Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-30). The Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice for Julian Assange. transcend.org 26 Jan 2023 – The US government's impulse to control information and manipulate public opinion to support war is deeply ingrained. The past twenty years 'War on Terror' is no exception. Sophisticated PR campaigns, a compliant mass media and the Pentagon's pervasive propaganda machine all work together.

_____ (2023-01-30). War With China Could Come As Soon As 2025. popularresistance.org Aim for the head." This is the message blasted out by four star Air Force general and Air Mobility Command head General Michael A. Minihan about the preparation needed for a potential war between the US and China in two years. | Gen. Minihan's rhetoric is reminiscent of his keynote speech at the Air & Space Forces Association's Air Space & Cyber Conference in September. In that address, Minihan expresses his aggressive mentality stating, "Lethality matters most…When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger." | A memo obtained by NBC…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-30). The Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice for Julian Assange. transcend.org 26 Jan 2023 – The US government's impulse to control information and manipulate public opinion to support war is deeply ingrained. The past twenty years 'War on Terror' is no exception. Sophisticated PR campaigns, a compliant mass media and the Pentagon's pervasive propaganda machine all work together.

_____ (2023-01-30). War With China Could Come As Soon As 2025. popularresistance.org Aim for the head." This is the message blasted out by four star Air Force general and Air Mobility Command head General Michael A. Minihan about the preparation needed for a potential war between the US and China in two years. | Gen. Minihan's rhetoric is reminiscent of his keynote speech at the Air & Space Forces Association's Air Space & Cyber Conference in September. In that address, Minihan expresses his aggressive mentality stating, "Lethality matters most…When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger." | A memo obtained by NBC…

WSWS (2023-01-30). 90 years since Hitler took power: A sinister anniversary. wsws.org The German government is celebrating the 90th anniversary of Hitler's coming to power by sending German Leopard battle tanks to fight Russia.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-30). The Rules-Based International Order and the Foggy Bottom Blues. transcend.org The four words Rules Based International Order are surrounded by controversies. I will review some controversies as a prelude to a proposal. The proposal will recommend discarding the currently dominant discourses that are, as Michel Foucault might say, the historical conditions of the possibility of RBIO discourse.

Staff (2023-01-30). The Monroe Doctrine Shaped North America. davidswanson.org

infobrics (2023-01-30). BBC documentary on Gujarat riots is desperate British establishment attempt to smear Modi. infobrics.org London is frustrated that India's relationship with Russia continues to develop.

Kurt Nimmo (2023-01-29). Zelenskyy Regime Lies Shape Narrative Echoed by War Propaganda Media. globalresearch.ca

americanthinker (2023-01-29). The Supreme Court Is At The Heart Of America's Racial Division. americanthinker.com Almost 60 years ago, as part of its destructive judicial activism, the Supreme Court wiped out the brake that defamation law placed on public discourse.

ecns.cn (2023-01-29). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-29). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

_____ (2023-01-29). To US Papers, Iranian Weapons More Newsworthy Than Those Made In USA. popularresistance.org Russia's use of Iranian-made drones in the Ukraine war has garnered substantial attention in flagship US news outlets like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. These papers' first references to the matter came on July 11. Between then and the time of writing (January 24), the publications have run 215 pieces that mention Ukraine and the words "Iranian drones," "Iranian-made drones," "drones made in Iran" or minor variations on these phrases. That's more than one mention per day over six-and-a-half months. | The fact that some of Russia's drones are made in Iran is not only frequently menti…

Andy Kroll (2023-01-29). The Real Failure of January 6th. tomdispatch.com Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an "eerily familiar" moment of "déjà vu," just two years and two days after the January 6th Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C., a mob of thousands stormed government buildings in the capital city of another country — Brazil. In Brasilia, what New York Times columnist Ross Douthat ominously labelled "the first major international imitation of our Capitol riot" seemed to be taking place. As the optics suggested, there were parallels indeed, underscoring a previously underappreciated fragility in our democ…

Middle East Monitor (2023-01-29). Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed ( Middle east Monitor ) I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a New York Times columnist and arguably the journalist who has most shaped the US debate over Israel-Palestine in recent decades, was invited onto Beinart's podcast to talk about Zionism, the …

ecns.cn (2023-01-29). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-29). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

ecns.cn (2023-01-29). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-29). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

Middle East Monitor (2023-01-29). Thomas Friedman shows that liberal Jews have no Reason left to defend Israel. juancole.com By Nasim Ahmed ( Middle east Monitor ) I watched the recent discussion between Thomas Friedman and Peter Beinart with great interest. Friedman, a New York Times columnist and arguably the journalist who has most shaped the US debate over Israel-Palestine in recent decades, was invited onto Beinart's podcast to talk about Zionism, the …

Paul Haeder (2023-01-28). If We Ever Needed George Carlin. dissidentvoice.org So, there are no other ways to look at the lab-generated, multivariant SARS-2 than through the lens of mass murdering complicit media and the charlatans of propaganda, all in the employ of billionaires, millionaires and high income folks in this Big Pharma-Big Medicine-Big Feat triage of destruction? Who the hell with a normal-functioning mind believes …

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-01-28). Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2. globalresearch.ca The UN's climate change summit (COP27) "has opened in Egypt. | More than 120 world leaders are attending the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: | "Our Planet is "Sending a Distress Signal". …

Denis Moynihan (2023-01-28). Belmarsh Tribunal Makes the Case for Julian Assange's Immediate Release. commondreams.org

"The first casualty when war comes is truth," U.S. Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California said in 1929, debating ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a noble but ultimately failed attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War I, which ended a decade earlier, he continued, "it begins what we were so familiar with only a brief period ago, this mode of propaganda whereby…people become war hungry in their patriotism and are lied into a desire to fight. We have seen it in the past; it will happen again in the future."Time and again, Hiram Johnson has been proven right. Our government's impulse to control…

