Monthly Archives: March 2023

2023-03-21: News Headlines

Drago Bosnic (2023-03-21). Political West Doubles Down on 'Russia Kidnapping Children' Propaganda Narrative. globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-20). Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order. transcend.org Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.

Chris Walker (2023-03-20). Trump Calls for Protests Over His Impending Arrest, Echoing Jan. 6 Rhetoric. truthout.org In a Truth Social post on Saturday, former President Donald Trump urged his followers to protest his potential arrest by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, which he predicted would happen sometime this week. In his post, Trump wrote that he expects to be "ARRESTED ON TUESDAY," and instructed his followers to "PROTEST" and "TAKE OUR NATION BACK" if that is the case. |

WSWS (2023-03-20). Newfound DNA data indicates wild animals at Wuhan market were infected with SARS-Cov-2. wsws.org The data, uncovered by a French researcher and evolutionary biologist, is a major blow to the "lab leak" conspiracy theory of the origins of COVID-19.

Staff (2023-03-21). War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq. democracynow.org As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at how the corporate U.S. media helped pave the way for war by uncritically amplifying lies and misrepresentations from the Bush administration while silencing voices of dissent. Longtime media critic Norman Solomon says many of the same media personalities and news outlets that pushed aggressively for the invasion then are now helping to solidify an elite consensus around the Ukraine war. "In the mass media, being pro-war is portrayed as objective. Being antiwar is portrayed as being biased," he says. Solomon is author…

Tina Landis (2023-03-20). Despite record rainfall, California drought is far from over. liberationnews.org You may get the impression from corporate media headlines that the decades-long megadrought in California is over. Unfortunately those headlines are misleading.

Drago Bosnic (2023-03-21). Political West Doubles Down on 'Russia Kidnapping Children' Propaganda Narrative. globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-20). Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order. transcend.org Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.

Chris Walker (2023-03-20). Trump Calls for Protests Over His Impending Arrest, Echoing Jan. 6 Rhetoric. truthout.org In a Truth Social post on Saturday, former President Donald Trump urged his followers to protest his potential arrest by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, which he predicted would happen sometime this week. In his post, Trump wrote that he expects to be "ARRESTED ON TUESDAY," and instructed his followers to "PROTEST" and "TAKE OUR NATION BACK" if that is the case. |

WSWS (2023-03-20). Newfound DNA data indicates wild animals at Wuhan market were infected with SARS-Cov-2. wsws.org The data, uncovered by a French researcher and evolutionary biologist, is a major blow to the "lab leak" conspiracy theory of the origins of COVID-19.

Staff (2023-03-21). War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq. democracynow.org As we continue to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we look at how the corporate U.S. media helped pave the way for war by uncritically amplifying lies and misrepresentations from the Bush administration while silencing voices of dissent. Longtime media critic Norman Solomon says many of the same media personalities and news outlets that pushed aggressively for the invasion then are now helping to solidify an elite consensus around the Ukraine war. "In the mass media, being pro-war is portrayed as objective. Being antiwar is portrayed as being biased," he says. Solomon is author…

Tina Landis (2023-03-20). Despite record rainfall, California drought is far from over. liberationnews.org You may get the impression from corporate media headlines that the decades-long megadrought in California is over. Unfortunately those headlines are misleading.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-20). Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters. transcend.org Roger Waters will take his "This Is Not a Drill" tour to Europe. But on 24 Feb, Frankfurt's city council cancelled the concert for "persistent anti-Israel behavior" calling Waters an antisemite. In response, Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, Glenn Greenwald and others signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.

Anonymous103 (2023-03-20). How Nations' Citizens Rate Their Own Government. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Though individuals who have been heavily propagandized to think that they are better-able to rate foreign Governments than the people who live under them are (and this helps 'justify' what their Government is doing to foreign countries, such as invading them and overthrowing their Government, and doing other things that their own nation's billiona…

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2023-03-20). Global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030, experts warn. nationofchange.org "The scientific evidence is that we have a water crisis. We are misusing water, polluting water, and changing the whole global hydrological cycle, through what we are doing to the climate. It's a triple crisis."

ecns.cn (2023-03-20). Reshui graveyard site in Qinghai. ecns.cn Xuewei No. 1, discovered in 1982, is the most complete and high standard tomb with clear structures, providing important evidence about Tuyuhun-tubo Period (6th to 8th centuries)…

Kit Klarenberg, TheGrayzone. (2023-03-20). 'Rigorous' Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed By Top Academic Journal. popularresistance.org The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev's Maidan Square in late February 2014 was a defining moment in the US-orchestrated overthrow of Ukraine's elected government. The death of 70 protesters triggered an avalanche of international outrage that made President Viktor Yanukovych's downfall a fait accompli. Yet today these killings remain unsolved. | Enter Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa. For years, he marshaled overwhelming evidence demonstrating that the snipers were not affiliated with Yanukovych's government, but pr…

Ann Brown (2023-03-21). The International Criminal Court is Illegitimate Because America And Israel Can't Be Prosecuted. moguldom.com Established in 2002, the International Criminal Court is an independent judicial institution that investigates and prosecutes war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the crime of aggression. Most recently, the ICC said on March 17 it had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes because of his alleged involvement in …

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-21). Georgian head of state: The world is facing the threat of a 3rd World War. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaMarch 21, 2023 PM Accuses "Elite NGOs" in Providing "Fabricated Information" for State Department Report on Georgia Speaking to journalists…Georgian Prime Minister Garibashvili…asked about the State Department's 2022 Country Report on Human Rights in Georgia, PM said that the report is mainly based on information provided by "subjective", "biased" and "unfair" conclusions developed by …

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-03-21). Bailout Of Silicon Valley And Banks Is $300 Billion Gift To Rich Oligarchs. popularresistance.org The US government printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs and venture capital firms, paying them all of their uninsured deposits. | Meanwhile, some of the very same Silicon Valley tycoons who benefited from this bailout have tried to cynically rebrand themselves as subversive populists, claiming they are fighting against the big Wall Street banks with which they have closely collaborated. | Three banks collapsed in the United States in the span of one week in March 2023: Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank.

