_____ (2022-08-25). Reality Is Not What It Seems And That Might Just Save the Climate. popularresistance.org Anti-science rhetoric and special interests have pushed us to the edge of climate chaos. But just as quantum physics disrupted our view of matter and energy, quantum social change disrupts our beliefs about what's possible, how fast, and by whom. | As the world gasped in wonder at the first images of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope last month, we were reminded that human beings are still capable of acts that elevate us all and advance our collective potential. | "[When] my grandchildren … look up at a star, point to it and say 'there's life!' — that's going to be a moment more prof…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-08-25). Tel Aviv Hiding Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians From Public: Israeli Media. orinocotribune.com The documents concern Israel's mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, as well its secret nuclear program | According to a report by Hebrew newspaper Haaretz released on 22 August, Tel Aviv has been working through its defense ministry to hide historical documents related to the founding of the state of Israel, from the Israeli public. | The founding of Israel in 1948, known throughout the Arab world as the "Nakba," or catastrophe, involved the ethnic cleansing and mass expulsion of Palestinians from their land by ultra-nationalist Jewish gangs. | These gangs were later integrated into the Is…

TeleSUR (2022-08-25). 'Cristina Did Not Commit Any Crime', Argentine President Says. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez assured that Vice President Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner did not commit any of the crimes attributed to her by the Prosecutor's Office. | RELATED: | Based on his experience and knowledge as a lawyer, he called the trial against the former President a "legal nonsense" that evidences the unfortunate state of the judicial system. | "I have no doubt that Cristina Ferna…

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-24). Don't Wait: Get Into the Encryption Habit Now. scheerpost.com By Thomas Knapp / CounterPunch In early August, a Nebraska prosecutor charged a mother and daughter with violating the state's ban on abortion after 20 weeks. That ban was passed in 2010, but didn't go into effect until the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this year overturning Roe V. Wade. Part of the state's evidence consists …

David Sirota (2022-08-24). NEW LEVER E-BOOK: John Roberts' Revolution. levernews.com Supporting subscribers can obtain a copy of this brand new e-book at the bottom of this page.In 2005, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawyer who had helped George W. Bush steal an election was nominated to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. An archconservative lauded as "the go-to lawyer for the business community," John Roberts was confirmed by a huge bipartisan Senate vote. Since then, Roberts has been widely billed by corporate media as a thoughtful and pragmatic moderate earnestly fighting against other conservative justices to preserve the court's legitimacy. But as The Lever's reporting has…

Contributing Writers (2022-08-24). Biden's shame The 8 minute expose of Ukraine's biggest lies/ By G.H. Eliason. marktaliano.net *Fact checkers- This video is backed up by thousands of pages of academic, political science, and historical whitepapers.It is also a lead in to a much larger work to be released later.Are there Nazis in Ukraine?Witness the undeniable development of political Nazism from 1917-2022 and its devastating impact on the Ukrainian people as well as …

Jonas Togel, Felix Abt (2022-08-24). The birth of propaganda and The war of perception. indybay.org One of the founding fathers of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, openly admitted that especially in democracies, where the majority of people decide, the control of thoughts and feelings is a central tool. "Public relations involves what I call 'the engineering of consent.'"

Staff (2022-08-24). Carlos Ocariz Proposes Schedule for Opposition Primaries in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Monday, August 22, Carlos Ocariz, leader of the Venezuelan opposition party Primero Justicia (PJ), called on the right wing to "move from eternal rhetoric to concrete action" and suggested that the opposition's primary elections ahead of the 2024 presidential elections be held on June 24, 2023. | "It is time to move from eternal rhetoric to concrete action," Ocariz stated in a press release. "Every day you all say that the primaries are important, but you do not fix a date. I propose that on the day of the Battle of Carabobo, the date on which Venezuela was liberated, June 24, that this internal consultation o…

