Daily Archives: May 27, 2023

2023-05-27: News Headlines

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…

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