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2024-03-11: News Headlines

Angela (2024-03-11). Tuesday 3/12: Virtual Event: Breaking Through the Propaganda – Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party. indybay.org

Larry Johnson (2024-03-11). Why Russia is Defeating NATO as well as Ukraine. sonar21.com At the conclusion of this post you will find my latest video chat with Nima about the latest developments surrounding the war in Ukraine. Let me point out some of the highlights (or lowlights, depending on your perspective). | Let's start with Victoria Nuland. Was she pushed out or did she preemptively resign? I believe it is the latter. From her position as the Under Secretary for Political Affairs she could see that the Biden Administration — ignoring for a moment its bellicose rhetoric about needing to defend Ukraine — is shifting military resources to Israel and China. Ukraine is the red hai…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-03-11). 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.

albawaba (2024-03-11). Weekly Horoscope, March 10 to March 16, 2024. albawaba.com ALBAWABA Welcome to your weekly horoscope, where we explore the cosmic energies influencing your life from March 10 to March 16, 2024. This week, the celestial movements encourage introspection, communication, and taking practical steps toward your goals. Let's delve into what each sign can expect: Aries (March 21 – April 19): : This week, Aries, you're feeling driven and ambitious. With Mars, your ruling planet, aligning with Saturn, you have the discipline and determination to make significant progress towards your long-term goals. However, beware of impatience and impulsiveness. Take calculated steps rat…

albawaba (2024-03-11). Elon Musk challenges OpenAI with open-sourcing his xAI chatbot Grok. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Days after he filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing they left behind their open-source strategy for profit, Elon Musk has stated that in a post on X (formerly Twitter) his artificial intelligence firm xAI plans to make its ChatGPT competitor "Grok" available to the public in open-source this week.Earlier this month, Musk had filed a complaint against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 before departing shortly after three years according to Reuters. OpenAI responded by publishing emails that revealed Musk was backing a proposal to establish a for-profit firm and favored a merger with…

Patricia Harrity (2024-03-11). EXPLOSIVE Evidence of Government Fraud From Former Police Officer Who is Now in Hiding. expose-news.com Theresa May and 100 MPs are now not renewing their seats in Parliament due to the inquiries being made and evidence found by former police officer, Gary Waterman. Gary has exposed a …

Andreína Chávez Alava (2024-03-11). US sanctions are killing Venezuelans. greenleft.org.au Andreína Chávez Alava writes that while it is not possible to fully grasp the damage caused by United States sanctions against the Venezuelan people, all the evidence points to one simple truth: sanctions kill and will continue to do so.

Editor (2024-03-11). Mar 11, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Hauser — Air on the G String (J. S. Bach) On the Brink of Nuclear War, by Evaggelos Vallianatos Michael Brenner: The West has set itself on a path of collective suicide — both moral and economic Sick, and Sick of It All, by Edward J. Curtin, Jr. Do You Say You Want a Revolution? by Philip Giraldi Can Americans Have Hope? by Paul Craig Roberts The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time, by Lambert Strether "Psychological Giant," Psychiatrist Dives Into Donald Trump's Mental State — Tucker Carlson, Keith Ablow (Video) Worrying About TikTok During An Active Genocide, by Cait…

newarab (2024-03-11). Humza Yousaf slams media 'outrageous smear' over Gaza funds. newarab.com Yousaf,

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2024-03-10: News Headlines

Angela (2024-03-10). Tuesday 3/12: Virtual Event: Breaking Through the Propaganda – Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party. indybay.org

Mnar Adley (2024-03-10). US Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, With Mike Prysner. orinocotribune.com By Mnar Adley — Mar 8, 2024 | One week after Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in an extreme act of Protest for Palestine — the world has been awe-struck by his galvanizing act of courage, with his last words being Free Palestine. Across the world, including in Yemen and Gaza, Bushnell is being memorialized as a martyr for Palestine as Israel continues its genocide in Gaza that has left over 30,000 people dead. | His protest was not only moving but stood in stark contrast to the empty rhetoric given by so-called liberal politicians who've done very little to stop Israel from continuing its war on civi…

Will Solomon (2024-03-10). The New York Times' Bret Stephens, Hasbarist. counterpunch.org Bret Stephens speaking at the 92nd Street Y, Youtube screenshot. | On October 15, 2023, a week after Hamas's attack on Israel and in the early days of an indiscriminate Israeli response, New York Times editorialist Bret Stephens wrote a column titled "Hamas Bears the Blame for Every Death in This War." | After allowing that "[r]easonable people can criticize Israel for not allowing enough time for civilians to get out of harm's way," Stephens, having rhetorically covered himself, endorses the impending ground invasion and arrives at the conclusion inscribed in the column's title. "The central cause of Gaza's m…

albawaba (2024-03-10). Weekly Horoscope, March 10 to March 16, 2024. albawaba.com ALBAWABA Welcome to your weekly horoscope, where we explore the cosmic energies influencing your life from March 10 to March 16, 2024. This week, the celestial movements encourage introspection, communication, and taking practical steps toward your goals. Let's delve into what each sign can expect: Aries (March 21 – April 19): : This week, Aries, you're feeling driven and ambitious. With Mars, your ruling planet, aligning with Saturn, you have the discipline and determination to make significant progress towards your long-term goals. However, beware of impatience and impulsiveness. Take calculated steps rat…

