Monthly Archives: April 2023

2023-04-09: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-09). The Word "Presstitute" Is Insulting (To Sex Workers): Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO. | Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship. | Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda. | Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy. | Defending Europe from Russia by bombing European pipelines. | ‚ùñ | Twitter has dropped its

thecommunists (2023-04-09). Report from the anti-imperialist Summit Against Hypocrisy in Washington DC. thecommunists.org In the video above, radio host Garland Nixon gives a masterclass in how we can talk to those around us in ways that leave them questioning imperialist lies rather than being roused to antagonistic defence of propaganda-instilled prejudice. ***** On the weekend of 25-26 March, the Centre for Political Innovation, a US-based socialist education initiative …

_____ (2023-04-08). Kosovo Liberation Army Leader Hashim Thaci on Trial for War Crimes. strategic-culture.org By Peter SCHWARZ | From March 24 to June 9, 1999, NATO bombed Serbia for 77 days. It was the first major war on European soil since the Second World War—even this fact is suppressed and denied today in view of the war in Ukraine. | War propaganda was in full swing at the time: NATO was laying waste to Serbian cities in order to defend "human rights" and to stop the "ethnic cleansing" Serbia was accused of carrying out in Kosovo. Greens, liberals and pseudo-left groups, who only a few weeks before had been invoking pacifism, eagerly took up this propaganda and switched to the war camp with flying colours. In…

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-09). 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 …

ecns.cn (2023-04-09). COVID origins-tracing requires joint efforts of global scientific community: Chinese scientist. ecns.cn "Tracing the origin of the virus is not just for a single country and it can't be done by a single county alone. It inevitably requires the joint efforts of the global scientific community," Zhou Lei, a researcher from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news conference on Saturday. "ÄÄ…

Editor (2023-04-08). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. scheerpost.com

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-04-09). The Word "Presstitute" Is Insulting (To Sex Workers): Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO. | Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship. | Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda. | Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy. | Defending Europe from Russia by bombing European pipelines. | ‚ùñ | Twitter has dropped its

thecommunists (2023-04-09). Report from the anti-imperialist Summit Against Hypocrisy in Washington DC. thecommunists.org In the video above, radio host Garland Nixon gives a masterclass in how we can talk to those around us in ways that leave them questioning imperialist lies rather than being roused to antagonistic defence of propaganda-instilled prejudice. ***** On the weekend of 25-26 March, the Centre for Political Innovation, a US-based socialist education initiative …

_____ (2023-04-08). Kosovo Liberation Army Leader Hashim Thaci on Trial for War Crimes. strategic-culture.org By Peter SCHWARZ | From March 24 to June 9, 1999, NATO bombed Serbia for 77 days. It was the first major war on European soil since the Second World War—even this fact is suppressed and denied today in view of the war in Ukraine. | War propaganda was in full swing at the time: NATO was laying waste to Serbian cities in order to defend "human rights" and to stop the "ethnic cleansing" Serbia was accused of carrying out in Kosovo. Greens, liberals and pseudo-left groups, who only a few weeks before had been invoking pacifism, eagerly took up this propaganda and switched to the war camp with flying colours. In…

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-09). 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 …

ecns.cn (2023-04-09). COVID origins-tracing requires joint efforts of global scientific community: Chinese scientist. ecns.cn "Tracing the origin of the virus is not just for a single country and it can't be done by a single county alone. It inevitably requires the joint efforts of the global scientific community," Zhou Lei, a researcher from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news conference on Saturday. "ÄÄ…

Editor (2023-04-08). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. scheerpost.com

DJ Mouse (2023-04-09). Rally to Free Mumia Tuesday, April 4, Oakland Federal Building. indybay.org On March 31, 2023, Judge Lucretia Clemons…former law partner w/ Ed Rendell…denied Mumia Abu Jamal's appeal…ludicrously claiming evidence proving key witnesses were paid in exchange for false testimony was "not material" to showing that the trial was unfair!

JANET (2023-04-08). Will workers turn toward taking the offensive in France? iacenter.org By John Catalinotto April 6, 2023 For the 11th time since Jan. 19, millions of people in France, led by the workers of the major union confederations, especially the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), took to the streets all over the country on April 6. Once again, they shut France down. Early reports in the New York Times claimed, with little evidence, that the demonstrations were "losing some steam." Meanwhile, tweets from many small- and medium-sized French cities showed a growing militancy. Perhaps this was rooted in the Yellow Vest struggle — but this time it was led by a reinvigorated union movemen…

Juan Cole (2023-04-09). Leaked Pentagon Report: Israeli Intel Agency Mossad Agitated against Netanyahu's weakening of Courts. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — John Hudson and Louisa Loveluck at the Washington Post report that a leak of Pentagon documents reveals that the U.S. is intensively spying on Israel and concludes that Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, has encouraged both its own employees and the Israeli public to join protests against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's …

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2023-04-08: News Headlines

_____ (2023-04-08). Kosovo Liberation Army Leader Hashim Thaci on Trial for War Crimes. strategic-culture.org By Peter SCHWARZ | From March 24 to June 9, 1999, NATO bombed Serbia for 77 days. It was the first major war on European soil since the Second World War—even this fact is suppressed and denied today in view of the war in Ukraine. | War propaganda was in full swing at the time: NATO was laying waste to Serbian cities in order to defend "human rights" and to stop the "ethnic cleansing" Serbia was accused of carrying out in Kosovo. Greens, liberals and pseudo-left groups, who only a few weeks before had been invoking pacifism, eagerly took up this propaganda and switched to the war camp with flying colours. In…

John Perry (2023-04-07). The United Nations Is Being Used by the U.S. in Its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-04-07). Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov's performances cancelled by Boston Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall. wsws.org Abdrazakov is the latest victim of the anti-Russian propaganda campaign being waged as part of the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-07). Thai Opposition Asks US to "Restore Democracy" in Thailand. libya360.wordpress.com -Thai "human rights activist" Sirikan Chaloernsiri has called for the US to "seize this opportunity" and "restore democracy" in Thailand by ensuring the opposition takes power; -Sirikan's opposition group, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights has been funded since its creation in 2014 by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED); -The NED…

Derek Seidman (2023-04-07). Longtime Astroturf Firm Obscures Funders as It Targets Starbucks Union. truthout.org "I get up every morning and I try to figure out how to screw with the labor unions." These were the words uttered by Rick Berman during a 2014 talk to the Western Energy Alliance, a fossil fuel industry group, according to The New York Times, which received a leaked recording of the presentation. Berman is a high-profile corporate consultant who has made headlines for decades because of his… |

