Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-29). "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.

SouthFront5 (2022-09-29). Is Russia Really Losing In Ukraine? southfront.org By Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst. | After Russia launched its counteroffensive against NATO aggression, the state and corporate-run mainstream media of the political West started spreading multiple false narratives about it. One of the most common themes was that the Russian military supposedly "failed" because the Kiev regime didn't collapse in a matter of days. | In the following months, especially after the Russian forces withdrew from northern areas of Ukraine, this was used to f…

Infobrics (2022-09-29). Is Russia really losing in Ukraine. infobrics.org While the propaganda machine works round the clock to create an alternate reality that doesn't exist past a TV or smartphone screen, the economic and social unraveling resulting from the failed economic siege of Russia has been affecting hundreds of millions around the world.

_____ (2022-09-29). Protests Erupt In Tunisia Over Rise In Prices Of Essential Commodities. popularresistance.org Hundreds of Tunisians marched on the streets of capital Tunis on Sunday, September 25, protesting against the rise in the prices of essential commodities in the country. Sporadic protests broke out in the evening in different parts of the city, as protesters criticized the failure of President Kais Saied's government to address their economic hardships. | The protesters carried loaves of bread and shouted slogans such as "where is sugar?" and "we can't support crazy price rise!" They demanded improvements in living conditions and "jobs, freedom, and national dignity!" Some protesters, for example those in Mornag…

Dean Baker (2022-09-29). The Market Did Not Cause Inequality, No Matter How Much the New York Times Insists. cepr.net It is a complete article of faith in intellectual circles that the market is responsible for the rise in inequality that we have seen in the United States and elsewhere over the last half-century. Intellectual types literally cannot even consider the alternative that inequality was the result of government policies, not the natural workings of …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-28). India's Gaffe at Samarkand. orinocotribune.com By M.K. Bhadrakumar Sep 20, 2022 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal. The Western media zeroed in on six words culled out of context in the PM's opening remarks — "today's era is not of war" — to triumphantly proclaim that India is finally distancing itself from Russia on Ukraine issue, as the US and European leaders have been incessantly demanding. | Of course, this motivated interpretation lacks empirical evidence and is, therefore, malicious. Besides, Modi also spoke with…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-09-28). Snowden's Russia Citizenship: Establishment Response Illustrates Why He Hasn't Returned Home. thedissenter.org Former CIA Director and MSNBC pundit John Brennan | A menagerie of Cold War liberals and neoconservative pundits with backgrounds in United States military or security agencies voiced their objections to Russia granting citizenship to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. | The response was not as intense as the

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2022-09-28). Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class. peoplesworld.org Reporting by U.S. news services often takes China to task for its strict preventative measures imposed to prevent COVID-19 infection. Reports point to economic instability and people's distress resulting from such an uncompromising attitude. The slant of New York Times reporting, which minimized Chinese lives saved, earned sharp criticism on Sept. 9 from the Fairness …

SouthFront5 (2022-09-28). Why Are Corporations Blamed, Instead Of The Billionaires Who Control Them? southfront.org Written by Eric Zuesse. | A classic "Cui bono?" explanation looks first to determine whom the beneficiaries from a crime are, and then seeks for possible evidence that those persons who benefit from the crime had initiated the crime — perhaps hired the agents who had carried out the crime. Those agents are then sought for and investigated in order to find evidence that they had been rewarded by the crime's beneficiaries, for having perpetrated the crime. In a "Cui bono?" approach to justice, those who creat…

Toni Webb (2022-09-28). Friends Ask Friends to Vote. aclu.org The midterm elections are coming, but voting can be confusing and overwhelming. People want to be good voters. They want to make informed choices about who to vote for and how to vote on issues. The rise of election disinformation, coupled with the billions of dollars spent on campaign advertisements, make it hard to sort through the facts. Voters are looking for trusted sources for information about what issues and candidates are on their ballots. That's where you come in. | Successful campaigns are created by a blend of political art and science. Magic happens when a candidate connects with voters through pa…

Misión Verdad (2022-09-28). USAID's New Stage of Pressure and Interference Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Sep 22, 2022 | On September 15, Marcela Escobari, current assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), offered a testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate, in which she evaluated Washington's policy towards Venezuela, more specifically, that of that agency. | As we know, USAID, through financial support and training programs, is part of the US interventionist apparatus and has been influencing the internal affairs of Venezuela for several years, with less and less discre…

