Monthly Archives: June 2020

2020-06-30: News Headlines

_____ (2020-06-30). Silence Is Not An Option": Black Women Make History. popularresistance.org Mainstream media and politicians have paid almost exclusive attention to ideas and images of Black men — whether as victims of police violence or as protesters against it. Yet Black women, who are no less subject to structural racism and violence, have been at the forefront of the multi-racial Black Lives Matter Movement for years. | ROAR associate editor Eleanor Finley had the opportunity to explore some of these subjects with Dr. Keisha N. Blain, an award-winning historian and Black feminist scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Blain is also president of the African American Intellectual History S…

Posted By Lynda Carson (2020-06-30). Monday June 29 – Protest to Stop Eviction of 1921 Walnut St. Tenants. indybay.org Protect The Tenants During The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic: | The tenants at 1921 Walnut St are facing eviction and displacement from their rent-controlled apartments and unwittingly find themselves in a "David v's Goliath" struggle with the Regents of the University of California!

South Front (2020-06-30). Video: Russian Private Military Contractors Took Control of Libya's Largest Oil Field. globalresearch.ca Washington is concerned by the growing Russian influence in Libya as Turkish-led forces are preparing to storm the port city of Sirte, controlled by the Libyan National Army. | On June 26, the US embassy in Libya released a statement claiming …

Alan MacLeod (2020-06-30). Bombing People Is Not Feminist, No Matter How You Spin It. thealtworld.com Have you heard the good news, ladies? You too can bomb the Middle East! | Some corporate media have recently been taken with the "inspirational" story of Emily Thompson, the first woman to pilot the The New York Post (

WSWS Repost (2020-06-30). Another anti-Russian smear from the New York Times. indybay.org Patrick Martin at the World Socialist Web Site describes the New York Time's ongoing aversion to facts. [Illustration shows how a current Google Search simply amplifies the propaganda.]…

Rep. Ron Paul (2020-06-30). The Media Is Lying About the 'Second Wave'. globalresearch.ca For months, the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media kept a morbid Covid-19 "death count" on their front pages and at the top of their news broadcasts. The coronavirus outbreak was all about the number of dead. …

_____ (2020-06-30). The Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile. popularresistance.org All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported, citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan for attacking the occupying forces of the US and its allies in Afghanistan. As of this writing, and probably forevermore, there have still been zero intelligence sources named and zero evidence provided for this claim. | As we discussed yesterday, the only correct response to unsubstantiated claims by anonymous spooks in a post-Iraq invasion world is to assume that they are lyi…

Staff (2020-06-30). Trump Is Either Lying or Out of the Loop on Afghanistan. Both Are Bad. truthout.org The corporate media has been straining at its collective leash since the weekend, firing a volley of barks our way about Russian intelligence agents paying the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers, and my God, did Donald Trump know? The high dudgeon in these reports is unmistakable; one CNN It's a story that has everything, if you l…

Renee Parsons (2020-06-30). Lockdowns: Essential to the Master Plan. globalresearch.ca If given the choice between maintaining a toxic world of fear, pollution and violence controlled by the State or a

Paul Craig Roberts (2020-06-30). The Collapse of the United States Is No Longer Avoidable. thealtworld.com Within the last few days two commentators I respect—The Saker and Dmitry Orlov—have written that the United States is now undergoing systemic collapse. | My view, reflected in my articles published over the years, is that the United States ceased to exist decades ago. It is only the foundational strength of the country put in place by great men, such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison, that has kept the image alive of a functioning country. The house that sat on the foundation long ago washed away in the flood of anti-American propaganda from the self-hating white liberal elites…

_____ (2020-06-30). This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda at Its Most Vile. strategic-culture.org It really is funny how the most influential news outlets in the western world will uncritically parrot whatever they're told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, and then turn around and tell you without a hint of self-awareness that Russia and China are bad because they have state media.

