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2022-11-18: News Headlines

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-11-18). Top Zelensky Advisor Threatens War With Iran. orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein Nov 12, 2022 | Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has called for attacks inside Iran as the country's drones cause setbacks for the Ukrainian military. | On November 5, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has advocated for military strikes on drone production sites located in Iran. President Zelensky echoed Podolyak's belligerent rhetoric the following day,

Contributing Writers (2022-11-18). Italian Activists Against Anti-Russian Propaganda. marktaliano.net

En.mehrnews (2022-11-18). US sanctions on IRIB in violation of Iranian nation's rights. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — In a post on Twitter, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani lambasted the United States for sanctioning Iranian national TV while letting anti-Iran TV channels wage propaganda warfare against the country.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-11-18). "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.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-11-17). The Uyghurs and Anti-China Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Christopher Black Nov 10, 2022 | On August 26th 2022 as the US-NATO directed counter-offensive against the Donbass Republics and other Ukrainian regions resisting the NATO installed Nazi friendly regime in Kiev began to take place, the NATO states, led by the United States and Britain, escalated their aggression against China. | The Donbass Republics and Russian forces broke the Kiev offensive in Kherson and inflicted heavy losses on the Kiev regime as they did in the past several days in the Kiev attack in the Kharkov region. Western propaganda was awash in claims of a Russian defeat, but they were the…

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-11-17). US Empire Views Ukrainians And Russians As Lab Rats For Weapons Testing. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | A surprisingly frank article by The New York Times titled " "Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come," write's NYT's Lara Jakes. | Jakes writes that "new advances in tech…

Brian Berletic (2022-11-17). Collective West's PATHETIC Atrocity Propaganda Against Russia Debunked w/ Brian Berletic. thealtworld.com

Brian Mier (2022-11-17). How Brazil's electoral court took action against Bolsonaro's fake news campaigns. multipolarista.com Targeted disinformation campaigns on social media were key in getting Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro into power in 2018. A law professor explains how the Superior Electoral Court took action to prevent him from manipulating the 2022 vote.

_____ (2022-11-17). How Brazil's Electoral Court Took Action Against Bolsonaro's Fake News. popularresistance.org Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has often been described as the "Trump of the tropics," in reference to the former leader of the United States. But this has led to superficial comparisons between the two countries. | It is true that the Bolsonaro family and members of Steve Bannon's ultra-conservative "Movement" have worked together closely, and social media disinformation tactics were imported from the US and became a key factor in Bolsonaro's 2018 electoral victory. | However, Brazil's electoral system is completely different. Many things that are illegal in US elections — especially regarding…

Michael Fox (2022-11-17). How Steve Bannon is influencing Bolsonaro's playbook. therealnews.com Brazil has a new president-elect. | Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the Brazilian presidency on Oct. 30. He defeated far-right president Jair Bolsonaro by just over 2 million votes. Tens of thousands of Lula supporters descended on Sao Paulo's Paulista Avenue for huge celebrations. Brazil on Fire host Michael Fox was there and he takes us to the streets. | But Bolsonaro supporters were also mobilizing. They shut down highways and called for the military to intervene. | In this second update to Brazil on Fire, we look at Lula's victory, Bolsonaro's disinformation campaign that is keeping Bolso…

Contributing Writers (2022-11-17). The "Fact Check" Scam. Who Checks the "Fact Checkers?"/ By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. marktaliano.net

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2022-11-17). The "Fact Check" Scam. Who Checks the "Fact Checkers?" globalresearch.ca

En.mehrnews (2022-11-17). Biden contests Zelensky claims on missile that hit Poland. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (MNA) — US President Joe Biden said the comments by his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky that the missile that landed in Poland was not Ukrainian was no evidence, according to reporters accredited with the White House.