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …




Snejana Farberov, New York Post. (2023-04-07). French Pension Protesters Occupy BlackRock, Torch Restaurant. popularresistance.org A new wave of unrest over a pension reform engulfed Paris and other French cities Thursday, with enraged protesters occupying the building of the US-based investment firm BlackRock and setting fire to a popular restaurant favored by President Emmanuel Macron. | Dozens of trade union members streamed into BlackRock's Paris offices in the historical Centorial building, where they set off firecrackers and chanted slogans directed at the company's private pension fund. | "The government wants to throw away pensions, it wants to force people to fund their own retirement with private pension funds, but what we know is…

WSWS (2023-04-07). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: Public sector bank workers protest privatisation and outsourcing; Odisha state contract teachers demand permanent jobs; Australian building workers protest against repressive industrial laws and for higher pay; Melbourne Zoo workers begin industrial action…

DJ Mouse (2023-04-08). Rally to Free Mumia Tuesday, April 4, Oakland Federal Building. indybay.org On March 31, 2023, Judge Lucretia Clemons…former law partner w/ Ed Rendell…denied Mumia Abu Jamal's appeal…ludicrously claiming evidence proving key witnesses were paid in exchange for false testimony was "not material" to showing that the trial was unfair!

Editor (2023-04-07). 5 Other Modern Presidents Who Should Have Been Indicted for Their Crimes. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Seeing Trump arraigned in New York on Tuesday was satisfying even if the outcome of the trial cannot be foreseen and he has a presumption of innocence. There is obviously evidence that he falsified his business records for the purpose of hiding material facts …

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-04-07). Leaked documents expose US-NATO Ukraine war plans. thegrayzone.com Classified Pentagon documents containing information about US and NATO plans for a Ukrainian offensive and key details of the ongoing war have leaked. And the Biden administration is reportedly demanding they be scrubbed from the internet. Is there a hidden agenda behind the leak? The New York Times has reported "a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine" through the leak of classified documents which have been shared on social media. It correspondents cited "senior Biden …

Seymour Hersh. (2023-04-07). Seymour Hersh: The Nord Stream Ghost Ship. popularresistance.org America's Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have an explanation when things go well, as they did in the Baltic Sea last fall. Within weeks of my report that Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the agency produced a cover story and found willing takers in the New York Times and two major German publications. | By creating a story of deep sea divers and a crew who did not exist, the agency was following protocol, and the story would hav…

Snejana Farberov, New York Post. (2023-04-07). French Pension Protesters Occupy BlackRock, Torch Restaurant. popularresistance.org A new wave of unrest over a pension reform engulfed Paris and other French cities Thursday, with enraged protesters occupying the building of the US-based investment firm BlackRock and setting fire to a popular restaurant favored by President Emmanuel Macron. | Dozens of trade union members streamed into BlackRock's Paris offices in the historical Centorial building, where they set off firecrackers and chanted slogans directed at the company's private pension fund. | "The government wants to throw away pensions, it wants to force people to fund their own retirement with private pension funds, but what we know is…

WSWS (2023-04-07). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: Public sector bank workers protest privatisation and outsourcing; Odisha state contract teachers demand permanent jobs; Australian building workers protest against repressive industrial laws and for higher pay; Melbourne Zoo workers begin industrial action…

DJ Mouse (2023-04-08). Rally to Free Mumia Tuesday, April 4, Oakland Federal Building. indybay.org On March 31, 2023, Judge Lucretia Clemons…former law partner w/ Ed Rendell…denied Mumia Abu Jamal's appeal…ludicrously claiming evidence proving key witnesses were paid in exchange for false testimony was "not material" to showing that the trial was unfair!

Editor (2023-04-07). 5 Other Modern Presidents Who Should Have Been Indicted for Their Crimes. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Seeing Trump arraigned in New York on Tuesday was satisfying even if the outcome of the trial cannot be foreseen and he has a presumption of innocence. There is obviously evidence that he falsified his business records for the purpose of hiding material facts …

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-04-07). Leaked documents expose US-NATO Ukraine war plans. thegrayzone.com Classified Pentagon documents containing information about US and NATO plans for a Ukrainian offensive and key details of the ongoing war have leaked. And the Biden administration is reportedly demanding they be scrubbed from the internet. Is there a hidden agenda behind the leak? The New York Times has reported "a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine" through the leak of classified documents which have been shared on social media. It correspondents cited "senior Biden …

Seymour Hersh. (2023-04-07). Seymour Hersh: The Nord Stream Ghost Ship. popularresistance.org America's Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have an explanation when things go well, as they did in the Baltic Sea last fall. Within weeks of my report that Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the agency produced a cover story and found willing takers in the New York Times and two major German publications. | By creating a story of deep sea divers and a crew who did not exist, the agency was following protocol, and the story would hav…

Jay Stanley (2023-04-07). Catholic Group Buying Data to Out Gay Priests is Tip of Location-Tracking Iceberg. aclu.org The Washington Post You don't need to share the faith of those facing deeply personal conflicts between their faith and their sexuality to have sympathy for those men, and revulsion at the…

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2023-04-07: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-04-07). Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov's performances cancelled by Boston Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall. wsws.org Abdrazakov is the latest victim of the anti-Russian propaganda campaign being waged as part of the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-06). How the U.S. Government Is Now Secretly Instituting Martial Law. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by The U.S. Congress is now about to pass into law something called

John Perry, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-04-06). The United Nations Is Being Used In US Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. popularresistance.org While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. | Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," is seen as one of those enemies. Of the countries selected for their own annual human rights assessment by the U.S. State Department, Nicaragua merited special attention in 2022, with a 43-page report compared with, for example, only a 36-page analysis of neighboring El Salvador, where 66,000 people have been subjected to mass arrests in the past year. This is part of…

WSWS (2023-04-06). IYSSE in New Zealand holds meeting against the war in Ukraine. wsws.org The IYSSE's meeting at Victoria University of Wellington called for an anti-war movement based on the international working class. Speakers discussed the causes of the war in Ukraine, the pro-imperialist politics of pseudo-left groups, and the university's promotion of far-right war propaganda.

