(2023-01-03). Ajamu Baraka: The Left Must Draw Clear Political And Ideological Lines. popularresistance.org As 2022 comes to an end and major crises abound, Clearing the FOG spoke with Ajamu Baraka, a long time human rights defender and co-founder of the Black Alliance for Peace, about the big picture of what is happening politically and upcoming opportunities to organize for change. Baraka discusses the continued move to the right in the United States by both of the major political parties and their voting bases, including those in the liberal class, the complicity of the corporate media and the rise of censorship and repression against those who do not adhere to the manufactured narrative. Baraka explains why the Lef…
(2023-01-02). Twitter Promoted Pentagon Propaganda to Whitewash Occupation, War Crimes in West Asia. orinocotribune.com By Fayha Shalash — Dec 27, 2022 | Raja' sat quietly in her living room, staring at her son's picture on the wall. She loved the way he smiled, and said she sees him in every corner of the house. But now, she only has painful memories, knowing his body is detained by Israeli occupation forces in an Israeli morgue. | Martyrs' families in the West Bank say Israeli policy to hold their children's bodies is a form of collective punishment. | Some of the bodies have been held since 2016. More than 118 Palestinian martyrs are still in the Israeli morgues, while 253 are buried in unknown cemeteries called 'the ceme…
(2023-01-02). US Spreads Misery By Imposing Sanctions On A Third Of Humanity. popularresistance.org On November 14, the Biden administration announced yet another round of sanctions on Russia, targeting this time Russia's military supply chains by imposing sanctions on 14 individuals and 28 entities that it said were part of a transnational network that procured technology to support Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine. | One of the companies blacklisted was Milandr, a Russian microelectronics company that Washington says is part of Moscow's military research and development structure. | The sanctions additionally targeted several aviation-related companies and two individuals—Abbas Djuma and Tigran Khristo…
(2023-01-02). The Truth Will Not Be Televised, with Katie Halper. mintpressnews.com Katie Halper's experience is but one example of the blacklisting that progressive voices face in the media, and she cites the influence of the pro-Israel lobby as one reason for this censorship,…
(2023-01-02). 'Nearly Every War Has Been the Result of Media Lies': Julian Assange, State-Corporate Media and Ukraine. transcend.org 14 Dec 2022 – Julian Assange once observed that, 'Nearly every war has been the result of media lies.' For daring to publish evidence of US war crimes, Assange now sits in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London, at risk of being extradited to the US within the next few weeks. The prospects for a fair trial range from miniscule to zero.
(2023-01-02). College Textbooks Cover the Climate Crisis Less Than They Did Before 2010. truthout.org This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Evidence is mounting fast of the devastating consequences of climate change on the planet, but college textbooks aren't keeping up. A recent study found that most college biology textbooks published in the 2010s contained less content on climate change than… |