Daily Archives: January 24, 2024

2024-01-24: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-01-24). Columbia University victim-blames students hospitalized after Zionist chemical attack. wsws.org The attempt by the university to victim blame pro-Palestinian students is part of the broader state-led propaganda campaign aimed at falsely equating all opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza as "antisemitic."

WSWS (2024-01-23). The mass mobilisation against the far-right Alternative for Germany and the fight against fascism. wsws.org The mass protests against the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are part of an international movement against the right-wing politics of the ruling class and show the enormous opposition to anti-refugee propaganda, war and inequality. It is important to develop this into a conscious movement of the working class against the government and capitalism.

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2024-01-23). The First Casualty of War Is Truth. And Propaganda is the First Weapon Used in Times of War. globalresearch.ca

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2024-01-23). The First Casualty of War Is Truth. The Role of Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

Irwin Jerome (2024-01-23). Israel's Zionists and Settler Colonists Are Genocidal Warmongers. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2024-01-23). Accusation on counterterrorism slammed. ecns.cn Groundlessly accusing China of using counterterrorism measures to carry out so-called "genocide" in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will severely hamper global efforts to fight terrorism, experts said.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-24). How fact-checkers and anti-disinformation campaigns restrict freedom of speech in the "Global Boiling Era" expose-news.com Historically, freedom of speech has been restricted through direct coercion. But today, this is being done in more subtle ways: "fact-checkers," governments pressurising social media companies to censor, anti-disinformation campaigns and "hate …

El Siglo (2024-01-23). The phenomenon of disinformation "is a threat to democracy": Camila Vallejo. pressenza.com The government spokesperson said that "it is a very sensitive issue in our century, particularly because we are facing a debate that is global" and once again called for the commission formed to study the issue and propose measures to be taken. Camila Vallejo took part in the forum "The challenge of communications in the face of social transformations", held as part of the Fiesta de los Abrazos, where the director of the newspaper El Siglo, Hugo Guzmán, argued that "in these times, in the context of processes of transformation, various presidents and communications experts suggest that what needs to be communicat…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-01-23). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

Greg Godels (2024-01-23). The Willful Destruction of a People. dissidentvoice.org The US corporate media has maintained a near unanimous support for the Israeli destruction of Gaza — the home of 2.2 million Palestinians. While pundits engage in parlor games over what degree of violence is "justified" by the Hamas attack upon Israel, while public intellectuals fall in line with the gutless unconditional support of Israeli …

Editor (2024-01-23). How Corporate Media Outlets Failed Their Readers in 2023. scheerpost.com By Robin Andersen / CounterPunch The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a representative democracy, and to at least question such obvious electoral fabrications, such as the kind George Santos perpetrated—are prime examples of what Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored …

jamanetwork (2024-01-23). USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Speech and Language Delay and Disorders. jamanetwork.com This 2023 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children 5 years or younger without signs or symptoms (I statement).

jamanetwork (2024-01-23). Recommendations for Speech and Language Screenings. jamanetwork.com A recent Evidence Report from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) highlights a persistent gap in research regarding preventive care services for children showing no obvious signs or symptoms of speech and language delay and disorder. In the accompanying Recommendation Statement, the task force concludes that the "evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for speech and language delay and disorders in children 5 years or younger without signs or symptoms (I statement)." The USPSTF recommendation was determined based on the general lack of evidence for screening ra…

infobrics (2024-01-24). CIA's openly declared spy war on Russia not going so well. infobrics.org Somewhat schizophrenically, the CIA calls for Russians to "end betrayal" by actually committing it, all for "family values" and "the future of Russia", which is quite strange given the fact that Washington DC ideologues are obsessed with every anti-family idea in the book. The so-called "woke" extremist, ultra-liberal ideology is at an all-time high in the US, while solid evidence suggests that the troubled Biden administration is even involved in the massive child trafficking in Ukraine and elsewhere. So much for America's "focus on family values".

Eve Andrews, Grist. (2024-01-24). Is East Palestine Safe One Year After The Ohio Train Derailment? popularresistance.org If there hadn't been construction planned for the bridge that crosses over Leslie Run, one of the creeks that runs through the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, Rick Tsai and Randy DeHaven might not have noticed the worst contamination they'd seen in the creek in weeks. | A backhoe had hoisted a chunk of earth from the bank of the creek, leaving a pool about eight feet across and deep enough to come up to the knees of Tsai's rubber fishing waders. What it also left, in Tsai's words, was an opportunity for a sort of "geological sample" — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the cre…

Nurah Tape (2024-01-23). South Africa's Ministry of Justice: "This is why we are confident in our ICJ case". "Evidence of Genocidal Intent" globalresearch.ca

The Independent (2024-01-23). Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics. independent.co.ug This makes them unsafe for reuse — experts explain the hazards ANALYSIS | BETHANIE CARNEY ALMROTH & ERIC CARMONA MARTINEZ | Plastic pollution is a menace worldwide. Plastics are now found in every environment on the planet, from the deepest seas to the atmosphere and human bodies. Scientific evidence describing harm to the environment and humans …

WSWS (2024-01-24). "We just got to be adults about the situation": Ocasio-Cortez calls for vote for "Genocide Joe" Biden. wsws.org Appearing on the "I've Had It" podcast earlier this month, the Democrat Socialists of America Democrat said the decision to vote for Biden in the upcoming election "is not a difficult one for me."

WSWS (2024-01-24). Israel plans to demolish all buildings in "buffer zone" in Gaza. wsws.org The New York Times reported Tuesday that Israel intends to fully demolish all buildings in a 1,000-meter "buffer zone" along Gaza's border with Israel, citing Israeli officials.

Editor (2024-01-23). What The New York Times Gets Wrong About Lemkin's Work on Genocide. scheerpost.com

Barry Healy (2024-01-23). US war drive against China undeterred by Taiwanese election setback. peoplesdispatch.org On January 13 the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the Taiwanese presidential election. The result is important because of Taiwan's frontline status in the US war drive against China. | The New York Times The DPP, which is generally considered to be more aligned with US interests and plays with the idea of Taiwanese independence from China, was opposed by two other parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). | For the current US anti-China war drive, the results were mi…

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