DLI (2022-08-04). US acted as self-appointed Judge & Executioner in murder of al Qaeda chief. indybay.org In the latest drone killing of alleged al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US government acted as a self-appointed Judge and Executioner, without ever presenting any evidence to any international judicial body.

_____ (2022-08-03). Most 'Fact-Checking' Organizations Facebook Uses In Ukraine Are Funded By Washington. popularresistance.org Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). | In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook's official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction for Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European users. These nine organizations are: StopFake, VoxCheck, Fact Check Georgia, Demagog,…

Ann Brown (2022-08-03). Jim Clyburn Claimed Kamala Harris Becoming VP Proves America Isn't Racist, Now He Says America Is Moving In Direction Of Hitlerism. moguldom.com Veteran Democrat Congressman Jim Clyburn once agreed with Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that the appointment of former senator Kamala Harris as the first Black vice president of the U.S. proves America isn't racist. "I agree with him on that. I don't think a racist country would have elected Barack Obama as President, or Kamala Harris …

Infobrics (2022-08-03). Beijing reminds Taiwan of its power through blockade disguised as military exercise. infobrics.org China's "final warning" rhetoric revives Cold War stereotypes…

_____ (2022-08-02). NATO-Backed Network Of Syria Dirty War Propagandists Identified. popularresistance.org On June 10th, The Guardian's Mark Townsend published an article headlined "Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified." ("Russia-backed" has since been removed). | The article is based on what Townsend calls a "new analysis" that "reveals" a "network more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequently backed by a coordinated Russian campaign." This network, Townsend claims, is "focused on the denial or distortion of facts about the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons and on attacking the findings of the world's foremost chemical weapons watchdog," the Organization for the Prohibition of C…

Project Censored (2022-08-02). Elite Lapdogs Always Welcome in the Corporate Media. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon The return of Chris Cuomo to television is the latest reminder that there is little accountability to speak of in corporate news media. Chris was ousted at…

Infobrics (2022-08-03). Beijing reminds Taiwan of its power through blockade disguised as military exercise. infobrics.org China's "final warning" rhetoric revives Cold War stereotypes…

DLI (2022-08-03). US acted as self-appointed Judge & Executioner in murder of al Qaeda chief. indybay.org In the latest drone killing of alleged al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, the US government acted as a self-appointed Judge and Executioner, without ever presenting any evidence to any international judicial body.

_____ (2022-08-02). NATO-Backed Network Of Syria Dirty War Propagandists Identified. popularresistance.org On June 10th, The Guardian's Mark Townsend published an article headlined "Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified." ("Russia-backed" has since been removed). | The article is based on what Townsend calls a "new analysis" that "reveals" a "network more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequently backed by a coordinated Russian campaign." This network, Townsend claims, is "focused on the denial or distortion of facts about the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons and on attacking the findings of the world's foremost chemical weapons watchdog," the Organization for the Prohibition of C…

Editor (2022-08-02). Polls show almost no one trusts U.S. media, after decades of war propaganda and lies. mronline.org The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify U.S. wars. Today just 11% of North Americans trust television news.

Project Censored (2022-08-02). Elite Lapdogs Always Welcome in the Corporate Media. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon The return of Chris Cuomo to television is the latest reminder that there is little accountability to speak of in corporate news media. Chris was ousted at…

Julia Conley (2022-08-02). Anti-Choice Forces Push Disinformation as Kansas Votes on Abortion Rights. commondreams.org "The truth is that voting yes opens the door to a total ban on abortion," said one reproductive rights advocate.

____ (2022-08-01). 'This Is a War of Propaganda'. transcend.org 10 Jul 2022 – John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange: 20 minutes of truth… and a pretty sweet ending.