Victoria Torres (2023-01-28). Opposition Lawyer Sujú Falsely Accuses Maduro of 'Abandoning Indigenous Venezuelans'. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, January 26, human rights lawyer Tamara Sujú published a tweet launching a new disinformation campaign rife with photos and other embellishments depicting the malnutrition and alleged abandonment of indigenous groups in Venezuela. | Tamara Sujú, who served as "ambassador" to the Czech Republic on the payroll of Juan Guaidó and his "interim government" is now attempting to hold the legitimate government of Nicolás Maduro responsible for the crisis of the Yanomami ethnic group. | Sujú accused President Maduro on social media of exploiting indigenous territory for profit and claimed that he purposely des…

Staff (2023-01-28). How Concentrated Wealth and Corporate Power Nurtures the Greed of Thieves. commondreams.org What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and shoplifting? Most definitely not. To truly gauge a society's larcenous leanings, many of us would posit, we need to look beyond the nimble-fingered and focus more on the smooth-talkers, the power-suited flimflammers who thrive in any society where significant numbers of …

_____ (2023-01-28). Internment Camps For Homeless People Is Increasingly Mainstream. popularresistance.org "Homelessness Crisis" discourse can generally be broken down into two distinct trends, depending on how one interprets the terms involved: On one side, there are those who believe the crisis in question is that there are human beings living without shelter and the central conflict is a lack of available homes and care for the people who need them; on the other side, there are those who think the crisis is that there are too many homeless people in public spaces who, by virtue of existing, are "hurting business" and generally undermining the "quality of life" of "taxpayers." These two groups almost always talk pas…

_____ (2023-01-28). The Abuse Of The Concept Of 'Populism'. popularresistance.org All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is "populism". This concept is given great currency by the media, which is peopled by members drawn from the upper middle class who have been major beneficiaries of the neo-liberal regime and have therefore developed a vested interest in its continuation. So pervasive is the reach of this concept that even well-meaning and progressive members of the literati…

americanthinker (2023-01-28). Dems struggle with the cognitive dissonance of Tyre Nichols' death. americanthinker.com They seem to have decided on the "No True Scotsman" (or Joe Biden) fallacy to address the problem.

_____ (2023-01-28). Burgerville Workers' Lessons For Independent Unions. popularresistance.org Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool. | The Burgerville Workers Union, which went public in 2016 and won its first contract in 2021, has recently been influencing and supporting independent union efforts in the region—and it has a few lessons to offer independent unions around the country. | While the union is affiliated with the Portland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, it operates largely autonomously. | "What workers want is to form a union, not necessarily join a…

Fight Back (2023-01-28). Saint Paul holds vigil in solidarity with victims of Jenin massacre. fightbacknews.org Saint Paul, MN – The anti-war organization Women Against Military Madness organized a vigil on Friday, January 27, in response to the recent massacre of Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in occupied Palestine. Attendees held signs with the slogans "End U.S. aid to Israel" and "End Israeli apartheid," and chanted "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!" The vigil was met with a positive reaction from the community. | Israeli Occupation Force soldiers entered the Jenin camp and opened fire, killing nine Palestinians, including one elderly woman, and wounding at least 20 others. The IOF soldiers the…

_____ (2023-01-28). Going for the Kill in Kosovo. strategic-culture.org The same recklessness that over the past year had been on display in the Ukraine is now in evidence increasingly in the Balkans. | The collective West's unsuccessful war against Russia using Ukraine as the stage and Ukrainians as cannon fodder has induced the Transatlantic alliance to desperately seek some semblance of victory, anywhere, in order to disguise the scope and lessen the political repercussions of its failure in the Ukraine. | The solution it has come up with to repair its tarnished hegemonic image is the aggressive campaign to wrap up "unfinished business" in the Balkans. Coming from such quarters, a…

Arnaud Chiolero (2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Let research guide teaching in medical and public health. thelancet.com The pre-eminence of research over teaching in academic activity might be considered as an inheritance from the Enlightenment and, in the past few decades, from evidence-based medicine. Within this framework, teaching is secondary to research because the former is built, at least in part, on the latter. If teaching outweighs research,1 you might leave space for politics and beliefs, if not religion.

Fight Back (2023-01-28). Tyree Williams tased to death by police in North Carolina. fightbacknews.org Raleigh, NC – On January 17, Darryl Tyree Williams was tased to death by six Raleigh Police Department officers who have since been put on administrative leave, essentially a paid vacation. | The six officers named in the incident are C.D. Robinson, J.T. Thomas, D.L. Aquino, J.R. Scott, D.L. Grande, and B L. Ramge. As of writing, no bodycam or dashcam footage has been released to the public or the family. The preliminary police report attempted to smear Tyree Williams saying, "This location has a history of repeat calls for service for drugs, weapons and other criminal violations," a common police tactic against…

Editor (2023-01-28). Patrick Lawrence: The Shadows Descend in Ukraine. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of my favorite New York Times words are "shadowy" and "murky." They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our world the Times inflicts daily upon its unsuspecting readers. When The Times terms someone or some society or some chain of events shadowy or murky it …

WSWS (2023-01-28). White House "discussing" sending US fighter jets to Ukraine. wsws.org Asked whether the "United States is willing to consider" sending US fighter Jets to Ukraine, White House National Security Adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC Thursday that the United States will be "discussing this very carefully."

ecns.cn (2023-01-28). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn

_____ (2023-01-28). Burgerville Workers' Lessons For Independent Unions. popularresistance.org Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool. | The Burgerville Workers Union, which went public in 2016 and won its first contract in 2021, has recently been influencing and supporting independent union efforts in the region—and it has a few lessons to offer independent unions around the country. | While the union is affiliated with the Portland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, it operates largely autonomously. | "What workers want is to form a union, not necessarily join a…

ecns.cn (2023-01-28). They Say: Fake news attemps to make people forget China's contribution to the global COVID-19 fight. ecns.cn

