Global Research News (2023-02-15). Selected Articles: Sy Hersh and the Way We Live Now. "The Propaganda Apparatus that Manipulates and Controls Our Society" globalresearch.ca By It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called Western democracies that …

Andi Olluri (2023-02-14). Militarism and Diplomacy in the South China Sea: The Propaganda Machine Is Mobilized. globalresearch.ca

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-14). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

Editor (2023-02-15). Bellicosity, bravado and blather. workers.org President Joe Biden's Feb. 7 State of the Union address offered no real surprises. Like any loyal imperialist politician, Biden included the obligatory pro-war rhetoric. He blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Ukraine war, calling it "a murderous assault, evoking images of the death and destruction Europe suffered in . . . |

Binoy Kampmark (2023-02-14). Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance. dissidentvoice.org Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing the destruction of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4. Since that disproportionately violent event, more public relations …

Liberation Staff (2023-02-14). PSL Editorial — Balloon frenzy exposes corporate media as arm of the Pentagon. liberationnews.org This frenzy has nothing to do with the privacy and security of people in the United States and everything to do with the long-standing desire of the Pentagon generals to contain, confront and even wage war against China.

Global Research News (2023-02-15). Selected Articles: Sy Hersh and the Way We Live Now. "The Propaganda Apparatus that Manipulates and Controls Our Society" globalresearch.ca By It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called Western democracies that …

Andi Olluri (2023-02-14). Militarism and Diplomacy in the South China Sea: The Propaganda Machine Is Mobilized. globalresearch.ca

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-14). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

Editor (2023-02-15). Bellicosity, bravado and blather. workers.org President Joe Biden's Feb. 7 State of the Union address offered no real surprises. Like any loyal imperialist politician, Biden included the obligatory pro-war rhetoric. He blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Ukraine war, calling it "a murderous assault, evoking images of the death and destruction Europe suffered in . . . |

Binoy Kampmark (2023-02-14). Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance. dissidentvoice.org Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing the destruction of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4. Since that disproportionately violent event, more public relations …

Liberation Staff (2023-02-14). PSL Editorial — Balloon frenzy exposes corporate media as arm of the Pentagon. liberationnews.org This frenzy has nothing to do with the privacy and security of people in the United States and everything to do with the long-standing desire of the Pentagon generals to contain, confront and even wage war against China.

Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad (2023-02-14). Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism. canadiandimension.com Days after the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Cuba sent a 30 person health brigade to assist in medical care to victims. Photo by Ismael Francisco. | Cuba, a country of eleven million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. | Despite this embargo, Cuba's people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill-health, and illiteracy, all three being social plagues that continue to trouble much of the world. | Due to its innovations in health care delivery, for instance, Cuba has been able to send its medical workers to other coun…

Noam Chomsky (2023-02-14). Chomsky y Prashad: Cuba no es un Estado patrocinador del terrorismo. peoplesdispatch.org La inclusión de Cuba en la lista de Estados patrocinadores del terrorismo de Estados Unidos ha restringido aún más su capacidad para adquirir bienes esenciales para su población.

Ben Rosenfeld, CounterPunch. (2023-02-14). Police Accountability Is A 'Non-Starter' Without Discarding The Qualified Immunity Doctrine. popularresistance.org Some reps in Congress assert that dismantling qualified immunity ("QI")—a police officer's so-called good faith defense to a civil rights lawsuit—is a "non-starter" in negotiations to pass the George Floyd Civil Rights Act. In reality, meaningful police accountability is a non-starter without discarding QI. | QI is a regressive framework which has turned federal civil rights lawsuits into sheer games of chance with bad odds. Under QI, the Supreme Court instructs judges to apply a two-pronged analysis, in a specific order: first to examine whether the right sought to be vindicated was clearly-establish…

Anonymous103 (2023-02-14). In Video: Russian Hackers Revealed Another Ukrainian Fake. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Kiev regime does not stop making fake news aimed at convincing its own population and the world community of the allegedly deplorable state of the Russian Army. This is not a difficult task, since many Ukrainians speak Russian and can play the role of fake Russian soldiers. | However, Ukrainian actors are not so professional and cannot play the role on the first take. Recently, Russian hackers leaked a video of an unsuccessful attempt by Ukrainians to play angry Russian soldiers. | The…

Cassie King press release (2023-02-15). Cal Students Hold Valentine's Day-Themed Protest Against University Sourcing from Factory Farms. indybay.org Cal Dining continues to buy from Tyson Foods, a company students say is abusing workers, animals, and the planet. Protestors hold heart-shaped signs outside of Golden Bear Cafe while calling on UC Berkeley to "break up with" worker abuse, pollution, and animal cruelty.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-15). Video: America is at War with Europe. globalresearch.ca The evidence amply confirms that The Nord Stream was the object of an act of sabotage ordered by President Joe Biden. | Nord Stream —which originates in Russia— transits through the (maritime) territorial jurisdiction of 4 member states of the EU. From a legal standpoint (International Law: UN Charter, Law of the Sea) this was a U.S. Act of War against the EU.

