(2020-12-27). Washington's favorite Venezuelan opposition leader exposes links to Colombian death squads and narco networks. thegrayzone.com While the US government and media glorify Leopoldo López as a new MLK, the Venezuelan opposition leader collaborates with Colombia's narco-affiliated, death squad-sponsoring former President àÅlvaro Uribe and his protegé Iván Duque. According to Western corporate media outlets and human rights groups, Venezuela's far-right opposition leader Leopoldo López is a hallowed saint. The New York Times glorified López as the would-be "savior" of Venezuela, akin to none other than Martin Luther King Jr., while Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International …
(2020-12-27). Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, nor government secrecy, but domestic mass media propaganda. It's also the most overlooked. It's good to protest the other mechanisms of authoritarian control, but propaganda is enemy number one. | You don't need the ability to spy on dissident groups if you can control public thought enough to prevent those groups from forming in the first place. You don't need the ability to quash public uprisings if you can propagandize people away from rising up at a…
(2020-12-27). Big Pharma Propaganda and the COVID-19 Vaccine: The U.S. Government's Legacy of Human Experimentations. globalresearch.ca It is important to focus on the history of experimental vaccines. | This article reviews the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Macon County, Alabama that began in 1932 as well as other US government experiments that infected sick and vulnerable people with …
(2020-12-26). Trump says 'elections far more secure' in AFGHANISTAN in latest 'voter fraud' twitterstorm. rt.com 
President Donald Trump has claimed that "elections in Afghanistan are far more secure and much better run" than their American equivalent, recounting a conversation with a military man that may or may not have happened. | "A young military man working in Afghanistan told me that elections in Afghanistan are far more secure and much better run than the USA's 2020 Election," Trump tweeted on Saturday. "Ours, with its millions and millions of corrupt Mail-In Ballots, was the election of a third world country," he added, referring to Joe Biden as a "Fake President!" | A young military man working in Afghanistan to…
(2020-12-25). Recidivist Criminal and Constitutional Outlaw Trump Rushes to Pardon Criminal Lawbreakers. commondreams.org Trump and future presidents cannot be allowed to brazenly dishonor justice and undermine the rule of law. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-12-25). COVID-19: A Fabricated Second "Tidal Wave" of Poverty and Injustice. globalresearch.ca Here we are at the end of a year filled with upheaval, facing yet another round of lockdowns, this time ostensibly intended to fight off a supposed "second wave of COVID-19." | In the foreground, we have the completely co-opted mainstream …
(2020-12-24). Propaganda pandemic: The craziest COVID claims of the year. mronline.org 
No matter how many Americans die, corporate media is desperate to shore up support at home and attempt to discredit foreign countries for handling the pandemic properly. Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen reviews the most absurd COVID propaganda of the year..
(2020-12-24). Why is the Guardian promoting more Pentagon propaganda? mronline.org 
Recent reporting reinforces the false impression that the United States is threatened by Chinese and Russian expansionism.
(2020-12-24). Uruguay: Judge Repeals House Arrest of Colonel Vazquez. telesurenglish.net Uruguay's Judge Dahiana Da Costa Thursday decided to revoke the house arrest granted to retired colonel Gilberto Vazquez who committed crimes against humanity during the country's dictatorship rule (1973-1985). | RELATED: | Ordering Vazquez to "immediately" return to prison, Da Costa took the decision after a medical evaluation ruled out the presence of uncontrolled neurological disease. | Psychiatric physician…
(2020-12-24). Turkish forces bust PKK terrorist cell in Syria. yenisafak.com A PKK terrorist cell in Syria's northwestern city of Jarablus was dismantled by Turkish forces who acted upon information received during an interrogation.A Syrian national, identified by the initials B.H.F., was nabbed by Turkish forces and interrogated.He gave away key information about the terror group and the location of a tractor loaded with 150 kilograms (330.6 pounds) of plastic explosives.The terrorist in custody also confessed to participating in many terror attacks in the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army controlled areas, which resulted in numerous fatalities among Turkish forces.He also gave away ter…
(2020-12-23). US Airports Are Portals for Disease Spread. Venezuela Shows Another Way. truthout.org I recently traveled to Venezuela to be an observer for its National Assembly election and was struck by a stark difference between the ways Venezuela and the United States are handling the COVID-19 pandemic. | My experience at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, gave me a taste of what a coordinated public health approach looks like in practice, compared to the disjointed politicized approach in the United States. Airports in the United States are currently serving as uncontrolled portals of disease…
(2020-12-23). The DWP just sent a Christmas 'f*ck you' to millions of hungry kids. thecanary.co 
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may as well be trolling millions of hungry children. Because two days before Christmas, it sent a effective 'fuck you' to all of them.The Covid Winter Grant Scheme and the DWP: The Covid Winter Grant is a t.co/JSG9EAHkeJ — DWP (@DWP)
(2020-12-23). Sharyl Attkisson and Rachael Jolley. projectcensored.org In the first half of the show, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson shares ideas from her new book "Slanted. " She contends that in recent years corporate and government forces have dramatically expanded their intervention into the conduct of journalism, to the extent that some types of investigative stories can no longer be reported. | Then Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief for the Index on Censorship, joins the program from the UK to explain how the coronavirus pandemic has changed the work of reporters — in Europe and elsewhere. She notes that even while the pandemic has…
(2020-12-23). Ralph Nader: He's a Cookbook! counterpunch.org 
"We can all sit down and have a few beers together while we wait." — Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart), The Petrified Forest (1936) Call before, you dig? — Utility notification for unmarked Internet cables from hippy who finally got a job The other day, minding my own business, and getting lots of unwanted help doing
(2020-12-23). NY Attorney General subpoenas pro-Trump troll Jacob Wohl for voter suppression scheme. salon.com Wohl and Jack Burkman have been criminally indicted in Ohio and Michigan in connection with the robocall scheme…
(2020-12-23). Nothing to see here: Why media keeps downplaying Trump's coup attempt. salon.com Trump's cabal of desperate conspirators is more dangerous than ever, but mainstream media tells us to move on…