_____ (2022-09-28). Failing To Count The Arabs: The Myth Of The 'Democratic' Jewish State. popularresistance.org Israel wants the world to believe that it is a majority Jewish state with a 20% Arab minority and that the Arab population enjoys a good standard of living and full equal rights. And while this is easy to disprove, it is still part of the mainstream discourse on Israel. | It is true that at around two million people, the Palestinian citizens of Israel represent about twenty-one percent of Israeli citizens. However, Israel counts its Jewish citizens regardless of where they reside throughout the country — including the West Bank and East Jerusalem — and all Jewish Israelis are citizens. In contrast, Pa…

_____ (2022-09-28). Failing to Count the Arabs: the Myth of the "Democratic" Jewish State. popularresistance.org Israel wants the world to believe that it is a majority Jewish state with a 20% Arab minority and that the Arab population enjoys a good standard of living and full equal rights. And while this is easy to disprove, it is still part of the mainstream discourse on Israel. | It is true that at around two million people, the Palestinian citizens of Israel represent about twenty-one percent of Israeli citizens. However, Israel counts its Jewish citizens regardless of where they reside throughout the country — including the West Bank and East Jerusalem — and all Jewish Israelis are citizens. In contrast, Pa…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-28). India's Gaffe at Samarkand. orinocotribune.com By M.K. Bhadrakumar Sep 20, 2022 | Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal. The Western media zeroed in on six words culled out of context in the PM's opening remarks — "today's era is not of war" — to triumphantly proclaim that India is finally distancing itself from Russia on Ukraine issue, as the US and European leaders have been incessantly demanding. | Of course, this motivated interpretation lacks empirical evidence and is, therefore, malicious. Besides, Modi also spoke with…

____ (2022-09-27). US, the largest disinformation propagator, constantly labels other countries and slings mud at them. ecns.cn

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-27). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

____ (2022-09-27). U.S. is 'largest spreader of disinformation'. ecns.cn The United States is "the largest spreader of disinformation", Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, adding that the disinformation it has fabricated is being seen through and rejected by more and more people.

WSWS (2022-09-27). Will Lehman replies to Steven Greenhouse on the falsification of his position during UAW presidential debate. wsws.org In this letter, Lehman replies to former New York Times journalist and debate moderator Steven Greenhouse's defense of using a false quote from Lehman during last week's presidential debate.

____ (2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.

Liberation Staff (2022-09-26). Hypocrisy of U.S. government, corporate media on display in reaction to Iran protests. liberationnews.org Since Sept. 16, protests have been taking place across Iran…

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-27). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

____ (2022-09-27). U.S. is 'largest spreader of disinformation'. ecns.cn The United States is "the largest spreader of disinformation", Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, adding that the disinformation it has fabricated is being seen through and rejected by more and more people.

WSWS (2022-09-27). Will Lehman replies to Steven Greenhouse on the falsification of his position during UAW presidential debate. wsws.org In this letter, Lehman replies to former New York Times journalist and debate moderator Steven Greenhouse's defense of using a false quote from Lehman during last week's presidential debate.

____ (2022-09-27). US, the largest disinformation propagator, constantly labels other countries and slings mud at them. ecns.cn

Ben Norton (2022-09-26). Bots Are Flooding Social Media with Pro-US Propaganda Demonizing China, Russia & Iran, Studies Show. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-26). Neo-Colonial Apologia, Imperialist Hypocrisy, & the Chauvinism Driving Pro-NATO Liberals. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea None are more hypocritical than the Americans who say that Russia is waging an imperialist war. The same goes for when they say China is carrying out a colonial genocide, or when they say the DPRK violates its people's human rights, or when they say Cuba is anti-democratic. The biggest of these projections…

Rqorinoco (2022-09-26). Canada: CIJA Smear Campaign Targets Ali Abunimah After Event in Concordia University. orinocotribune.com PAJU's organizers for the September 15 event booked the DB Clarke auditorium (which has approximately 400 seats) in Concordia University's Hall Building. The PAJU team subsequently began to advertise and mobilize attendance for the Ali Abunimah conference. A few weeks later, they were informed that the reservation had been canceled without explanation. Upon further inquiry, the PAJU organizers were informed that their reservation for the DB Clarke auditorium was canceled due to an unfortunate 'double booking' at that venue. Upon verification, they discovered that there was no double booking: in fact, there…