Fight Back (2022-08-01). No, the economy is not in a recession (yet). fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On July 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released their report on Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of the year, April to June. GDP went down at a 0.9% annual rate. This followed a decline of 1.6% in GDP in the first three months of the year. | This led to an outcry among Republicans, reinforced by many articles in the corporate media, that a recession had begun. Republican leaders immediately showed their lack of basic economic sense, saying that the American people were already feeling the pain of recession. In fact, the pain that American workers and small businesspeople are feeli…

Margaret Kimberley (2022-08-01). Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberly — Jul 20, 2022 | Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the US But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated. | Holidays in the United States celebrate awful events such as the settler colonists declaring independence from Britain so that they might take indigenous lands and protect slavery. There is also Thanksgiving, the commemoration of genocide turned into a day when Americans should think grateful thoughts before spending more than they can afford in order to celebrate Christmas. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday but is rarely treated as…

____ (2022-08-01). 'This Is a War of Propaganda'. transcend.org 10 Jul 2022 – John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange: 20 minutes of truth… and a pretty sweet ending.

Aaron Maté (2022-08-01). NATO-backed network of Syria dirty war propagandists identified. thegrayzone.com Defaming journalism on the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real "network of conspiracy theorists." On June 10th, The Guardian's Mark Townsend published an article headlined "Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified." ("Russia-backed" has since been removed). The article is based on what Townsend calls a "new analysis" that "reveals" a "network more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequently backed by a coordinated Russian campaign." This network, Townsend claims, is "focused …

Editor (2022-08-01). What the U.S. government and The New York Times have quietly agreed not to tell you about Ukraine. mronline.org Today, men like Danyial al-Takbir, a neo-Nazi, former ISIS member and convicted mass murderer, rapist (several of his victims were raped until dead) and arsonist stand at the vanguard of a war planned for seven decades. This is the true legacy of the OUN, from its roots as Holocaust perpetrators and CIA assassins to its return as the butchers of Donbas.

Fight Back (2022-08-01). No, the economy is not in a recession (yet). fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On July 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released their report on Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of the year, April to June. GDP went down at a 0.9% annual rate. This followed a decline of 1.6% in GDP in the first three months of the year. | This led to an outcry among Republicans, reinforced by many articles in the corporate media, that a recession had begun. Republican leaders immediately showed their lack of basic economic sense, saying that the American people were already feeling the pain of recession. In fact, the pain that American workers and small businesspeople are feeli…

TeleSUR (2022-08-01). The United States, an Empire of Mass Surveillance. telesurenglish.net For decades, the United States has conducted indiscriminate mass surveillance of its citizens, as well as of foreign governments, companies and individuals. Various surveillance projects implemented by Washington have been unveiled one after another in recent years, exposing more evidence of America's pervasive and ubiquitous surveillance of the world. | RELATED: | SURVEILLANCE ON DOMESTIC SOIL: | According to a recent report by George…

TeleSUR (2022-08-01). Hate Mob Incite Violence Against Caravan for Cuba in Miami. telesurenglish.net Cuban-American professor Carlos Lazo, leader of the Bridges of Love solidarity movement, denounced the provocations on a live broadcast on social media, which took place in the streets of Coral Gables, a city near Miami. | From Miami, Cuban-American professor Carlos Lazo #PuentesDeAmor called for this to be another day of struggle, but also of light and solidarity.

Repost (2022-08-01). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

____ (2022-08-01). Ambassador Zheng Zeguang: Decoupling with China will be disastrous for UK businesses. ecns.cn Ambassador Zheng Zeguang (@AmbZhengZeguang) pointed out in a Tweet that anti-China rhetoric by UK politicians is creating uncertainties &unease in UK business community, thus heaping more pressure upon rocketing cost of living here.

_____ (2022-07-31). Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades Of War Propaganda And Lies. popularresistance.org Very few people in the United States trust the mainstream corporate media. This is confirmed by a July survey from the major polling firm Gallup, which found that just 11% of North Americans trust television news, and a mere 16% have confidence in newspapers. | It's quite easy to understand why. The US media apparatus has repeatedly shown itself over decades to be completely unreliable and highly politicized. | The corporate media's treachery has been especially clear in the demonstrably false stories it disseminated to try to justify the US wars on Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. | This disgraceful…

_____ (2022-07-31). Condemn The FBI Raids In St Louis, MO And St Petersburg, FL! popularresistance.org On the morning of Friday, July 29th, the FBI conducted raids at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, the private residence of Omali Yeshitela in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while the house was raided. The FBI says that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian man, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States. | The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Alliance A…