Galo Amusquivar (2022-11-17). Santa Cruz intenta separarse de Bolivia. globalizacion.ca El año 2008 desde la ciudad de Santa Cruz, a la cabeza del grupo "La Torre", se organizaron varias campañas de propaganda de la derecha, con apoyo de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Bolivia. En esas campañas participaron varias…

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-16). Poland, NATO Say Missile That Hit Poland Was Likely Ukrainian. news.antiwar.com Poland's president and the leader of NATO both said on Wednesday that Ukrainian air defenses, not Russia, likely fired the missile that hit Polish territory on Tuesday, killing two people. "We have no evidence at the moment that it was a rocket launched by Russian forces," Polish President Andrzej Duda said. "However, there are many …

Andrew Korybko (2022-11-16). Ukraine's Accidental Bombing Of Poland Exposed The Logical Fallacies Of A Top Pro-Kiev Blogger. thealtworld.com According to this former Italian serviceman who presently serves as a film industry executive in Kiev and Vienna according to his Twitter bio, "Poland called the russian ambassador in & asked for Article IV, and the G7 got together for an emergency meeting. Poland, G7, NATO would not do all this if this was just an errant interceptor missile." Actually, it turns out that they did do all this despite Tuesday evening's incident being caused by an errant Ukrainian interceptor missile as is now known. | Nobody's perfect and even the most well-intended people make mistakes, especially when covering a military conflict…

C.J. Polychroniou (2022-11-16). Chomsky: Options for Diplomacy Decline as Russia's War on Ukraine Escalates. truthout.org Russia's war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly nine months, and it has now escalated to highly lethal levels. Putin is targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure and has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear weapons. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, continue to believe that they can defeat the Russians on the battlefield and even retake Crimea. Indeed, the war in Ukraine has no endgame in sight. As Noam Chomsky points out in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows, the escalation of the conflict has pushed diplomatic options even further into the background. | Chomsky is institute professor emeritus…

En.mehrnews (2022-11-16). Poland calls missile attack 'unfortunate accident'. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) — Poland's President Andrzej Duda says there is no evidence a missile that hit Poland near its border with Ukraine was an "intentional attack."

Alex Bainbridge (2022-11-16). Behind Australia's China reset. greenleft.org.au After years of bellicose anti-China rhetoric from Australian and US elites, the fact that Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and Anthony Albanese did actually meet does seem positive. Alex Bainbridge looks at what it really represents.

Benjamin Norton (2022-11-16). Corruption Exposed: US Meddled in Ecuador's Election, Using Julian Assange as Bargaining Chip. orinocotribune.com By Ben Norton Nov 12, 2022 | A former minister of Ecuador testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement, backing a millionaire banker for president in exchange for giving up journalist Julian Assange, who had asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy. | Ecuador's former energy minister testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement of ex President Rafael Correa. | He said that US "federal agents" pledged to help "i…

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-16). US, Israel Claim Without Evidence Iran Was Behind a 'Drone Attack' on Tanker Near Oman. news.antiwar.com US and Israeli officials have accused Iran of being behind an attack off the coast of Oman without providing evidence for the claim. Late Tuesday, the Liberian-flagged tanker Pacific Zircon was hit by an explosive-laden drone, causing a hole in the hull but resulting in no injuries to the crew. The tanker is operated by …

En.mehrnews (2022-11-16). Mossad spy arrested in S Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) — A Mossad spy who was planning a subversive operation was arrested by the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kerman province, southern Iran.

TeleSUR (2022-11-16). Amazon Reportedly Begins Layoffs. telesurenglish.net The New York Times said earlier this week that Amazon was planning to lay off approximately 10,000 employees in corporate and technology roles, adding that the cuts would be the largest in the company's history. | Photo taken on May 7, 2020 shows a window of a temporarily closed Amazon bookstore in Washington D.C., the United States.

Staff (2022-11-16). Con Filo: Necrópolis digital (+ Video). cubadebate.cu De nuestros adversarios, de la emigración en Miami que vota junto a neonazis y supremacistas blancos, de la nueva ruptura de Sabina con la Revolución cubana y, como de costumbre, de fake news, se habló en el programa Con Filo este martes.

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