(2021-10-11). Our Health depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants that are rapidly being Destroyed. juancole.com Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) — While mainstream media celebrate the remarkable development in record time of vaccines spectacularly effective against the Covid virus, knowledge that might contribute to other medical breakthroughs is being steadily undermined. This decline is not the result of some dramatic lawsuit or corporate takeover. It is one of …
(2021-10-11). Facebook 'fixing' Instagram after Haugen leak: Nudging teens away from bad content & making Section 230 conditional on censorship. rt.com 
Facing accusations of failing to protect children, Facebook wants to introduce more restrictions and coercion on the platform. It also wants reform of Section 230 so its protections apply only to well-moderated platforms. | Facebook has been subjected to an onslaught of criticism after its former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal company documents to the press, and accused the tech giant of putting profits before the wellbeing of its users. One of the specific charges was that using Facebook-owned Instagram could be harmful to some vulnerable teenagers, affecting their self-esteem or even causing suicida…
(2021-10-11). Israel/Palestine: Facebook Censors Discussion of Rights Issues. juancole.com Human Rights Watch — (Washington, DC) — Facebook has wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians and their supporters, including about human rights abuses carried out in Israel and Palestine during the May 2021 hostilities. The company's acknowledgment of errors and attempts to correct some of them are insufficient and do not address the scale …
(2021-10-11). New Zealand's Daily Blog attacks WSWS as "sectarian" wsws.org The pseudo-left Daily Blog contributor Chris Trotter objected to the WSWS's exposure of the blog's support for the Labour Party-led government's alignment with US imperialism, and its war propaganda against China.
(2021-10-11). Pulitzer Prize winner urges end to lab-leak propaganda by Wall Street Journal. ecns.cn Long famous as a font of political and economic distortion, the Wall Street Journal's opinion section has more recently become a center of lab-leak speculation, Michael Hiltzik, a U.S. columnist with The Los Angeles Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, said on Friday.
(2021-10-11). It's Not Misinformation. It's Amplified Propaganda. zcomm.org You don't need fake accounts to spread ampliganda online. Real people will happily do it…
(2021-10-11). Deadly Explosion Rocked A Busy Market Square In Syria's Afrin (Videos, Photos). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | Another explosion rocked the city of Afrin in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo province. Casualties were reported by local sources. | A truck bomb exploded in a busy market square in the the area controlled by pro-Turkish militants of the Syrian National Army (SNA). | According to preliminary data, at least one person was killed and five others were injured. | The victims are yet to be identified. It is not clear if they were members of Turkish-backed militant groups or civilians. |
(2021-10-10). Video: Censorship and the "Smoking Guns" of a Manufactured Pandemic. globalresearch.ca "Closing down the Global Economy as a means to combating the Killer Virus. That's what they want us to believe. If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is "similar to Influenza", the fear campaign would have fallen flat…"
(2021-10-10). Green Left Show #17: What's happening in Cuba? greenleft.org.au Helen Jaffe, Sujatha Fernandes and Ian Ellis-Jones discuss the the July 11 protests in Cuba, the corporate media's distortions of them and what is happening in that country now.
(2021-10-10). Bellingcat Funded By Contractors That Aided Extremists In Syria. popularresistance.org Since its launch in July 2014, the self-styled open-source investigations website Bellingcat has cemented itself as a darling of mainstream Western media, with its dives into alleged Syrian government chemical weapon attacks and Russian intelligence operations showered with praise, puff pieces, and glitzy awards. | While vehemently insisting that it is independent of government influence, Bellingcat is funded by both the US government's National Endowment for Democracy and the European Union. CIA officials have declared their "love" for Bellingcat, and there are unambiguous signs that the outlet has partnered clo…
(2021-10-10). David Chappelle's "Space Jews" dissidentvoice.org Finally someone, male or female, white or whatever, str8 or lgbtq+, with the balls to give Israel the finger in the mainstream media. Chappelle is the American Hamas, lobbing his homemade rockets, flying his balloons out of besieged America at the dastardly foe, which relentless steals and then colonizes our minds, forcing us to our …
(2021-10-10). Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria. thegrayzone.com Supposedly "independent" website Bellingcat raked in money from scandal-ridden Western intelligence firms that wreaked havoc — and reaped massive profits — in Syria. Since its launch in July 2014, the self-styled open-source investigations website Bellingcat has cemented itself as a darling of mainstream Western media, with its dives into alleged Syrian government chemical weapon attacks and Russian intelligence operations showered with praise, puff pieces, and glitzy awards. While vehemently insisting that it is independent of government influence, Bellingcat is funded …