Liberation From Insanity: Moscow Suburb in Open Rebellion Against Sobyanin's Covid Gulag
Edward Slavsquat | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
In a quiet town not far from Moscow, a nameless hero unceremoniously cut the Caution tape that once vandalized the neighborhood swing set. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, children are playing in the park as their parents (probably now unemployed, but with their self-respect forever intact) stroll arm in arm. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, my son's great-grandmother (once harassed by the police for daring to show her face) now marches through the streets. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, public trashcans reveal a holocaust of Non-Essential Activity. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, t…
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'Illegitimate presence': Iran says Persian Gulf confrontation was sparked by US Navy encroaching on planned drills
rt.com | 2020-05-01
A US-Iran confrontation in the Persian Gulf earlier this month kicked off due to the US Navy's unauthorised presence during Iran's planned military drills, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official has said. | IRGC naval commander Alireza Tangsiri told local media that the US forces were an "illegitimate presence" at the planned military maneuvers, "so they were ordered to leave." | Also on rt.com | | 'Dangerous & harassing'? WATCH Iranian boats buzz US Navy vessels 'patrolling' Persian Gulf | Responding to US accusations that the IRGC f…
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Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/pers…
The Deterioration of the United States
Troy Prouty* | indybay.org | 2020-05-01
COVID-19 is just a Virus. Propaganda is the Disease.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/29/1883268…
Remdesivir as "miracle drug": Back-to-work propaganda vs. science
wsws.org | 2020-05-01
The media's adulation of this "breakthrough" takes place in the midst of an increasingly frenzied effort to create the impression that the virus is "under control" and the crisis is all but over.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/01/pers…
Corporate Looting as 'Rescue Plan,' Robber Barons as 'Saviors'
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-05-01
Framing a massive corporate bailout as a "rescue package" (NPR, 3/27/20) was a PR coup. | For a perfect illustration of how corporate media function as ruling class propaganda, watch how they spin a titanic upward redistribution of wealth as a "rescue plan" for the US economy, and paint a robber baron like US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin as…
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Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-01
"Meat Improves Mental Health" mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the "study," published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, was funded by an "unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen's Beef Association." Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat. Whereas only…
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Trump's Immigration Suspension Doesn't Prevent Unemployment or COVID-19 Spread
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-30
Late on the evening of April 20, President Trump tweeted that he was temporarily suspending immigration to the United States. For justification he cited what he called "the attack from the Invisible Enemy"
Neurotechnology Overview: Wiring Human Brains Directly to Computers
Filippa Lentzos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Elon Musk's newest venture, Neuralink, is attempting to wire brains directly to computers. The start-up's vision is to insert thousands of tiny threads into the neurons of your brain. The other ends of the threads are attached to chips, embedded …
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Lying and Dying, the Deception Game Around the Pandemic
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-30
We're heading to the other side of the mirror, to that area between fabricated truth and the lies that lie hidden. Spoiler alert! | We begin with the inexplicable and a thinly veiled accusation. It is possible and perhaps very likely, even extremely likely, that information about the real nature of COVID 19 and how it kills is being withheld because the truth destroys the "China did it" narrative the White House is pushing to cover its potential complicity. | We have identified a broad program of censorship of information about COVID 19 that attacks the idea that it is a naturally occurring virus. The door that i…
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The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
The Alternative World | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-30
Matt Taibbi- As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet | Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine
'Dirty cop Comey got caught!': Trump unloads on FBI after documents reveal effort to set up General Flynn
rt.com | 2020-04-30
President Donald Trump has bashed former FBI Director James Comey, after unsealed documents revealed an agency plot to entrap Gen. Michael Flynn in a bid to take down the Trump presidency. | "DIRTY COP JAMES COMEY GOT CAUGHT!" Trump tweeted on Thursday morning, in one of a series of tweets lambasting the FBI's prosecution of retired army general Michael Flynn, which he called a "scam." | DIRTY COP JAMES COMEY GOT CAUGHT!– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 30, 2020 | Flynn served as Trump's national sec…
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With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-29
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli fabrication designed to trigger US military conflict with Iran. | President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal with Iran and continued to risk war with Iran based on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim to have proven definitively that Iran was determined to manufacture nuclear weapons. Netanyahu not only spun Trump but much of the corporate media as well, duping them with the public unveiling of what he claimed was the entire secret Iranian "nuclear…
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Corona May Well Be a China Crisis, but It Will Be One Which the West Pays For
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-04-29
Trump and now the EU appear to be even weaker following the coronavirus and how China is implicated but comes out tougher itself. China, post corona, is set to divide the EU, which will please Trump. But the EU accusing China of fake news? Has the world gone mad? | Hypocrisy, confusion and graft seem to be the order of the day in the Trump corner at present over corona and the country which many believe produced it, China. We are led to believe that Trump was on the verge of signing off a great trade deal between the U.S. and China when the virus started to make the headlines in December. In fact, in January, he…
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Why America's Enemy Is England, Not Russia
Andrey Areshev | strategic-culture.org | 2020-04-29
Eric ZUESSE | America's sole enemy during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was England. Ever since being defeated in that war, England (controlled by the British aristocracy) has tried various ways to regain its control over America. The British aristocracy's latest attempt to regain control over America started in 1877, and continues today, as the two countries' "Deep State"
Peter Kuznick and The Global Covid 19 Solidarity Manifesto
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-27
Historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of "The Untold History of the United States," returns to the Project Censored Show to discuss his latest project: working with a team of other…
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Their Second Recession: For the Second Time in Their Lives, Millennials Will Head to the Polls with an Economic Depression Looming
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-04-25
By Nolan Higdon On Election Day 2020, millennials face a difficult choice: vote or stay home. Either way, their decision will need to be accompanied by wide-spread activism, something they…
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Corporate Media Deny Their Own Existence, Despite Driving Biden's Primary Victory
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-04-24
If someone were to tell you that major and influential business sectors like the fossil fuel and health insurance industries simply don't exist, or imply that major corporations like ExxonMobil and Cigna don't try to manipulate public opinion and advance a political agenda in order to protect and maximize their profits, you might find it hard to contain your laughter. | But looking at corporate media's coverage of corporate media, one gets the sense that anyone who dares to suggest that media corporations like Comcast-owned MSNBC, AT&T-owned CNN or News Corp…
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Syria is not under lockdown, is not the dystopian society of war propagandists
Eva Bartlett | thealtworld.com | 2020-05-01
After seeing a pathetic propaganda piece on life in Syria during Covid, shared by a Beirut-based representative for the Canadian regime…I decided to both address the shoddy article and add my own thoughts on life in Syria nowadays. | Basically, the piece claims people are cowering in fear and under lockdown here (we/they are not, there's a partial curfew, people still on the street, in mark…
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