_____ (2025-01-07). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

Steve Topple (2025-01-07). DWP staff bonuses topped £11 MILLION — just as it plunged countless people into poverty. thecanary.co The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under fire once again. This time, it's around it giving civil servants bonuses of up to £14,000. However, the right-wing corporate media framing of the story isn't quite right — because it was disabled people who suffered at the expense of civil servants. It wasn't a […] | By

A A (2025-01-07). Cecilia Sala, o della stupidità della narrazione occidentale. strategic-culture.su La propaganda occidentale fatta di distorsione e manipolazione ha un nuovo volto del mese: Cecilia Sala. Riflettori puntati, telecamere accese, ultima lettura al copione e… si comincia! | Segue nostro Fatti e… misfatti | àà uno schema già noto e perfettamente funzionante quello adottato nel caso di Cecilia Sala, all'anagrafe giornalista del mainstream italiano, arrivata in Iran il 13 dicembre con un visto giornalistico e arres…

A Guest Author (2025-01-07). Black Alliance for Peace: Propaganda greased wheels for U.S. aggression in Syria. workers.org Jacqueline Luqman — vice chair of the Black Alliance for Peace's coordinating committee and co-coordinator of the Mid Atlantic region and the D.C. Citywide Alliance of the Black Alliance for Peace — gave this edited presentation on the United National Antiwar Coalition's webinar on the U.S. role in Syria. Jacqueline . . . |

A A (2025-01-07). Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East editor exposed as CIA, Mossad collaborator. strategic-culture.su Asenior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network's systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC's Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

Staff (2025-01-07). Video Surfaces of Syria's New Justice Minister Overseeing Executions of Women in 2015. defenddemocracy.press At the time, Shadi al-Waisi was enforcing Sharia law in areas controlled by al-Nusra Front, the al-Qaeda affiliate that was a predecessor to HTS by Dave DeCamp January 5, 2025 Videos have surfaced online of Syria's new justice minister, Shadi al-Waisi, overseeing the execution of two women in 2015 over charges of adultery and prostitution. …

_____ (2025-01-06). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

UMMID (2025-01-06). Fact Check: Has this Pakistani boy married his own mother? ummid.com A viral video showing a Pakistani boy arranging her mother's second marriage is being shared with a false claim that he himself has married his mother.

Ed Sykes (2025-01-06). Musk's own AI calls him out as his timeline becomes a gutter of racist fake news. thecanary.co Billionaire Elon Musk inserted himself further into Western politics in 2024 with his game-changing support for Donald Trump. He then turned his attention to the UK, threatening to boost Reform even further. But at the start of 2025, his X timeline has become even more awful than it usually is. And even his own artificial […] | By

Steve Topple (2025-01-06). Ed Davey appears to be the only politician talking sense over Elon Musk. thecanary.co As batshit tech billionaire Elon Musk further spreads racist fake news and disinformation across his X feed, while courting far-right fascists (probably because he is one), UK Lib Dem leader Ed Davey appears to be one of the few politicians taking sense — as he directly calls for the UK government to intervene. Elon Musk: […] | By

Tom Sandborn, Rabble. (2025-01-06). 2024: Workers Organized, Bosses Grew Nervous. popularresistance.org If in the 19th century Marx and Engels could prematurely proclaim that Communist revolution was a "spectre haunting Europe," in 2024 the business class of North America and its compliant mainstream press were growing increasingly nervous about a different but related spectre, a working class that was showing signs of increased and well organized militance. | Strikes were more common and workers, still remembering the hypocritical Covid-era praise for them as heroes and…

_____ (2025-01-06). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

UMMID (2025-01-06). Fact Check: Has this Pakistani boy married his own mother? ummid.com A viral video showing a Pakistani boy arranging her mother's second marriage is being shared with a false claim that he himself has married his mother.

Ed Sykes (2025-01-06). Musk's own AI calls him out as his timeline becomes a gutter of racist fake news. thecanary.co Billionaire Elon Musk inserted himself further into Western politics in 2024 with his game-changing support for Donald Trump. He then turned his attention to the UK, threatening to boost Reform even further. But at the start of 2025, his X timeline has become even more awful than it usually is. And even his own artificial […] | By

Steve Topple (2025-01-06). Ed Davey appears to be the only politician talking sense over Elon Musk. thecanary.co As batshit tech billionaire Elon Musk further spreads racist fake news and disinformation across his X feed, while courting far-right fascists (probably because he is one), UK Lib Dem leader Ed Davey appears to be one of the few politicians taking sense — as he directly calls for the UK government to intervene. Elon Musk: […] | By

Tom Sandborn, Rabble. (2025-01-06). 2024: Workers Organized, Bosses Grew Nervous. popularresistance.org If in the 19th century Marx and Engels could prematurely proclaim that Communist revolution was a "spectre haunting Europe," in 2024 the business class of North America and its compliant mainstream press were growing increasingly nervous about a different but related spectre, a working class that was showing signs of increased and well organized militance. | Strikes were more common and workers, still remembering the hypocritical Covid-era praise for them as heroes and…

_____ (2025-01-05). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

Rhoda Wilson (2025-01-05). Tommy Robinson speaks out from prison. expose-news.com The establishment hates Tommy Robinson. Why? Because he is a working-class lad standing up for the working class and the "elites" don't like it. Despite corporate media's demonisation of him, he has …

Rhoda Wilson (2025-01-05). The UK government and corporate media's blatant propaganda in an attempt to convince the public that digital IDs will benefit them. expose-news.com The UK government, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is intensifying its push for a digital identity system, with the launch of the Office for Digital Identities and Attributes and its Digital …

UMMID (2025-01-05). Fact Check: Has this Pakistani boy married his own mother? ummid.com A viral video showing a Pakistani boy arranging her mother's second marriage is being shared with a false claim that he himself has married his mother.

Arvind Dilawar (2025-01-05). Europe Continues to Import Israeli Gas Amid Genocide in Gaza. counterpunch.org On December 17, a Dutch nonprofit organization dedicated to corporate accountability, SOMO, published a study of Israel's energy sector amid the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip. Since Palestinian militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli forces have killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, including 17,000 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as cited by Al Jazeera. The true toll of the genocide — obscured by continued Israeli attacks, blockade and propaganda — may top 330,000 deaths by the end of the year, per estimates published in The Guardian. | To read th…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. thealtworld.com Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy. Exploitation. Consumerism. | Many rightists warn urgently that our s…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-01-05). We Live In A Nightmare. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense. | Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centur…