_____ (2023-01-28). Burgerville Workers' Lessons For Independent Unions. popularresistance.org Self-organizing a union on a shoestring? Winning the supposedly unwinnable? Workers at a local burger chain out of Portland, Oregon, were doing it before it was cool. | The Burgerville Workers Union, which went public in 2016 and won its first contract in 2021, has recently been influencing and supporting independent union efforts in the region—and it has a few lessons to offer independent unions around the country. | While the union is affiliated with the Portland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, it operates largely autonomously. | "What workers want is to form a union, not necessarily join a…

Arnaud Chiolero (2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Let research guide teaching in medical and public health. thelancet.com The pre-eminence of research over teaching in academic activity might be considered as an inheritance from the Enlightenment and, in the past few decades, from evidence-based medicine. Within this framework, teaching is secondary to research because the former is built, at least in part, on the latter. If teaching outweighs research,1 you might leave space for politics and beliefs, if not religion.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-28). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

Fight Back (2023-01-28). Tyree Williams tased to death by police in North Carolina. fightbacknews.org Raleigh, NC – On January 17, Darryl Tyree Williams was tased to death by six Raleigh Police Department officers who have since been put on administrative leave, essentially a paid vacation. | The six officers named in the incident are C.D. Robinson, J.T. Thomas, D.L. Aquino, J.R. Scott, D.L. Grande, and B L. Ramge. As of writing, no bodycam or dashcam footage has been released to the public or the family. The preliminary police report attempted to smear Tyree Williams saying, "This location has a history of repeat calls for service for drugs, weapons and other criminal violations," a common police tactic against…

WSWS (2023-01-28). White House "discussing" sending US fighter jets to Ukraine. wsws.org Asked whether the "United States is willing to consider" sending US fighter Jets to Ukraine, White House National Security Adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC Thursday that the United States will be "discussing this very carefully."

Shawgi Tell (2023-01-27). Low Enrollment Plagues Many Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org The mainstream media has long made it seem like parents from coast to coast are frantically clamoring to get their kids into a "limited" number of charter schools. And because there is supposedly not enough space in these charter schools, students are put on a waiting list to get into the school. This neoliberal disinformation …

americanthinker (2023-01-27). Pfizer executive goes thug on James O'Keefe after realizing he had been recorded boasting about 'mutating' Covid virus for profit. americanthinker.com Corporate media blackout of the story but the weirdness is compelling.

Joseph Lee (2023-01-27). The best way to save forests is to legally recognize Indigenous lands. peoplesworld.org Recognizing and demarcating Indigenous lands leads to reduced deforestation and increased reforestation. That's according to a new study that looked at more than 100 Indigenous territories in Brazil's Atlantic Forest and found that legal recognition of those lands can have real, and measurable, impacts on centuries of deforestation. "Our study contributes to an emerging body of evidence …

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-27). US Says ISIS Leader Killed in Somalia Raid. news.antiwar.com Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday said that US forces conducted a raid in northern Somalia that resulted in the killing of a senior ISIS leader, Bilal al-Sudani, in a rare US operation in the country that didn't target al-Shabaab. A Biden administration official quoted by The New York Times said the raid also …

americanthinker (2023-01-27). History class takes a holiday at The Washington Post. americanthinker.com A WaPo movie review seems to report Palestinian history as fact.

Arnaud Chiolero (2023-01-28). [Correspondence] Let research guide teaching in medical and public health. thelancet.com The pre-eminence of research over teaching in academic activity might be considered as an inheritance from the Enlightenment and, in the past few decades, from evidence-based medicine. Within this framework, teaching is secondary to research because the former is built, at least in part, on the latter. If teaching outweighs research,1 you might leave space for politics and beliefs, if not religion.

Shawgi Tell (2023-01-27). Low Enrollment Plagues Many Charter Schools. dissidentvoice.org The mainstream media has long made it seem like parents from coast to coast are frantically clamoring to get their kids into a "limited" number of charter schools. And because there is supposedly not enough space in these charter schools, students are put on a waiting list to get into the school. This neoliberal disinformation …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-27). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-27). US Says ISIS Leader Killed in Somalia Raid. news.antiwar.com Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday said that US forces conducted a raid in northern Somalia that resulted in the killing of a senior ISIS leader, Bilal al-Sudani, in a rare US operation in the country that didn't target al-Shabaab. A Biden administration official quoted by The New York Times said the raid also …

americanthinker (2023-01-26). Eggs and weather cause blood clots; 'stroke season'; and 'sudden cardiac arrest' forms for high schoolers. americanthinker.com Big Medicine's damage control tops the absurd; yet how many can actually see the propaganda?>

Ben Norton (2023-01-26). US Funds 'Independent Journalists' in Cuba To Spread Propaganda, Ex CIA Spy Admits. orinocotribune.com Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, "a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US". They spread anti-government disinformation with the support of the NED. | A former top CIA spy has admitted that the United States funds anti-government propagandists in Cuba who portray themselves as "independent journalists". | Major British newspaper

_____ (2023-01-26). The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine. strategic-culture.org The West's recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. | By Scott RITTER | Early on the morning of May 2, 1945, General Vasily Chuikov, the commander of the Soviet 8thGuards Army, accepted the surrender of the German garrison of Berlin. | Two days prior, soldiers from the 1 th Rifle Division, part of the Soviet 5th Shock Army, had raised the victory banner of the Red Army over the Reichstag. An hour after the banner went up, Adolf Hitler and his mistress, Eva…

_____ (2023-01-26). Targeting Eritrea And Ethiopia. popularresistance.org United States plans for aggression and disruptions abroad are developed by current and former officials whose names may not be well known. They often leave government positions to become fellows at a plethora of think tanks that are connected to high level policy makers. It is important to know what they are saying, as their words have an impact on US foreign policy decisions. | Michael Rubin is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) , the rightwing think tank in Washington, DC, that mostly disseminates a neoconservative interventionist agenda, and where Rubin spends his time churnin…