Patricia Harrity (2024-03-10). The 1918 'Pandemic' & the Viral Theory — 'The Unproven Notion of Airborne Viral Illness That has Enslaved Humanity to the Corrupt Medical Cartel.'. expose-news.com There are multiple lines of evidence to dispute the classic viral disease paradigm, including historical records, biological evidence (or lack thereof) and clinical "experiments" according to Dr Lee Merritt. Yet, while this …

Melissa Garriga (2024-03-10). Biden's State of the Union: War and Genocide Are Still "The American Way" globalresearch.ca

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2024-03-10). United States Sends Israel 100+ Weapons Shipments. popularresistance.org Polling shows that a slight majority of people in the United States oppose sending weapons to Israel to help it wage its brutal war on Gaza. | However, despite the fact that only a quarter of North Americans support arming Israel, the Joe Biden administration has sent the country more than 100 arms shipments since October 7, the Washington Post reported. | The newspaper quoted a former senior Biden administration, who remarked, "That's an extraordinary number of sales over the course of a pretty short amount of time, which really strongly suggests that the Israeli campaign would not be sustainable without this le…

albawaba (2024-03-10). Scientists face controversy by trying to revive extinct animal. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – A both shocking and controversial move by an American company has started a debate as their plans to genetically revive mammoths came to light, as per The Washington Post. Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology firm from Dallas, revealed their development of Asian elephant stem cells that may pave the way to create the extinct behemoth or at least closely resembling mammoth-elephant hybrid on Earth yet again.ShutterstockAdvocates of species revival view this as a means to fix some of the human involvement in the ongoing animal extinction crisis. They believe advancements in genetic technology could also…

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2024-03-08: News Headlines

Pacific Media Watch (2024-03-08). Aotearoa: NZ news media under fire for 'bias, propaganda' in Gaza coverage. greenleft.org.au Aotearoa/New Zealand news media came under fire at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Gaza with speakers condemning what they said was pro-Israeli "bias" and "propaganda", reports Pacific Media Watch.

Staff (2024-03-08). Hard evidence just dropped that shows the British media is complicit in Israel's genocide. thecanary.co The Centre for Media Monitoring has released a report on corporate media coverage of Israel's genocide. The case study shows "overwhelming" bias in favour of the Israeli settler colonial state. As such, the UK media, which the report focuses on, is manufacturing consent for the mass slaughter of Palestinians. This includes the BBC. Covering for …

Helen Santoro (2024-03-08). Pharma's Secret Middlemen Are Poisoning Health Care. levernews.com Lawmakers from both parties and 39 state attorneys general joined forces to stop the shadowy corporate middlemen behind rising drug prices and the death of independent pharmacies. Now these reform efforts are in peril, following nearly $50 million in industry lobbying — including tens of thousands to Congress members who sponsored reform legislation.These largely unregulated middlemen, called pharmacy benefit managers, serve as intermediaries between insurers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, determining which drugs insurers will cover and how much they cost. But they are incentivized to opt for the most e…

Patricia Harrity (2024-03-08). The State's Psychological Experts Are Distancing Themselves From Behavioural Science — Is Brainwashing No Longer in Vogue? expose-news.com The government relied upon psychological experts in 2020 to advise strategies to deploy "non-consensual emotionally discomforting techniques" on the people of the UK which were more often than not in pursuit of …

Michael G Collins, Magid A Fahim, Carmel M Hawley, David W Johnson, Steven J Chadban (2024-03-09). Correspondence] Questions about the BEST-Fluids trial — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Emmanuel Canet and Lara Zafrani, Charles Verney and colleagues, Christophe Masset and colleagues, and Gildas Gueret and Marc Laffon for their interest and comments on our Article.1 The Better Evidence for Selecting Transplant Fluids (BEST-Fluids) trial found that intravenous fluid therapy with a balanced crystalloid solution (Plasma-Lyte 148), compared with saline, reduced the incidence of delayed graft function (DGF) after deceased donor kidney transplantation.

Ian Angus (2024-03-08). Anti-Anthropocene vote is 'null and void'. mronline.org Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence.

Kathleen Wallace (2024-03-08). The Right to Your Life Movement. counterpunch.org Personhood for Embryos, no isolation requirements for active respiratory infections, advancement of genocide—it's a recipe for early-onset dementia to try and unravel the current "pro-life" atmosphere hanging over the United States and to grapple with the logical fallacies being advanced as principled stands.

