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2023-09-09: News Headlines

Editor (2023-09-09). Sep 9, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Billy Joel — Piano Man The West's blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine, by Jonathan Cook A Theory of the Game, by James Howard Kunstler Parsing the Telescreen, Slouching into the Gulag, by Fred Reed NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion, by Caitlin Johnstone Propaganda Legalized, Censorship Weaponized, by Joseph Mercola Greenwald: EU and WaPo Escalate Censorship Campaign with a New Fraudulent.. Video Transcript Transparency International's Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence's Game, by Kit Klarenberg The Rise of the Public-Pri…

TASS (2023-09-08). Russians won't be intimidated by US sanctions rhetoric — Russian embassy. tass.com It is reported that "US authorities do not part with a long-standing habit of meddling into internal affairs of other countries"

WSWS (2023-09-09). Blacklisted in the US, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski receive standing ovations at Venice Film Festival. wsws.org The overwhelmingly positive reaction to Allen and Polanski, along with Luc Besson, indicates that it is becoming increasingly difficult for the upper middle class layers behind the #MeToo campaign to maintain their slanders and misrepresentations.

Chris Wright (2023-09-09). Postliberals Against the Common Good. dissidentvoice.org "The Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history," says Noam Chomsky. It seems like a ridiculous statement. "Has there ever been an organization in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organized human life on Earth? Not that I'm aware of." He has a point. Even the …

Spencer Sunshine (2023-09-09). A New Wave of Neo-Nazism Has Become Visible in Wake of Jacksonville Shooting. truthout.org Exactly one week after the August 26 racist murder of three black people in Jacksonville, Florida, two neo-Nazi rallies were held about 140 miles south in Orlando, where masked and uniformed men shouted racist and antisemitic slogans. These events are signs of a new wave of neo-Nazis who are more eager for street violence than their predecessors in recent years. The smaller of the two rallies was… |

en.mehrnews (2023-09-09). US, UK, Israel sinister triangle to hatch plots against Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 09 (MNA) — The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the United States, Britain and Israel remain engaged in subversive plots against the Islamic Republic, 45 years after supporting a deadly crackdown in the country.

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2023-09-08: News Headlines

Richard Gale (2023-09-07). Vaccines and "Fabricated Propaganda": The Character Assassination Directed against Robert Kennedy Jr. globalresearch.ca

TASS (2023-09-07). Lavrov says West sought to undermine constructive work at East Asia summit. tass.com "As for the attempts to Ukrainianize anything and everything, which are being made by our Western colleagues, these attempts are increasingly tiring for countries that want to engage in concrete affairs rather than support propaganda in favor of the Kiev regime," Sergey Lavrov stressed…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-07). CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution in Indonesia. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is ineligible for a third…

Editor (2023-09-07). LEAKED: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution In Indonesia. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / MintPress News Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is …

Johnisha Levi (2023-09-07). American carnage: To be Black in Trump's America. nationofchange.org While Black people are certainly not the sole target of Trump's rhetoric and the abuse of like-minded mobs, we are one of the greatest tests of the functioning of American democracy.

Newsclick (2023-09-07). G20: What's in it for the Global South? peoplesdispatch.org Economist Dr Biswajit Dhar talks about what to expect from the forthcoming G20 summit being held in Delhi, India. He says the rhetoric about gains to developing countries from the G20 summits is hype…

Ed Rampell (2023-09-08). Elite Twits: A Pinteresque Walk on the Wild Side. counterpunch.org Harold Pinter was a prolific playwright and screenwriter. I enjoyed the 1960s films he'd written the screenplays for, The Servant and Accident, which were directed by that refugee from the Hollywood Blacklist, Joseph Losey. After being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pinter's rather heroic, 2005 noble Nobel Lecture dared to challenge the prevailing pro-war

Mehul Reuben Das (2023-09-08). $44 bn to fight 'woke' culture: New book claims Elon Musk bought X because daughter turned 'communist'. firstpost.com In June 2021, Elon Musk's child, Xavier Alexander Musk, publicly revealed their identity as transgender, a significant moment in their personal journey. | This announcement, however, resulted in a strain on the relationship between Elon Musk and his child, ultimately affecting Musk's political stance and even influencing his decision to acquire Twitter, as outlined in an excerpt from his biographer Walter Isaacson's upcoming book, "Elon Musk." | Daughter's conversion | According to the excerpt published in The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk's conservative political leanings were partly catalyzed when his 16-year-…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-07). Fact Check: Have US Cluster Munitions Proven Effective Amid Ukraine Counteroffensive? sputnikglobe.com Washington has reportedly green-lighted further supplies of cluster munitions to Ukraine even though the first batch of the deadly shells have not helped the Kiev regime make any progress amid its counteroffensive.

Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone. (2023-09-07). Ukraine's 'Biggest Arms Supplier' Orchestrated 2014 Maidan Massacre. popularresistance.org Years before emerging as Kiev's top private weapons trafficker, ex-legislator Serhiy Pashinsky played a key role in the 2014 US-backed coup which toppled Ukraine's democratically-elected president and set the stage for a devastating civil war. Though the notoriously corrupt former Ukrainian parliamentarian was condemned by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a "criminal" as recently as 2019, a lengthy exposé by the New York Times has now identified Pashinsky as the Ukrainian government's "biggest private arms supplier." | Perhaps predictably, the report makes no mention of evidence implicating Pashinsky in the 2014…

Patricia Kime (2023-09-07). Cancer Concerns Prompt Increased Blood Testing of Military Firefighters for PFAS. truthout.org A U.S. military firefighter for 32 years, Kurt Rhodes trained and performed his duties with aqueous film forming foam, or AFFF — a highly effective fire suppressant that he never knew contained PFAS chemicals, now known to be harmful to human health. New federal research links testicular cancer in U.S. service members to the "forever chemicals," adding to a growing body of evidence of the dangers… |

sputnikglobe (2023-09-07). Google Will Require Election Advertisers to Disclose AI-Generated Content. sputnikglobe.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Google will require election advertisers to disclose data on artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content that may inauthentically depict real or realistic-looking people and events from mid-November, the company announced.

Dean Baker (2023-09-07). Bret Stephens Inventive Anti-Biden Case in the NYT. cepr.net Bret Stephens had to be creative to push the "why are Americans so down on Biden" story in his New York Times column this week. He starts his piece by pointing to a number of positive developments. But then we get the big warning: "But there's another explanation: The news isn't all that good. Americans …

Lawrence Davidson (2023-09-08). The Downward Trajectory of Women's Rights. counterpunch.org The New York Times recently published an article on the status of women's rights in Israel. It is not a happy story. Despite Israel's feigned reputation as a "liberal democracy," the reality is that within its privileged Jewish population is a large number of religious zealots—the Ultra-Orthodox or Haredi Jews—seeking to reshape the state's culture

Norman Solomon (2023-09-08). How 9/11 Bred a "War on Terror" from Hell. counterpunch.org The day after the U.S. government began routinely bombing faraway places, the lead editorial in the New York Times expressed some gratification. Nearly four weeks had passed since 9/11, the newspaper noted, and America had finally stepped up its "counterattack against terrorism" by launching airstrikes on al-Qaeda training camps and Taliban military targets in Afghanistan. "It was

Eve Ottenberg (2023-09-08). High Grocery and Gasoline Prices? Monopoly Gouging isn't Going Away. counterpunch.org Inflation is with us, period. It may have eased a bit from its recent 40-year high, but, the Washington Post told us August 10 "falling inflation doesn't mean prices are returning to pre-pandemic levels." This article then blames rent for most recently driving the inflationary mess, before listing six items whose costs gyrated wildly in recent years: used cars, rent, gas, airfare, cereal and baked goods and eggs. And when I say gyrated, I mean soared, then did not plummet. They may have dropped a bit, but they're still in the stratosphere compared to where they were seven or eight years ago. And the kleptocrats i…

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2023-09-07: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-09-06). Britain Secretly Helped Chile's Military Intelligence after Pinochet Coup. libya360.wordpress.com John McEvoy General Augusto Pinochet. (Photo: Greg Smith / Corbis via Getty) As the Pinochet regime rounded up and murdered its political opponents after the 1973 coup, a UK Foreign Office propaganda unit passed material to Chile's military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show. Foreign Office…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-06). Leaked: CIA Front Preparing Color Revolution in Indonesia. mintpressnews.com Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. | In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is ineligible for a third term, and NED is preparing to seize power in the wake of his departure. This operation is conducted despite the leaks indicating Jakarta's foremost intelligence agency has expressly warned U.S. officials to stay put. | The paper trail is…