WSWS (2023-04-06). Ukrainian parliament approves anti-Russian law to "decolonize" place names. wsws.org The wholesale renaming of Ukrainian towns, streets, parks, and squares, has been lauded by the country's far-right who seek to replace historical truth with far-right nationalist propaganda.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-04-06). An essential workers' history of the pandemic. therealnews.com The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic devastated the working class from the start. Those deemed "essential workers" in the service, medical, transportation, agriculture, and other sectors were hit particularly hard. While the sacrifices of workers were paid lip service in the early days of the pandemic, the rhetoric rapidly shifted towards denunciations of a "labor shortage" as worker resistance mounted with time. As the capitalist class continues to espouse a dominant narrative of the pandemic that insists that the worst is over and workers ought to accept diminished real wages and deteriorating conditions, the ne…

WSWS (2023-04-07). Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov's performances cancelled by Boston Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall. wsws.org Abdrazakov is the latest victim of the anti-Russian propaganda campaign being waged as part of the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine.

Anonymous103 (2023-04-06). How the U.S. Government Is Now Secretly Instituting Martial Law. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by The U.S. Congress is now about to pass into law something called

John Perry, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-04-06). The United Nations Is Being Used In US Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. popularresistance.org While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. | Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," is seen as one of those enemies. Of the countries selected for their own annual human rights assessment by the U.S. State Department, Nicaragua merited special attention in 2022, with a 43-page report compared with, for example, only a 36-page analysis of neighboring El Salvador, where 66,000 people have been subjected to mass arrests in the past year. This is part of…

WSWS (2023-04-06). IYSSE in New Zealand holds meeting against the war in Ukraine. wsws.org The IYSSE's meeting at Victoria University of Wellington called for an anti-war movement based on the international working class. Speakers discussed the causes of the war in Ukraine, the pro-imperialist politics of pseudo-left groups, and the university's promotion of far-right war propaganda.

WSWS (2023-04-06). Ukrainian parliament approves anti-Russian law to "decolonize" place names. wsws.org The wholesale renaming of Ukrainian towns, streets, parks, and squares, has been lauded by the country's far-right who seek to replace historical truth with far-right nationalist propaganda.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-04-06). An essential workers' history of the pandemic. therealnews.com The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic devastated the working class from the start. Those deemed "essential workers" in the service, medical, transportation, agriculture, and other sectors were hit particularly hard. While the sacrifices of workers were paid lip service in the early days of the pandemic, the rhetoric rapidly shifted towards denunciations of a "labor shortage" as worker resistance mounted with time. As the capitalist class continues to espouse a dominant narrative of the pandemic that insists that the worst is over and workers ought to accept diminished real wages and deteriorating conditions, the ne…

Staff (2023-04-06). "The Undertow": Author Jeff Sharlet on Trump, the Far Right & the Growing Threat of Fascism in U.S. democracynow.org We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the language of "civil war" has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans.

Julie Hollar (2023-04-06). Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence. nationofchange.org Science doesn't guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study.

Tomdispatch (2023-04-07). Savage Capitalism: From Climate Change to Bank Failures to War. juancole.com By David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | — [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the …

David Barsamian (2023-04-06). Noam Chomsky: There Are Signs of Hope Amid Climate Crisis, Bank Failures and War. truthout.org [The following is excerpted from David Barsamian's recent interview with Noam Chomsky at AlternativeRadio.org.] David Barsamian: On March 20th, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report. The new IPCC assessment from senior scientists warned that there's little time to lose in tackling the climate crisis. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-06). The Fight Against Neo-Colonialism in the Political Discourse of South Africa. libya360.wordpress.com Vadim Balytnikov Neo-colonialism … meant few African countries could independently embark on any political and economic development route…The Western powers never envisaged independent African countries to decide their own development paths; rather, they sought to create dependent client states which could be manipulated according to the … requirements of … Western countries. Kgalema Motlanthe, former…

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-06). Azerbaijan pushes fragmentation of Iran, rule by diaspora. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com AzertagApril 4, 2023 The social and political situation in Iran is getting tense day by day The protests that started in Iran in September of last year are still going on. The slogans raised in these actions are getting sharper. Protest actions were again held in West and East Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Mazandaran, Khuzistan and a …

Brittani Banks (2023-04-06). We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution. independentmediainstitute.org There's a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past 4 million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes combinations with other Homo species, spread unevenly across today's populations—not a neat and linear evolutionary progression. Technological advances and a growing body of archaeological evidence have allowed experts in the study of …

WSWS (2023-04-06). US Supreme Court, ignoring exculpatory evidence, refuses to hear appeal from Louisiana death row inmate. wsws.org The deeply reactionary, savage and clearly unconstitutional action is consistent with the pattern established by the court, particularly under its current six-to-three far-right majority, in relation to the barbaric practice of state murder.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-06). Canada's Legacy Press Smears Assange to Deny the Public's Right to Know. libya360.wordpress.com Peter Biesterfeld Ithaka the Movie (@IthakaMovie). Free Julian Assange advocates with the Shiptons after a screening of Ithaka in Toronto, Ontario. 'Death spiral' is an apt description of the status of Canadian establishment journalism today, journalism that misinforms Canadian news consumers about international affairs, coverage that fails to bring reliable insight and understanding of Canada's…

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-04-07). Leaked documents expose US-NATO Ukraine war plans. thegrayzone.com Classified Pentagon documents containing information about US and NATO plans for a Ukrainian offensive and key details of the ongoing war have leaked. And the Biden administration is reportedly demanding they be scrubbed from the internet. Is there a hidden agenda behind the leak? The New York Times has reported "a significant breach of American intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine" through the leak of classified documents which have been shared on social media. It correspondents cited "senior Biden …

Seymour Hersh. (2023-04-07). Seymour Hersh: The Nord Stream Ghost Ship. popularresistance.org America's Central Intelligence Agency is constantly running covert operations around the world, and all must have a cover story in case things go badly, as they often do. It is just as important to have an explanation when things go well, as they did in the Baltic Sea last fall. Within weeks of my report that Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the agency produced a cover story and found willing takers in the New York Times and two major German publications. | By creating a story of deep sea divers and a crew who did not exist, the agency was following protocol, and the story would hav…

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2023-04-06: News Headlines

John Perry, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-04-06). The United Nations Is Being Used In US Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. popularresistance.org While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. | Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," is seen as one of those enemies. Of the countries selected for their own annual human rights assessment by the U.S. State Department, Nicaragua merited special attention in 2022, with a 43-page report compared with, for example, only a 36-page analysis of neighboring El Salvador, where 66,000 people have been subjected to mass arrests in the past year. This is part of…

WSWS (2023-04-06). IYSSE in New Zealand holds meeting against the war in Ukraine. wsws.org The IYSSE's meeting at Victoria University of Wellington called for an anti-war movement based on the international working class. Speakers discussed the causes of the war in Ukraine, the pro-imperialist politics of pseudo-left groups, and the university's promotion of far-right war propaganda.