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-14). Russia Says NATO Should Hold Emergency Summit Over Nord Stream Sabotage. news.antiwar.com Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said over the weekend that NATO countries should hold an emergency summit over the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines after a report from journalist Seymour Hersh said US Navy divers planted explosives on the pipelines. "There have been plenty of facts: pipeline explosions, motives and indirect evidence obtained …

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). Approaches to Prevention of Firearm Violence. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The recent Viewpoint entitled "Firearms, Suicide, and Approaches for Prevention" focused on lethal means safety, an essential element of evidence-based suicide prevention programs. This approach limits access by either removing firearms from the home or by improving the security of home storage. However, lethal means safety does not cover a large subgroup of suicidal or potentially suicidal people: those who are inclined to use a firearm for suicide but have not yet purchased a weapon.

jamanetwork (2023-02-14). USPSTF Review: Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes. jamanetwork.com This systematic review to support the 2023 US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement on serologic screening for genital herpes summarizes published evidence on the benefits and harms of screening and interventions for genital herpes in asymptomatic sexually active adolescents, adults, and pregnant persons with no clinical history of genital herpes.

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-02-14). Take Action To Demand Justice For Our Political Prisoners. popularresistance.org This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with two advocates for the freedom of political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. Mumia Abu-Jamal is waiting to hear if Judge Lucretia Clemons will grant a new hearing on his case that includes new evidence of corruption in the legal process that led to his false conviction. On February 16, port workers will strike on the West Coast in support of an international day of action in for Mumia. Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio talks about his case and the carceral state. Leonard Peltier has now served almost 50 years in prison on a murder charge involving FBI agents. Col…

Janine Jackson, Fairness, Accuracy In Reporting. (2023-02-14). Gigi Sohn Has Faced Relentless Smear Campaigns, Some Funded By Telecoms. popularresistance.org Gigi Sohn was nominated by Joe Biden to fill the vacant fifth seat at the Federal Communications Commission in October of 2021, and renominated for a third time last month. Sohn is a veteran legal telecom expert, a fellow at Georgetown Law, co-founder of the group Public Knowledge, and for years an advisor to former FCC chair Tom Wheeler. | Hundreds of groups, officials, companies—left, right and center—have publicly endorsed her. So why has her nomination languished? | Therein lies the tale—a disheartening one of outsized corporate power and the denaturing of government's public interest obliga…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). Health disparities in preventive screenings for African Americans. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BARRON, Wis. — Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way to screen for every illness or cancer, but it does offer great screening tools for some. Things like pap smears, mammograms, colon cancer screenings and vaccines save lives every day. "As a family physician, I come…

Richard Norton-Taylor (2023-02-14). Stopping 'Subversives': The BBC and the Spooks. globalresearch.ca

americanthinker (2023-02-14). It's finally dawning on the New York Times that gun-free zones don't work. americanthinker.com We need to forget the idea that disarming the innocent will protect them.

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-15). US Wants to Help Ukraine Retake More Territory Before Negotiating With Putin. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported on Monday that Biden administration officials say they want to help Ukraine retake as much territory as it can from Russia over the next few months before they sit down at the negotiation table with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The report, which cited unnamed Biden administration officials, said that some "optimists" …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-15). WaPo: Chinese Balloon Wound Up in the US Due to Unexpected Weather. news.antiwar.com The Chinese balloon that wound up over the continental United States likely ended up there by accident due to unexpected weather, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. US officials told…

Sharon Zhang (2023-02-14). 2022 Was Worst Year for School Shootings "by Nearly Every Meaningful Measure" truthout.org The U.S.'s gun violence crisis is shattering records as the number of school shootings hit a record high in 2022, according to a grim new analysis released on the fifth anniversary of the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Tuesday. According to The Washington Post, there were 46 shootings at K-12 schools in 2022, surpassing 2021's record of 42 school shootings. |

Andi Olluri (2023-02-14). Militarism and Diplomacy in the South China Sea: The Propaganda Machine Is Mobilized. globalresearch.ca

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-14). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-13). Antifascists Remove and Burn Neo-Nazi Flyers Targeting Lakeland, FL Community. itsgoingdown.org Report on antifascist clean-up of the Lakeland, Florida neighborhood, after neo-Nazis dropped flyers. On the 11th of February, the neo-Nazi group the Goyim Defense League (GDL), threw trash propaganda onto people's lawns and driveways in Lakeland, FL. The fliers were in bags weighted with corn and with rat food pellets, similar to incidents of KKK…

Craig Murray (2023-02-13). Sy Hersh and the Way We Live Now. "The Propaganda Apparatus that Manipulates and Controls our Society" globalresearch.ca

Binoy Kampmark (2023-02-14). Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance. dissidentvoice.org Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing the destruction of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4. Since that disproportionately violent event, more public relations …

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-02-13). The Chris Hedges Report: Matt Taibbi On Russiagate And Censorship. popularresistance.org Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, revelations that a Russian disinformation campaign had helped sweep the 45th president to power shook the media and the wider culture. The unfolding drama of the Mueller Report and a Senate investigative panel gripped the nation for the next four years. But now, journalist Matt Taibbi has revealed that the source of many of the claims of ongoing Russian disinformation during the Trump presidency, Hamilton 68, was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former US intelligence officials. Matt Taibbi joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his findings and dissect…

Andi Olluri (2023-02-14). Militarism and Diplomacy in the South China Sea: The Propaganda Machine Is Mobilized. globalresearch.ca

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-14). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

Anonymous Contributor (2023-02-13). Antifascists Remove and Burn Neo-Nazi Flyers Targeting Lakeland, FL Community. itsgoingdown.org Report on antifascist clean-up of the Lakeland, Florida neighborhood, after neo-Nazis dropped flyers. On the 11th of February, the neo-Nazi group the Goyim Defense League (GDL), threw trash propaganda onto people's lawns and driveways in Lakeland, FL. The fliers were in bags weighted with corn and with rat food pellets, similar to incidents of KKK…

