2020-11-18: News Headlines

Media Lens (2020-11-18). The Dead And Those About To Die: Climate Protests And The Corporate Media. dissidentvoice.org The Roman poet Horace famously declared: Dulce et decorum est pro patrie mori. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described this phrase as 'the old Lie' in his famous war poem, 'Dulce et decorum est'. Patriotism so often means 'honouring' …

Colin Todhunter and Rosemary Mason (2020-11-18). Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK. dissidentvoice.org On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: We've all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation. Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, an ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated COVID-19 death numbers and the …

Graham Peebles (2020-11-18). The Tide is Turning: Change and the Coming of Maitreya. dissidentvoice.org For most of 2020 Covid-19 has dominated mainstream media, and whilst serious, the pandemic is but the latest in a series of dark clouds gathering upon our collective horizon: interconnected crises, from the environmental emergency to war, poverty, inequality, and social division among others. All flow from the same root — a misguided set of …

Roger Sollenberger (2020-11-18). Right-wing trolls launch Stop the Steal PAC to cash in on election lies. salon.com "Donate" button disappeared from the group's website amid alleged grift and self-dealing — so now there's a PAC…

Editor (2020-11-18). Amazon is censoring: We need your help to distribute this book! workers.org "Capitalism on a Ventilator" is a new anthology comparing the effective Chinese response to COVID-19 to the disastrous response in the U.S. This book pushes back against the racist anti-China campaign in U.S. media. However, Amazon is currently censoring the book's distribution. We need your support to get the book . . . |

WSWS (2020-11-17). Spain's PSOE-Podemos government imposes internet censorship. wsws.org The "left populist" Podemos party is endorsing state censorship of the Internet, supposedly to fight "disinformation" and "foreign intervention."

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-11-17). Hollywood's 'Songbird': "Puts the Scare" in People during a "Pandemic" globalresearch.ca Hollywood knows how to put the scare in people. Songbird, a new film produced by Michael Bay and directed by Adam Mason exploits the Covid-19 pandemic which complements the mainstream-media's (MSM) fear campaign among its audience. Last month, The …

Project Censored (2020-11-17). Nico Perrino and John K. Roth. projectcensored.org Nico Perrino is the first guest on this week's program; the topic is "Mighty Ira," Perrino's new documentary on the life and times of Ira Glasser. Glasser led the American…

WSWS (2020-11-17). Utah teachers stage wildcat sickout to demand COVID-19 testing, online instruction as cases soar. wsws.org Teachers in Utah conducted a sickout strike opposed by the union to demand an end to in-person instruction as the pandemic spreads uncontrolled.

Paul Street (2020-11-16). This Regime Must Go NOW: Three Reasons. counterpunch.org The Trump campaign and White House are scheming to get the Republican-controlled state legislatures of Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania to declare invalid the mail-in ballots required by the pandemic Trump fueled and fanned across the nation. This would be the pretext for some or all those legislatures trying to install (over the protests of Democratic governors in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan) un-elected slates of Trump electors to the Electoral College, claiming that Trump won the "legal" popular vote in their states. The murky legal and constitutional tangle that could result fro…