Daily Archives: May 2, 2023

2023-05-02: News Headlines

Project Censored (2023-05-02). National Security State Propaganda, the Fourth Estate's Deadly Follies, and Why We Need a Truly Independent Press in Support of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression as we Celebrate Press Freedom Day. projectcensored.org Program Summary: In the first half of this week's show, Mickey and Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with investigative reporter Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. MacLeod explains that a…

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Brazil Accuses Google Of Propaganda Against "PL Das Fake News" telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Brazilian government accused Google of promoting propaganda against a bill aimed at preventing the spread of fake news on social networks that is scheduled to be voted on today in Parliament. | RELATED: | Bill 2630, known as PL das Fake News, has been the subject of a campaign by Google, which on its home page displayed until this morning messages such as "The PL of fake news can make your Internet worse" or "The PL o…

infobrics (2023-05-02). Is US about to conduct nuclear false flag in Ukraine and blame Russia for it?>. infobrics.org The mainstream propaganda machine usually claims that the Kiev regime doesn't have the capacity to create dirty bombs. However, recent reports about "sensitive US nuclear technologies" in Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs) show such claims are patently false.

David Goessmann (2023-05-02). Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? indybay.org The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs wherever possible. They are the real drivers of the supply bottlenecks that are rampant everywhere.

Ulrike Simon (2023-05-02). Is it possible to negotiate with Putin? indybay.org For Putin, the intention to admit Ukraine to NATO was a breach of "the agreement made with NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall not to expand it" (2: 34: 20). Just as the Americans claimed hegemony over the Western Hemisphere according to their "centuries-old Monroe Doctrine," Putin considers Ukraine his "backyard."

Editor (2023-05-02). The Monroe Doctrine: Two hundred years too long. mronline.org Francisco Dominguez on the history and development of the 'doctrine' that has been used as a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America for two centuries.

Project Censored (2023-05-02). National Security State Propaganda, the Fourth Estate's Deadly Follies, and Why We Need a Truly Independent Press in Support of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression as we Celebrate Press Freedom Day. projectcensored.org Program Summary: In the first half of this week's show, Mickey and Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with investigative reporter Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. MacLeod explains that a…

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Brazil Accuses Google Of Propaganda Against "PL Das Fake News" telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Brazilian government accused Google of promoting propaganda against a bill aimed at preventing the spread of fake news on social networks that is scheduled to be voted on today in Parliament. | RELATED: | Bill 2630, known as PL das Fake News, has been the subject of a campaign by Google, which on its home page displayed until this morning messages such as "The PL of fake news can make your Internet worse" or "The PL o…

infobrics (2023-05-02). Is US about to conduct nuclear false flag in Ukraine and blame Russia for it?>. infobrics.org The mainstream propaganda machine usually claims that the Kiev regime doesn't have the capacity to create dirty bombs. However, recent reports about "sensitive US nuclear technologies" in Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs) show such claims are patently false.

David Goessmann (2023-05-02). Ukraine war: Why is the Pentagon actually running out of ammunition? indybay.org The larger problem is financialization. Step by step, this conquered all areas of society. And finally it also reached the holy grail of the military-industrial complex. With financialization came the neoliberal market doctrines of capacity reduction, downsizing, "lean inventories," and cutting costs wherever possible. They are the real drivers of the supply bottlenecks that are rampant everywhere.

Ulrike Simon (2023-05-02). Is it possible to negotiate with Putin? indybay.org For Putin, the intention to admit Ukraine to NATO was a breach of "the agreement made with NATO after the fall of the Berlin Wall not to expand it" (2: 34: 20). Just as the Americans claimed hegemony over the Western Hemisphere according to their "centuries-old Monroe Doctrine," Putin considers Ukraine his "backyard."

Editor (2023-05-02). The Monroe Doctrine: Two hundred years too long. mronline.org Francisco Dominguez on the history and development of the 'doctrine' that has been used as a justification for U.S. intervention in Latin America for two centuries.

_____ (2023-05-01). The United States is determined to impose its foreign policy doctrine on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. journal-neo.org

Peoples Dispatch (2023-05-01). Left Parties and Trade Unions in West Asia and North Africa Mark May Day. towardfreedom.org International Workers' Day celebrations were held in different countries of West Asia and North Africa on Monday, May 1, with trade unions and left parties organizing mass demonstrations. Marking the day, workers raised slogans of unity and revolution against capitalist exploitation.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-05-02). Canberra's record on outsourcing 'intelligence' to US military. greenleft.org.au Canberra is happy to outsource its military and security establishment to Washington's former mandarins, with many earning a pile in consultancy fees. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-01). Now Europeans Learn What Climate Extremes Are All About. transcend.org 25 Apr 2023 – Apologies to those Western politicians and media who continue to say that Ukraine's brutal proxy war stands behind whatever catastrophes, disasters or crises that occur in the Planet. Scientific evidence confirms that much earlier than that war Europe, like many other regions, was already walking closer to the edge of extreme weather consequences.

teleSUR (2023-05-02). Palestinian Jader Adnan Dies After 88-Day Hunger Strike. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, 44-year-old Palestinian prisoner Jader Adnan died after spending 86 days on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail. Shortly before being transferred to a hospital on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, he was found unconscious in his cell. | RELATED: | His hunger strike had begun on February 5, the same day he was arrested and charged with terrorism and incitement to violence as a member of the Palestinian Islamic…

John Pilger (2023-05-01). John Pilger: From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media's Enduring Role in Promoting War. mintpressnews.com Today, war by media is a key task of so-called mainstream journalism, reminiscent of that described by a Nuremberg prosecutor in 1945: 'Before each major aggression[…] they initiated a press campaign calculated to[…] prepare the people psychologically[…]"

Dean Baker (2023-05-02). New York Times Knows Emmanuel Macron's Convictions. cepr.net I'm impressed. Most reporters might just know what politicians say and do, but New York Times reporters can apparently know their convictions. That's what the paper told us in a piece about protests in France over President Emmanuel Macron's decision to raise the age for retirement benefits from 62 to 64. "Mr. Macron's decision to …

Derek Seidman (2023-05-01). Mother Jones Organized Against Child Labor 120 Years Ago: Let's Resume Her Fight. truthout.org To the shock of many, the issue of exploited child labor has been grabbing headlines in the United States In late February, The New York Times published a major exposé that documented how migrant children as young as 12 are working as roofers and food deliverers, in slaughterhouses and industrial factories, for major corporations and private equity firms, suffering injury and even death… |

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