Jelani Drew-Davi (2023-01-26). Trump's Return to Facebook Is About More Than Just Trump. commondreams.org

Start my morning with me in May 2020: I've just fed my dog. I'm brushing my teeth. I'm mentally making my to-do list and trying to decide if I should stay in sweatpants for the third day in a row. And suddenly none of my plans matter, because Trump just posted an insinuation that Black Lives Matter activists should be shot. Facebook declines to remove…

David Sirota (2023-01-26). Reminder: Today At 4pm ET Is Our Live Q&A About Corporate Media. levernews.com

Newswire Editor (2023-01-26). Irresponsible Greed Drives Facebook to Restore Trump's Account. commondreams.org Facebook has once again missed the opportunity to be the adult in the room when it comes to checking the clear and present danger that Donald Trump poses to the nation on social media. Instead, the company and its founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to try to plunge headlong into a race to the bottom with Elon Musk and Twitter, irrespective of the threat to public safety and national security.Donald Trump continues to pose a very real threat to public safety and to our democracy, but Facebook has once again chosen corporate profit over its responsibility to the very people that enrich the platform and its founder.

Staff (2023-01-26). As Housing Crisis Deepens, Corporate Landlords Applaud 'Weak' Biden Renter Protections. commondreams.org Economic justice advocates on Thursday said that to determine the strength of the Biden administration's new nonbinding push for renter protections from the federal and state governments and private sector, one needs to look only at the elated response from corporate landlords. The Revolving Door Project (RDP) pointed to comments from the National Apartment Association …

Staff (2023-01-26). Video and Text: The Monroe Doctrine and World Balance. davidswanson.org The task before the United States is to end its Monroe Doctrine, and to end it not only in Latin America but globally, and to not only end it but to replace it with the positive actions of joining the world as a law-abiding member.

Lucine Kasbarian (2023-01-26). The Armenian Cause: Silence Is Violence. indybay.org Social justice slogans that evidently don't apply to the Armenian Cause.

Ann Brown (2023-01-26). Fact Check: Homicides Are Trending Down In America. moguldom.com The news is filled with thieves bum-rushing stores and stealing mass amounts of goods. But while robbery may seem to be on the upswing, homicides in large U.S. cities are down. Homicides in major cities such as New York and Chicago have dropped more than 5 percent in 2022 compared to the same time a …

Dana Sanchez (2023-01-26). Fact Check: 75% Of Americans Put Less Than 20% Down Payment To Buy Homes. moguldom.com Many wannabe homeowners put their dreams on hold and watched in dismay as home prices skyrocketed out of reach in the pandemic housing boom. Now that mortgage rates are at a four-month low and federal funding fee changes are pending, many are hoping for a more affordable loan. In an effort to fight inflation, the …

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-26). Fact Check: The Logo For New Orleans Saints Is Connected To American Slavemaking. moguldom.com One thing about New Orleans natives is they don't play about their football team. Win, lose or draw, the people of the Crescent City typically ride or die for the New Orleans Saints and can often be heard screaming "Who Dat" on any given day. It's why the Saints' fleur-de-lis logo, which means lily flower …

americanthinker (2023-01-26). Forgiving the Medically Brainwashed in the Post-COVID Era. americanthinker.com Medical tyranny starts with medical brainwashing.

Steve Kirsch (2023-01-26). "No Evidence of any Vax Benefit". Covid Vaccine "Makes The Problem Worse". Professor Byram Bridle. globalresearch.ca

Paulo Cabral (2023-01-26). Brazil launches investigation into genocide of Yanomami Indigenous peoples. america.cgtn.com The Yanomami Indigenous community in Brazil faces growing malnutrition, rising infant mortality, and many other health problems. President da Silva has promised swift action both in this crisis and against the root cause of the problem.

Andy Kroll (2023-01-26). Nuclear Fusion Won't Save the Climate. tomdispatch.com I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had nothing to do with that ongoing public health crisis. Instead, as the New York Times and CNN alerted me that morning, at stake was a new technology that could potentially solve the worst dilemma humanity faces: climate change and the desperate overheating of our planet. Net-energy-gain fusion, a long-sought-after panacea for all that's wrong with traditional nuclear-fissio…

Michael G. Roskin (2023-01-26). Mike Pompeo, seeking White House, runs interference for the Saudis, Trashing murdered Journalist Khashoggi. juancole.com Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) Mike Pompeo asserts that murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashoggi was no mild critic of the Saudi regime but a dangerous radical trying to subvert it. This, I suspect, has been the Saudi line fed to Washington since Kashoggi's 2018 dismemberment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Trump …

Lucine Kasbarian (2023-01-26). The Armenian Cause: Silence Is Violence. indybay.org Social justice slogans that evidently don't apply to the Armenian Cause.

Michael G. Roskin (2023-01-26). Mike Pompeo, seeking White House, runs interference for the Saudis, Trashing murdered Journalist Khashoggi. juancole.com Nashville (Special to Informed Comment) Mike Pompeo asserts that murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashoggi was no mild critic of the Saudi regime but a dangerous radical trying to subvert it. This, I suspect, has been the Saudi line fed to Washington since Kashoggi's 2018 dismemberment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Trump …

Editor (2023-01-25). US Funds 'Independent Journalism' in Cuba to Spread Propaganda, Ex-Spy Admits. scheerpost.com Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, "a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US". They spread anti-government disinformation with the support of the NED.