Margaret Kimberley (2022-08-01). Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberly — Jul 20, 2022 | Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the US But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated. | Holidays in the United States celebrate awful events such as the settler colonists declaring independence from Britain so that they might take indigenous lands and protect slavery. There is also Thanksgiving, the commemoration of genocide turned into a day when Americans should think grateful thoughts before spending more than they can afford in order to celebrate Christmas. Christmas is ostensibly a religious holiday but is rarely treated as…

Repost (2022-08-01). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

Esha Krishnaswamy (2022-07-31). "These are animals, not people": Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military. thegrayzone.com Once condemned by Ukrainian officials and imprisoned for sadistic torture and the rape of minors, leaders of the notorious Tornado Battalion are free under Volodymyr Zelensky's orders. After banning virtually his entire political opposition, publishing a blacklist of foreign journalists and academics accused of advancing "Russian propaganda," and ramming through a law exempting 70% of Ukrainians from workplace protections, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy has freed from prison fascist militants convicted of some of the most heinous crimes the country has …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-31). NATO Threat, Strategic Interests, Great Sea Power Status: Key Details on Russia's New Naval Doctrine. libya360.wordpress.com Ilya Tsukanov Post-Soviet Russia's first naval doctrine was established in 2001 by presidential decree, with a major update approved in 2015 amid rising tensions with NATO, the Ukraine crisis, and Moscow's growing strategic partnership with China. The new doctrine supersedes the 2015 document and adds a number of important new provisions. President Vladimir Putin signed…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-31). Russia's New Naval Doctrine Identifies US as Main Threat. news.antiwar.com Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday The 55-page doctrine says that

_____ (2022-07-31). Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades Of War Propaganda And Lies. popularresistance.org Very few people in the United States trust the mainstream corporate media. This is confirmed by a July survey from the major polling firm Gallup, which found that just 11% of North Americans trust television news, and a mere 16% have confidence in newspapers. | It's quite easy to understand why. The US media apparatus has repeatedly shown itself over decades to be completely unreliable and highly politicized. | The corporate media's treachery has been especially clear in the demonstrably false stories it disseminated to try to justify the US wars on Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. | This disgraceful…

_____ (2022-07-31). Condemn The FBI Raids In St Louis, MO And St Petersburg, FL! popularresistance.org On the morning of Friday, July 29th, the FBI conducted raids at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, the private residence of Omali Yeshitela in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while the house was raided. The FBI says that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian man, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States. | The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Alliance A…

_____ (2022-07-30). Saudi Arabia Realizes its Dreams. journal-neo.org Developments in recent months clearly show that Saudi Arabia is steadily moving beyond being only a religious Mecca, becoming more and more also a center of political and innovative global gravity. This is not only evidenced by the attempt by Washington, which is losing more and more of its hegemonic position every day, to secure …

Mark Taliano (2022-07-30). Katie Has a Story to Tell. marktaliano.net READ MORE: British Funeral Director Tells RFK, Jr. About Fear, Propaganda and COVID Vaccine Deaths During Early Days of Pandemic Member of European Parliament Labels COVID Vaccine Coercion "Worst Crime Ever Committed on Humanity" Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization Shocking: UK Government Admits COVID Vaccinated Children Are 4423% More Likely …

Olivia Riggio (2022-07-30). Corporate Media Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis. commondreams.org This silence perpetuates inaction that poses climate solutions as lofty, unattainable pipe dreams, and suggests the only mitigation for fuel shortages is relentlessly drilling more of this harmful and nonrenewable resource.

