Colin Todhunter (2023-03-04). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Julie Lévesque (2023-03-04). From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA. globalresearch.ca Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.

Colin Todhunter (2023-03-04). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Julie Lévesque (2023-03-04). From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA. globalresearch.ca Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.

WSWS (2023-03-04). German talk show utilises atrocity propaganda to justify expansion of the Ukraine war. wsws.org With the growth of popular opposition to NATO's intensification of the war in Ukraine, war propaganda is assuming hysterical and grotesque forms.

WSWS (2023-03-04). German Chancellor Scholz pushes for rearmament and war against Russia. wsws.org On Thursday, on the anniversary of his speech proclaiming a "new era" in foreign policy, Scholz again delivered a government statement in the Bundestag. It lived up to his war speech a year ago, which initiated the massive arms deliveries to Ukraine and the largest German rearmament since Hitler.

americanthinker (2023-03-04). Canned Disinformation Governance Board's Nina Jankowicz now wants to stick it to Fox News. americanthinker.com Seeking to sue Fox News, seems she's can't get the censorship bug out of her, even as she laughably insists she hasn't a single censorship bone in her body.

Richard Horton (2023-03-04). [Comment] Offline: The willing versus the legitimate. thelancet.com The largest land war in Europe since World War 2. Yet NATO insists that it is not at war with Russia in Ukraine. The evidence suggests otherwise. An expanding supply of missiles, ammunition, tanks, and air defence systems is proof of direct involvement of NATO in the Russia—Ukraine conflict. Make no mistake: western countries are at war with Russia. NATO claims that such a view is Russian disinformation. A correct diagnosis of the true nature of this war matters because of the implications for Ukrainian, European, and global security—and survival.

David Starr, Covert Action Magazine. (2023-03-04). Profiting Off Of Death And Suffering Is The American Way. popularresistance.org The United States' imperial foreign policy has been evident since day one, but especially starting with the Gilded Age and the arrogant doctrine of Manifest Destiny of the mid-19th century. The imperial "cause" continued through the decades leading up to today. | And today, the U.S. arms industry and the U.S. Congress have a reciprocal relationship. Because of this relationship, many members of Congress have grown rich off of war and death. | The Russia-Ukraine conflict has presented the latest opportunity for profiteering off of war. The arms industry is certainly making big bucks, with policies that fuel the co…

Nitish Mondal (2023-03-04). [Correspondence] The resurgence of dengue epidemic and climate change in India. thelancet.com Climate change is influencing the incidence of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito-borne dengue illnesses. More than half of the world's population is in danger, with an annual estimate of 100—400 million infections,1 96 million clinical symptoms, and 40‚Äà000 fatalities.2 Despite evidence of 30—50-fold increases in occurrences in tropical and subtropical regions in the past 50 years, and the fastest growing risk of dengue infection, an estimated 3 ∑97 billion people (in 129 countries) are vulnerable.

Paul Haeder (2023-03-04). Green Death: Love in a Time of Green Pornography. dissidentvoice.org Source: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries I was calling it many variations on the theme, greenwashing, many many propagandistic things, like green-scamming, green-sheening, and eco-porn. Here, a 1992 article, man, so long long ago, almost forgotten : Eco-pornography is the advertising of a product as "environmentally friendly," when in fact, some unmentioned aspect of the product (or …

WSWS (2023-03-04). German talk show utilises atrocity propaganda to justify expansion of the Ukraine war. wsws.org With the growth of popular opposition to NATO's intensification of the war in Ukraine, war propaganda is assuming hysterical and grotesque forms.

_____ (2023-03-03). Beware the Tricks and Trickery from the Fools of Foreign Policy. journal-neo.org Before I begin, let me say that we are all tired of rehashing the extent and character of western propaganda via corporate or elite-controlled media and channels. But we must be vigilant in calling them out, and in forcing through the dissenting view on Russia and other key subjects. With that, I give you another …

Danielle Nista, Miriam Basilio (2023-03-03). A window on 'Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War' at NYU. peoplesworld.org This spring, New York University's Kimmel Windows—a 13-window exhibition space spanning LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street—will feature Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), featuring materials from New York University Special Collections, Tamiment-Wagner Collections, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. The exhibition originated in a Fall 2019 undergraduate seminar, Art and Propaganda: The …

Dr. William Makis (2023-03-03). H5N1 Avian Influenza: What You Need to Know. Wild Rumors and a Look Beyond the Usual Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-03). Publisher agrees to an uncensored edition of Roald Dahl's books, but not before PEN America exposes its own hypocrisy. wsws.org Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl's books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.

WSWS (2023-03-04). German talk show utilises atrocity propaganda to justify expansion of the Ukraine war. wsws.org With the growth of popular opposition to NATO's intensification of the war in Ukraine, war propaganda is assuming hysterical and grotesque forms.

_____ (2023-03-03). Beware the Tricks and Trickery from the Fools of Foreign Policy. journal-neo.org Before I begin, let me say that we are all tired of rehashing the extent and character of western propaganda via corporate or elite-controlled media and channels. But we must be vigilant in calling them out, and in forcing through the dissenting view on Russia and other key subjects. With that, I give you another …

Danielle Nista, Miriam Basilio (2023-03-03). A window on 'Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War' at NYU. peoplesworld.org This spring, New York University's Kimmel Windows—a 13-window exhibition space spanning LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street—will feature Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), featuring materials from New York University Special Collections, Tamiment-Wagner Collections, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. The exhibition originated in a Fall 2019 undergraduate seminar, Art and Propaganda: The …

Dr. William Makis (2023-03-03). H5N1 Avian Influenza: What You Need to Know. Wild Rumors and a Look Beyond the Usual Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-03). Publisher agrees to an uncensored edition of Roald Dahl's books, but not before PEN America exposes its own hypocrisy. wsws.org Puffin has announced it will publish another edition of Dahl's books without changes, but not before the writers' advocacy group, PEN America, exposed itself as a phony opponent of censorship, given that it is a purveyor of Ukraine war propaganda and anti-Russian chauvinism.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-03-03). Sinister Agency Created To Do CIA's Dirty Work in Public Has Just Named New Leaders. covertactionmagazine.com New Appointees Picked to Pursue Same Imperialist Goal of Fomenting Disruption and Regime Change in Countries that Won't Toe U.S. Line The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an innocently named, "wolf-in-sheep's clothing" offshoot of the CIA that funds dissident foreign organizations and media trying to overthrow their own governments in countries targeted by the …

Matt Taibbi (2023-03-03). Twitter Files: GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2023-03-04). German Chancellor Scholz pushes for rearmament and war against Russia. wsws.org On Thursday, on the anniversary of his speech proclaiming a "new era" in foreign policy, Scholz again delivered a government statement in the Bundestag. It lived up to his war speech a year ago, which initiated the massive arms deliveries to Ukraine and the largest German rearmament since Hitler.

