Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-31). Most Propaganda Looks Nothing Like This. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — May 28, 2023 | When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word "propaganda," they tend to think of something that's done by foreign nations who have governments that are so totalitarian they won't even let people know what's true or think for themselves. | Others understand that propaganda is something that happens in their own nation, but think it only happens to other people in other political parties. If they think of themselves as left-leaning they see those to their right as propagandized by right wing media, and if they think of themselves as right-leaning they se…

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-30). Propaganda Restricts Speech More Than Censorship Does: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | The biggest impediment to free speech is people's belief that they have it. Not censorship. Not refusal to platform critical voices. Not the war on journalism. It's the fact that most people are propagandized into saying what the powerful want them to say, and don't know it. | What makes our dilemma so historically unique is that we live under an empire which makes extensive use of…

Alexander Rubinstein, Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. (2023-05-31). The Grayzone Debates NED Vice President On Group's CIA Ties. popularresistance.org On April 4, 2023, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Vice President of Communications and Public Engagement Leslie Aun contacted me, Alex Rubinstein, to request a phone conversation about an article I published at The Grayzone a day before. | My report detailed the open justification of the terrorist bombing of a cafe in St. Petersburg, Russia by a top staffer of Bellingcat, which receives significant sponsorship from the NED, which functions as the regime change arm of the US government. In the article, I described the NED as a "CIA cutout," which clearly displeased Aun and prompted her appeal for a call.

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-05-31). The Grayzone Debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on Group's CIA Ties. orinocotribune.com

Editor (2023-05-30). The Grayzone Debates National Endowment for Democracy on Group's CIA Ties. scheerpost.com The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED's communications director.

Anonymous834 (2023-05-31). Is This Germany's Way To Repeat Hitler's 'Operation Barbarossa'? southfront.org Written by A report from Carl J. Burckhardt, High Commissioner of the League of Nations, on his meeting with Adolf Hitler on August 11, 1939, quoted Hitler as saying to him, Hitler's 1925 book Mein Kampf

Editor (2023-05-31). Colorado River water deal: a bandaid or real progress? mronline.org The recent Colorado River water deal reached between the three lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada is being celebrated by the corporate media as "historic," although final approval by the Department of Interior is still pending.

Betsey Piette (2023-05-31). Corporate media whitewashes book-banning hate group 'Moms for Liberty'. workers.org A recent Washington Post analysis of book challenges in the U.S. gave the book-banning draconian hate group Moms for Liberty (M4L) the white-glove treatment. Demonstrators outside Moms for Liberty summit in Tampa, Florida in 2022. On May 23,…

Dimitri Lascaris (2023-05-30). The first casualty of war is critical thinking. canadiandimension.com Composer Yuri Kerpatenko. Photo courtesy the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy/Facebook. | We often hear that truth is the first casualty of war. Yet the truth cannot be killed. What can be killed is our capacity for critical thinking. The public discourse about the Ukraine war has made this abundantly clear. | Since the start of Russia's invasion, self-described progressives have embraced nearly every war crime allegation made by the Ukrainian government, yet many of these allegations have been based on flimsy evidence, or no evidence at all. | I have practised law for three decades. Fo…

WSWS (2023-05-31). Closure of Milwaukee Master Lock plant exposes dead end of UAW's nationalist "insourcing" strategy. wsws.org The century-old plant in Milwaukee's impoverished Sherman Park neighborhood is slated to close by March 2024 with the loss of 360 jobs.

Calla Mairead Walsh, Hampton Institute. (2023-05-31). Biden Calls Cuba 'Terrorist'; People Demand US Terrorism Against Cuba End. popularresistance.org On Tuesday, May 23rd, the State Department reported that Cuba — along with Iran, Syria, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Venezuela — are not "not cooperating fully" in the United States' supposed fight against terrorism. The Biden administration officially designates Cuba as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism" (SSOT), as well as Iran, Syria, and the DPRK. | Literally 0% of Americans view Cuba as a serious threat, and the Biden administration has provided no evidence of Cuba supporting terrorism in any way. Cuban and American officials even met earlier this month in Havana to discuss cooperati…

Roselena Ramirez (2023-05-31). The Ordeal of Wrongfully Convicted People in the USA. america.cgtn.com Since 1989, over 3,000 people have been exonerated from prison sentences in the United States after evidence proved they were innocent. But how hard is it for wrongfully convicted people to rebuild their lives? Dan Williams reports.

David Hill (2023-05-30). No charges for shooter of 13-year-old boy killed in Ohio. peoplesworld.org COLUMBUS, Ohio—No murder charge will be filed against the killer of a 13-year-old boy following a grand jury hearing in which county prosecutors presented evidence that differed dramatically from all previous reports. Kreig Butler, 37, faced potential prosecution for murder following the shooting death of Sinzae Reed in October 2022. Police accounts and local reporting …

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-05-30). Debt deal includes cruel attack on the nation's poorest. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON — The deal that President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy hammered out to raise the debt ceiling avoids default for two years but inflicts pain and suffering on millions of the most vulnerable Americans. The economy can bear the cuts, according to the front-page article in today's New York Times as if what the …

David Hill (2023-05-30). No charges for shooter of 13-year-old boy killed in Ohio. peoplesworld.org COLUMBUS, Ohio—No murder charge will be filed against the killer of a 13-year-old boy following a grand jury hearing in which county prosecutors presented evidence that differed dramatically from all previous reports. Kreig Butler, 37, faced potential prosecution for murder following the shooting death of Sinzae Reed in October 2022. Police accounts and local reporting …

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-05-30). Debt deal includes cruel attack on the nation's poorest. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON — The deal that President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy hammered out to raise the debt ceiling avoids default for two years but inflicts pain and suffering on millions of the most vulnerable Americans. The economy can bear the cuts, according to the front-page article in today's New York Times as if what the …

infobrics (2023-05-29). How and why Kiev regime propaganda 'sank' Russian Navy's 'Ivan Khurs' ship. infobrics.org The reasoning behind the attack was likely manifold and since the ship is providing security to the TurkStream and Blue Stream, it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that the Kiev regime was trying to jeopardize the two key Black Sea natural gas pipelines.

_____ (2023-05-29). Thae Yong-ho — is this the end of his career? journal-neo.org Readers of previous articles by the present writer will know that the present author has a special interest in defectors from North Korea. As a result of their efforts a number of extravagant myths have been spread for propaganda purposes, largely because they tend to be from an upper middle-class background in North Korea, and […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2023-05-29). The High Costs of Military Air Shows. globalresearch.ca Author's Note and Update : | The US Navy's "Blue Angel" fighter jet squadron are scheduled to "perform" at Duluth, Minnesota's military air show on July 15/16, 2023. The economic and environmental costs of such pro-military propaganda stunts that heavily contribute to …

Editor (2023-05-30). The Grayzone Debates National Endowment for Democracy on Group's CIA Ties. scheerpost.com The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED's communications director.