_____ (2020-06-29). Update On Assange: The Most Important Press Freedom Case Of This Era. popularresistance.org This past week, just as public sentiment and corporate media attention were shifting in favor of Julian Assange, the United States issued another superseding indictment in his extradition case. The indictment doesn't add any charges, it merely uses public information to smear Assange's reputation and attempt to portray him as a hacker instead of the journalist and publisher that he is. This shows that the US government has a weak case against Assange. Joe Lauria, an investigative journalist and senior editor of Consortium News, explains the new indictment and provides an update on Julian Assange. The Assange case…

Gregory Elich (2020-06-29). Will South Korea's Moon Defy Trump and Improve Relations with North Korea? counterpunch.org North Korea is in the news again. As always, that means that it is time for mainstream journalists and establishment figures to reach for the handy cliché and to recycle received opinion as a substitute for thought. Terms like "provocation," "threat," and "aggression" abound. Not surprisingly, powerful political and military actors in the United States

RT (2020-06-29). Infamous hacker sentenced to over a year in prison after turning internet-linked devices into 'zombie bots'. rt.com A 22-year-old man from Washington state has been handed a 13-month prison sentence for developing, using and selling access to Internet of Things malware. | Kenneth Currin Schuchman pleaded guilty last September to violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act after selling DDoS botnets based on the Internet of Things (IoT) malware 'Mirai'. | Mirai infects IoT devices and turns them into a network of remote controlled "zombie bots." In the simplest of terms, an IoT device is any technological device capable of connecting to the internet. | This network of things is ever-increasing, and nowadays it isn't uncommon fo…

Project Censored (2020-06-29). Fake News With Special Guest Nolan Higdon. projectcensored.org On this week's Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon discuss the topic of fake news and how it relates to Higdon's forthcoming book, "The Anatomy of Fake News: …

Michael T. Hertz (2020-06-29). Facebook is not playing fair. nationofchange.org The problem with Facebook is that it established so-called "Community Standards," and it uses these "standards" to censor posts by its members and then block them for a few days or a month from further posting.

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-06-29). Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com ~ | Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news. | ~ | The most influential news outlets in the western world uncritically parrot whatever they're told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, then tell you that Russia and China are bad because they have state media. | ~ | Imagine if a compulsive liar who you know for a fact constantly deceives people in order to hurt and exploit them told you your neighbor is going to kill you if you don't kill him first, and you go and kill your n…

RT (2020-06-28). WATCH Russian Tu-142MK anti-submarine planes fly on Arctic & Pacific mission, escorted by Norwegian & US jets. rt.com Two squadrons of Russian long-range anti-submarine and reconnaissance aircraft have been patrolling the vast Arctic and north Pacific, the Defense Ministry says. They were closely monitored by NATO jets during the mission. | Three Tu-142MKs conducted a routine mission above the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea, escorted by Norwegian F-16 jet fighters during the trip. | In the meantime, a squadron of four Tu-142MKs was sent on a mission to Russia's Far East, flying over the northern Pacific Ocean. During some parts of their journey, the planes were monitored by US Air Force F-22 jets. | The Russian anti-sub…

CP Editor (2020-06-28). Angela Davis on "Mainstream Feminism" counterpunch.org

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2020-06-28). The Test Set: Another Brick in the COVID-19 Disinformation Game Plan. globalresearch.ca Do you want the true answer, or do you want the answer given by propaganda, official government versions and the mainstream media? | I will give you the true, medical answer: the tests do not answer any of these questions, they …

yenisafak (2020-06-28). Trump denies being told about Russian bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan. yenisafak.com The White House on Saturday also denied that Trump was briefed on U.S. intelligence regarding the affair but it did not address the merits of the intelligence. The Director of National Intelligence also said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were not briefed, and called the Times report inaccurate."Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an 'anonymous source' by the Fake News @nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us," Trump tweeted, calling on the newspaper to…

RT (2020-06-27). Zuckerberg loses $7.2 BILLION after corporate ad boycott pressing Facebook to police 'hate speech'. rt.com Plummeting Facebook shares have wiped out billions of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth. The impetus? Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Verizon have pulled their ads, demanding that Facebook censor hate speech. | Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion, after Facebook's shares fell by 8.3 percent on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The dive in value happened after Unilever, one of the largest advertisers in the world, joined the list of major companies that suspended their ad campaigns on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. At around the same time, Coca-Cola said it was also pulling all its social-media ad…

WSWS (2020-06-27). Against public opposition, Michigan Democrats and Republicans push for unsafe reopening of schools. wsws.org Both Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Republican-controlled legislature have fully committed to the reopening of in-person schooling, in line with the demands of automakers and other big businesses.

Ali Salam (2020-06-27). Dozens of Palestinians Suffocate from Israeli Fired Tear-Gas in Hebron. imemc.org In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Friday, Palestinians confronted Israeli soldiers at the point between the Israeli-occupied section of the city and that of the Palestinian-controlled section, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that dozens of Palestinians suffered the toxic effects of tear-gas inhalation, after …

WSWS (2020-06-27). The Salisbury Poisonings: Skripal drama framed as anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org The BBC's three-part The Salisbury Poisonings uses drama as state propaganda and is designed to reignite the Skripal affair that dominated UK politics in 2018.

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-06-27). Mentally Replace Everything Before "U.S. Intelligence Says" With "Blah Blah We're Probably Lying" thealtworld.com "Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, U.S. Intelligence Says", blares the To be clear, this is journalistic malpractice. Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishi…

_____ (2020-06-27). Censorship as a Way to Instill and to Impose LIes. strategic-culture.org When the truth is censored, lies become imposed and enforced, by removing truth and leaving lies in its place. That's what propaganda is. It depends on censorship. Only propagandists and their victims (suckers — the people who are fooled by propagandists) want there to be any censorship, at all. Wherever there are censors, there should be no trust; but, unfortunately, some individuals trust censors. Some individuals are fools: they invite being deceived. They want others to filter what they see and hear; they don't do, themselves, whatever filtering that there will be; they trust others to do it for them. T…

Project Censored (2020-06-26). Episode 95 — What We Can Learn From The Kent State Murders with Mickey Huff. projectcensored.org On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore the Kent State Murders with Project Censored Director and the President of the Media Freedom Foundation,…

yenisafak (2020-06-26). Syria's hunger crisis worsens, COVID outbreak could intensify. yenisafak.com Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday.The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that the number of people short of essential foodstuffs had risen by 1.4 million in the past six months.Food prices had also soared by more than 200% in less than a year due to the freefall in neighbouring Lebanon's economy and COVID-19 lockdown measures in Syria, WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said.After nine years of armed confl…

2020-06-29: News Headlines

Posted By Lynda Carson (2020-06-29). Monday June 29 – Protest to Stop Eviction of 1921 Walnut St. Tenants. indybay.org Protect The Tenants During The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic: | The tenants at 1921 Walnut St are facing eviction and displacement from their rent-controlled apartments and unwittingly find themselves in a "David v's Goliath" struggle with the Regents of the University of California!

Gregory Elich (2020-06-29). Will South Korea's Moon Defy Trump and Improve Relations with North Korea? counterpunch.org North Korea is in the news again. As always, that means that it is time for mainstream journalists and establishment figures to reach for the handy cliché and to recycle received opinion as a substitute for thought. Terms like "provocation," "threat," and "aggression" abound. Not surprisingly, powerful political and military actors in the United States

Project Censored (2020-06-29). Fake News With Special Guest Nolan Higdon. projectcensored.org On this week's Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon discuss the topic of fake news and how it relates to Higdon's forthcoming book, "The Anatomy of Fake News: …

Michael T. Hertz (2020-06-29). Facebook is not playing fair. nationofchange.org The problem with Facebook is that it established so-called "Community Standards," and it uses these "standards" to censor posts by its members and then block them for a few days or a month from further posting.