Richard Horton (2023-03-04). [Comment] Offline: The willing versus the legitimate. thelancet.com The largest land war in Europe since World War 2. Yet NATO insists that it is not at war with Russia in Ukraine. The evidence suggests otherwise. An expanding supply of missiles, ammunition, tanks, and air defence systems is proof of direct involvement of NATO in the Russia—Ukraine conflict. Make no mistake: western countries are at war with Russia. NATO claims that such a view is Russian disinformation. A correct diagnosis of the true nature of this war matters because of the implications for Ukrainian, European, and global security—and survival.

Sharon Zhang (2023-03-03). Walgreens Restricting Abortion Pill Sales Due to Coordinated GOP Threat. truthout.org Walgreens has said that it will not dispense abortion pills in states where the medications are legal after Republican state officials threatened to take legal action against the company if it began distributing the drugs. In a letter riddled with disinformation about abortions, sent by Republican attorneys general in 20 states to Walgreens last month, the Republicans said they were writing to… |

Kurt Nimmo (2023-03-03). Corporate Media Gobsmacked on Crimea. globalresearch.ca

David Starr (2023-03-04). Profiting Off of Death and Suffering is the American Way. covertactionmagazine.com Arms Industry and U.S. Government Have Now Practically Merged The United States's imperial foreign policy has been evident since day one, but especially starting with the Gilded Age and the arrogant doctrine of Manifest Destiny of the mid-19th century. The imperial "cause" continued through the decades leading up to today. And today, the U.S. arms …

Teri Mattson, WTF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-03-03). Devastating Effects Of Militarization On Puerto Rico And Her People. popularresistance.org The U.S. has been overtly and covertly intervening in Puerto Rico's internal affairs since 1898. Like the Spanish, British, Dutch, and the French, the U.S. understood the strategic value of the Puerto Rican archipelago, which would give their expanding empire a military advantage toward enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, thereby securing its established intent to dominate the Western Hemisphere. | A new wave of militarization began soon after the change of colonial ownership, the implications of which would devastate the island municipalities of Culebra and Vieques. Culebra was militarized in 1901 and expelled the Na…

Nitish Mondal (2023-03-04). [Correspondence] The resurgence of dengue epidemic and climate change in India. thelancet.com Climate change is influencing the incidence of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito-borne dengue illnesses. More than half of the world's population is in danger, with an annual estimate of 100—400 million infections,1 96 million clinical symptoms, and 40‚Äà000 fatalities.2 Despite evidence of 30—50-fold increases in occurrences in tropical and subtropical regions in the past 50 years, and the fastest growing risk of dengue infection, an estimated 3 ∑97 billion people (in 129 countries) are vulnerable.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-03). Reality Based People Can Fact Check the 'Fact-Checkers'. libya360.wordpress.com Moon of Alabama People wave Russian flags as Vladimir Putin takes the stage to deliver a speech during a patriotic concert. | AFP | FAKTENFINDER Stavroula Pabst, a writer in Greece, has published an interesting piece on the nefarious purpose of fact-checking and 'dis-information' debunking. Guy Debord's Warning of "The Role of the Expert": A…

Staff (2023-03-03). Vacunas cubanas con amplia presencia mundial. cubadebate.cu "El sector biotecnológico de la isla está bien desarrollado"— aseguraba The New York Times‚àí Cuba fabrica ocho de las 12 vacunas que se administran a los niños en la isla y exporta vacunas a más de 30 países. Según Gail Reed, editora de MEDICC Review, Cuba "es un monstruo de la biotecnología". Hoy Cuba tiene una amplia presencia.

americanthinker (2023-03-03). Double-standards for Israel in the Washington Post. americanthinker.com For some reason,…

Frank Breslin (2023-03-02). Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don't Teach Critical Thinking. dissidentvoice.org The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America's schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don't accept as true what you're about to read. Some of it is fact; some of it is opinion masquerading as fact; and the rest is liberal, conservative, or mainstream propaganda. Make sure you know which is which …

Kurt Nimmo (2023-03-02). War Propaganda Media Ignores Rising Antiwar Sentiment in America and Europe. globalresearch.ca

Gabriel Vera Lopes (2023-03-01). Understand Cuba's upcoming National Assembly elections. peoplesdispatch.org On March 26, 470 deputies will be elected to Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power, the country's highest political body, for a five-year term. These elections will see record participation of young, black and women candidates. | The election campaigns on the island are not in the form of propaganda, as in capitalist countries. There are no smiling billboards in the streets, no advertising full of promises. In the weeks leading up to the elections, the candidates visit neighborhoods, workplaces, and student centers, where assemblies are called and organized for exchange with the population. In these public m…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). The Ukraine Conflict: The Responsibility of the Rulers. libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan Before coming to Kiev, President Joe Biden sought assurances from Russia that it would not bomb his special train. The Atlantic Alliance magnifies Ukraine on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Russian military intervention on its territory. Before our very eyes, we see it resorting to the most deceptive propaganda, handling…

Moon of Alabama. (2023-03-01). The Context Of The New Anti-China Campaign. popularresistance.org The reactions to yesterday's Moon of Alabama post have demonstrated how easy it is for government propagandists to yank the leash of their subjects. | More than half of comments are about barely informed Covid conspiracies theories. Only few recognized the propaganda item for what it was. The starting point of a new China hate campaign that will divert the public from mass casualties in Ukraine and other issues. | After the Wall Street Journal launched its Sunday leak the New York Times and the Washington Post also jumped onto the train. The Times thankfully does better than the WSJ given the 'low confidence' exp…

Frank Breslin (2023-03-02). Three Reasons Why Public High Schools Don't Teach Critical Thinking. dissidentvoice.org The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America's schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don't accept as true what you're about to read. Some of it is fact; some of it is opinion masquerading as fact; and the rest is liberal, conservative, or mainstream propaganda. Make sure you know which is which …

Kurt Nimmo (2023-03-02). War Propaganda Media Ignores Rising Antiwar Sentiment in America and Europe. globalresearch.ca