Murray Horton (2023-09-06). In the U.S., Investigative Journalists Are Blacklisted, Ostracized and Even Jailed; in New Zealand, They are Honored. covertactionmagazine.com Nicky Hager received major national award in New Zealand after having written a book exposing a secret spy base in New Zealand and exposing other state crimes Julian Assange has, thus far, spent years in a British prison, awaiting extradition to the U.S., where he faces charges under the Espionage Act, for which he could …

Staff (2023-09-07). UK conservationists must stop spreading deceptive trophy hunting narratives. thecanary.co The debate over trophy hunting has been raging in the UK again. As Sian Sullivan previously wrote for the Canary, pro-trophy hunting lobbyists turned their sights on the House of Lords when it was debating a ban on hunting imports. Afterwards, Sullivan faced a backlash from some pro-hunting conservation groups. However, this was unsurprising given …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-06). Two viewpoints to challenge the new covid variant hysteria. expose-news.com Eris was the ancient Greek goddess of strife, discord, contention and rivalry. It is also the name of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant that corporate media has been publicising as the hopeful beginnings …

The Alternative World (2023-09-06). Developing: A bad month for Resistance media just got much worse. thealtworld.com Hekmat Aboukhater- Mint Press News suspended on TikTok, The Grayzone's fundraising campaign frozen by GoFundme, and now The Cradle's Facebook page is unpublished. Independent journalism is losing a war and few people seem to notice. | Truly Independent media sites have unfortunately become few and far in between, and in an age where media is dominated by corporate, state-sponsored, or pretend independent media like

Ann Brown (2023-09-06). Fact Check: Warrick Dunn Is Part Owner Of The Atlanta Falcons And His Stake Is Up 500%. moguldom.com Many former professional athletes go broke after their high-money-making careers are over. But not former National Football League running back Warrick Dunn, an All-Pro player. He has managed to secure a substantial fortune through a strategic investment made after retiring from the NFL. Dunn, who was raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as the oldest of …

Areeb Ullah (2023-09-06). Boycott bill: Pro-Palestine groups not invited to give evidence to MPs. middleeasteye.net Boycott bill: Pro-Palestine groups not invited to give evidence to MPs | Committee scrutinising anti-BDS bill set to hear from Melanie Phillips and pro-Israel lobbyists, but not from supporters of Palestinian cause | Wed, 09/06/2023 – 13: 16 | Pro-Palestinian activists and supporters let off smoke flares during a demonstration in support of the Palestinian cause in central London on 15 May 2021 (A…

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2023-09-05: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-09-05). Access Journalism At Its Most Pernicious- Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | New York Times editors A lot of propaganda emphasis goes int…

Ben Bartee (2023-09-05). COVID Warlord Anthony Fauci Jibber-Jabbers Incoherently About Forced-Masking on CNN. globalresearch.ca

Sundance (2023-09-05). US Special Operations Command Will Deploy Argus AI Program to Scour Social Media for Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation, National Security Authority to Protect U.S. Internet from "Pain Points" globalresearch.ca

Lowkey (2023-09-05). Understanding the Niger Coup, with David Hundeyin. mintpressnews.com The MintPress podcast, "The Watchdog," hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know — including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. "The Watchdog" goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media. | | The world holds its breath. Last month, the Nigerien military overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, decl…

Editor (2023-09-05). Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won't: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map. scheerpost.com By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — I heard Noam Chomsky speak in my youth about the press coverage of the Middle East in the United States, and as I remember it he at one point remarked that it was sometimes the regional newspapers, such as the San Francisco Chronicle that had the …

ecns.cn (2023-09-04). Comicomment: The collapse of 'China collapse' and 'China threat' theories. ecns.cn For a long time, American politicians and media have been switching back and forth between the "China collapse theory" and the "China threat theory." Whenever there is a fluctuation in certain economic indicator in China, the "China collapse theory" becomes prominent, and as long as China's economic performance is impressive, the "China threat theory" dominates the discourse.