Dr. Anthony Fauci (2022-08-24). Fauci's Resignation 'Good News for America'. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-08-24). Argentina: Cristina Kirchner Denounces Trial as 'Media-Judicial Firing Squad'. orinocotribune.com Despite the lack of evidence following three years of trial, and the blunders that the judiciary committed by taking "evidence" from other cases, the prosecutors asked for 12 years in prison and a lifetime political ban for Cristina Kirchner. The court, confirming its partiality, denied the former president and current vice-president of Argentina her right to expand the preliminary statement, which prompted a forceful response from her. | Rarely have the workings of the media-judicial-political system in Argentina been exposed with such clarity as we have seen with the nine-day display of a diversionary strategy…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-24). Mali Presents the UN with Evidence of French Support of Terrorists. libya360.wordpress.com Vladimir Danilov Recently, Radio RFI has announced that Malian authorities made accusations against France, citing a letter of Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, that alleged that Paris was supplying terrorists with weapons and called for the convening of an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. In his August 15 letter, Abdoulaye Diop cited some…

Diegoramos718 (2022-08-24). Don't Wait: Get Into the Encryption Habit Now. scheerpost.com By Thomas Knapp / CounterPunch In early August, a Nebraska prosecutor charged a mother and daughter with violating the state's ban on abortion after 20 weeks. That ban was passed in 2010, but didn't go into effect until the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this year overturning Roe V. Wade. Part of the state's evidence consists …

____ (2022-08-24). Fossil study provides evidence of early fruit-eating birds. ecns.cn Many birds eat fruits and help plants reproduce by spreading seeds in their droppings, but until now scientists have been unable to find direct evidence of when this animal-plant interaction started.

Staff (2022-08-24). Teoría del dominó: el siguiente argumento (falaz) de la propaganda occidental y sus medios de desinformación. cubadebate.cu Uno de los argumentos de la propaganda occidental sobre la guerra en Ucrania es este: es fundamental combatir a Rusia en Ucrania porque la invasión de Ucrania es el primer paso de un proyecto imperialista ruso, destinado a reconstituir las fronteras de la URSS o del Imperio zarista y difundir el "autoritarismo" donde hoy hay "democracia".

Dean Baker (2022-08-23). Bernie Sanders Makes the Washington Post Oped Page: We Don't Need Government-Granted Patent Monopolies to Finance Drug Research. cepr.net Moving away from … government-granted patent monopolies to a system of direct public funding will be a long process. But we have to get the debate started.

Ann Brown (2022-08-23). Fact Check: Cartels Are Increasingly Lacing Marijuana With Deadly Fentanyl. moguldom.com In 2017, 59 percent of opioid-related deaths involved the deadly drug fentanyl, compared to 14.3 percent in 2010, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and times more potent than heroin, according to the National Institute …

Jonas Togel, Felix Abt (2022-08-24). The birth of propaganda and The war of perception. indybay.org One of the founding fathers of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, openly admitted that especially in democracies, where the majority of people decide, the control of thoughts and feelings is a central tool. "Public relations involves what I call 'the engineering of consent.'"

____ (2022-08-24). Fossil study provides evidence of early fruit-eating birds. ecns.cn Many birds eat fruits and help plants reproduce by spreading seeds in their droppings, but until now scientists have been unable to find direct evidence of when this animal-plant interaction started.

Staff (2022-08-24). Teoría del dominó: el siguiente argumento (falaz) de la propaganda occidental y sus medios de desinformación. cubadebate.cu Uno de los argumentos de la propaganda occidental sobre la guerra en Ucrania es este: es fundamental combatir a Rusia en Ucrania porque la invasión de Ucrania es el primer paso de un proyecto imperialista ruso, destinado a reconstituir las fronteras de la URSS o del Imperio zarista y difundir el "autoritarismo" donde hoy hay "democracia".

Contributing Writers (2022-08-23). What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common? / By John Parker. marktaliano.net They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative about the war in Ukraine. This is why Struggle-La-Lucha.org organized a fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S.This is the second …

WSWS (2022-08-23). Washington Post reveals aims behind US-approved Ukrainian assassination of Daria Dugina. wsws.org

Dean Baker (2022-08-23). Bernie Sanders Makes the Washington Post Oped Page: We Don't Need Government-Granted Patent Monopolies to Finance Drug Research. cepr.net These are remarkable times, and they just keep getting more remarkable. The latest is an oped in the Washington Post that actually cites Sanders' approvingly.

Staff (2022-08-23). Propaganda y censura a ambos lados del Atlántico. cubadebate.cu La mentira y la desinformación puede estar en todas las posiciones políticas, en las que apoyan el relato oficial de la UE y en las que lo critican, en los países líderes de las políticas europeas, en las declaraciones de un portavoz de la Comisión Europea o del Departamento de Estado o en las de un representante de las potencias competidoras de la UE y EEUU por mercados o recursos. Y, por supuesto, pueden estar en las redes sociales y en un medio de comunicación extranjero, pero también en un medio mayoritario y "prestigioso" occidental, y hasta en el gabinete de prensa de un gobernante europeo o estadounidense.

