Monthly Archives: February 2020

2020-02-13: News Headlines

RT (2020-02-14). Anti-BDS laws are meant to censor & control speech, journalist Abby Martin tells RT after suing Georgia govt over cancelled talk. rt.com Barred from speaking at a public university over her refusal to sign a pledge of allegiance to Israel, journalist Abby Martin is now suing the state of Georgia, arguing its anti-BDS legislation sets fire to the First Amendment. | Slated to give a keynote talk at a media literacy conference at Georgia Southern University later this month, Martin was asked to sign what amounts to a loyalty oath to the State of Israel, mandated under a 2016 Georgia law barring the government from hiring contractors who boycott Israeli products or associate with the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Martin t…

Andre Vltchek (2020-02-14). Western Anti-Chinese Propaganda Exaggerates Coronavirus Danger, Creates Panic. globalresearch.ca Now it is becoming obvious who China's friends are, and who her enemies are. In the West, many nations and individuals are celebrating the short-term difficulties that the Chinese nation is facing, pouring salt into the wound, while giving birth …

Louise Richards (2020-02-13). What is really going on in Nicaragua? peoplesworld.org Mainstream media lost no time in seizing yet another opportunity to vilify Nicaragua unfairly in the wake of an attack by armed men on the indigenous community of Alal, near the town of Bonanza in Bosawas on January 29. The BBC published a piece under the headline "Six indigenous people 'massacred' in Nicaragua," reporting uncorroborated …

RT (2020-02-13). 'Actually dangerous': Samantha Bee's denunciation of PragerU shows liberals still don't get the allure of the forbidden. rt.com Liberal comedian Samantha Bee has said she fears YouTube powerhouse PragerU is brainwashing kids by disguising right-wing propaganda as educational content — but her fear is the best endorsement the outlet could hope for. | Calling the popular conservative channel "actually dangerous," Bee warned it was "trick[ing] kids into thinking their videos are educational" in a tweet posted on Wednesday night.

Medea Benjamin (2020-02-13). Can the World's Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War. mintpressnews.com While our government's war propaganda has convinced many Americans that we are powerless to stop its catastrophic wars, it has failed to convince most Americans that we are wrong to want to.

Cameron Orr (2020-02-13). U.S. public gets fake news about China's alleged anti-Muslim campaign. peoplesworld.org Editor's Note: The following opinion article was written in response to Hanukkah: A holiday rooted in struggle against imperialism, which was published in People's World on Dec. 23, 2019. That earlier article mentioned the situation for Muslims living in China's Xinjiang region within the context of another topic; this contribution offers a more in-depth perspective …

RT (2020-02-13). Phew! 'Nothing is Scandinavian' ad republished as airline SAS is told its critics are actually Putin's trolls & 'useful idiots'. rt.com Nothing shows that your values are granite-strong quite like pulling a much-criticized commercial and then reinstating it to a chorus of media voices proclaiming that the negative feedback is just a Russian psy-op. | The Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) video, which declares that essentially all Scandinavian culture is "copied" and encourages people to fly to lands both near and far to find more things to borrow, is back in action. The company

WSWS (2020-02-13). Petition for Assange's freedom tabled again in Australian parliament. wsws.org Despite the powerful public support and strongly expressed sentiments of the petition, its tabling received virtually no coverage in the corporate media.

Global Research News (2020-02-13). Selected Articles: More Lies on Iran. globalresearch.ca A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …

True Publica (2020-02-13). Johnson's Administration Has Just Dumped an Unexploded Time Bomb in Our Midst. globalresearch.ca The lies keep coming in a propaganda war to keep the Brexit delusion going but reality brings us the truth — and this is exemplified no better than the delivery by the Johnson government of an unexploded economic time bomb….

RT (2020-02-12). What about stopping endless wars? Trump urges GOP to vote down Iran war resolution because it's a partisan ploy by Democrats. rt.com US President Donald Trump says the resolution that would block him from using force against Iran is a partisan trick by Democrats, even though he campaigned on a peace platform and some of his closest allies support the proposal. | "We are doing very well with Iran and this is not the time to show weakness," Trump tweeted on Wednesday, adding that Tehran would "have a field day" if his hands were tied. | "The Democrats are only doing this as an attempt to embarrass the Republican Party. Don't let it happen!" he urged the GOP majority. ….If my hands were tied, Iran would have a field day. Sends a very bad s…

Hatewatch Staff (2020-02-12). Neo-Confederate Attorney Accused of Mishandling Clients' Money Promoted Online Trolling, Harassment. splcenter.org Harold Ray Crews, attorney and chairman of the North Carolina chapter of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South, must attend a hearing Feb. 21 to determine whether the state bar association will suspend his law license.

Staff (2020-02-11). Despite Corporate Media's "War on Bernie," Sanders Rides Wave of Support into New Hampshire Primary. democracynow.org Polls have opened in New Hampshire for the first primary of the election season. The vote comes eight days after the still-disputed Iowa caucuses, where both Senator Bernie Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed victory. Both candidates have asked for a partial recanvass of the results. We speak with Arnie Arnesen, a longtime radio and TV host in New Hampshire and a former New Hampshire legislator, and Norman Solomon, co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org, which is supporting Bernie Sanders.

