Daily Archives: May 8, 2023

2023-05-08: News Headlines

Editor (2023-05-07). Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything's Fake And Stupid. scheerpost.com By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com So U2 singer Bono is literally just doing illustrations for the imperialist propaganda rag The Atlantic now, because that's the sort of thing that happens in a dystopian civilization during the death throes of a globe-spanning empire. A Washington Post article titled "Bono likes to sketch Atlantic covers, so the …

David I. Kertzer (2023-05-07). The Pope's Secret Back Channel to Hitler. globalresearch.ca

Ryan Turnipseed (2023-05-08). Disinformation and the State: The Aptly Named RESTRICT Act. globalresearch.ca

JANET (2023-05-08). Sudan: Popular movement demands civilian rule. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto May 2, 2023 April 30 ‚àí Reports from Sudan's largest seaport, Port Sudan, located on the Red Sea, describe a chaotic scene of thousands of migrant workers and their families attempting to leave the country in order to escape a conflict between two military factions fighting for control of the government. Sudan borders seven other African countries and the Red Sea. The Blue Nile and White Nile rivers meet in its capital, Khartoum. The corporate media in Europe and the United States confine their coverage to describing the suffering of civilians and the numbers killed. Their…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-05-08). Shock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion. transcend.org 28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the "shock doctrine" practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it's too late.

Editors, In These Times. (2023-05-07). This Season's Hottest Trend: Anti-Consumption. popularresistance.org How did "deinfluencing" get started? | Apparently in January on "beauty TikTok," that corner of the popular video app where users promote tips, tricks and products in the world of skin care and cosmetics, and the trend has spread into everything from fashion to electronics to kitchen gadgets. "No," deinfluencers are saying, "maybe you don't need Dior lipstick or $500 AirPods." And people are listening: #deinfluencing TikToks have more than 400 million views. It's in response to the $16 billion-and-growing "inf…


Ryan Black (2023-05-07). We Must Speak Up Before The Propagandists Get Their War With China. progressivehub.net JOHN PILGER | Z NETWORK…

Ann Brown (2023-05-08). Fact Check: Investigator Eunice Hunton Carter Played Key Role in Taking Down Mob Pioneer Lucky Luciano. moguldom.com Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family. And it was a Black female investigator named Eunice Hunton Carter who helped bring Luciano, the most important Mafia crime boss in New York City at the time, …

Mickey Z. (2023-05-08). Evidence Does Not Change (Most) Minds. dissidentvoice.org For decades, I've been writing articles, essays, blog posts, books, and more. Two of my books are annotated history texts. I've given public talks and run a podcast. I've been interviewed more times (TV, radio, online, print, etc) than I can remember. You'd think by now, I'd be aware that most folks are unmoved by …

Staff (2023-05-08). Can Anyone Hold Justice Clarence Thomas to Account for Secret Dealings with Billionaire GOP Megadonor? democracynow.org We speak with longtime Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick about the mounting evidence of apparent financial impropriety by the court's conservatives. ProPublica recently reported that Republican billionaire Harlan Crow paid two years of private school tuition for Clarence Thomas's grandnephew — payments that Thomas did not include on his annual financial disclosures. This comes after previous reporting revealed Crow also paid money to Thomas and his relatives in an undisclosed real estate deal, and that Thomas accepted luxury travel from Crow virtually every year for decades, while failing t…

_____ (2023-05-07). Ireland Crushes Free Speech. strategic-culture.org Well-reasoned criticism of the transgender movement would be subject to being quashed by the government. | By S.A. MCCARTHY | Ireland's far-left government is in the midst of passing some of the most extreme legislation on so-called hate speech that the Western world has ever seen. The Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences bill would prosecute what even leftist politician Paul Murphy

Mark Gruenberg (2023-05-08). Bosses force News Guild protests at New York Times, Washington Post. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK and WASHINGTON —Bosses' refusal to meaningfully bargain forced simultaneous public protests at two of the nation's most-prominent newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post, the News Guild reported. At both papers, the unions cited corporate greed. The Guild-represented Times staffers haven't had a raise in two years while management has spent …


Tom Carter (2023-05-08). The 1619 Project and the New York Times' Promotion of the Racialist Ideology of Ukrainian Nationalism. globalresearch.ca

Mark Taylor-Canfield (2023-05-08). Media Monopolies and Prosecution of Assange Drive Drop in US Press Freedom Rank. truthout.org CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington Post-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, taking the stage where a Post journalist was interviewing Blinken. Benjamin demanded that the U.S. and United Kingdom free imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A group of men in suits, presumably Secret Service agents… |

Tom Carter (2023-05-08). The 1619 Project and the New York Times' Promotion of the Racialist Ideology of Ukrainian Nationalism. globalresearch.ca

Mark Taylor-Canfield (2023-05-08). Media Monopolies and Prosecution of Assange Drive Drop in US Press Freedom Rank. truthout.org CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin interrupted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Washington Post-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event on May 3, taking the stage where a Post journalist was interviewing Blinken. Benjamin demanded that the U.S. and United Kingdom free imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A group of men in suits, presumably Secret Service agents… |

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