(2023-03-08). UAW tells Caterpillar workers it will not release the full contract at informational meetings: "It was a propaganda show mixed with passive-aggressive bullying" wsws.org Caterpillar workers are being met with an information brick wall when they inquire about the full details of the agreement at phony "informational meetings" held by the UAW.
(2023-03-07). War and Propaganda in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. strategic-culture.org By Ron UNZ | None of the military enthusiasts whom I asked had any ready answers to those questions, perhaps because they had never even previously considered such troubling possibilities. | During recent decades, Hollywood special effects wizards have displayed great technical skill in showing Spiderman swinging between skyscrapers and the Incredible Hulk undergoing a transformation. Surely producing simple photographs of destroyed military equipment would be a triviality, with the costs almost invisibly small compared to a movie budget. But consider that those simple photographs uploaded to a Dutch website have…
(2023-03-07). U.S. Regime Wins the Propaganda-War on Ukraine While Losing the Real War. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Written by It is obvious that, at least in The West, the U.S. side has already overwhelmingly won the propaganda-war part of the war against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine; however, what about the ultimate military and diplomatic sides of that war — what will be the war's outcome, in fact (even if not in myth)? | Among the great geostrateic analysts I've…
(2023-03-07). Covid Propaganda Roundup: The Lies, Distortions and Abuses. globalresearch.ca
(2023-03-07). Challenging Anti-iran Propaganda In The Middle East. popularresistance.org The Middle East is drowning in anti-Iran propaganda emanating from Western, Gulf and oligarch-funded outlets that seek to turn the populations in the region against Iran and other institutions deemed to be "backed by Iran." In Lebanon this plays out in a sectarian narrative that portrays Hezbollah as an Iranian proxy and depicts Shias as agents of an Iranian occupation of the country. This pattern has also been replicated in neighboring countries in an attempt to turn people against the regional forces that challenge U.S. imperialism. | To understand the phenomenon, Rania Khalek was joined by Denijal Jegic, a pro…
(2023-03-07). Pyongyang Urges UN Demand End to South Korea—US Military Exercises. orinocotribune.com The situation in the region is moving "in a very worrying direction," warned the DPRK leadership. | The United States and South Korea have been stirring up the situation on the Korean peninsula to an "extremely dangerous level," with threatening rhetoric and a military demonstration targeting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea), DPRK's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son-gyong said. | In a statement
(2023-03-07). Mental Competency Tests Idea 'Ridiculous' — Jill Biden. orinocotribune.com The US first lady was responding to calls for the examination from Republicans | US First Lady Jill Biden has dismissed concerns about her husband's mental acuity after Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley called for mandatory mental capacity tests for political candidates above the age of 75. | "Ridiculous," she said to CNN in an interview set to be aired on Monday. She cited Joe Biden's rigorous travel schedule as evidence of his effervescence, mentioning his recent surprise visit to Kiev. | "How many 30-year-olds could travel to Poland, get on the train?" she asked rhetorically. "Go nine more hours, go…
(2023-03-07). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …
(2023-03-07). NIH Considers Lessons Learned During COVID-19 Pandemic. jamanetwork.com A decades-long investment in basic science research, focus on diversity in clinical trials, and coordinated efforts to repurpose therapeutics and develop diagnostics were among the factors that contributed to the US National Institutes of Health—led response to COVID-19, according to a report published in Science by several authors including Francis Collins, MD, PhD, and Anthony Fauci, MD.
(2023-03-07). US Sponsored Coup d'État: The Destabilization of Haiti. globalresearch.ca Of relevance to recent developments in Haiti: | This article was written in the last days of February 2004 in response to the barrage of disinformation in the mainstream media. | It was completed and published on February 29th, on the day …
(2023-03-07). Portuguese scholar: Fake news tries to forget China's contribution to battling COVID-19. ecns.cn "My view on China's contribution to fighting COVID-19 globally in the past three years is very positive," said Professor Rui Lourido, president of the Observatory for China in Portugal during an online interview with China News Network.
(2023-03-07). Trump at CPAC reflects the clear and present danger facing America. peoplesworld.org 
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Donald Trump strode onto the stage on March 4 and gave the big right-wing crowd what it craved: Red meat. Lots of it. Call it a whole side of beef—or beefs. Communists, Socialists, Joe Biden, Democrats, the "fake news media," critical race theory, LBGTQ people, migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal workers—whom he …
(2023-03-07). Fact Check: The US Government Is Using Ukraine For Proxy War, Wants To Chew Up Russian Army. moguldom.com As the Ukraine war wages on and the U.S. continues to flood the country with financial support, many wonder if the U.S. is using the Russian invasion of Ukraine for its own means. Is the U.S. government using Ukraine for a proxy war and as a means to wear down the Russian army? A proxy …
(2023-03-07). Fact Check: An Electrician Makes More In 2 Months Than A Surgeon Makes In A Year. moguldom.com During a recent interview with the Round Da Way podcast, community activist Dr. Umar Johnson, a clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist, urged Black people to consider the trades when going into a profession. Trades can encompass a wide range of skills but include professions such as plumber, electrician, and mechanic. According to Johnson, who is …
(2023-03-07). Bearing witness in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. workers.org 
By Mumia United Nations Liaison Group The recently formed Mumia United Nations Liaison Group is hosting an event in Philadelphia on March 11 highlighting evidence of Mumia Abu-Jamal's innocence that was illegally withheld by prosecutors at his initial trial and subsequent appeals. The event is taking place shortly before an . . . |
(2023-03-07). Portuguese scholar: Fake news tries to forget China's contribution to battling COVID-19. ecns.cn "My view on China's contribution to fighting COVID-19 globally in the past three years is very positive," said Professor Rui Lourido, president of the Observatory for China in Portugal during an online interview with China News Network.