Repost (2022-07-30). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

Francisco Ramírez Varela (2022-07-30). El terrorismo del "Fake News": Chile y la Nueva Constitución. globalizacion.ca Quieren destruir los emblemas patrios, nos expropiaran los fondos de pensiones, ya no seremos propietarios de nuestras casas, los indígenas tendrán otro sistema de justicia o destruirán la institución de carabineros, son solo algunas de las informaciones que circulan en…

_____ (2022-07-30). Saudi Arabia Realizes its Dreams. journal-neo.org Developments in recent months clearly show that Saudi Arabia is steadily moving beyond being only a religious Mecca, becoming more and more also a center of political and innovative global gravity. This is not only evidenced by the attempt by Washington, which is losing more and more of its hegemonic position every day, to secure …

Francisco Ramírez Varela (2022-07-30). El terrorismo del "Fake News": Chile y la Nueva Constitución. globalizacion.ca Quieren destruir los emblemas patrios, nos expropiaran los fondos de pensiones, ya no seremos propietarios de nuestras casas, los indígenas tendrán otro sistema de justicia o destruirán la institución de carabineros, son solo algunas de las informaciones que circulan en…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-29). If Telling the Truth Puts Me on Ukraine's 'Russian Propagandist' Blacklist, I'll Wear that Proudly. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter When it comes to fact-based analysis, I'll take so-called 'Russian propaganda' over 'Ukrainian truth' every day. In 1997 I flew into Kiev, on-mission with the United Nations Special Commission to seek the assistance of the Ukrainian government in investigating the activities of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of illegally selling ballistic missile components and…

Misión Verdad (2022-07-29). How to Exploit Venezuelan Migrants: The Darién Case. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad July 27, 2022 | In recent weeks, the Venezuelan migrant issue has rebounded in the media and in the anti-Chavista discourse after several months of not making the headlines. The epicenter of this new wave is the Selva del Darién (the Darién Gap), a thick and dangerous jungle that separates Colombia from Panama; a place full of threats where Venezuelan migrants, on their northward journey, have faced vicissitudes of all kinds. | WHO CROSSES IT? | The Darién Jungle is a highly dangerous irregular migration passage that has been historically exploited by drug trafficking groups and gangs dedic…

CounterSpin (2022-07-29). Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup. fair.org NBC Nightly News ( This week on CounterSpin: In what is being reported as an "abrupt" or "surprise" development, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, whose shtick relies heavily on legislative roadblocking, has agreed to sign on to a package that includes some $369 billion for "climate and energy proposals." | The New York Times The package…

Evan Reif (2022-07-29). What the U.S. Government and The New York Times Have Quietly Agreed Not to Tell You About Ukraine. covertactionmagazine.com "I wonder how it came to pass that most of the billionaires in Ukraine are Jews?"—Dmytro Yarosh, former People's Deputy …

Repost (2022-07-29). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

Jeffrey C. Isaac (2022-07-29). Republicans Who Testified Had No Business Acting Surprised by Trump's Incitements to Violence on Jan 6. commondreams.org Trump's entire political persona has centered on violent posturing and on incitements to violence.

Andy Kroll (2022-07-28). The Nasty Voices in Our Heads. tomdispatch.com I have a brother with chronic schizophrenia. He had his first severe catatonic episode when he was 16 years old and I was 10. Later, he suffered from auditory hallucinations and heard voices saying nasty things to him. I remember my father reassuring him that the voices weren't real and asking him whether he could ignore them. Sadly, it's not that simple. That conversation between my father and brother has been on my mind, as I've been experiencing America's increasingly divided, almost schizoid, version of social discourse. It's as if this country were suffering from some set of collective auditory hallucination…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-28). British Official Says Nuclear War Threat Higher Than During the Cold War. news.antiwar.com British National Security Advisor Stephen Lovegrove "The Cold War's two monolithic blocks of the USSR (Soviet Union) and NATO — though not without alarming bumps — were able to reach a shared understanding of doctrine that is today absent," Lovegrove said. | He said

CounterSpin (2022-07-29). Vivek Shandas on Climate Disruption & Heat Waves, Jamie Kalven on Laquan McDonald Coverup. fair.org NBC Nightly News ( This week on CounterSpin: In what is being reported as an "abrupt" or "surprise" development, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, whose shtick relies heavily on legislative roadblocking, has agreed to sign on to a package that includes some $369 billion for "climate and energy proposals." | The New York Times The package…

Jeffrey C. Isaac (2022-07-29). Republicans Who Testified Had No Business Acting Surprised by Trump's Incitements to Violence on Jan 6. commondreams.org Trump's entire political persona has centered on violent posturing and on incitements to violence.

