2021-07-12: News Headlines

Fight Back (2021-07-13). Stand with socialist Cuba! fightbacknews.org The working people of Cuba are mobilizing to defend the Cuban revolution and drive pro-U.S. reactionaries from the streets. The Cuban people are united in overcoming the costly U.S. economic embargo and subversion. Cubans steadfastly refuse to return to being a colony controlled by the U.S. Older Cubans remember when it was a playground for American millionaires and gangsters, with widespread poverty, abuse of workers and death an everyday part of life. | Back in 1959, the Cuban revolution shook the captains of Wall Street to their core. The rich have still have not gotten over it. With the working class and its…

Liberation Staff (2021-07-12). Cuban President Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the Streets! liberationnews.org This speech provides crucial context and information being covered up by the corporate media in the United States.

Yves Engler (2021-07-12). The Assassination of Jovenel MoàØse. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Jul 9, 2021 | Jovenel MoàØse was a violent and corrupt tyrant. While his passing may not elicit much sympathy, the Haitian president's assassination should not be celebrated. | Backed by Washington and Ottawa, MoàØse appears to have been killed by elements within his own violent PHTK political party. The well-organized operation was probably bankrolled by one of the country's light skinned oligarchs and almost certainly carried out with support from inside the government. Police controlled the road to his house yet this video shows a convoy of armed men moving methodically up t…

Staff (2021-07-12). Headlines for July 12, 2021. democracynow.org Police Arrest Man Who Planned to Assume Haitian Presidency as More U.S. Ties Emerge, COVID Cases on the Rise in 42 U.S. States; CDC Urges Schools to Reopen in Fall, Thousands Take to Streets of Cuba to Protest Economic Crisis, Pandemic, Top U.S. Military General Leaves Post in Afghanistan as Withdrawal Nears End, Ethiopian Elections Deliver Win for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Racist Trolls Attack England Soccer Team's Black Players After Loss to Italy in Euro 2020, G20 Members Back 15% Global Minimum Tax; Critics Say Greater Change Is Needed, Biden Signs Order to Combat Monopolies, Low Wages, Biden Fires Trump-Era…

WSWS (2021-07-12). US imposes new sanctions on China over Uyghurs. wsws.org The bans are part of the escalating US confrontation with China, in which a propaganda campaign of lies and distortions is accompanying a relentless military build-up.

Staff (2021-07-12). YouTube is censoring 'normal discourse' & punishing those who fight back, content creator targeted by platform tells RT. rt.com YouTube is selectively enforcing its policies regarding 'disinformation' in what appears to be an attempt to silence content creators who oppose the platform's penchant for censorship, political commentator Matt Orfalea told RT. | Orfalea is speaking from experience: Last week he received a 'strike' and had his channel demonetized for allegedly violating the company's policy prohibiting "violent criminal organizations." The flagged video was a seven-year-old satirical fake Starbucks ad, which referred to the coffee chain's "insanely overpriced beverages for psychopaths." YouTube later admitted it had acted "in…

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia (2021-07-12). OPINION: Bolsonaro's Authoritarian Drive Seems Unstoppable. latinorebels.com Authoritarian leaders tend to seek to hold on to power by any means they deem necessary—whether through censorship, media control, or coups. Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is one of those leaders.

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2021-07-12). The Deadly Censorship of Ivermectin. globalresearch.ca

Binoy Kampmark (2021-07-12). Protecting Eden: Pornography and Age Verification Down Under. counterpunch.org Sex on the screen and on the page has often incurred the wrath of Australian censors. Over the years, the opaquely functioning Office of Film and Literature Classification has been guarding Australians like the children of Eden, fearful that their sensibilities might be corrupted. But Australian politicians and various advocacy groups have broadened their interest

WSWS (2021-07-12). CDC's lifting of mask recommendations in US schools threatens massive surge of infections. wsws.org The guideline changes, which have been universally hailed by the corporate media, the entire political establishment and the teachers unions, amount to the reckless endangerment of millions of children, their teachers, parents and the broader population.

teleSUR (2021-07-12). Mexico Rejects Foreign Intervention in Cuban Incidents. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) rejected the intervention of international powers and mainstream media in the protests in Cuba on Sunday. | RELATED: | "I want to express my solidarity with the Cuban people. I believe that a solution must be sought through dialogue, without the use of force, without confrontation, without violence. It must be the Cubans who decide because Cuba is a free, independent, a…

Emilio Leanza (2021-07-12). How the U.S. Used Comics as Propaganda Abroad. progressive.org During World War II and the Cold War, comics became a tool for spreading a vision of an American-led future.

The Associated Press (2021-07-12). Police Patrol Havana in Large Numbers After Demonstrations. latinorebels.com HAVANA (AP) — Large contingents of Cuban police patrolled the capital of Havana on Monday following protests around the island nation against food shortages and high prices amid the coronavirus crisis. Cuba's president said the demonstrations were stirred up on social media by Cuban-Americans in the United States.

Brian Whitaker (2021-07-11). Facebook cracks down on propaganda campaign in Jordan. juancole.com ( Al-Bab.com) — Facebook reported this week that it removed 2,784 accounts in June for "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". Among those, 947 related to countries in the Middle East and North Africa region: Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria and Sudan. Facebook treats online campaigns as "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" if they seek "to mislead people about who they …

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