Dave DeCamp (2023-09-04). South Africa Says Inquiry Found No Evidence of Arms Shipment to Russia. news.antiwar.com On Sunday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said an independent inquiry found no evidence that a Russian cargo ship that docked in South Africa last year was loaded with weapons despite US claims. The Russian ship, the Lady R, docked at a naval base near Capetown in December 2022, angering the US because the vessel …

Larry Johnson (2023-09-05). Will Americans Supporting UKRAINE Finally Acknowledge That there are Nazis Fighting For Ukraine? sonar21.com The Western media has devoted a lot of resources trying to quash the video evidence of the powerful neo-Nazi element that is fighting for Ukraine. This past weekend a group…

Eric Laursen (2023-09-04). The Unfinished Revolution of "The Joy of Sex" counterpunch.org The sexual revolution may have reached its high-water mark 50 years ago, the week of August 5, 1973, when The Joy of Sex: A Cordon Bleu Guide to Lovemaking first topped the New York Times list of nonfiction hardcover best sellers. Published the previous fall, the book had swiftly become a publishing phenomenon. For the first time, anyone in America

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2023-09-04: News Headlines

midwesternmarx (2023-09-03). Report back from Xinjiang. By: Aymeric Monville. midwesternmarx.com We are very pleased to publish below the report by the progressive French academic Aymeric Monville of his recent (August 2023) trip to Xinjiang. The report responds directly to the obscene anti-Chinese propaganda that has been raging for several years in the Western media regarding ostensible human rights abuses against China's Uyghur population.Aymeric describes his visits, along with the writer Maxime Vivas, to Kashgar, Urumqi and assorted villages. The picture he paints is drama …

Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. (2023-09-03). Chris Hedges Report: The Ruse Of Identity Politics. popularresistance.org There are very few intellectuals who have been as attacked, censored, and blacklisted as long and as ruthlessly as the Middle Eastern scholar, Norman Finkelstein. He has been hounded out of universities, denied speaking engagements, and had his books and scholarship either ignored or dismissed. It is surprising, perhaps, that Professor Finkelstein's latest book, I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom is a savage attack on identity politics. He likens the current woke culture of the left to red-baiting when his heroes, Paul Robeson, Pet…

ecns.cn (2023-09-03). Comicomment: The collapse of 'China collapse' and 'China threat' theories. ecns.cn For a long time, American politicians and media have been switching back and forth between the "China collapse theory" and the "China threat theory." Whenever there is a fluctuation in certain economic indicator in China, the "China collapse theory" becomes prominent, and as long as China's economic performance is impressive, the "China threat theory" dominates the discourse.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-03). Video: 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism. globalresearch.ca 9/11 marks the onslaught of the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a "war without borders", a global war of conquest. A far-reaching overhaul of US military doctrine was launched in the wake of 9/11.

FP Staff (2023-09-03). Typhoon Haikui prompts Taiwan to evacuate thousands, cancel flights. firstpost.com Domestic flights were cancelled, and almost 3,000 people were evacuated, as Taiwan braced for the arrival of Typhoon Haikui on Sunday, which is predicted to deliver torrential rain and high gusts to the island's south and east. | Haikui is expected to make landfall in Taiwan's hilly and sparsely populated far southeast late Sunday afternoon. Counties and towns in the east and south cancelled courses and announced a day off for employees. | Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen informed a gathering of disaster management authorities that this would be the first storm to make landfall on the island and pass its central mou…

Ann Brown (2023-09-04). 10 Quotes From C. Delores Tucker On Hip-Hop And Its Negative Programming Power. moguldom.com Some recall C. Delores Tucker as the acclaimed civil rights activist and politician who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, contributing significantly to advancing women's and voting rights. In 1984, Tucker and U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the trailblazing first Black woman to run for president, established the National Congress of Black …

NewsOne Staff (2023-09-04). Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day? newsone.com For many, Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer and the start of the school year. But what else does the holiday signify and why do we celebrate it besides [most of us] having the day off from work?