Repost (2022-07-29). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

W.T. Whitney Jr. (2022-07-28). Prisoner Simón Trinidad Is a Victim of Deadly US Colombia Alliance. orinocotribune.com By W.T. Whitney JR. Jul 18, 2022 | Simón Trinidad's 72nd birthday is July 30. Don't think about sending him a card. U.S. prison authorities have blocked his mail since 2004. He is lodged in a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado. Extradited from Colombia, he remained in solitary confinement until 2018. | As a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Trinidad was in charge of political education and propaganda. He was captured in Ecuador in 2003, with CIA assistance. He had been conferring there with a United Nations official about the release of FARC-held prisoners. | Transferred…

Andy Kroll (2022-07-28). The Nasty Voices in Our Heads. tomdispatch.com I have a brother with chronic schizophrenia. He had his first severe catatonic episode when he was 16 years old and I was 10. Later, he suffered from auditory hallucinations and heard voices saying nasty things to him. I remember my father reassuring him that the voices weren't real and asking him whether he could ignore them. Sadly, it's not that simple. That conversation between my father and brother has been on my mind, as I've been experiencing America's increasingly divided, almost schizoid, version of social discourse. It's as if this country were suffering from some set of collective auditory hallucination…

Editor (2022-07-28). Police departments spend vast sums of money creating "Copaganda" mronline.org U.S. police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with "copaganda." These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.

Editor (2022-07-28). Patrick Lawrence: The Causes of Things. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Casus belli Over a summer sup on the back lawn the other night, a Times-reading, MSNBC—watching, NPR—listening neighbor asked what I thought she should read to acquire what she is not getting from these media, an accurate understanding of what goes on in our world. I loved the …

David Goeàümann (2022-07-28). Noam Chomsky: We Can Free Ourselves from State Capitalism. commondreams.org Even without fundamental changes in prevailing state capitalism, the kind of New Deal-style regulation that was dismantled by the neoliberal assault can be reinstated, and strengthened.

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-28). British Official Says Nuclear War Threat Higher Than During the Cold War. news.antiwar.com British National Security Advisor Stephen Lovegrove "The Cold War's two monolithic blocks of the USSR (Soviet Union) and NATO — though not without alarming bumps — were able to reach a shared understanding of doctrine that is today absent," Lovegrove said. | He said

WSWS (2022-07-28). Grand jury hears testimony on Trump role in "fake electors" scheme. wsws.org A report in the Washington Post is the first to suggest that the Department of Justice is making preparations for criminal charges against the ex-president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.

Editor2 (2022-07-28). No Russian Roulette: The Hunger Emergency and the Global Corporate System. orinocotribune.com By Sajai Jose Jul 22, 2022 | As government efforts to contain it fails even in rich nations, the world's hunger and livelihoods crisis is rapidly escalating into an emergency. Western leaders and media have been blaming Russia and the war in Ukraine for this unfolding catastrophe, but the facts say otherwise. | A month ago, the Food and Work Network, a coalition of academics, community activists, and trade unions in the United Kingdom issued an

____ (2022-07-28). Chinese spokesperson refutes U.S. report against China. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday refuted a U.S. report against China, saying it is political disinformation fabricated by a handful of Senate Republicans and completely ungrounded.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-07-27). Fact Check: Married Women Couldn't Get Credit Until 1974 and Then Divorce Rate Skyrocketed. moguldom.com Earlier this summer, a historian's tweet went viral after she said married women couldn't get credit in their names until 1974 and the divorce rate skyrocketed as a result. But is her statement correct? "The fact that married women couldn't get a credit in their own names until 1974 and the divorce rate started to …

Editor (2022-07-28). Police departments spend vast sums of money creating "Copaganda" mronline.org U.S. police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with "copaganda." These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it.

