2023-01-17: News Headlines

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…

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