Craig Murray (2023-02-13). Sy Hersh and the Way We Live Now. "The Propaganda Apparatus that Manipulates and Controls our Society" globalresearch.ca

Binoy Kampmark (2023-02-14). Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance. dissidentvoice.org Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent commanding chief, one General Glen VanHerck, has abandoned any initial sense of frankness in discussing the destruction of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon on February 4. Since that disproportionately violent event, more public relations …

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-02-13). The Chris Hedges Report: Matt Taibbi On Russiagate And Censorship. popularresistance.org Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, revelations that a Russian disinformation campaign had helped sweep the 45th president to power shook the media and the wider culture. The unfolding drama of the Mueller Report and a Senate investigative panel gripped the nation for the next four years. But now, journalist Matt Taibbi has revealed that the source of many of the claims of ongoing Russian disinformation during the Trump presidency, Hamilton 68, was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former US intelligence officials. Matt Taibbi joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his findings and dissect…

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-13). Garland Nixon Interview False Flags, Psyops & UFOs, Oh MY! thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is host and political analyst Garland Nixon, here to discuss the recently exposed false flag that was the Nord Stream attack, as well as the madness surrounding the "unidentified flying objects" that are being reported by the corporate media, and what the true agenda behind them may be. (www.rokfin.com/TLAVagabond) (www.bitchute.com/channel/24yVcta8zEjY/) Source Links:

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-13). Garland Nixon Interview — False Flags, Psyops & UFOs, Oh MY! thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is host and political analyst Garland Nixon, here to discuss the recently exposed false flag that was the Nord Stream attack, as well as the madness surrounding the "unidentified flying objects" that are being reported by the corporate media, and what the true agenda behind them may be. (www.rokfin.com/TLAVagabond) (www.bitchute.com/channel/24yVcta8zEjY/) Source Links:

Brittani Banks (2023-02-13). Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism. independentmediainstitute.org

Rania Khalek (2023-02-13). US Eyes Resources In Latin America, Escalates Against China, w/ Ben Norton. thealtworld.com With the United States hyper focused on Russia and China, it's easy to forget that the empire is still up to its old tricks in the rest of the Global South. What does the insatiable U.S. imperialist appetite mean for the resource-rich countries of Latin America? | After all, that copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas in Peru, the lithium in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, and the oil in Venezuela isn't gonna steal itself. How is the Cold War with Russia and China playing out throughout the region as the United States dusts off the so-called Monroe Doctrine? And how can this new multipolar era bene…

Cassie King press release (2023-02-14). Cal Students Hold Valentine's Day-Themed Protest Against University Sourcing from Factory Farms. indybay.org Cal Dining continues to buy from Tyson Foods, a company students say is abusing workers, animals, and the planet. Protestors hold heart-shaped signs outside of Golden Bear Cafe while calling on UC Berkeley to "break up with" worker abuse, pollution, and animal cruelty.

Volker Schuhmacher, Roland Rottenfusser (2023-02-13). The brainwashing plant and Against forgetting. indybay.org Klaus Schwab created a suitable stage for his ideology in the WEF. Wikipedia quotes Forbes magazine, "According to Forbes magazine, the WEF's Great Reset agenda is 'another example of how rich, powerful elites assuage their consciences with phony efforts to help the masses, making themselves even richer and more powerful in the process'" (15).

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-14). Russia Says NATO Should Hold Emergency Summit Over Nord Stream Sabotage. news.antiwar.com Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said over the weekend that NATO countries should hold an emergency summit over the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines after a report from journalist Seymour Hersh said US Navy divers planted explosives on the pipelines. "There have been plenty of facts: pipeline explosions, motives and indirect evidence obtained …

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-02-14). Take Action To Demand Justice For Our Political Prisoners. popularresistance.org This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with two advocates for the freedom of political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. Mumia Abu-Jamal is waiting to hear if Judge Lucretia Clemons will grant a new hearing on his case that includes new evidence of corruption in the legal process that led to his false conviction. On February 16, port workers will strike on the West Coast in support of an international day of action in for Mumia. Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio talks about his case and the carceral state. Leonard Peltier has now served almost 50 years in prison on a murder charge involving FBI agents. Col…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-14). Health disparities in preventive screenings for African Americans. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BARRON, Wis. — Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way to screen for every illness or cancer, but it does offer great screening tools for some. Things like pap smears, mammograms, colon cancer screenings and vaccines save lives every day. "As a family physician, I come…

americanthinker (2023-02-14). It's finally dawning on the New York Times that gun-free zones don't work. americanthinker.com We need to forget the idea that disarming the innocent will protect them.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-13). How the USA Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline. transcend.org 8 Feb 2022 – The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-13). The New York Times Is Orwell's Ministry of Truth. transcend.org It doesn't take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.