Editor2 (2022-07-28). No Russian Roulette: The Hunger Emergency and the Global Corporate System. orinocotribune.com By Sajai Jose Jul 22, 2022 | As government efforts to contain it fails even in rich nations, the world's hunger and livelihoods crisis is rapidly escalating into an emergency. Western leaders and media have been blaming Russia and the war in Ukraine for this unfolding catastrophe, but the facts say otherwise. | A month ago, the Food and Work Network, a coalition of academics, community activists, and trade unions in the United Kingdom issued an

Andy Kroll (2022-07-28). The Nasty Voices in Our Heads. tomdispatch.com I have a brother with chronic schizophrenia. He had his first severe catatonic episode when he was 16 years old and I was 10. Later, he suffered from auditory hallucinations and heard voices saying nasty things to him. I remember my father reassuring him that the voices weren't real and asking him whether he could ignore them. Sadly, it's not that simple. That conversation between my father and brother has been on my mind, as I've been experiencing America's increasingly divided, almost schizoid, version of social discourse. It's as if this country were suffering from some set of collective auditory hallucination…

Editor (2022-07-28). Patrick Lawrence: The Causes of Things. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Casus belli Over a summer sup on the back lawn the other night, a Times-reading, MSNBC—watching, NPR—listening neighbor asked what I thought she should read to acquire what she is not getting from these media, an accurate understanding of what goes on in our world. I loved the …

____ (2022-07-28). Chinese spokesperson refutes U.S. report against China. ecns.cn A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Wednesday refuted a U.S. report against China, saying it is political disinformation fabricated by a handful of Senate Republicans and completely ungrounded.

Repost (2022-07-28). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

WSWS (2022-07-28). Grand jury hears testimony on Trump role in "fake electors" scheme. wsws.org A report in the Washington Post is the first to suggest that the Department of Justice is making preparations for criminal charges against the ex-president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.

Brian Mier (2022-07-28). Fox Seeks Allies Across the Political Spectrum to Shill for Bolsonaro. zcomm.org Fox's propaganda blitz preemptively sets the stage for the normalization of a possible military coup in Brazil this October…

Sarah Anderson (2022-07-27). It's Time to Crack Down on Excessive CEO Pay. otherwords.org Working families are getting hammered by inflation while corporate leaders and politicians are calling for belt-tightening. But there's one group of Americans that's actually profited from increasing prices. | Big company CEOs have enjoyed soaring pay, even as their employees have been struggling to keep their families safe and their bills paid. | Look at Target, for example. Last year, the median Target worker salary did not even keep pace with inflation, rising by less than 4 percent to just Did the gia…

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-07-27). Fact Check: Married Women Couldn't Get Credit Until 1974 and Then Divorce Rate Skyrocketed. moguldom.com Earlier this summer, a historian's tweet went viral after she said married women couldn't get credit in their names until 1974 and the divorce rate skyrocketed as a result. But is her statement correct? "The fact that married women couldn't get a credit in their own names until 1974 and the divorce rate started to …

Juan Cole (2022-07-27). Trump joins Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis as Former High Office-Holder Investigated for Sedition. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, and Spencer S. Hsu at the Washington Post got the scoop that the Department of Justice has for some time been investigating Donald John Trump for possible charges in connection with his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results. (I call him Donald …

Editor (2022-07-26). Patrick Lawrence: 21st Century Order. scheerpost.com Railway station constructed in 2013 in Kazandzhik, Turkmenistan, an important crossroad of the Trans-Caspian Railway and North-South Transnational Railway. (Balkan Wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) | By Patrick Lawrence / At last we were able to read, last week, a New York Times story that concerned the Russians but not the brutal Russians. However, if we are not reading about the brutal Russians and their brutal military and their brutal attacks on civilians in Ukraine, we are obliged to read about…

Crystal Grant (2022-07-26). Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health. aclu.org Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the difference between a healthy life and an early death. But recent news suggests that police are seeking access to these newborn blood samples in criminal investigations. Such use of this trove of genetic material — to hunt for evidence that could implicate a child's relative in a crime — enda…

Jamanetwork (2022-07-26). SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Severity in Ontario, Canada—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply Dr Zeng mentions potential confounding due to prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, which was not considered in our original analysis. The arrival of the Omicron variant wave was a turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic, with widespread reports of reduced severity compared with prior variants. Nevertheless, there remains uncertainty about whether severity was reduced due to innate changes in the virus or due to increased immunity in the population infected. To address Zeng's concern about prior infection, we updated our cohort, measured the prevalence of prior infection, and conducted new analyses. All methods are…