WSWS (2023-04-06). Ukrainian parliament approves anti-Russian law to "decolonize" place names. wsws.org The wholesale renaming of Ukrainian towns, streets, parks, and squares, has been lauded by the country's far-right who seek to replace historical truth with far-right nationalist propaganda.

Editor (2023-04-05). The United Nations is being used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War against Nicaragua. mronline.org While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies.

Staff (2023-04-05). De Irak a Cuba: De la propaganda de guerra al periodismo subvencionado (+ Video). cubadebate.cu El pasado febrero, un periodista de News Nation era arrestado, cuando cubría la rueda de prensa del gobernador de Ohio, sobre el incendio de un tren con químicos peligrosos. Imaginen los titulares si el incendio ocurrido en la base petrolífera de Matanzas se hubiera tapado durante varios días. De esa manipulación mediática a conveniencia se trata este material.

Maximillian Alvarez (2023-04-06). An essential workers' history of the pandemic. therealnews.com The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic devastated the working class from the start. Those deemed "essential workers" in the service, medical, transportation, agriculture, and other sectors were hit particularly hard. While the sacrifices of workers were paid lip service in the early days of the pandemic, the rhetoric rapidly shifted towards denunciations of a "labor shortage" as worker resistance mounted with time. As the capitalist class continues to espouse a dominant narrative of the pandemic that insists that the worst is over and workers ought to accept diminished real wages and deteriorating conditions, the ne…




Staff (2023-04-06). "The Undertow": Author Jeff Sharlet on Trump, the Far Right & the Growing Threat of Fascism in U.S. democracynow.org We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the language of "civil war" has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-05). Syria Renews Calls For Turkish Withdrawal During Four-Way Talks In Moscow. southfront.org Turkish forces are seen near Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi | On April 4, senior diplomats from Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria held a long-awaited meeting in Moscow to push forward the normalization process between Ankara and Damascus. | Greeting the participants of the talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged Syrian and Turkish diplomats to show "flexibility and constructive attitude," and abandon the "confrontational rhetoric and past offenses."

Julie Hollar (2023-04-06). Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence. nationofchange.org Science doesn't guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study.

John Wojcik (2023-04-05). With democracy on the line, People's World does the job corporate media won't. peoplesworld.org The argument for keeping People's World alive is a more critical one now than ever before. That's because we are at a critical juncture in U.S. history, one that could end up with a fascist takeover of our country. At such a time as this, the need for truth-telling journalists who work in print, online, …

Richard Becker (2023-04-05). Vatican Renounces Euro-supremacist "Doctrine of Discovery" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-04-05). Marco Rubio Accidentally Makes a Great Argument Against U.S. Dollar Hegemony. strategic-culture.org We saw just such an instance last Wednesday during a conversation between empire propagandist Sean Hannity and warmongering senator Marco Rubio on Fox News. So frenzied was Rubio in his vitriol about the rise of China on the world stage that he accidentally wound up providing a very good argument against the hegemony of the US dollar.

Staff (2023-04-06). "The Undertow": Author Jeff Sharlet on Trump, the Far Right & the Growing Threat of Fascism in U.S. democracynow.org We speak with award-winning journalist and author Jeff Sharlet, who has spent the last decade reporting on the growing threat of fascism across the United States. In his new book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, Sharlet says the language of "civil war" has become central to right-wing rhetoric, mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, Congressmember Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans.

Anonymous669 (2023-04-05). Syria Renews Calls For Turkish Withdrawal During Four-Way Talks In Moscow. southfront.org Turkish forces are seen near Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria January 23, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi | On April 4, senior diplomats from Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria held a long-awaited meeting in Moscow to push forward the normalization process between Ankara and Damascus. | Greeting the participants of the talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged Syrian and Turkish diplomats to show "flexibility and constructive attitude," and abandon the "confrontational rhetoric and past offenses."

Julie Hollar (2023-04-06). Projected collapse of crucial Antarctic current met with media silence. nationofchange.org Science doesn't guide U.S. corporate media, which were virtually silent on the landmark study.

John Wojcik (2023-04-05). With democracy on the line, People's World does the job corporate media won't. peoplesworld.org The argument for keeping People's World alive is a more critical one now than ever before. That's because we are at a critical juncture in U.S. history, one that could end up with a fascist takeover of our country. At such a time as this, the need for truth-telling journalists who work in print, online, …

Richard Becker (2023-04-05). Vatican Renounces Euro-supremacist "Doctrine of Discovery" globalresearch.ca

_____ (2023-04-05). Marco Rubio Accidentally Makes a Great Argument Against U.S. Dollar Hegemony. strategic-culture.org We saw just such an instance last Wednesday during a conversation between empire propagandist Sean Hannity and warmongering senator Marco Rubio on Fox News. So frenzied was Rubio in his vitriol about the rise of China on the world stage that he accidentally wound up providing a very good argument against the hegemony of the US dollar.

Editor (2023-04-05). "Legitimate target" — Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe. mronline.org Christo Grozev of the U.S. government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine's attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a "propagandist."

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-06). Azerbaijan pushes fragmentation of Iran, rule by diaspora. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com AzertagApril 4, 2023 The social and political situation in Iran is getting tense day by day The protests that started in Iran in September of last year are still going on. The slogans raised in these actions are getting sharper. Protest actions were again held in West and East Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Mazandaran, Khuzistan and a …

Rick Rozoff (2023-04-05). Azeri government press praises flying of Azerbaijani flag in Iran riots. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Azeri Press AgencyApril 5, 2023 Azerbaijani flag raised in Iranian cities Protests continued in Western and Eastern Azerbaijan, including Tabriz, Ardabil, Kurdistan, Mazandaran, Khuzestan, and a number of provinces. Activists hung Azerbaijan's flag in various places in Iranian cities. Participants of protests chant slogans such as "Death to the dictator!", "Death to Khamenei!", "Death to …

WSWS (2023-04-06). US Supreme Court, ignoring exculpatory evidence, refuses to hear appeal from Louisiana death row inmate. wsws.org The deeply reactionary, savage and clearly unconstitutional action is consistent with the pattern established by the court, particularly under its current six-to-three far-right majority, in relation to the barbaric practice of state murder.

