Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-09-24). Ukrainian "Hit List" Publishesnewsauthor">S and Addresses of Alleged "Russian Propagandists:" Turns Out to be Based Not in Ukraine But in Langley VA Where CIA Headquarters Is Located. globalresearch.ca

David Goessmann (2022-09-24). Has the West stopped diplomatic negotiations over Ukraine? indybay.org As U.S. critic Noam Chomsky points out in an interview, a diplomatic end to the war remains possible. But only if the West, led by the U.S., does not continue to block negotiations. The decisive stumbling block for negotiations is Ukraine's possible membership in NATO. The U.S., however, continues to leave this open, while Russia is strictly against it.

____ (2022-09-24). Xi congratulates China News Service on 70th anniversary. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service (CNS) on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication.

KQED Live (2022-09-24). Monday 10/10: KQED Live: Art & Tech in a Warming World with The New York Times. indybay.org The Commons, KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco, CA 94110…

The Editors (2022-09-24). We Bow Before Our Martyrs. indybay.org And the time for their pan-Turkic project has come now. Turkey and its partner in crime are trying to solve once and for all the Armenian question with the final solution. This is not a rhetorical statement. We have to iron ourselves for what may be excruciatingly painful days ahead, in which we may relive the darkest chapters of our history.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-24). Corruption Case Against Cristina Fernández: A Badly Written Script from the Argentine Right Wing. orinocotribune.com By Alejandra García Sep 20, 2022 | Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, jsut a few days after surviving death by sheer good luck, is fighting with all her strength against a fictitious corruption case conceived and constructed by the right wing of her country. Hatred, political persecution and injustice took her to court this week, where she has been victorious so far. | On Monday, September 19, Fernández's lawyers started the presentation of their defense arguments in the "Roads Case" (Causa Vialidad), where they highlighted the absence of evidence against the former president and cur…

Staff (2022-09-24). Medios cubanos denuncian nuevos actos violentos financiados desde Estados Unidos (+ Video). cubadebate.cu En respuesta a estas orientaciones, García Ríos lanzó cocteles molotov contra los archivos del Tribunal Municipal de Centro Habana y la Dirección Provincial de los Comité de Defensa de la Revolución. øPropaganda enemiga? øAcciones de sabotaje? øActos de terrorismo?

Kyle Anzalone (2022-09-23). White House Sent Multiple Threats to the Kremlin Via Backchannels. news.antiwar.com The Joe Biden administration has sent several warnings to Russia via backchannels regarding the possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the Washington Post reports. The White House's messages to Russia have been intentionally nondescript to foster uncertainty in Moscow about what the US would do if Russia deployed its ultimate weapon. The White House …

_____ (2022-09-23). Brainwashed For War With Russia. popularresistance.org Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden — I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell — will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China. And, shockingly, under false pretenses. | Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and…

Editor (2022-09-23). Por qué 'aprender a vivir' con las muertes por COVID? — Editorial de Workers World/Mundo Obrero. workers.org Si escribes para el New York Times, espera que te asignen artículos condenando a China por causar a su pueblo enormes molestias e incomodidades para evitar las muertes masivas por el coronavirus. El New York Times comparte claramente el punto de vista de la clase capitalista de que la prioridad . . . |

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-09-23). Fact Check: TikTok Mastermind Khaby Lame Makes $7 K Per Post With 149M Followers. moguldom.com Khaby Lame ascended to the TikTok throne in June when he unseated another popular influencer to become the platform's most followed personality. Famous for using silence, gestures and signature facial expressions, Lame is cashing in on his top-tier social media status. The 22-year-old has nearly 1 million followers on TikTok and 2.4 billion likes on his …

WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

Ann Brown (2022-09-23). MSNBC Host Tiffany Cross: If Black Voters Don't Keep Voting Democrat No Matter What, They Align With Oppressors. moguldom.com There has been a growing debate about whether Black voters should continue to support the Democratic Party as they have done for decades. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross has weighed in. Cable news veteran Cross is the host of "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC and was most recently a 2020 Resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy …

Dante Strobino (2022-09-23). Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers ‚àí a WW commentary. workers.org Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age 77 after a long illness. The writer is the International Representative of the United Electrical Workers (UE) 150 and a founding member of the Durham branch of Workers World Party . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-23). US political establishment seizes on declining test scores to bar remote learning and accelerate attack on public education. wsws.org The political establishment and corporate media have falsely blamed remote learning as the reason for a decline in reading and mathematics scores among age nine students since 2020.