John Parker (2022-08-22). What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common? covertactionmagazine.com They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative about the war in Ukraine. This is why Struggle-La-Lucha.org organized a fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S. This …

Alan Macleod (2022-08-22). How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World's Social Media Managers. mintpressnews.com Kremlin propaganda is real, but its reach is decidedly minor in comparison to the massive disinformation campaigns being launched by the Western national security state. And as Alan Macloed reveals, London's Department of War Studies is a key part of that information war.

| Anadolu Agency | (2022-08-23). US says Iran has dropped demand to remove IRGC terror designation for nuclear deal. tribune.com.pk Iran has dropped its demand that the US remove its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from a terror blacklist as part of ongoing talks to return both countries to the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, the State Department said on Monday. | President Joe Biden has stalwartly opposed lifting the IRGC's blacklisting as part of any deal that would return the US and Iran to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and State Department spokesman Ned Price said the demand has been removed from the latest version of the agreement the US has seen. | "That's part of the reason why a deal is close…

The Conversation (2022-08-23). Shelling of Europe's biggest nuclear power plant exposes multiple risks — a nuclear expert tells us what they are. juancole.com By Ross Peel, King's College London | Shelling has recently intensified at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, raising international safety concerns. Ukrainian staff continue to operate the massive plant under strict control and stressful conditions. Both Russia and Ukraine are blaming one another for the continued attacks, and damage. Disinformation and fake news …

Jonas Togel, Felix Abt (2022-08-23). The birth of propaganda and The war of perception. indybay.org One of the founding fathers of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, openly admitted that especially in democracies, where the majority of people decide, the control of thoughts and feelings is a central tool. "Public relations involves what I call 'the engineering of consent.'"

Dean Baker (2022-08-23). Bernie Sanders Makes the Washington Post Oped Page: We Don't Need Government-Granted Patent Monopolies to Finance Drug Research. cepr.net These are remarkable times, and they just keep getting more remarkable. The latest is an oped in the Washington Post that actually cites Sanders' approvingly.

____ (2022-08-23). Fauci announces stepping down in December. ecns.cn U.S. top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci announced Monday he plans to step down from his roles at the end of the year after more than 50 years of public service.

Staff (2022-08-23). Propaganda y censura a ambos lados del Atlántico. cubadebate.cu La mentira y la desinformación puede estar en todas las posiciones políticas, en las que apoyan el relato oficial de la UE y en las que lo critican, en los países líderes de las políticas europeas, en las declaraciones de un portavoz de la Comisión Europea o del Departamento de Estado o en las de un representante de las potencias competidoras de la UE y EEUU por mercados o recursos. Y, por supuesto, pueden estar en las redes sociales y en un medio de comunicación extranjero, pero también en un medio mayoritario y "prestigioso" occidental, y hasta en el gabinete de prensa de un gobernante europeo o estadounidense.

____ (2022-08-22). Fauci announces stepping down in December. ecns.cn U.S. top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci announced Monday he plans to step down from his roles at the end of the year after more than 50 years of public service.

Lee Camp (2022-08-22). U.S.-Backed Ukrainian Officials are Trying to Prosecute Journalists for Spreading True Info. mintpressnews.com Everyone in the U.S. should be repulsed at the idea of people being labeled "terrorists" or "war criminals" for standing up to U.S. propaganda about the proxy war in Ukraine.

John Parker (2022-08-22). What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common? covertactionmagazine.com They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative about the war in Ukraine. This is why Struggle-La-Lucha.org organized a fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S. This …

____ (2022-08-22). Ukraine 'Testing Ground' Shaping US Network, Electronic Warfare Effort. transcend.org 17 Aug 2022 – Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.

____ (2022-08-22). Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO: From War Propaganda to Peace Journalism. transcend.org 15 Aug 2022 – This series has argued that the war in Ukraine is being fueled by a propaganda campaign which hides previous and current NATO/US aggressiveness towards Russia as well as the options to reach a peaceful settlement by resolving underlying conflicts.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-08-22). Is Hamas happy that Israel "decimated" Islamic Jihad? electronicintifada.net Disinformation agents attribute the former's non-participation in Gaza fighting to nonexistent rivalry.