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-06-29). Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com ~ | Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishing CIA press releases disguised as news. | ~ | The most influential news outlets in the western world uncritically parrot whatever they're told to say by the most powerful and depraved intelligence agencies on the planet, then tell you that Russia and China are bad because they have state media. | ~ | Imagine if a compulsive liar who you know for a fact constantly deceives people in order to hurt and exploit them told you your neighbor is going to kill you if you don't kill him first, and you go and kill your n…

RT (2020-06-28). WATCH Russian Tu-142MK anti-submarine planes fly on Arctic & Pacific mission, escorted by Norwegian & US jets. rt.com Two squadrons of Russian long-range anti-submarine and reconnaissance aircraft have been patrolling the vast Arctic and north Pacific, the Defense Ministry says. They were closely monitored by NATO jets during the mission. | Three Tu-142MKs conducted a routine mission above the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea, escorted by Norwegian F-16 jet fighters during the trip. | In the meantime, a squadron of four Tu-142MKs was sent on a mission to Russia's Far East, flying over the northern Pacific Ocean. During some parts of their journey, the planes were monitored by US Air Force F-22 jets. | The Russian anti-sub…

CP Editor (2020-06-28). Angela Davis on "Mainstream Feminism" counterpunch.org

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2020-06-28). The Test Set: Another Brick in the COVID-19 Disinformation Game Plan. globalresearch.ca Do you want the true answer, or do you want the answer given by propaganda, official government versions and the mainstream media? | I will give you the true, medical answer: the tests do not answer any of these questions, they …

yenisafak (2020-06-28). Trump denies being told about Russian bounties to kill US troops in Afghanistan. yenisafak.com The White House on Saturday also denied that Trump was briefed on U.S. intelligence regarding the affair but it did not address the merits of the intelligence. The Director of National Intelligence also said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were not briefed, and called the Times report inaccurate."Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an 'anonymous source' by the Fake News @nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us," Trump tweeted, calling on the newspaper to…

RT (2020-06-27). Zuckerberg loses $7.2 BILLION after corporate ad boycott pressing Facebook to police 'hate speech'. rt.com Plummeting Facebook shares have wiped out billions of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth. The impetus? Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Verizon have pulled their ads, demanding that Facebook censor hate speech. | Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion, after Facebook's shares fell by 8.3 percent on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The dive in value happened after Unilever, one of the largest advertisers in the world, joined the list of major companies that suspended their ad campaigns on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. At around the same time, Coca-Cola said it was also pulling all its social-media ad…

WSWS (2020-06-27). Against public opposition, Michigan Democrats and Republicans push for unsafe reopening of schools. wsws.org Both Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Republican-controlled legislature have fully committed to the reopening of in-person schooling, in line with the demands of automakers and other big businesses.

Ali Salam (2020-06-27). Dozens of Palestinians Suffocate from Israeli Fired Tear-Gas in Hebron. imemc.org In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Friday, Palestinians confronted Israeli soldiers at the point between the Israeli-occupied section of the city and that of the Palestinian-controlled section, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said that dozens of Palestinians suffered the toxic effects of tear-gas inhalation, after …

WSWS (2020-06-27). The Salisbury Poisonings: Skripal drama framed as anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org The BBC's three-part The Salisbury Poisonings uses drama as state propaganda and is designed to reignite the Skripal affair that dominated UK politics in 2018.

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-06-27). Mentally Replace Everything Before "U.S. Intelligence Says" With "Blah Blah We're Probably Lying" thealtworld.com "Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, U.S. Intelligence Says", blares the To be clear, this is journalistic malpractice. Mainstream media outlets which publish anonymous intelligence claims with no proof are just publishi…

_____ (2020-06-27). Censorship as a Way to Instill and to Impose LIes. strategic-culture.org When the truth is censored, lies become imposed and enforced, by removing truth and leaving lies in its place. That's what propaganda is. It depends on censorship. Only propagandists and their victims (suckers — the people who are fooled by propagandists) want there to be any censorship, at all. Wherever there are censors, there should be no trust; but, unfortunately, some individuals trust censors. Some individuals are fools: they invite being deceived. They want others to filter what they see and hear; they don't do, themselves, whatever filtering that there will be; they trust others to do it for them. T…