WSWS (2022-09-23). UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman sends letter to Steven Greenhouse protesting falsification of his position at debate. wsws.org This letter was sent by UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman to Steven Greenhouse, the former New York Times reporter who moderated the presidential candidates debate on Thursday, September 22.

Michael F. Brown (2022-09-22). Israel lobby renews smear campaign against Rashida Tlaib. electronicintifada.net The ADL has a long history of anti-Palestinian racism.

Dean Baker (2022-09-22). Productivity and the Four Day Workweek (see note). cepr.net It is hugely important for those advocating four-day workweeks to know what its impact is on productivity. | Unfortunately, the New York Times piece provides no real basis for making that assessment.

____ (2022-09-23). Xi congratulates China News Service on 70th anniversary. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping has sent a congratulatory letter to the China News Service on its 70th founding anniversary, stressing the importance of innovating the discourse system and improving the capacity for international communication.

WSWS (2022-09-23). Vowing "pain," Federal Reserve pledges to slash workers' wages. wsws.org Behind the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's rhetoric about "fighting inflation" is a brutal class policy of using mass unemployment to drive down wages.

Dante Strobino (2022-09-23). Saladin Muhammad: a life dedicated to organizing Southern Black workers ‚àí a WW commentary. workers.org Saladin Muhammad, a revolutionary Black union organizer and propagandist, died on Sept. 19 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, at age 77 after a long illness. The writer is a longtime organizer with United Electrical Workers (UE) 150 and a founding member of the Durham branch of Workers World Party who . . . |

The Editors (2022-09-23). We Bow Before Our Martyrs. indybay.org And the time for their pan-Turkic project has come now. Turkey and its partner in crime are trying to solve once and for all the Armenian question with the final solution. This is not a rhetorical statement. We have to iron ourselves for what may be excruciatingly painful days ahead, in which we may relive the darkest chapters of our history.

WSWS (2022-09-23). US political establishment seizes on declining test scores to bar remote learning and accelerate attack on public education. wsws.org The political establishment and corporate media have falsely blamed remote learning as the reason for a decline in reading and mathematics scores among age nine students since 2020.

_____ (2022-09-22). Statement Condemns 'Assessment Of Human Rights Concerns' In China. popularresistance.org We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessment is completely lacking in credibility. It treats arms of the military-industrial complex, such as the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), along with professional a…

John W. Whitehead (2022-09-22). Masters of Deceit: The U.S Government's Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control and Brain Warfare. globalresearch.ca

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-22). Professor Maggie Dallman gives evidence to House of Lords Committee. imperial.ac.uk Earlier this month, Professor Dallman appeared in front of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to discuss the UK STEM skills pipeline.

Press Associates (2022-09-22). N.Y. Times workers rebel vs. bosses' return-to-office order. peoplesworld.org NEW YORK —A majority of workers at The New York Times are rebelling against management's mandate to return to the office despite the continuing, but at a lower level, coronavirus pandemic. They say they have worked, and can work, just as well from home, and that health and safety is a mandatory subject for bargaining …

Eric A. Gordon (2022-09-22). The Portuguese Communists' Avante Festival is a party like no other. peoplesworld.org ATALAIA-AMORA-SEIXAL, Portugal—"Nà£o há festa como esta!" proclaim the slogans and t-shirts here. "There's no festival like this one!" It takes herculean effort to put on a show like this, and a slew of Communist Party volunteers from all parts of Portugal do most of the work. Organization Back in 1965, when the Portuguese Communist Party …

____ (2022-09-22). Chinese apps gain popularity globally. ecns.cn From the world's top short video application TikTok to the biggest fast-fashion app Shein and emerging music-video app StarMaker, a rising number of mobile apps developed by Chinese companies are influencing people's daily lives across the globe.

John W. Whitehead (2022-09-22). Masters of Deceit: The U.S Government's Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control and Brain Warfare. globalresearch.ca

KQED Live (2022-09-22). Monday 10/10: KQED Live: Art & Tech in a Warming World with The New York Times. indybay.org The Commons, KQED Headquarters | 2601 Mariposa Street | San Francisco, CA 94110…

Imperial.ac.uk (2022-09-22). Professor Maggie Dallman gives evidence to House of Lords Committee. imperial.ac.uk Earlier this month, Professor Dallman appeared in front of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to discuss the UK STEM skills pipeline.

