2021-06-02: News Headlines

Project Censored (2021-06-02). Third Installment of "The Long Sili-CON: Power and Censorship in the Digital Era," projectcensored.org This week's program presents excerpts from a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and The Real News Network. This is the third and final installment in the series "The…

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2021-06-02). The Putin-Biden Summit: Is Putin Walking into a Propaganda Trap? globalresearch.ca Before we give …

Staff (2021-06-01). "There Are Many Others": 215 Bodies Found at Canadian Residential School for Indigenous Children. democracynow.org The Canadian government is facing pressure to declare a national day of mourning after the bodies of 215 children were found in British Columbia on the grounds of a school for Indigenous children who were forcibly separated from their families by the government. The bodies were discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, which opened in 1890 and closed in the late 1970s. Over the span of a century, more than 150,000 Indigenous children were separated from their families and sent to residential schools to rid them of their Native cultures and languages and integrate them into mainstream Canadian society.

WSWS (2021-06-01). On US Memorial Day: American ruling class declares pandemic "over," as 500 die every day. wsws.org On a day supposedly set aside to commemorate the dead, the corporate media and political establishment devoted their efforts to spreading complacency and forgetfulness about the horrific toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Michael F. Brown (2021-06-01). Jake Tapper spreads hatred of Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Double standards and propaganda persist at CNN.

Daniel Espinosa (2021-06-01). All (MacCarthyite) hell breaks loose in Peru as the country prepares to choose new President. dissidentvoice.org Huge billboards across Lima's main avenues read like cheap Cold War propaganda: "Peru says no to communism", "Socialism leads to communism", and "Think about your children's future", are just three of the many panic-inducing slogans. Nobody knows who's paying for the expensive advertisement and nobody cares, including the government agencies created to stop this kind …

John Feffer (2021-06-01). They're Not Conservatives, They're Extremists. counterpunch.org The House Freedom Caucus is routinely described as conservative, by its members, by the mainstream media, by Wikipedia. The caucus, which draws together 45 Republican Party members of the House of Representatives, is the furthest to the right of any major political formation in the United States. The most extreme and flamboyant politicians in America,

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