Monthly Archives: July 2019

2019-07-25: News Headlines

Yves Engler (2019-07-25). Media Ignoring US Officials Saying Trudeau Adopts "America First" foreign policy. counterpunch.org Wouldn't you think the corporate media would be interested in the US embassy's reaction to the appointment of a new Canadian foreign minister? Especially if that reaction was to claim Ottawa had decided to adopt an "America First" foreign policy? Wouldn't some big newspaper or TV station, dedicated to telling the truth about what our More

Media Lens (2019-07-25). The Campaign to Stop Corbyn — Smears, Racism and Censorship. globalresearch.ca The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to …

Mark Taliano (2019-07-25). Imperial Duplicity and Mass Murder. globalresearch.ca A staple of Western war propaganda is what Prof. John McMurtry calls "Reverse Projection". The U.S. Empire, for example, projects its own crimes against prey nations. | So, it projects the lie that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is a "brutal …

Paul Krassner (2019-07-25). The Ten Suggestions. counterpunch.org 1) Stay well-informed and be on the alert for disinformation; besides mainstream media, check out alternative papers and the Internet, especially the international press. 2) Maintain empathy for the motivation of terrorists and sympathizers, bearing in mind that they are victims of their own conditioning. 3) Start saving the world by acting in every aspect More

Staff (2019-07-24). Trump Sues House Panel, NY, to Protect State Tax Returns. truthdig.com NEW YORK — Opening up another legal front against the Democrats investigating him, President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials to prevent his state tax returns from being turned over to the congressional committee. | The lawsuit seeks an injunction to block the application of a new New York state law that could allow the Democratic-controlled House and Ways Means Committee to obtain the returns. The lawsuit, filed in Was…

Patrick Walker (2019-07-24). The bipartisan BIG LIE: Trump's climate genocide is normal. nationofchange.org Emulating Goebbels—but through Deafening Silence Anyone acquainted with propaganda's sordid history will recognize the words "big lie"—capitalized for emphasis in my article heading—as associated with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The words form part of an often cited passage (in fact probably a forgery wrongly attributed to Goebbels): If you tell a lie big enough …

Staff (2019-07-24). Remember 2016? Don't Put Your Faith in Political Polls. truthout.org | | "Averages and relationships and trends and graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less." —Darrell Huff, How to Lie With StatisticsHuff wrote his famous warning in 1954. Sixty-five years later, political polling somehow still dominates the "mainstream" national discourse. Even after what I call The Great Polling Uberfail of 2016, we still find ourselves mired in the statistical mud; "facts" are as malleable as mood, and clarity has…

Ed Sykes (2019-07-24). May launches one final attack on Corbyn at her last PMQs, but it totally backfires. thecanary.co Theresa May threw one last jab at Jeremy Corbyn during her final Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) on 24 July. But it failed to land. | Propaganda to the last moment: | The outgoing prime minister accused Corbyn of using "fake news and fake information" at PMQs. | Corbyn has shared numerous statistics in parliament since becoming the leader of the Labour Party. And 24 July was no different. Holding May to a…

Yves Engler (2019-07-23). Trudeau's "America First" Policy. dissidentvoice.org Wouldn't you think the corporate media would be interested in the US embassy's reaction to the appointment of a new Canadian foreign minister? Especially if that reaction was to claim Ottawa had decided to adopt an "America First" foreign policy? Wouldn't some big newspaper or TV station, dedicated to telling the truth about what our …

Lucas Koerner (2019-07-23). Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela. fair.org When previously unknown Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaidó stood up in an East Caracas plaza and declared himself "interim president" of the South American country, Western corporate media were ebullient. | In those heady early days, corporate journalists could scarcely conceal their love affair with the 35-year-old politician, whom they likened to Barack Obama (CNN, 2/7/19) and described as a "freedom fighter" (Fox Business, 1/29/19)…

ACLU (2019-07-22). Arkansas Wants to Make Sure You Know 'Almonds Don't Lactate'. aclu.org An Arkansas law censoring plant-based products isn't just absurd and unnecessary, it's unconstitutional. | The state of Arkansas thinks you're confused about whether a veggie burger comes from a cow. In fact, it thinks you're so confused that it passed a law making it illegal for companies to use words like "meat," "roast," and "sausage" to describe products that are not made from animals. Under the law, it doesn't matter if those words are modified by "vegan…

Media Lens (2019-07-22). The Campaign To Stop Corbyn: Smears, Racism And Censorship. dissidentvoice.org The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must …

susan_p (2019-07-19). Venezuela: Trump diverts Central America aid to Guaido as EU threatens more sanctions. greenleft.org.au Juan Guaido's team is receiving over US$40 million through USAID to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.

Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-18). Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions. venezuelanalysis.com Guaido's team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.

Staff (2019-07-16). "Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack. democracynow.org Congressmembers Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar condemned President Trump's spate of racist attacks against them in a news conference Monday. Their public rebuke followed Trump tweeting Sunday telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." The comments have been widely condemned as racist and xenophobic. We hear from the progressive congresswomen in their own words.