Kathleen Wallace (2024-03-08). The Right to Your Life Movement. counterpunch.org Personhood for Embryos, no isolation requirements for active respiratory infections, advancement of genocide—it's a recipe for early-onset dementia to try and unravel the current "pro-life" atmosphere hanging over the United States and to grapple with the logical fallacies being advanced as principled stands.

Eman Abdelhadi (2024-03-08). Beyond the State of the Union, We Must Confront the State of the Genocide. truthout.org President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union address Thursday night as a majority of Americans maintain that the genocide in Gaza needs to immediately end and a new "uncommitted" movement is sweeping the nation and has become the biggest story of the 2024 presidential primaries. Biden briefly mentioned the more than 30,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza during his address but offered Israel no… |

Thomas Knapp (2024-03-08). The Danger in Medicalizing Murder. counterpunch.org Last October, Robert Card killed 18 people and injured 18 others in a shooting spree across several locations in Maine. Card was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Now, the New York Times reports, an analysis of Card's brain reveals significant damage, probably related to his eight years of exposure to explosions as

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2024-03-06: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-06). Podcast: Aaron Bushnell, The Israel Lobby, Mass Media Propaganda And More. caitlinjohnstone.com.au We've managed to get a third podcast episode up! Recording it and making enough time to create it and edit it are skills we're still developing, but we've always learned on the job in this weird little project of ours anyway. Personally I think this is our best one yet: In this episode we discuss …

Dr. Paul Larudee (2024-03-06). Gaza Airdrops: Propaganda and Possibilities. globalresearch.ca

Julia Conley, Common Dreams. (2024-03-06). First Western Leader Referred To ICC As 'Accessory To Genocide In Gaza'. popularresistance.org Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is one of several Western leaders who have provided political and material support of the Israeli government and military over the past five months as their bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 30,000 people, but on Monday he became the first to be referred to the International Criminal Court for being an "accessory to genocide." | More than 100 lawyers supported the referral under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, arguing that Albanese, a member of the Labor Party, as well as members of his Cabinet and of Parliament, have provided Israel with "rhetorical support in th…

Hannah Davenport (2024-03-06). Tory minister forced to apologise and pay damages after false allegations about academic. leftfootforward.org Science secretary Michelle Donelan has had to eat her words and retract false allegations she made about an academic for the sake of "another Tory anti-woke headline", following a lengthy legal process. | The cabinet minister smeared Professor Kate Sang as an 'extremist' after falsely suggesting she supported Hamas, and had attempted to claim the academic had breached principles on how public officials should behave. | Donelan has now retracted her claim and the government has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum, at the expense of the taxpayer, following a months-long investigation by an advisory group on equalit…

Dean Baker (2024-03-06). The Estate Tax Exemption is $27.2 Million for a Couple. counterpunch.org The New York Times had a piece on the tax code changes that will take effect next year unless Congress acts to extend current provisions. One of the items on this list is an increase in the amount of wealth exempted from the estate tax. The piece lists the amount currently exempted as $13.6 million,

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2024-03-05: News Headlines

John Helmer (2024-03-05). The good Germans are blowing smoke. mronline.org There is a fraction of the Germans who, when speaking or writing in public, consider themselves the good Germans. Good Germans are to Germany as propaganda is to truth—negligibly fractional; sometimes truth-telling; always irrelevant to the outcome of the wars which Germany wages.

Patrick Lawrence (2024-03-05). The disease of concealment: An open letter to future historians. indybay.org We are afflicted with what I would call the disease of silence. We are confronted with the results of decades of propaganda, and with the insidious power of language when it is cynically misused. We look, but we don't recognize it. We hear, but we don't listen. The effectiveness of propaganda is so great that most of us are not even aware of our complicity in the genocide of a people.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-03-05). Australian PM First Western Leader Referred to ICC as 'Accessory to Genocide in Gaza'. libya360.wordpress.com Julia Conley More than 100 lawyers endorsed the referral, which points to the military, intelligence, and rhetorical support Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has provided to the Israeli government. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is one of several Western leaders who have provided political and material support of the Israeli government and military over the past…

Staff (2024-03-05). 'Not even in civilian clothing': Maldives President Muizzu says no Indian troops to remain on his island. muslimmirror.com Male : Stepping up his anti-India rhetoric, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has affirmed that no Indian military personnel, not even those in civilian clothing, would be present inside his country after May 10, a media report said on Tuesday. Muizzu's statement comes less than a week after an Indian civilian team reached the Maldives to …

