Daily Archives: July 12, 2023

2023-07-12: News Headlines

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-12). The psychological war waged by the Five Eyes against the very civilians they claim to defend. expose-news.com In November 2020, GCHQ was ordered "to wage cyber war on anti-vaccine propaganda" and "to take out anti-vaxxers online and on social media." GCHQ is Britain's main eavesdropping agency and has a …

John Feffer (2023-07-12). America vs. the Supreme Court. fpif.org After last year's NATO summit, Joe Biden talked to reporters about the war in Ukraine, U.S. military assistance to the government in Kyiv, the invitations to Sweden and Finland to join NATO, and the global economy. | The message that the U.S. president emphasized, on all of these issues, was that "America is back." After the isolationist rhetoric of the Trump years, the United States was once again participating in multilateral initiatives and shouldering its share of alliance burdens. It was the defining message of his presidency from day one. | But the first question Biden fielded at the press conference was no…

WSWS (2023-07-11). Dockworkers' union spouts "internationalist" rhetoric, while conniving to sell out strike at Canada's West Coast ports. wsws.org At a rally attended by hundreds of workers in Vancouver on Sunday, the ILWU downplayed the imminent danger of strike-breaking legislation. Above all, it issued no call to mobilize the working class across Canada and its 22,000 US West Coast members—themselves without a contract for over a year—to defeat such an attack.

_____ (2023-07-11). Is Sleepy Joe Biden Trying to Outdo Hitler and History? journal-neo.org History is the most interesting subject for many reasons. Not the least of which is the fact it tends to repeat itself. And the fact that some are doomed by ignorance of this is an important lesson for today. Take German tanks, for instance. First, let's rehash a little history about the steppes of Russia […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

DLI (2023-07-12). Janet Yellen, playing the "good cop" routine in China? indybay.org Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Beijing this week meeting with Chinese officials. But Western corporate media is trying to spin her role as a "good cop" for the NeoLiberal policy of coercing China to follow the USA-made "rules-based" international order.

David Giesen (2023-07-12). Put the Moxi, not Puny, in MUNI. indybay.org The progressive left hobbles itself in not believing the advocacy of socializing land values is worth the energy expended. Without a clear, principled aspiration articulated, a larger, wider, transformative social justice program is unlikely to emerge in public discourse, much less at the ballot.

Amanda Yee (2023-07-11). Red Scare reloaded: Chinese "foreign agents" and a new era of McCarthyism. liberationnews.org This new era of McCarthyism reproduces the same paranoia as the first iteration in the 1950s: that communist infiltrators both in government and throughout wider society are influencing policy and public opinion in the enemy's interests.

Anonymous103 (2023-07-12). Foundation To Battle Injustice Found Exclusive Evidence Of Trafficking Disabled Ukrainian Children In Spain. southfront.org Provided by 85 children with intellectual and physical disabilities were forcibly taken from the DPR to Spain by a Spanish military aircraft and placed in a state-run orphanage, where they are sexually abused, involved in the drug trade, and were trafficked around the world. Minors with special needs live in inappropriate conditions, and any attempts to return them to…

jamanetwork (2023-07-11). Cushing Syndrome—A Review. jamanetwork.com This review summarizes current evidence regarding diagnosis and treatment of Cushing syndrome due to endogenous overproduction of cortisol.

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-12). Report: Biden Administration Debating Sending ATACMs to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration is quietly debating whether or not to provide Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of up to 190 miles, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of June that the administration was moving closer to providing Ukraine with ATACMS, which …

Editor (2023-07-12). Ellen Brown: The Federal Debt Trap: Issues and Possible Solutions. scheerpost.com By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost "Rather than collecting taxes from the wealthy," wrote the New York Times Editorial Board in a July 7 opinion piece, "the government is paying the wealthy to borrow their money." Titled "America Is Living on Borrowed Money," the editorial observes that over the next decade, according to the …

Editor (2023-07-12). The New York Times Has Decided We Need to Cut Social Security and Medicare. scheerpost.com By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) The New York Times editorial board came to a shocking realization this week: we are living on borrowed money. That was the headline of an editorial it ran calling for deficit reduction. Having discovered the deficit, the piece then went on to call for a combination of increased revenue …

manager (2023-07-11). The Labor Market for Black Workers Is Good, But Not Quite as Good as Some Claim. cepr.net The historically low Black unemployment rate and the corresponding relatively high Black employment-to-population ratio or employment rate is welcome news. Overall, this good news about the current economy has not received enough attention. A recent corrective is the Washington Post's article on how the tight labor market has improved the lives of some previously impoverished …

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