2020-06-12: News Headlines

John Burn, Harsh Sheth, Faye Elliott, Lynn Reed, Finlay Macrae, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Gabriela Mà∂slein, Fiona E McRonald, Lucio Bertario, D Gareth Evans, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Judy W C Ho, Annika Lindblom, Patrick J Morrison, Jem Rashbass, Raj Ramesar, Toni Seppà§là§, Huw J W Thomas, Kirsi Pylvà§nà§inen, Gillian M Borthwick, John C Mathers, D Timothy Bishop, CAPP2 Investigators (2020-06-13). [Articles] Cancer prevention with aspirin in hereditary colorectal cancer (Lynch syndrome), 10-year follow-up and registry-based 20-year data in the CAPP2 study: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. thelancet.com The case for prevention of colorectal cancer with aspirin in Lynch syndrome is supported by our results.

Ben Norton (2020-06-12). Wikipedia Formally Censors The Grayzone as Regime-change Advocates Monopolize Editing. globalresearch.ca On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia's guidelines. | This is part 1 in a series of investigative reports on …

Stephen Lendman (2020-06-12). ICC Probe of US War Crimes in Afghanistan. Trump Lashes Back. ICC is "Threat" to America. globalresearch.ca It is fairly well established that Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11 — the mother of all state-sponsored false flags, a pretext for the US to smash one nation after another. | US …

Eds. (2020-06-12). Media are slowly starting to be serious about police violence. mronline.org As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later.

_____ (2020-06-12). The scale of computational propaganda applied to get your consent. truepublica.org.uk By TruePublica: The coronavirus crisis has exacerbated tensions over the role of disinformation in international politics. Indeed, few weeks seem to go by without the world's major powers trading accusations of carrying out disinformation campaigns. But while many reports focus on dramatic allegations of countries interfering in the affairs of rival nations, the Peace Research …

Gabriel Kuhn (2020-06-12). Will Science and Reason Save Us? The Liberal Left's False Wall of Defense. counterpunch.org Lies on social media, life-threatening health advice, "alternative facts," info wars, etc. It is easy to be concerned about the disregard for truthfulness, reflection, and sensibility involved in the far-right offensive that has entered government buildings around the world. Yet, it is also troubling that an increasing number of leftists embrace a neoliberal line of

Joyce Nelson (2020-06-12). That "Big Green Meltdown" & The Untouchables. counterpunch.org In his June 9 piece for Counterpunch, entitled "Big Green Meltdown Over Planet of the Humans," Josh Schlossberg revealed the extent to which he was "shunned, censored, slandered and blacklisted" by many environmentalists because of his criticism of biomass energy a decade ago. He relates that experience to what has been happening currently with Big

_____ (2020-06-12). Second wave fears hits business confidence — Britain to fair worst of all developed countries. truepublica.org.uk By TruePublica Editor: Right at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis TruePublica warned of a number of events in various articles that were inevitable despite what the mainstream media and government were saying. We clearly stated that the expected 20,000 fatality rate predicted by the government and their scientific advisors would be little more than …

Philip A Farruggio (2020-06-12). When Millions March against Police Killings. When the Chickens Come Home… globalresearch.ca Malcolm X made some comments on December 1 1963, less than two weeks after the murder of JFK. It was instantly misrepresented by the mainstream media (as they always seem to do, when dealing with any sort of perceived radical …

Daniele Pozzati (2020-06-12). German Official Leaks Ministry of Interior Report Denouncing Corona as 'A Global False Alarm'. globalresearch.ca Germany's federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a
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Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-06-12). Crash of the Dollar? Is the US Dollar Doomed? globalresearch.ca The US Dollar is in trouble. Many of us in the alternative media and several economists who were ignored by the mainstream media and others saw this coming many years ago. The mainstream media is now listening, in this case …

Ron Unz (2020-06-12). Race and Crime in America. globalresearch.ca The recent wave of riots and looting has been the worst our country has seen in two generations, but some of the crucial underlying factors have been avoided by nearly our entire mainstream media, as well as by most conservative …

Eds. (2020-06-11). Inauthentic behavior: SouthFront is the latest victim of the Facebook banhammer. mronline.org The censorship of alternative media is becoming more widespread. The latest victim to fall to Facebook and YouTube's overzealous banhammer is well-known conflict watchdog website, SouthFront.