Juan Cole (2023-04-05). 5 Other Modern Presidents who Should have been Indicted for their Crimes. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Seeing Trump arraigned in New York on Tuesday was satisfying even if the outcome of the trial cannot be foreseen and he has a presumption of innocence. There is obviously evidence that he falsified his business records for the purpose of hiding material facts from the American people in October …

Editor (2023-04-05). Patrick Lawrence: The Happiness of Others. scheerpost.com For Americans, admitting that people in other parts of the world have and want different things from what they have and want can, in its subtle way, be devastating to their view of the world.

Sasha Abramsky (2023-04-05). The Party of "Family Values" Sees No Irony in Axing Child Labor Protections. truthout.org The New York Times's recent exposé on child labor in the United States wasn't about what might be called "child labor lite": examples, say, of kids working in candy stores, logging long hours as babysitters, or getting up early to do paper-delivery rounds. Instead, it was about truly Dickensian conditions: children, many of whom were unaccompanied migrants, getting mangled while working overnight… |

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2023-04-05: News Headlines

Andrew Korybko (2023-04-04). Lavrov Debunked Western Propaganda Warning About Russia's "Dependence" on China. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2023-04-04). Ukraine attempts to legitimise pursuit of nuclear weapons through petition. infobrics.org UN refuses to call out Kiev for escalating nuclear rhetoric.

Dana Sanchez (2023-04-04). Fact Check: 21 Percent Of CEOs In Corporate America Are Psychopaths. moguldom.com Despite a world-class talent for entrepreneurship, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs parked in the disabled parking spots, displayed low empathy and antisocial behavior and bullied his employees. He eventually got fired from his own company. Twitter owner and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk was combative with investors, the media, employees, and his social media audience. …

Andrew Korybko (2023-04-04). Lavrov Debunked Western Propaganda Warning About Russia's "Dependence" on China. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2023-04-04). Ukraine attempts to legitimise pursuit of nuclear weapons through petition. infobrics.org UN refuses to call out Kiev for escalating nuclear rhetoric.

Dana Sanchez (2023-04-04). Fact Check: 21 Percent Of CEOs In Corporate America Are Psychopaths. moguldom.com Despite a world-class talent for entrepreneurship, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs parked in the disabled parking spots, displayed low empathy and antisocial behavior and bullied his employees. He eventually got fired from his own company. Twitter owner and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk was combative with investors, the media, employees, and his social media audience. …

John W. Whitehead (2023-04-04). "Fake News" Stories Curated by the Deep State: Government Spin Doctors Control the News Cycle. globalresearch.ca

Ramzy Baroud (2023-04-04). Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of 'Fake News'. mintpressnews.com The phrase 'fake news' continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organizations affiliated with opposing parties. This means that most of what is uttered or written by CNN is 'fake news' for Republicans, and much of what appears in Republicans-affiliated media is 'fake news' for Democrats. | The phrase is now so prevalent and has multiple meanings to the point that it is impossible to agree on a common definition. Even 'fact checking' organizations or news desks contribute to the troubling phenomenon of 'fake news' by selec…

Juan Cole (2023-04-05). 5 Other Modern Presidents who Should have been Indicted for their Crimes. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Seeing Trump arraigned in New York on Tuesday was satisfying even if the outcome of the trial cannot be foreseen and he has a presumption of innocence. There is obviously evidence that he falsified his business records for the purpose of hiding material facts from the American people in October …

Linn Washington (2023-04-04). Lucretia And The Law Of Lawlessness. thiscantbehappening.net When Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons released an inmate from prison in May 2021, she clearly saw how prosecutors illegally withholding evidence of innocence caused that Philadelphia man to languish in prison for nearly 30-years on a wrongful murder conviction. As Clemons released Eric Riddick from prison on May 28, 2021, she declared … |

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-04-04). How The US Uses International Bodies To Manufacture Consent For Warfare. popularresistance.org Both the Obama and Trump administrations used alleged chemical attacks in 2013 and 2018 to justify bombing Syria. When inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who inspected the site of the attacks, stated that there was not evidence to prove the Syrian military was responsible, and in the case of the 2018 attack, that chemical weapons were even used, they were silenced and punished. Aaron Mate has been covering this story for several years and has testified before the United Nations Security Council three times, most recently on March 24 of this year. He speaks to Clearing the FO…

jamanetwork (2023-04-04). Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Myocarditis—A Review. jamanetwork.com This Review summarizes current evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of acute myocarditis.

jamanetwork (2023-04-04). Mindfulness Training and Exercise and Cognitive Function in Older Adults—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply We thank Drs Salmoirago-Blotcher and Cohen for their interest in the MEDEX study, which showed that mindfulness training and/or exercise did not improve cognitive function in older adults with subjective cognitive concerns. However, we disagree with their concern that the negative findings "can be explained by…methodological limitations."

_____ (2023-04-04). The Tragedy of U.S. Diplomacy Pushing for War, but Never Peace. strategic-culture.org In a brilliant op-ed published in the New York Times, the Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi explained how China, with help from Iraq, was able to mediate and resolve the deeply-rooted conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, whereas the United States was in no position to do so after siding with the Saudi kingdom against Iran for decades. The title of Parsi's article, "The U.S. Is Not an Indispensable Peacemaker,"refers to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's use of the term "indispensable nation" to describe the U.S. role in…

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2023-04-04: News Headlines

Sharon Zhang (2023-04-03). Musk Calls New York Times "Propaganda" as He Removes Its Twitter Verification. truthout.org Over the weekend, self-described free speech absolutist Elon Musk appeared to personally request the removal of the blue check verification for The New York Times's Twitter account as he derided the publication's reporting as "propaganda" and its social media feed as "diarrhea." On Saturday, Twitter was slated to remove blue check marks that, before Musk's takeover, indicated that a user's… |

Staff (2023-04-03). Hablamos… øen español? øInfluencias o colonialismo cultural? cubadebate.cu Parecería muy fácil responder a esta pregunta, como que "se cae de la mata", pues °Claro que hablamos español! Pero hace falta poner los sentidos más atentos a las conversaciones cotidianas, comunicaciones radiales, televisivas y hasta escritos y propaganda diversos, para ver y oír: "Vamos a la shopping" (es decir, "compras" ). En inglés, go shopping (ir de compras); shopping centre (centro comercial o de compras).

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). 'The Dwindling Band of Iraq Obsessives' — Endless War and Media Complicity. transcend.org 27 Mar 2023 – The 20th anniversary of the illegal US/UK-led invasion of Iraq has demonstrated once again the subservience of state and corporate media to Western power.