Dr. Wilmer Leon, Garland Nixon, Consortium News. (2023-02-13). Ray McGovern: Nord Stream Attack An 'Act Of War'. popularresistance.org Sy Hersh has a piece at his Substack account entitled How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline. The New York Times called it a, quote unquote mystery. But the United States executed a covert C.I.A. operation that was kept secret until now. For insight into this, let's turn to our first guest. He works with Tell the World, The publishing arm of the Ecumenical Church of the Savior in inner city Washington; has 27 year career as a C.I.A. analyst, serving as chief of the Soviet foreign policy branch and preparing the president's daily brief. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and…

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-13). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

americanthinker (2023-02-12). Conservative media needs to develop an eco-system that isn't an echo chamber. americanthinker.com Now that revelations have come out about the big-bucks blacklisting of conservative media outlets, what is to be done?>

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-02-13). The Chris Hedges Report: Matt Taibbi On Russiagate And Censorship. popularresistance.org Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, revelations that a Russian disinformation campaign had helped sweep the 45th president to power shook the media and the wider culture. The unfolding drama of the Mueller Report and a Senate investigative panel gripped the nation for the next four years. But now, journalist Matt Taibbi has revealed that the source of many of the claims of ongoing Russian disinformation during the Trump presidency, Hamilton 68, was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former US intelligence officials. Matt Taibbi joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his findings and dissect…

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-13). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

americanthinker (2023-02-12). Conservative media needs to develop an eco-system that isn't an echo chamber. americanthinker.com Now that revelations have come out about the big-bucks blacklisting of conservative media outlets, what is to be done?>

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2023-02-13). The Chris Hedges Report: Matt Taibbi On Russiagate And Censorship. popularresistance.org Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, revelations that a Russian disinformation campaign had helped sweep the 45th president to power shook the media and the wider culture. The unfolding drama of the Mueller Report and a Senate investigative panel gripped the nation for the next four years. But now, journalist Matt Taibbi has revealed that the source of many of the claims of ongoing Russian disinformation during the Trump presidency, Hamilton 68, was itself a disinformation operation concocted by former US intelligence officials. Matt Taibbi joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his findings and dissect…

Noam Chomsky (2023-02-12). Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism. peoplesdispatch.org Despite this embargo, Cuba's people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill-health, and illiteracy, all three being social plagues that continue to trouble much of the world. | Due to its innovations in health care delivery, for instance, Cuba has been able to send its medical workers to other countries, including during the pandemic, to provide vital assistance. Cuba exports its medical workers, not terrorism. | In the last days of the Trump administration, the US government returned Cuba to its State Sponsor of Terrorism list. | This was a vindictive act. Trump said it was because Cuba played…

Staff (2023-02-12). The Twentieth Century Reshaped the Monroe Doctrine. davidswanson.org

Editor (2023-02-12). Pentagon Wants To Return Special Ops Propagandists To Ukraine. scheerpost.com By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack An article by The Washington Post titled "Pentagon looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine" contains some interesting information about what US special ops forces were doing in Ukraine in the lead-up to the Russian invasion last year, and what they are slated to be doing there in the future. …

Cassie King press release (2023-02-13). Cal Students Hold Valentine's Day-Themed Protest Against University Sourcing from Factory Farms. indybay.org Cal Dining continues to buy from Tyson Foods, a company students say is abusing workers, animals, and the planet. Protestors hold heart-shaped signs outside of Golden Bear Cafe while calling on UC Berkeley to "break up with" worker abuse, pollution, and animal cruelty.

Volker Schuhmacher, Roland Rottenfusser (2023-02-13). The brainwashing plant and Against forgetting. indybay.org Klaus Schwab created a suitable stage for his ideology in the WEF. Wikipedia quotes Forbes magazine, "According to Forbes magazine, the WEF's Great Reset agenda is 'another example of how rich, powerful elites assuage their consciences with phony efforts to help the masses, making themselves even richer and more powerful in the process'" (15).

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-13). Health disparities in preventive screenings for African Americans. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BARRON, Wis. — Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way to screen for every illness or cancer, but it does offer great screening tools for some. Things like pap smears, mammograms, colon cancer screenings and vaccines save lives every day. "As a family physician, I come…

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-12). Pentagon Wants to Restart Special Ops Programs Inside Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon is looking to restart special operations programs that it was conducting inside Ukraine before Russia invaded last year, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The programs, known as surrogate operations, involve employing Ukrainian operatives to track Russian military movements and information warfare. The Ukrainians involved in the programs would be overseen by US …

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-10). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-09). POLICE TERROR–RACIST ARROW TIP LAUNCHED AGAINST ALL WORKERS. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

_____ (2023-02-09). Biden's Populist Speech Can't Cover Up Capitalist Crisis. popularresistance.org President Biden gave his second State of the Union address on Tuesday, marking the halfway point of his first presidential term. The speech was characterized by enthusiasm for the economy, populist rhetoric, and bipartisanship. But Biden's sunny characterization of his administration's achievements and plans painted a picture of the United States that doesn't reflect the reality of hundreds of millions of working and poor people. It didn't reflect the deep structural crisis his administration is trying desperately to stabilize — a crisis whose symptoms include a shaky economy, increased geopolitical tension…

americanthinker (2023-02-09). Whoopi Goldberg's ignorance is showing, and the consequences of her 'misinformation' are disastrous. americanthinker.com "The View" is a cesspool of "misinformation and disinformation".

Peter Koenig (2023-02-09). Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror? No Evidence Sofar. globalresearch.ca

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-10). Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-09). POLICE TERROR–RACIST ARROW TIP LAUNCHED AGAINST ALL WORKERS. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

_____ (2023-02-09). Biden's Populist Speech Can't Cover Up Capitalist Crisis. popularresistance.org President Biden gave his second State of the Union address on Tuesday, marking the halfway point of his first presidential term. The speech was characterized by enthusiasm for the economy, populist rhetoric, and bipartisanship. But Biden's sunny characterization of his administration's achievements and plans painted a picture of the United States that doesn't reflect the reality of hundreds of millions of working and poor people. It didn't reflect the deep structural crisis his administration is trying desperately to stabilize — a crisis whose symptoms include a shaky economy, increased geopolitical tension…

americanthinker (2023-02-09). Whoopi Goldberg's ignorance is showing, and the consequences of her 'misinformation' are disastrous. americanthinker.com "The View" is a cesspool of "misinformation and disinformation".