_____ (2023-01-25). The Nightmare Of NATO Equipment Being Sent To Ukraine. popularresistance.org Early on the morning of May 2, 1945, General Vasily Chuikov, the commander of the Soviet 8thGuards Army, accepted the surrender of the German garrison of Berlin. | Two days prior, soldiers from the 150th Rifle Division, part of the Soviet 5th Shock Army, had raised the victory banner of the Red Army over the Reichstag. An hour after the banner went up, Adolf Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his study inside the Furhrerbunker. | Chuikov, the hero of Stalingrad whose battered 62nd Army was renamed the 8th Guards Army in honor of their victory in holding that city in the face of a massive Ger…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-25). Amilcar Cabral and the South Africans. libya360.wordpress.com Phethani Madzivhandila Amilcar Cabral's influence stretched far beyond the Portuguese colonies, profoundly influencing the political struggle in South Africa, past and present. In 2021, the South African government was provided with funding of around ‚Ǩ700 million (ZAR13 billion), from the German government to decommission its coal-based power stations in order to transition to green energy….

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-25). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-25). Pentagon to Increase Artillery Ammunition Production by 0% for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon is planning to boost its production of artillery ammunition by 0% over the next two years as the US is depleting its military stockpiles by sending millions of shells to Ukraine, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the US has pledged to send Ukraine over one …

americanthinker (2023-01-25). Gender-mad teachers smugly trample parents' rights. americanthinker.com A New York Times article writes about the allegedly "wrenching" tensions for teachers who think their rights are greater than parents' rights.

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-01-25). Tyre Nichols Funeral Plans Revealed As Memphis Cops Avoid Criminal Charges. newsone.com Activists hold signs showing Tyre Nichols as attorney Ben Crump is seen speaking on a monitor during a press conference at Mt. Olive Cathedral CME Church addressing video footage of the violent police encounter that led to Nichols' death in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 23, 2023. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty | The funeral plans have been announced for a young Black man who died from injuries sustained during a violent encounter with police officers during a traffic stop earlier this month in Memphis, Tennessee. |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-25). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-25). Pentagon to Increase Artillery Ammunition Production by 0% for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon is planning to boost its production of artillery ammunition by 0% over the next two years as the US is depleting its military stockpiles by sending millions of shells to Ukraine, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the US has pledged to send Ukraine over one …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-01-24). US Objectives in Latin America According to SOUTHCOM: Lithium, Sweet Crude, Fresh Water. libya360.wordpress.com Laura Richardson spoke at an event of the Atlantic Council -a think tank with close ties to NATO- where she listed the reasons why the United States has its eyes on the rest of the continent. "Why is Latin America important?". That was the rhetorical question posed by Laura Richardson, head of the U.S. Southern…

_____ (2023-01-24). Iran's Unrest Triggers Explosion of Fake News. strategic-culture.org Some of the most incendiary accusations made against Iran's government by corporate media, celebrity influencers and Western leaders in the past months are little more than fabrications. And most remain uncorrected. | By Setareh SADEQI and Christopher WEAVER | Protests in Iran that ostensibly began as a reaction to the death of a woman in police custody in September 2022 have prompted unprecedented international opposition to its government, not only from the usual Western, Israeli and Saudi suspects, but from celebrity social media influencers with no previous record of commenting on Iranian affairs. | Iran is n…

Ann Brown (2023-01-24). Fact Check: The U.S. Military Is Using 'Barracks Bunny' Sexualized Influencer Recruiting Strategy and Psyops. moguldom.com The U.S. military has been facing its biggest recruiting challenges in nearly five decades, according to experts. And when recruitment is low, the military, like any organization, looks to ways to lure in new recruits. One way to entice people, mainly men, is through the art of seduction as well as appealing to aggressive tendencies …

_____ (2023-01-24). US Officials Claim More 'Russiagate' Like Nonsense. popularresistance.org According to what U.S. officials claim some anti-Kremlin fringe group in Russia was used by a Russian intelligence service to somehow send letter bombs from Valladolid, Spain, to some offices in Madrid. | But why would Russian intelligence run such a nonsense campaign? Why would it use a problematic fringe group of Russian crazies to do so. Why in Spain? Why not in Poland, Germany or France? What is the evidence? | None of those questions get answered. Instead rumors and hot air assumptions are put together to make the claims somewhat less outrageous. This is on the same level as the lies about 'weapons of mass d…

Anoa Changa (2023-01-24). Tyre Nichols' Death Shows Black Cops Can Also Be 'Faces Of White Supremacy'. newsone.com Source: The Washington Post / Getty | Five Black officers on a police force that is majority Black, in a majority Black city, When people talk about white supremacy being at the root of these incidents, it's about the systemic dehumanization of peopl…

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-01-24). Tyre Nichols Autopsy Results Confirm 'Severe Beating' By Memphis Police, Attorneys Say. newsone.com RowVaugn Wells, second from left, becomes emotional during a press conference at Mt. Olive Cathedral CME Church after she viewed footage of the violent police interaction that led to the death of her son Tyre Nichols, in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 23, 2023. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty | The results from an independent preliminary autopsy performed on

Staff (2023-01-24). Critics Rip 'MAGA Extremists' Over Plan to Hike Social Security Retirement Age to 70. commondreams.org Not even a month after assuming the majority in the House, Republicans have begun seriously considering a range of proposals to cut Social Security, Medicare, and other federal programs that millions of people across the U.S. rely on to meet basic needs. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that "in recent days, a group of GOP …

Sharon Zhang (2023-01-24). Warren: Debt Ceiling Crisis Wouldn't Even Exist Without Trump Tax Overhaul. truthout.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) dug into Republicans for their willingness to "wreck the economy" over the debt ceiling, pointing out that the GOP is only interested in protecting their rich allies and creating an economic crisis that would reflect poorly on President Joe Biden. In an appearance on MSNBC, Warren said that the conservative regressive tax policies that the GOP has pushed for… |

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-24). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

_____ (2023-01-23). US Funds 'Independent Journalists' In Cuba To Spread Propaganda. popularresistance.org A former top CIA spy has admitted that the United States funds anti-government propagandists in Cuba who portray themselves as "independent journalists". | Major British newspaper The Guardian spoke with CIA veteran Fulton Armstrong, whom it described as "the US intelligence community's most senior analyst for Latin America from 2000 to 2004". | Armstrong stated that, in Cuba, "a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US". | The ex CIA analyst pointed out that, today, the Joe Biden administration bankrolls anti-government opposition forces in Cuba with at least $20 million in an…

Shane Quinn (2023-01-23). Rise of Nazism in Interwar Germany: Hitler's Political Rivalry with Ludendorff. globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Harry the 'Traitor' and Lynch 'the Grinch': The Corporate Media's Automatic Smear Machine. transcend.org 19 Jan 2023 – Whatever we think of the Harry and Meghan Markle saga, it matters when the son of the current king and brother of the future king writes in his new book, 'Spare': "Does the Crown generate tourism income that benefits all? Of course. Does it also rest upon lands obtained and secured when the system was unjust and wealth was generated by exploited workers and thuggery, annexation and enslaved people? Can anyone deny it?"