Olivia Rosane (2020-02-11). Trump building border wall — and tearing down Native American burial sites. peoplesworld.org Native American graves are being blasted to clear the way for President Donald Trump's border wall. Construction crews began "controlled blasting" of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona last week, CBS News reported Friday. And Congressman Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, who represents the area, says they did so without consulting the Tohono O'odham Nation which considers …

Whitney Webb (2020-02-11). Buttigieg Campaign Aggressively Targeting Progressive Activists, Media. mintpressnews.com Between efforts to censor information critical of Buttigieg on social media and harass independent media outlets and their reporters at his rallies, it appears that a concerted effort is underway to control the narrative around the DNC primaries…

Alan Macleod (2020-02-10). Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel. mintpressnews.com "This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure."

Jim Naureckas (2020-02-06). How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He's Winning. fair.org If you turn to the New York Times for an On closer examination, it turns out that that is not a bar chart…

Ben Norton (2020-02-04). HuffPost UK editor works with gov't censorship program while smearing anti-war scholars as tools of Russia. thegrayzone.com HuffPost UK ran yet another hit piece smearing academic critics of the dirty war on Syria as Russian stooges. The…

splcenter (2020-01-30). White Nationalist Podcaster Identified as U.S. Army Veteran. splcenter.org White nationalist State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert is regularly producing white supremacist propaganda with a man named Michael McKevitt, formerly of the U.S. Army, Hatewatch has determined.

splcenter (2020-01-30). White Nationalist State Department Official Still Active in Hate Movement. splcenter.org U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been steadily producing white nationalist propaganda in the nearly six months since he was suspended from his job, Hatewatch has learned.

2020-02-13: Social Media Postees

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Anti-BDS laws are meant to censor & control speech, journalist Abby Martin tells RT after suing Georgia govt over cancelled talk
rt.com | 2020-02-14
Barred from speaking at a public university over her refusal to sign a pledge of allegiance to Israel, journalist Abby Martin is now suing the state of Georgia, arguing its anti-BDS legislation sets fire to the First Amendment. | Slated to give a keynote talk at a media literacy conference at Georgia Southern University later this month, Martin was asked to sign what amounts to a loyalty oath to the State of Israel, mandated under a 2016 Georgia law barring the government from hiring contractors who boycott Israeli products or associate with the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Martin t…
rt.com/usa/480806-abby-martin-georgia-bd…

Western Anti-Chinese Propaganda Exaggerates Coronavirus Danger, Creates Panic
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-14
Now it is becoming obvious who China's friends are, and who her enemies are. In the West, many nations and individuals are celebrating the short-term difficulties that the Chinese nation is facing, pouring salt into the wound, while giving birth …
globalresearch.ca/western-anti-chinese-p…

Petition for Assange's freedom tabled again in Australian parliament
wsws.org | 2020-02-13
Despite the powerful public support and strongly expressed sentiments of the petition, its tabling received virtually no coverage in the corporate media.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/13/parl…

Can the World's Second Superpower Rise From the Ashes of Twenty Years of War
Medea Benjamin | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-13
While our government's war propaganda has convinced many Americans that we are powerless to stop its catastrophic wars, it has failed to convince most Americans that we are wrong to want to.
mintpressnews.com/can-public-opinion-ris…

What is really going on in Nicaragua?
Louise Richards | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-13
Mainstream media lost no time in seizing yet another opportunity to vilify Nicaragua unfairly in the wake of an attack by armed men on the indigenous community of Alal, near the town of Bonanza in Bosawas on January 29. The BBC published a piece under the headline "Six indigenous people 'massacred' in Nicaragua," reporting uncorroborated …
peoplesworld.org/article/what-is-really-…

No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-02-13
After the illegal assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, FAIR ( 1/9/20) noted that the corporate media offered no moral objections to murdering another country's high-ranking state official. The media consensus was that Soleimani was a despicable "terrorist" responsible for the deaths of "hundreds of Americans"–a formula that buried the crucial distinc…
fair.org/home/no-1-sponsor-of-terrorism-…

No. 1 Sponsor of Terrorism? US Media Name Iran, but Overlook a Candidate Closer to Home
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2020-02-13
by Joshua Cho | After the illegal assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, FAIR ( 1/9/20) noted that the corporate media offered no moral objections to murdering another country's high-ranking state official. The media consensus was that Soleimani was a despicable "terrorist" responsible for the deaths of "hundreds of Americans"–a formula that buried the cr…
fair.org/home/no-1-sponsor-of-terrorism-…

'Actually dangerous': Samantha Bee's denunciation of PragerU shows liberals still don't get the allure of the forbidden
rt.com | 2020-02-13
Liberal comedian Samantha Bee has said she fears YouTube powerhouse PragerU is brainwashing kids by disguising right-wing propaganda as educational content

U.S. public gets fake news about China's alleged anti-Muslim campaign
Cameron Orr | peoplesworld.org | 2020-02-13
Editor's Note: The following opinion article was written in response to Hanukkah: A holiday rooted in struggle against imperialism, which was published in People's World on Dec. 23, 2019. That earlier article mentioned the situation for Muslims living in China's Xinjiang region within the context of another topic; this contribution offers a more in-depth perspective …
peoplesworld.org/article/in-xinjiang-con…