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-05-29). The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group's CIA ties. thealtworld.com The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED's communications director. | Max Blumenthal- On April 4, 2023, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Vice President of Communications and Public Engagement Leslie Aun contacted me, Alex Rubinstein, to request a phone conversation about an article I published at The Grayzone a day before. |

Editor (2023-05-29). Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party's Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi. scheerpost.com Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.

Allen Forrest (2023-05-29). A Question about Censorship. dissidentvoice.org If disinformation (i.e., lying) is a

Staff (2023-05-30). Why Is Corporate Media Reporting Israel's Crimes? leecamp.com

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-05-29). "Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody's Finished if it Takes Place," says Noam Chomsky. mronline.org "Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we'll go off the precipice together."

Staff (2023-05-29). Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal. democracynow.org Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky joined others earlier this year calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been languishing for over four years in the harsh Belmarsh prison in London while appealing extradition to the United States. If he is extradited, tried and convicted, Assange faces up to 175 years in jail for violating the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Belmarsh Tribunal at the National…

Dimitri Lascaris (2023-05-30). The first casualty of war is critical thinking. canadiandimension.com Composer Yuri Kerpatenko. Photo courtesy the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy/Facebook. | We often hear that truth is the first casualty of war. Yet the truth cannot be killed. What can be killed is our capacity for critical thinking. The public discourse about the Ukraine war has made this abundantly clear. | Since the start of Russia's invasion, self-described progressives have embraced nearly every war crime allegation made by the Ukrainian government, yet many of these allegations have been based on flimsy evidence, or no evidence at all. | I have practised law for three decades. Fo…

Dana Sanchez (2023-05-29). Fact Check: Tyrese Video Leak Of Apple Deal With Beats Cost Dr. Dre $200 Million. moguldom.com Loose lips almost jeopardized the most expensive and best-known acquisition in Apple history and cost Dr. Dre the designation of First Black Billionaire due to his apparent inability to keep his mouth shut. In 2014, before Apple confirmed the acquisition of Dr. Dre's and Jimmy Iovine's Beats music streaming and electronics companies, rumors swirled about …

David Hill (2023-05-30). No charges for shooter of 13-year-old boy killed in Ohio. peoplesworld.org COLUMBUS, Ohio—No murder charge will be filed against the killer of a 13-year-old boy following a grand jury hearing in which county prosecutors presented evidence that differed dramatically from all previous reports. Kreig Butler, 37, faced potential prosecution for murder following the shooting death of Sinzae Reed in October 2022. Police accounts and local reporting …

Anonymous103 (2023-05-29). Torture Chambers Created By Ukrainian Nazis In Luhansk People's Republic (Video 18+). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | After the Russian military secured new settlements in the Donbass, Zaporozhie and Kherson regions, numerous evidences of crimes of the terrorist Kiev regime against the civilian population in the Eastern and southern regions have been revealed. Among them, there are numerous torture chambers which have been used by Ukrainian Nazis to threaten pro-Russian civilians for years. | Most recently, Russian security forces showed a torture chamber which was discovered in the town of Rubezhnoye in…

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-05-27). Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity. globalresearch.ca World leaders are meeting in Glasgow at COP-26. All eyes are now on "the imminent dangers of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions". The "climate emergency" is a timely instrument of propaganda used to distract people from questioning "the real crisis", namely the Covid-19 "plandemic".

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-05-27). 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 …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-27). 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 …

JANET (2023-05-27). U.S. national security veterans counter Ukraine war drive. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto May 22, 2023 On May 16 a full-page advertisement appeared in the New York Times. Under the headline "The U.S. should be a force for peace in the world," 15 veterans of the U.S. security apparatus endorsed an analysis of the war in Ukraine that confronted head-on the tidal wave of lies from the Biden administration and the corporate media. Protesters outside the White House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 2022. The Eisenhower Media Network placed the ad. The EMN is an organization of veterans of the U.S. military, police and/or foreign policy establishment, who once served the state apparatus. In t…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-27). British MPs write to Foreign Office about Pandemic Treaty designed to increase WHO's powers. expose-news.com British Members of Parliament ("MPs") say a new pandemic treaty will give the United Nations' World Health Organisation ("WHO") the power to impose lockdowns on signatories, despite corporate media claims to the …

WSWS (2023-05-27). Berlin police open criminal investigation aimed at silencing Roger Waters. wsws.org The State Security Department at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has announced that a criminal investigation has been initiated against Roger Waters for "incitement of hatred" for dressing in a Nazi-like uniform during his recent concerts in the capital city of Germany.

Talha Burki (2023-05-27). World Report] Non-profit to appeal in court dispute with Global Fund. thelancet.com A court case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, but the judge said that The Global Fund had intentionally smeared IRD, which supports tuberculosis care in Pakistan. Talha Burki reports.

Taylor Giorno (2023-05-27). Pro-DeSantis Super PAC to Inherit Millions, Circumventing Campaign Finance Laws. truthout.org Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to kick off his long-anticipated presidential announcement on Wednesday evening backed by a super PAC flush with tens of millions of dollars from the Republican's old state-level PAC. Never Back Down, a pro-DeSantis super PAC, told the New York Times that more than $80 million of its $200 million budget would be transferred from DeSantis' old state-level PAC. |

The Lancet (2023-05-27). Editorial] Childhood as a commodity: ending child labour. thelancet.com Children continue to be exposed to physical harm and denied education while toiling for long hours in the world's wealthiest nations. Children as young as 12 and 13 years have been engaged in labour involving midnight shifts, dangerous machinery, and punishing physical demands across industries supplying some of the USA's largest corporations according to a harrowing New York Times investigation. Most had migrated, unaccompanied, from central America. Uncertain of their immigration status and some indebted to traffickers, many considered dangerous labour safer than deportation.

