Daily Archives: May 25, 2020

2020-05-25: News Headlines

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2020-05-25). Two Fictions of Mainstream Economics. 45 Million US Workers Unemployed. globalresearch.ca Mainstream economics consistently fails to predict the future. I'm talking about those 'schools' of mis-thought, ranging from Paul Krugman on the 'left' to Glenn Hubbard and other apologists of business and neoliberalism on the 'right'. | One of the favorite myths …

Gary Brecher (2020-05-25). How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor? thegrayzone.com The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington…

Project Censored (2020-05-25). Episode 89 — COVID Chronicles: Worcester. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today's episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Project Censored (2020-05-25). Episode 90 — COVID Chronicles: Santa Clara. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today's episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Project Censored (2020-05-25). Episode 87 — COVID Chronicles: Miami. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today's episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Project Censored (2020-05-25). Episode 88 — COVID Chronicles: New Orleans. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today's episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Project Censored (2020-05-25). Episode 86 — COVID Chronicles: San Francisco. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today's episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

graham (2020-05-24). Dominic Cummings — a cover story obscuring something far darker. truepublica.org.uk TruePublica Editor: There is genuine hatred for Dominic Cummings — without doubt the most toxic character a sitting government has had to defend. But without Cummings, the man who illegally used data systems designed for post battlefield propaganda campaigns to win 'hearts and minds' in war-torn countries — the Tories would not be in anything …

Project Censored (2020-05-22). Episode 85 — ATL Recommendations: What to Watch, Read, and Listen Too in Quarantine. projectcensored.org Along the Line, is a member of the Demcast network, brought to you by the Media Freedom Foundation. On today's episode hosts Nicholas Baham III (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan…

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-24). Wayback Machine Latest Victim of Big Tech Consolidation and Censorship. strategic-culture.org Together with the swift consolidation of tech companies that own the means to distribute and create the platforms we are obliged to use, we might soon find ourselves feeling like Jonathan E did when he realized that his once greatest supporters and benefactors were only looking to push him out the door and find a more pliable and less curious superstar.

Andrey Areshev (2020-05-23). Trump Has Won the Propaganda War With China. strategic-culture.org Donald Trump has finally won a war. It's a war he's uniquely suited to fight, a propaganda war, and he's successfully waged it on China through his command of Western media. | Stating this doesn't imply any kind of judgment on my part as to whether he should or should not have waged this war with China. He has and he has emerged victorious, thanks to his reframing the threat from COVID-19 as an evil Chinese plot to kill millions of people. | Now, I'm convinced that the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 were a plot by evil people to kill millions of people and usher in a bleak, authoritarian nightmare they've had…

RT (2020-05-25). Chinese media TROLLS Pompeo, depicting him using dollars to lure Hong Kong protesters to hell. rt.com A Chinese state media outlet has mocked Mike Pompeo, who is tasked with 'certifying' Hong Kong's autonomy, depicting him dressed as a sheep, seducing protesters with cash into falling off a cliff into the fires of hell. | The unflattering portrayal of the US Secretary of State comes from the CGTN, Beijing's international broadcaster, which lampooned Pompeo's involvement in Hong Kong protests in a cartoon on Monday. | It shows a line of zombie-like protesters, some armed with Molotov cocktails, standing in line to receive apple-shaped dollar grants from the hands of the top US diplomat. They then walk through a…

RT (2020-05-25). Verification purge? Multiple Twitter accounts lose blue checks after interviewing 'wrongthinkers'. rt.com Twitter has purged the blue "verification" checks from the accounts of journalists and podcasters who posted interviews with subjects considered controversial in the ever-narrowing centrist-liberal mainstream. | Mediaite journalist August Takala was stripped of his coveted blue check just an hour after tweeting an interview with former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, he tweeted on Friday to his 4,000-plus followers. The following day, Wrong Opinion podcaster Josh Lekach tweeted that he, too, had had his blue check revoked after interviewing conservative provocateur (and now congressional candidate) Laura Loomer…

RT (2020-05-23). 'Rhetorical hyperbole' and NOT FACT: Court rejects OAN suit over MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's claim about 'Russian propaganda'. rt.com A US judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit by One America News Network against MSNBC over Rachel Maddow's claims that OAN was "literally" Russian propaganda, ruling that her segment was merely "an opinion" and "exaggeration." | OAN sued the liberal talk show host and MSNBC for defamation, demanding over $10 million in damages, back in September 2019. The lawsuit was based on the July 22 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, where Maddow launched a scathing broadside against the conservative television network, labeling it "the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America" and "really literally pai…