Gabriel Vera Lopes (2023-03-01). Understand Cuba's upcoming National Assembly elections. peoplesdispatch.org On March 26, 470 deputies will be elected to Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power, the country's highest political body, for a five-year term. These elections will see record participation of young, black and women candidates. | The election campaigns on the island are not in the form of propaganda, as in capitalist countries. There are no smiling billboards in the streets, no advertising full of promises. In the weeks leading up to the elections, the candidates visit neighborhoods, workplaces, and student centers, where assemblies are called and organized for exchange with the population. In these public m…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). The Ukraine Conflict: The Responsibility of the Rulers. libya360.wordpress.com Thierry Meyssan Before coming to Kiev, President Joe Biden sought assurances from Russia that it would not bomb his special train. The Atlantic Alliance magnifies Ukraine on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Russian military intervention on its territory. Before our very eyes, we see it resorting to the most deceptive propaganda, handling…

Moon of Alabama. (2023-03-01). The Context Of The New Anti-China Campaign. popularresistance.org The reactions to yesterday's Moon of Alabama post have demonstrated how easy it is for government propagandists to yank the leash of their subjects. | More than half of comments are about barely informed Covid conspiracies theories. Only few recognized the propaganda item for what it was. The starting point of a new China hate campaign that will divert the public from mass casualties in Ukraine and other issues. | After the Wall Street Journal launched its Sunday leak the New York Times and the Washington Post also jumped onto the train. The Times thankfully does better than the WSJ given the 'low confidence' exp…

infobrics (2023-03-02). Kiev insists on Artyomovsk's 'meat grinder' to guarantee Western support. infobrics.org If the city is fully liberated by the Russians, the "Ukrainian victory" rhetoric will be discredited, making western support unpopular among public opinion.

americanthinker (2023-03-02). CNN and Election Disinformation. americanthinker.com CNN is spreading coordinated misinformation concerning the findings of the grand jury investigating Donald Trump and Georgia election fraud.

americanthinker (2023-03-01). Peculiar Case of George Santos Exhibits the Media Double-Standard. americanthinker.com Suddenly, corporate media personalities and the American left find themselves deeply concerned about lying politicians.

John Catalinotto (2023-03-01). Biden's war drive fuels resistance. workers.org In the week of the first anniversary of the U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, the Biden administration has taken or announced steps to prolong that war and risk its escalation. The corporate media has parroted and amplified every government announcement. And the antiwar movement began to respond. 'Peace,' . . . |

Ryan Cristián (2023-03-01). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 10. thelastamericanvagabond.com Join us on today's episode of The Pirate Stream — Dialectical Dissidents. Pirate Stream Media is a new platform of dedicated content creators focused on circumventing the tightly controlled, manipulated, and outright censored media space of today (both corporate and independent media) with a commitment to objectivity, integrity, and a stark awareness of the two

Staff (2023-03-02). La opinión gráfica: Ataque sónico, un filme de fake news y ciencia ficción. cubadebate.cu Cinco agencias de inteligencia de Estados Unidos descartaron que las misteriosas dolencias reportadas por diplomáticos del país norteño en Cuba en 2016 se deban a ataques de un adversario extranjero, expuso hoy The Washington Post. Entonces, øel ataque sónico fue un filme de fake news y ciencia ficción? Desde el humor Arístides Hernández nos invita a reflexionar.

Binoy Kampmark (2023-03-01). Corrupt and fraudulent: Laying bare the Adani Group. greenleft.org.au A two-year investigation by Hindenbug Research found evidence that Indian conglomerate Adani Group had engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over decades. Binoy Kampmark reports.

WSWS (2023-03-01). Intelligence agency-incited furor over lurid claims China interfered in Canada's 2019 and 2021 elections. wsws.org Workers must decisively reject this filthy pro-war, anti-China campaign. which has been orchestrated by high-placed leaks from CSIS, Canadian imperialism's premier intelligence agency.

americanthinker (2023-03-02). A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump. americanthinker.com The Republican National Committee is prepared to take on a new strategy to keep Trump on the sidelines.

Bill Scheuerman, Sid Plotkin (2023-03-01). Class and Diversity in the Left. dissidentvoice.org A recent expose in the New York Times documenting how U.S. corporations exploit migrant children sheds light on a crucial issue facing the American Left. Nowadays, many left activists rightly focus on identity politics. To them, diversity is the order of the day. No argument here. Years ago, Richard Penniman, aka Little Richard, put it clearly: diversity is …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-03-01). Lessons Not Learned from the Pentagon Papers. libya360.wordpress.com Alfred de Zayas In June 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, a US government military analyst with the Rand Corporation and senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg[1], released to the New York Times and Washington Post what became known as the "Pentagon Papers", 47 volumes of confidential…

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-02-27). People's World on the front line battling right-wing thought control. peoplesworld.org There is a war being waged against truth and legitimate information in our country. The far-right wants to obscure real history, making it something that caters to values that fly in the face of inclusivity, progress, and diversity. These culture wars not only push bigoted rhetoric but are used as a tool to distract from …

Rick Rozoff (2023-02-27). Georgia: U.S. ambassador intensifies pre-coup rhetoric. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaFebruary 27, 2023 U.S. Ambassador Speaks to Media about Draft Laws on Foreign Agents and NBG The U.S. Ambassador Kelly Degnan attended the event taking stock of the activities of the President of the National Bank. In her remarks to the media, she once again spoke of the draft laws on Foreign Agents as …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-27). Was the Pentagon and CIA Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic? covertactionmagazine.com Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of …

WSWS (2023-02-27). The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China. wsws.org The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.

Chauncey K. Robinson (2023-02-27). People's World on the front line battling right-wing thought control. peoplesworld.org There is a war being waged against truth and legitimate information in our country. The far-right wants to obscure real history, making it something that caters to values that fly in the face of inclusivity, progress, and diversity. These culture wars not only push bigoted rhetoric but are used as a tool to distract from …

Rick Rozoff (2023-02-27). Georgia: U.S. ambassador intensifies pre-coup rhetoric. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaFebruary 27, 2023 U.S. Ambassador Speaks to Media about Draft Laws on Foreign Agents and NBG The U.S. Ambassador Kelly Degnan attended the event taking stock of the activities of the President of the National Bank. In her remarks to the media, she once again spoke of the draft laws on Foreign Agents as …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-02-27). Was the Pentagon and CIA Behind the COVID-19 Pandemic? covertactionmagazine.com Bioterrorism expert and whistleblower alleges that CIA secretly collaborated in supporting unethical gain of function research that resulted in the manufacture of the COVID-19 virus, which was then leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Andrew G. Huff is an Iraq War veteran and infectious disease epidemiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of …

WSWS (2023-02-27). The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China. wsws.org The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-28). Taiwan to Criminalize Spreading Rumors During Wartime. news.antiwar.com Taiwan is expected to pass a new law that would criminalize spreading rumors or "disinformation" during wartime as the island takes more steps to prepare for a potential future conflict with China. Taiwan's Defense Ministry has submitted a revised version of the island's All-out Defense Mobilization Readiness Act, a law that outlines rules during mobilization …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-27). Provocation of "Unprovoked Aggression" by Varieties of Encroachment. transcend.org Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as "disinformation" whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.

