(2020-03-14). Top Indian Lyricist Gets Trolled for Reaction to BJP Parliamentarian's Tweet on Muslims. sputniknews.com New Delhi (Sputnik): Subramanian Swamy, a legislator from India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is known for his comments tinted with Hinduisms and has sparked controversy in the past. Similarly, top Indian lyricist, Javed Akhtar, has locked horns with the BJP parliamentarian in the past over the latter's social media posts.
(2020-03-13). Bill de Blasio, Climate Troll. counterpunch.org Bike ticket sting at 59th and 1st Avenue. Two cops ticketing, I think, when folks turn right on red coming south/off the Queensboro Bridge. Good lord, how do you schedule the spring ticket traps at the same time as you tell people to bike to work? Those tweets, from a bicycle commuter and local journalist,
(2020-03-13). Dominican Republic Prepares for Polls Amid Political Crisis. telesurenglish.net Next Sunday, extraordinary municipal elections will be held in the Dominican Republic amid an unprecedented political crisis and almost no propaganda activity by the candidates. | RELATED: | This Thursday closed the candidates' electoral campaign in the country with an absolute silence of the candidates. | The proselytizing work of the political parties was silenced by the widespread protests that have shaken the Cari…
(2020-03-12). Coronavirus update: Countries urged to fight 'controllable' pandemic. news.un.org With the COVID-19 outbreak now a pandemic, countries should not let up on efforts to fight its spread, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva on Thursday.
(2020-03-11). A Case Study of Corporate Media Disinformation. dissidentvoice.org Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian "election interference," on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China's Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Palestine, among others. One of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba, well covered in Keith Bolender's Manufacturing the Enemy: …
(2020-03-11). How Black Swans Are Shaping Planet Panic. iranian.com Is the planet under the spell of a range of Black Swans — a Wall Street meltdown caused by an alleged oil war between Russia and the House of Saud, plus the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 — leading to an all-out "cross-asset pandemonium," as billed by Nomura, the Japanese holding company? Or, as German analyst Peter Spengler …
(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.