____ (2022-09-22). Chinese apps gain popularity globally. ecns.cn From the world's top short video application TikTok to the biggest fast-fashion app Shein and emerging music-video app StarMaker, a rising number of mobile apps developed by Chinese companies are influencing people's daily lives across the globe.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-21). Terrorist Mirotvorets Website Based in Langley, USA, Not Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: schillerinstitute.com] Just a coincidence, right? Under Public Law 117-128, the U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to "counter Russian disinformation." But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a "fatwah list" of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians…

WSWS (2022-09-21). Pentagon's secret social media influencing campaign exposed. wsws.org Quoting unnamed White House and Defense officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Pentagon has been operating fake social media accounts to promote pro-US narratives and anti-Russia propaganda for at least a decade.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-21). 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.

Philip Giraldi (2022-09-21). More Disinformation From Israel. Biden Caves to Jewish Pressure, As Usual. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2022-09-21). FBI Spied On And Harassed Black Revolutionary Who Was Killed. popularresistance.org Seals was shot to death in 2016, then set on fire in his car in an unsolved murder. | Local St. Louis media outlet the Riverfront Times obtained a declassified copy of the more than 900-page FBI report on Seals. | The FBI fully redacted approximately 860 of the pages, and partially redacted parts of the remaining roughly 45 pages. | In the report, the FBI called Seals "a self-described revolutionary who has espoused somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons." | The Riverfront Times article shows how the FBI used local police to harass Seals. | In June 2016, the activist was "investigatively detained" b…

____ (2022-09-21). Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction. ecns.cn Chinese researchers found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.

Benjamin Norton (2022-09-20). Bots are flooding social media with pro-US propaganda demonizing China, Russia & Iran, studies show. multipolarista.com Scientific studies show huge numbers of bots are spreading pro-Western disinformation on social media, demonizing China, Russia, and Iran. 90% of bots posting about the proxy war in Ukraine push pro-NATO propaganda.

Staff (2022-09-20). The new maneuver againt tourism to Cuba and European indignity. en.cubadebate.cu The European Union has become, de facto, a colony of the United States. And its media outlets reproduce the propaganda scheme of the metropolis: censorship and war reports on the Ukraine conflict, submission to Washington's interests on the international news agenda. If European oil companies such as ENI or Repsol operate again in Venezuela because the US government now allows it, after prohibiting it for years, do we read any critical analysis, any editorial in the Italian or Spanish press that denounces such subjugation of European sovereignty? Nothing. Not the slightest hint of dignity.

WSWS (2022-09-21). Pentagon's secret social media influencing campaign exposed. wsws.org Quoting unnamed White House and Defense officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Pentagon has been operating fake social media accounts to promote pro-US narratives and anti-Russia propaganda for at least a decade.

Philip Giraldi (2022-09-21). More Disinformation From Israel. Biden Caves to Jewish Pressure, As Usual. globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-09-21). Fossil eggs show dinosaur decline before extinction. ecns.cn Chinese researchers found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-09-20). Zelensky Quietly Deletes Photo of His Bodyguard's Pro-Hitler Patch. orinocotribune.com By Alexander Rubinstein Sep 15, 2022 | The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler. | On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. During the visit, a soldier who appeared to be guarding Zelensky was photographed wearing a Nazi-inspired patch on his uniform. | When the image drew criticism on social media, the Ukrai…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-09-20). Game Changer? Immediate Referendums, Ukraine's Spent Reserves Russian Ops in Ukraine 09/21/2022. libya360.wordpress.com Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for September 21, 2022 Referendums have been announced across Russian-held territory in Ukraine; If incorporated into the Russian Federation, Moscow could upgrade the special military operation significantly; The US Department of Defense, in a recent briefing, seems to acknowledge the limits of what aid it…

The Lever (2022-09-20). Introducing Election Insider . levernews.com

ELECTION INSIDER: Who's Buying The 2022 Midterms?: Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee votes in the state's primary election at the Community School in Cumberland, R.I., on Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)By September 19, 2022 As we rapidly approach the country's November midterm elections, corporate media seems uninterested in one of the biggest threats to democracy: Billionaires and Big Business using huge sums of money to try to secretly buy elections on both sides of the aisle.Increasingly, a small handful o…

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-20). Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping review of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after social media sites removed fake accounts that were suspected of being linked to the US military, The Washington Post reported on Monday. A report published last month by research groups Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory detailed the activity of …

Ann Brown (2022-09-20). Report: Pentagon Scrutinized Over Evidence Of Secret Psychological Campaigns On Social Media. moguldom.com There is a major investigation going on over at the Pentagon looking into the military agency creating fake social media accounts to spread Pro-American messaging and disinformation online. According to a report by The Washington Post, Twitter and Meta (Facebook) both identified networks of fake accounts believed to be connected to the U.S. military. Colin Kahl, …