Staff (2024-03-05). 'Not even in civilian clothing': Maldives President Muizzu says no Indian troops to remain on his island. muslimmirror.com Male : Stepping up his anti-India rhetoric, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has affirmed that no Indian military personnel, not even those in civilian clothing, would be present inside his country after May 10, a media report said on Tuesday. Muizzu's statement comes less than a week after an Indian civilian team reached the Maldives to …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-05). It has been a year since Anthony Fauci confessed that covid vaccines could never have worked and it is still being ignored. expose-news.com More than a year ago, Anthony Fauci co-authored a paper that admitted the covid vaccines didn't work as claimed. A fact that was previously dismissed as misinformation. Fauci's confession didn't dampen the …

Binoy Kampmark (2024-03-05). Mistakes, Misfiring and the Trident: Britain's Flawed Nuclear Deterrence. counterpunch.org Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states. Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing. From time to time, they go missing, fail to work, and suffer misplacement. Of late, the UK Royal Navy has not been doing so well in that department, given its seminal role in upholding the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. In

Staff (2024-03-05). Without Evidence, Without Trial Date, Without Support From Spain: Journalist Pablo González Serves 2 Years in Prison in Poland. orinocotribune.com Journalists and jurists have criticized Spain for abandoning the reporter Pablo González Yagàºe, noting that…

Staff (2024-03-05). Without Evidence, Without Trial Date, Without Support From Spain: Journalist Pablo González Imprisoned in Poland for 2 Years. orinocotribune.com Journalists and jurists have criticized Spain for abandoning Spanish journalist Pablo González Yagàºe, noting that Spain applies double standards in its treatment of freedom of the press. Activists from his support group referred to the Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares as a "liar" for stating that González's rights and legal assistance are being respected. | A Spanish freelance journalist, Pablo González Yagàºe, has now been in preventive detention for two years since his arrest on the night of February 28, 2022, in the Polish city of Przemy≈õl by intelligence officers from that…

Larry Johnson (2024-03-05). Warning Indicators in Ukraine and Palestine MAY Signal Escalation. sonar21.com Two intriguing bits of news today that I have been unable to confirm. First, Alastair Crooke told Judge Napolitano this morning that Israeli forces have made three cross-border recon patrols with tanks on the Lebanon border and were driven off. I trust Alastair and his sources. He is a professional and this info tracks with other video evidence showing a tank column moving north in Israel. It looks increasingly likely that Israel will attack Hezbollah during Ramadan, which begins on March 10. We'll see. | Then there is a report from Ukraine that Russian forces hit a CIA base in Sumy and killed a large nu…

WSWS (2024-03-05). Democratic Socialists of America commits to rescuing Biden's presidential election campaign. wsws.org In an attempt to channel mass opposition to "Genocide Joe" back behind the Democratic Party and present illusions that Biden and the Democrats can be persuaded to stop the genocide in Gaza through a protest vote, the DSA has formally endorsed the "uncommitted" campaign in the remaining primaries.

WSWS (2024-03-05). Democratic Socialists of America commits to rescuing Biden's presidential election campaign. wsws.org In an attempt to channel mass opposition to "Genocide Joe" back behind the Democratic Party and promote illusions that Biden and the Democrats can be persuaded to stop the genocide in Gaza through a protest vote, the DSA has formally endorsed the "uncommitted" campaign in the remaining primaries.

Staff (2024-03-05). Venezuela Condemns Smear Campaign of Germany's Deutsche Welle Outlet. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information Freddy àëáñez denounced the German news outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) for the lies, defamation, and smear campaign it is carrying out, in its Spanish edition, against Venezuela. àëáñez cited a DW

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2024-03-04: News Headlines

NYX (2024-03-04). Uber CEO's Racist Rhetoric. indybay.org Please Help Petition Austin's Mayor and the Organizers of South by Southwest to Cancel Uber CEO Dara's Talk…

WSWS (2024-03-04). Trump doubles down on fascist rhetoric in Super Tuesday states. wsws.org In rallies in North Carolina and Virginia, Trump embraced the fascist "Great Replacement Theory" in all but name.

Jennesa Calvo-Friedman (2024-03-04). New York's Coercion of Private Companies to Blacklist the NRA Has a Long and Dark History. aclu.org More than 60 years ago the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment bars the government from coercing private entities to punish speech that the government disfavors. Just as the government can't directly punish or censor speech it disagrees with, it cannot do so indirectly by coercing private parties to do the same. | History underscores the importance of this free speech protection. Government officials have all too often enlisted private parties—from the White Citizens' Councils of the Jim Crow South to the blacklists of Communists in the McCarthy era—to punish those with whom they disagree.

WSWS (2024-03-04). From Hilde, With Love: Resistance to fascism then and now. wsws.org With its portrayal of the young anti-fascist Hilde Coppi, Andreas Dresen's new film recalls the varied forms of resistance to Hitler pursued by young people and working-class circles—so-called ordinary Germans.