Norman Solomon (2020-06-11). Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race — and Dodging Class. zcomm.org Economic injustice is vital to the entire U.S. power structure. While many people of all races suffer as a result, people of color are at much greater risk…

VINS (2020-06-11). Alternatives to Policing—The Case for Public Health and Community Development Investments. projectcensored.org By Amber Yang As outrage sparks over police brutality, systemic racism, and socio-economic inequality, activists are calling to defund police. Despite other calls for anti-bias training, civilian review processes, and…

Margaret Kimberley (2020-06-10). Rebellion, Confusion and Kente Cloth: The Establishment Can't Handle Black Lives Matter. mintpressnews.com Suddenly, workers are publicly criticizing their bosses. Politicians are backpedaling and newspapers face revolts when they are caught spreading propaganda. In Europe and the United States monuments to genocidaires are defaced and pulled down.

Stephen Lendman (2020-06-10). Suppressing the Truth, Sustaining The Lie. Censorship is the "New Normal" in America. globalresearch.ca Censorship is the new normal in the US. They're increasingly threatening speech, press, and academic freedoms — how all police states operate. | Tech giants Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others, along with establishment media, are complicit with a campaign to suppress …

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-06-10). Police, Protests, And Human Transformation: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com One of the many good things coming out of these protests is a widening mainstream awareness of what a garbage president Obama was. | ~ | "Without the police you'd have vigilantism!" | Vigilantism? You mean like when a band of armed thugs inflict extrajudicial violence upon someone who pissed them off? Like the police do constantly? | ~ | Right wingers seem completely incapable of distinguishing between the ideology that's all about holding massive demonstrations with the goal of dismantling the police and the ideology that's all about kneeling in front of cameras wearing Kente cloth. This makes cross-ideological…

jamanetwork (2020-06-09). Immunization Against Plague. jamanetwork.com The reiterated plea of scientists for accurately controlled experiments in the determination of the value of measures adopted against disease may seem to some physicians to be somewhat too emphatic. Again and again, however, the disinterested scientist is compelled to protest against the use of statistics and experiments by those commercially interested and by overenthusiastic advocates of the prophylactic use of certain products. How difficult it really is to arrive at definite conclusions relative to the efficacy of many such preventive measures is pointed out by Flu, in a recent discussion of experiments on im…

James ONeill (2020-06-09). The Victims of MH17 Deserve More than the Shoddy Lies Perpetrated by Politicians and Media. globalresearch.ca The ABCs Insider program broadcast each Sunday morning is one of the ABCs most watched and most important programs. The three guests are drawn from the country's mainstream media outlets. This is perhaps itself a limitation considering the broad range …

ahtribune (2020-06-11). The Spirit of Hoover's FBI is Revived under New Cyber-Warfare Protocols. ahtribune.com This week, the Grayzone's Gareth Porter exposed an important strategy led by the FBI to purge the internet of alternative media outlets who question the mainstream narratives being used to shepherd society into an Orwellian post-COVID world order. | Although FBI propagandists strewn throughout mainstream media have attempted to project the idea that the corrupt days of America's internal Gestapo operation led by J. Edgar Hoover are a thing of the past, the reality is that its days of COINTEL PRO, MK Ultra, assassinations and media manipulation of the 1960s and 1970s not only didn't go away but only amplified t…

ahtribune (2020-06-11). Jacob Cohen: "The Zionists Have Become Masters in The Art of Propaganda" ahtribune.com Mohsen Abdelmoumen: What is your analysis of the annexation of the West Bank this July 1? | Jacob Cohen: The Zionist regime is not crazy enough to annex the entire West Bank, because then it would have to naturalize all Palestinians. It only wants to annex the "useful" West Bank, i.e. the Jordan Valley, thus preventing a possible Palestinian State to control its own borders and the large Jewish settlement blocs. It would thus continue to have a submissive and cheap labor force at its disposal, and the cooperation of a docile Palestinian police force to maintain colonial order. | It is not sure that this annexa…

ahtribune (2020-06-09). SouthFront Is Censored under Cover of Pandemic. ahtribune.com Introducing SouthFront | Where do you find daily news, videos, analysis and maps about the conflict in Syria? Detailed reports about the conflicts in Libya, Yemen and Venezuela? News about the rise of ISIS in Mozambique? Original analysis of events in the US and Russia? SouthFront is unique and influential, reaching a global audience of hundreds of thousands. They have opinion articles but their reports and videos are informational and factual. Their website says, | "SouthFront focuses on issues of international relations, armed conflicts and cri…

