Daily Archives: July 19, 2023

2023-07-19: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-07-19). Historical falsification in the service of pro-war propaganda. wsws.org The Times' pro-war propaganda has given way to pro-Nazi apologetics.

Rachel Hu, Chris Garaffa (2023-07-19). CovertAction Bulletin: Breaking Through U.S. Propaganda on North Korea. covertactionmagazine.com A recent Washington Post article titled "A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story" highlights the many appearances Yeonmi Park has made on right-wing news outlets over the past few years. Scholars and solidarity activists have been pointing out the serious holes in Park's stories since she started getting attention…

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof (2023-07-19). Climate Disruption: It's Not Due to CO2. globalresearch.ca More than 120 world leaders last November 2022 attended the COP27 summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, amidst a stylized propaganda campaign: | "Our Planet is "Sending a Distress Signal". | The focus on CO2 emissions and "Global Warming" …

_____ (2023-07-19). It's Not the Really Blatant Propaganda That Gets You. strategic-culture.org One of my favorite follows on Twitter right now is a smallish account run by an anti-imperialist activist who goes by "Left I on the News", because he has a real knack for going through articles in the mainstream press and highlighting the mundane little manipulations we're fed each day to shape our worldview in alignment with the US empire.

Editor (2023-07-19). Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO and Biden. scheerpost.com By Radhika Desai / CounterPunch The proxy war on Russia is the centre piece of Biden's foreign policy of uniting the world's 'democracies' against 'autocracies', particularly China and Russia. He boasts repeatedly of uniting US allies, most in NATO, as never before. Though the real unity is spotty at best, until recently, the rhetoric seemed …

Ciarán Giles (2023-07-18). Los fascistas podrían volver al gobierno en España por primera vez desde la muerte de Franco. peoplesworld.org MADRID (AP) — Las elecciones generales de España el domingo podrían convertir al país en el último miembro de la Unión Europea en girar hacia la derecha, un cambio que representaría un cambio importante después de cinco años bajo un gobierno de izquierda. El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, convocó elecciones anticipadas después de que …


Ciarán Giles (2023-07-18). Fascists could return to government in Spain for first time since Franco's death. peoplesworld.org MADRID (AP)—Spain's general election on Sunday could make the country the latest European Union member to swing to the right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years under a left-wing government. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and its small far-left coalition partner, Unidas Podemos ("United …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-07-19). Polisario disqualifies Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty. plenglish.com In a statement issued by the Ministry of Information of the Polisario Front, it underlined that "such a decision is not an achievement for the occupying State of Morocco, but a clear condemnation of an alliance of two discordant states that militarily occupy Western Sahara and the Palestinian territories, respectively (…)." | According to the text spread by the Saharawi agency SPS, Morocco and Israel subjugate the nations with the same practices of oppression, "confiscating their internationally recognized rights to self-determination and independence." | "Israel's decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty ov…

Media Lens (2023-07-19). 'A Death Sentence For People And Ecosystems': The Climate Emergency, Governments And The Public Enemy. dissidentvoice.org On a trip to Japan in 2014, approaching the third anniversary of the Fukishima nuclear disaster, Noam Chomsky told an audience that: 'Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy.' What he meant was that states do not wish their own populations to know and understand the details of government policies, for fear of …

Jim Hightower (2023-07-19). Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans. otherwords.org Unfortunately, it's 1984 again in America. | Not the year. The book. George Orwell's classic novel tells of a far-right totalitarian clique that uses "newspeak" and "doublethink" to impose their rigid, anti-democratic doctrine on society. | Their regime held power through mind control — they had a "Ministry of Truth" for perverting language and manipulating facts, while their "Thought Police" enforced ideological purity and suppressed dissent. | Thirty-nine years later, here comes a clique of theocratic extremists in our country using Orwellian manipulation in its crusade to take control over every woman's…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-07-18). 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine: History and Present. libya360.wordpress.com Elier Ramírez Cañedo When in December 1823, President James Monroe announced in a message to Congress the doctrine that would define the essence of U.S. foreign policy towards the Latin American and Caribbean region, summarized in the idea "America for the Americans", it justified the rejection of any new European attempt to interfere or extend…

infobrics (2023-07-19). US mainstream media easily spread fake news about Russian mutiny. infobrics.org Western journalists and officials repeatedly changed their narratives, trying to gain some advantage from the "mutiny".


Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). Decree on fake news used to silence political dissent in Tunisia, claims rights group. peoplesdispatch.org President Kais Saied's government introduced Decree 54 last year, ostensibly to curb fake news. This was amid growing popular opposition to his political coup in July 2021 and the arbitrary adoption of a new constitution…

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-19). Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country's apartheid against Palestinians on Tuesday night, just days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) criticized Israel's violent oppression and far right regime over the weekend. The legislation, which states that "Israel is not a racist or apartheid state" despite mountains of evidence and… |

_____ (2023-07-18). Higher Military Spending Will Save Democracy: So the 'Liberal' New York Times Says. strategic-culture.org So the "liberal" New York Times says | W.J. ASTORE | Join us on , , and . | Four days ago, I got a story in my New York Times email feed on "A Turning Point in Military Spending." The article celebrated the greater willingne…

Anonymous103 (2023-07-19). Florida Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You. southfront.org Written by Paul du Quenoy, President of On July 14, just three days after Washington, DC's city council passed emergency legislation to address a worrisome 33 percent spike in major crimes in the nation's capital, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin vented her frustration in a scathing attack on Florida. Calling our state the place where "empathy, decency, and kindness go to die," she warned that a suppose…

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-18). US Pressuring Ukraine to Push Harder in Counteroffensive. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported Tuesday that US officials believe Ukraine should be launching large-scale assaults against Russia's defensive lines despite the risk of major losses and are blaming Ukraine's tactics for the struggling counteroffensive. The report said that the pace of Ukraine's counteroffensive "has generated concerns in the West that the government of President Volodymyr …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-19). Decree on fake news used to silence political dissent in Tunisia, claims rights group. peoplesdispatch.org President Kais Saied's government introduced Decree 54 last year, ostensibly to curb fake news. This was amid growing popular opposition to his political coup in July 2021 and the arbitrary adoption of a new constitution…

Sharon Zhang (2023-07-19). Only 9 House Reps Vote Against Resolution Denying Israeli Apartheid. truthout.org The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution vowing perpetual allyship with Israel and denying the country's apartheid against Palestinians on Tuesday night, just days after Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) criticized Israel's violent oppression and far right regime over the weekend. The legislation, which states that "Israel is not a racist or apartheid state" despite mountains of evidence and… |

_____ (2023-07-18). Higher Military Spending Will Save Democracy: So the 'Liberal' New York Times Says. strategic-culture.org So the "liberal" New York Times says | W.J. ASTORE | Join us on , , and . | Four days ago, I got a story in my New York Times email feed on "A Turning Point in Military Spending." The article celebrated the greater willingne…

Anonymous103 (2023-07-19). Florida Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You. southfront.org Written by Paul du Quenoy, President of On July 14, just three days after Washington, DC's city council passed emergency legislation to address a worrisome 33 percent spike in major crimes in the nation's capital, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin vented her frustration in a scathing attack on Florida. Calling our state the place where "empathy, decency, and kindness go to die," she warned that a suppose…

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-18). US Pressuring Ukraine to Push Harder in Counteroffensive. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported Tuesday that US officials believe Ukraine should be launching large-scale assaults against Russia's defensive lines despite the risk of major losses and are blaming Ukraine's tactics for the struggling counteroffensive. The report said that the pace of Ukraine's counteroffensive "has generated concerns in the West that the government of President Volodymyr …

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