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-26). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

International League of People's Struggle. (2023-05-26). #JunkG7: Statement On The G7 Hiroshima Summit. popularresistance.org We congratulate all the members of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) and the International Peoples Front, for the Peoples' Summit to Counter G7 in Kyoto, Japan and accompanying solidarity Global Days of Action held in several countries May 18-20, 2023. | Leaders of the G7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Union, met in Hiroshima this past weekend. | The G7 sought to make the Hiroshima Summit a platform for the US drive against its rivals China and Russia. Moscow dismissed it as a "propaganda show" while Be…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-05-26). Propaganda is betrayal and CBC has betrayed us all, says veteran journalist. expose-news.com Throughout the world, corporate media has blacked out all evidence that "vaccination" may be having deadly consequences, while vilifying those who've called attention to such evidence, says Mark Crispin Miller who has …

Erik Gunn (2023-05-26). Confronting the Grim Truths of War. progressive.org A new collection highlights the anti-Vietnam War writings of historian Staughton Lynd, who was essentially blacklisted for his peace activism.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-26). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

ecns.cn (2023-05-26). Accusing China of spying on U.S. infrastructure a U.S.-initiated 'disinformation campaign': Chinese FM. ecns.cn According to Reuters, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft said on Wednesday that a state-sponsored Chinese hacking group is alleged to have been "spying on a wide range of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs."

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-26). 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.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-26). Ukraine and the "Disinformation" Project: How Universities, NATO, and Intelligence Agencies Suppressing Dissent. libya360.wordpress.com Tamara Lorincz has a Masters in International Politics & Security Studies from the University of Bradford and a Law degree and MBA from Dalhousie University. She's a member of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada. Tamara is also on the board of the Global Network…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-05-26). "Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody's Finished if it Takes Place," Says Noam Chomsky. covertactionmagazine.com "Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we'll go off the precipice together." The renowned linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky gave a grim prognosis on international politics at a webinar hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action on April 26. Chomsky told the audience that he was dismayed to read in …

Ann Brown (2023-05-26). Fact Check: 1964 Civil Rights Act Was Bipartisan And More Democrats Voted Against It Than Republicans. moguldom.com On June 9, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, introduced civil rights legislation to Congress. Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. strongly advocated for its passage—but it was a challenging battle. In a political landscape different from modern day, the act while the act was ultimately bipartisan, key Democrats were against it. Southern …

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-26). US Troops To Train Peruvian Armed Forces, Proves US Behind Coup. popularresistance.org Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian Congress, controlled by the hard right, has approved the entrance of US troops into national territory to train the Peruvian military and National Police beginning June 1st through the end of the year. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that protest is not a protected right under the 1993 Fujimori dictatorship era constitution. This also comes after a visit from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule stated that there was no evidence of…

WSWS (2023-05-27). Berlin police open criminal investigation aimed at silencing Roger Waters. wsws.org The State Security Department at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has announced that a criminal investigation has been initiated against Roger Waters for "incitement of hatred" for dressing in a Nazi-like uniform during his recent concerts in the capital city of Germany.

Talha Burki (2023-05-27). World Report] Non-profit to appeal in court dispute with Global Fund. thelancet.com A court case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, but the judge said that The Global Fund had intentionally smeared IRD, which supports tuberculosis care in Pakistan. Talha Burki reports.

Peoples Health Dispatch (2023-05-26). 60 years of Cuban international medical solidarity. peoplesdispatch.org The last week of May marks the 60th anniversary of the first Cuban medical brigade. Despite the blockade and smear attempts, Cuban nurses and doctors continue to stride towards Health for All…

The Lancet (2023-05-27). Editorial] Childhood as a commodity: ending child labour. thelancet.com Children continue to be exposed to physical harm and denied education while toiling for long hours in the world's wealthiest nations. Children as young as 12 and 13 years have been engaged in labour involving midnight shifts, dangerous machinery, and punishing physical demands across industries supplying some of the USA's largest corporations according to a harrowing New York Times investigation. Most had migrated, unaccompanied, from central America. Uncertain of their immigration status and some indebted to traffickers, many considered dangerous labour safer than deportation.

Staff (2023-05-26). Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Cops Killed 10 During 1937 Steel Strike, Then the Media Covered It Up. democracynow.org We look at the largely forgotten 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. It was a time like today, when unions were growing stronger. The workers were on strike against Republic Steel, and the police attacked them with weapons supplied by the company. The tragic story is told in a new PBS documentary. "The mass media, right up to The New York Times, was supporting the police story that they had no choice but to open fire on this mob," says Greg Mitchell, w…

Staff (2023-05-26). "Education Leads to Liberation": Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project & Teaching Black History. democracynow.org As attacks on the teaching of Black history escalate in Florida and other states, we hear from The New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on "The 1619 Project." She spoke on May 19 at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, which is housed in the former Audubon Ballroom in New York where Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, and talked about the impact Malcolm X's writing had on her life, as well as the importance of teaching the full history of the United States. "What we commonly call history is actually memory, and…

International League of People's Struggle. (2023-05-26). #JunkG7: Statement On The G7 Hiroshima Summit. popularresistance.org We congratulate all the members of the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) and the International Peoples Front, for the Peoples' Summit to Counter G7 in Kyoto, Japan and accompanying solidarity Global Days of Action held in several countries May 18-20, 2023. | Leaders of the G7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Union, met in Hiroshima this past weekend. | The G7 sought to make the Hiroshima Summit a platform for the US drive against its rivals China and Russia. Moscow dismissed it as a "propaganda show" while Be…

Colin Todhunter (2023-05-26). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Staff (2023-05-25). Belgian activists confront sportswashing of Israeli apartheid in cycling. samidoun.net Several members and sympathizers of the Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine mobilized on 18 May at the "Circuit de Wallonie" cycling race in Belgium against the participation of a propaganda team for Israeli apartheid and colonialism. Carrying large banners and Palestinian flags, these supporters of justice in Palestine expressed their rejection of Israel's sportswashing of its war crimes in …

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-25). 60 Minutes Australia Keeps Churning Out War-With-China Propaganda. thealtworld.com

Paul Craig Roberts (2023-05-25). Insouciant Americans Have Doomed America to Tyranny. thealtworld.com Bombshell Video: The "COVID Pandemic" Was the Result of Extensive Media Propaganda: "Nobody Is Safe, BE AFRAID!" | www.globalresearch.ca/covid-pandemic-was-entirely-product-propaganda-nobody-safe/5820225 | Time and time and time again, insouciant Americans allow the presstitutes to brainwash, indoctrinate, and deceive them. Afterwards they, or some of them, eventually catch on. But despite lesson learned, another precedent that erodes truth and liberty has been established. And despite lesson le…

ecns.cn (2023-05-25). Blacklist call tit-for-tat move for Micron decision, experts say. ecns.cn A U.S. lawmaker's call to add Chinese memory chipmakers to a trade blacklist shows that Washington wants to abuse its political power to retaliate against Beijing's law-based decision on U.S.-based chipmaker Micron Technology, experts said on Wednesday.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-26). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

It's Going Down. (2023-05-25). Antifascists Shut Down Neo-Nazis And Proud Boys In Sacramento. popularresistance.org Sacramento, California – Clashes broke out inside the Sacramento City Council chambers on May 23rd, as angry community members chanted, held banners, and shut down a small group of neo-Nazis who threw up Hitler salutes and attempted to address the council. | The group of white supremacists was led by Ryan Messano of the bay area, who made headlines last week for attending a previous city council meeting, spewing racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Writing on the neo-Nazi friendly social media platform Gab, Messano gloated, "I've commented 20+ times under my name. None of the Leftists have put it together…

ecns.cn (2023-05-26). Accusing China of spying on U.S. infrastructure a U.S.-initiated 'disinformation campaign': Chinese FM. ecns.cn According to Reuters, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft said on Wednesday that a state-sponsored Chinese hacking group is alleged to have been "spying on a wide range of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs."

