(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.
(2023-05-19). Why is AOC Parroting Nuclear Industry Propaganda? scheerpost.com 
By Linda Pentz Gunter / CounterPunch Note: During a visit to Japan, including to the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant site, US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken Democrat from Queens, New York, made a series of Instagram posts. Despite being loaded with errors of fact and science, her pronouncements were seized upon by the nuclear power …
(2023-05-19). Billionaires Are Killing Off Local News Outlets. progressivehub.net CAITLIN SCHNEIDER | DISCOURSE BLOG…
(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…
(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…
(2023-05-19). Pentagon Admits It Doesn't Know Who It Killed in Syria Drone Strike. news.antiwar.com US military officials are walking back claims that a drone strike Central Command (CENTCOM) launched on May 3 in northwest Syria killed a senior al-Qaeda leader after evidence emerged that a civilian was killed. When the strike was first launched in Syria's northwest Idlib province, reports immediately emerged that the strike killed a sheep herder …
(2023-05-19). Mexico: AMLO Condemns US Government Funding of Opposition Groups. orinocotribune.com The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has condemned the US government's funding of the Mexican opposition through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). As evidence, he highlighted the recent
(2023-05-19). Climate Change Increasing La Niña & El Niño Severity. telesurenglish.net A study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment on Thursday shows that global climate change is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of La Nina and El Nino events. | RELATED: | A team of researchers from several countries, including China and Australia, found evidence that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a major climate driver, has become more intense as a result of incre…
(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 …
(2023-05-19). US National Security Experts Call for Peace in Ukraine. scheerpost.com 
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies amplify upon a full-page ad in The New York Times on Tuesday calling the war an "unmitigated disaster" and urging Biden and U.S. Congress to help bring it speedily to an end.
(2023-05-19). NY Times Is Wrong on Dedollarization: Economist Michael Hudson Debunks Paul Krugman's Dollar Defense. scheerpost.com 
Economist Michael Hudson responds to the misleading arguments against de-dollarization that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman made in his attempt to defend US hegemony and the dollar system.
(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…
(2023-05-19). Biden To Green-Light Allies Transferring F-16s to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The US will allow its European partners to transfer F-16s to Kiev, according to the Washington Post. Earlier this week, the UK and Netherlands began forming a coalition to send the American-made fighter jets to Ukraine. A person "familiar with the decision" told…