Rqorinoco (2022-09-26). CIJA Smear Campaign Targets Ali Abunimah After Event in Concordia University. orinocotribune.com PAJU's organizers for the September 15 event booked the DB Clarke auditorium (which has approximately 400 seats) in Concordia University's Hall Building. The PAJU team subsequently began to advertise and mobilize attendance for the Ali Abunimah conference. A few weeks later, they were informed that the reservation had been canceled without explanation. Upon further inquiry, the PAJU organizers were informed that their reservation for the DB Clarke auditorium was canceled due to an unfortunate 'double booking' at that venue. Upon verification, they discovered that there was no double booking: in fact, there…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-26). North Korea on Arm Deals With Russia Smear Campaign. orinocotribune.com Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) — The vice director general of the General Bureau of Equipment of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK released the following press statement on Sept. 21: | Recently, the U.S. and other hostile forces talked about the "violation of a resolution" of the UNSC, spreading a "rumor of arms dealings" between the DPRK and Russia. | Not only the development, production, possession of military equipment, but also their export and import are the lawful right peculiar to a sovereign state, and nobody is entitled to criticize it. | We have never recognized the UNSC unlawful "sanct…

_____ (2022-09-26). Survivors Uncensored: Voices From Rwanda And The Rwandan Diaspora. popularresistance.org Samantha Power, former UN Ambassador, National Security Advisor, current USAID Chief, and a principal in the decisions to bomb both Libya and Syria "to stop genocide," was on the ground in Yugoslavia in the 1990s as a pro-NATO journalist. She went on to build her whole histrionic career on a Machiavellian distortion of the Rwandan Genocide before writing "A Problem from Hell, America in the Age of Genocide " and creating her laughable 1-800-GENOCIDE line. | Search now for Ukraine and "genocide" and you'll get a slew of headlines and proposed prosecutions. Recently, Samantha Power spoke with Rachel Maddow in a seg…

Kurt Nimmo (2022-09-26). Canadian Academics Say Facts on Ukraine Are Russian Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.

Liberation Staff (2022-09-26). Hypocrisy of U.S. government, corporate media on display in reaction to Iran protests. liberationnews.org Since Sept. 16, protests have been taking place across Iran…

Joe Bernick (2022-09-26). A big victory in a small Arizona city. peoplesworld.org SOUTH TUCSON, Ariz.—In a landslide victory, largely ignored by the corporate owned media, a slate of three community activists was elected to the city council in one of Arizona's most impoverished municipalities. The city of South Tucson's new Council members, Cesar Aguirre, Roxanna Valenzuela, and Brian Flagg, defeated three incumbents by such an overwhelmingly large …

_____ (2022-09-25). The Israel Files: Wikileaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel To Defend Its War Crimes. popularresistance.org As Israel was launching a deadly assault on Gaza, killing thousands of civilians and displacing more than 100,000 people, many of America's top TV, music and film producers were organizing to protect the apartheid state's reputation from widespread international condemnation. | Together, the Sony Archive — a cache of emails published by Wikileaks — prove that influential entertainment magnates attempted to whitewash Israeli crimes and present the situation as defending itself from an impending "genocide", liaised with Israeli military and government officials in order to coordinate their message, atte…

Staff (2022-09-25). 30 Palestinian prisoners launch hunger strike to #EndAdministrativeDetention. samidoun.net Thirty Palestinian prisoners jailed without charge or trial under Israeli "administrative detention" have launched a hunger strike on Sunday, 25 September to demand an end to the policy, which is currently jailing over 740 Palestinian prisoners under "secret evidence." The Palestinian prisoners announced their hunger strike under the slogan "Our Decision is Freedom", noting that …

Ben Norton (2022-09-26). Bots Are Flooding Social Media with Pro-US Propaganda Demonizing China, Russia & Iran, Studies Show. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-26). Neo-Colonial Apologia, Imperialist Hypocrisy, & the Chauvinism Driving Pro-NATO Liberals. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea None are more hypocritical than the Americans who say that Russia is waging an imperialist war. The same goes for when they say China is carrying out a colonial genocide, or when they say the DPRK violates its people's human rights, or when they say Cuba is anti-democratic. The biggest of these projections…