Editor (2023-04-03). Covering (up) antiwar protest in U.S. media. mronline.org March 18 DC peace march almost completely blacked out in U.S. corporate media.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-04-03). US Invites Authoritarian Far-Right Regimes To 'Summit For Democracy'. popularresistance.org The US government organized a conference of its allies which it misleadingly called a "Summit for Democracy", but which actually featured numerous anti-democratic, far-right regimes. | The State Department invited 120 global leaders to participate in the summit on March 29 and 30. They did so virtually, via video calls. | Several of the heads of state who spoke represent governments that even Western officials, corporate media outlets, and mainstream human rights organizations have admitted are authoritarian, including Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Andrzej Duda of Poland, and Narendra Modi of India.

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-04-03). Is a Livable Future Still Possible? Chomsky and Pollin Discuss the IPCC Report. truthout.org The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new climate report which updates and combines the findings from all past reports in the IPCC's sixth assessment. The synthesis report urges immediate action to curb global warming and secure a livable future for all. In this exclusive interview for Truthout, Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin offer remarkable insights on what the… |

_____ (2023-04-03). The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants 'Full Spectrum Dominance' of the Earth. strategic-culture.org By Roger MCKENZIE | Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. | This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997. | Full spectrum dominance, as the doctrine is known, is the reason the United States behaves the way that it does on the international stage. | The United States demands that the world bow down to its leadership. A failure to do so is met with the full force of the international military-industrial complex controlled by the A…

_____ (2023-04-03). The Crucial Ideological Transformation of Our Time. strategic-culture.org The regional transformation came about because the U.S. and its toxic 'with us, or against us' doctrine was wholly excluded from the negotiations. | Can one arrive at a better grip on the dynamics behind the Russo—Sino 'transformation' sweeping the Middle East through visiting the points in the western Global Order that are at maximum high stress? Do these latter arcs of tension cast the regional Middle Eastern metamorphosis in a wider context? I believe they do. | The U.S. gives one clear example: For most of recent history, American liberal democracy was a Protestant mainline project — as Ross Douth…

Richard Becker (2023-04-03). Vatican renounces 'Doctrine of Discovery.' When will Supreme Court do likewise? liberationnews.org The high court continues to treat the "doctrine" as an integral basis of U.S. law, particularly in regard to the rights — or lack thereof — of Native peoples.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-04-03). "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.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-04-03). Lying about Lying: Why we must revisit the Definition of 'Fake News' from Iraq to Palestine. juancole.com Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarised political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organisations affiliated with opposing parties. This means that most of what is uttered or written by CNN is "fake news" for Republicans, and much of what …

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-04-03). "Legitimate target" — Bellingcat defends terror attack at St. Petersburg cafe. thegrayzone.com Christo Grozev of the US government-sponsored Bellingcat endorsed the terror attack that killed a Russian war reporter and injured many others during a public event in St. Petersburg. He also defended Ukraine's attempt to assassinate a Russian philosopher because he was a "propagandist." In the hours that followed the April 2, 2023 bombing of a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia, Christo Grozev of the US government-funded Bellingcat outlet defended the terror attack that killed a war reporter and wounded 30 others. …

Sasha Abramsky (2023-04-03). The GOP Has Preemptively Declared Trump Innocent Without Hearing Evidence. truthout.org The indictment of Donald J. Trump has been part of the ongoing national public imagination since the earliest days of the real estate mogul's candidacy in 2015. And yet, now that it's here, the territory seems somehow peculiarly dangerous, not least because of the scandalous abnegation of moral leadership from the House GOP. Trump has been leaving hostages to fortune in his wake for decades… |

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). "Facing Clear Evidence of Peril" in a Country of Lies. transcend.org 28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people's minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap "news."

Larry Johnson (2023-04-03). The West Pushes A New Terrorism Meme in Russia. sonar21.com The murder of Russian blogger Vladlen Tatarsky has led some Western pundits to pontificate that this is "evidence" that Russia's policy towards Ukraine is facing growing opposition in Russia. Nonsense!…

WSWS (2023-04-03). Netflix airs docudrama on the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff: Part two. wsws.org That major financial players ignored the flashing warning lights and continued to invest with Madoff points to the social psychology of a ruling class so manic in its pursuit of ever-greater personal wealth that it has become blinded by its own greed. More, however, is involved in this sociopathic outlook than subjective personality traits.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). The So Far Non-Existent Vulkan Leaks. transcend.org 31 Mar 2023 – The Guardian, Washington Post and Der Spiegel have today published "bombshell" revelations about Russian cyber warfare based on leaked documents, but have produced only one single, rather innocuous leaked document between them (in the Washington Post), with zero links to any. Where are these documents and what do they actually say?>

Chris Walker (2023-04-03). Trump Personally Rifled Through Mar-a-Lago Docs Before Subpoena — Report. truthout.org The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly obtained new evidence suggesting that former President Donald Trump sought to obstruct the return of several government documents he had improperly transferred from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The new details of Trump's obstruction efforts were published in a Washington Post report over the weekend… |

Stan Cox (2023-04-03). MAGA Legislators Increasingly Force Taxpayers to Support Fossil Fuel Industry. truthout.org The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SVB claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it wasn't clear who might fill that gap. MAGA politicians took great delight in the disruption of what they… |

Tomdispatch (2023-04-03). Red State Divorce: Republican State Politicians are waging all-out War against Companies that don't Kowtow to Big Oil. juancole.com By Stan Cox | — ( Tomdispatch.com ) — The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it …

Dave DeCamp (2023-04-03). WaPo: Officials at NATO Meetings Know Not to Talk About Nord Stream Bombings. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported on Monday that some Western officials are not eager to find out who was behind the bombings of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany. An unnamed senior European diplomat told…

Dean Baker (2023-04-03). Washington Post Piece on SVB's Failure Indicates Lack of Access to Internet. cepr.net The Washington Post apparently lacks access to the Internet, but it bravely struggles on anyhow. This lack of access was apparent in a piece on how Rippling, a payroll company, was struggling to find money to issue paychecks after the FDIC froze its account in the Silicon Valley Bank. The piece never once mentioned that …

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2023-04-03: News Headlines

Staff (2023-04-03). Hablamos… øen español? øInfluencias o colonialismo cultural? cubadebate.cu Parecería muy fácil responder a esta pregunta, como que "se cae de la mata", pues °Claro que hablamos español! Pero hace falta poner los sentidos más atentos a las conversaciones cotidianas, comunicaciones radiales, televisivas y hasta escritos y propaganda diversos, para ver y oír: "Vamos a la shopping" (es decir, "compras" ). En inglés, go shopping (ir de compras); shopping centre (centro comercial o de compras).