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

Dean Baker (2022-09-19). NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation. cepr.net There is a common myth that Germany's hyperinflation led to the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler. That is a nice story for pushing the inflation hawks' agenda, but it doesn't correspond to reality. | The hyperinflation had

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-20). Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations. news.antiwar.com The Pentagon has ordered a sweeping review of how it conducts clandestine information warfare after social media sites removed fake accounts that were suspected of being linked to the US military, The Washington Post reported on Monday. A report published last month by research groups Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory detailed the activity of …

WSWS (2022-09-20). A conversation with film historian Max Alvarez about Hollywood blacklist victim, actress Marsha Hunt (1917—2022): "The entertainment industry hierarchy is … more acquiescent than ever" wsws.org Hunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 19 s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.

____ (2022-09-19). Revealed: US & EU Plans to Plunder Ukraine. transcend.org 8 Sep 2022 – Lee Camp has evidence that the most powerful people in the world have been planning to plunder the Ukrainian economy since at least 2017. The West's favorite form of diplomacy is to use conditional loans to dismantle struggling governments and sell their assets to the rich.

Staff (2022-09-19). US sanctions 3 Iranian airlines cargo planes over Russia link. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) — The US Department of Commerce announced on Monday that it has blacklisted three Boeing 747 aircraft belonging to Iranian airlines that provide cargo services to Russia.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-19). Fear and Misinformation Dominate Discourses of Brazilian Right. orinocotribune.com By Zoe Alexandra Sep 13, 2022 | In the lead-up to the general elections in Brazil, the far-right has intensified its campaign of hysteria and fear-mongering instead of providing concrete solutions to the crises affecting the people | Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years h…

Aditi Ramaswami (2022-09-19). ELECTION INSIDER: Who's Buying The Midterms? levernews.com As we rapidly approach the country's November midterm elections, corporate media seems uninterested in one of the biggest threats to democracy: Billionaires and Big Business using huge sums of money to try to secretly buy elections on both sides of the aisle.Increasingly, a small handful of donors hold outsized influence in American elections, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which gave wealthy donors and special interest groups license to spend unlimited cash on elections. This year is no exception.We know little to nothing about some o…

Dean Baker (2022-09-19). NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation. cepr.net There is a common myth that Germany's hyperinflation led to the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler. That is a nice story for pushing the inflation hawks' agenda, but it doesn't correspond to reality. | The hyperinflation had

WSWS (2022-09-19). The 1619 Project and the New York Times' glorification of the monarchy. wsws.org In its adulation of Queen Elizabeth and all the pageantry of the British monarchy, the newspaper responsible for publishing the 1619 Project has entangled itself in many layers of contradictions.

____ (2022-09-19). Imposed Insanity — Royalty, Propaganda and the Coming Catastrophe. transcend.org 14 Sep 2022 – If every journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing devotion to Britain's deceased monarch, it is not because she 'served' her country for 70 years. The powerful interests that determine Britain's political and media agenda are not sentimentalists; they do not impose 'managed democracy' as a kind of game. Propaganda blitzes are always pragmatic.

Staff (2022-09-19). The New York Times denuncia que 97 congresistas de EEUU están involucrados en comercio injusto de activos financieros. cubadebate.cu "A lo largo del período de tres años, más de 3 700 transacciones reportadas por legisladores de ambos partidos plantearon posibles conflictos entre sus responsabilidades públicas y las finanzas privadas", enfatizaron los autores de la publicación en el diario The New York Times.

____ (2022-09-18). (W. E. Talk) Understood or Smeared: China's Bifurcated Image. ecns.cn The research report "Xinjiang: Understanding the Complexity and Constructing Peace," jointly published by several Italian think tanks, recently sparked international attention. This report's significance may lie in that it not only shows the world the real China but also that people are becoming more and more aware of how China has suffered from international public opinion. The understanding of Chinaworldwide is getting more and better.

____ (2022-09-19). Revealed: US & EU Plans to Plunder Ukraine. transcend.org 8 Sep 2022 – Lee Camp has evidence that the most powerful people in the world have been planning to plunder the Ukrainian economy since at least 2017. The West's favorite form of diplomacy is to use conditional loans to dismantle struggling governments and sell their assets to the rich.