Rqorinoco (2022-09-26). CIJA Smear Campaign Targets Ali Abunimah After Event in Concordia University. orinocotribune.com PAJU's organizers for the September 15 event booked the DB Clarke auditorium (which has approximately 400 seats) in Concordia University's Hall Building. The PAJU team subsequently began to advertise and mobilize attendance for the Ali Abunimah conference. A few weeks later, they were informed that the reservation had been canceled without explanation. Upon further inquiry, the PAJU organizers were informed that their reservation for the DB Clarke auditorium was canceled due to an unfortunate 'double booking' at that venue. Upon verification, they discovered that there was no double booking: in fact, there…

Kurt Nimmo (2022-09-26). Canadian Academics Say Facts on Ukraine Are Russian Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-26). Brainwashed for War with Russia. transcend.org 22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. "exceptionalism," find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-26). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

Liberation Staff (2022-09-26). Hypocrisy of U.S. government, corporate media on display in reaction to Iran protests. liberationnews.org Since Sept. 16, protests have been taking place across Iran…

Joe Bernick (2022-09-26). A big victory in a small Arizona city. peoplesworld.org SOUTH TUCSON, Ariz.—In a landslide victory, largely ignored by the corporate owned media, a slate of three community activists was elected to the city council in one of Arizona's most impoverished municipalities. The city of South Tucson's new Council members, Cesar Aguirre, Roxanna Valenzuela, and Brian Flagg, defeated three incumbents by such an overwhelmingly large …

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-25). Russia Says It's Not Threatening Anyone With Nukes. news.antiwar.com On Friday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia wasn't threatening anyone with nuclear weapons and said Moscow doesn't want a direct conflict with the US and NATO. "We are not threatening anyone with nuclear weapons," Ryabkov said. "The criteria for their use are outlined in Russia's military doctrine." Russia's doctrine is that …

____ (2022-09-25). Xi congratulates China News Service on 70th anniversary. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication.

_____ (2022-09-25). The Israel Files: Wikileaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel To Defend Its War Crimes. popularresistance.org As Israel was launching a deadly assault on Gaza, killing thousands of civilians and displacing more than 100,000 people, many of America's top TV, music and film producers were organizing to protect the apartheid state's reputation from widespread international condemnation. | Together, the Sony Archive — a cache of emails published by Wikileaks — prove that influential entertainment magnates attempted to whitewash Israeli crimes and present the situation as defending itself from an impending "genocide", liaised with Israeli military and government officials in order to coordinate their message, atte…

_____ (2022-09-25). Asylum, Migration And US Foreign Policy. popularresistance.org Every day the republican governors of Texas, Greg Abbott, and Florida, Ron DeSantis, eagerly announce that they are sending people generically labeled as migrants to what are known as sanctuary cities. The corporate media report that thousands of people have been convinced to board buses to New York City or Washington DC or Sacramento or Chicago or even chartered flights to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. What they don't explain is who these migrants are and why their status is highly problematic and a function of imperialist foreign policy. | Republicans rail against what are called sanctuary cities and imply…

Staff (2022-09-25). 30 Palestinian prisoners launch hunger strike to #EndAdministrativeDetention. samidoun.net Thirty Palestinian prisoners jailed without charge or trial under Israeli "administrative detention" have launched a hunger strike on Sunday, 25 September to demand an end to the policy, which is currently jailing over 740 Palestinian prisoners under "secret evidence." The Palestinian prisoners announced their hunger strike under the slogan "Our Decision is Freedom", noting that …

The Editors (2022-09-25). We Bow Before Our Martyrs. indybay.org And the time for their pan-Turkic project has come now. Turkey and its partner in crime are trying to solve once and for all the Armenian question with the final solution. This is not a rhetorical statement. We have to iron ourselves for what may be excruciatingly painful days ahead, in which we may relive the darkest chapters of our history.

