(2023-02-23). Free Speech Is For Fighting The Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | My research has led me to conclude that there's an elite conspiracy to enslave us all and turn us all into brainwashed automatons mindlessly enacting the wishes of our rulers in a cruel dystopia built by the powerful, for the powerful. | Haha, just kidding. That already happened. | ‚ùñ | Step one is learning that the mainstream consensus worldview is a lie, and that we've been fed power-serving propaganda since we were children about our society, our nation, our government and our world. Most people haven't even made it to step one yet. | Step two is g…
(2023-02-23). January 30, 1933 and Media make politics. indybay.org Edward Bernays, one of the most important developers of modern propaganda, wrote almost a hundred years ago: "The manipulation of the opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanisms of society form an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country."
(2023-02-23). War propaganda dominates Berlin film festival opening, including Sean Penn's Superpower. wsws.org The Berlin Film Festival opened last Thursday with a barrage of militarism and war propaganda, followed one day later by the world premiere of Superpower, directed by Hollywood's leading advocate of all-out war against Russia, actor Sean Penn.
(2023-02-22). Washington Accuses Russia of 'Crimes Against Humanity' to Justify Escalation of Ukraine war. strategic-culture.org By Andre DAMON | On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris formally accused Russia, for the first time, of carrying out "crimes against humanity," part of an escalating propaganda campaign to condition public opinion for the direct deployment of US-NATO troops into the war over Ukraine. | Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris asserted: "Russian forces have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population—gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape and deportation. Execution-style killings, beatings and electrocution." | Harris declared: "In the case of Russia's actions in Ukrai…
(2023-02-22). Nord Stream: Propaganda, the Ultimate Weapon of Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Mohsen Abdelmoumen Empire's relentless and murderous persecution of journalists who reveal the truth Journalists who care about doing their job and informing the public are very rare in the West, but fortunately there are still some, even if everything is done to prevent them from delivering information contrary to the dominant doxa. The most obvious…
(2023-02-22). Russia suspends participation in New START nuclear arms control treaty as US prepares expansion of Ukraine war. wsws.org Behind the smokescreen of rhetoric about "democracy" and "liberty," the imperialist powers, basing themselves largely on fascist and ultra-nationalist forces, are preparing an escalation and geographic expansion of the war in Ukraine, which threatens to soon engulf all of Eastern Europe and bears the danger of a nuclear catastrophe.
(2023-02-22). $749,387 Pentagon Contract Debunks the Lie about "Independent" Fact-Checkers. libya360.wordpress.com Dilyana Gaytandzhieva The Pentagon has funded fact-checkers under a program to mark independent journalists as disinformation. Photo: defense.gov Documents expose the so called ‚Äûindependent" fact-checkers. The so called disinformation fighters are nothing more than well-paid employees working under a $749,387 program funded by the Pentagon. A U.S. company called News Guard, self-proclaimed as independent fact-checkers,…
(2023-02-22). Peace talks on Ukraine war unlikely any time soon. peoplesworld.org 
Most of the corporate media hailed President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kiev this past weekend where he met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, whom the administration has said cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons or diplomatic negotiations, was told ahead of time, apparently, and was trusted by the U.S. to insure nothing happened to …
(2023-02-22). Reminder: Jimmy Carter Was Just Like All the Other Presidents. dissidentvoice.org 
Former president Jimmy Carter is back in the news. His ongoing illness has surely caused him and his loved ones much distress and grief. For that, I wish them peace as the 39th president nears the end of his life. However, this is also an important opportunity to recognize that corporate media whitewashing is yet …
(2023-02-22). From Russiagate with Love: Corporate Media Spin and Revisionist Reporting on Russia's Alleged Meddling in the 2016 Election Continue. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff A January 2023 publication from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) spawned the latest round of spin and shifting baselines from Russiagate apologists. Russiagate refers…
(2023-02-22). Greeks Protest Against the Visit of US Secretary Blinken. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, a series of protests were held against U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Greece in Athens and other cities. | RELATED: | The youth division of the Communist Party of Greece (KNE) and the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) held a protest outside the United States' embassy in Athens. | Hundreds of protesters chanted that Blinken was a persona non grata, raising banners with slogans against U.S.
(2023-02-23). Japan exploits Chinese balloon incident to justify war plans. wsws.org Tokyo's response is being coordinated with the United States without providing any evidence that so-called "spy balloons" are meant for espionage purposes.
(2023-02-22). Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters demand: 'Release the evidence now!'. workers.org 
There is growing international support for the freedom of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been imprisoned in Pennsylvania for over 40 years. Mumia was falsely accused of killing a white police officer in December 1981 in Philadelphia. He was convicted of first-degree murder on July 3, 1982, following . . . |
(2023-02-22). Who Killed Malcolm X? Family to File $100M Suit v. FBI, CIA, NYPD & Others to Find the Truth. democracynow.org 
On the 58th anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump announced a new lawsuit from Malcolm X's surviving family seeking compensation from the NYPD, CIA and FBI for its role in concealing evidence in his murder case. This lawsuit comes more than a year after it was confirmed that federal and local agencies had a role in the wrongful conviction of Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam for the murder. Aziz and Islam's convictions were overturned in 2021, and they were awarded a $36 million settlement for wrongful imprisonment by the state and city of New York. We a…
(2023-02-23). Hunger strikes and a lawsuit over solitary confinement in Texas. workers.org A solitary confinement cell in a Texas prison. Houston Texas prisoners have been organizing for over a year to bring attention to an issue that is wounding and sometimes killing them: solitary confinement, which damages incarcerated people both mentally and physically. Solitary confinement incites suicides and self-mutilation. It causes violent . . . |
(2023-02-22). Podcast Ep 73: Fighting the lobby's racism, with Lara Sheehi. electronicintifada.net How a professor is pushing back against Israel lobby smears and holding George Washington University accountable for collusion.
(2023-02-23). Over 1,000 people sign letter hitting New York Times' anti-trans bias. workers.org 
A letter, dated Feb. 15 and signed by over 1,000 contributors and subscribers to the New York Times, trans people and allies called on the paper to reject the new wave of bigots attempting to stifle trans lives. "We write to you as a collective of New York Times contributors . . . |
(2023-02-23). The New York Times promotes misinformation on masks and COVID-19. wsws.org New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens decries the use of masks and mask mandates based on a deeply flawed meta-analysis published by the Cochrane Library.
(2023-02-22). Democracy cannot be saved when it never existed in 'Israel': NYT. mronline.org 
The New York Times publishes a piece explaining that democracy cannot exist in an ethnocracy, thus making "Israel" a non-democracy from inception until today regardless of intra-Israeli differences.
(2023-02-22). How the U.S. (and UK) Sabotaged Peace in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama US President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace during an unannounced visit in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. The Washington Post provides another of those lame flattering portraits of the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelinski: A year in the trenches has hardened Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky came into office…