Juan Cole (2022-07-27). Trump joins Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis as Former High Office-Holder Investigated for Sedition. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Carol D. Leonnig, Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, and Spencer S. Hsu at the Washington Post got the scoop that the Department of Justice has for some time been investigating Donald John Trump for possible charges in connection with his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results. (I call him Donald …

Repost (2022-07-27). SA New Frame's demise shines a light on China-aligned unions, parties and disinformation. indybay.org The closure of South Africa journal New Frame has exposed a web of connections between US multi-millionaire Roy Singham, NUMSA and the Chinese government as well as other publications supporting China.

_____ (2022-07-26). Ukraine Government Issues Blacklist Of 'Russian Propagandists'. popularresistance.org The "Center for Countering Disinformation," established in 2021 under Volodymyr Zelensky and headed by former lawyer Polina Lysenko, sits within the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. Its stated aim is to detect and counter "propaganda" and "destructive disinformation" and to prevent the "manipulation of public opinion." | On July 14th it published on its website a list of politicians, academics, activists that are "promoting Russian propaganda" — including several high-profile Western intellectuals and politicians. Republican Senator Rand Paul, former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, mi…

Editor (2022-07-26). Patrick Lawrence: 21st Century Order. scheerpost.com Railway station constructed in 2013 in Kazandzhik, Turkmenistan, an important crossroad of the Trans-Caspian Railway and North-South Transnational Railway. (Balkan Wiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) | By Patrick Lawrence / At last we were able to read, last week, a New York Times story that concerned the Russians but not the brutal Russians. However, if we are not reading about the brutal Russians and their brutal military and their brutal attacks on civilians in Ukraine, we are obliged to read about…

_____ (2022-07-26). Fox Seeks Allies Across The Political Spectrum To Shill For Bolsonaro. popularresistance.org It is no secret that, since the 2016 legislative coup against President Dilma Rousseff and 2018 arbitrary imprisonment of front-running presidential candidate Lula da Silva, multinational corporations have made billions of dollars from environmental deregulation, dismantlement of labor rights and privatization of Brazil's natural resources. It's also now known that corporate media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post normalized the breakdown of Brazil's rule of law and rise of fascism by ignoring crimes committed by high-profile Judge Sergio Moro that were widely publicized in Brazilian media. | So…

____ (2022-07-25). Some Explanations Re: The Saker. smoothiex12.blogspot.com I need to offer some elaborations on the issue which many who also post on my discussion boards do not understand. A few people like to constantly negatively react to Andrei Raevsky's writing. This is those people's right, and I completely am fine with constructive (I underscore it–not some propaganda BS spewing) criticism of my writing as well, as with correcting my mistakes, which I make sometimes. We all do. As any people we have our biases and even delusions. I, certainly, have mine, but so does The Saker. E.g. I and him we will never settle on the account of Solzhenitsyn who for majority of Russians is a tr…

____ (2022-07-25). Max Blumenthal & Aaron Maté Slam Corporate Media Disinfo. transcend.org 21 Jun 2022 – Before a hostile audience from the corporate press, they explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation, working closely with the national security state while deflecting scrutiny from the oligarchy that controls it.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-07-25). Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Battalions Indoctrinated Children with Anti-Russian Ideology. libya360.wordpress.com Lucas Leiroz In a recent report, information was published on how young Ukrainians were indoctrinated to adopt racist anti-Russian ideology in training camps commanded by the neo-Nazi battalions that have been operating in the country since the Maidan coup. In these camps, in addition to ideological indoctrination, children were also initiated into military training to fight…

Contributing Writers (2022-07-25). Now You Tell Us/ By Jimmy Dore. marktaliano.net READ MORE: Plunder of Ukraine: Kiev Hands Over $12 Billion of Gold Reserves to the U.S. Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Battalions Indoctrinate Children in Summer Camps Global ResearchGlobal Research Centre for Research on Globalization…

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-25). Biden Administration Fears Pelosi Taiwan Trip Could Spark Cross-Strait Crisis. news.antiwar.com The Washington Post reported Saturday that Biden administration officials increasingly fear that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned trip to Taiwan next month Media reports said last week that Pelosi plans to make the trip in August, prompting strong warnings from China. Beijing would view the visit as a major provocation since Pelosi is a high-level official in the US government and it would signal that Washington was moving away from the one-China policy. | Administration officials told…

WSWS (2022-07-25). Trump, Republican lawmakers incite fascist violence at far-right conference in Florida. wsws.org While Republicans at the conference defended Trump's coup and threatened their political enemies, outside the conference hall, neo-Nazis attacked abortion rights demonstrators.