Richard S. Dunn (2022-09-25). Elizabeth II: Faithful Representative of Slavery, Genocide and British Imperialism. covertactionmagazine.com I wrote this piece under severe duress, duress from my own self. I wanted to ignore the whole issue, but my conscience would not allow it; I could not sit by and ignore buffoonery, white supremacy and bias from the corporate media and their spokespersons to go unchallenged. What was even more appalling was the …

____ (2022-09-25). Xi congratulates China News Service on 70th anniversary. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service (CNS) on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication.

Jens Berger, Guido Speckmann (2022-09-25). Raising interest rates to fight inflation is a crazy idea. indybay.org Monetarism was conceived in the 1960s as a kind of liberal answer to the teachings of John Maynard Keynes, tracing back directly to the neoliberal mastermind Milton Friedman. The core of the monetarist doctrine is that the money supply mono-causally determines the value of money.

The Editors (2022-09-25). We Bow Before Our Martyrs. indybay.org And the time for their pan-Turkic project has come now. Turkey and its partner in crime are trying to solve once and for all the Armenian question with the final solution. This is not a rhetorical statement. We have to iron ourselves for what may be excruciatingly painful days ahead, in which we may relive the darkest chapters of our history.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-24). Russian Federation on Ukraine | Press Conference | United Nations 24 Sept 2022. libya360.wordpress.com Sergey Lavrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation briefed reporters on the statement made at the General Assembly, the situation in Ukraine and other topics. Talking to reporters in New York, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today (24 Sep) said there is an open document outlining Russia's "doctrine for nuclear security," and invited…

_____ (2022-09-24). Government Advisor Repeats 'Russia Funded Anti-Fracking Protests' Myth. popularresistance.org A trade advisor to the UK government has repeated a baseless claim that protests against fracking were funded by the Kremlin. | Economist Catherine McBride, a member of the government's Trade and Agriculture Commission advising on trade deals, said on GB News this week that Russia has given "billions of pounds" to green groups to "go and protest against fracking". | As DeSmog has reported previously, this claim has been promoted by opponents of climate action following Russia's invasion of Ukraine despite there being no evidence to support it. | Her remarks come after 24 MPs signed a letter last week organised by…

Anonymous103 (2022-09-24). Masters of Deceit: The U.S Government's Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control and Brain Warfare. southfront.org

JANET (2022-09-24). Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers. iacenter.org By Dante Strobino September 22, 2022 Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age 76 after a long illness. The writer is the International Representative of the United Electrical Workers (UE) 1 who worked with Muhammad for many years. Saladin Muhammad and Dante Strobino at the Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center on April 6, 2013, following annual Black Workers for Justice Dr. Martin Luther King Support for Labor banquet in Raleigh, North Carolina. Saladin Muhammad's contributions to the global struggle for Black liberation and…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-24). Corruption Case Against Cristina Fernández: A Badly Written Script from the Argentine Right Wing. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra García Sep 20, 2022 | Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, jsut a few days after surviving death by sheer good luck, is fighting with all her strength against a fictitious corruption case conceived and constructed by the right wing of her country. Hatred, political persecution and injustice took her to court this week, where she has been victorious so far. | On Monday, September 19, Fernández's lawyers started the presentation of their defense arguments in the "Roads Case" (Causa Vialidad), where they highlighted the absence of evidence against the former president and cur…

Staff (2022-09-24). Medios cubanos denuncian nuevos actos violentos financiados desde Estados Unidos (+ Video). cubadebate.cu En respuesta a estas orientaciones, García Ríos lanzó cocteles molotov contra los archivos del Tribunal Municipal de Centro Habana y la Dirección Provincial de los Comité de Defensa de la Revolución. øPropaganda enemiga? øAcciones de sabotaje? øActos de terrorismo?

Ann Brown (2022-09-23). MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross: If Black Voters Don't Keep Voting Democrat No Matter What, They Align With Oppressors. moguldom.com There has been a growing debate about whether Black voters should continue to support the Democratic Party as they have done for decades. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross has weighed in. Cable news veteran Cross is the host of "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC and was most recently a 2020 Resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-24). Ukrainian "Hit List" Publishesnewsauthor">S and Addresses of Alleged "Russian Propagandists:" Turns Out to be Based Not in Ukraine But in Langley VA Where CIA Headquarters Is Located. globalresearch.ca

David Goessmann (2022-09-24). Has the West stopped diplomatic negotiations over Ukraine? indybay.org As U.S. critic Noam Chomsky points out in an interview, a diplomatic end to the war remains possible. But only if the West, led by the U.S., does not continue to block negotiations. The decisive stumbling block for negotiations is Ukraine's possible membership in NATO. The U.S., however, continues to leave this open, while Russia is strictly against it.