Peter Koenig (2023-02-09). Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror? No Evidence Sofar. globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-09). China Says It Was Smeared in Biden's State of the Union Address. news.antiwar.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday spoke out against President Biden's State of the Union Address, where he took aim at Beijing and said the "competition" with China should unite Americans. "China does not shy away or flinch from competition. However, we are opposed to defining the entire China-US relations by competition," Chinese Foreign Ministry …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-10). Ukraine Relies on Intelligence from US for HIMARS Rocket Strikes. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported Thursday that Ukraine is reliant on coordinates provided or confirmed by the US and its allies to launch strikes using the US-provided HIMARS rocket systems, a revelation that demonstrates Washington's deep involvement in the war. The HIMARS is a precision-guided artillery system, one that Ukraine has employed quite a bit in …

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-09). POLICE TERROR–RACIST ARROW TIP LAUNCHED AGAINST ALL WORKERS. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

DLI (2023-02-08). Uncle Sam went ballistic over a balloon? indybay.org Last week, the volume of hot air spewed out by the Corporate media–magnifying even that from the Pentagon and State Dept.–was probably enough to fill 100X the size of the Chinese balloon! Notwithstanding the Chinese admission that it was a weather balloon blown off course, the US government response was nothing short of Cold War propaganda on steroids!

Drago Bosnic (2023-02-08). Another Absurd US Media Statement: China Has More ICBMs Than America. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-02-08). Selected Articles: How the Super-Rich Destroy Our Minds. globalresearch.ca By The tools they use to pursue this war against the citizens of the Earth are technology, propaganda and disinformation campaigns, threats against individuals who display leadership skills …

Nayvin Gordon, M.D. (2023-02-09). POLICE TERROR–RACIST ARROW TIP LAUNCHED AGAINST ALL WORKERS. indybay.org Police and propaganda, corporate mass media control of the public mind…

DLI (2023-02-08). Uncle Sam went ballistic over a balloon? indybay.org Last week, the volume of hot air spewed out by the Corporate media–magnifying even that from the Pentagon and State Dept.–was probably enough to fill 100X the size of the Chinese balloon! Notwithstanding the Chinese admission that it was a weather balloon blown off course, the US government response was nothing short of Cold War propaganda on steroids!

Drago Bosnic (2023-02-08). Another Absurd US Media Statement: China Has More ICBMs Than America. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-02-08). Selected Articles: How the Super-Rich Destroy Our Minds. globalresearch.ca By The tools they use to pursue this war against the citizens of the Earth are technology, propaganda and disinformation campaigns, threats against individuals who display leadership skills …

Richard Saville (2023-02-08). Spreading anti-communist hot air: Washington's balloon warfare against the USSR. peoplesworld.org LONDON—On Feb. 3, 1956, astonished residents in the U.K. towns of Lewisham, Pinner, and Farnborough were greeted with the news that several U.S. propaganda balloons had crash-landed locally. Appearing in the local press and the publication World News, the report brought the Cold War to Britons' very doorsteps, quite literally. This was not the first …

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-02-08). New Cold War Propaganda: About China's Spy Balloon and the US Spy Planes That Have Violated the Airspace of Sovereign Nations. globalresearch.ca

Dan Bacher (2023-02-08). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

Staff (2023-02-08). Biden's SOTU Climate Rhetoric Isn't Enough: He Must End Drilling, Activists Say. truthout.org President Joe Biden said during his State of the Union address Tuesday that the climate crisis is an "existential threat" and political leaders have an obligation to confront it. Seconds later, the president briefly deviated from his prepared remarks to add, "We're still going to need oil and gas for a while" — prompting applause from Republican lawmakers. To climate advocates… |

teleSUR (2023-02-08). US-China Trade Hits Record Despite Decoupling Rhetoric. telesurenglish.net Newly released U.S. official data showed that goods trade between the United States and China hit a record US$690.6 billion in 2022, indicating robust trade growth amid bilateral tensions and decoupling rhetoric. | RELATED: | The U.S. Commerce Department data, which are not adjusted for inflation, showed that goods exports to China increased by US$2.4 billion to US$153.8 billion and imports increased by US$31.8 bill…

Yadullah Shahibzadeh (2023-02-08). Intellectuals and the Imperialist Affairs. dissidentvoice.org From time to time, academics, and journalists from the Global South, express their disappointment with what they call Western progressive intellectuals. These "progressive intellectuals" are accused of criticizing the imperialist policies of their governments and the propagandist nature of the mainstream media in general terms while relying on the same misinformation and disinformation that the …

scorinoco (2023-02-08). Neo-Compradors: The Leftist Foot Soldiers of Imperialism. orinocotribune.com By Sammy Ismail Feb 2, 2023 | A review of James Petras' NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism. | NGOs: In The Service of Imperialism by James Petras scientifically unpacks imperialism in contemporary communities of the global south. Prompted by the premise that capitalism, and by extension imperialism, is constantly evolving in an effort to perpetuate itself. James Petras takes neo-compradors as the unit of analysis for his study of imperialism. | The purpose of studies like this is a profound frustration with contemporary leftist discourse which has distorted Scientific Socialism, under the pretext of modern…