Clare Carlile, DeSmog. (2024-03-04). Meat Industry Using 'Misinformation' To Block Dietary Change. popularresistance.org The agriculture sector has spent millions of dollars on discrediting plant-based diets, a new report has claimed. | The report, published by the consumer advocacy organisation Freedom Food Alliance on Thursday (29 February), found that multinational meat companies and lobby groups were using industry-funded research, public ad campaigns and educational materials to sway public opinion on meat and dairy. | The Disinformation Report: Harvesting Denial, Distractions & Deception suggests that the industry is sidestepping accountability for its role in greenhouse emissions.

Binoy Kampmark (2024-03-04). Mistakes, Misfiring and Trident: Britain's Flawed Nuclear Deterrence. dissidentvoice.org Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states. Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing. From time to time, they go missing, fail to work, and suffer misplacement. Of late, the UK Royal Navy has not been doing so well in that department, given its seminal role in upholding the doctrine of …

DLI (2024-03-04). US veto #5 at UN vote to protect Israel from global condemnation in genocidal war. indybay.org For the fifth time since the war between Israel and the ruling Hamas group in Gaza that started on October 7, the US has once again been the lone voice in sheltering the Israeli government from widespread global rebuke. While making a few milquetoast statements that "regret" the massive indiscriminate bombings and killings of 30,000+ unarmed civilians, the tone-deaf Biden regime(poll after poll show the American public wants a ceasefire in Gaza) has continued sending thousands of bombs, missiles and other WMDs to enable the continuing slaughter. Under international law, that's complicity in genocide!

Mnar Adley (2024-03-04). Why Israel fears the Hadid Family, with Alana Hadid. mintpressnews.com Even as Israel turns Gaza into dust, few Western celebrities have dared to raise their voices against the genocide — and many have even supported it. One notable exception to this are the Hadids. The family of Palestinian-American fashion designers, influencers and models have been using their considerable platforms to bring attention to the slaughter and to call on the world to act to save innocent civilians. Today, Alana Hadid joins MintCast host Mnar Adley for a frank and insightful discussion about Israel, Palestine, and the world of entertainment. | The family has hundreds of millions of followers on s…

Mnar Muhawesh (2024-03-04). Why Israel fears the Hadid Family, with Alana Hadid. thealtworld.com Alana Hadid joins MintCast host Mnar Adley for a frank and insightful discussion about Israel, Palestine, and the world of entertainment. | Even as Israel turns Gaza into dust, few Western celebrities have dared to raise their voices against the genocide — and many have even supported it. One notable exception to this are the Hadids. The family of Palestinian-American fashion designers, influencers and models have been using their considerable platforms to bring attention to the slaughter and to call on the world to act to save innocent civilians. Today, Alana Hadid joins MintCast host Mnar Adley for a fran…

krish-rad_ind (2024-03-04). Israeli army hands out 'Ramadan boxes' to incite Gazans against resistance. thecradle.co

thecommunists (2024-03-04). Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Policing Palestine protestors, episode 4. thecommunists.org In this instalment of their regular series, Comrade Joti Brar and Garland Nixon begin by discussing the second set of arrests of CPGB-ML members. The unjust arrests, where party members were charged under anti-terror legislation for incitement of 'supporting a banned terror group' (!) — for distributing a leaflet condemning the racist Israeli state — …

Dean Baker (2024-03-04). The Estate Tax Exemption is $27.2 Million for a Couple. cepr.net The New York Times had a piece on the tax code changes that will take effect next year unless Congress acts to extend current provisions. One of the items on this list is an increase in the amount of wealth exempted from the estate tax. The piece lists the amount currently exempted as $13.6 million, …

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2024-03-02: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-02). The Empire's Weakness Is That It Still Needs Normal People To Turn Its Gears. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Imperial propaganda outlet The New York Times is currently embroiled in a massive scandal over its reporting which alleges mass rapes on October 7‚Ää—‚Ääand the scandal is being fueled in part by leaks from its own staff.

cameron orr (2024-03-02). Crisis of culture in the U.S. cpusa.org "George Bush doesn't care about Black people." These were the words of famed rapper Kanye West during the 2005 nationally televised telethon benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina. In this notorious quote, Kanye expressed a popular conception of the Bush administration for a whole generation of people. How is it then, that less than 15 years later the same Kanye West — son of a Black Panther who had previously made commentary on racism in the U.S. — would go on a national tour professing his love for Hitler? Even more recently, beloved star in the Black community, Nicki Minaj, cozied up to Ben Sh…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-03-02). "Preemptive Nuclear War": The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity. globalresearch.ca US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of "self defense" rather than a "weapon of mass destruction". There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama.

newarab (2024-03-02). Mehdi Hasan launches Zeteo site after 'MSNBC Gaza removal'. newarab.com British broadcaster According to the site's launch essay, Zeteo will be a "new online platform for the kind of tough interviews and deep-dive monologues that I [Hasan] have become known for in recent years, but it will also be a home to new podcasts, newsletters, and social videos". | "In this dystopian age of 'alternative facts,' 'fake news,…