____ (2022-09-24). Xi congratulates China News Service on 70th anniversary. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service (CNS) on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication.

KQED Live (2022-09-24). Monday 10/10: KQED Live: Art & Tech in a Warming World with The New York Times. indybay.org The Commons, KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco, CA 94110…

The Editors (2022-09-24). We Bow Before Our Martyrs. indybay.org And the time for their pan-Turkic project has come now. Turkey and its partner in crime are trying to solve once and for all the Armenian question with the final solution. This is not a rhetorical statement. We have to iron ourselves for what may be excruciatingly painful days ahead, in which we may relive the darkest chapters of our history.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-24). Corruption Case Against Cristina Fernández: A Badly Written Script from the Argentine Right Wing. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra García Sep 20, 2022 | Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, jsut a few days after surviving death by sheer good luck, is fighting with all her strength against a fictitious corruption case conceived and constructed by the right wing of her country. Hatred, political persecution and injustice took her to court this week, where she has been victorious so far. | On Monday, September 19, Fernández's lawyers started the presentation of their defense arguments in the "Roads Case" (Causa Vialidad), where they highlighted the absence of evidence against the former president and cur…

Staff (2022-09-24). Medios cubanos denuncian nuevos actos violentos financiados desde Estados Unidos (+ Video). cubadebate.cu En respuesta a estas orientaciones, García Ríos lanzó cocteles molotov contra los archivos del Tribunal Municipal de Centro Habana y la Dirección Provincial de los Comité de Defensa de la Revolución. øPropaganda enemiga? øAcciones de sabotaje? øActos de terrorismo?

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-23). White House Sent Multiple Threats to the Kremlin Via Backchannels. news.antiwar.com The Joe Biden administration has sent several warnings to Russia via backchannels regarding the possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the Washington Post reports. The White House's messages to Russia have been intentionally nondescript to foster uncertainty in Moscow about what the US would do if Russia deployed its ultimate weapon. The White House …

_____ (2022-09-23). Brainwashed For War With Russia. popularresistance.org Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden — I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell — will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China. And, shockingly, under false pretenses. | Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and…

Editor (2022-09-23). Por qué 'aprender a vivir' con las muertes por COVID? — Editorial de Workers World/Mundo Obrero. workers.org Si escribes para el New York Times, espera que te asignen artículos condenando a China por causar a su pueblo enormes molestias e incomodidades para evitar las muertes masivas por el coronavirus. El New York Times comparte claramente el punto de vista de la clase capitalista de que la prioridad . . . |

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-09-23). Fact Check: TikTok Mastermind Khaby Lame Makes $7 K Per Post With 149M Followers. moguldom.com Khaby Lame ascended to the TikTok throne in June when he unseated another popular influencer to become the platform's most followed personality. Famous for using silence, gestures and signature facial expressions, Lame is cashing in on his top-tier social media status. The 22-year-old has nearly 1 million followers on TikTok and 2.4 billion likes on his …

WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

Ann Brown (2022-09-23). MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross: If Black Voters Don't Keep Voting Democrat No Matter What, They Align With Oppressors. moguldom.com There has been a growing debate about whether Black voters should continue to support the Democratic Party as they have done for decades. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross has weighed in. Cable news veteran Cross is the host of "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC and was most recently a 2020 Resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy …

Dante Strobino (2022-09-23). Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers ‚àí a WW commentary. workers.org Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age 77 after a long illness. The writer is the International Representative of the United Electrical Workers (UE) 150 and a founding member of the Durham branch of Workers World Party . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-23). US political establishment seizes on declining test scores to bar remote learning and accelerate attack on public education. wsws.org The political establishment and corporate media have falsely blamed remote learning as the reason for a decline in reading and mathematics scores among age nine students since 2020.

WSWS (2022-09-23). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman sends letter to Steven Greenhouse protesting falsification of his position at debate. wsws.org This letter was sent by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to Steven Greenhouse, the former New York Times reporter who moderated the presidential candidates debate on Thursday, September 22.