_____ (2023-02-08). On the matter of North Korean spies in South Korea. journal-neo.org The conservatives' offensive against the opposition is partly carried out under the slogans of searching for pro-Pyongyang NGOs and North Korean spies, and in this regard here's a digest of the most famous espionage scandals of recent years. An underground activist network or another crackdown on unions? Recall, back on August 6, 2021, four activists …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-09). China Says It Was Smeared in Biden's State of the Union Address. news.antiwar.com The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday spoke out against President Biden's State of the Union Address, where he took aim at Beijing and said the "competition" with China should unite Americans. "China does not shy away or flinch from competition. However, we are opposed to defining the entire China-US relations by competition," Chinese Foreign Ministry …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). Health disparities in preventive screenings for African Americans. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BARRON, Wis. — Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way to screen for every illness or cancer, but it does offer great screening tools for some. Things like pap smears, mammograms, colon cancer screenings and vaccines save lives every day. "As a family physician, I come…

Paul Haeder (2023-02-08). Is It a Monkey Wrench or C4, or Some Form of War? dissidentvoice.org The insanity of America just never slips, as the men and women who have done an amazing bunch of PSYOPS on the American public since, oh, hell, before Randoph Hearst' and Pulitzer's Yellow Journalism, are coming at us like gangbusters. The military wars being plotted now, the economic wars of old and present, the war …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-08). How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline. libya360.wordpress.com Seymour Hersh "Biden's decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington's national security community . . ." The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now NORD STREAM The U.S….

DLI (2023-02-08). Uncle Sam went ballistic over a balloon? indybay.org Last week, the volume of hot air spewed out by the Corporate media–magnifying even that from the Pentagon and State Dept.–was probably enough to fill 100X the size of the Chinese balloon! Notwithstanding the Chinese admission that it was a weather balloon blown off course, the US government response was nothing short of Cold War propaganda on steroids!

Drago Bosnic (2023-02-08). Another Absurd US Media Statement: China Has More ICBMs Than America. globalresearch.ca

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-02-08). New Cold War Propaganda: About China's Spy Balloon and the US Spy Planes That Have Violated the Airspace of Sovereign Nations. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-02-08). Selected Articles: How the Super-Rich Destroy Our Minds. globalresearch.ca By The tools they use to pursue this war against the citizens of the Earth are technology, propaganda and disinformation campaigns, threats against individuals who display leadership skills …

Dan Bacher (2023-02-08). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

DLI (2023-02-08). Uncle Sam went ballistic over a balloon? indybay.org Last week, the volume of hot air spewed out by the Corporate media–magnifying even that from the Pentagon and State Dept.–was probably enough to fill 100X the size of the Chinese balloon! Notwithstanding the Chinese admission that it was a weather balloon blown off course, the US government response was nothing short of Cold War propaganda on steroids!

Drago Bosnic (2023-02-08). Another Absurd US Media Statement: China Has More ICBMs Than America. globalresearch.ca

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2023-02-08). New Cold War Propaganda: About China's Spy Balloon and the US Spy Planes That Have Violated the Airspace of Sovereign Nations. globalresearch.ca

Global Research News (2023-02-08). Selected Articles: How the Super-Rich Destroy Our Minds. globalresearch.ca By The tools they use to pursue this war against the citizens of the Earth are technology, propaganda and disinformation campaigns, threats against individuals who display leadership skills …

Dan Bacher (2023-02-08). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

_____ (2023-02-08). On the matter of North Korean spies in South Korea. journal-neo.org The conservatives' offensive against the opposition is partly carried out under the slogans of searching for pro-Pyongyang NGOs and North Korean spies, and in this regard here's a digest of the most famous espionage scandals of recent years. An underground activist network or another crackdown on unions? Recall, back on August 6, 2021, four activists …

Fight Back (2023-02-07). Protesters turn out for Tyre Nichols and all victims of police murders in New Orleans. fightbacknews.org New Orleans, LA – On Monday, January 30, 100 demonstrators rallied at city hall to call for justice for Tyre Nichols and all victims of police crimes. They then marched to Jackson Square, a tourist hub in the French Quarter. Malikah Asante-Chioke spoke about her father who was killed by Louisiana state police. | Toni Mar, representing New Orleans for Community Oversight of Police (NOCOP), denounced the killings. | As the demonstrators marched through the French Quarter they chanted slogans such as "When killer cops are on patrol, what do you demand? Community control!" | NOCOP members passed out literature cal…

Ann Brown (2023-02-07). The Scientific Evidence Against Lord Jamar's Spook And Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Denial. moguldom.com Lord Jamar is one of the founding members of the legendary hip-hop group the Brand Nubians. The New Rochelle, NY-based group was known for their politically charged and socially conscious rhymes in the 1990s. Today, Jamar is shocking people not with his lyrics but with his beliefs about the trans-Atlantic slave trade. In short, he …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-02-08). Health disparities in preventive screenings for African Americans. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org BARRON, Wis. — Preventive health screenings are important for everyone, yet these simple and routine things are not readily available to some. Nothing in life is perfect, medicine included. The health care system has not figured out a way to screen for every illness or cancer, but it does offer great screening tools for some. Things like pap smears, mammograms, colon cancer screenings and vaccines save lives every day. "As a family physician, I come…

Jake Johnson (2023-02-07). In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts 'lucrative system of for-profit medicine'. nationofchange.org "Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."