Scott Ritter, Consortium News. (2023-03-21). Iraq 20 Years: Disarmament, The Fundamental Lie. popularresistance.org The Establishment has still not reckoned with the essential lie behind the invasion of Iraq that began 20 years ago today, March 19, 2003. | As an example, a New York Times Magazine's puff piece in July 2020, purportedly to come clean on Iraq, instead soft-peddles former Secretary of State Colin Powell's role in selling a war on Iraq to the U.N. Security Council using what turned out to be bad intelligence. "Colin Powell Still Wants Answers" is the title of the article, written by Robert Draper. "The analysts who provided the intelligence," a sub-header to the article declares, "now say it was doubted inside the…

Andrew J. Bacevich (2023-03-20). On Missing Dr. Strangelove: Or how Americans learned to Stop Worrying and forgot the Bomb. juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com) — Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film …

Ray McGovern, Consortium News. (2023-03-20). Iraq 20 Years: The Uses And Abuses Of National Intelligence Estimates. popularresistance.org A New York Times Magazine article in July 2020 focused on then Secretary of State Powell and his U.N. speech of Feb. 5, 2003 and the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) upon which it is largely based. A lot of the detail in the article may have been new to many readers, but not to Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, which had been established a month before. VIPS watched the speech, dissected it, and sent their verdict to President George W. Bush before close of business that same afternoon | We gave Powell a charitable grade of "C", faulting him for, inter alia, not providing needed context and persp…

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-20). Alex Jones Is Allegedly Giving Away Millions to Avoid $1.4B Sandy Hook Payout. truthout.org Far right conspiracist and Infowars founder Alex Jones made the lives of the families of the child victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a "living hell" for a decade — and now, he is reportedly hiding and giving away his wealth to avoid an over $1 billion legal bill that he has been ordered to pay the families. According to a new report by The New York Times, as Jones has faced… |

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2023-03-20: News Headlines

_____ (2023-03-19). U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia. strategic-culture.org The U.S. and its allies are bringing this case as a propaganda-vehicle, but the Court itself, by 'investigating' this case that falls outside its jurisdiction, is destroying whatever pitiful international credibility that it had. Any court that ever serves a purely-propaganda function cannot ever again be taken seriously by any serious person. It is groveling to someone. It is simply embarrassing itself. The U.S. and its allies are contemptuous not only of the public but of this Court, to do this.

Juan Cole (2023-03-19). 20 Years Ago Today, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" juancole.com To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the White House and my US news organizations. Juan Cole 01/28/2003 (Remarks delivered in late 2002). The Journal of the International …

Juan Cole (2023-03-19). 20 Years Ago, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" juancole.com To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the White House and many US news organizations. Juan Cole 01/28/2003 (Remarks delivered in late 2002). The Journal of the International …

_____ (2023-03-19). U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia. strategic-culture.org The U.S. and its allies are bringing this case as a propaganda-vehicle, but the Court itself, by 'investigating' this case that falls outside its jurisdiction, is destroying whatever pitiful international credibility that it had. Any court that ever serves a purely-propaganda function cannot ever again be taken seriously by any serious person. It is groveling to someone. It is simply embarrassing itself. The U.S. and its allies are contemptuous not only of the public but of this Court, to do this.

Juan Cole (2023-03-19). 20 Years Ago Today, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" juancole.com To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the White House and my US news organizations. Juan Cole 01/28/2003 (Remarks delivered in late 2002). The Journal of the International …

Juan Cole (2023-03-19). 20 Years Ago, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" juancole.com To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the White House and many US news organizations. Juan Cole 01/28/2003 (Remarks delivered in late 2002). The Journal of the International …

WSWS (2023-03-20). Newfound DNA data indicates wild animals at Wuhan market were infected with SARS-Cov-2. wsws.org The data, uncovered by a French researcher and evolutionary biologist, is a major blow to the "lab leak" conspiracy theory of the origins of COVID-19.

ecns.cn (2023-03-19). Representatives from China's Xinjiang, HKSAR share own region's stories of human rights devt at UN Human Rights Council. ecns.cn Representatives from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) appeared at the ongoing 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council to share their own stories and human rights situation to debunk disinformation.

Tina Landis (2023-03-20). Despite record rainfall, California drought is far from over. liberationnews.org You may get the impression from corporate media headlines that the decades-long megadrought in California is over. Unfortunately those headlines are misleading.

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-19). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 11. thelastamericanvagabond.com Join us on today's episode of The Pirate Stream — Dialectical Dissidents. Pirate Stream Media is a new platform of dedicated content creators focused on circumventing the tightly controlled, manipulated, and outright censored media space of today (both corporate and independent media) with a commitment to objectivity, integrity, and a stark awareness of the two

Staff (2023-03-19). US Announces New 'Humanitarian Aid' Package for Venezuelan Migrants, Colombia Denounces Politicization. orinocotribune.com The White House has approved $171 million for a new "humanitarian aid" and development package for Venezuelan migrats, the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced during the Solidarity Conference with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants held in Brussels on Friday, March 17. | The US official began her speech with the information that last year, for the first time, the number of forcibly displaced persons in the world exceeded 100 million. She then put Venezuela at the center of the discourse by repeating the worn-out script: "More than 7 million people have been forced to flee Venezuela." | Accor…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-19). Iraq Invasion 20th Anniversary: 5 Million Dead in Iraqi Holocaust. libya360.wordpress.com Dr Gideon Polya The 20th anniversary of the war criminal US, UK and Australian invasion of Iraq in 2003 will fall on about 20 March 2023. On this occasion mendacious and racist Western media will at best remember the Iraq War as a US policy mistake. However decent people will remember the carnage. From 1990…

Kit Klarenberg, TheGrayzone. (2023-03-20). 'Rigorous' Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed By Top Academic Journal. popularresistance.org The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev's Maidan Square in late February 2014 was a defining moment in the US-orchestrated overthrow of Ukraine's elected government. The death of 70 protesters triggered an avalanche of international outrage that made President Viktor Yanukovych's downfall a fait accompli. Yet today these killings remain unsolved. | Enter Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa. For years, he marshaled overwhelming evidence demonstrating that the snipers were not affiliated with Yanukovych's government, but pr…

Steve Melendez (2023-03-19). American Indian Genocide Museum at Austin Expo. indybay.org We are here today at the SXSW Conference and Expo here in Austin, Texas telling our story because we know if we don't, no one else will. We are here today to bring awareness that past injustices are still being experienced today. We are here today to bring awareness that the racism of the past is still the cornerstone of American laws. Gone perhaps are the scalp bounties paid for Indian men, women, and children but, on the other hand, not one treaty has ever been honored.