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-26). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

It's Going Down. (2023-05-25). Antifascists Shut Down Neo-Nazis And Proud Boys In Sacramento. popularresistance.org Sacramento, California – Clashes broke out inside the Sacramento City Council chambers on May 23rd, as angry community members chanted, held banners, and shut down a small group of neo-Nazis who threw up Hitler salutes and attempted to address the council. | The group of white supremacists was led by Ryan Messano of the bay area, who made headlines last week for attending a previous city council meeting, spewing racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Writing on the neo-Nazi friendly social media platform Gab, Messano gloated, "I've commented 20+ times under my name. None of the Leftists have put it together…

ecns.cn (2023-05-26). Accusing China of spying on U.S. infrastructure a U.S.-initiated 'disinformation campaign': Chinese FM. ecns.cn According to Reuters, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft said on Wednesday that a state-sponsored Chinese hacking group is alleged to have been "spying on a wide range of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs."

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-26). 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.

Ana Zorita (2023-05-25). Ecuador: US gov't, corporate media back Lasso's manoeuvre. greenleft.org.au The United States and the corporate media is defending Ecuadorian right-wing president Guillermo Lasso, who dissolved the country's parliament on May 17 and will rule by decree for up to six months until new elections are held, reports Ana Zorita.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-25). "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.

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-05-26). US Troops To Train Peruvian Armed Forces, Proves US Behind Coup. popularresistance.org Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian Congress, controlled by the hard right, has approved the entrance of US troops into national territory to train the Peruvian military and National Police beginning June 1st through the end of the year. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that protest is not a protected right under the 1993 Fujimori dictatorship era constitution. This also comes after a visit from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule stated that there was no evidence of…

Talha Burki (2023-05-27). World Report] Non-profit to appeal in court dispute with Global Fund. thelancet.com A court case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, but the judge said that The Global Fund had intentionally smeared IRD, which supports tuberculosis care in Pakistan. Talha Burki reports.

The Lancet (2023-05-27). Editorial] Childhood as a commodity: ending child labour. thelancet.com Children continue to be exposed to physical harm and denied education while toiling for long hours in the world's wealthiest nations. Children as young as 12 and 13 years have been engaged in labour involving midnight shifts, dangerous machinery, and punishing physical demands across industries supplying some of the USA's largest corporations according to a harrowing New York Times investigation. Most had migrated, unaccompanied, from central America. Uncertain of their immigration status and some indebted to traffickers, many considered dangerous labour safer than deportation.

Editor (2023-05-25). 'Apartheid' designation ignored as Israel kills children in Gaza AGAIN. mronline.org Israel's recent bombing of the Gaza Strip from May 9—13 killed 33 Palestinians, including seven children. FAIR looked at coverage of these attacks from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, and didn't find a single reference to Israel as an apartheid state, despite this being the consensus in the human rights community.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-25). 60 Minutes Australia Keeps Churning Out War-With-China Propaganda. thealtworld.com

Matt Orfalea (2023-05-24). Bombshell Video: The "COVID Pandemic" Was the Result of Extensive Media Propaganda: "Nobody Is Safe, BE AFRAID!" globalresearch.ca

Matthew Ehret (2023-05-24). The Roots of Modern Eco-Terrorism: From MK Ultra and the Unabomber to Maurice Strong and Yuval Harari. thelastamericanvagabond.com Strange things are happening. Every few days, it has become customary to hear stories of trains carrying toxic waste derailing in rural food producing regions of the USA, or food processing plants going up in flames. Meanwhile propaganda justifying the confiscation of property in the name of the greater good advances within the U.S. Environmental

Anand Naidoo (2023-05-24). The Heat: G7 Communique on China. america.cgtn.com China pushes back against harsh rhetoric from G7 nations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that it lodged a strong protest to G7 summit host Japan and other relevant parties after the group pointed fingers at China on a number of topics. The ministry …

Ragip Soylu (2023-05-24). Turkey elections: Cracks emerge in opposition over Kilicdaroglu's anti-refugee policy. middleeasteye.net Turkey elections: Cracks emerge in opposition over Kilicdaroglu's anti-refugee policy | Several senior officials have resigned from the Gelecek party citing the opposition's virulent anti-refugee rhetoric | Wed, 05/24/2023 – 16: 36 | A protester holds a placard reading 'humanity has no borders!' during demonstrations in Istanbul protesting the deaths of migrants on 5 February 2022 (Reuters) | Cracks a…

ecns.cn (2023-05-25). Blacklist call tit-for-tat move for Micron decision, experts say. ecns.cn A U.S. lawmaker's call to add Chinese memory chipmakers to a trade blacklist shows that Washington wants to abuse its political power to retaliate against Beijing's law-based decision on U.S.-based chipmaker Micron Technology, experts said on Wednesday.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-25). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

It's Going Down (2023-05-24). Antifascists Shut Down Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys Throwing Up Hitler Salutes in Sacramento. itsgoingdown.org Clashes broke out inside the Sacramento City Council chambers on May 23rd, as angry community members chanted, held banners, and shut down a small group of neo-Nazis who threw up Hitler salutes and attempted to address the council. The group of white supremacists was led by Ryan Messano of the bay area, who made headlines…

WSWS (2023-05-24). Neo-Nazi facing multiple charges after ramming security barrier outside White House with U-Haul truck. wsws.org The driver, 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri, reportedly expressed his affinity for the Nazis and Hitler in an interview with the Secret Service following the attack.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-24). 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 …

Editor (2023-05-24). Corporate Media Ignores True 'Crisis of Democracy' in Israel: That It Isn't One. scheerpost.com

The Lever (2023-05-24). üéß LEVER TIME: What Succession Taught Us About Corporate Media (w/ Frank Rich). levernews.com

WSWS (2023-05-24). To combat "fake news," India's far-right government creates new body of state censors. wsws.org The Modi government is trying to eviscerate the citizenry's constitutionally protected democratic right to free expression on social media by creating a bureaucracy to suppress "fake, false or misleading" news, especially about its own actions.