(2023-03-07). Trump at CPAC reflects the clear and present danger facing America. peoplesworld.org NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Donald Trump strode onto the stage on March 4 and gave the big right-wing crowd what it craved: Red meat. Lots of it. Call it a whole side of beef—or beefs. Communists, Socialists, Joe Biden, Democrats, the "fake news media," critical race theory, LBGTQ people, migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal workers—whom he …
(2023-03-07). Fact Check: The US Government Is Using Ukraine For Proxy War, Wants To Chew Up Russian Army. moguldom.com As the Ukraine war wages on and the U.S. continues to flood the country with financial support, many wonder if the U.S. is using the Russian invasion of Ukraine for its own means. Is the U.S. government using Ukraine for a proxy war and as a means to wear down the Russian army? A proxy …
(2023-03-07). Fact Check: An Electrician Makes More In 2 Months Than A Surgeon Makes In A Year. moguldom.com During a recent interview with the Round Da Way podcast, community activist Dr. Umar Johnson, a clinical psychologist and certified school psychologist, urged Black people to consider the trades when going into a profession. Trades can encompass a wide range of skills but include professions such as plumber, electrician, and mechanic. According to Johnson, who is …
(2023-03-07). Bearing witness in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. workers.org By Mumia United Nations Liaison Group The recently formed Mumia United Nations Liaison Group is hosting an event in Philadelphia on March 11 highlighting evidence of Mumia Abu-Jamal's innocence that was illegally withheld by prosecutors at his initial trial and subsequent appeals. The event is taking place shortly before an . . . |
(2023-03-07). Puerto Rico Senators Slam Governor After Court Rejects Labor Reform. latinorebels.com Last week a federal judge nullified Puerto Rico's Labor Reform Law approved only months ago, saying that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi did not provide evidence that the law would not impact the oversight board's fiscal plan.
(2023-03-07). Unintended Pregnancy and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply We agree with Dr Luo and colleagues that the nonrandomized studies of unintended pregnancy and health outcomes included in our systematic review and meta-analysis are subject to bias and methodological limitations. However, this research question will never be answered with randomized clinical trials because pregnancy intention cannot be randomized. We attempted to mitigate study limitations by using prespecified eligibility criteria, assessing individual study quality and overall strength of evidence for each outcome, using only adjusted estimates from individual studies to estimate overall associations…
(2023-03-07). Still Looking for a Simple, Effective Prevention Measure for Neonatal Sepsis in High-Mortality Settings. jamanetwork.com The "Decade of Vaccines" contributed to notable global declines in mortality among children younger than 5 years, but mortality in the neonatal period remains a stubborn problem. Most neonatal deaths occur in the first week of life. The causes of such deaths are difficult to characterize. Evidence suggests complications of labor and delivery play a major role in deaths in the first hours after birth, and that preterm delivery and infections also each cause approximately one-third of deaths in the first week of life. Many neonatal deaths are a result of multiple conditions, such as preterm birth in combination wit…
(2023-03-08). Democrats Cave To Corporate Smear Campaign Against Gigi Sohn, Putting Net Neutrality, Privacy, And Abortion Rights At Risk. popularresistance.org The Washington Post is reporting that Gigi Sohn, the Biden administration's nominee for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will withdraw her nomination, after Democrats failed to stand up to an outrageous and bigoted smear campaign funded by the telecom industry. Sohn's withdrawal plunges the Biden administration's supposed priorities into peril: deadlocked at 2-2, the FCC …
(2023-03-07). NYT: 'Pro-Ukrainian Group' Likely Carried Out Nord Stream Sabotage. news.antiwar.com The New York Times reported Tuesday that US officials are claiming the Nord Stream bombings were carried out by a "pro-Ukrainian group" and dismissed reporting from investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that said President Biden ordered the sabotage. The US officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Times said they based their assessment …
(2023-03-07). Major US Outlets Found Hersh's Nord Stream Scoop Too Hot To Handle. popularresistance.org What's not in doubt is the remarkable breadth of the news blackout surrounding Hersh's story. The only major US newspaper to cover it as breaking news was the New York Post (2/8/23). | It did appear on the opinion pages—but not the news columns—of two major dailies. The Los Angeles Times (2/11/23) mentioned Hersh's story in the 11th paragraph of a weekly round-up by the letters editor. On the New York Times opinion page (2/15/23), Ross Douthat included Hersh in a column headlined "UFOs and Other Unsolved Mysteries of Our Time." | Fox News firebrands Tucker Carlson (2/8/23) and Laura Ingraham (2/14/23)…
(2023-03-07). Superexploitation of migrant children/'The coining of children's blood into capital'. workers.org 
The horror portrayed in a recent New York Times exposé of migrant child labor shows how relevant what Karl Marx wrote 156 years ago is now. Marx's monumental work, "Capital," was a tremendous theoretical contribution, describing in meticulous detail how the capitalist system of exploitation operates. One class of toilers, . . . |
(2023-03-07). "Pure, Unadulterated Fascism": Mehdi Hasan on Trump, Fox News, Jan. 6, GOP & 20th Anniversary of the Iraq War. democracynow.org 
We examine the state of U.S. politics, Trumpism, journalism and more with Mehdi Hasan, host of The Mehdi Hasan Show on MSNBC and Peacock. His new book is titled Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking.