(2020-03-10). SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece is a Spectre haunting the Left. dissidentvoice.org 'Super Tuesday' in the 2020 presidential election season is over and Senator Bernie Sanders's time as the unlikely frontrunner for the Democratic nomination may have stopped just as quick as it began. Despite an unprecedented smear campaign coordinated by the party leadership and corporate media against him, the self-described "democratic socialist" not only managed to …
(2020-03-10). Lock Step, This Is No Futuristic Scenario: Panic and the Post-Pandemic Future? globalresearch.ca Every day world mainstream news reports more people in more countries diagnosed "positive" for the coronavirus illness, now called COVID-19. As the reported numbers grow, so does widespread nervousness, often in the form of panic shopping for masks, disinfections, toilet …
(2020-03-10). It's Propaganda, All Right—Against Bernie Sanders. thenation.com It's Propaganda, All Right—Against Bernie Sanders…
(2020-03-09). Trump says crashing markets good for consumers, blames Russia, Saudi Arabia and Fake News. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether a sudden, massive drop in oil prices is good or bad for the country, so he's hedged his bets on Twitter, suggesting it's "Good for the consumer" but bad for markets. | Blaming the "market drop" on "Saudi Arabia and Russia…arguing over the price and flow of oil" in a Monday morning tweet, the president whipsawed around and – within the same minute! – bragged that the resulting chaos was "good for the consumer," because gas prices would go down. | Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil. That, and the Fake News, is the reason for…
(2020-03-09). Police in Westminster shoot dead a man carrying two knives. thecanary.co 
A man armed with two knives has been shot dead by police in Westminster.Officers were patrolling near Whitehall at about 11.30pm on Sunday when they noticed a man acting suspiciously.When challenged, he produced two knives and was shot. The incident is not related to terrorism, police said. | Forensic investigators were at the scene in Great Scotland Yard on Monday — a road that connects Whitehall and Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square.It skirts the Department of International Trade, contains the Civil Service Club and various hotels and bars, and is about half a mile from the Metropolitan Police h…
(2020-03-09). Many New Voting Systems Aren't Ready for Prime Time. truthdig.com 
Put aside, for now, foreign meddling in U.S. elections, social media propaganda and partisan voter suppression. The newest emerging threat to elections in 2020 is new voting systems that have been insufficiently tested and phased in, but have been debuting in many of 2020's presidential primaries and caucuses. | Since the Iowa Democratic Party's presidential caucuses, there has been a string of new technology-based failures and frustrations—despite officials' and voting system designers' intentions. The failures share some common elements, from data connectivity issues to machinery breakdowns to poor planni…
(2020-03-09). What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About Latin American Socialism. truthdig.com 
Corporate media seem unable to process the idea that a U.S. politician has something positive to say about Cuba and Nicaragua's governments.
(2020-03-09). Bolivia: Parliament Censors Jeanine àÅñez's Allies Minister. telesurenglish.net The Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia (ALP) on Monday censored the de facto Bolivian Defense Minister Luis Fernando López. This legal action is founded on the functionary's refusal to declare his implication and responsibility in manifesting repression last November that left many dead and wounded in the Andean nation. | RELATED: | With this act, the bicameral parliamentary body rejected a third minist…
(2020-03-09). Boosting Electability Argument, Sanders Has Won Independent Voters in 13 Out of 16 Exit Polls So Far. commondreams.org Contrary to predictions made by the corporate media regarding electability in the 2020 general election, exit polls in the states where Americans have voted so far show that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the most popular Democratic candidate among voters who are likely to be considered "swing voters" in November. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-03-08). Facebook controlled by right-wing echo chamber, Clinton claims, accusing social media of bias against her. rt.com 
Despite numerous accusations of censorship from conservatives, Hillary Clinton is claiming right-wing outlets have "mastered" Facebook and use it against her. | In a Sunday interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Clinton was asked about a Vox article presenting research claiming the story on Facebook to receive the most interactions on Super Tuesday was one about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. | "Fox and the sort of right-wing echo chamber has mastered Facebook, aided and abetted, might I say, from Facebook," Clinton responded. | She claims "algorithms" used by Facebook are ke…
(2020-03-07). Two Years Later: The Skripal Case Is Weirder Than Ever. dissidentvoice.org 
While navigating through today's propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. This is vital in …
(2020-03-07). MSM campaign against Sanders made half of America believe Bernie's like a 'CORONAVIRUS in a suit' — Lee Camp. rt.com 
The corporate media certainly spared no effort in portraying Bernie Sanders as the biggest threat to America ahead of Super Tuesday, yet they failed to set him back, US comedian and host of RT's Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp, said. | The media as well as the Democratic National Committee "spent five days before the contest trashing Bernie Sanders in any way they come up with," Camp recalled. | "By the end of it, even I was sure Bernie fathered a love child with Fidel Castro and the Lyme disease. By Tuesday, much of America was sure that Bernie is something like a coronavirus wearing a Larry David skin suit." | Y…
(2020-03-07). From Afghanistan to Syria: Women's Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA. globalresearch.ca Western heads of state, UN officials, military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls go to school, liberate women subjected to the yoke of the Taliban.
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
(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.