Michael F. Brown (2022-09-22). Israel lobby renews smear campaign against Rashida Tlaib. electronicintifada.net The ADL has a long history of anti-Palestinian racism.

Dean Baker (2022-09-22). Productivity and the Four Day Workweek (see note). cepr.net It is hugely important for those advocating four-day workweeks to know what its impact is on productivity. | Unfortunately, the New York Times piece provides no real basis for making that assessment.

____ (2022-09-23). Xi congratulates China News Service on 70th anniversary. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

Dante Strobino (2022-09-23). Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers ‚àí a WW commentary. workers.org Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age 77 after a long illness. The writer is a longtime organizer with United Electrical Workers (UE) 150 and a founding member of the Durham branch of Workers World Party who . . . |

The Editors (2022-09-23). We Bow Before Our Martyrs. indybay.org And the time for their pan-Turkic project has come now. Turkey and its partner in crime are trying to solve once and for all the Armenian question with the final solution. This is not a rhetorical statement. We have to iron ourselves for what may be excruciatingly painful days ahead, in which we may relive the darkest chapters of our history.

WSWS (2022-09-23). US political establishment seizes on declining test scores to bar remote learning and accelerate attack on public education. wsws.org The political establishment and corporate media have falsely blamed remote learning as the reason for a decline in reading and mathematics scores among age nine students since 2020.

_____ (2022-09-22). Statement Condemns 'Assessment Of Human Rights Concerns' In China. popularresistance.org We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessment is completely lacking in credibility. It treats arms of the military-industrial complex, such as the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), along with professional a…

John W. Whitehead (2022-09-22). Masters of Deceit: The U.S Government's Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control and Brain Warfare. globalresearch.ca

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-22). Professor Maggie Dallman gives evidence to House of Lords Committee. imperial.ac.uk Earlier this month, Professor Dallman appeared in front of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to discuss the UK STEM skills pipeline.

Press Associates (2022-09-22). N.Y. Times workers rebel vs. bosses' return-to-office order. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK —A majority of workers at The New York Times are rebelling against management's mandate to return to the office despite the continuing, but at a lower level, coronavirus pandemic. They say they have worked, and can work, just as well from home, and that health and safety is a mandatory subject for bargaining …

Eric A. Gordon (2022-09-22). The Portuguese Communists' Avante Festival is a party like no other. peoplesworld.org ATALAIA-AMORA-SEIXAL, Portugal—"Nà£o há festa como esta!" proclaim the slogans and t-shirts here. "There's no festival like this one!" It takes herculean effort to put on a show like this, and a slew of Communist Party volunteers from all parts of Portugal do most of the work. Organization Back in 1965, when the Portuguese Communist Party …

____ (2022-09-22). Chinese apps gain popularity globally. ecns.cn From the world's top short video application TikTok to the biggest fast-fashion app Shein and emerging music-video app StarMaker, a rising number of mobile apps developed by Chinese companies are influencing people's daily lives across the globe.

John W. Whitehead (2022-09-22). Masters of Deceit: The U.S Government's Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control and Brain Warfare. globalresearch.ca

KQED Live (2022-09-22). Monday 10/10: KQED Live: Art & Tech in a Warming World with The New York Times. indybay.org The Commons, KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco, CA 94110…

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-22). Professor Maggie Dallman gives evidence to House of Lords Committee. imperial.ac.uk Earlier this month, Professor Dallman appeared in front of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to discuss the UK STEM skills pipeline.

____ (2022-09-22). Chinese apps gain popularity globally. ecns.cn From the world's top short video application TikTok to the biggest fast-fashion app Shein and emerging music-video app StarMaker, a rising number of mobile apps developed by Chinese companies are influencing people's daily lives across the globe.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-21). Terrorist Mirotvorets Website Based in Langley, USA, Not Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: schillerinstitute.com] Just a coincidence, right? Under Public Law 117-128, the U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to "counter Russian disinformation." But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a "fatwah list" of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians…

WSWS (2022-09-21). Pentagon's secret social media influencing campaign exposed. wsws.org Quoting unnamed White House and Defense officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Pentagon has been operating fake social media accounts to promote pro-US narratives and anti-Russia propaganda for at least a decade.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-21). 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.

