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