Ray McGovern, Consortium News. (2023-03-20). Iraq 20 Years: The Uses And Abuses Of National Intelligence Estimates. popularresistance.org A New York Times Magazine article in July 2020 focused on then Secretary of State Powell and his U.N. speech of Feb. 5, 2003 and the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) upon which it is largely based. A lot of the detail in the article may have been new to many readers, but not to Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, which had been established a month before. VIPS watched the speech, dissected it, and sent their verdict to President George W. Bush before close of business that same afternoon | We gave Powell a charitable grade of "C", faulting him for, inter alia, not providing needed context and persp…

Andrew J. Bacevich (2023-03-20). On Missing Dr. Strangelove: Or how Americans learned to Stop Worrying and forgot the Bomb. juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com) — Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film …

Andy Kroll (2023-03-19). On Missing Dr. Strangelove. tomdispatch.com Bosley Crowther, chief film critic for the New York Times, didn't quite know what to make of Dr. Strangelove at the time of its release in January 1964. Stanley Kubrick's dark antiwar satire was "beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across," he wrote. But if the film had its hilarious moments, Crowther found its overall effect distinctly unnerving. What exactly was Kubrick's point? "When virtually everybody turns up stupid or insane — or, what is worse, psychopathic — I want to know what this picture proves." We may find it odd for an influential critic to expect a movie to…

Derek Seidman (2023-03-19). 20 Years After Illegal US Invasion of Iraq, Its Architects Are Still Cashing In. truthout.org It had been 15 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq when, on March 19, 2018, the celebrated Iraqi novelist and poet Sinan Antoon published a blistering op-ed in The New York Times. He took readers through his observations of the steady deterioration of Iraqi society since the war began, but the most scathing words came toward the end. "No one knows for certain how many Iraqis have died as a result of… |

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2023-03-19: News Headlines

_____ (2023-03-18). Arresting Putin — Or Arresting All-Out Western Public Revolt? strategic-culture.org If there were any genuine principles of justice, Biden should be in the dock facing war crime charges in connection with America's illegal wars. | Western propaganda outlets (also known as "news media") are suddenly full of reports that The Hague-based International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The over-the-top coverage (that is, orchestration) is intended to give the ridiculous legal ploy an impression of gravitas and significance when in reality the so-called arrest warrant is meaningless and oozes with kitsch politicized theater. | Along with Putin, the Russ…

WSWS (2023-03-18). ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin as part of US-NATO propaganda campaign for regime change. wsws.org The transparently political action by the International Criminal Court takes place amidst ever more open statements from US and NATO officials that the aim of the war is regime change in Moscow.

Juan Cole (2023-03-19). 20 Years Ago Today, the Bush Administration Launched the Iraq War: Juan Cole: "I Have a Bad Feeling About This" juancole.com To mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, here are some brief blog entries Juan Cole made in the run-up to the war expressing caution and pessimism about the triumphalist rhetoric issuing from the White House and my US news organizations. Juan Cole 01/28/2003 (Remarks delivered in late 2002). The Journal of the International …

ecns.cn (2023-03-19). Representatives from China's Xinjiang, HKSAR share own region's stories of human rights devt at UN Human Rights Council. ecns.cn Representatives from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) appeared at the ongoing 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council to share their own stories and human rights situation to debunk disinformation.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-18). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-19). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 11. thelastamericanvagabond.com Join us on today's episode of The Pirate Stream — Dialectical Dissidents. Pirate Stream Media is a new platform of dedicated content creators focused on circumventing the tightly controlled, manipulated, and outright censored media space of today (both corporate and independent media) with a commitment to objectivity, integrity, and a stark awareness of the two




Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-18). The US Is The Greatest Threat To World Peace And Collective Humanity. popularresistance.org As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its Western colonial allies, it is imperative that authentic anti-imperialist forces and those earnestly committed to an Anti-war principle recognize two things: the U.S. based transnational ruling class is fully invested in the doctrine of U.S. "Full Spectrum Dominance," and as a consequence the U.S. state has become an existential threat to collective humanity on our planet. | The recognition of these two "facts" are the only basis of a polit…

Steve Melendez (2023-03-19). American Indian Genocide Museum at Austin Expo. indybay.org We are here today at the SXSW Conference and Expo here in Austin, Texas telling our story because we know if we don't, no one else will. We are here today to bring awareness that past injustices are still being experienced today. We are here today to bring awareness that the racism of the past is still the cornerstone of American laws. Gone perhaps are the scalp bounties paid for Indian men, women, and children but, on the other hand, not one treaty has ever been honored.

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-18). The US Is The Greatest Threat To World Peace And Collective Humanity. popularresistance.org As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its Western colonial allies, it is imperative that authentic anti-imperialist forces and those earnestly committed to an Anti-war principle recognize two things: the U.S. based transnational ruling class is fully invested in the doctrine of U.S. "Full Spectrum Dominance," and as a consequence the U.S. state has become an existential threat to collective humanity on our planet. | The recognition of these two "facts" are the only basis of a polit…

Steve Melendez (2023-03-19). American Indian Genocide Museum at Austin Expo. indybay.org We are here today at the SXSW Conference and Expo here in Austin, Texas telling our story because we know if we don't, no one else will. We are here today to bring awareness that past injustices are still being experienced today. We are here today to bring awareness that the racism of the past is still the cornerstone of American laws. Gone perhaps are the scalp bounties paid for Indian men, women, and children but, on the other hand, not one treaty has ever been honored.

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2023-03-18: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-03-18). ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin as part of US-NATO propaganda campaign for regime change. wsws.org The transparently political action by the International Criminal Court takes place amidst ever more open statements from US and NATO officials that the aim of the war is regime change in Moscow.

Bernie Holland (2023-03-17). British Lords Shed Crocodile Tears About Imprisonment of Corrupt Former Georgian President and Ukraine War Booster Mikheil Saakashvili as Another Color Revolution Looks to Be Afoot. covertactionmagazine.com Saakashvili promotes NATO expansion into Georgia which is a clear "red line" for Russia The Georgian capital of Tbilisi has been engulfed in protests over the last weeks that have the appearance of a color revolution backed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot that finances civil society groups in countries targeted …

Special to People's World (2023-03-17). People's World reader: 'I look for your stories every day'. peoplesworld.org Mark Gruenberg, our Washington Bureau Chief and labor correspondent received the following letter from Peter Freitag, a reader from Colorado. Peter reads People's World every day and is a financial contributor to the newspaper. If you, like Peter, appreciate the alternative to the mainstream corporate media provided by People's World, won't you consider becoming a …

Editor (2023-03-17). Canada's 'China syndrome'. mronline.org The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.

Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-18). The US Is The Greatest Threat To World Peace And Collective Humanity. popularresistance.org As anti-imperialist and Anti-war activists are preparing to mobilize in Washington D.C. on the 20th anniversary of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and its Western colonial allies, it is imperative that authentic anti-imperialist forces and those earnestly committed to an Anti-war principle recognize two things: the U.S. based transnational ruling class is fully invested in the doctrine of U.S. "Full Spectrum Dominance," and as a consequence the U.S. state has become an existential threat to collective humanity on our planet. | The recognition of these two "facts" are the only basis of a polit…

_____ (2023-03-17). Monroe Doctrine Plays Out In Perú. popularresistance.org March 7th marked three months of the congressional coup that ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo and claimed the lives of over 70 people during daily anti-government protests. Despite Western media 's attempt to whitewash the illegal ouster (which failed to reach the prerequisite 104 votes by 3), a resounding majority of the Peruvian people blame either coup leader Dina Boluarte, Fujimorismo, or the coup Congress for the political crisis facing the Andean country rich in vast minerals and resources. Despite this week's sentencing of Castillo to another 36 months of pre-trial detention, people o…

_____ (2023-03-17). Reuters' Assistance With Italy's Take on African Immigrants Represents a New Watershed. strategic-culture.org Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. | The duplicitous role of western media in assisting NATO in its dark endeavours is nothing new. But Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. | Reuters is not the news legend it used to be. Gone are the days when it had armies of clever young people fact checking polemic statements made by world leaders to be even faintly accurate. Case in point the recent incendiary cla…

Staff (2023-03-17). Headlines for March 17, 2023. democracynow.org Yellen Declares, "Our Banking System Is Sound," as Wall Street Props Up First Republic Bank, Iran Agrees to Stop Arming Yemen's Houthis in Pact with Saudi Arabia, Poland and Slovakia Will Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine, U.N. Inquiry on Ukraine Finds Wide Evidence of Russian War Crimes, China Urges Diplomatic End to War in Ukraine as Xi Jinping Plans Trip to Kremlin, Biden Approves Sale of 220 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles to Australia , White House Threatens to Ban TikTok Unless Chinese Owners Sell Stakes, Israeli Forces Kill 4 More Palestinians in Jenin Ahead of Security Talks in Egypt, Macron Pushes…

Steve Melendez (2023-03-18). American Indian Genocide Museum at Austin Expo. indybay.org We are here today at the SXSW Conference and Expo here in Austin, Texas telling our story because we know if we don't, no one else will. We are here today to bring awareness that past injustices are still being experienced today. We are here today to bring awareness that the racism of the past is still the cornerstone of American laws. Gone perhaps are the scalp bounties paid for Indian men, women, and children but, on the other hand, not one treaty has ever been honored.

Margaret Anna Alice (2023-03-17). The Weaponization of "Anti-Semitism". Requiem for a Smear Victim: Clemens Arvay. globalresearch.ca

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2023-03-17: News Headlines

_____ (2023-03-16). It's Good To Be Mean To War Propagandists. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | We are not above criticism but these attacks go too far", tearfully rending his garments over criticisms his paper's three-part war-with-China propaganda series "Red Alert" has received from former Prime Minister Paul Keating and from

Rainer Sonnberg & Byorn Blach (2023-03-16). The sacred cow and The propaganda machine. indybay.org These campaigns by politics and the media, which prescribe an extremely narrow framework of what can be said, narrow freedom of expression to the Western narrative. Other opinions are not just open to being shot down. Those who dare to express them are grabbed by their livelihoods.

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-16). EU/European Parliament behind Ukrainian-backed coup in Georgia: parliamentary chair. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The MessengerMarch 16, 2023 Chairman of Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili Accuses MEPs of Attempting to 'Separate' Georgians and Their Government The Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papauashvili, told reporters that some European politicians are using 'Russian propaganda tools' [fighting fire with fire] towards Georgia to separate Georgian people and the government elected …

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-16). Axios Fires Reporter for Calling DeSantis Press Release "Propaganda" in Email. truthout.org News outlet Axios fired a reporter in Tampa, Florida, this week after he called a press release from the Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) administration "propaganda" in an email that DeSantis officials posted online to smear the reporter. In a reply to a press release about a DeSantis event called "Exposing the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Scam in Higher Education" from the Florida Department of Education… |

Global Research News (2023-03-16). Selected Articles: Financial Failure in America: The Cover-up Begins. globalresearch.ca By The disinformation service, Bloomberg, takes the lead. Bloomberg points its finger at Donald Trump and "Trump era deregulation." In Bloomberg's rewriting of history, Trump …

Greg Guma (2023-03-16). False Narrative: How the Vermont Trial of an Alleged "Terrorist" Revealed the Danger of Guilt by Association, and the Way Disinformation Creates a False Narrative. globalresearch.ca




Special to People's World (2023-03-17). People's World reader: 'I look for your stories every day'. peoplesworld.org Mark Gruenberg, our Washington Bureau Chief and labor correspondent received the following letter from Peter Freitag, a reader from Colorado. Peter reads People's World every day and is a financial contributor to the newspaper. If you, like Peter, appreciate the alternative to the mainstream corporate media provided by People's World, won't you consider becoming a …

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-16). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Editor (2023-03-17). Canada's 'China syndrome'. mronline.org The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.