Martin Hacthoun (2024-03-02). Diaz-Canel presides over rally of solidarity in Cuba with Palestine. plenglish.com Havana, Mar 2 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel leads the rally of solidarity with Palestine that brought together hundreds of people at Havana Jose Marti Anti-imperialist Tribune in front of the US Embassy. | The gathering also demanded the end of Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. | The mobilization is taking place in provincial capitals throughout the island, under the slogans Hands off Rafah, Stop the fire now, and End the genocide. | The rallies in Cuba as in the whole world are taking place before the announced new Israeli offensive against the city of Rafat, home to m…

WSWS (2024-03-02). Australia's spy agency's latest "foreign interference" scare campaign backfires. wsws.org Backed by the Albanese Labor government, ASIO chief Mike Burgess this week ratcheted up accusations directed against Russia and China, but again provided no evidence.

Rayhan Uddin (2024-03-02). How Israel defied ICJ provisional measures, one month on. middleeasteye.net How Israel defied ICJ provisional measures, one month on | Despite court ruling, Israel continued to kill and cause harm in Gaza, blocked aid entry and allowed officials to incite against Palestinians | | Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, a handout picture released by the Israeli army on…

newarab (2024-03-02). Somalia court sentences 6 Moroccans to death for joining IS. newarab.com A military court in The individuals entered Somalia to cause harm to Muslims and Somalis and incite unrest in the country, the presiding judge in the Puntland region, Col. Ali Ibrahim Osman, said late Thursday. | The six men, identified as Mo…

Shefali Luthra (2024-03-02). CVS and Walgreens Will Start Selling Abortion Pills This Month. truthout.org CVS and Walgreens will start dispensing mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion, in stores this month. The news was first reported by The New York Times. It comes more than a year after both retail pharmacy chains, the nation's two largest, said they would pursue certification from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to dispense the pill. Mifepristone can be used in… |

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2024-02-29: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-02-29). Ukrainian youth speak on 10 years of the 2014 coup in Kiev. wsws.org On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the 2014 coup in Kiev, the WSWS spoke with youth in Ukraine, whose experiences belie the propaganda in the media.

Gabriel Rocha Gaspar (2024-02-29). Lula, Israel's genocide, and racism on Brazilian corporate media. peoplesdispatch.org "Brazilian diplomatic tradition relies on solving problems. The 'incident' with Israel takes the opposite direction and affects not only the image of our country but also the course of subjects that actually matter for the population in an electoral year." With these words, the host of Brazil's most renowned talk show,

Independent Media Institute (2024-02-29). Lula, Israel's Genocide, and Racism on Brazilian Corporate Media. pressenza.com "Brazilian diplomatic tradition relies on solving problems. The 'incident' with Israel takes the opposite direction and affects not only the image of our country but also the course of subjects that actually matter for the population in an electoral year." With these words, the host of Brazil's most renowned talk show,

Chris Walker (2024-02-29). Arizona Republicans Advance Bill Allowing Property Owners to Kill Migrants. truthout.org Republicans in the Arizona state legislature have advanced a bill that would grant property owners the right to shoot and kill anyone who trespasses on their property, so long as they claim they were doing so in self-defense. House Bill 2843 expands the state's current "Castle Doctrine" law. That statute allows individuals to shoot and kill any person who breaks into their home. |

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). China's economy is still far out growing the U.S. — contrary to Western media "fake news. By: John Ross. midwesternmarx.com GDP data for China, the U.S., and the other G7 countries for the year 2023 has now been published. This makes possible an accurate assessment of China's, the U.S., and major economies performance—both in terms of China's domestic goals and international comparisons. There are two key reasons this is important.​First for China's domestic reasons: to achieve a balanced estimate of China's socialist economic situation and therefore the tasks it faces.Secon …

Patricia Harrity (2024-02-29). New Autopsy Evidence from Japan: Myocarditis — However Mild — Can Result in Fatal Arrhythmias. expose-news.com Hart, who are a group of highly qualified UK Drs, scientists, economists, psychologists and other academic experts have reported on their substack that a new paper from Japan has highlighted that even mild …

Arun Gupta & Tali Shapiro (2024-02-29). American Media Keep Citing "Zaka" — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited. indybay.org Given its prominence, Zaka has been scrutinized by the Israeli press but not the U.S. media. A blockbuster Haaretz report found after October 7, senior military leaders sidelined Israel Defense Forces soldiers specializing in recovering bodies and preserving evidence and sent in untrained Zaka volunteers instead. Zaka reportedly turned massacre sites into a "war room for donations," used corpses as fundraising props, "spread accounts of atrocities that never happened," and botched forensics that are central to Israel's claim that Hamas carried out a premeditated campaign of mass rape.