Leon Kunstenaar (2020-06-09). Protest and March at 24th and Mission, One of Many. indybay.org Refuse Fascism holds large rally and march in Mission District as Fascism become mainstream threat.

RT (2020-06-11). 'Don't mention the war!' Episode of cult comedy Fawlty Towers scrubbed amid 'racism' purge. rt.com The most famous episode of a 1970s sitcom, making fun of a British hotel dealing with German tourists, has been yanked from a BBC-run streaming service amid a censorship spree against anything that could be deemed "racist." | "The Germans" was one of the just twelve episodes of Fawlty Towers, a comedy starring John Cleese (of 'Monty Python' fame) as Basil Fawlty, the hapless owner of a struggling hotel in Devon, that featured the memorable punchline, "Don't mention the war!" | British media reported on Thursday that it has been pulled from the BBC's streaming service UKTV. | No official reason was given. Th…

RT (2020-06-10). 'Our history will not be tampered with!' Trump rules out renaming US military bases named after Confederate generals. rt.com US President Donald Trump has declared opposition to renaming a dozen military bases that bear the names of Civil War generals who fought for the Confederacy, saying they are part of history and a proud military heritage. | Mentioning Fort Bragg, Fort Hood and Fort Benning by name, Trump tweeted on Wednesday that the "Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage" and "history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom." | "My Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations," he added. | It has been suggested that we should rena…

RT (2020-06-09). WATCH: Huge INFERNO erupts at Indian oil field after weeks-long gas leak IGNITES. rt.com A massive fire has erupted at an oil well in northeastern India after it leaked gas for two weeks straight, forcing thousands to evacuate and causing serious environmental damage in the area. | The Baghjan oil field in Upper Assam's Tinsukia district suffered a blowout a fortnight ago and has been leaking gas uncontrollably ever since, causing serious damage to the region's wetlands and endangering thousands of local residents. Despite efforts by Oil India Limited (OIL) —the company in charge of the operation— to plug the leak, the site erupted into a major inferno on Tuesday. | Branded "one of India…

sputniknews (2020-06-10). North Korea: US Has No Standing to Comment on Inter-Korean Affairs. sputniknews.com The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) criticized the United States on Thursday, saying the US has no standing to comment on internal Korean affairs. Earlier this week, Pyongyang severed contact with Seoul over propaganda distribution by defectors in the South.

yenisafak (2020-06-09). Robot built for Japan's ageing workforce finds coronavirus role. yenisafak.com Mira Robotics developed its "ugo" robot to reinforce greying Japan's shrinking workforce, but as the coronavirus threat persists, the Japanese startup is offering its machine as a tool in the fight against the outbreak, the company's CEO said."The coronavirus has created a need for robots because they can reduce direct contact between people," Ken Matsui told Reuters at his company's workshop in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. "We've had inquiries from overseas, including from Singapore and France."The latest feature of the remote-controlled or so-called avatar robot is a hand attachment that uses ultraviolet light to kill…

_____ (2020-06-12). It Won't Be Protests That Bring On The Next Big Wave Of COVID19. popularresistance.org As people across the nation and the world came out to protest the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, corporate media carried a warning: Demonstrations against police violence risk creating a major upsurge in the spread of the coronavirus. | As ABC (6/3/20) put it: | As thousands of demonstrators continue to protest the killing of George Floyd, health experts are worried that a second wave of Covid-19 infections could be sparked by the mass gatherings. | An opinion piece in USA Today (6/8/20) warned, "George Floyd Protests Create Risk of Deadly Coronavirus Resurgence." "The absence of social distan…