_____ (2023-03-17). Monroe Doctrine Plays Out In Perú. popularresistance.org March 7th marked three months of the congressional coup that ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo and claimed the lives of over 70 people during daily anti-government protests. Despite Western media 's attempt to whitewash the illegal ouster (which failed to reach the prerequisite 104 votes by 3), a resounding majority of the Peruvian people blame either coup leader Dina Boluarte, Fujimorismo, or the coup Congress for the political crisis facing the Andean country rich in vast minerals and resources. Despite this week's sentencing of Castillo to another 36 months of pre-trial detention, people o…

_____ (2023-03-17). Reuters' Assistance With Italy's Take on African Immigrants Represents a New Watershed. strategic-culture.org Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. | The duplicitous role of western media in assisting NATO in its dark endeavours is nothing new. But Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. | Reuters is not the news legend it used to be. Gone are the days when it had armies of clever young people fact checking polemic statements made by world leaders to be even faintly accurate. Case in point the recent incendiary cla…

Staff (2023-03-17). Headlines for March 17, 2023. democracynow.org Yellen Declares, "Our Banking System Is Sound," as Wall Street Props Up First Republic Bank, Iran Agrees to Stop Arming Yemen's Houthis in Pact with Saudi Arabia, Poland and Slovakia Will Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine, U.N. Inquiry on Ukraine Finds Wide Evidence of Russian War Crimes, China Urges Diplomatic End to War in Ukraine as Xi Jinping Plans Trip to Kremlin, Biden Approves Sale of 220 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles to Australia , White House Threatens to Ban TikTok Unless Chinese Owners Sell Stakes, Israeli Forces Kill 4 More Palestinians in Jenin Ahead of Security Talks in Egypt, Macron Pushes…

Special to People's World (2023-03-17). People's World reader: 'I look for your stories every day'. peoplesworld.org Mark Gruenberg, our Washington Bureau Chief and labor correspondent received the following letter from Peter Freitag, a reader from Colorado. Peter reads People's World every day and is a financial contributor to the newspaper. If you, like Peter, appreciate the alternative to the mainstream corporate media provided by People's World, won't you consider becoming a …

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-16). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Editor (2023-03-17). Canada's 'China syndrome'. mronline.org The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.

_____ (2023-03-17). Monroe Doctrine Plays Out In Perú. popularresistance.org March 7th marked three months of the congressional coup that ousted democratically elected President Pedro Castillo and claimed the lives of over 70 people during daily anti-government protests. Despite Western media 's attempt to whitewash the illegal ouster (which failed to reach the prerequisite 104 votes by 3), a resounding majority of the Peruvian people blame either coup leader Dina Boluarte, Fujimorismo, or the coup Congress for the political crisis facing the Andean country rich in vast minerals and resources. Despite this week's sentencing of Castillo to another 36 months of pre-trial detention, people o…

_____ (2023-03-17). Reuters' Assistance With Italy's Take on African Immigrants Represents a New Watershed. strategic-culture.org Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. | The duplicitous role of western media in assisting NATO in its dark endeavours is nothing new. But Reuters may well have broken a world record in partisan journalism with its latest efforts to implicate Russia in the Libyan immigrants crisis. | Reuters is not the news legend it used to be. Gone are the days when it had armies of clever young people fact checking polemic statements made by world leaders to be even faintly accurate. Case in point the recent incendiary cla…

Staff (2023-03-17). Headlines for March 17, 2023. democracynow.org Yellen Declares, "Our Banking System Is Sound," as Wall Street Props Up First Republic Bank, Iran Agrees to Stop Arming Yemen's Houthis in Pact with Saudi Arabia, Poland and Slovakia Will Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine, U.N. Inquiry on Ukraine Finds Wide Evidence of Russian War Crimes, China Urges Diplomatic End to War in Ukraine as Xi Jinping Plans Trip to Kremlin, Biden Approves Sale of 220 Tomahawk Cruise Missiles to Australia , White House Threatens to Ban TikTok Unless Chinese Owners Sell Stakes, Israeli Forces Kill 4 More Palestinians in Jenin Ahead of Security Talks in Egypt, Macron Pushes…

Anonymous103 (2023-03-16). Rumors Swirl Over Which Biden Family Member Got Cut Of $3M CCP-Linked Wire. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Originally published by Washington DC is abuzz with speculation over which Biden family member got a cut of a $3 million wire transfer to Hunter Biden associate John "Rob" Walker, just weeks after Joe Biden was no longer Vice President in 2017. | According to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) who last week said that evidence of CCP m…

Steve Melendez (2023-03-17). American Indian Genocide Museum at Austin Expo. indybay.org We are here today at the SXSW Conference and Expo here in Austin, Texas telling our story because we know if we don't, no one else will. We are here today to bring awareness that past injustices are still being experienced today. We are here today to bring awareness that the racism of the past is still the cornerstone of American laws. Gone perhaps are the scalp bounties paid for Indian men, women, and children but, on the other hand, not one treaty has ever been honored.

Margaret Anna Alice (2023-03-17). The Weaponization of "Anti-Semitism". Requiem for a Smear Victim: Clemens Arvay. globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-16). US Officials Think Ukraine's Ammunition Use Is Unsustainable. news.antiwar.com Ukraine is firing thousands of artillery shells each day in its battle to defend the Donbas city of Bakhmut, a pace that US and European officials don't think is sustainable, The New York Times reported Thursday. Two unnamed US officials told the Times that the Pentagon has raised the issue of Ukraine's ammunition use in …

Jemima Pierre, Black Agenda Report. (2023-03-16). Farewell, Senior Brother: In Memory Of Kevin Alexander Gray. popularresistance.org I met Kevin Alexander Gray the only way I could have: through his writing. It was 2008. It was election year, the U.S. presidential race was in full swing, and Barack Obama was all the rage. On June 15th, soon after the first-term Illinois Senator had just secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic Party nomination to run for president, Obama delivered his infamous "Father's Day Speech." In this speech, as the New York Times put it, Obama "Sharply Assail[ed] Absent Black Fathers." He did more than that: Obama conjured up some of the most invidious, insidious, and racist stereotypes about Black people in th…

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2023-03-15: News Headlines

Rainer Sonnberg & Byorn Blach (2023-03-15). The sacred cow and The propaganda machine. indybay.org These campaigns by politics and the media, which prescribe an extremely narrow framework of what can be said, narrow freedom of expression to the Western narrative. Other opinions are not just open to being shot down. Those who dare to express them are grabbed by their livelihoods.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Ukraine: Western Media Start to Acknowledge Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it again and again. As the Washington Post provides: Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow I'll leave out the propaganda bits and go…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-03-14). Dare Call It A Coup? CIA Front Threatens Color Revolution in Georgia. mintpressnews.com Kit Klarenberg exposes the US and EU's sinister meddling in Georgia's sovereignty and democracy through NGOs, propaganda and the tried and true method of sowing the seeds of discontent.