Alan Macleod (2022-08-22). How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World's Social Media Managers. mintpressnews.com Kremlin propaganda is real, but its reach is decidedly minor in comparison to the massive disinformation campaigns being launched by the Western national security state. And as Alan Macloed reveals, London's Department of War Studies is a key part of that information war.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-22). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-22). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Scott C. Tips (2022-08-22). The Biden Administration's "Disinformation Governance Board" globalresearch.ca

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-08-22). The Human Species Is Acting Like a Self-Destructive Individual. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Aug 17, 2022 | Robert Heinlein said, "Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." And from all the facts in evidence currently available to us, that certainly does seem to be the case. We're

____ (2022-08-22). (Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos-OTAN (Parte VI): De la Propaganda de Guerra al Periodismo para la Paz. transcend.org 15 Aug 2022 – El marco general para la práctica del periodismo de paz consiste en proporcionar el contexto de las interrelaciones entre tres formas clave de violencia que son constitutivas de la guerra: 1. La violencia directa, física, hacia los seres humanos, las infraestructuras y el medio ambiente; 2. La violencia cultural, comunicativa, contra el otro; y 3. La violencia estructural basada en relaciones de poder desiguales.

____ (2022-08-22). New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore. transcend.org 15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-21). BBC Assault on Antiwar Academics Was Apparent Product of UK Intel Plot. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. On May 31, BBC Radio initiated an embarrassing imbroglio when it broadcast a factually challenged, overtly propagandistic documentary special called Ukraine: The Disinformation War. Fronted by a British…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-21). The Assassination of Alexander Dugin's Daughter Darya Was a Dastardly Terrorist Attack. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko Darya's assassination represents a crossing of the Rubicon in the Ukrainian Conflict whereby Kiev has escalated its terrorist attacks to the point of targeting the family members of civilians who they were duped by fake news into falsely thinking are unofficially very influential policymakers like they seem to have believed that her father…

Editor (2022-08-21). Katie Halper Interviews Bob Scheer. scheerpost.com "Legendary reporter Bob Scheer discusses a long career reporting on war all over the world; Laura Hazard Owens discusses how to report on abortion in a post-Roe world; Andrew Perez discusses fact checking the Washington Post Fact checker."

Staff (2022-08-21). Iran's Embassy in Caracas Labels Agreement With Venezuela on 1 Million Hectares as Fake News. orinocotribune.com Caracas, August 20, 2022 ( The Iranian Embassy stated through its official Twitter account that "although Venezuela is one of the best countries for agriculture, which can attract many investors," Iran has not signed any bilateral alliance on this matter. | In this context, the embassy urged everyone to stop fake…

____ (2022-08-21). Commissioner's office of Chinese Foreign Ministry in HKSAR urges external forces to stop meddling with Hong Kong's rule of law. ecns.cn The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday strongly disapproved and firmly rejected attempts of a handful of U.S. and British politicians to interfere in Hong Kong's rule of law and to whitewash anti-China forces by making irresponsible rhetoric about judicial proceedings of the HKSAR.

_____ (2022-08-21). The Deadly Business Of Reporting Truth. popularresistance.org Violence is the most basic and blunt form of press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public's source of news. To date, 33 journalists around the world have been killed this year and another 494 are currently imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Put another way, thus far in 2022, on average, once per week somewhere in the world a journalist is killed for reporting the news. | Sometimes these cases make headlines, as was true in October 2018 when Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist who reported for the Middle East Eye and the Washington Post, was murdered by…

Scott C. Tips (2022-08-22). The Biden Administration's "Disinformation Governance Board" globalresearch.ca

Maureen Clare Murphy (2022-08-22). Is Hamas happy that Israel "decimated" Islamic Jihad? electronicintifada.net Disinformation agents attribute the former's non-participation in Gaza fighting to nonexistent rivalry.

Jonas Togel, Felix Abt (2022-08-22). The birth of propaganda and The war of perception. indybay.org One of the founding fathers of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, openly admitted that especially in democracies, where the majority of people decide, the control of thoughts and feelings is a central tool. "Public relations involves what I call 'the engineering of consent.'"