Bharat Dogra (2024-02-29). COVID Vaccine Truth Needs Evidence-Based Debate, Not Gag-Orders. globalresearch.ca

midwesternmarx (2024-02-29). Habonim Dror: How Israeli Regime Recruits Left-Wing Americans to Fan Zionism. By: Shabbir Rizvi. midwesternmarx.com One of the most profound awakenings for Westerners since the launch of the Palestinian resistance operation Al-Aqsa Storm has been their understanding of how influential the Zionist lobby is.​This lobby, which works in line with the US State Department when it can and independently and subversively when it cannot, tends to influence major arenas of societal interest.On the surface level, one can simply follow the money and understand the phenomenon: the Israeli lobby pouring million …

Staff (2024-02-29). Patrick Lawrence: The CIA in Ukraine — The NY Times Gets a Guided Tour. scheerpost.com Wikimedia Commons. This outsider analysis from veteran journalist Patrick Lawrence is one of two stories ScheerPost has published on the New York Times' "The Spy War: How the CIA Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin." To read an ex-CIA agent's perspective on the story, read John Kiriakou's piece here. By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost …

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2024-02-27: News Headlines

newarab (2024-02-27). How Israel uses pamphlets as psychological warfare in Gaza. newarab.com Not content with killing nearly Equipped with speakers, Israeli drones broadcast propaganda against Palestinian factions. Aircraft drop leaflets demanding Palestinians flee their homes. Women…

newarab (2024-02-27). Robert Kraft: The man behind America's pro-Israel propaganda. newarab.com Amidst the spectacle of the Super Bowl, where touchdowns and halftime extravaganzas captivate audiences, this year's event saw a notable intrusion of pro-Israel propaganda that did not go unnoticed. | Sponsored by both the State of Israel and Robert Kraft, a series of advertisements sought to sway public opinion amidst the football frenzy, putting the spotlight on pro-Israel messaging in public places and events such as the Super Bowl. | The

Sondos Shalaby (2024-02-27). Egypt: US blacklists Canada's Sandvine for technology targeting activists. middleeasteye.net Egypt: US blacklists Canada's Sandvine for technology targeting activists | Sandvine's devices have been used in blocking human rights websites in Egypt and injecting spyware into the phone of an opposition politician | | Egyptian politician Ahmed al-Tantawi at his office in Cairo…

John Ross (2024-02-27). China's economy is still far out growing the U.S. — contrary to Western media "fake news" mronline.org The factual situation is that China's economy, as it heads into 2024, has far outgrown all other major comparable economies.

teleSUR (2024-02-27). Anti-Venezuela Campaign Has Intensified: President Maduro. telesurenglish.net On Monday, President Nicolas Maduro denounced the escalation of the campaign aimed at damaging Venezuela's international image. | RELATED: | During his program "With Maduro +," he mentioned that U.S. imperialism and the Venezuelan far-right invent fake news every day to discredit the South American country through international portals and social networks. This happens at a time when the far-right opposition is losing the poss…

CADTM International, Maxime Perriot (2024-02-27). In Nepal, CADTM delegates took part in the opening march of the World Social Forum and successfully completed their initial workshops. cadtm.org The World Social Forum, which took place this year in Kathmandu (Nepal), began on Thursday 15 February 2024. The CADTM International network was represented by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and the Shared International Secretariat. A total of seven activities were carried out by the delegation.
| Thursday 15 February: The opening march
| The opening march brought together nearly 15,000 people who marched to demand a different world.The slogans (…) | – | /…

albawaba (2024-02-27). Photo of astronauts on the moon without helmets, here's the truth. albawaba.com ALBAWABA A photograph depicting astronauts without their helmets has reignited discussions surrounding the authenticity of the moon landing. This image, recently surfaced as supporting evidence for the widely circulated conspiracy theory that the moon landing was staged, has garnered attention. The original photograph, captured on February 6, 1972, features the crew of Apollo 16—Lunar Module Pilot Charles M. Duke, Commander John W. Young, and Command Module Pilot Thomas K. Mattingly II—during a training session at the Kennedy Space Center. It's important to note that this photo was not taken on the lu…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2024-02-27). Habonim Dror: How Israeli Regime Recruits Left-Wing Americans To Fan Zionism. orinocotribune.com By Shabbir Rizvi — Feb 13, 2024 | One of the most profound awakenings for Westerners since the launch of the Palestinian resistance operation Al-Aqsa Storm has been their understanding of how influential the Zionist lobby is. | This lobby, which works in line with the US State Department when it can and independently and subversively when it cannot, tends to influence major arenas of societal interest. | On the surface level, one can simply follow the money and understand the phenomenon: the Israeli lobby pouring millions of dollars into buying US politicians, Zionist hate groups unleashed to stifle Pro-Pale…

