(2020-03-09). Police in Westminster shoot dead a man carrying two knives. thecanary.co 
A man armed with two knives has been shot dead by police in Westminster.Officers were patrolling near Whitehall at about 11.30pm on Sunday when they noticed a man acting suspiciously.When challenged, he produced two knives and was shot. The incident is not related to terrorism, police said. | Forensic investigators were at the scene in Great Scotland Yard on Monday — a road that connects Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square.It skirts the Department of International Trade, contains the Civil Service Club and various hotels and bars, and is about half a mile from the Metropolitan Police h…
(2020-03-09). Trump says crashing markets good for consumers, blames Russia, Saudi Arabia and Fake News. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether a sudden, massive drop in oil prices is good or bad for the country, so he's hedged his bets on Twitter, suggesting it's "Good for the consumer" but bad for markets. | Blaming the "market drop" on "Saudi Arabia and Russia…arguing over the price and flow of oil" in a Monday morning tweet, the president whipsawed around and – within the same minute! – bragged that the resulting chaos was "good for the consumer," because gas prices would go down. | Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil. That, and the Fake News, is the reason for…
(2020-03-09). Woody Allen, we will publish your book. rt.com 
We will publish your book – if you wish – because we believe no one's life story should be silenced, and that all sides deserve a fair hearing. | We will publish your book because we trust that adults should have a free choice whether to read it or not. | We will publish your book because we are against corporate cowardice that becomes corporate censorship. | We will publish your book because we do not endorse Twitter mob justice and blacklists. | We will publish your book because you were not found guilty of any crime before the law, but that has counted for nothing. | We will publish your book because we sti…
(2020-03-09). What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About Latin American Socialism. truthdig.com Corporate media seems unable to process that a U.S. politician has something positive to say about the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua.
(2020-03-09). Many New Voting Systems Aren't Ready for Prime Time. truthdig.com Put aside, for now, foreign meddling in U.S. elections, social media propaganda and partisan voter suppression. The newest emerging threat to elections in 2020 is new voting systems that have been insufficiently tested and phased in, but have been debuting in many of 2020's presidential primaries and caucuses. | Since the Iowa Democratic Party's presidential caucuses, there has been a string of new technology-based failures and frustrations—despite officials' and voting system designers' intentions. The failures share some common elements, from data connectivity issues to machinery breakdowns to poor planni…
(2020-03-09). Bolivia: Parliament Censors Jeanine àÅñez's Allies Minister. telesurenglish.net The Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia (ALP) on Monday censored the de facto Bolivian Defense Minister Luis Fernando López. This legal action is founded on the functionary's refusal to declare his implication and responsibility in manifesting repression last November that left many dead and wounded in the Andean nation. | RELATED: | With this act, the bicameral parliamentary body rejected a third minist…
(2020-03-08). Facebook controlled by right-wing echo chamber, Clinton claims, accusing social media of bias against her. rt.com 
Despite numerous accusations of censorship from conservatives, Hillary Clinton is claiming right-wing outlets have "mastered" Facebook and use it against her. | In a Sunday interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Clinton was asked about a Vox article presenting research claiming the story on Facebook to receive the most interactions on Super Tuesday was one about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. | "Fox and the sort of right-wing echo chamber has mastered Facebook, aided and abetted, might I say, from Facebook," Clinton responded. | She claims "algorithms" used by Facebook are ke…
(2020-03-07). Two Years Later: The Skripal Case Is Weirder Than Ever. dissidentvoice.org 
While navigating through today's propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. This is vital in …
(2020-03-07). MSM campaign against Sanders made half of America believe Bernie's like a 'CORONAVIRUS in a suit' — Lee Camp. rt.com 
The corporate media certainly spared no effort in portraying Bernie Sanders as the biggest threat to America ahead of Super Tuesday, yet they failed to set him back, US comedian and host of RT's Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp, said. | The media as well as the Democratic National Committee "spent five days before the contest trashing Bernie Sanders in any way they come up with," Camp recalled. | "By the end of it, even I was sure Bernie fathered a love child with Fidel Castro and the Lyme disease. By Tuesday, much of America was sure that Bernie is something like a coronavirus wearing a Larry David skin suit." | Y…
(2020-03-07). Another corporate media smear against Bernie Sanders. wsws.org A New York Times article claims that Soviet officials saw cultivating ties with Sanders in the 1980s as a political "opportunity."
(2020-03-07). 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.
(2020-03-06). All the Devastating Epidemics That Coronavirus is Distracting Us From. counterpunch.org Almost every day the BBC's One-minute World News provides the latest death tally from coronavirus. The short news wrap-up typically covers about three news items only, meaning that for the BBC, the virus has been among the top three most important issues for the world, daily for the last two months. All the other mainstream
(2020-03-03). Keep It Simple and Question: Propaganda, Technology, and Coronavirus (COVID-19). dissidentvoice.org My father, a well-educated lawyer with a very sophisticated mind, used to advise me to "keep it simple." By simple he didn't mean simplistic. He meant fundamentally logical and to the point. So I will do that here and stick to some simple realities, now that understanding what is going on in the world has …
(2020-03-02). Fake News, False Democracy and Phony Economics. dissidentvoice.org The growing popularity of an American social democratic presidential candidate who calls himself a democratic socialist has revived every anti-humanity distortion of the past, emanating from the tiny minority ruling our country through its servant class of professionals in media and politics. Newer and more bloody mythologies about supposedly existing socialisms are expanding on the …
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
(2020-02-12). Neo-Confederate Attorney Accused of Mishandling Clients' Money Promoted Online Trolling, Harassment. splcenter.org Harold Ray Crews, attorney and chairman of the North Carolina chapter of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South, must attend a hearing Feb. 21 to determine whether the state bar association will suspend his law license.