Staff (2022-09-19). US sanctions 3 Iranian airlines cargo planes over Russia link. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 19 (MNA) — The US Department of Commerce announced on Monday that it has blacklisted three Boeing 747 aircraft belonging to Iranian airlines that provide cargo services to Russia.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-09-19). Fear and Misinformation Dominate Discourses of Brazilian Right. orinocotribune.com By Zoe Alexandra Sep 13, 2022 | In the lead-up to the general elections in Brazil, the far-right has intensified its campaign of hysteria and fear-mongering instead of providing concrete solutions to the crises affecting the people | Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years h…

Dean Baker (2022-09-19). NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation. cepr.net There is a common myth that Germany's hyperinflation led to the collapse of democracy in Germany and the rise of Hitler. That is a nice story for pushing the inflation hawks' agenda, but it doesn't correspond to reality. | The hyperinflation had

____ (2022-09-19). Imposed Insanity — Royalty, Propaganda and the Coming Catastrophe. transcend.org 14 Sep 2022 – If every journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing devotion to Britain's deceased monarch, it is not because she 'served' her country for 70 years. The powerful interests that determine Britain's political and media agenda are not sentimentalists; they do not impose 'managed democracy' as a kind of game. Propaganda blitzes are always pragmatic.

Staff (2022-09-19). The New York Times denuncia que 97 congresistas de EEUU están involucrados en comercio injusto de activos financieros. cubadebate.cu "A lo largo del período de tres años, más de 3 700 transacciones reportadas por legisladores de ambos partidos plantearon posibles conflictos entre sus responsabilidades públicas y las finanzas privadas", enfatizaron los autores de la publicación en el diario The New York Times.

Staff (2022-09-18). Kremlin responds to Western nuclear claims. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — The cases of when Russia will use nuclear weapons are stated in the national nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

____ (2022-09-18). (W. E. Talk) Understood or Smeared: China's Bifurcated Image. ecns.cn The research report "Xinjiang: Understanding the Complexity and Constructing Peace," jointly published by several Italian think tanks, recently sparked international attention. This report's significance may lie in that it not only shows the world the real China but also that people are becoming more and more aware of how China has suffered from international public opinion. The understanding of Chinaworldwide is getting more and better.

John Pilger (2022-09-18). Silencing the Lambs, How Propaganda Works. orinocotribune.com By John Pilger — Sep 13, 2022 | In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a 'profound imperialism' and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it. | In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler's leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fàºhrer. | She told me that the "patriotic messages" of her films were dependent not o…

Yuri Rubtsov (2022-09-18). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor editing by Global Research. Title as in the original. Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Editor (2022-09-18). Corporate Media Is Trying to Convince People Student Debt Forgiveness Is Bad. scheerpost.com

Paul Jay (2022-09-18). Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg on the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. canadiandimension.com An untitled mural by Georg Lutz, painted in 1990, depicts former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev driving though a crack in the Berlin wall. Photo by Ilias Katsouras/ Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg discuss the significance of the life of Mikhail Gorbachev and what the deconstruction of the Soviet Union means for today's world. Noam and Daniel join Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news. Paul Jay is the founder and host of theAnalysis.news, a news analysis service. He was the founder, CEO and senior editor of The Real News Network (TRNN). |

Dean Baker (2022-09-17). The Non-Mystery of a Smaller Labor Force. cepr.net It is bizarre how the media keep insisting that we have some big problem of missing workers, since we don't. The Washington Post has the As with other pieces, it implies that an unusual large percentage of people are opting not to be in the labor market. It tells readers: | "The share of working-age Americans who have a job or are looking for one is at 62.4 percent, a full percentage point lower than it was in February 2020, according to Labor Department data."

Editor (2022-09-17). Chomsky and Ellsberg on the Death of Gorbachev (video). scheerpost.com By Paul Jay / theAnalysis.news Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg discuss the significance of the life of Mikhail Gorbachev and what the deconstruction of the Soviet Union means for today's world. Noam and Daniel join Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news. _______________________________________________ 00: 00 Introduction 01: 09 End of the Soviet Union and the Role of Gorbachev …

Staff (2022-09-18). Kremlin responds to Western nuclear claims. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — The cases of when Russia will use nuclear weapons are stated in the national nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

____ (2022-09-18). (W. E. Talk) Understood or Smeared: China's Bifurcated Image. ecns.cn The research report "Xinjiang: Understanding the Complexity and Constructing Peace," jointly published by several Italian think tanks, recently sparked international attention. This report's significance may lie in that it not only shows the world the real China but also that people are becoming more and more aware of how China has suffered from international public opinion. The understanding of Chinaworldwide is getting more and better.