_____ (2023-02-27). East Palestine, Ohio and the Oblivious Democrats. strategic-culture.org The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3rd that led to a "controlled" explosion of toxic chemicals that's now causing sickness among residents there was preventable. Both the Obama and Trump administrations made compromises driven by rail industry lobbyists that contributed to the disaster, which isn't surprising, given the corporate capture of the U.S. government. The disaster represents a bipartisan failure, yet somehow it's the Democrats who've emerged as the party most out of touch with the suffering of the people of East Palestine.

Toward increased Networking (2023-02-27). From Today (Thu), 3 pm ("Stop Cop City"): Online events w) Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 9 online events taking place over the next week+ (and starting at 3: 00 pm today, Thursday, 2/23), featuring people such as Dário Votório Kopenawa Yanomami, Paul Watson, adrienne maree brown, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, 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.

Anonymous103 (2023-02-27). In Video: Nazi Tanks On Their Way Back To Russian Soil. southfront.org

News One Staff (2023-02-27). Fact Check: Were Ancient Egyptians Black? Kevin Hart Debate Rages. newsone.com

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-27). In Homage to David Ray Griffin: Indispensable Public Intellectual. transcend.org I think it was the successful branding of the 9/11 skeptics as 'wacky' that proved more useful in squelching their influence than by labeling them as 'dangerous,' 'subversive,' and 'radical' or 'socialist.' It might be understood as the advent of a more advanced, more sophisticated version of McCarthyism, a discrediting ploy that George Orwell would have immediately understood.

Staff (2023-02-27). Former Watergate Prosecutor: Trump Should Have Been Charged Upon Exiting Office. truthout.org A former Watergate prosecutor has said that former President Donald Trump — who is currently the subject of numerous state and federal investigations — should have been issued criminal charges the moment he left the White House. "I think we need to hold the former president responsible for all of his crimes," Jill Wine-Banks, who is also a legal commentator for MSNBC, said on Sunday, citing Trump'… |

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-02-26). Western Leaders Privately Say Ukraine Can't Win The War. popularresistance.org Western leaders privately told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine can not win the war against Russia and that it should begin peace talks with Moscow this year in exchange for closer ties with NATO. | The private communications are at odds with public statements from Western leaders who routinely say they will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes until it achieves victory on the battlefield. | The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the private remarks to Zelenksy, said: | "The public rhetoric masks deepening private doubts among politicians in the U.K., France and Germany that…

WSWS (2023-02-27). The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China. wsws.org The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-27). Provocation of "Unprovoked Aggression" by Varieties of Encroachment. transcend.org Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as "disinformation" whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-02-26). Western Leaders Privately Say Ukraine Can't Win The War. popularresistance.org Western leaders privately told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine can not win the war against Russia and that it should begin peace talks with Moscow this year in exchange for closer ties with NATO. | The private communications are at odds with public statements from Western leaders who routinely say they will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes until it achieves victory on the battlefield. | The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the private remarks to Zelenksy, said: | "The public rhetoric masks deepening private doubts among politicians in the U.K., France and Germany that…

WSWS (2023-02-27). The Wuhan Lab Leak slander being resurrected to bolster US war drive against China. wsws.org The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Department of Energy has shifted its opinion on the origin of the coronavirus to it being most likely a result of a lab leak. However, unnamed sources who have read the report indicate the evidence is of low confidence.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-27). Provocation of "Unprovoked Aggression" by Varieties of Encroachment. transcend.org Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as "disinformation" whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.

David Sirota (2023-02-26). Shadowbanning An Inconvenient Truth. levernews.com This is a column from Lever Weekly, our once-a-week review of what happened over the last week, exclusively for our paid subscribers. When The Lever's rail safety reporting suddenly dominated the national news cycle, I thought we had found an elusive glitch in the matrix — a story so powerful, so rooted in indisputable evidence, and so widely amplified that its most important facts could not be manipulated or suppressed.This, I imagined, could be a rare moment in which politicians, corporate media, and people of all political persuasions would have to fess up to all the truths that we reported — th…

Toward increased Networking (2023-02-27). From Today (Thu), 3 pm ("Stop Cop City"): Online events w) Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 9 online events taking place over the next week+ (and starting at 3: 00 pm today, Thursday, 2/23), featuring people such as Dário Votório Kopenawa Yanomami, Paul Watson, adrienne maree brown, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, 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.

Staff (2023-02-26). What to Replace the Monroe Doctrine With. davidswanson.org

PressTV. (2023-02-26). Anti-war Protesters In Europe Demand West Stop Arming Ukraine. popularresistance.org The demonstrations took place in the major European capitals on Saturday, a day after an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine entered its second year. | The Saturday rally in London was organized by Stop the War Coalition. It was held at Portland Place in the city's central area, from which the participants marched towards the Trafalgar Square. | The London rally was attended by Jeremy Corbyn, a former Labour Party leader and a current member of the parliament. | The protesters in London also chanted anti-war slogans, while holding banners calling for an end to the West's incessant campaign of pumping weapons i…

ecns.cn (2023-02-26). U.S. fabrication on China's airship violates international obligations: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn "Without any evidence, the U.S. wrongly called the airship a 'spy balloon' and responded with abuse of force. That was a flagrant violation of the Chicago Convention and multiple basic principles of international law," Wang said.‚ÄÇ…

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-02-26). More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia To Invade. popularresistance.org The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia's economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it's true. | The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since the beginnings of Russsiagate in 2016, that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-27). In Homage to David Ray Griffin: Indispensable Public Intellectual. transcend.org I think it was the successful branding of the 9/11 skeptics as 'wacky' that proved more useful in squelching their influence than by labeling them as 'dangerous,' 'subversive,' and 'radical' or 'socialist.' It might be understood as the advent of a more advanced, more sophisticated version of McCarthyism, a discrediting ploy that George Orwell would have immediately understood.