_____ (2023-02-07). A Memo and Balloon Help Media Inflate China War Hype. strategic-culture.org The shooting down of a Chinese balloon near Charleston (New York Times, 2/5/23) and an Air Force general's prediction of a war with China (NBC, 1/27/23) have ignited media talk of the possibility of confrontation between the two nuclear powers. It's scary stuff, indeed, but the media hype is dangerously overblown.

Staff (2023-02-07). Warren, Sanders Slam Restaurant Lobby For Making Workers Fund Anti-Worker Battle. truthout.org Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) are demanding answers from the U.S.'s leading restaurant industry group after an explosive New York Times investigation revealed that the group has, unbeknownst to workers, used millions of dollars of workers' own pocket money to lobby against raising their wages. In a letter to National Restaurant Association (NRA)… |

americanthinker (2023-02-07). Biden's SOTU puffery of his achievements will fall on deaf ears as polls show majority think he's accomplished little or nothing. americanthinker.com Even the Democrats' house organ, the Washington Post, sees the problem…

WSWS (2023-02-07). Biden aide says door is open to discussing spending cuts with Republicans. wsws.org Washington Post urges attack on Social Security and Medicare after debt ceiling is raised.

DLI (2023-02-07). Uncle Sam went ballistic over a balloon? indybay.org Last week, the volume of hot air spewed out by the Corporate media–magnifying even that from the Pentagon and State Dept.–was probably enough to fill 100X the size of the Chinese balloon! Notwithstanding the Chinese admission that it was a weather balloon blown off course, the US government response was nothing short of Cold War propaganda on steroids!

WSWS (2023-02-06). US media whips up anti-Chinese hysteria over balloon flight. wsws.org Over the past four days, the media has subjected the population to a barrage of war propaganda centered on the absurd claim that China sent a huge balloon visible to the naked eye to secretly spy on US nuclear bases.

Dan Bacher (2023-02-07). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

DLI (2023-02-07). Uncle Sam went ballistic over a balloon? indybay.org Last week, the volume of hot air spewed out by the Corporate media–magnifying even that from the Pentagon and State Dept.–was probably enough to fill 100X the size of the Chinese balloon! Notwithstanding the Chinese admission that it was a weather balloon blown off course, the US government response was nothing short of Cold War propaganda on steroids!

WSWS (2023-02-06). US media whips up anti-Chinese hysteria over balloon flight. wsws.org Over the past four days, the media has subjected the population to a barrage of war propaganda centered on the absurd claim that China sent a huge balloon visible to the naked eye to secretly spy on US nuclear bases.

Dan Bacher (2023-02-07). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

_____ (2023-02-06). A Parliamentary Republic in Mongolia: Why Russia isn't Losing Anything. journal-neo.org In the last months of 2022 and now in the first decades of 2023, political and civil society discourse in Mongolia has resumed with calls for constitutional change. Calls for legislative change became especially loud when the largest corruption scandal in the country's recent history was uncovered, involving the theft of coal from Mongolia's strategic …

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-02-06). The Real Causes of the Growing Inequality. thealtworld.com This TED talk by a rich man calling for a new economics misrepresents the causes and cure for the extraordinary increase in the inequality of American income and wealth in the past 23 years | The real causes are the offshoring of US manufacturing jobs, mass immigration of poor people due to open borders, imposition of the doctrine that corporations only have responsibility to share holders, economic concentration and non-enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, years of money printing bailout of the financial system that drove bond and stock prices up, and the financializati…

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-02-06). Can the American Leviathan Be Tamed? thealtworld.com Founding Fathers warned against going abroad in search of monsters to destroy. When Washington takes its wars, slogans, and coups abroad, generations of writers have characterized the aggression as seeking monsters to destroy. Washington has benefitted from the cover offered by the slogan, justifying mayhem inflicted on the world as overthrowing dictators and bringing democracy. | In his just published book, In Search of Monsters to Destroy (Independent Institute, 2022), Christopher J. Coyne, Independent Institute Fellow and economics professor at George Mason University, takes these claims at face value. He demo…

Ann Brown (2023-02-06). Fact Check: Almost 3 Million Immigrants Cross American Border Illegally Each Year. moguldom.com In 2022, immigrants crossed over the American borders illegally at a record number, reaching nearly 3 million. According to Customs and Border Protection data, in the fiscal year 2022, undocumented immigrants crossing into the country topped 2.76 million, breaking the previous record. The spike was caused by increased numbers of Venezuelans, Cubans, and Nicaraguans trying to …

Anonymous103 (2023-02-06). German Prosecutor Found No Russian Involvement In Gas Pipeline Sabotage. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe possibility of NATO's implication seems the most plausible at present. | Written by It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the West's unsubstantiated narrative that Russia sabotaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines. Now, even some German officials are beginning to admit that there is no evidence to blame Moscow for the cr…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-06). Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization. transcend.org 30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.

Katu Arkonada (2023-02-06). A change in U.S. strategy for the destabilization of Venezuela. liberationnews.org As part of this change in strategy in recent times, an organization called "Movimiento Ciudadano 21 de Noviembre" (MC-21N) was formed, whose subversive strategy has the objective of overthrowing the government of Nicolás Maduro…

WSWS (2023-02-07). Biden aide says door is open to discussing spending cuts with Republicans. wsws.org Washington Post urges attack on Social Security and Medicare after debt ceiling is raised.

