Who is Behind "Fake News"? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which they categorize as "fake news". Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down.
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We Won't Stop COVID-19 with "Chickenpox Parties"
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-22
Thumbing their noses at both government directives and the coronavirus, right-wing protestors have been massing at state capitols in Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, and Texas to demand the lifting of stay-at-home orders issued by Democratic governors. President Donald Trump has responded in a way that looks a whole lot like a call to insurrection. On April 17, Trump tweeted "LIBERATE MICHIGAN," "LIBERATE MINNESOTA," and 'LIBERATE VIRGINIA," apparently mistaking those states for Paris in 1944.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro escalates coup threats as ruling class pushes "back-to-work" orders
wsws.org | 2020-04-22
As COVID-19 spread uncontrolled across the country, Bolsonaro delivered a fascist rant in front of hundreds of supporters gathered at Brazil's Army headquarters.
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Tory 'herd immunity' propaganda campaign unearthed
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-22
TruePublica Editor: Have we not all had enough of incompetent government yet? If not, here's another one to make your blood boil. John O'Connell, the founder at the Far Right Watch, the anti-racist group has sent out some news that he is investigating a propaganda campaign set up by the Conservatives that supports the 'herd …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/tory-herd-immunity-propaganda-campaign-unearthed/
Trump Tweets Plan to Suspend All Immigration to US
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-21
President Donald Trump declared in a tweet late Monday night that he intends to sign an executive order "temporarily" banning all immigration to the U.S. amid the Covid-19 outbreak, an announcement rights groups condemned as a shameful attempt to scapegoat immigrants that will do nothing to safeguard either Americans' health or jobs. | "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT Ameri…
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Techniques for Treatment of Carotid Stenosis–Reply
Schermerhorn ML, Liang P. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-21
In Reply In response to Dr Sharma and colleagues, we used propensity score matching methods to account for baseline characteristic differences found between patients undergoing transfemoral carotid artery stenting and transcarotid artery revascularization. Although this led to a 50% exclusion of patients from the transfemoral carotid stenting cohort and a 37% exclusion of patients from the transcarotid artery revascularization cohort, these matching methods are important for controlling intrinsic biases found in observational studies. However, we provided unadjusted complete raw data outcomes in eTable 1 in the s…
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Fake 'nurses' propaganda tweets distract from further government coronavirus shambles
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-04-21
Over 100 fake twitter accounts of 'nurses', offering support to the Cabinet's coronavirus (Covid-19) strategy, have apparently appeared, then suddenly disappeared. There has been speculation on Twitter as to their origin.This distraction comes at a time when details of government cock-ups regarding the outbreak appear almost daily.Fake accounts: A claim has emerged that someone, either an employee with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), or via a contracted "marketing agency", created 128 fake NHS twitter accounts. It's alleged that postings on those accounts came from one person and "4 assign…
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MSM sneer at grave of Covid-19 victim because he criticized Ohio lockdown measures
rt.com | 2020-04-21
A man who tragically died after contracting the coronavirus has posthumously found himself at the center of a mainstream media sneer campaign because he questioned the restrictive lockdown measures in his native Ohio. | Despite thousands of people dying from the illness across the world every day, a range of news outlets have taken it upon themselves to exhaustively report on the case of John W. McDaniel
How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theory
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-20
A conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration's Iraqi WMD. And the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/trump-media-c…
Covid-19 Speculation Goes From Margin to Center
Ari Paul | fair.org | 2020-04-17
Government-funded NPR ( 4/10/20) covers government charges that government-run VOA "speaks for America's adversaries." | The fact that President Donald Trump attacked the official US state broadcasting outlet, Voice of America, as an organ of Chinese government propaganda (NPR, 4/10/20) is a testament to just how important anti-China rhetoric is to his political strat…
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Hate Groups and Racist Pundits Spew COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Despite Companies' Pledges to Combat It
Hannah Gais | splcenter.org | 2020-04-16
Hate groups and racist pundits have pushed misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube throughout the crisis, despite companies pledging to fight fake news about the virus.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/17/hate-…
Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2020-04-15
The Trump administration unveiled on March 31 a "democratic transition" plan to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from office, in favor of a "council of state" composed of both opposition and ruling party loyalists. | The plan was, however, less an offer to negotiate than a diktat, with the US State Department ( 3/31/20) vowing that "sanctions will remain in effect, and increase, until the Maduro regime accepts a genuine political transition." | Despite the obvious mafioso over…
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As Nicaragua confronts Covid, its US-backed opposition exploits the pandemic to create chaos
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-13
Nicaragua's right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/13/regime-change…
Colonialism & coronavirus: 800,000 Haitians may die of COVID-19
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-09
Gutted by US-allied, neoliberal governments which have controlled the country since 2004, Haiti's healthcare sector braces for a potential catastrophe….
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/09/colonialism-c…
Trump Temporarily Suspends All Immigration Into The United States
Zero Hedge | iranian.com | 2020-04-21
In a stunning turn of events, late on Monday, President Trump tweeted that "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12524… Trump did not …
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