Daily Archives: February 5, 2023

2023-02-05: News Headlines

_____ (2023-02-04). On The Media Of 'Russiagate' And Related Fake Stories. popularresistance.org Last week Matt Taibbi, with access to Twitter's internal papers, debunked the fake Hamilton 68 propaganda dashboard that was used to create many stories about alleged Russian disinformation. I had done similar five years earlier but had no access to the original data. There were enough secondary indications to conclude that the dashboard was a sham. Still, have the case made with primary data is a valuable addition. | There has been no Russian influence or disinformation campaign. | Two days later the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) published a five part longread from an 18 month long investigation into the 'Rus…

WSWS (2023-02-04). Musician Steve Van Zandt propagandizes for imperialist war. wsws.org Van Zandt's reactionary, bloodthirsty comments would have no significance whatsoever—they would simply be more pro-war propaganda from the wealthy upper middle class in America—were it not for his celebrity and his musical history.

WSWS (2023-02-04). US issues ludicrous "spy balloon" charge against China. wsws.org The hysteria over the balloon points to the increasingly strident war propaganda emanating from Washington against China, as well as the potential for such a minor incident to be inflated to trigger a military conflict.

Staff (2023-02-04). AUDIO: David Swanson on Leaving WWII Behind with Donbass Devushka. davidswanson.org By Donbass Devushka, February 4, 2023 Donbass Devushka and JM sit down with David Swanson, author, activist, journalist and radio host, to talk about U.S. misconceptions of WWII, manufacturing consent, the war in Ukraine, and the peace movement. Check out David's book "Leaving WWII Behind" here: davidswanson.org/lwwiib

Mickey Z. (2023-02-04). Never Again? The Same Criminals Who Funded Hitler are Imposing Tyranny on Us Today. dissidentvoice.org Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharav's new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise …

_____ (2023-02-04). On The Media Of 'Russiagate' And Related Fake Stories. popularresistance.org Last week Matt Taibbi, with access to Twitter's internal papers, debunked the fake Hamilton 68 propaganda dashboard that was used to create many stories about alleged Russian disinformation. I had done similar five years earlier but had no access to the original data. There were enough secondary indications to conclude that the dashboard was a sham. Still, have the case made with primary data is a valuable addition. | There has been no Russian influence or disinformation campaign. | Two days later the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) published a five part longread from an 18 month long investigation into the 'Rus…

WSWS (2023-02-04). Musician Steve Van Zandt propagandizes for imperialist war. wsws.org Van Zandt's reactionary, bloodthirsty comments would have no significance whatsoever—they would simply be more pro-war propaganda from the wealthy upper middle class in America—were it not for his celebrity and his musical history.

WSWS (2023-02-04). US issues ludicrous "spy balloon" charge against China. wsws.org The hysteria over the balloon points to the increasingly strident war propaganda emanating from Washington against China, as well as the potential for such a minor incident to be inflated to trigger a military conflict.

Staff (2023-02-04). AUDIO: David Swanson on Leaving WWII Behind with Donbass Devushka. davidswanson.org By Donbass Devushka, February 4, 2023 Donbass Devushka and JM sit down with David Swanson, author, activist, journalist and radio host, to talk about U.S. misconceptions of WWII, manufacturing consent, the war in Ukraine, and the peace movement. Check out David's book "Leaving WWII Behind" here: davidswanson.org/lwwiib

Mickey Z. (2023-02-04). Never Again? The Same Criminals Who Funded Hitler are Imposing Tyranny on Us Today. dissidentvoice.org Like many of you, I watched parts of Vera Sharav's new documentary series, Never Again is Now Global, this week. With its sharp focus on the Holocaust and Nazi tactics in general, I felt the need to reach back into some of my older research and remind readers who was supporting and enabling the rise …

Orkan Okan, Leena Paakkari, Didier Jourdan, Vivian Barnekow, Martin W Weber (2023-02-04). [Correspondence] The urgent need to address health literacy in schools. thelancet.com The Editorial1 raised an important question: why is health literacy failing so many? It urgently called for effective responses to support people to better manage health information, but also to account for the environmental and social forces that shape people's choices. Overcoming the commercial determinants of health and the increase in disinformation on social media and the internet are being highlighted as key drivers of mistrust among people, families, and communities.

Editor (2023-02-05). Ralph Nader: The Progenitor of Inequalities — Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings. scheerpost.com By Ralph Nader The word "inequality" is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of "inequality" against human beings — the corporate entity itself. Ever since 1886 when a U.S. Supreme Court reporter, …

Ralph Nader (2023-02-04). The Progenitor of Inequalities: Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings. dissidentvoice.org The word "inequality" is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of "inequality" against human beings — the corporate entity itself. Ever since 1886 when a U.S. Supreme Court reporter, in a headnote …

_____ (2023-02-04). Truth About Tanks: How NATO Lied Its Way to Disaster in Ukraine. strategic-culture.org Tank warfare has evolved. The large force-on-force armored battles that were the hallmark of much of WWII, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, which served as the foundation of operational doctrine for both NATO and the Soviet Union (and which was implemented in full by the United States during Operation Desert Storm in 1991), has run its course.

_____ (2023-02-04). Will U.S. 'Interests' Become Sacrificed on Altar of New Indo-Pacific Strategy? strategic-culture.org The Anglo-American foreign policy hawks imagine that the world is yearning to be liberated from Beijing's nefarious agenda to end poverty | As the trans-Atlantic world is pulled into the vortex of a McCarthyite nightmare with a renewed wave of anti-Russian and now anti-China hysterics, a wave of new "Asia Pacific" doctrines have emerged across captured states… I mean "member" states throughout NATO. | Starting with the February 2022

Seye Abimbola (2023-02-04). [Perspectives] When dignity meets evidence. thelancet.com We are all entitled to dignity because we possess certain ethically important features. One of those human features is that we are knowers. We know things. We learn. We make sense of what we know. We interpret our realities and the systems within which we have our being. If this feature is not respected, one's dignity is violated. There is a kind of knowledge practice we may call dignity-based practice.

Linn Washington (2023-02-04). Sickening Similarities In Police Assaults Evidence Resilience Of Racism. thiscantbehappening.net Editor's note: Exclusive new information about Mumia Abu-Jamal in the sidebar below. This article incorporates that information. Raw racism deeply embedded in law enforcement connects the fatal January 7, 2023 police beating of a Black man in Memphis, Tennessee with a vicious December 9, 1981 police assault on a Black man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That … |

teleSUR (2023-02-04). Germany Declares No Russian Involvement in Nord Stream Attack. telesurenglish.net German Attorney General Peter Frank stated that there is no evidence of alleged Russian involvement in the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosions, adding that Sweden and Denmark are also conducting their own investigations. | RELATED: | "At the moment there is no evidence, the investigation is still ongoing," Frank told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper when asked about speculation by some politicians about alleg…

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