Mehul Reuben Das (2023-09-04). Changing Tactics: Meta may remove ads from Insta, FB because of EU's DSA and ad transparency laws. firstpost.com Meta, the tech giant encompassing various platforms, has often displayed a predictable response to challenges, particularly when it involves new regulations aimed at enhancing transparency in its targeted advertising business. | However, Meta's compliance tends to come with its own set of conditions. The company behind Facebook and Instagram is reportedly contemplating a significant departure from its traditional business model, considering the introduction of a subscription option for users in the European Union. | Meta completely changes its course in the EU | According to The New York Times, citing information…

TASS (2023-09-04). Kim Jong Un plans to visit Russia in September — newspaper. tass.com According to The New York Times, the North Korean leader may meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East in mid-September…

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2023-09-02: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-09-02). War, Terrorism and the Global Economic Crisis. Ninety-nine Interrelated Concepts. globalresearch.ca Everything is interrelated: war, terrorism, the police state, the global economy, financial fraud, corrupt governments, poverty and social inequality, media disinformation, war propaganda, WMD, international law,…

sputnikglobe (2023-09-02). US Ban on Visiting North Korea Part of 'Demonization' of DPRK. sputnikglobe.com US citizens had been brainwashed by official government propaganda painting North Korea as an oppressive totalitarian state, Betsy Yoon, a member of the Nodutdol for Korean Community Development group, believes.

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-09-01). United States Is A Victim Of Its Own Propaganda In Ukraine War. popularresistance.org The whitewashing of the historical context for the war in Ukraine has resulted in a profoundly embarrassing episode for the United States embassy in Prague. | An Aug. 21 Tweet from the embassy with a message roughly translated from Czech to mean "Aggression always comes from the Kremlin," showed two photographs: the first displayed Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague in 1968. The second showed fire burning in front of a building and was marked "Odesa 2023." | Twitter users were quick to point out the embassy's error. "The bottom photo is from 2014 Odessa Clashes where pro federalism (mostly pro Russian) got bur…

WSWS (2023-09-01). Dr. Anthony Fauci says many will "fall by the wayside" in new COVID-19 surge. wsws.org This week, Dr. Anthony Fauci gave an interview to the BBC in which he declared that older people, the ill, and disabled people "will fall by the wayside" in the current surge of COVID-19.

WSWS (2023-09-02). Cost of damage from Hurricane Idalia could reach $20 billion. wsws.org Rescue efforts are continuing as the extent of the devastation from the massive Hurricane Idalia across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas is being revealed despite efforts by the corporate media and political establishment to cover it up.

WSWS (2023-09-02). Guantanamo military judge rules against evidence "derived from torture" wsws.org The fact that nobody has ever gone to prison for the CIA torture program implicates the entire US political establishment and exposes the hypocrisy of its claims to be defending human rights abroad.

Ashley Curtin (2023-09-01). Wildlife Services releases new standards to protect gray wolves from government killings. nationofchange.org To protect the endangered Mexican gray wolves from government killings, the new set of standards will require more evidence that the livestock animal was alive during the wolf encounter along with additional indicators of wolf involvement.

Editor (2023-09-01). More Evidence Regarding Henry Kissinger's Lies About Chile. scheerpost.com By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch "Chile is a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica." — Henry A. Kissinger. Our 240 years of history have not produced a more controversial secretary of state than Henry A. Kissinger. There are enormous achievements associated with Kissinger, including the Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty …

Chris Wright (2023-09-02). Nikole Hannah-Jones, Frederick Douglass, and the Left. dissidentvoice.org Twitter conversations with public intellectuals are rarely worthy of note, but a recent exchange I had with Nikole Hannah-Jones, famed mastermind of the New York Times' 1619 Project, was symptomatic of widespread tendencies in left-liberal culture and brought up important issues. Hannah-Jones is a spokeswoman for wokeness, the cultural phenomenon that, as I've written elsewhere, …

Dean Baker (2023-09-02). Contrary to What You Read in the NYT, the Typical Worker is Not $2,000 Behind Their Pre-Pandemic Pay. cepr.net The New York Times had a piece today on how the Biden administration is trying to turn around public opinion on its handling of the economy. At the end of the article it cites Jason Furman, a Harvard professor and head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama. "Now he said it was …

Ben Norton (2023-09-01). NY Times Admits It Sends Stories to US Government for Approval Before Publication. globalresearch.ca The New York Times casually acknowledged that it sends major scoops to the US government before publication, to make sure "national security officials" have "no concerns." | *** | First published on June 26, 2019 | The New York Times has publicly acknowledged …

Editor (2023-09-01). Why is The New York Times Burning Peace Activist Jodie Evans at the Stake? scheerpost.com

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