RT (2020-06-26). Facebook bends the knee, agrees to censor Trump ads after mass advertiser boycott. rt.com Facebook will change its policies to ban "hate speech" in advertisements on the platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, after activists brigaded a number of major corporations to pull their ads from the platform. | "I am committed to making sure Facebook remains a place where people can use their voice to discuss important issues," Zuckerberg said on Friday. "But I also stand against hate or anything that incites violences or suppresses voting, and we're committed to removing that content too, no matter where it comes from." | This will include ads critical of "immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seeker…

The Canary (2020-06-26). US House passes police reform bill after George Floyd killing. thecanary.co The US House of Representatives has approved a sweeping police reform bill in the wake of protests over the police killing of George Floyd.The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed largely along party lines but stands little chance of becoming law. It requires a majority vote in the Republican-controlled senate.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gathered with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the Capitol steps. She challenged opponents not to allow the deaths of Black Americans to have been in vain or the outpouring of public support for changes to go unmatched. Pelosi said: Exactly one month ago, George…

RT (2020-06-26). MSM scrambles to smear 'free speech' platform Parler as Twitter censorship wave pushes conservatives out. rt.com "Free speech driven" social network Parler is being smeared as a "far right" cesspool as a Twitter crackdown drives conservative signups — even as its new users include milquetoast Republican politicians like Ted Cruz. | Like Gab before it, Parler has attracted celebrity Twitter and Facebook rejects, lured by the promise of a censor-free experience, and a flood of users eager to interact with their banned idols — or just to express themselves without fear of deplatforming. And the market for alternative platforms is booming — Parler's app was the second-most-popular download in the App Store's…

Steven Sahiounie (2020-06-26). MSM "Fake News" Against Syria. Describe Al Qaeda as "Rebels", Elected President as "Dictator" globalresearch.ca The Editorial Board of They call the Assad government of …

Project Censored (2020-06-26). Episode 95 — What We Can Learn From The Kent State Murders with Mickey Huff. projectcensored.org On today's episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon explore the Kent State Murders with Project Censored Director and the President of the Media Freedom Foundation,…

yenisafak (2020-06-26). Syria's hunger crisis worsens, COVID outbreak could intensify. yenisafak.com Syria faces an unprecedented hunger crisis with over 9.3 million people lacking adequate food while the country's coronavirus outbreak, though apparently controlled for now, could still accelerate, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday.The World Food Programme (WFP) told a briefing in Geneva that the number of people short of essential foodstuffs had risen by 1.4 million in the past six months.Food prices had also soared by more than 200% in less than a year due to the freefall in neighbouring Lebanon's economy and COVID-19 lockdown measures in Syria, WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said.After nine years of armed confl…

sputniknews (2020-06-26). On the Road Again: Grizzly Bear Casually Strolls Across Bridge. sputniknews.com Some people have no problem whatsoever holding up traffic by moving slowly. Apparently some animals also act this way at times, as a mighty bear recently demonstrated.

Staff (2020-06-26). States Are Legally Required to Protect the Right to Vote. truthout.org As the 2020 general election approaches, the Trump Administration and Republican-controlled states have ramped-up efforts to keep people of color from exercising their right to vote. Leaders of the Republican Party favor suppressing the votes of minority people, knowing they likely support Democratic candidates. In March 2020, The Guardian

_____ (2020-06-26). Flagging U.S. Credibility at Vienna Arms Control Talks. strategic-culture.org A puerile propaganda stunt pulled by U.S. negotiators in Vienna this week ahead of talks with Russian counterparts was both at insult to China and a reprehensible distraction from credible bilateral business with Moscow on the vital issue of strategic security. | Ahead of talks with Russian delegates, the Americans took a stealthy photo of the venue U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea then tried to twitter-shame China by decl…

_____ (2020-06-26). Get ready for 'Shock and Awe' Brexit propaganda campaign. truepublica.org.uk By TruePublica Editor: The governments' overuse of militaristic, Churchillian and war-time cliches over Brexit and the pandemic is wearing thin and getting tiresome. But as Brexit day approaches, this is the mentality of a government obsessed with public relations. A mass propaganda invasion is to be aimed at every adult to overcome the Remainer enemy. …