Rania Khalek (2023-01-23). Who's Responsible for Africa's Debt Trap: China or the West? thealtworld.com U.S. politicians and corporate media blame China for debt crises in African countries, yet African governments owe three times more debt to private Western lenders than to China. Furthermore, interest rates on Western private loans are almost double those on Chinese loans. | Tim Jones, Head of Policy at Debt Justice in the UK, explains the reality behind the African debt and how the only just way forward is its cancellation.

Staff (2023-01-23). Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal. democracynow.org Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington, D.C., calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for close to four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If convicted in the United States, Julian Assange could face up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq a…

Staff (2023-01-23). The Monroe Doctrine Is Thriving and Must Be Undone. davidswanson.org

Peter Oborne (2023-01-23). When Journalists Act as State Propagandists. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2023-01-23). The Evidence on Whether the Anti-Russian Sanctions Are Succeeding. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe evidence on whether the anti-Russian sanctions are succeeding: highlights from Putin's year-in-review's 'meeting on economic issues' and evidence confirming this in the international exchange-rate data | Written by Given that The West's sanctions against Russia are intended to harm Russia's economy, Russia's President Vladimir Putin's January 17th…

John Wojcik (2023-01-23). Bridgeport, Chicago's message to racists: Not in my neighborhood! peoplesworld.org CHICAGO By mid-month January residents of the Bridgeport neighborhood here, both Black and white, started turning up in big numbers to undo damage done to a fledgling soul food restaurant by racist vandals in this Chicago neighborhood. Determined to let the vandals who smeared the restaurant with BLDM (Black Lives Don't Matter) graffiti know …

Edward Curtin (2023-01-23). The New York Times is Orwell's Ministry of Truth. dissidentvoice.org Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past. — George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground. As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a …

Edward Curtin (2023-01-23). The New York Times Is Orwell's Ministry of Truth. "Newspeak, Double-Speak" globalresearch.ca

Eric Zuesse (2023-01-23). U.S. Now Considering to Invade Russia: NYT. dissidentvoice.org An obliquely-written news-report in the New York Times on January 18th headlined "U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea" and subheaded "The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014." It reported that, "the Biden administration is finally starting to concede …

Norman Solomon (2023-01-23). Does the Democratic Base Think Biden Is the Best Choice for 2024? Let's Ask Them. commondreams.org

Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden's shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over the weekend. As the New York Times

Staff (2023-01-23). 'He Didn't Deserve to Die, But…' Writes Pompeo of Dismembered Journalist. commondreams.org The widow of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Monday denounced former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his comments about her husband in Pompeo's upcoming memoir, in which he questions Khashoggi's journalism credentials and his allegiances. As excerpts from Pompeo's book, Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, became …

Staff (2023-01-23). Warren Slams Republicans for Creating 'Economic Chaos' to Protect the Rich. commondreams.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took aim at the Republican Party for creating what she called a "manufactured crisis" as a potential fight over the debt ceiling looms, slamming the GOP's threats to public spending as the party works to make it even easier for the wealthy to avoid paying taxes. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," …

Shane Quinn (2023-01-23). Rise of Nazism in Interwar Germany: Hitler's Political Rivalry with Ludendorff. globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Harry the 'Traitor' and Lynch 'the Grinch': The Corporate Media's Automatic Smear Machine. transcend.org 19 Jan 2023 – Whatever we think of the Harry and Meghan Markle saga, it matters when the son of the current king and brother of the future king writes in his new book, 'Spare': "Does the Crown generate tourism income that benefits all? Of course. Does it also rest upon lands obtained and secured when the system was unjust and wealth was generated by exploited workers and thuggery, annexation and enslaved people? Can anyone deny it?"

Staff (2023-01-23). Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal. democracynow.org Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington, D.C., calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for close to four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If convicted in the United States, Julian Assange could face up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq a…

Staff (2023-01-23). The Monroe Doctrine Is Thriving and Must Be Undone. davidswanson.org

Peter Oborne (2023-01-23). When Journalists Act as State Propagandists. globalresearch.ca

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-01-23). Mayo Clinic researchers link ovarian cancer to bacteria colonization in microbiome. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — A specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer, according to a new study from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine. The discovery, published in Scientific Reports, strengthens evidence that the bacterial component of the microbiome — a community of microorganisms that also consists of viruses, yeasts and fungi — is an important indicator for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. Abigail…

John Wojcik (2023-01-23). Bridgeport, Chicago's message to racists: Not in my neighborhood! peoplesworld.org CHICAGO By mid-month January residents of the Bridgeport neighborhood here, both Black and white, started turning up in big numbers to undo damage done to a fledgling soul food restaurant by racist vandals in this Chicago neighborhood. Determined to let the vandals who smeared the restaurant with BLDM (Black Lives Don't Matter) graffiti know …

Eric Zuesse (2023-01-23). U.S. Now Considering to Invade Russia: NYT. dissidentvoice.org An obliquely-written news-report in the New York Times on January 18th headlined "U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea" and subheaded "The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014." It reported that, "the Biden administration is finally starting to concede …

Edward Curtin (2023-01-23). The New York Times Is Orwell's Ministry of Truth. "Newspeak, Double-Speak" globalresearch.ca