Rainer Sonnberg & Byorn Blach (2023-03-15). The sacred cow and The propaganda machine. indybay.org These campaigns by politics and the media, which prescribe an extremely narrow framework of what can be said, narrow freedom of expression to the Western narrative. Other opinions are not just open to being shot down. Those who dare to express them are grabbed by their livelihoods.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). Ukraine: Western Media Start to Acknowledge Reality. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it again and again. As the Washington Post provides: Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow I'll leave out the propaganda bits and go…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-03-14). Dare Call It A Coup? CIA Front Threatens Color Revolution in Georgia. mintpressnews.com Kit Klarenberg exposes the US and EU's sinister meddling in Georgia's sovereignty and democracy through NGOs, propaganda and the tried and true method of sowing the seeds of discontent.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-14). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-15). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Rick Rozoff (2023-03-14). U.S. Navy Europe/Africa holds exercise with African, Georgian, NATO partners in Indian Ocean. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th FleetMarch 13, 2023 A Clash of Doctrine: VBSS in the Western Indian Ocean Within the Bandari Maritime Academy of Mombasa, Kenya, participants in exercise Cutlass Express 2023, hailing from Djibouti, Georgia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, United Kingdom, and the United States, gathered to address a common challenge — Visit, …

Mickey Z. (2023-03-14). Why Would Anyone Ever Assume We're Not Being Manipulated 24/7? dissidentvoice.org So many people I know get very defensive when I discuss the plandemic machinations. They either can not accept that manipulation is the standard operating procedure for those in charge or that they would ever be gullible enough to be tricked on a regular basis. That's when I tell them about the Gruen Transfer. Victor …

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-03-14). Former US natsec advisor: destroy Taiwan semiconductor factories if China invades. thegrayzone.com A growing body of evidence suggests that the US would blow up the global economy to prevent China from laying claim to Taiwan's semiconductor factories. Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien has hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan's semiconductor factories fall into the hands of the Communist Party of China, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream. "The United States …

jamanetwork (2023-03-14). Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. jamanetwork.com This review discusses current evidence regarding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

manager (2023-03-14). Almagro's ethics violations at OAS are the "tip of a big and deadly iceberg." cepr.net Today's report by the Associated Press of further evidence of ethics violations by OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro is just the "tip of a big and deadly iceberg," said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "Unfortunately this is not the only, or even the most serious, violation of OAS rules …

Editor (2023-03-15). What the Justice Department won't say: ABOLISH THE POLICE! workers.org After a two-year investigation of Louisville, Kentucky, police — prompted by the murder of Breonna Taylor on March 13, 2020 — the U.S. Department of Justice published its findings March 8. According to the New York Times, "In a damning 90-page report, investigators painted a grim portrait of the Louisville . . . |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-14). The Nord Stream-Andromeda Cover Up. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter Divers taking a safety stop at 5 metres. (Oetzipopoetzi, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) U.S. intelligence was too quick to leak information about the German investigation to The New York Times.It raises the distinct impression that the real culprit is nervous about the investigative work of Seymour Hersh. Back in 2000, the television series "Andromeda" premiered,…

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-14). Ukrainian Official Says Kyiv Doesn't Have the Resources for a Counteroffensive. news.antiwar.com A senior Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post that Kyiv doesn't have the resources to pull off a big counteroffensive in the coming months as Ukraine is lacking skilled troops, munitions, and other equipment. "If you have more resources, you more actively attack," said the official, who spoke to…

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2023-03-14: News Headlines

Kit Klarenberg (2023-03-14). Dare Call It A Coup? CIA Front Threatens Color Revolution in Georgia. mintpressnews.com Kit Klarenberg exposes the US and EU's sinister meddling in Georgia's sovereignty and democracy through NGOs, propaganda and the tried and true method of sowing the seeds of discontent.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-14). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

Rainer Sonnberg & Byorn Blach (2023-03-14). The sacred cow and The propaganda machine. indybay.org These campaigns by politics and the media, which prescribe an extremely narrow framework of what can be said, narrow freedom of expression to the Western narrative. Other opinions are not just open to being shot down. Those who dare to express them are grabbed by their livelihoods.

_____ (2023-03-13). "First Daughter" or a new trend of DPRK propaganda? journal-neo.org After mentioning the daughter of the DPRK leader at a military parade and other events marking the 75th anniversary of the Korean People's Army on February 8, 2023, the author was asked to explain whether the reasoning of some experts that the girl had already been appointed Kim Jong-un's successor was correct. Recall that on […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Brian Maher (2023-03-13). The 10 Rules of Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

Lucy Komisar (2023-03-13). Oscar-winning 'Navalny' documentary is packed with misinformation. thegrayzone.com "Navalny" is a slick production full of highly dubious claims, misinformation, and enough new Cold War propaganda impact to win an Oscar for best documentary. A version of this piece was originally published at The Komisar Scoop. The Oscar-winning 2022 documentary film "Navalny" tells the story of the opposition figure who has become the West's favorite Russian activist. Despite having garnered the support of about 2% of Russian voters, according to the polling firm Levada, Alexei Navalny is presented in …




Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation? transcend.org Is Wikipedia an open encyclopedia or a covert disinformation operation?>

Michael Edison Hayden (2023-03-13). 'Alt-Right' Disinformation King Faces Trial. splcenter.org Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn" during Donald Trump's political rise.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II. transcend.org Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter's bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-14). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-03-13). Even Kissinger Wants Compromise: How Ukraine Became a Winner-Take-All Proposition. mintpressnews.com When the likes of Kissinger are accused of being compromisers, we can be certain that the political discourse on the war has reached a degree of extremism unprecedented in decades.

_____ (2023-03-13). The Colour Revolution Is on the March: What's Going on in Georgia? strategic-culture.org The Western-backed activists, who took to the streets with EU flags against the "foreign agents" bill, were actually marching against the Georgian version of a law enacted by the USA in 1939. | Georgia experienced historical days this week — again. Anti-government protests were held throughout the country, especially in the capital Tbilisi, and fierce clashes took place with the security forces. | It was remarkable that activists sang anti-Russian slogans along with anti-government slogans and wore the flags of the United States, the European Union and Ukraine. | The trigger for all these actions was the bi…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation? transcend.org Is Wikipedia an open encyclopedia or a covert disinformation operation?>

Michael Edison Hayden (2023-03-13). 'Alt-Right' Disinformation King Faces Trial. splcenter.org Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn" during Donald Trump's political rise.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II. transcend.org Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter's bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.

Toward increased Networking (2023-03-14). Online events w) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 12 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 11: 30 am tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/14), featuring people such as John and Gabriel Shipton (Julian Assange's father and brother, respectively), India Walton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Peter Linebaugh, Rob Hopkins, Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-03-13). Even Kissinger Wants Compromise: How Ukraine Became a Winner-Take-All Proposition. mintpressnews.com When the likes of Kissinger are accused of being compromisers, we can be certain that the political discourse on the war has reached a degree of extremism unprecedented in decades.

