2023-08-23: News Headlines

John Pilger (2023-08-22). Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works. globalresearch.ca

Michael F. Brown (2023-08-22). PragerU brings pro-Israel propaganda to Florida schools. electronicintifada.net DeSantis is keen to sanitize history from anti-Black race massacres in the US to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

unitedEditor (2023-08-23). Senior Pakistani clerical delegation visits Uighur region. uwidata.com Reporting from Urumqi / China Delegations of clerics visiting China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are proving that Western media and Uighur separatists' claims that "China is banning Islam and practicing genocide against Uighur" are false. The last important visit came from Pakistan, a country with high Islamic sensitivity. Between July 16-19, a delegation of senior Pakistani clerics …

jamanetwork (2023-08-22). Coordinated Care for Optimization of Cardiovascular Preventive Therapies in Patients With Diabetes—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply The Coordinating Cardiology Clinics Randomized Trial of Interventions to Improve Outcomes (COORDINATE)—Diabetes trial was designed and powered to assess the effect of a multicomponent intervention on evidence-based medication prescription among patients with diabetes and atherosclerotic vascular disease, rather than on levels for risk factors or hard clinical outcomes. Because we did not mandate follow-up assessment of risk factors such as cholesterol or glycemic measurements, and because this trial was conducted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, only a minority of patients received these…


Valeriy Krylko (2023-08-22). Private Cybersecurity Organizations Are Being Used For Under-Cover Espionage as George Orwell's 1984 Nightmare Becomes More and More a Reality. covertactionmagazine.com Everything that was once created for the common good turns into a farce nowadays. All words about international cooperation are just empty words. A case in point is the professed commitment of high-level politicians to combating cyber-crime when we have evidence that cyber-security organizations are being used as a cover for undercover espionage. The UN …

Staff (2023-08-22). McCarthyism Is Back: Together We Can Stop It. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is one of hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals who have already signed on to this statement against a red-baiting attack in the New York Times aiming to incite repression against anti-imperialist organizations in the United States. We urge you to sign on to the statement here: actionnetwork.org/forms/mccarthyism-is-back-together-we-can-stop-it McCarthyism …

Anonymous (2023-08-23). Caltech Labor Consultant Enabled Scott Svonkin's Alleged Abusive Behavior. indybay.org Pasadena CalTech University's Labor Consultant Annie Goldman-Reed was previously was a low-level administrator at Los Angeles Valley College. In 2017, she ran a campaign to discredit a fellow trustees allegations of abusive behavior. This followed years a smear campaigns against other LACCD whistleblowers.

Dave DeCamp (2023-08-22). US Officials Criticize Ukraine's Tactics, Say Troops are Too Spread Out. news.antiwar.com US and Western officials speaking to The New York Times blamed Ukraine's struggling counteroffensive on Kyiv's tactics, saying Ukrainian troops are too spread out. US officials said that Ukraine's primary goal is to sever Russia's land bridge to Crimea but that Ukraine has placed its troops and firepower equally along the entire front, in the …


Igor Derysh (2023-08-22). Trump's Former Chief of Staff Is Cooperating With Jack Smith's Investigation. truthout.org Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows quietly decided to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors after they challenged former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege, according to The New York Times. Meadows "commenced a delicate dance" with federal prosecutors after receiving a subpoena from a grand jury over the winter, the outlet reported. |

infobrics (2023-08-22). Cracks beginning to emerge between Washington and Kiev. infobrics.org Ukraine is running out of possibilities for a counteroffensive – The Washington Post.

Igor Derysh (2023-08-22). Trump's Former Chief of Staff Is Cooperating With Jack Smith's Investigation. truthout.org Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows quietly decided to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors after they challenged former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege, according to The New York Times. Meadows "commenced a delicate dance" with federal prosecutors after receiving a subpoena from a grand jury over the winter, the outlet reported. |

infobrics (2023-08-22). Cracks beginning to emerge between Washington and Kiev. infobrics.org Ukraine is running out of possibilities for a counteroffensive – The Washington Post.

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