Edward Curtin (2023-01-23). The New York Times is Orwell's Ministry of Truth. dissidentvoice.org Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past. — George Orwell, 1984 As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground. As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a …

Anonymous669 (2023-01-22). Syrian Opposition Spread Fake News About Mass Turkish Casualties After Syrian Army Attack. southfront.org Turkish forces are seen near Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi | As a part of what appears to be a coordinated propaganda stunt, several Syrian pro-opposition news sources falsely reported late on January 21 that 20 Turkish service members were killed or wounded in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib as a result of an attack by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA). | The sources said that the SAA struck a Turkish post near the town of Afes in the southern Idlib co…

Ben Norton (2023-01-22). US funds 'independent journalists' in Cuba to spread propaganda, ex CIA spy admits. geopoliticaleconomy.com Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, "a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US". They spread anti-government disinformation with the support of the NED.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-01-22). BBC Scientific Nonsense: The Virus is a "Hit and Run Killer", "The Vaccine Saves Lives!" globalresearch.ca A sensationalist BBC report under the title: "Why is the Virus such a Threat" contends (quoting and misquoting "scientific opinion") that the virus' has a "hit and run killer evolutionary tactic" to spread the Covid-19 infection far and wide. …

_____ (2023-01-22). Why I'm Not Running Again For City Council. popularresistance.org This is now the tenth year I've had the honor to serve as an elected representative of Seattle's working people. | Workers in Seattle, through getting organized alongside my socialist City Council office, and my organization, Socialist Alternative, have won historic victories, from the $15/hour minimum wage to the Amazon Tax to landmark renters' rights. | These victories have set a powerful example that has had a national and even international impact. | In our four election victories and in every struggle, we've had to overcome the combined might of big business, the corporate media, and the political establishm…

David Sirota (2023-01-22). LEVER WEEKLY: How Billionaires Shape The News They Own. levernews.com This is Lever Weekly, a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it.Below you will find a breakdown of our reporting, podcasts, videos, and live events — a feature now open to all subscribers. Following that, we are providing paid subscribers with an original column, written by a member of The Lever, connecting the dots on our coverage to deliver important takeaways.In this week's column, exclusively for paid subscribers, David Sirota explores why billionaire Jeff Bezos' visit to his Washington Post newsroom exemplifies how the discourse is influen…

Ann Brown (2023-01-22). Fact Check: Paul E. Williams, A Black Man Invented the First Helicopter. moguldom.com There have been a number of inventions by Black Americans that have helped further the world. Is Paul E. Williams one of these Black inventors? Although there seems to be no official records of Williams inventing the helicopter, in Black history circles, he is often credited with haven being the actual person behind the practical …

Fight Back (2023-01-22). Palestine solidarity week of action across SE Michigan. fightbacknews.org Dearborn, MI – The Palestinian Youth Movement-Detroit and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, with support from Freedom Road Socialist Organization members, kicked off the week of solidarity work on January 12 supporting a demonstration by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE). When U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited the University of Michigan for a speaking event on the environment, SAFE took the opportunity to let passersby on campus know that VP Harris is a stalwart supporter of genocide in Palestine. | Harris, a beneficiary of the hundreds of millions in AIPAC (American Israel Public Af…

Staff (2023-01-18). Audio: David Swanson with Dennis Bernstein on Flashpoints on KPFA. davidswanson.org I was happy to discuss The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace it With, and Ukraine, and other topics, with Dennis Bernstein. Listen here or here.

Dave DeCamp (2023-01-18). Pentagon Sends US Artillery Shells Stored in Israel and South Korea to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The US has dipped into stockpiles of arms it keeps in Israel and South Korea to supply Ukraine with more artillery shells, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing anonymous US and Israeli officials. The stockpile in Israel is meant to supply the US for its conflicts in the Middle East and is also used …

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-01-17). 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".

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-17). 'Becky With The Hands' Raises Over $16,000 After Waffle House Fight Went Viral, Gets Fox News Support. moguldom.com The public has rallied around a former Waffle House cook by donating over $16,000 to a GoFundMe campaign after she was blacklisted from working at the restaurant due to her involvement in a fight with customers. Last year, Halie Booth was employed at an Austin, Texas, location of the popular restaurant chain. She went viral after footage …

Staff (2023-01-17). The Monroe Doctrine Is 200 and Should Not Reach 201. davidswanson.org

_____ (2023-01-17). US Activists Honor The Anti-War Legacy Of Martin Luther King Jr. popularresistance.org "We are here, honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," said co-executive director of The People's Forum, Claudia De La Cruz, to a crowd of hundreds gathered in Times Square, in front of the US Army Recruiting Station, on January 14. "We are here to reclaim his legacy and say: no to war." | The organizers and workers mobilized to demand an end to NATO and a peaceful resolution to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The rally and march was organized by the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, a US anti-war organization, and the People's Forum. Activists raised slogans to demand a peaceful resol…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-17). 'Bring Down the Dictator', Protesters Shout in Thousands-Strong Anti-Netanyahu Rallies. orinocotribune.com Tens of thousands have rallied in three major cities across the occupied Palestinian territories against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new extremist cabinet and its proposed judicial reforms plan. | Protesters flooded the streets in Tel Aviv on Saturday, brandishing signs with slogans decrying Netanyahu's new cabinet as the "government of shame" and urging, "bring down the dictator." | Israeli media reported 80,000 people joined the rally, while the regime's security sources gave no official estimate after reporting 20,000 protesters earlier in the evening. | The monumental rally marked the biggest…

Climate Nexus (2023-01-17). Exxon scientists accurately predicted climate damage while company pushed misinformation. nationofchange.org "Airtight evidence that Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming years before, then turned around and attacked the science underlying it."

Brittani Banks (2023-01-17). Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year—Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets? independentmediainstitute.org The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post's police shootings database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people last year. In comparison, there were 1,048 shooting fatalities at the hands of police the year before, 1,019 …

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-01-17). 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".

