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 …

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"

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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