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-24). US Officials Say Ukraine Was Behind Drone Attack on Kremlin. news.antiwar.com US officials have told The New York Times that they believe the drone attack on the Kremlin that took place earlier this month was likely carried out by one of Ukraine's special military or intelligence units. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they did not know which Ukrainian unit carried out …

It's Going Down. (2023-05-24). Graffiti Writers Paint Over A Pro-Police 'Street Art' Campaign. popularresistance.org A "street art" campaign backed by Welsh tech billionaire and venture capitalist Michael Moritz is being targeted by graffiti artists in San Francisco, California. The campaign features posters and even wheat-pastes which call for a "law and order" approach to homelessness and fentanyl related deaths in San Francisco. | Moritz, in an effort to further social cleanse the poor from urban core areas, along with many on the Right, have rushed to blame "the Left" for rising homelessness, crime rates and drug use in San Francisco. In February, the New York Times published an editorial by Moritz entitled, Even Democrats…

Editor (2023-05-24). Corporate Media Ignores True 'Crisis of Democracy' in Israel: That It Isn't One. scheerpost.com

The Lever (2023-05-24). üéß LEVER TIME: What Succession Taught Us About Corporate Media (w/ Frank Rich). levernews.com

WSWS (2023-05-24). To combat "fake news," India's far-right government creates new body of state censors. wsws.org The Modi government is trying to eviscerate the citizenry's constitutionally protected democratic right to free expression on social media by creating a bureaucracy to suppress "fake, false or misleading" news, especially about its own actions.

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-24). US Officials Say Ukraine Was Behind Drone Attack on Kremlin. news.antiwar.com US officials have told The New York Times that they believe the drone attack on the Kremlin that took place earlier this month was likely carried out by one of Ukraine's special military or intelligence units. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they did not know which Ukrainian unit carried out …

It's Going Down. (2023-05-24). Graffiti Writers Paint Over A Pro-Police 'Street Art' Campaign. popularresistance.org A "street art" campaign backed by Welsh tech billionaire and venture capitalist Michael Moritz is being targeted by graffiti artists in San Francisco, California. The campaign features posters and even wheat-pastes which call for a "law and order" approach to homelessness and fentanyl related deaths in San Francisco. | Moritz, in an effort to further social cleanse the poor from urban core areas, along with many on the Right, have rushed to blame "the Left" for rising homelessness, crime rates and drug use in San Francisco. In February, the New York Times published an editorial by Moritz entitled, Even Democrats…

Staff (2023-05-24). Headlines for May 24, 2023. democracynow.org South Carolina GOP Passes 6-Week Abortion Ban, Sends Bill to Republican Governor's Desk, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Warns Social Media Poses "Profound Risk" to Kids and Teens, Ron DeSantis to Launch 2024 Bid on Twitter Live Stream with Elon Musk, Florida School Bans Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem After Parental Complaint, Elmhurst Doctors on Strike in Queens, Demand Parity with Manhattan Counterparts, New York Times and Unionized Reporters Reach "Groundbreaking" Tentative Deal, Illinois Investigation Finds Nearly 2,000 Children Abused by Catholic Church Clergy Since 1950,…

Julian Cola (2023-05-24). Western Media Distorts Conflict in Sudan, Underplaying U.S. Interests that have Driven its Past Interference in the Country. covertactionmagazine.com "'All-out war' suddenly broke out in Sudan, U.S. traveler says," read the title of an NBC news report published on April 18. Eight days later, The New York Times published an article headlined, "'War Has Just Erupted': Reporting on the Conflict in Sudan." Centered around interviewing the Times's chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, the piece …

Chris Walker (2023-05-24). 2 Former Alabama Governors Call for Commuting Dozens of Death Row Convictions. truthout.org Two former governors of Alabama — Robert Bentley, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2017, and Don Siegelman, a Democrat who was in office from 1999 to 2003 — penned an op-ed for The Washington Post this week calling for the state to curtail its use of the death penalty and commute the sentences of dozens of people on death row. Bentley and Siegelman noted that Alabama currently has 167 people… |

Matthew Ehret (2023-05-24). The Roots of Modern Eco-Terrorism: From MK Ultra and the Unabomber to Maurice Strong and Yuval Harari. thelastamericanvagabond.com Strange things are happening. Every few days, it has become customary to hear stories of trains carrying toxic waste derailing in rural food producing regions of the USA, or food processing plants going up in flames. Meanwhile propaganda justifying the confiscation of property in the name of the greater good advances within the U.S. Environmental

Matt Orfalea (2023-05-24). Bombshell Video: The "COVID Pandemic" Was the Result of Extensive Media Propaganda: "Nobody Is Safe, BE AFRAID!" globalresearch.ca

Anonymous669 (2023-05-24). Infamous Saudi Cleric Moved Out From Syria's Greater Idlib — Reports. southfront.org Abdullah al-Muhaysini as seen in a propaganda video. | Infamous Saudi cleric Abdullah al-Muhaysini has moved from the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, which is ruled by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), to neighboring Turkey, several Syrian opposition sources revealed on May 22. | Al-Muhaysini arrived in Syria 2013 to support efforts to overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The cleric quickly aligned himself with jihadist groups, includin…

jamanetwork (2023-05-23). "Humanity's Debt to Medical Science" jamanetwork.com In the Current History Magazine for April, Mr. Fred C. Kelly, who on previous occasions has indulged in antimedical propaganda, published an attack on modern medicine entitled, "Is Better Health Due to the Doctors?" It was apparently the view of Mr. Kelly that the great advances in sanitation and hygiene, as well as in the care of disease, were due to other agencies. In the same publication for May, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President-elect of the American Medical Association, replies to Mr. Kelly and indicates promptly his belief that the attack is a good illustration of what modern medicine is likely to mean to tho…

Anand Naidoo (2023-05-24). The Heat: G7 Communique on China. america.cgtn.com China pushes back against harsh rhetoric from G7 nations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that it lodged a strong protest to G7 summit host Japan and other relevant parties after the group pointed fingers at China on a number of topics. The ministry …

Ramona Wadi (2023-05-23). Beneath the rhetorical veneer of Abu Dis. thealtworld.com In 2019, when the Trump administration revealed the so-called "Deal of the Century", a hypothetical capital of Palestine in the town of Abu Dis was revealed as the alternative to the Palestinian people's claim on Jerusalem. Israel had laid the groundwork for the announcement with its earlier unilateral declaration that Jerusalem remains its "undivided" capital. | The commotion regarding Jerusalem had more to do with global ridicule of former US President Donald Trump, than the political rights of the Palestinian people. With annexation on the table, what were the odds that Palestinians would or will ever retain a…

WSWS (2023-05-24). Moving exhibition depicting devastation of Hollywood blacklist opens as television and film strike continues. wsws.org On loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare focuses on 1947, the year that eight writers, one producer and a director were hauled before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC).