_____ (2023-03-13). The Colour Revolution Is on the March: What's Going on in Georgia? strategic-culture.org The Western-backed activists, who took to the streets with EU flags against the "foreign agents" bill, were actually marching against the Georgian version of a law enacted by the USA in 1939. | Georgia experienced historical days this week — again. Anti-government protests were held throughout the country, especially in the capital Tbilisi, and fierce clashes took place with the security forces. | It was remarkable that activists sang anti-Russian slogans along with anti-government slogans and wore the flags of the United States, the European Union and Ukraine. | The trigger for all these actions was the bi…

Anonymous103 (2023-03-13). 82 Thousand People, Including 22 Thousand Protesters, Pardoned In Iran. southfront.org Illustrative Image | More than 82 thousand people have been granted amnesty, including 22 thousand of protesters who were convicted or were awaiting sentencing, claimed the Chief of Justice of Iran Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i. The amnesty is timed to the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. | Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei agreed to pardon tens of thousands of convicted and under investigation, including protesters, in February. It was also extended to those who shouted slogans against Khamenei o…

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-03-14). Former US natsec advisor: destroy Taiwan semiconductor factories if China invades. thegrayzone.com A growing body of evidence suggests that the US would blow up the global economy to prevent China from laying claim to Taiwan's semiconductor factories. Former White House National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien has hinted at a sinister US contingency plan in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Rather than see Taiwan's semiconductor factories fall into the hands of the Communist Party of China, the US and its allies would simply pull a Nordstream. "The United States …

M.K. Bhadrakumar (2023-03-13). Foreign devils on road to Afghanistan. peoplesdispatch.org Looking ahead, the real danger is that, having failed to get the Taliban to bend while also unable to build an anti-Taliban resistance movement or incite the Central Asian states to decouple from Moscow and Beijing, the US and its allies may now be left with the only remaining option, which is to create anarchical conditions in Afghanistan where there are no winners…

James Bovard (2023-03-13). Democrats Champion Censorship and Smear Twitter Files Heroes. globalresearch.ca

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). How Stupid Do They Think We Are? A Small Pro-Ukrainian Group in a Yacht Did Whaaaat? transcend.org 8 Mar 2023 – Western "intelligence" and the New York Times in deeper waters than usual, offering us a devious spin and fake story — sadly swallowed by the same media that omitted Hersh's analysis. Ominous.

Dave DeCamp (2023-03-14). Ukrainian Official Says Kyiv Doesn't Have the Resources for a Counteroffensive. news.antiwar.com A senior Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post that Kyiv doesn't have the resources to pull off a big counteroffensive in the coming months as Ukraine is lacking skilled troops, munitions, and other equipment. "If you have more resources, you more actively attack," said the official, who spoke to…

Editor (2023-03-13). 3D Analysis Shows How Israeli Troops Fired Into Group of Civilians. scheerpost.com According to The Washington Post's reconstruction of the raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli military fired repeatedly into a group of civilians taking shelter between a mosque and a clinic, killing two and wounding three others.

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2023-03-13: News Headlines

_____ (2023-03-13). "First Daughter" or a new trend of DPRK propaganda? journal-neo.org After mentioning the daughter of the DPRK leader at a military parade and other events marking the 75th anniversary of the Korean People's Army on February 8, 2023, the author was asked to explain whether the reasoning of some experts that the girl had already been appointed Kim Jong-un's successor was correct. Recall that on […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Brian Maher (2023-03-13). The 10 Rules of Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

JANET (2023-03-12). A visit to Mariupol after the fighting. iacenter.org March 9, 2023 By Stefan Natke This article, one of a series on the war in Ukraine, was published March 6 in the German daily newspaper, junge Welt. Its report on the reconstruction of a city on the coast of the Donbass region clashes with the propaganda in the corporate media. Translated by John Catalinotto. Market in an area of Mariupol, Donbass, being rebuilt after heavy fighting. Credit: Guillermo Pintero Once again we are awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by the thunderous fire of heavy artillery. But this time the earth does not vibrate. Ljoschka, our constant companion, says, "Don't worry, this time…

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-12). Impending Financial Collapse, #TwoPartyIllusion Operatives, Ohio Revelations & Manufacturing Consent. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/12/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Michael Edison Hayden (2023-03-13). 'Alt-Right' Disinformation King Faces Trial. splcenter.org Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn" during Donald Trump's political rise.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation? transcend.org Is Wikipedia an open encyclopedia or a covert disinformation operation?>

_____ (2023-03-13). "First Daughter" or a new trend of DPRK propaganda? journal-neo.org After mentioning the daughter of the DPRK leader at a military parade and other events marking the 75th anniversary of the Korean People's Army on February 8, 2023, the author was asked to explain whether the reasoning of some experts that the girl had already been appointed Kim Jong-un's successor was correct. Recall that on […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Brian Maher (2023-03-13). The 10 Rules of Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

JANET (2023-03-12). A visit to Mariupol after the fighting. iacenter.org March 9, 2023 By Stefan Natke This article, one of a series on the war in Ukraine, was published March 6 in the German daily newspaper, junge Welt. Its report on the reconstruction of a city on the coast of the Donbass region clashes with the propaganda in the corporate media. Translated by John Catalinotto. Market in an area of Mariupol, Donbass, being rebuilt after heavy fighting. Credit: Guillermo Pintero Once again we are awakened at seven o'clock in the morning by the thunderous fire of heavy artillery. But this time the earth does not vibrate. Ljoschka, our constant companion, says, "Don't worry, this time…

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-12). Impending Financial Collapse, #TwoPartyIllusion Operatives, Ohio Revelations & Manufacturing Consent. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/12/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Michael Edison Hayden (2023-03-13). 'Alt-Right' Disinformation King Faces Trial. splcenter.org Jury selection started today in the trial of 33-year-old Douglass Mackey, a man who prolifically spread hate and politically charged disinformation under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn" during Donald Trump's political rise.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation? transcend.org Is Wikipedia an open encyclopedia or a covert disinformation operation?>

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-12). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II. transcend.org Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter's bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-03-13). Even Kissinger Wants Compromise: How Ukraine Became a Winner-Take-All Proposition. mintpressnews.com When the likes of Kissinger are accused of being compromisers, we can be certain that the political discourse on the war has reached a degree of extremism unprecedented in decades.

americanthinker (2023-03-12). It's a miracle! Media reports attest murdered unborn child is a 'person'. americanthinker.com Cognitive dissonance (and inequality) reign supreme with the Democrats.

americanthinker (2023-03-12). What Science, Exactly, Does the Left Follow? americanthinker.com Over the past few years, one of the rallying cries and favored slogans of the left, for many cultural and political issues at least, has been, "Follow the science!"