Suneal Kolluri (2023-02-06). Where The New Advanced Placement African American Studies Course Falls Short. newsone.com Joshua Titer looks over his course notes during an Advanced Placement African American Studies, for the first time ever, at Baltimore Polytechnic on September 28, 2022, in Baltimore, Maryland. | Source: The Washington Post / Getty | On Feb. 1, 2023— the first day of Black History Month — the College Board released the Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of…

Bilal G. Morris (2023-02-06). DOJ To Participate In Independent Review Of Memphis P.D. After Tyre Nichols' Deadly Attack. newsone.com Source: The Washington Post / Getty | The U.S. Justice Department will partake in an external review of the Memphis Police Department after five officers beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to death after a routine traffic stop. |

WSWS (2023-02-06). US media whips up anti-Chinese hysteria over balloon flight. wsws.org Over the past four days, the media has subjected the population to a barrage of war propaganda centered on the absurd claim that China sent a huge balloon visible to the naked eye to secretly spy on US nuclear bases.

Dan Bacher (2023-02-06). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

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, …

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-02-06). The Real Causes of the Growing Inequality. thealtworld.com This TED talk by a rich man calling for a new economics misrepresents the causes and cure for the extraordinary increase in the inequality of American income and wealth in the past 23 years | The real causes are the offshoring of US manufacturing jobs, mass immigration of poor people due to open borders, imposition of the doctrine that corporations only have responsibility to share holders, economic concentration and non-enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, years of money printing bailout of the financial system that drove bond and stock prices up, and the financializati…

Staff (2023-02-05). The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood. davidswanson.org

_____ (2023-02-05). They're Not Worried About 'Russian Influence', They're Worried About Dissent. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | I know I'm not a Russian propagandist. I'm not paid by Russia, I have no connections to Russia, and until I started this political commentary gig in 2016 I thought very little about Russia. My opinions about the western empire sometimes turn up on Russian media because I

WSWS (2023-02-06). US media whips up anti-Chinese hysteria over balloon flight. wsws.org Over the past four days, the media has subjected the population to a barrage of war propaganda centered on the absurd claim that China sent a huge balloon visible to the naked eye to secretly spy on US nuclear bases.

Dan Bacher (2023-02-06). Big Oil spent over $34.2 million lobbying California officials in the 2021-22 session. indybay.org WSPA and Big Oil wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) creating alliances with labor unions; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) sponsoring awards ceremonies, including those for legislators and journalists.

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, …

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-02-06). The Real Causes of the Growing Inequality. thealtworld.com This TED talk by a rich man calling for a new economics misrepresents the causes and cure for the extraordinary increase in the inequality of American income and wealth in the past 23 years | The real causes are the offshoring of US manufacturing jobs, mass immigration of poor people due to open borders, imposition of the doctrine that corporations only have responsibility to share holders, economic concentration and non-enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, years of money printing bailout of the financial system that drove bond and stock prices up, and the financializati…

Staff (2023-02-05). The Monroe Doctrine Is Soaked in Blood. davidswanson.org

_____ (2023-02-05). They're Not Worried About 'Russian Influence', They're Worried About Dissent. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | I know I'm not a Russian propagandist. I'm not paid by Russia, I have no connections to Russia, and until I started this political commentary gig in 2016 I thought very little about Russia. My opinions about the western empire sometimes turn up on Russian media because I

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-02-06). Can the American Leviathan Be Tamed? thealtworld.com Founding Fathers warned against going abroad in search of monsters to destroy. When Washington takes its wars, slogans, and coups abroad, generations of writers have characterized the aggression as seeking monsters to destroy. Washington has benefitted from the cover offered by the slogan, justifying mayhem inflicted on the world as overthrowing dictators and bringing democracy. | In his just published book, In Search of Monsters to Destroy (Independent Institute, 2022), Christopher J. Coyne, Independent Institute Fellow and economics professor at George Mason University, takes these claims at face value. He demo…

Anonymous103 (2023-02-06). German Prosecutor Found No Russian Involvement In Gas Pipeline Sabotage. southfront.org Illustrative ImageThe possibility of NATO's implication seems the most plausible at present. | Written by It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the West's unsubstantiated narrative that Russia sabotaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines. Now, even some German officials are beginning to admit that there is no evidence to blame Moscow for the cr…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-06). Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization. transcend.org 30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.

Staff (2023-02-05). Duelo electoral entre Biden y Trump despierta poco entusiasmo en los electores, según sondeo. cubadebate.cu Un alto porcentaje de votantes en Estados Unidos tiene poco entusiasmo frente a una posible revancha en las próximas elecciones entre el presidente actual Joe Biden y su predecesor Donald Trump, según una encuesta publicada este domingo por ABC-Washington Post.

_____ (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…

_____ (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.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-02-03). 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".

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.

_____ (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.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-02-03). 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".

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.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-03). 'He Who Controls the Discourse Organises the World.' How China Resists the Information Hegemony of the West. libya360.wordpress.com Ivan Zuenko The current process of rapid transformation of…

Evan Reif (2023-02-03). How a Network of Nazi Propagandists Helped Lay the Groundwork for the War in Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com "History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be …

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.

Brandon Caldwell (2023-02-03). Officers Involved In Tyre Nichols' Death Kicked Out Of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. newsone.com Source: The Washington Post / Getty | Three former Memphis police officers with ties to the Omega Psi Phi fraternity had their membership revoked Tuesday, Jan. 31, weeks after they were indicted on second-degree murder charges in the death of Tyre Nichols. | MORE: ' In a statement issued on their website, Omega Psi Phi once again condemned the actions of the officers involved in Nichols' death and believed with the "utmost confiden…