(2023-04-26). New Defence Review Further Enslaves Australia To US War Agendas. popularresistance.org The Australian government has released the declassified version of its highly anticipated 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR), and the war propagandists are delighted. | Sydney Morning Herald's Matthew Knott, most well-known for being told by former prime minister Paul Keating to "do the right thing and drum yourself out of Australian journalism" over his role in Nine Entertainment's despicable Red Alert war-with-China propaganda series, has a new propaganda piece out titled "Defence review pulls no punches: China the biggest threat we face".
(2023-04-26). Is this man a Russian agent operating in the Black community of St. Louis? mronline.org 
The Justice Department has just indicted him and three other members of the African People's Socialist Party for advancing Russian propaganda—though it looks more like the Biden administration was looking for a scapegoat to justify its anti-Russia offensive and found one in a familiar place.
(2023-04-26). In OtherWords: April 26, 2023. otherwords.org The last few weeks have seen an upsetting surge of seemingly random shootings — of teenagers knocking on doors, of cheerleaders trying to open the wrong car, and more. This week in OtherWords, The former Ithaca, New York mayor explains how pervasive propaganda about high crime and danger has led to a nation that's heavily armed, trigger-happy, and unable to make even common sense reforms to gun laws or policing. But reflecting on his own experience in office, he says it's still…
(2023-04-26). Pentagon Leaks Punch a Hole in the U.S. Propaganda War. progressive.org What the documents reveal should lead to renewed calls for our government to level with the public.
(2023-04-25). A Current Overview of the Conflict in Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein For all those who speak of missed deadlines, of slow development of combat actions, of imminent collapse of the Russian economy, of certainty in the immediate and immediate expiration dates of the Russian missile and ammunition arsenals, it must be said that this is nothing more than desperate Western propaganda aimed at…
(2023-04-25). Chinese 'Police Stations' and War Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberley — Apr 19, 2023 | The U.S. can shoot down balloons, call names, and claim that China has "police stations" in New York City. It cannot stop the decline of its own making as it engages in war propaganda theater. | "Right now there are changes — the likes of which we haven't seen for 100 years — and we are the ones driving these changes together." President Lula da Silva of Brazil recently visited China's President Xi Jinping. French President Emmanuel Macron, Bela…
(2023-04-25). Ukraine will launch its offensive by April 30, anniversary of Hitler's death – Newsweek. infobrics.org Preparations for Ukraine's anticipated offensive is far from complete.
(2023-04-25). How Ordinary People Become Nazis: A Review of Robert Gellately's "Hitler's True Believers" libya360.wordpress.com Charles Wofford Imagine a political speech so venomous, so hate filled, so threatening, that at times it is impossible to understand the speaker. He rages against enemies foreign and domestic, against capitalism, against communism, against ethnic and political minorities, against disabled people, and insists on the superiority of his own nation. Thousands of torch-bearing zealots…
(2023-04-25). Carlson leaves Fox with millions ready to accept fascist lies. peoplesworld.org 
Tucker Carlson is the latest in a string of right-wing ideologues who, historically, rose to great heights in U.S. media to carry out the job of making fascism acceptable to Americans. He is preceded in the distant past by Father Charles Coughlin, the fascist radio megastar of the 1930s who made Hitler palatable to Americans …
(2023-04-25). The Present Status of Viruses and Virus Diseases. jamanetwork.com A hundred years ago the existence of viruses was unknown. The beginning of knowledge of this group of infectious agents indeed goes back only a half century. It is not yet fifty years since Beijerinck established that the infectious agent of tobacco mosaic disease is filtrable and called it a "contagious living fluid" and since Loeffler and Frosch identified the first ascertained virus disease of animals, foot-and-mouth disease. In the decade or so which followed a small number of other plant and animal diseases were identified as of virus origin. Among these were yellow fever, rabies, vaccinia-variola and poliom…
(2023-04-26). An Insider's Guide to "Anti-Disinformation" scheerpost.com
(2023-04-26). Who is Behind "Fake News"? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images. globalresearch.ca The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which they categorize as "fake news". Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down.
(2023-04-25). Western Outlets Send Warning to Lula Over Ukraine Dissent. orinocotribune.com 
By Brian Mier — Apr 21, 2023 | In case you were unsure how to feel about Lula's Ukraine stance, Reuters (4/17/23) sends a clue. | Former and current Brazilian President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva's brief honeymoon with US corporate media hit its first roadblock this week as a minor story repeated in Reuters and AP generated headlines in Brazil's newspapers, with its largest, O Globo, running an editorial with a thinly veiled coup threat. | After years of
(2023-04-26). "Get Down to Business": Harry Belafonte in 2016 on Trump, Socialism & Fighting for Justice. democracynow.org 
Harry Belafonte last appeared on Democracy Now! in 2016 at a special event at the historic Riverside Church in New York to celebrate our 20th anniversary. He co-headlined the event with Noam Chomsky in their first public appearance together. Belafonte spoke about Donald Trump, who had just been elected president, and ongoing struggles for freedom and justice in the United States. "We just have to get out our old coats, dust them off, stop screwing around and just chasing the good times, and get down to business," he said. "There's some ass-kicking out here to be done. And we should do it."…
(2023-04-25). Alaska Supreme Court Says Partisan Gerrymandering Is Unconstitutional. truthout.org On Friday, the Alaska state Supreme Court ruled that the Alaska Redistricting Board — a state agency that is formally charged with redrawing political maps every ten years following the federal census — drew maps illegally, violating the state Constitution's equal protection doctrine. The court explicitly stated in its ruling that the maps were an illegal partisan gerrymander — the first decision… |
(2023-04-25). A Review of the Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Adenomas. jamanetwork.com This review summarizes current evidence regarding diagnosis and treatment of pituitary adenomas.
(2023-04-25). Randomized Trials vs Real-World Evidence. jamanetwork.com Noting that randomized clinical trials (RCTs) "generally yield the strongest inferences about the effects of medical treatments,"(p984) the AMA Manual of Style instructs that "randomized trials may use terms such as effect and causal relationship,"(p983) In contrast, the manual claims that observational studies "cannot lead to causal inferences"(p994) and thus "should be described in terms of association or correlation and should avoid cause-and-effect wording."(p983) Nevertheless, analyses of observational data—often consisting of real-world evidence from databases of medical claims and electronic health r…
(2023-04-25). Venezuela's Juan Guaido Lands in US Seeking Refuge. news.antiwar.com Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido, who the US backed in a failed coup attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, landed in Miami on Tuesday and is seeking "refuge" in the US, The Washington Post reported. The US recognized Guaido as the "interim president" in 2019, the same year of the attempted coup. The Trump administration's …