WSWS (2023-05-24). Neo-Nazi facing multiple charges after ramming security barrier outside White House with U-Haul truck. wsws.org The driver, 19-year-old Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, Missouri, reportedly expressed his affinity for the Nazis and Hitler in an interview with the Secret Service following the attack.

It's Going Down (2023-05-24). Antifascists Shut Down Neo-Nazis and Proud Boys Throwing Up Hitler Salutes in Sacramento. itsgoingdown.org Clashes broke out inside the Sacramento City Council chambers on May 23rd, as angry community members chanted, held banners, and shut down a small group of neo-Nazis who threw up Hitler salutes and attempted to address the council. The group of white supremacists was led by Ryan Messano of the bay area, who made headlines…

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-24). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-05-24). 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 …

Robert Inlakesh (2023-05-23). Fact Checking Reuters On Palestine And The Attempt To Censor Palestinian Identity. thelastamericanvagabond.com A recent series of events in Palestine-Israel have gone underreported in Western corporate media, while the same big-tech that virtue signals about being opposed to bigotry takes racist steps to erase Palestinian identity. Reuters, one of the most trusted media sources on the planet did not fact-check its reporting on the murder of a Palestinian

WSWS (2023-05-24). To combat "fake news," India's far-right government creates new body of state censors. wsws.org The Modi government is trying to eviscerate the citizenry's constitutionally protected democratic right to free expression on social media by creating a bureaucracy to suppress "fake, false or misleading" news, especially about its own actions.

teleSUR (2023-05-23). Cuba Rejects Being in US List of Not-Collaborating Countries. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Cuba described as "mendacious accusations" the US decision to keep the island on its list of countries that do not "fully" cooperate against terrorism. | RELATED: | Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez considered that Cuba's permanence on that list is an "abominable crime that the U.S. has practiced without scruples and uses opportunistically as a tool of political coercion." | Previously, the State Department included Cuba for the…

manager (2023-05-23). The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary. cepr.net On May 19, 2023, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions? Assessing a wide range of evidence, the findings of our panelists were unanimous: economic …

teleSUR (2023-05-23). Student Suspected Of Setting Deadly Fire In Guyana School. telesurenglish.net Guyanese authorities said on Tuesday that a dormitory fire at a girls' boarding school in Guyana in which 19 girls died was incited by a female student after her cell phone was confiscated. | RELATED: | "A female student is suspected of setting the devastating fire because the dorm mother and a teacher took her cell phone from her," police said in a statement. | According to Homeland Security Advisor Gerald Gouveia, the 16…

_____ (2023-05-23). Biden's F-16 Move Is Flight of Fancy Signifying Desperation. strategic-culture.org Biden is acting tough and he is once more recklessly escalating the war with Russia with his latest move on sending F-16s. | It's no coincidence that U.S. President Joe Biden made a sharp U-turn to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine on the same weekend that the NATO-backed Kiev regime just lost the strategic battle for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). | Recall that Biden had emphatically said no to supplying the American warplane to Ukraine partly out of concern to not antagonize Russia. | The battle for the transport hub city in the Donbass region had been raging for eight months. Some commentators have compared the pivotal…

Julian Cola (2023-05-24). Western Media Distorts Conflict in Sudan, Underplaying U.S. Interests that have Driven its Past Interference in the Country. covertactionmagazine.com "'All-out war' suddenly broke out in Sudan, U.S. traveler says," read the title of an NBC news report published on April 18. Eight days later, The New York Times published an article headlined, "'War Has Just Erupted': Reporting on the Conflict in Sudan." Centered around interviewing the Times's chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, the piece …

Dave DeCamp (2023-05-24). US Officials Say Ukraine Was Behind Drone Attack on Kremlin. news.antiwar.com US officials have told The New York Times that they believe the drone attack on the Kremlin that took place earlier this month was likely carried out by one of Ukraine's special military or intelligence units. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they did not know which Ukrainian unit carried out …

Staff (2023-05-24). Headlines for May 24, 2023. democracynow.org South Carolina GOP Passes 6-Week Abortion Ban, Sends Bill to Republican Governor's Desk, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Warns Social Media Poses "Profound Risk" to Kids and Teens, Ron DeSantis to Launch 2024 Bid on Twitter Live Stream with Elon Musk, Florida School Bans Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem After Parental Complaint, Elmhurst Doctors on Strike in Queens, Demand Parity with Manhattan Counterparts, New York Times and Unionized Reporters Reach "Groundbreaking" Tentative Deal, Illinois Investigation Finds Nearly 2,000 Children Abused by Catholic Church Clergy Since 1950,…

jamanetwork (2023-05-23). "Humanity's Debt to Medical Science" jamanetwork.com In the Current History Magazine for April, Mr. Fred C. Kelly, who on previous occasions has indulged in antimedical propaganda, published an attack on modern medicine entitled, "Is Better Health Due to the Doctors?" It was apparently the view of Mr. Kelly that the great advances in sanitation and hygiene, as well as in the care of disease, were due to other agencies. In the same publication for May, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President-elect of the American Medical Association, replies to Mr. Kelly and indicates promptly his belief that the attack is a good illustration of what modern medicine is likely to mean to tho…

infobrics (2023-05-22). Liberation of Bakhmut shows Russian forces work cohesively towards victory. infobrics.org Despite Western, Ukrainian propaganda, the reality of the battlefield shows Moscow militarily controls the conflict.

WSWS (2023-05-22). Hayleys Plantations in Sri Lanka uses competition to drive up workloads. wsws.org The event was not to celebrate the incredible skills of these low-paid workers but part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by Hayleys and other plantation companies to drive up productivity.

Anand Naidoo (2023-05-24). The Heat: G7 Communique on China. america.cgtn.com China pushes back against harsh rhetoric from G7 nations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that it lodged a strong protest to G7 summit host Japan and other relevant parties after the group pointed fingers at China on a number of topics. The ministry …

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2023-05-23). The US empire and the complicity of intellectuals. indybay.org Interventions have always been dictated by the geopolitical and economic interests of the country. In fact, the United States is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, every empire acts in this way (see, for example, the invasions of Russia by Napoleon and Adolf Hitler). History also shows that imperial interests have often led to the suppression of aspirations for self-determination.