John Perry (2019-07-16). A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling. thegrayzone.com Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…

Ben Norton (2019-07-10). The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson. thegrayzone.com Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…

2019-07-25: Social Media Postees

Media Ignoring US Officials Saying Trudeau Adopts "America First" foreign policy
Yves Engler | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
Wouldn't you think the corporate media would be interested in the US embassy's reaction to the appointment of a new Canadian foreign minister? Especially if that reaction was to claim Ottawa had decided to adopt an "America First" foreign policy? Wouldn't some big newspaper or TV station, dedicated to telling the truth about what our…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/25/media-ignori…

The Campaign to Stop Corbyn — Smears, Racism and Censorship
Media Lens | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to …
globalresearch.ca/campaign-stop-corbyn-s…

Imperial Duplicity and Mass Murder
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
A staple of Western war propaganda is what Prof. John McMurtry calls "Reverse Projection". The U.S. Empire, for example, projects its own crimes against prey nations. | So, it projects the lie that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is a "brutal …
globalresearch.ca/imperial-duplicity-mas…

The Ten Suggestions
Paul Krassner | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
1) Stay well-informed and be on the alert for disinformation; besides mainstream media, check out alternative papers and the Internet, especially the international press. 2) Maintain empathy for the motivation of terrorists and sympathizers, bearing in mind that they are victims of their own conditioning. 3) Start saving the world by acting in every aspect…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/25/the-ten-sugg…

Trump Sues House Panel, NY, to Protect State Tax Returns
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-24
NEW YORK — Opening up another legal front against the Democrats investigating him, President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials to prevent his state tax returns from being turned over to the congressional committee. | The lawsuit seeks an injunction to block the application of a new New York state law that could allow the Democratic-controlled House and Ways Means Committee to obtain the returns. The lawsuit, filed in Was…
truthdig.com/articles/trump-sues-house-p…

The bipartisan BIG LIE: Trump's climate genocide is normal
Patrick Walker | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-24
Emulating Goebbels–but through Deafening Silence Anyone acquainted with propaganda's sordid history will recognize the words "big lie"–capitalized for emphasis in my article heading–as associated with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. The words form part of an often cited passage (in fact probably a forgery wrongly attributed to Goebbels): If you tell a lie big enough …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/24/the-bipart…

May launches one final attack on Corbyn at her last PMQs, but it totally backfires
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-07-24
Theresa May threw one last jab at Jeremy Corbyn during her final Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) on 24 July. But it failed to land. | Propaganda to the last moment: | The outgoing prime minister accused Corbyn of using "fake news and fake information" at PMQs. | Corbyn has shared numerous statistics in parliament since becoming the leader of the Labour Party. And 24 July was no different. Holding May to a…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/24/may-launches-one-final-attack-on-corbyn-at-her-last-pmqs-but-it-totally-backfires/

Local is Our Future
Helena Norberg-Hodge | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-24
For our species to have a future, it must be local. The good news is that the path to such a future is already being forged. Away from the screens of the mainstream media, the crude 'bigger is better' narrative that has dominated economic thinking for centuries is being challenged by a much gentler, more…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/24/local-is-our…

Remember 2016? Don't Put Your Faith in Political Polls
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-24
| "Averages and relationships and trends and graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less." –Darrell Huff, How to Lie With StatisticsHuff wrote his famous warning in 1954. Sixty-five years later, political polling somehow still dominates the "mainstream" national discourse. Even after what I call The Great Polling Uberfail of 2016, we still find ourselves mired in the statistical mud; "facts" are as malleable as mood, and clarity has…
truthout.org/articles/remember-2016-dont…

Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2019-07-23
When previously unknown Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaidó stood up in an East Caracas plaza and declared himself "interim president" of the South American country, Western corporate media were ebullient. | In those heady early days, corporate journalists could scarcely conceal their love affair with the 35-year-old politician, whom they likened to Barack Obama (CNN, 2/7/19) and described as a "freedom fighter" (Fox Business, 1/29/19)…
fair.org/home/western-media-losing-enthu…

Trudeau's "America First" Policy
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-23
Wouldn't you think the corporate media would be interested in the US embassy's reaction to the appointment of a new Canadian foreign minister? Especially if that reaction was to claim Ottawa had decided to adopt an "America First" foreign policy? Wouldn't some big newspaper or TV station, dedicated to telling the truth about what our …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/trudeaus-amer…

The Campaign To Stop Corbyn: Smears, Racism And Censorship
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-22
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/the-campaign-…

Arkansas Wants to Make Sure You Know 'Almonds Don't Lactate'
aclu.org | 2019-07-22
An Arkansas law censoring plant-based products isn't just absurd and unnecessary, it's unconstitutional. | The state of Arkansas thinks you're confused about whether a veggie burger comes from a cow. In fact, it thinks you're so confused that it passed a law making it illegal for companies to use words like "meat," "roast," and "sausage" to describe products that are not made from animals. Under the law, it doesn't matter if those words are modified by "vegan…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/arkansas-wants…

Venezuela: Trump diverts Central America aid to Guaido as EU threatens more sanctions
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
Juan Guaido's team is receiving over US$40 million through USAID to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.
greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-trump-diverts-central-america-aid-guaido-eu-threatens-more-sanctions

Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-18
Guaido's team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14592

"Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-16
Congressmembers Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar condemned President Trump's spate of racist attacks against them in a news conference Monday. Their public rebuke followed Trump tweeting Sunday telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." The comments have been widely condemned as racist and xenophobic. We hear from the progressive congresswomen in their own words.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/16/trump_rac…

A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-16
Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/15/a-year-after-…

A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-16
Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/15/a-year-after-…

The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-10
Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/10/the-guardian-…