Dean Baker (2022-09-17). The Non-Mystery of a Smaller Labor Force. cepr.net It is bizarre how the media keep insisting that we have some big problem of missing workers, since we don't. The Washington Post has the latest entry in the search for non-missing workers. As with other pieces, it implies that an unusual large percentage of people are opting not to be in the labor market. …

Robert Luo, Youyi Fong, Debi Boeras, Ilesh Jani, Lara Vojnov (2022-09-17). [Articles] The clinical effect of point-of-care HIV diagnosis in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis. thelancet.com Overall, the certainty of the evidence in this analysis was rated as high for the primary outcomes related to result delivery and treatment initiation, with no serious risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, or imprecision. In HIV-exposed infants, same-day point-of-care HIV testing was associated with significantly improved time to result delivery, time to antiretroviral therapy initiation, and proportion of HIV-positive infants starting antiretroviral therapy within 60 days compared with standard of care.

Editor (2022-09-17). Chomsky and Ellsberg on the Death of Gorbachev (video). scheerpost.com By Paul Jay / theAnalysis.news Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg discuss the significance of the life of Mikhail Gorbachev and what the deconstruction of the Soviet Union means for today's world. Noam and Daniel join Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news. _______________________________________________ 00: 00 Introduction 01: 09 End of the Soviet Union and the Role of Gorbachev …

Dean Baker (2022-09-17). The Non-Mystery of a Smaller Labor Force. cepr.net It is bizarre how the media keep insisting that we have some big problem of missing workers, since we don't. The Washington Post has the latest entry in the search for non-missing workers. As with other pieces, it implies that an unusual large percentage of people are opting not to be in the labor market. …

Robert Luo, Youyi Fong, Debi Boeras, Ilesh Jani, Lara Vojnov (2022-09-17). [Articles] The clinical effect of point-of-care HIV diagnosis in infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis. thelancet.com Overall, the certainty of the evidence in this analysis was rated as high for the primary outcomes related to result delivery and treatment initiation, with no serious risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, or imprecision. In HIV-exposed infants, same-day point-of-care HIV testing was associated with significantly improved time to result delivery, time to antiretroviral therapy initiation, and proportion of HIV-positive infants starting antiretroviral therapy within 60 days compared with standard of care.

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-09-16). Zelensky quietly deletes photo of his bodyguard's pro-Hitler patch. thegrayzone.com The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler. On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. During the visit, a soldier who appeared to be guarding Zelensky was photographed wearing a Nazi-inspired patch on …

Lee Camp (2022-09-16). The Fed's Secret Plan to Suck Workers Dry. mintpressnews.com Workers have the power right now, and corporate America does not. And now we have proof that corporate America — which owns our government – wants to turn this all around immediately.

Editor (2022-09-16). Why 'learn to live' with COVID deaths? workers.org If you write for the New York Times, expect to be assigned articles condemning China for causing its people enormous inconvenience and discomfort to avoid massive deaths from the coronavirus. The Times clearly shares the capitalist-class viewpoint that the world's priority should be to get back to business as usual, . . . |

_____ (2022-09-16). Ukraine — Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items. popularresistance.org Last night a Reuters headline claimed: Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine -policeÔªø. | The Reuters headline was 100% false. That may have been because the editor misinterpreted what the Ukrainian police investigator said. Or it intentionally exaggerated the case to increase the propaganda value of that news item. I suspect the latter to be the case. | There is otherwise nothing unusual with that graveyard. During a war people on both sides die. Civilians suffer as much as soldiers while fighting around them is going on. The city had been heavily defended by the Ukrainian…

Fight Back (2022-09-16). Statement condemning the OHCHR's 'Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China'. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement initiated by Friends of Socialist China. Freedom Road Socialist Organization is among the signers. | We strongly condemn the publication by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of its Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. In the words of former OHCHR lawyer and human rights expert Alfred de Zayas, this document "should be discarded as propagandistic, biased, and methodologically flawed." | Based on substandard research methods and biased sources, the Assessmen…

_____ (2022-09-16). United States Now Recognizes Alex Saab As Special Envoy Of Venezuela. popularresistance.org After more than two years questioning Venezuelan Alex Saab's diplomatic status, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has now conceded that he is a special envoy. The dramatic U-turn was made in a filing before Justice Scola on Tuesday, September 13, in a hearing that was held regarding Saab's motion to compel the DoJ to hand over certain documents, which his defense believes would be beneficial to his claim of diplomatic immunity. | Alex Saab's defense has been pushing the DoJ for some months now to make what are called "Brady disclosures." These require that information and evidence that is material to the guilt o…