Alan MacLeod (2024-02-27). Worthy vs. Unworthy Victims: Study Reveals Media's Selective Coverage of Navalny and Lira. thealtworld.com A new study by Alan MacLeod uncovers media bias, revealing how the deaths of American journalist Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny were disproportionately covered, exposing the influence of political filters and narrative priorities. | A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter. The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, Fox News and CNN collectively ran 731 segments on Nav…

Dean Baker (2024-02-27). Millions of People Who Could Benefit from Obamacare Don't Because They Don't Know About It, and Neither Does the New York Times. counterpunch.org Most people don't keep up on the details of government policy. This is understandable because they have lives to live, and can't spend all their time following the structure of various government programs. However, it is unfortunate when their lack of knowledge prevents them from using a government program that could benefit them greatly. This

Staff (2024-02-27). Worthy vs. Unworthy Victims: Study Reveals Media's Selective Coverage of Navalny and Lira. mintpressnews.com A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter. The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, Fox News and CNN collectively ran 731 …

Victoria Torres, Orinoco Tribune. (2024-02-27). President Of Mexico Fights Back Against New York Times Slander. popularresistance.org The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, criticized the US news outlet The New York Times (NYT) and stressed that journalists of NYT and other imperialist media outlets consider themselves "a divine race" that cannot be touched, "not even with a rose petal," despite the fact that they spread slander with impunity. | "You, with all due respect, do partisan journalism, because you are biased in favor of groups with vested interests, you are too close to de facto political and economic power," AMLO said on Friday, February 23, during a tense exchange with Jesica Zermeño, journalist of Univision, during…

Staff (2024-02-27). News Flash: Houthis attack underwater communications cables in the Red Sea. gilbertdoctorow.com News Flash: Houthis attack underwater communications cables in the Red Sea This morning's news ticker on the Russian Dzen website features an item that you will not see on the pages of today's New York Times or Financial Times. I quote: The Houthis have attacked underwater cables connecting Europe with Asia As a result of …

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2024-02-26: News Headlines

Sonali Kolhatkar (2024-02-26). Countering Corporate Propaganda. counterpunch.org Streaming television channels these days are increasingly inserting advertising into their paid subscriber content. Thus, I recently found myself sitting through several commercials that struck me as emblematic of how out-of-touch corporate marketers are with the economic struggles of ordinary Americans. A company offering cash advances to low-wage workers makes light of people's financial difficulties.

Staff (2024-02-26). Major setback for Muslim education: Minority Ministry orders closure of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF). muslimmirror.com By Muslim Mirror Staff The recent decision by the Ministry of Minority Affairs (MoMA) to close down the Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF) serves as a stark illustration of the BJP government's alleged efforts to hinder the educational pursuits of marginalized Muslim students. This move also highlights the apparent contradiction within the BJP's rhetoric of …

Editor (2024-02-26). Whitney Webb: Manufacturing Consent — The Border Fiasco and the "Smart Wall" scheerpost.com

Editor (2024-02-26). Whitney Webb: Manufacturing Consent — The Border Fiasco and the "Smart Wall" scheerpost.com

CADTM International, Maxime Perriot (2024-02-26). In Nepal, CADTM delegates took part in the opening march of the World Social Forum and successfully completed their initial workshops. cadtm.org The World Social Forum, which took place this year in Kathmandu (Nepal), began on Thursday 15 February 2024. The CADTM International network was represented by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and the Shared International Secretariat. A total of seven activities were carried out by the delegation.
| Thursday 15 February: The opening march
| The opening march brought together nearly 15,000 people who marched to demand a different world.The slogans (…) | – | /…

Patricia Harrity (2024-02-26). Bombshell NYT Report Confirms —'CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade.'. expose-news.com What was once just another "conspiracy theory" was published on Sunday in the New York Times (NYT), where they have made a "very belated full admission that US intelligence has not only …

WSWS (2024-02-26). New York Times report demolishes the narrative of the "unprovoked war" in Ukraine. wsws.org Over the weekend the New York Times published a lengthy article revealing that the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military-intelligence aggression by the United States.

albawaba (2024-02-26). The New York Times slammed amid Aaron Bushnell article. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – American News outlet, The New York Times is under fire among pro-Palestine activists amid publishing an article about the devastating Aaron Bushnell incident that took place in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC The man in question set himself on fire after allegedly "Not being complacent with the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza".With many users on X (formerly Twitter) taking to the platform to voice their concern and devastation with the matter, several of them are slamming The New York Times for how they handled the Aaron Bushnell situation: The New York Times slammed amid Aaron Bus…

Chris Walker (2024-02-26). A TX Woman Was Denied an Abortion Even Though Ectopic Pregnancy Was Killing Her. truthout.org A 25-year-old college senior in Texas was denied emergency surgical care for a non-viable pregnancy — the latest example of medical providers refusing to make exceptions to the state's total abortion ban out of fear of being criminally prosecuted. Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz told The Washington Post that she was looking forward to the birth of her child when she discovered she was pregnant in January. |

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