WSWS (2023-05-23). NIH lifts suspension of EcoHealth Alliance and reinstates grant to study bat coronaviruses in China. wsws.org The non-profit international research organization has been the target of right-wing conspiracy theories claiming that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab.

Robert Inlakesh (2023-05-23). Fact Checking Reuters On Palestine And The Attempt To Censor Palestinian Identity. thelastamericanvagabond.com A recent series of events in Palestine-Israel have gone underreported in Western corporate media, while the same big-tech that virtue signals about being opposed to bigotry takes racist steps to erase Palestinian identity. Reuters, one of the most trusted media sources on the planet did not fact-check its reporting on the murder of a Palestinian

infobrics (2023-05-22). US attempting to punish Belarus for supporting Russia. infobrics.org Tsikhanouskaya spreads fake news on Lukashenko's health.

teleSUR (2023-05-23). Cuba Rejects Being in US List of Not-Collaborating Countries. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Cuba described as "mendacious accusations" the US decision to keep the island on its list of countries that do not "fully" cooperate against terrorism. | RELATED: | Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez considered that Cuba's permanence on that list is an "abominable crime that the U.S. has practiced without scruples and uses opportunistically as a tool of political coercion." | Previously, the State Department included Cuba for the…

manager (2023-05-23). The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary. cepr.net On May 19, 2023, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions? Assessing a wide range of evidence, the findings of our panelists were unanimous: economic …

Editor (2023-05-23). 10 Years After Snowden: Some Things Are Better, Some We're Still Fighting For. scheerpost.com By Matthew Guariglia, Cindy Cohn and Andrew Crocker / Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global …

Editor (2023-05-22). Chinese researchers discover evidence of ancient ocean on Mars. mronline.org An international team of researchers led by Chinese scholars has made another groundbreaking discovery on the surface of Mars.

_____ (2023-05-23). Biden's F-16 Move Is Flight of Fancy Signifying Desperation. strategic-culture.org Biden is acting tough and he is once more recklessly escalating the war with Russia with his latest move on sending F-16s. | It's no coincidence that U.S. President Joe Biden made a sharp U-turn to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine on the same weekend that the NATO-backed Kiev regime just lost the strategic battle for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). | Recall that Biden had emphatically said no to supplying the American warplane to Ukraine partly out of concern to not antagonize Russia. | The battle for the transport hub city in the Donbass region had been raging for eight months. Some commentators have compared the pivotal…

John Catalinotto (2023-05-22). U.S. national security veterans counter Ukraine war drive. workers.org On May 16 a full-page advertisement appeared in the New York Times. Under the headline "The U.S. should be a force for peace in the world," 15 veterans of the U.S. security apparatus endorsed an analysis of the war in Ukraine that confronted head-on the tidal wave of lies from . . . |

Staff (2023-05-22). "A Cowardly Measure": Ecuador's Guillermo Lasso Dissolves Parliament to Avoid Impeachment. democracynow.org Ecuador's conservative President Guillermo Lasso has dissolved the opposition-led National Assembly in a move widely seen as an effort to block efforts to impeach him, and came as the body held its first hearing into corruption and embezzlement allegations against Lasso. Lasso used a constitutional power that has never been used in Ecuador before, allowing him to rule by decree until new elections are held. That vote is likely to come in August, and Lasso told The Washington Post he does not plan to run again. For more on the political crisis in Ecuador, we speak with Andrés Arauz, the Ecuadorian politician…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-22). The Current State of Kiev's Air Defenses: Interview with Colonel Wolf. libya360.wordpress.com Drago Bosnic Russian 'Kinzhal' Hypersonic Missile Destroys Kiev's US-Made 'Patriot' Air Defense System In the last several weeks, the Kiev regime's air defense assets have been at the forefront of news coverage while failing to achieve the one that actually matters. The political West has mobilized its entire massive propaganda machine to lionize the SAM…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-22). Entertainment or Propaganda? Washington's Insidious Grip on the Arts. libya360.wordpress.com Matt Alford Is it any wonder that 30 per cent of Americans in a poll said they want to bomb Agrabah, the capital city in Disney's Aladdin? An evil dictator is on the brink of making a nuclear bomb at a secret facility carved deep inside the Zagros mountains. With no option, the American military deploys jets…

Anonymous103 (2023-05-22). Liberation Of Bakhmut Shows Russian Forces Work Cohesively Towards Victory. southfront.org Click to see full-size imageDespite Western, Ukrainian propaganda, the reality of the battlefield shows Moscow militarily controls the conflict. | Written by After more than 290 days of intense fighting and tens of thousands of casualties, the Battle of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine) is over. On May 20, Moscow's officials announced that Russian forces had taken full cont…

WSWS (2023-05-22). Hayleys Plantations in Sri Lanka uses competition to drive up workloads. wsws.org The event was not to celebrate the incredible skills of these low-paid workers but part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by Hayleys and other plantation companies to drive up productivity.

WSWS (2023-05-22). Biden proposes $1 trillion in social spending cuts after announcing $375 million more for war in Ukraine. wsws.org In the barrage of propaganda over the supposed necessity to slash social programs to avert the nation's first-ever default on its debt obligations, nothing is said about the role of military spending in driving up the debt.

_____ (2023-05-21). Western News Media Exist to Administer Propaganda. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | Typically the only time you'll ever hear the word "propaganda" mentioned in mainstream discourse is in reference to things other countries do to their own citizenry or as part of foreign influence operations, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of the times we've encountered propaganda in our day to day lives, the call was coming from inside the house. | The western media have been exposing their role as propagandists for the US-centralized empire a bit more than usual lately. Here are a few recent examples. | Mass media aggressively defend imperial propaganda firm Bellingcat.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-05-21). The Western Media Disinformation Campaign: Fall of Bakhmut. libya360.wordpress.com Gilbert Doctorow Our language is in constant evolution. Partly this is bottom up, from the inventiveness of creative personalities or writers for commercial advertising. Partly it is top down, from the powers that be as they seek to manipulate and control the thought processes of the broad public. My brief essay today addresses the latter…

Vijay Prashad (2023-05-22). Can the Global South Build a New World Communication Order?>. telesurenglish.net Regarding the Global South International Communication Forum that was held in Shanghai (China) in early May 2023, Vijay Prashad, the director of the "Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research", carried out an evaluation of the possibilities of alternative communication in a world controlled by mainstream corporate media. His text is presented below. | RELATED: | It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries…