Editor (2022-09-16). Boyah J. Farah: A Somali Boy's Escape From Somalia's Harrowing Genocide Leads Him To His Dream Paradise—and the Brutality of American Racism. scheerpost.com : Boyah J. Farah seemed most struck by the beautiful green lawns…

Luca GoldMansour (2022-09-16). Corporate Media Is Trying to Convince People Student Debt Forgiveness Is Bad. commondreams.org By trying to convince voters that debt relief will cost them, and that a more egalitarian society is impossible, corporate media are defending America's ruling class from an educated working class.

WSWS (2022-09-16). Oppose the reactionary smear campaign against Harvard Professor John Comaroff! wsws.org Should these reactionary forces succeed it would represent a major blow to academic freedom, democratic rights and serious scholarship.

Manlio Dinucci (2022-09-16). L'offensiva del complesso militare-industrial. globalresearch.ca La recente avanzata ucraina è stata pianificata mesi fa dagli USA, che hanno fornito alle forze di Kiev in tempo reale le informazioni sugli obiettivi russi da colpire: lo rivela il New York Times in base a fonti ufficiali. Cià≤ …

_____ (2022-09-15). DPRK's New Nuclear Doctrine. journal-neo.org On September 8, 2022 the DPRK passed a new law on the DPRK's Policy on Nuclear Forces, which was adopted at the 7th session of the 14th convocation of the country's Supreme People's Assembly. Although this news was portrayed in the media, including in Russia, as "the DPRK having declared itself as a responsible nuclear …

Alexander Rubinstein (2022-09-16). Zelensky quietly deletes photo of his bodyguard's pro-Hitler patch. thegrayzone.com The Ukrainian President published a photograph on his social media channels showing one of his security escorts bearing a patch referencing the personal bodyguard unit of Adolf Hitler. On September 13, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky made a surprise trip to the city of Izyum in the Kharkov Region for a photo op following his military's recapture of the town from Russian forces. During the visit, a soldier who appeared to be guarding Zelensky was photographed wearing a Nazi-inspired patch on …

Editor (2022-09-16). Why 'learn to live' with COVID deaths? workers.org If you write for the New York Times, expect to be assigned articles condemning China for causing its people enormous inconvenience and discomfort to avoid massive deaths from the coronavirus. The Times clearly shares the capitalist-class viewpoint that the world's priority should be to get back to business as usual, . . . |

WSWS (2022-09-16). Oppose the reactionary smear campaign against Harvard Professor John Comaroff! wsws.org Should these reactionary forces succeed it would represent a major blow to academic freedom, democratic rights and serious scholarship.

Anonymous103 (2022-09-15). U.S. Finally Admits Ukraine Bombs Zaporizhzhia's Nuclear Power Plant. southfront.org Written by Unnamed American officials, according to the New York Times, have admitted that the explosives fired against Ukraine's nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have been fired against the plant by Ukraine's Government, not by Russia's Government, and furthermore these officials make clear that Ukraine's attacks against the plant are a key part of Ukrain…

_____ (2022-09-15). DPRK's New Nuclear Doctrine. journal-neo.org On September 8, 2022 the DPRK passed a new law on the DPRK's Policy on Nuclear Forces, which was adopted at the 7th session of the 14th convocation of the country's Supreme People's Assembly. Although this news was portrayed in the media, including in Russia, as "the DPRK having declared itself as a responsible nuclear …

The Socialist Program (2022-09-15). Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire. liberationnews.org The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and more. Some say U.S. force is never ending, others say it's on a fast decline, almost gone forever. Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky argue in their new book, "The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power," that U.S. military might is somewhere in the middle: it's fragile.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-15). 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.

WSWS (2022-09-15). Oppose the right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing Canadian anti-COVID activist and former teacher Ryan Imgrund! wsws.org Imgrund, who built up a large following among workers in Ontario thanks to his advocacy for COVID-19 public health measures, has been targeted by a rabid alliance of far-right anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers, and "left" proponents of identity politics.

Toward increased Networking (2022-09-15). Online events w) Chomsky, John Clark, Silvia Federici, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Joanna Macy.. indybay.org Here are about 8 online events taking place over the next 2 weeks (and starting at 7: 30 am tomorrow, Sept. 11), featuring people such as adrienne maree brown, Noam Chomsky, John P. Clark, Silvia Federici, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Joanna Macy, Nancy Fraser, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada and the UK (however, the listed times are all for our "Pacific time zone"). Of course, feel free to share this info with others who might be interested in it.