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-22). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-08-22). The Human Species Is Acting Like a Self-Destructive Individual. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Aug 17, 2022 | Robert Heinlein said, "Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." And from all the facts in evidence currently available to us, that certainly does seem to be the case. We're

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-08-21). The Assassination of Alexander Dugin's Daughter Darya Was a Dastardly Terrorist Attack. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko Darya's assassination represents a crossing of the Rubicon in the Ukrainian Conflict whereby Kiev has escalated its terrorist attacks to the point of targeting the family members of civilians who they were duped by fake news into falsely thinking are unofficially very influential policymakers like they seem to have believed that her father…

Kit Klarenberg (2022-08-21). BBC assault on antiwar academics was apparent product of UK intel plot. thegrayzone.com Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. On May 31, BBC Radio initiated an embarrassing imbroglio when it broadcast a factually challenged, overtly propagandistic documentary special called Ukraine: The Disinformation War. Fronted by a British state information warrior named Chloe Hadjimatheou, the program professed to investigate "where the new red lines are being drawn in an age of disinformation," …

Oneworld.press (2022-08-21). The Assassination Of Alexander Dugin's Daughter Darya Was A Dastardly Terrorist Attack. oneworld.press Darya's assassination represents a crossing of the Rubicon in the Ukrainian Conflict whereby Kiev has escalated its terrorist attacks to the point of targeting the family members of civilians who they were duped by fake news into falsely thinking are unofficially very influential policymakers like they seem to have believed that her father is. This targeted assassination that was indisputably influenced by half a decade's worth of fake news about that philosopher shows the deadly consequences of America's information warfare campaign.

Editor (2022-08-21). Katie Halper Interviews Bob Scheer. scheerpost.com "Legendary reporter Bob Scheer discusses a long career reporting on war all over the world; Laura Hazard Owens discusses how to report on abortion in a post-Roe world; Andrew Perez discusses fact checking the Washington Post Fact checker."

Jonas Togel, Felix Abt (2022-08-21). The birth of propaganda and The war of perception. indybay.org One of the founding fathers of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, openly admitted that especially in democracies, where the majority of people decide, the control of thoughts and feelings is a central tool. "Public relations involves what I call 'the engineering of consent.'"

Staff (2022-08-21). Dan a conocer en Italia posible pintura de Picasso contra Hitler. cubadebate.cu La obra merece ser conocida, estudiada nuevamente y vista por otros expertos para apreciar su importancia. Sin duda representa una de las obras más importantes del siglo XX como crítica al nazismo. Un testimonio de disidencia, portador de la verdad de aquellos horrores cometidos por uno de los dictadores más sanguinarios de la historia.

Staff (2022-08-21). Iranian Embassy in Caracas Labels as Fake News Agreement with Venezuela on 1 Million Hectares. orinocotribune.com Caracas, August 20, 2022 ( The Iranian Embassy stated through its official Twitter account that "although Venezuela is one of the best countries for agriculture, which can attract many investors," Iran has not signed any bilateral alliance on this matter. | In this context, the embassy urged everyone to stop fake…

Staff (2022-08-21). Iran's Embassy in Caracas Labels Agreement With Venezuela on 1 Million Hectares as Fake News. orinocotribune.com Caracas, August 20, 2022 ( The Iranian Embassy stated through its official Twitter account that "although Venezuela is one of the best countries for agriculture, which can attract many investors," Iran has not signed any bilateral alliance on this matter. | In this context, the embassy urged everyone to stop fake…

_____ (2022-08-21). The Deadly Business Of Reporting Truth. popularresistance.org Violence is the most basic and blunt form of press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public's source of news. To date, 33 journalists around the world have been killed this year and another 494 are currently imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Put another way, thus far in 2022, on average, once per week somewhere in the world a journalist is killed for reporting the news. | Sometimes these cases make headlines, as was true in October 2018 when Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist who reported for the Middle East Eye and the Washington Post, was murdered by…

____ (2022-08-21). Commissioner's office of Chinese Foreign Ministry in HKSAR urges external forces to stop meddling with Hong Kong's rule of law. ecns.cn The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Saturday strongly disapproved and firmly rejected attempts of a handful of U.S. and British politicians to interfere in Hong Kong's rule of law and to whitewash anti-China forces by making irresponsible rhetoric about judicial proceedings of the HKSAR.