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-02-26). Restaurant Workers at Rockefeller Center's Lodi Confront Union-Buster Ahead of Vote. popularresistance.org Lodi, an Italian-style fine dining cafe in Rockefeller Center, has what the New York Times calls "a captive audience" given its central location in a Manhattan tourist magnet. Workers at the restaurant say they're a captive audience of another kind—for the anti-union diatribes of a highly paid consultant. They are demanding that the cafe improve working conditions, benefits, staffing, scheduling, and training—but the major sticking point is wages. Kitchen workers earn between $18 and $21 an hour, while cashiers earn $25, and there's no discernible reason for the discrepancy.

Editor (2023-02-26). The Washington Post Is Coming for Your Retirement Benefits. scheerpost.com

Colin Todhunter (2023-02-25). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Hartwig Hohnsbein, Georg Rammer (2023-02-25). January 30, 1933 and Media make politics. indybay.org Edward Bernays, one of the most important developers of modern propaganda, wrote almost a hundred years ago: "The manipulation of the opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanisms of society form an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country."

Staff (2023-02-25). Unión Europea anuncia nuevo paquete de sanciones contra Rusia. cubadebate.cu La Unión Europea ha adoptado un nuevo paquete de sanciones contra Rusia por su operativo militar en Ucrania."Se adopta el décimo paquete de sanciones: 121 personas y entidades enumeradas, nuevas restricciones significativas de importación/exportación, prohibición de los medios de propaganda rusos", anunció el alto representante de la Unión Europea.

Staff (2023-02-25). Debunking Zionist Disinformation: Attacks on Samidoun and the Palestinian prisoners' battle for freedom. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has recently been subjected to a series of attacks by Zionist and far-right publications, particularly in the United States. Part of these attacks has been an all-out assault on our fiscal sponsor, the Alliance for Global Justice, a grassroots, internationalist and progressive organization that provides fiscal sponsorship to over 140 …

Brittani Banks (2023-02-25). How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse. independentmediainstitute.org

Colin Todhunter (2023-02-25). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Hartwig Hohnsbein, Georg Rammer (2023-02-25). January 30, 1933 and Media make politics. indybay.org Edward Bernays, one of the most important developers of modern propaganda, wrote almost a hundred years ago: "The manipulation of the opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanisms of society form an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country."

Staff (2023-02-25). Unión Europea anuncia nuevo paquete de sanciones contra Rusia. cubadebate.cu La Unión Europea ha adoptado un nuevo paquete de sanciones contra Rusia por su operativo militar en Ucrania."Se adopta el décimo paquete de sanciones: 121 personas y entidades enumeradas, nuevas restricciones significativas de importación/exportación, prohibición de los medios de propaganda rusos", anunció el alto representante de la Unión Europea.

Staff (2023-02-25). Debunking Zionist Disinformation: Attacks on Samidoun and the Palestinian prisoners' battle for freedom. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has recently been subjected to a series of attacks by Zionist and far-right publications, particularly in the United States. Part of these attacks has been an all-out assault on our fiscal sponsor, the Alliance for Global Justice, a grassroots, internationalist and progressive organization that provides fiscal sponsorship to over 140 …

Brittani Banks (2023-02-25). How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse. independentmediainstitute.org

El Comercio (2023-02-25). Ecuador: Former President Moreno Among 37 To Be Indicted. indybay.org The Ina Papers, not mentioned in our corporate media, revealed bribery related to the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project. Lenin Moreno was involved long before he was President of Ecuador, if these allegations are prove true.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-02-25). Protests in Cuba vs. Peru: A Case Study in Canadian Hypocrisy. orinocotribune.com By Owen Schalk — Feb 21, 2023 | Canada's economic interests appear to influence our diplomatic and media response to protests and uprisings in the Global South | Canada's foreign policy record is stained with countless examples of hypocrisy, opportunism, and aversion to democracy, especially when it leads down the road of left-wing reforms. Ottawa's hypocrisy is a result of its often pro-corporate international agenda. In countries where Canadian companies have many lucrative investments, state violence is allowed to occur without comment, while in countries which don't serve as significant reservoirs of Can…

Toward increased Networking (2023-02-26). From Today (Thu), 3 pm ("Stop Cop City"): Online events w) Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 9 online events taking place over the next week+ (and starting at 3: 00 pm today, Thursday, 2/23), featuring people such as Dário Votório Kopenawa Yanomami, Paul Watson, adrienne maree brown, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, 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.

Staff (2023-02-26). What to Replace the Monroe Doctrine With. davidswanson.org

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2023-02-25). Video: NATO-Exit, Closure of Military Bases: Massive Protests against NATO. globalresearch.ca More than 70 years ago NATO was born. In April 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established what was designated as the doctrine of "Collective Security" under Art. 5 of the Washington Treaty. | NATO has a sordid

ecns.cn (2023-02-26). U.S. fabrication on China's airship violates international obligations: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn "Without any evidence, the U.S. wrongly called the airship a 'spy balloon' and responded with abuse of force. That was a flagrant violation of the Chicago Convention and multiple basic principles of international law," Wang said.‚ÄÇ…

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-02-26). More Evidence Emerges That US Wanted Russia To Invade. popularresistance.org The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia's economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it's true. | The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since the beginnings of Russsiagate in 2016, that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin.

Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes. (2023-02-26). Restaurant Workers at Rockefeller Center's Lodi Confront Union-Buster Ahead of Vote. popularresistance.org Lodi, an Italian-style fine dining cafe in Rockefeller Center, has what the New York Times calls "a captive audience" given its central location in a Manhattan tourist magnet. Workers at the restaurant say they're a captive audience of another kind—for the anti-union diatribes of a highly paid consultant. They are demanding that the cafe improve working conditions, benefits, staffing, scheduling, and training—but the major sticking point is wages. Kitchen workers earn between $18 and $21 an hour, while cashiers earn $25, and there's no discernible reason for the discrepancy.

Editor (2023-02-25). The Chris Hedges Report: How the Press Misled the Public on Russiagate. scheerpost.com Veteran New York Times reporter Jeff Gertz dissects the role of the media in concocting a false narrative portraying Trump as a 'Russian asset' rather than a homegrown horror.

Editor (2023-02-26). The Washington Post Is Coming for Your Retirement Benefits. scheerpost.com

Colin Todhunter (2023-02-25). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

Hartwig Hohnsbein, Georg Rammer (2023-02-25). January 30, 1933 and Media make politics. indybay.org Edward Bernays, one of the most important developers of modern propaganda, wrote almost a hundred years ago: "The manipulation of the opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanisms of society form an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country."

