2023-08-14: News Headlines

ecsorinoco (2023-08-14). Sergei Shoigu's Tactics are Beginning to Give Excellent Results. orinocotribune.com By Slavisha Milacic — Aug 11, 2023 | Having failed negotiations with Moscow in the spring of 2022, and launching a counteroffensive that allowed their forces to claw back several districts of the Kharkiv region, in September of that same year, the Kyiv authorities started telling their allies that a Ukrainian victory was now a done deal. At the same time, Ukrainian propaganda and the pro-Western opposition inside Russia, were busy convincing the people of the Russian Federation of the Russian army's inability to resist the "modernized Ukrainian forces," and making them believe that there were disagreements…

Defending Rights, Dissent. (2023-08-14). McCarthyism Is Back, And It's Coming For The Peace Movement. popularresistance.org Defending Rights & Dissent condemns in the strongest possible terms the increasing McCarthyite attacks on leftwing and peace groups critical of US-policy towards China. As tensions between the US and China escalate, we have unsurprisingly seen attacks against those who dissent from the prevailing foreign policy orthodoxy. Over the weekend, the New York Times published an inflammatory regurgitation of innuendo, aspersions, and propaganda focusing on a number of groups, including Code Pink and the People's Forum. With the "paper of record" giving these smears a veneer of legitimacy, Senator Marco Rubio sent a…

Andrew Korybko (2023-08-13). Kyrgyzstan Is The US' Next Regime Change Target. thealtworld.com What Senator Menendez demands is nothing short of a soft coup brought about by voluntarily reversing Kyrgyzstan's recent "Democratic Security" successes under the Damocles' sword of "security and economic" consequences if it dares to refuse. If he has his way, then suspected Color Revolutionaries will be released from prison, Western "NGO" intel fronts will be allowed to meddle with impunity, and their allied propaganda outlets will once again incessantly spew anti-state disinformation for provoking riots. | Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Bob Menendez conveyed his country's intentions to overt…

WSWS (2023-08-14). Sanders promotes UAW bureaucracy, economic nationalism in online event. wsws.org Sanders' and Fain's rhetorical appeals to social discontent were combined with a lying narrative which covered up for the Democratic Party and the UAW bureaucracy, which are both centrally responsible for creating the conditions workers now confront.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-08-13). 'These Are Hitler Tactics': Illegal Police Raids Effectively Shut Down Kansas Newspaper. thedissenter.org Support independent journalism on whistleblowers, secrecy, and press freedom-related issues.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-08-13). 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.


ecns.cn (2023-08-14). China won't 'sit idle' if Germany bans Chinese 5G gear recklessly: ambassador. ecns.cn China will not 'sit idle' if Germany decides to ban Chinese telecommunication firms from the country's 5G network construction without offering hard evidence that Chinese firms pose a so-called "national security" threat.

Ryan Cristián (2023-08-14). Shelby Thomson Interview — Locals Convinced Maui Fires Not Accident As Evidence Suggests Foul Play. thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today Shelby Thomson, co-founder of Unjected, and resident of Maui, here to discuss what she has witnessed, as well as what her family experienced, in surviving the fires that have devastated the island of Maui, and entirely destroyed the historic and rebellious town of Lahaina. We discuss the many failures and ineptitudes of

teleSUR (2023-08-14). Niger Junta To Prosecute President Bazoum for High Treason. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, the perpetrators of the coup in Niger against President Mohamed Bazoum announced their intention to prosecute the ousted leader for high treason and undermining the country's security, in a statement read on national television. | Related: | "So far, the government of Niger has gathered… evidence to prosecute the deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices before the competent national and international bodies for…

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2023-08-14). New York Times helps Marco Rubio push persecution of antiwar leftists. mronline.org Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he'd sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are "tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States."

Staff (2023-08-14). NY Times exposes its colonial and fossil fuel biases as one writer's response to Hawaiian wildfires is 'Rolex!'. thecanary.co A New York Times's (NYT) journalist's abhorrent tweet on Hawaii's devastating wildfires is exactly what you should expect from an elite corporate outlet that has shilled for the fossil fuel industry. Since Tuesday 8 August, a deadly wildfire has ripped through a Hawaiian town. So far, the blaze has killed nearly a hundred people in Lahaina …

Leonid Savin (2023-08-14). La UE no tiene voluntad política propia. thealtworld.com No importa lo que diga la UE sobre la necesidad de un enfoque más independiente en la toma de decisiones sobre cuestiones clave, todas esas declaraciones y afirmaciones, como los planes de autonomía estratégica de Alemania y Francia, pueden considerarse sonidos vacíos. | En vísperas de la cumbre de la OTAN, The New York Times Los autores comienzan el artículo con los últimos acontecimientos, incluida la…


Leonid Savin (2023-08-14). L'UE n'a pas de volonté politique propre. thealtworld.com Quoi que dise l'UE sur la nécessité d'une approche plus indépendante de la prise de décision sur les questions clés, toutes les déclarations et affirmations de ce type, comme les plans d'autonomie stratégique de l'Allemagne et de la France, peuvent être considérées comme des sons creux. | A la veille du sommet de l'OTAN, le New York Times a Les auteurs commencent l'article par les développem…

Dean Baker (2023-08-13). The WaPo's "Unluckiest Generation" Are Doing Relatively Well in Becoming Homeowners. cepr.net The Washington Post told readers that the current generation of young people is finding it much harder to become homeowners than young people did in the past. The data disagree with this claim. While young people (under age 35) did become homeowners at higher rates in the early and mid-eighties and the late 1990s until …

Leonid Savin (2023-08-14). L'UE n'a pas de volonté politique propre. thealtworld.com Quoi que dise l'UE sur la nécessité d'une approche plus indépendante de la prise de décision sur les questions clés, toutes les déclarations et affirmations de ce type, comme les plans d'autonomie stratégique de l'Allemagne et de la France, peuvent être considérées comme des sons creux. | A la veille du sommet de l'OTAN, le New York Times a Les auteurs commencent l'article par les développem…

Dean Baker (2023-08-13). The WaPo's "Unluckiest Generation" Are Doing Relatively Well in Becoming Homeowners. cepr.net The Washington Post told readers that the current generation of young people is finding it much harder to become homeowners than young people did in the past. The data disagree with this claim. While young people (under age 35) did become homeowners at higher rates in the early and mid-eighties and the late 1990s until …

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