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-12). 'Rigorous' Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed by Leading Academic Journal. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world's top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers. The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev's…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-03-12). 'Rigorous' Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal. thegrayzone.com A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world's top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers. The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev's Maidan Square in late February 2014 was a defining moment in the US-orchestrated overthrow of Ukraine's elected government. The death of 70 protesters triggered an avalanche of …

M.K. Bhadrakumar (2023-03-13). Foreign devils on road to Afghanistan. peoplesdispatch.org Looking ahead, the real danger is that, having failed to get the Taliban to bend while also unable to build an anti-Taliban resistance movement or incite the Central Asian states to decouple from Moscow and Beijing, the US and its allies may now be left with the only remaining option, which is to create anarchical conditions in Afghanistan where there are no winners…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-03-13). How Stupid Do They Think We Are? A Small Pro-Ukrainian Group in a Yacht Did Whaaaat? transcend.org 8 Mar 2023 – Western "intelligence" and the New York Times in deeper waters than usual, offering us a devious spin and fake story — sadly swallowed by the same media that omitted Hersh's analysis. Ominous.

americanthinker (2023-03-12). Shameful New York Times hit piece on Ron DeSantis reveals panic over his political appeal. americanthinker.com A governor using power explicitly granted to him by the state constitution to fire a prosecutor who took upon himself the job of overriding state law is somehow scandalous to the New York Times. A remarkable effort to find fault on the slenderest of grounds.

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2023-03-12: News Headlines

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-03-11). Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2. globalresearch.ca The UN's climate change summit (COP27) "has opened in Egypt. | More than 120 world leaders are attending the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: | "Our Planet is "Sending a Distress Signal". …

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-12). Impending Financial Collapse, #TwoPartyIllusion Operatives, Ohio Revelations & Manufacturing Consent. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/12/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-12). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

americanthinker (2023-03-12). It's a miracle! Media reports attest murdered unborn child is a 'person'. americanthinker.com Cognitive dissonance (and inequality) reign supreme with the Democrats.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-03-11). Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2. globalresearch.ca The UN's climate change summit (COP27) "has opened in Egypt. | More than 120 world leaders are attending the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: | "Our Planet is "Sending a Distress Signal". …

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-12). Impending Financial Collapse, #TwoPartyIllusion Operatives, Ohio Revelations & Manufacturing Consent. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/12/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-12). Biggest Lie in World History: There Never Was A Pandemic. The Data Base is Flawed. The Covid Mandates including the Vaccine are Invalid. globalresearch.ca Fake science was supportive of this devastating agenda. The lies were sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. The historic March 11, 2020 lockdown triggered economic and social chaos Worldwide. It was an act of "economic warfare": a war against humanity.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

americanthinker (2023-03-12). It's a miracle! Media reports attest murdered unborn child is a 'person'. americanthinker.com Cognitive dissonance (and inequality) reign supreme with the Democrats.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-03-11). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

americanthinker (2023-03-12). What Science, Exactly, Does the Left Follow? americanthinker.com Over the past few years, one of the rallying cries and favored slogans of the left, for many cultural and political issues at least, has been, "Follow the science!"

ecns.cn (2023-03-12). China continues to drive global economic growth. ecns.cn China's economy has shown remarkable resilience and enormous potential, as evidenced by key indicators that have surpassed expectations and signs of consumer and investor confidence. This has become a significant driving force for the struggling global economy, according to market experts.

LoàØc Sentilhes, Joelle Belaisch Allart, Paul Berveiller, Aline Bibes, Thierry Schaeverbeke, FRENCH-ARRIVE Study Group, the Groupe de Recherche en Obstétrique et Gynécologie (2023-03-11). [Correspondence] FRENCH-ARRIVE: a serious, evidence-free, and false accusation of unethical research. thelancet.com We—the investigators and Trial Steering Committee of the FRENCH-ARRIVE trial, members of the Groupe de Recherche en Obstétrique Gynécologie, representatives of the French College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Bordeaux University Hospital (appendix)—were stunned to read Richard Horton's1 Comment spreading the erroneous accusations of Claudine Schalck and Raymonde Gagnon7 claiming that the FRENCH-ARRIVE trial (NCT04799912) is scientific misconduct and unethical research that "obeys a pseudo-scientific rational logic" and is "a denial of what childbirth and motherhood mean to women".

Gadudage, Last Real Indians. (2023-03-11). Defining Genocide And America's Selective Memory. popularresistance.org On December 9, 1984 the United Nations (UN) General Assembly approved the Genocide Convention and developed an international law that recognizes acts of genocide. Article 2 of the Genocide Convention lists the following acts. (a) Killing members of the group. (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. (e) Forcibly transferring children of one group to another group.

WSWS (2023-03-11). Canada's New Democrats stoke intelligence agency-incited furor over alleged Chinese election interference. wsws.org The NDP's trumpeting of the lurid, unsubstantiated claims of Chinese interference have emboldened the Conservatives' newly-minted, far-right leader, Pierre Poilievre, in his denunciations of Liberal government "collusion" with China and his portrayal of Trudeau as semi-treasonous.

americanthinker (2023-03-11). A massive but subtle sociological shift observed through the lens of a conservative mind. americanthinker.com Watching mothers photograph and film grown men dance sexually in front of crawling babies is evidence of a radical disruption in attitudes toward photography and film.

americanthinker (2023-03-12). Shameful New York Times hit piece on Ron DeSantis reveals panic over his political appeal. americanthinker.com A governor using power explicitly granted to him by the state constitution to fire a prosecutor who took upon himself the job of overriding state law is somehow scandalous to the New York Times. A remarkable effort to find fault on the slenderest of grounds.

_____ (2023-03-11). John Bolton, the Washington Post and the Death of Arms Control. strategic-culture.org Arms control and disarmament are on life support, and John Bolton and the Washington Post have predictably come along to try to prevent any resuscitation.

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