WSWS (2022-09-15). Oppose the right-wing smear campaign aimed at silencing Canadian anti-COVID activist and former teacher Ryan Imgrund! wsws.org Imgrund, who built up a large following among workers in Ontario thanks to his advocacy for COVID-19 public health measures, has been targeted by a rabid alliance of far-right anti-vaxxers, COVID deniers, and "left" proponents of identity politics.

G. Dunkel (2022-09-14). War propaganda threatens nuclear meltdown. workers.org Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station The United States and its imperialist allies in the European Union have a big political problem. The embargo/boycott that they so swiftly and gleefully placed on Russia's energy exports, mainly oil and gas, had the unintended consequence of guaranteeing much higher profits to Russia in selling . . . |

_____ (2022-09-14). Fear And Misinformation Dominate Discourses Of Brazilian Right. popularresistance.org Brazil is less than a month away from historic elections. Over 156 million Brazilians will go to the polls on October 2 to cast their vote for the president of the republic, State governors, 27 senators, 513 federal deputies, and State and district deputies. The elections take place amid an acute political, economic, and social crisis in the country. The past several years have seen a dramatic increase in hunger, homelessness, unemployment, and the prices of basic commodities. The currency, the Real, has tumbled. Above all, the colossal number of deaths due to COVID-19 continues to cast a shadow on the lives of m…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-14). 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.

Jon Queally (2022-09-14). Big Oil PR Firms a No-Show at House Hearing on Climate Disinformation. commondreams.org "This week Congress is set to take on Big Oil's lies and profiteering. The fossil fuel industry has made billions fueling the climate crisis and exploiting working people. We need to make them pay."

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-14). At Least 99 Killed in Fighting Between Azerbaijan and Armenia. news.antiwar.com The heaviest fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia since the 2020 Nagorono-Karabakh war erupted early Tuesday morning, Armenia said Azerbaijan started the violence by launching intensive artillery shelling against Armenian military positions. | Azerbaijan claimed that its shelling was a response to "large-scale subversive acts" on the border that included attacks on its military. | Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said t…

WSWS (2022-09-14). Wall Street slumps as inflation data signify continued Fed interest rate hikes. wsws.org All 30 stocks in the Dow fell as the index dropped by nearly 1300 points, the S&P 0 slid 4.3 percent and the tech-heavy and interest-rate sensitive NASDAQ was down 5.2 percent, with the three indexes recording their biggest one-day fall since June 2020.

Editor (2022-09-14). The Chris Hedges Report: Nathaniel Philbrick on How George Armstrong Custer Became a Martyr Used to Justify Genocide and US Imperialism. scheerpost.com Click | Chris HedgesChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning…

Jim Hightower (2022-09-14). Down With the Corporate Bean-Counters Who Spy on Their Workers. commondreams.org When overpaid corporate boneheads substitute slogans and computer metrics for real solutions, they're admitting that they are the problem.

WSWS (2022-09-14). Justice Department expands criminal probe of Trump's coup plot. wsws.org On Monday, the New York Times reported that in addition to the subpoenas, top Trump advisers Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman had their phones seized by federal agents last week.

_____ (2022-09-14). Activists Unlawfully Arrested In Raids On Palestine Action Camp. popularresistance.org Yesterday, 14 activists were unlawfully arrested after manning the Palestine Action Camp for the past two weeks. The activists were arrested under the pretext of "conspiracy to commit criminal damage", despite no evidence given for these claims. It would appear the arrests were part of an attempt to remove activists, ahead of an event outside the factory that called for mass mobilisation. During the raid, devices were seized, equipment damaged deliberately and packed up by police, who then cordoned the whole camp off, marking it a "crime scene". Those arrested were released in the early hours of today. | Although…

Aaron Maté (2022-09-13). Chain of Corruption: How the White Helmets Compromised OPCW Investigations in Syria. orinocotribune.com By Aaron Maté Sep 9, 2022 | By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence. | Before it mired the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in an international

_____ (2022-09-13). Silencing The Lambs — How Propaganda Works. popularresistance.org In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler's leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer. | She told me that the 'patriotic messages' of her films were dependent not on 'orders from above' but on what she called the 'submissive void' of the German public. | Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. 'Yes, especially them,' she said. | I think of this as I look around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies. | O…