Ryan Cristián (2023-05-21). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 15. 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

Anonymous103 (2023-05-22). US Attempting To Punish Belarus For Supporting Russia. southfront.org Illustrative ImageTsikhanouskaya spreads fake news on Lukashenko's health. | Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher | The US and its allies are attempting to transfer weapons and explosives to Belarus for being a sincere partner of Russia and in a vain effort to destabilise the situation in the country. Such provocations force Belarus to take new active measures of strategic deterrence. These include the construction of defensive fortifications near its border with Ukraine, suc…

Editor (2023-05-22). Chinese researchers discover evidence of ancient ocean on Mars. mronline.org An international team of researchers led by Chinese scholars has made another groundbreaking discovery on the surface of Mars.

teleSUR (2023-05-22). Mexico: Alert Level Raised Due to Increased Volcanic Activity. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, Mexican authorities elevated the alert level in response to the increased volcanic activity of Popocatépetl volcano. | Related: | During a press conference, Laura Velazquez, the leader of the Mexican National Civil Protection Coordination Agency, announced the escalation of the alert level from yellow phase two to yellow phase three; yellow three is one level below the red alert status. | The yellow phase three signifies a st…

John Catalinotto (2023-05-22). U.S. national security veterans counter Ukraine war drive. workers.org On May 16 a full-page advertisement appeared in the New York Times. Under the headline "The U.S. should be a force for peace in the world," 15 veterans of the U.S. security apparatus endorsed an analysis of the war in Ukraine that confronted head-on the tidal wave of lies from . . . |

_____ (2023-05-21). U.S. National Security Experts: Give Peace in Ukraine a Chance. strategic-culture.org A full-page ad in The New York Times calls the war an "unmitigated disaster," and urges President Joe Biden and Congress to help bring it to an end "speedily through diplomacy." | By Medea BENJAMIN, Nicolas J.S. DAVIES | On May 16, 2023, TheNew York Times

John Catalinotto (2023-05-22). U.S. national security veterans counter Ukraine war drive. workers.org On May 16 a full-page advertisement appeared in the New York Times. Under the headline "The U.S. should be a force for peace in the world," 15 veterans of the U.S. security apparatus endorsed an analysis of the war in Ukraine that confronted head-on the tidal wave of lies from . . . |

_____ (2023-05-21). U.S. National Security Experts: Give Peace in Ukraine a Chance. strategic-culture.org A full-page ad in The New York Times calls the war an "unmitigated disaster," and urges President Joe Biden and Congress to help bring it to an end "speedily through diplomacy." | By Medea BENJAMIN, Nicolas J.S. DAVIES | On May 16, 2023, TheNew York Times

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-05-20). Western News Media Exist To Administer Propaganda. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | The single most overlooked and under-appreciated aspect of our society is the way domestic propaganda is used to shape the way mainstream westerners perceive and think about their world. | Typically the only time you…

_____ (2023-05-20). Climate Breakdown, Extinction and 'The Most Stupid Boast'. strategic-culture.org Journalists are filtered by the elite-serving propaganda system such that 'difficult', 'crusading', 'awkward', 'firebrand' reporters are usually identified and stifled from clambering beyond a few lowly rungs of the career ladder. Or, if they manage not to be 'let go' by their employer early on, they learn to conform to generally unspoken rules on behaving as a 'responsible' media professional. One such key characteristic is to rarely challenge state-corporate power, or only within carefully circumscribed limits.

Ryan Cristián (2023-05-21). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 15. 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

Telesur English. (2023-05-20). G7 Summit Opens In Hiroshima Amid Waves of Protests. popularresistance.org On Friday, amid waves of protests, the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' annual summit got underway in Japan's western city of Hiroshima. | Hundreds of protesters gathered in Hiroshima's Funairi Daiichi Park, not far from the summit's venue, to decry the finger-pointing bloc that advertises its own version of world order. | Seen on-site were huge banners and placards that read "Junk G7," "No Build-up to War" and "No to Japan-U.S. Military Alliance," among many others. | Crowds of protesters rallied around the summit venue, chanting slogans such as "U.S. Imperialists, Number One Terrorist!" "Stop the Lies!" "Stop the W…

Misión Verdad (2023-05-20). Argentina Court Finds 'No Evidence' Against Venezuela's Emtrasur Crew But Plane Will Not Be Returned. orinocotribune.com A few days before the one-year anniversary of the seizure of the Venezuelan Emtrasur cargo plane by the Argentinian judiciary under orders from the US Department of Justice, an Argentinian court confirmed that there is no evidence of terrorist financing of the Venezuelan plane or the Iranian and Venezuelan crew members. The court also announced that there is no reason to keep the plane seized on Argentinian soil. However, the aircraft will remain in Buenos Aires and will not be returned to Venezuela because of US orders. | On Thursday, May 18, the Federal Chamber of La Plata confirmed that there is no evidence ag…

Scott Ritter (2023-05-20). Russia is WINNING in Bakhmut as Wagner PMC Defies All Odds. thealtworld.com Scott Ritter discusses Wagner's progress in Bakhmut and how Russia's main fighting force in the Ukraine conflict thus far has been wrongly smeared by the West. This conversation occurred on April 4th, and Wagner PMC has declared Bakhmut totally liberated as of 5/20.

Montse Reyes (2023-05-20). CA Struggles to Locate Victims of Forced Sterilization for Compensation Program. truthout.org During her annual pap smear at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California, in 2005, Moonlight Pulido received harrowing news: Doctors had found two potentially cancerous growths in her uterus. "When he said the word cancer, it freaked me out because my son had cancer when he was 12," she said. In the haze of the shocking news, Pulido agreed to the doctor's suggestion to remove the growths. |

Editor (2023-05-20). Ralph Nader: A Response to NY Times' Gail Collins. scheerpost.com Editor's Note: This article was posted to Ralph Nader's blog on March 16th, 2023. By Ralph Nader / Nader.org This is the full letter I wrote to the New York Times responding to Gail Collins fact-deprived diatribe. Unfortunately, due to space limitations by the Times, the letter had to be cut in half. I have urged …

Seymour Hersh, Scheer Post. (2023-05-21). The Ukraine Refugee Question. popularresistance.org Last Saturday the Washington Post published an exposé of classified American intelligence documents showing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, working behind the back of the Biden White House, pushed hard earlier this year for an expanded series of missile attacks inside Russia. The documents were part of a large cache of classified materials posted online by an Air Force enlisted man now in custody. A senior official of the Biden administration, asked by…