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-02). The United Nations is Being Used by the US in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. libya360.wordpress.com John Perry Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). 'The Dwindling Band of Iraq Obsessives' — Endless War and Media Complicity. transcend.org 27 Mar 2023 – The 20th anniversary of the illegal US/UK-led invasion of Iraq has demonstrated once again the subservience of state and corporate media to Western power.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-04-03). US Invites Authoritarian Far-Right Regimes To 'Summit For Democracy'. popularresistance.org The US government organized a conference of its allies which it misleadingly called a "Summit for Democracy", but which actually featured numerous anti-democratic, far-right regimes. | The State Department invited 120 global leaders to participate in the summit on March 29 and 30. They did so virtually, via video calls. | Several of the heads of state who spoke represent governments that even Western officials, corporate media outlets, and mainstream human rights organizations have admitted are authoritarian, including Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Andrzej Duda of Poland, and Narendra Modi of India.

The Lever (2023-04-02). We Just Won Something Huge. levernews.com We have incredible news to share: Thanks to your support, we just won the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.The award is especially significant because it is named after the closest thing we have to a patron saint: I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the pioneering investigative journalist who exposed racial discrimination, McCarthyism, and government deception related to the Vietnam War in his influential newsletter I.F. Stone's Weekly.As the judges noted, "No news outlet is as thorough and relentless as The Lever in exposing the corrupting influence of corporate power on government and both major…

Richard Becker (2023-04-03). Vatican renounces 'Doctrine of Discovery.' When will Supreme Court do likewise? liberationnews.org The high court continues to treat the "doctrine" as an integral basis of U.S. law, particularly in regard to the rights — or lack thereof — of Native peoples.

Staff (2023-04-03). Hablamos… øen español? øInfluencias o colonialismo cultural? cubadebate.cu Parecería muy fácil responder a esta pregunta, como que "se cae de la mata", pues °Claro que hablamos español! Pero hace falta poner los sentidos más atentos a las conversaciones cotidianas, comunicaciones radiales, televisivas y hasta escritos y propaganda diversos, para ver y oír: "Vamos a la shopping" (es decir, "compras" ). En inglés, go shopping (ir de compras); shopping centre (centro comercial o de compras).

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-02). The United Nations is Being Used by the US in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. libya360.wordpress.com John Perry Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). 'The Dwindling Band of Iraq Obsessives' — Endless War and Media Complicity. transcend.org 27 Mar 2023 – The 20th anniversary of the illegal US/UK-led invasion of Iraq has demonstrated once again the subservience of state and corporate media to Western power.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-04-03). US Invites Authoritarian Far-Right Regimes To 'Summit For Democracy'. popularresistance.org The US government organized a conference of its allies which it misleadingly called a "Summit for Democracy", but which actually featured numerous anti-democratic, far-right regimes. | The State Department invited 120 global leaders to participate in the summit on March 29 and 30. They did so virtually, via video calls. | Several of the heads of state who spoke represent governments that even Western officials, corporate media outlets, and mainstream human rights organizations have admitted are authoritarian, including Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Andrzej Duda of Poland, and Narendra Modi of India.

The Lever (2023-04-02). We Just Won Something Huge. levernews.com We have incredible news to share: Thanks to your support, we just won the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.The award is especially significant because it is named after the closest thing we have to a patron saint: I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the pioneering investigative journalist who exposed racial discrimination, McCarthyism, and government deception related to the Vietnam War in his influential newsletter I.F. Stone's Weekly.As the judges noted, "No news outlet is as thorough and relentless as The Lever in exposing the corrupting influence of corporate power on government and both major…

Richard Becker (2023-04-03). Vatican renounces 'Doctrine of Discovery.' When will Supreme Court do likewise? liberationnews.org The high court continues to treat the "doctrine" as an integral basis of U.S. law, particularly in regard to the rights — or lack thereof — of Native peoples.

Ramzy Baroud (2023-04-03). Lying about Lying: Why we must revisit the Definition of 'Fake News' from Iraq to Palestine. juancole.com Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarised political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organisations affiliated with opposing parties. This means that most of what is uttered or written by CNN is "fake news" for Republicans, and much of what …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). "Facing Clear Evidence of Peril" in a Country of Lies. transcend.org 28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people's minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap "news."

WSWS (2023-04-03). Netflix airs docudrama on the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff: Part two. wsws.org That major financial players ignored the flashing warning lights and continued to invest with Madoff points to the social psychology of a ruling class so manic in its pursuit of ever-greater personal wealth that it has become blinded by its own greed. More, however, is involved in this sociopathic outlook than subjective personality traits.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-04-03). The So Far Non-Existent Vulkan Leaks. transcend.org 31 Mar 2023 – The Guardian, Washington Post and Der Spiegel have today published "bombshell" revelations about Russian cyber warfare based on leaked documents, but have produced only one single, rather innocuous leaked document between them (in the Washington Post), with zero links to any. Where are these documents and what do they actually say?>

Tomdispatch (2023-04-03). Red State Divorce: Republican State Politicians are waging all-out War against Companies that don't Kowtow to Big Oil. juancole.com By Stan Cox | — ( Tomdispatch.com ) — The demise of Silicon Valley Bank last month triggered plenty of angst among solar energy developers. Before it collapsed, SBV claimed it had "financed or helped finance 62 percent of community solar projects in America," according to Washington Post business reporter Evan Halper. At first, it …

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2023-04-02: News Headlines

John Perry (2023-04-01). The United Nations is Being Used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. covertactionmagazine.com Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," …

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-01). 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 …

The Lever (2023-04-02). We Just Won Something Huge. levernews.com We have incredible news to share: Thanks to your support, we just won the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.The award is especially significant because it is named after the closest thing we have to a patron saint: I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the pioneering investigative journalist who exposed racial discrimination, McCarthyism, and government deception related to the Vietnam War in his influential newsletter I.F. Stone's Weekly.As the judges noted, "No news outlet is as thorough and relentless as The Lever in exposing the corrupting influence of corporate power on government and both major…

Richard Horton (2023-04-01). [Comment] Offline: Here is how we avoid collapse. thelancet.com WHO is celebrating health for all on World Health Day (April 7). The agency's messages are important and familiar—that all people deserve good health in a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world; that health is an essential human right; and that universal health coverage is the means to that end. No one could argue with WHO's intentions. But there is an important missing truth. The planet and the life it nurtures are under threat from our own greed, exploitation, and mendacity. Unless the dangers humans have created are addressed, health for all will be nothing more than whimsical fantasy.

