2023-06-26: News Headlines

_____ (2023-06-26). Covid and Propaganda: China vs the USA. journal-neo.org

ecsorinoco (2023-06-26). As Venezuela Mends Ties With Latin Neighbors, Western Media Turn Up the Propaganda. orinocotribune.com

Ricardo Vaz, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2023-06-26). As Venezuela Mends Ties, Western Media Turn Up The Propaganda. popularresistance.org Venezuela's Maduro government has slowly and steadily regained its diplomatic standing in recent years, overcoming US endeavors to turn the country into a pariah state as part of its regime-change efforts. | Nevertheless, Washington remains hell-bent on ousting the democratically elected Venezuelan authorities, and has kept its deadly sanctions program virtually intact. And Western media, which have cheered coup attempts at every step of the way (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 5/2/22, 6/4/21, 4/15/20, 1/22/20), remain committed to endorsing US policies to the bitter end. | This commitment was on full display recently when Pr…

Ulrich Guhi (2023-06-26). The Superiority Conceit of the West Crumbles. indybay.org When people in the West are confronted with the knowledge that the feeling of their own superiority was a deception or swindle, the awakening will surely be traumatic. We should not gloat because the people who have never known anything but western propaganda are deceived and defrauded and in my eyes victims of a misanthropic ideology whose time has run out.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-06-26). Australia Keeps Escalating Its Censorship And Propaganda Campaign. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | There's a frenzied rush by the Australian political/media class to both propagandise Australians as quickly as possible into supporting preparatio…

mforinoco (2023-06-25). The Western Left Must Reject Anti-China Propaganda and Join the Progressive Global Trend. orinocotribune.com By Jenny Clegg — Jun 20, 2023 | What follows is the text of a speech given by veteran British peace activist and China specialist Jenny Clegg at the launch event in London for Carlos Martinez's book The East is Still Red: Chinese socialism in the 21st century. | Summarizing the key points of the book, Jenny highlights in particular the escalating New Cold War and anti-China rhetoric in the West. "China is being presented as an existential threat to the Western way of life so as to prepare a climate for war." | Beyond the obvious dangers of preparing a climate for war, Jenny points out that the incessant lies…

thecommunists (2023-06-25). Michael Palin in the DPRK: a western exceptionalism showcase. thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from the Class Consciousness Project, with thanks. ***** This article was prompted by an awful piece of BBC propaganda, entitled Michael Palin in North Korea. If you want to understand western exceptionalism, watch this programme, first with and then without sound, because the only part of this presentation that makes the …

_____ (2023-06-25). Women War Criminals: A Vital Cog in NATO's Plans of World Conquest. strategic-culture.org Although Chairman Mao told us that women hold up half the sky, he failed to expound on what proportion of NATO's war crimes women are responsible for. | Although China's Chairman Mao Zedong famously told us that women hold up half the sky, he failed to expound on what proportion of NATO's war crimes women are responsible for. | We must, first of all, realise that new-born baby girls do not enter the world as newly-minted war criminals but, as Hillary Clinton, Greta Thunberg, Victoria Nuland and Ursula von der Leyen all show, they are groomed to it, just as the architects of Hitler's Final Solution or any other ps…

WSWS (2023-06-26). Official US intelligence report finds no evidence for laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2. wsws.org The release of the ODNI findings only corroborates what principled scientists have stated before: that the WIV did not possess SARS-CoV-2 or a close ancestor and there is no evidence that the virus emerged from the laboratory to cause the COVID pandemic.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-25). U.S. Intelligence Agencies Advance Disinformation About Chinese Spy Base in Cuba to Gain Support for Cruel Embargo Costing Cubans $455 Million Per Month. covertactionmagazine.com After having lied about WMDs, Russia Gate, chemical weapons in Syria and so many other things, the U.S. intelligence community is now advancing the lie that Cuba is hosting a Chinese spy base that enables China to spy on the U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 8 that China and Cuba had reached …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-06-26). Exceptional volumes of sea ice are a headache for climate alarmists. expose-news.com While corporate media reports that it's too late to save Arctic Sea ice, it seems the Arctic has other plans. Greenland's snow and ice gains are proving exceptional and cherry farmers in …

Roshan Abraham, Next City. (2023-06-26). Why Are So Many Cities' Homeless Policies Punitive? popularresistance.org There is a strong body of evidence on what works when it comes to resolving homelessness — housing — and what does not work — punitive policies like criminalization and homeless sweeps that move people around while discarding their belongings. So why do so many American cities seem vexed when it comes to this issue, constantly framing people who are unhoused as threats to public safety while simultaneously promising a compassionate approach? | A big reason for this is that complaint-driven policies of homelessness prevail in many cities despite being antithetical to resolving homelessness.

_____ (2023-06-25). What About the Ukrainian 'Counteroffensive'? strategic-culture.org After 'the de facto declaration of the beginning of the military onslaught', not one single objective evidence was presented of its success. | Ukrainian long announced, long awaited counteroffensive has officially begun! Hip, hip, hooray! At last! Though the courage and bravery of the Russian army have stopped them in their tracks in the Zaporozhye region. The tactics deployed by the Ukrainian troops relying on the 'indestructible'

Jeff Bryant (2023-06-25). Charter Schools Push Right-Wing Indoctrination at Taxpayer Expense. truthout.org Charges that public schools are subjecting children to leftwing indoctrination are proving to be mostly over-hyped or not at all based in fact. Yet, there's evidence, according to a new report, that a fast-growing sector of the charter school industry is engaged in indoctrination, only, in this case, the schools are instructing children in white, conservative ideology. The report… |

Tyler Walicek (2023-06-25). UC Berkeley Holds Thousands of Native Remains Despite Repatriation Requests. truthout.org European colonialism, in the course of its centuries-long project to subjugate the Indigenous inhabitants of North America, has so relentlessly persecuted Native peoples that peace has been denied them even in death. In the path of a continental genocide trails a further insult: White archaeologists have ransacked Native graves by the thousands, exhuming bodies and stealing countless items of… |

WSWS (2023-06-26). Intelligence report exposes media promotion of Wuhan Lab lie. wsws.org False claims by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, about illnesses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the COVID-19 pandemic were refuted in an intelligence report published Friday.

Dave DeCamp (2023-06-25). Reports Say US Intelligence Knew Prigozhin Was Planning Mutiny in Russia. news.antiwar.com Several US media outlets are claiming that US intelligence was aware Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning to take military action against Russia's defense establishment before his short-lived uprising began on Friday. According to a report from The New York Times, US intelligence officials briefed senior military and Biden administration officials on Wednesday about Prigozhin's …

Craig Murray, Consortium News. (2023-06-25). Daniel Ellsberg's Day In Court For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org The massive obituaries to Daniel Ellsberg last weekend in both The New York Times and Washington Post were proof of the status he held in the United States. | Only presidents get an obituary that size. | His name was not nearly so widely known in the U.K. | I first met Dan on 3 May 2006 when we were giving a joint presentation at Berkeley. The large hall was full to overflowing and to my surprise there were young students queuing outside and striving to listen on stairways through open doors. | The large majority of the audience were not born when Dan leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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