Isheka N. Harrison (2023-01-17). 'Becky With The Hands' Raises Over $16,000 After Waffle House Fight Went Viral, Gets Fox News Support. moguldom.com The public has rallied around a former Waffle House cook by donating over $16,000 to a GoFundMe campaign after she was blacklisted from working at the restaurant due to her involvement in a fight with customers. Last year, Halie Booth was employed at an Austin, Texas, location of the popular restaurant chain. She went viral after footage …

Staff (2023-01-17). The Monroe Doctrine Is 200 and Should Not Reach 201. davidswanson.org

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-01-17). 'Bring Down the Dictator', Protesters Shout in Thousands-Strong Anti-Netanyahu Rallies. orinocotribune.com Tens of thousands have rallied in three major cities across the occupied Palestinian territories against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new extremist cabinet and its proposed judicial reforms plan. | Protesters flooded the streets in Tel Aviv on Saturday, brandishing signs with slogans decrying Netanyahu's new cabinet as the "government of shame" and urging, "bring down the dictator." | Israeli media reported 80,000 people joined the rally, while the regime's security sources gave no official estimate after reporting 20,000 protesters earlier in the evening. | The monumental rally marked the biggest…

Climate Nexus (2023-01-17). Exxon scientists accurately predicted climate damage while company pushed misinformation. nationofchange.org "Airtight evidence that Exxon Mobil accurately predicted global warming years before, then turned around and attacked the science underlying it."

_____ (2023-01-16). Recalling CNN's Fraudulent 'Interview' With a Seven Year-Old Syrian Girl. strategic-culture.org There's a thread going around on Twitter by Columbia University's Sophie Fullerton advancing the claim that I have promoted crazy conspiracy theories about child "crisis actors" in Syrian war atrocities. Fullerton has me blocked on Twitter so I can't respond to her there, but in her thread she brings up one of the most egregious instances I've ever seen of US war propaganda in the mass media, so it's worth taking some time to unpack her claims here as a public service.

_____ (2023-01-16). Stop The Violence Against The Peruvian People. popularresistance.org The Peruvian people have been on the streets across the country to reject the coup that took constitutional president Pedro Castillo out of office on December 7. The Peruvian authorities have responded to these mass protests with brutal violence. As of today, Peruvian human rights organizations estimate that 48 people have been killed in the context of the protests and hundreds more have been injured. | Mainstream, corporate media in Peru has helped reinforce the government's narrative that those who are on the streets are "criminals", "terrorists" and that their demands are illegitimate. Meanwhile, independent a…

WSWS (2023-01-16). California floods cause estimated $31 billion in damage, 19 dead. wsws.org Corporate media tells residents to "learn to live with flooding."

Anonymous103 (2023-01-16). Ex-French Volunteer In Ukraine Asks For Asylum In Russia. southfront.org Illustrative ImageHe reported Kiev's crimes during his mission in Ukraine, becoming an "enemy" for NATO countries. | Written by Once again, the Western discourse that NATO countries are "democracies" and Russia a "dictatorship" is shaken by factual cases of political persecution and violation of freedom of expression and press in Western countries. A fo…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-16). Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right. transcend.org Crisis, indeed. The way out is a new discourse, less material, more spiritual; something to live for, not only from. Right now Wallerstein sees capitalism in crisis with no remedy–of which I am not so sure–and the US hegemony also in a crisis with no remedy–a view I share–, as the fall of an empire for which local elites used to kill and rule; now having to do most killings itself.

_____ (2023-01-16). House Republican Rules Package Designed To Enable Skewed Priorities. popularresistance.org The House Republican majority recently adopted a rules package to guide that chamber's legislative action that would put up steep barriers to investments in critical national needs while paving the way for ever more tax cuts, inevitably tilted toward the wealthy and profitable corporations. That isn't an agenda that will expand opportunity or support broadly shared economic growth. | Proponents describe the rules as "restoring fiscal sanity," but they just reflect an ideology that ignores reams of evidence showing that the tax cuts of recent decades haven't meaningfully boosted economic growth. The large tax cuts…

Adriaan Alsema (2023-01-16). Colombia spied on diplomats from Russia and Cuba: report. colombiareports.com Colombia's police spied on Russian and Cuban embassy personnel and their families between 2016 and 2019, according to evidence obtained by Noticias Uno. The leaked documents did not reveal if…

Anonymous103 (2023-01-16). New Evidence Of Torture Of Russian POWs By Ukrainians Emerged. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Several days ago, another video confirmed torture of Russian soldiers by Ukrainians was widely spread online. However, it was widely ignored by Ukrainian media and international MSM. Unidentified Ukrainians called mothers of two Russian prisoners of war (POW), threatening to kill their childs. Ukrainians demanded a large ransom for Russian soldiers. The Russian soldiers were tortured during the call. | On January 14, Russian High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova published video o…

_____ (2023-01-16). New York Times Moves To 'Stack The Deck Of Justice' Against Its Subscribers. popularresistance.org "Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice" was a headline on a groundbreaking New York Times report (10/31/15) from 2015. Reporters Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff looked into the fine-print "agreements" that people sign, usually without reading them, as a requirement for obtaining credit card memberships or cellphone contracts or internet service—contracts that tell you that if there is any problem with your account, the company "may elect to resolve any claim by individual arbitration." | The Times reporters rightfully described those nine words as "the center of a far-reaching po…

_____ (2023-01-16). The FBI's Crusade Against MLK Was Darker Than You Think. popularresistance.org "You are done. There is only one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation." That's the shocking ending to the infamous letter Civil Rights hero Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received in 1964 essentially urging him to commit suicide. The letter and accompanying package containing blackmail were sent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as King quickly caught on. While the full, unredacted letter was finally published by the New York Times in 2014, the audio recordings of an extensive FBI wiretapping operation targeting King have been sealed until 2027…