_____ (2023-04-01). Alexander Dugin and the Origins of the 'Red-Brown Alliance' Myth. strategic-culture.org By Max PARRY | It was a surprising admission when The New York Times The unexpected confession came more than a month after a car bomb killed the 29-year old journalist and daughter of Russian political theorist Aleksandr Dugin who personally witnessed h…

John Perry (2023-04-01). The United Nations is Being Used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. covertactionmagazine.com Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," …

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-04-01). 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 …

The Lever (2023-04-02). We Just Won Something Huge. levernews.com We have incredible news to share: Thanks to your support, we just won the 2023 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.The award is especially significant because it is named after the closest thing we have to a patron saint: I.F. "Izzy" Stone, the pioneering investigative journalist who exposed racial discrimination, McCarthyism, and government deception related to the Vietnam War in his influential newsletter I.F. Stone's Weekly.As the judges noted, "No news outlet is as thorough and relentless as The Lever in exposing the corrupting influence of corporate power on government and both major…

Richard Horton (2023-04-01). [Comment] Offline: Here is how we avoid collapse. thelancet.com WHO is celebrating health for all on World Health Day (April 7). The agency's messages are important and familiar—that all people deserve good health in a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world; that health is an essential human right; and that universal health coverage is the means to that end. No one could argue with WHO's intentions. But there is an important missing truth. The planet and the life it nurtures are under threat from our own greed, exploitation, and mendacity. Unless the dangers humans have created are addressed, health for all will be nothing more than whimsical fantasy.

_____ (2023-04-01). Alexander Dugin and the Origins of the 'Red-Brown Alliance' Myth. strategic-culture.org By Max PARRY | It was a surprising admission when The New York Times The unexpected confession came more than a month after a car bomb killed the 29-year old journalist and daughter of Russian political theorist Aleksandr Dugin who personally witnessed h…

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2023-04-01: News Headlines

John Perry (2023-04-01). The United Nations is Being Used by the U.S. in its Propaganda War Against Nicaragua. covertactionmagazine.com Biased new report lends weight to U.S. regime-change operations targeting left-wing Sandinista government. While the United States pays little regard to the human rights of many of its own citizens, it manifests intense interest in those of countries that it regards as its enemies. Nicaragua, designated by both Trump and Biden as a "strategic threat," …

Ramzy Baroud (2023-03-31). Selective Outrage in Palestine: The Problem is Not Just Smotrich, It's Zionism. mintpressnews.com By his own admission, Israel's new Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is a "fascist homophobe." This declaration, which he Though Smotrich is not the only politician in Netanyahu's cabinet with a track record of violence, both real and rhetorical,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-31). WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler's Nazi Germany. libya360.wordpress.com J Jankovsky-Novak alias Jay Janson This is the first chapter of a 18 chapter book by J. Jankovsky-Novak alias Jay Janson to be serialised in the next few days in CC Impossibility of a Prostate Disarmed and Captive Nazi Germany Rearming Itself While Under British and French Armed Enforcement of Prohibitions of Versailles Treaty Law The…

WSWS (2023-03-31). German government sends battle tanks against Russia and multiplies military aid to Ukraine. wsws.org Earlier this week, the first German battle tanks arrived in Ukraine. This has far-reaching historical and political implications. 82 years after Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union, German tanks are again rolling against Russia.

Brittani Banks (2023-03-31). The Simple Reason Why the U.S. Wants 'Full Spectrum Dominance' of the Earth. independentmediainstitute.org Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997. Full spectrum dominance, as the doctrine is known, is the reason the United …

Staff (2023-03-31). Goodbye, Doctrine of Discovery. davidswanson.org

Richard Horton (2023-04-01). [Comment] Offline: Here is how we avoid collapse. thelancet.com WHO is celebrating health for all on World Health Day (April 7). The agency's messages are important and familiar—that all people deserve good health in a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world; that health is an essential human right; and that universal health coverage is the means to that end. No one could argue with WHO's intentions. But there is an important missing truth. The planet and the life it nurtures are under threat from our own greed, exploitation, and mendacity. Unless the dangers humans have created are addressed, health for all will be nothing more than whimsical fantasy.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-31). The Security Council Fails the World on Nordstream. libya360.wordpress.com Alfred de Zayas After the thorough, coherent and credible investigation conducted by Seymour Hersh[1] of the sabotage of Nordstream, any tribunal under the rule of law would commence an investigation of the terroristic bombing. Indeed, in the United States any grand jury would find that the evidence already in the public domain suffices to indict the…

Naveena Sadasivam (2023-03-31). California Fines Manufacturer for Knowingly Exposing Workers to Toxic Chemical. truthout.org The chemical compound ethylene oxide is manufactured and used in hundreds of facilities across the United States. Linked to lymphoma, leukemia, and breast cancer, the carcinogen is used to sterilize about half of all medical devices in the country. Over the last few years, as evidence of its toxicity has become more clear, regulators have attempted to step up enforcement against ethylene oxide… |

Peoples Dispatch (2023-03-31). Former US President Trump incited a right-wing insurrection. But that's not why he's being indicted. peoplesdispatch.org A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Trump in connection to hush money that he allegedly paid to cover up an affair. This does not even scratch the surface of his many crimes…

WSWS (2023-03-31). Netflix airs docudrama on the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff: Part one. wsws.org That major financial players ignored the flashing warning lights and continued to invest with Madoff points to the social psychology of a ruling class so manic in its pursuit of ever-greater personal wealth that it has become blinded by its own greed. More, however, is involved in this sociopathic outlook than subjective personality traits.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-03-31). Daniel Ellsberg Says He Once Gave The New York Times Documents That They Didn't Print. thedissenter.org Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg reveals that he shared a top secret study with the New York Times in 1981—and they didn't publish.

Staff (2023-03-31). Donal Trump es imputado por pagar el silencio de una actriz de cine porno. cubadebate.cu Un gran jurado de Manhattan ha imputado al expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump por pagar el silencio de la actriz porno Stormy Daniels para que no contara su relación con él, según han adelantado medios estadounidenses como el diario The New York Times y la CNN, que citan a fuentes familiarizadas con el caso. Se trata de una decisión sin precedentes.

Staff (2023-03-31). Donal Trump es imputado por pagar en negro a una actriz de cine porno. cubadebate.cu Un gran jurado de Manhattan ha imputado al expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump por pagar el silencio de la actriz porno Stormy Daniels para que no contara su relación con él, según han adelantado medios estadounidenses como el diario The New York Times y la CNN, que citan a fuentes familiarizadas con el caso. Se trata de una decisión sin precedentes.

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