____ (2022-07-25). Some Explanations Re: The Saker. smoothiex12.blogspot.com I need to offer some elaborations on the issue which many who also post on my discussion boards do not understand. A few people like to constantly negatively react to Andrei Raevsky's writing. This is those people's right, and I completely am fine with constructive (I underscore it–not some propaganda BS spewing) criticism of my writing as well, as with correcting my mistakes, which I make sometimes. We all do. As any people we have our biases and even delusions. I, certainly, have mine, but so does The Saker. E.g. I and him we will never settle on the account of Solzhenitsyn who for majority of Russians is a tr…

____ (2022-07-25). Max Blumenthal & Aaron Maté Slam Corporate Media Disinfo. transcend.org 21 Jun 2022 – Before a hostile audience from the corporate press, they explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation, working closely with the national security state while deflecting scrutiny from the oligarchy that controls it.

Fight Back (2022-07-25). NYC protest blasts Philippines President Marcos. fightbacknews.org New York, NY — Around 75 protesters gathered under the scorching hot sun of a New York heatwave on the afternoon of July 24 to listen to the Peoples State of the Nation Address (PSONA) in front of the Philippine Consulate. The People's State of the Nation Address was counter to Marcos Jr's first state of the nation address, and to express the real state of the nation, exposing the lies and disinformation of the current regime. | This year marked a tense PSONA as it was Marcos' first time addressing the nation as the newly elected president. The controversial election was riddled with machine misha…

_____ (2022-07-25). US Considers Deploying Carriers To Support Pelosi's Taiwan Trip. popularresistance.org The US military is considering "moving aircraft carriers or sending fighter planes for close air support" as part of a potential trip by US house speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the Washington Post reported Saturday. | The discussions about US military actions in support of Pelosi's trip were first reported in an op-ed by Josh Rogin, who wrote, | The U.S. military is devising options for protecting Pelosi's delegation, who—as is normal procedure for congressional delegations to Taiwan—would be flying on a military plane. The measures under consideration include moving aircraft carriers or sending figh…

WSWS (2022-07-25). German government hosts "climate dialogue" with the Butcher of Cairo, exposing its human rights propaganda. wsws.org If one event could expose the German government's human rights propaganda and climate policy platitudes, it was the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, where the star guest was none other than Egyptian dictator Abdelfattah al-Sisi.

WSWS (2022-07-25). US considers deploying carriers to support House speaker's Taiwan trip – Washington Post. wsws.org The US military is considering "moving aircraft carriers or sending fighter planes for close air support" as part of a potential trip by US house speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

_____ (2022-07-24). Congresswoman Karen Bass And The Will To Intervene. popularresistance.org Los Angeles, California – What will it mean if the Vice Chair of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) becomes the Mayor of Los Angeles? Meaning, of course, Karen Bass, the current Vice Chair of that soft power tool, who is also Chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Africa. Come November, the Black Congresswoman representing parts of Los Angeles will most likely become its mayor, having pulled well ahead of Rick Caruso, the billionaire real estate developer who spent more than $41 million on his primary campaign. Bass spent a mere $3.28 million but still finished ahead…

_____ (2022-07-24). Amazon Joins The Medicare Privatization Spree. popularresistance.org Amazon, the $1.25 trillion company founded and led by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, has announced that it is acquiring One Medical, a private equity-backed primary care provider that generates over half of its revenue from Medicare. | While Amazon's profits from its core consumer retail business are dwindling, in part because of heightened competition from brick-and-mortar retailers that were shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the corporation's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continues to enjoy robust profits thanks in part to generous government contracts. Now Amazon could be…