Phew! 'Nothing is Scandinavian' ad republished as airline SAS is told its critics are actually Putin's trolls & 'useful idiots'
rt.com | 2020-02-13
Nothing shows that your values are granite-strong quite like pulling a much-criticized commercial and then reinstating it to a chorus of media voices proclaiming that the negative feedback is just a Russian psy-op. | The Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) video, which declares that essentially all Scandinavian culture is "copied" and encourages people to fly to lands both near and far to find more things to borrow, is back in action. The company says it stands by its message, and that the cr…
rt.com/news/480754-sas-scandanavian-ad-r…

Google Blocks Hispantv's Youtube Access Again
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-13
Iran's Hispan TV reported that Google once again blocked access to their Youtube account without providing a thorough explanation for the obstruction. | RELATED: | YouTube Censors Iranian Press, HispanTV, Press TV Targeted | According to a communication published by the Iranian media, Google alleged that this new action is based on "violations to their laws,…
telesurenglish.net/news/google-blocks-hi…

Selected Articles: More Lies on Iran
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-13
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-more…

Johnson's Administration Has Just Dumped an Unexploded Time Bomb in Our Midst
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-13
The lies keep coming in a propaganda war to keep the Brexit delusion going but reality brings us the truth

What about stopping endless wars? Trump urges GOP to vote down Iran war resolution because it's a partisan ploy by Democrats
rt.com | 2020-02-12
US President Donald Trump says the resolution that would block him from using force against Iran is a partisan trick by Democrats, even though he campaigned on a peace platform and some of his closest allies support the proposal. | "We are doing very well with Iran and this is not the time to show weakness," Trump tweeted on Wednesday, adding that Tehran would "have a field day" if his hands were tied. | "The Democrats are only doing this as an attempt to embarrass the Republican Party. Don't let it happen!" he urged the GOP majority. | ….If my hands were tied, Iran would have a field day. Sends a very bad s…
rt.com/usa/480702-trump-iran-war-senate/

Neo-Confederate Attorney Accused of Mishandling Clients' Money Promoted Online Trolling, Harassment
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-02-12
Harold Ray Crews, attorney and chairman of the North Carolina chapter of the neo-Confederate hate group League of the South, must attend a hearing Feb. 21 to determine whether the state bar association will suspend his law license.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/02/12/neo-c…

Despite Corporate Media's "War on Bernie," Sanders Rides Wave of Support into New Hampshire Primary
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-11
Polls have opened in New Hampshire for the first primary of the election season. The vote comes eight days after the still-disputed Iowa caucuses, where both Senator Bernie Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed victory. Both candidates have asked for a partial recanvass of the results. We speak with Arnie Arnesen, a longtime radio and TV host in New Hampshire and a former New Hampshire legislator, and Norman Solomon, co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org, which is supporting Bernie Sanders.
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/11/new_hamps…

Buttigieg Campaign Aggressively Targeting Progressive Activists, Media
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-11
Between efforts to censor information critical of Buttigieg on social media and harass independent media outlets and their reporters at his rallies, it appears that a concerted effort is underway to control the narrative around the DNC primaries…
mintpressnews.com/buttigieg-campaign-agg…

A journalist compared the rise of the Irish left to a rise in nationalism and got it badly wrong
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-02-11
Staff writer at the Atlantic Yasmeen Serhan has written about the outcome of the Irish general election, which took place on 8 February. Serhan's article attempted to dismiss the historic result as a "familiar tale" whereby "mainstream parties falter" so 'populists fill the vacuum'. The result reflected 'a rise in Irish nationalism and an…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/02/11/a-journalist-compared-the-rise-of-the-irish-left-to-a-rise-in-nationalism-and-got-it-badly-wrong/

Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-02-10
"This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure."

How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He's Winning
Jim Naureckas | fair.org | 2020-02-06
If you turn to the New York Times for an update on the excruciatingly and inexplicably slow counting of the votes from the Iowa caucuses, you find what looks like a bar chart showing that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg did approximately 50 times better than any of his next closest rivals: | On closer examination, it turns out that that is not a bar chart…
fair.org/home/how-corporate-media-make-p…

HuffPost UK editor works with gov't censorship program while smearing anti-war scholars as tools of Russia
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-02-04
HuffPost UK ran yet another hit piece smearing academic critics of the dirty war on Syria as Russian stooges. The…
thegrayzone.com/2020/02/03/huffpost-uk-e…

White Nationalist State Department Official Still Active in Hate Movement
splcenter.org | 2020-01-30
U.S. State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert has been steadily producing white nationalist propaganda in the nearly six months since he was suspended from his job, Hatewatch has learned.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/30/white…

White Nationalist Podcaster Identified as U.S. Army Veteran
splcenter.org | 2020-01-30
White nationalist State Department official Matthew Q. Gebert is regularly producing white supremacist propaganda with a man named Michael McKevitt, formerly of the U.S. Army, Hatewatch has determined.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/30/white…