2021-04-17: News Headlines

Arjun Walia (2021-04-17). Concerned Ontario Doctors: The Harms of Lockdowns and the Dangers of Censorship. globalresearch.ca President and Co-Founder of

VINS (2021-04-16). "Collision of Crises" Impact Black and Brown Survivors during COVID-19. projectcensored.org In November 2020, ColorLines reported the results of a study that found that women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportionate hardships compared to whites during…

Matt Orfalea (2021-04-16). Kamala's KHive trolls boosted by bots while media ignores its harassment campaigns. thegrayzone.com While the online KHive abuses critics of Vice President Kamala Harris and harasses them in offline settings, positive mainstream media coverage ignores its origins in a Democratic-linked bot farm An April 8 LA Times profile of the "KHive" attempted to put a positive spin on the online nest of Vice President Kamala Harris super fans, while completely ignoring the disturbingly abusive qualities and record of offline harassment the group is increasingly known for. Describing the KHive as "the type of …

VINS (2021-04-16). Texas Families Feel Impacts of Cold Case Crisis. projectcensored.org In the January/ February 2021 issue of the Texas Observer, reporter Lise Olsen investigated the growing backlog of homicide cases in Texas and its impact on the state's communities. This…

VINS (2021-04-16). Abusers Benefitting from International Anti-Abduction Treaty. projectcensored.org The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was created to protect children from being abducted and taken away from their home country. Abusers are now using this…

VINS (2021-04-16). Google's Union-Busting Methods Revealed. projectcensored.org Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a union avoidance firm, obtained by Vice's Motherboard show the disturbing lengths to which companies will go in order to derail workplace organizing. The leaked records include a spreadsheet of anecdotal personal information the company had gathered about the employees of one client, Conifer Health Solutions, who hired IRI Consultants to thwart a union drive at two hospitals the company owns in Seattle. The document included data about employees' private lives including descriptions of workers as: 'lazy', 'impressionable', 'money oriented', and 'a single mother'. IRI Consultant…

_____ (2021-04-16). Media Once Again Trolling US Withdrawal From Afghanistan. popularresistance.org I don't write much about the specific individuals who drive the oligarchic empire because individuals are not the problem, the system is. Right-wing conspiracy analysts prefer to focus on specific corrupt elites because they like to think if you just got rid of them, capitalism would work fine. And it just wouldn't. If you rounded up and executed all the sociopathic ruling elites today but left our current systems intact they'd just be replaced tomorrow. A competition-based model where war, corruption, oppression and exploitation remain profitable guarantees this. | A lot of right-wing conspiracy analysis today u…

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