Helen Yaffe (2023-02-24). What's Driving 'Irregular' Cuban Emigration to the United States? orinocotribune.com By Helen Yaffe — Feb 2, 2023 | In 2022, an unprecedented number of Cubans arrived in the United States through irregular, or 'illegal' channels. Historically the United States has encouraged and weaponised Cuban emigration. Cuban migrants fuel US propaganda about the failure of socialism and about political persecution and the lack of freedom and human rights on the island. However, it is an issue which can spiral out of control, forcing US administrations into dialogue with the Cuban government in the past. The current surge is creating political problems for President Biden as his opponents exploit the iss…

Rick Rozoff (2023-02-24). Georgia: U.S. envoy heats up rhetoric for coup, second front. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaFebruary 24, 2023 Ambassadors Degnan and Herczynski: it's up to Georgian People What Future They Want US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan said in a conversation with journalists on February 24, after attending the GFSIS event dedicated to Russia's war in Ukraine…. The ambassador said that the U.S. greatly appreciates what the people of …

Staff (2023-02-25). Debunking Zionist Disinformation: Attacks on Samidoun and the Palestinian prisoners' battle for freedom. samidoun.net Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network has recently been subjected to a series of attacks by Zionist and far-right publications, particularly in the United States. Part of these attacks has been an all-out assault on our fiscal sponsor, the Alliance for Global Justice, a grassroots, internationalist and progressive organization that provides fiscal sponsorship to over 140 …

African Stream (2023-02-24). Buhari Warns About Foreign Meddling As Nigeria Heads to Polls to Decide on Next President. towardfreedom.org Nigeria's president has scolded Western diplomats for their comments about the way the February 25 presidential election is being run, warning against foreign meddling. Countries across Africa are up against Western-backed coup attempts and Western-supported disinformation campaigns. African Stream reports.

Brittani Banks (2023-02-25). How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse. independentmediainstitute.org

El Comercio (2023-02-25). Ecuador: Former President Moreno Among 37 To Be Indicted. indybay.org The Ina Papers, not mentioned in our corporate media, revealed bribery related to the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project. Lenin Moreno was involved long before he was President of Ecuador, if these allegations are prove true.

Toward increased Networking (2023-02-25). From Today (Thu), 3 pm ("Stop Cop City"): Online events w) Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 9 online events taking place over the next week+ (and starting at 3: 00 pm today, Thursday, 2/23), featuring people such as Dário Votório Kopenawa Yanomami, Paul Watson, adrienne maree brown, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, 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.

Global Research News (2023-02-25). Video: NATO-Exit, Closure of Military Bases: Massive Protests against NATO. globalresearch.ca More than 70 years ago NATO was born. In April 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established what was designated as the doctrine of "Collective Security" under Art. 5 of the Washington Treaty. | NATO has a sordid history of …

ecns.cn (2023-02-25). U.S. fabrication on China's airship violates international obligations: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn "Without any evidence, the U.S. wrongly called the airship a 'spy balloon' and responded with abuse of force. That was a flagrant violation of the Chicago Convention and multiple basic principles of international law," Wang said.‚ÄÇ…

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-24). Ohio Disaster Is Worse Than Admitted, Evidence Of "COVID" Foreknowledge & It's All Happening Again. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (2/24/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Toward increased Networking (2023-02-25). From Today (Thu), 3 pm ("Stop Cop City"): Online events w) Vandana Shiva, Chomsky, etc. indybay.org Here are about 9 online events taking place over the next week+ (and starting at 3: 00 pm today, Thursday, 2/23), featuring people such as Dário Votório Kopenawa Yanomami, Paul Watson, adrienne maree brown, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, and many others. | These events are hosted from various locations all across the country, as well from Canada, Australia, 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.

Global Research News (2023-02-25). Video: NATO-Exit, Closure of Military Bases: Massive Protests against NATO. globalresearch.ca More than 70 years ago NATO was born. In April 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established what was designated as the doctrine of "Collective Security" under Art. 5 of the Washington Treaty. | NATO has a sordid history of …

ecns.cn (2023-02-25). U.S. fabrication on China's airship violates international obligations: FM spokesperson. ecns.cn "Without any evidence, the U.S. wrongly called the airship a 'spy balloon' and responded with abuse of force. That was a flagrant violation of the Chicago Convention and multiple basic principles of international law," Wang said.‚ÄÇ…

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-24). Ohio Disaster Is Worse Than Admitted, Evidence Of "COVID" Foreknowledge & It's All Happening Again. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (2/24/23). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth

Mark Gruenberg (2023-02-24). Feds: No evidence crew did anything wrong in Ohio rail wreck. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The engineer, the conductor and the trainee on the Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed and wrecked on Feb. 3, releasing vinyl chloride and other hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, did nothing wrong, the head of the federal government's independent safety agency says. "This was 100% preventable," National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy, …

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-02-24). Black People Seven Times More Likely To Die Following Police Restraint. orinocotribune.com By Bethany Rielly Monday — Feb 20, 2023 | New report by Inquest disputes government's claim that there is no evidence more black people die than white people following police contact | Black people are seven times more likely to die following police restraint, according to a new report that disputes government claims on racial disparities for state-related deaths. | The report by charity Inquest, published yesterday, found that racial disproportionality is higher than previously made public. | It says that the system for investigating the potential role of racism in deaths of black people following police re…

ecns.cn (2023-02-24). China dismisses smear over Russia ties. ecns.cn Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Wednesday pushed back against Washington's so-called concern over China-Russia ties after a senior Chinese diplomat visited Moscow.

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2023-02-24). Covid And The Way Of Death In US Prisons. popularresistance.org The first comprehensive study of prisoner deaths during the Covid era shows that deaths in federal and state prisons rose nearly 50 percent during the first year of the pandemic, and in six states, they more than doubled. | The New York Times reports that deaths in America's prisons during 2020 showed more than twice the increase compared to deaths in the United States overall, and they even exceeded deaths in nursing homes, which were among the hardest hit sectors across the country. | The Times found that it was not just the fact that Covid swept through already overcrowded prisons.