Philip Giraldi (2022-09-21). More Disinformation From Israel. Biden Caves to Jewish Pressure, As Usual. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-09-21). FBI Spied On And Harassed Black Revolutionary Who Was Killed. popularresistance.org Seals was shot to death in 2016, then set on fire in his car in an unsolved murder. | Local St. Louis media outlet the Riverfront Times obtained a declassified copy of the more than 900-page FBI report on Seals. | The FBI fully redacted approximately 860 of the pages, and partially redacted parts of the remaining roughly 45 pages. | In the report, the FBI called Seals "a self-described revolutionary who has espoused somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons." | The Riverfront Times article shows how the FBI used local police to harass Seals. | In June 2016, the activist was "investigatively detained" b…

____ (2022-09-21). Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction. ecns.cn Chinese researchers found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-20). Bots are flooding social media with pro-US propaganda demonizing China, Russia & Iran, studies show. multipolarista.com Scientific studies show huge numbers of bots are spreading pro-Western disinformation on social media, demonizing China, Russia, and Iran. 90% of bots posting about the proxy war in Ukraine push pro-NATO propaganda.

Staff (2022-09-20). The new maneuver againt tourism to Cuba and European indignity. en.cubadebate.cu The European Union has become, de facto, a colony of the United States. And its media outlets reproduce the propaganda scheme of the metropolis: censorship and war reports on the Ukraine conflict, submission to Washington's interests on the international news agenda. If European oil companies such as ENI or Repsol operate again in Venezuela because the US government now allows it, after prohibiting it for years, do we read any critical analysis, any editorial in the Italian or Spanish press that denounces such subjugation of European sovereignty? Nothing. Not the slightest hint of dignity.

WSWS (2022-09-21). Pentagon's secret social media influencing campaign exposed. wsws.org Quoting unnamed White House and Defense officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Pentagon has been operating fake social media accounts to promote pro-US narratives and anti-Russia propaganda for at least a decade.

Philip Giraldi (2022-09-21). More Disinformation From Israel. Biden Caves to Jewish Pressure, As Usual. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-21). Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction. ecns.cn Chinese researchers found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-09-20). Zelensky Quietly Deletes Photo of His Bodyguard's Pro-Hitler Patch. orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein Sep 15, 2022 | The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler. | On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. During the visit, a soldier who appeared to be guarding Zelensky was photographed wearing a Nazi-inspired patch on his uniform. | When the image drew criticism on social media, the Ukrai…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-20). Game Changer? Immediate Referendums, Ukraine's Spent Reserves Russian Ops in Ukraine 09/21/2022. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 21, 2022 Referendums have been announced across Russian-held territory in Ukraine; If incorporated into the Russian Federation, Moscow could upgrade the special military operation significantly; The US Department of Defense, in a recent briefing, seems to acknowledge the limits of what aid it…

The Lever (2022-09-20). Introducing Election Insider . levernews.com

ELECTION INSIDER: Who's Buying The 2022 Midterms?: Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee votes in the state's primary election at the Community School in Cumberland, R.I., on Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)By September 19, 2022 As we rapidly approach the country's November midterm elections, corporate media seems uninterested in one of the biggest threats to democracy: Billionaires and Big Business using huge sums of money to try to secretly buy elections on both sides of the aisle.Increasingly, a small handful o…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-20). Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping review of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after social media sites removed fake accounts that were suspected of being linked to the US military, The Washington Post reported on Monday. A report published last month by research groups Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory detailed the activity of …

Ann Brown (2022-09-20). Report: Pentagon Scrutinized Over Evidence Of Secret Psychological Campaigns On Social Media. moguldom.com There is a major investigation going on over at the Pentagon looking into the military agency creating fake social media accounts to spread Pro-American messaging and disinformation online. According to a report by The Washington Post, Twitter and Meta (Facebook) both identified networks of fake accounts believed to be connected to the U.S. military. Colin Kahl, …

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

Dean Baker (2022-09-19). NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation. cepr.net There is a common myth that Germany's hyperinflation led to the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler. That is a nice story for pushing the inflation hawks' agenda, but it doesn't correspond to reality. | The hyperinflation had