Kevin Gosztola (2023-02-25). March To Iraq War, 20 Years Later: February 25, 2003. thedissenter.org Note: This series is published exclusively for paid subscribers of The Dissenter. | The world will mark the 20th anniversary of the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq in about a month. It was the second war waged by the US against Iraq. | To reflect on this history, The Dissenter recounts the timeline of events that led up to the invasion on March 20. Each post encapsulates what took place that day as both political and media elites beat the drums of war. | *** | FEBRUARY 25, 2003: MSNBC cancels Phil Donahue's show and expands "Countdown: Iraq" to two hours, a program hosted by Lester Hol…

americanthinker (2023-02-24). Did Andrea Mitchell just apologize for defaming Ron DeSantis? americanthinker.com Kind of? Sort of? Did pigs fly past MSNBC's headquarters?>

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-02-21). Murdoch Propaganda Pushes Australia to Double Its Military Budget for War with China. asia-pacificresearch.com

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2023-02-20). Munich As Propaganda Fest. popularresistance.org I love Wang Yi's response when The New York Times's Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday and asked the Chinese foreign minister if he planned to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines. | "He simply chuckled," Crowley wrote of Wang at the conclusion of his report. | Chuckled. I am reminded of that moment last year when Blinken, after formal talks in Moscow, pulled Sergei Lavrov into a private room at the Kremlin and asked Russia's foreign minister if it was true Moscow's plan was to reconstruct the Russian Empire. Lavrov stared, turned, and left the ro…

Sahra Wagenknecht & Christoph Habermann (2023-02-20). Stumbling into world war and Ukraine War. indybay.org We are on a slippery slope that could end in a world war and a nuclear apocalypse. And it is also clear that for going to war, the West would have to sacrifice those "values" that have so far been used to justify war, first and foremost freedom of speech and democracy. For such a step into the abyss could hardly be made palatable to the population, even with continued propaganda.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine. transcend.org 13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: "I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves." It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?>.

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-02-21). Murdoch Propaganda Pushes Australia to Double Its Military Budget for War with China. asia-pacificresearch.com

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2023-02-20). Munich As Propaganda Fest. popularresistance.org I love Wang Yi's response when The New York Times's Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday and asked the Chinese foreign minister if he planned to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines. | "He simply chuckled," Crowley wrote of Wang at the conclusion of his report. | Chuckled. I am reminded of that moment last year when Blinken, after formal talks in Moscow, pulled Sergei Lavrov into a private room at the Kremlin and asked Russia's foreign minister if it was true Moscow's plan was to reconstruct the Russian Empire. Lavrov stared, turned, and left the ro…

Sahra Wagenknecht & Christoph Habermann (2023-02-20). Stumbling into world war and Ukraine War. indybay.org We are on a slippery slope that could end in a world war and a nuclear apocalypse. And it is also clear that for going to war, the West would have to sacrifice those "values" that have so far been used to justify war, first and foremost freedom of speech and democracy. For such a step into the abyss could hardly be made palatable to the population, even with continued propaganda.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine. transcend.org 13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: "I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves." It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?>.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Story Killers: Inside the Deadly Disinformation-for-Hire Industry. transcend.org 14 Feb 2023 – Journalists investigating disinformation are threatened, jailed and in extreme cases, like that of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, killed. Forbidden Stories gathered more than 100 journalists from 30 media outlets to expose the inner workings of the global, secretive world of disinformation mercenaries.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News—A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India. transcend.org In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh's work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Story Killers (Part 2): "Team Jorge"—In the Heart of a Global Disinformation Machine. transcend.org 15 Feb 2023 – In Part 2 of the "Story Killers" project, the Forbidden Stories consortium investigated an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians. We took an unprecedented dive into a world where troll armies, cyber espionage and influencers are intertwined.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II. transcend.org 15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's bombshell.

Ryan Cristián (2023-02-20). The Pirate Stream: Dialectical Dissidents — Episode 9. thelastamericanvagabond.com Join us on today's episode of The Pirate Stream — Dialectical Dissidents. Pirate Stream Media is a new platform of dedicated content creators focused on circumventing the tightly controlled, manipulated, and outright censored media space of today (both corporate and independent media) with a commitment to objectivity, integrity, and a stark awareness of the two

Staff (2023-02-20). Latin America Is Working to End the Monroe Doctrine. davidswanson.org

Anonymous103 (2023-02-21). Straightening-Out Ideological Labels. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Because political 'science' hasn't yet understood, and therefore cannot scientifically (that is, in a 100% historically truthful way) define, ideological labels, such as "leftist" "rightist" "progressive" "liberal" "conservative" "socialist" "communist" and "fascist", these labels are normally handled propagandistically, instead of accurately; and, so…

Staff (2023-02-21). Vancouver banner drops, public interventions highlight Palestinian struggle for liberation. samidoun.net Samidoun Vancouver joined in the Days of Rage and Resistance — organized by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement — with a banner drop in a busy area of the city on Sunday, 12 February 2023. Participants carried and waved Palestinian flags and hung banners with slogans including "Free All Palestinian Prisoners," …

People's Dispatch. (2023-02-20). Syria Suffered An Earthquake But Israel Is Still Bombing. popularresistance.org Thousands of Syrians took to the streets on Monday, February 20, to protest against repeated Israeli aggression directed at the country. Protesters also chanted slogans against the unilateral coercive measures (sanctions) imposed against Syria by the US and its allies, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported. | At least five Syrians were killed and 15 wounded when missiles fired by Israeli warplanes landed inside the densely populated Kafr Sousa neighborhood in capital Damascus on Sunday, February 19. According to SANA, all but one of those killed were civilians.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-02-20). Syria just suffered a devastating earthquake but Israeli bombing does not stop. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of Syrians took to the streets on Monday, February 20, to protest against repeated Israeli aggression directed at the country. Protesters also chanted slogans against the unilateral coercive measures (sanctions) imposed against Syria by the US and its allies, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) At least five Syrians were killed and 15 wounded when missiles fired by Israeli warplanes landed inside the densely populated Kafr Sousa neighborhood in capital Damascus on Sunday, February 19. According to

WSWS (2023-02-21). Intriguing discovery of ancient tools, butchery, and hominin teeth in Kenya. wsws.org The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.

Chris D'Angelo, HuffPost. (2023-02-20). Water Testing After Ohio Derailment Led By Rail Company Itself. popularresistance.org East Palestine, Ohio – The testing that Ohio authorities relied on to declare the municipal water in East Palestine safe to drink after a disastrous train derailment was funded by the railroad operator itself and did not initially comply with federal standards, HuffPost has learned. | Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Wednesday afternoon announced that new testing from five wells that supply the town's municipal drinking water "showed no evidence of contamination" after a Norfolk Southern freight train loaded with tons of hazardous materials derailed in the area on Feb. 3. | "With these tests results, Ohio EPA is conf…

Juan Cole (2023-02-21). Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Embarrassed" by "racist" Israeli Government, Threatens to Withhold Aid. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came on Face the Nation Sunday. In the course of the interview, Sanders lashed out at the new, extremist government in Israel, which includes a minister once convicted of incitement to racial violence and more than one figure belonging to Kahanist organizations of a sort that …

Dave DeCamp (2023-02-21). Victoria Nuland Says US Supports Ukrainian Attacks on Crimea. news.antiwar.com Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, said last week that the US is "supporting" Ukrainian attacks on Crimea and called Russian military installations on the peninsula "legitimate targets." Nuland made the comments when asked about a report from The New York Times that was published in January and said the Biden administration …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-02-20). Sy Hersh & the Way We Live Now. transcend.org 9 Feb 2023 – It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called Western democracies that Sy Hersh cannot get the monumental revelation of US destruction of the Nordstream pipelines on the front page of The Washington Post or The New York Times, but has to self-publish on the net.

Jake Johnson (2023-02-20). Trump's Former Budget Director Is Advising GOP to Cut Medicaid by $2 Trillion. truthout.org The right-wing official who served as budget director for the Trump administration is reportedly playing a significant advisory role for House Republicans as they seek to leverage a fast-approaching debt ceiling crisis to enact spending cuts that would disproportionately impact low-income households. According to The Washington Post, former Office of Management and Budget chief Russ Vought "has… |

Sahra Wagenknecht & Christoph Habermann (2023-02-20). Stumbling into world war and Ukraine War. indybay.org We are on a slippery slope that could end in a world war and a nuclear apocalypse. And it is also clear that for going to war, the West would have to sacrifice those "values" that have so far been used to justify war, first and foremost freedom of speech and democracy. For such a step into the abyss could hardly be made palatable to the population, even with continued propaganda.

Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. (2023-02-19). The American Empire Is A Sore Loser That Will Get Us All Killed. popularresistance.org The American Empire is unmatched in its warmongering and its propaganda alike. This process occurs by design. The endless streams of misinformation pouring out of U.S.-dominated corporate media manufacture consent for the American Empire's endless wars. However, seeds of desperation are beginning to bloom in the U.S. and the Collective West's imperial garden. The ruling elite, generally so confident in the inherent truths of American exceptionalism and the West's imperial superiority, are now being confronted with an uncomfortable reality: the American empire is losing.

Editor (2023-02-19). Patrick Lawrence: Munich as Propaganda Fest. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love Wang Yi's response when The New York Times's Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday and asked the Chinese foreign minister if he planned to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines. "He simply chuckled," Crowley wrote of …

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-02-19). 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 edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Staff (2023-02-20). Latin America Is Working to End the Monroe Doctrine. davidswanson.org

Sahra Wagenknecht & Christoph Habermann (2023-02-20). Stumbling into world war and Ukraine War. indybay.org We are on a slippery slope that could end in a world war and a nuclear apocalypse. And it is also clear that for going to war, the West would have to sacrifice those "values" that have so far been used to justify war, first and foremost freedom of speech and democracy. For such a step into the abyss could hardly be made palatable to the population, even with continued propaganda.

Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. (2023-02-19). The American Empire Is A Sore Loser That Will Get Us All Killed. popularresistance.org The American Empire is unmatched in its warmongering and its propaganda alike. This process occurs by design. The endless streams of misinformation pouring out of U.S.-dominated corporate media manufacture consent for the American Empire's endless wars. However, seeds of desperation are beginning to bloom in the U.S. and the Collective West's imperial garden. The ruling elite, generally so confident in the inherent truths of American exceptionalism and the West's imperial superiority, are now being confronted with an uncomfortable reality: the American empire is losing.

Editor (2023-02-19). Patrick Lawrence: Munich as Propaganda Fest. scheerpost.com By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love Wang Yi's response when The New York Times's Michael Crowley caught him in a hallway at the Munich Security Conference Saturday and asked the Chinese foreign minister if he planned to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the sidelines. "He simply chuckled," Crowley wrote of …

Yuri Rubtsov (2023-02-19). 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 edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

Staff (2023-02-20). Latin America Is Working to End the Monroe Doctrine. davidswanson.org

Ann Brown (2023-02-19). Fact Check: Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley is a Punjabi Born in India Who Passes as White, Listed White on Voter Registration. moguldom.com There is much discussion centered around the newly announced GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley. Is she white? Is she Indian, passing for white? Was she born in India? Haley, 51, is the two-term Governor of South Carolina and the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Haley, a former President Donald Trump supporter, was born …

Anonymous103 (2023-02-19). Taibbi: US Senator Wanted ZeroHedge Banned From Twitter. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Originally published by Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, he has continued to keep his promise of transparency with regard to the company's past behavior | Thanks to the revelations in the so-called 'Twitter Files', we have seen clear evidence that the FBI and other three-letter agencies worked directly with various social media entities to suppress perfectly "lawful sp…

Sahra Wagenknecht & Christoph Habermann (2023-02-19). Stumbling into world war and Ukraine War. indybay.org We are on a slippery slope that could end in a world war and a nuclear apocalypse. And it is also clear that for going to war, the West would have to sacrifice those "values" that have so far been used to justify war, first and foremost freedom of speech and democracy. For such a step into the abyss could hardly be made palatable to the population, even with continued propaganda.

Dan Fournier (2023-02-18). "Propaganda Attacks": How NATO Is Committing "Cyber Warfare" Against the Global Masses. globalresearch.ca

Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. (2023-02-18). Ethiopia: The Tigray Famine Narrative Was A Total Fabrication. popularresistance.org Stephen Were Omamo served as Director of the World Food Program in Ethiopia from 2018 to 2021. From that viewpoint he saw the international community misrepresent facts on the ground in the two-year Ethiopian civil war in service to what he called the "good-guy TPLF vs. bad-guy Government story line that was already fully developed and circulating globally" shortly after the war began in November 2020. | The US and its Western allies had designated Tigrayans and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as the good guys, what Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman called "worthy victims" in Manufacturing Consent.

Misión Verdad (2023-02-18). New Evidence of US Involvement in Blowing Up Nord Stream. orinocotribune.com

americanthinker (2023-02-18). New York Times accuses 'right-wing' Americans of exploiting Ohio disaster to unfairly 'sow distrust' in big government. americanthinker.com Who do these skeptic conservatives think they are to question Daddy EPA?>