(2021-01-21). Lord Ashcroft — Tory donors outsourcing firm lands £350m vaccination contract. truepublica.org.uk By Peter Geoghegan and Russel Scott: A healthcare company ultimately controlled by a leading Tory donor and former party chairman, Lord Ashcroft, has received a £350m contract as part of the government's COVID-19 vaccination roll-out, openDemocracy has learned. Last month the Department of Health and Social Care gave the lucrative contract to Medacs Healthcare plc. In recent …
(2021-01-21). 140,000 jobs lost in December — all women. liberationnews.org 
Originally posted on Breaking the Chains. Working-class and oppressed women are bearing the brunt of the combined COVID and economic crises in the United States. December's jobs numbers produced shocking headlines throughout the mainstream media. CNN's headline read: "The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of them were held by women." A separate …
(2021-01-21). War Propaganda 2: The Cult of Militarism. zcomm.org War propaganda permeates our society…
(2021-01-21). The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office. juancole.com Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) — In his perfunctory farewell speech, released on Tuesday many months after he had churlishly quit on the American people in their greatest hour of need, Donald Trump claimed that he and his band of inept rapscallions had come to Washington to "restore the allegiance of this government to its …
(2021-01-21). 'Call of Duty' Doesn't Just Depict Bad History—It's Pro-War Propaganda. progressive.org In the video game's latest sequel, Black Ops Cold War, players are tasked with committing "highly illegal" atrocities.
(2021-01-20). Parler Back Online Thanks to Servers in Russia. anti-empire.com 
Parler, the social network popular with The network vanished from the internet after it was
(2021-01-20). John Marshall And Nolan Higdon. projectcensored.org Mickey's first guest is veteran technology entrepreneur John Marshall. In his new book "Free is Bad: How the Free Web Hurt Privacy, Truth and Democracy," he contends that internet users' expectation that everything online should be provided free has been a disservice to themselves and to society, because it makes advertisers, not internet users, the real customers of the tech firms. In the second half of the show, History and Media Studies lecturer Nolan Higdon returns to the program for a discussion about what the January 6 events at the U.S. Capitol means for the media and for the country. They reference their…
(2021-01-20). War Propaganda: The Cult of Militarism. globalresearch.ca This is the second of two posts about war propaganda, and the last of four posts about propaganda more generally. | "War will exist until the distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior …
(2021-01-19). The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence. globalresearch.ca With the mainstream media still obsessing about the January 6th "violent coup attempt" at the US Capitol Building, the incoming Biden Administration looks to be chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups. Don't look to the mainstream media to …
(2021-01-19). Glenn Greenwald on the Biden Administration and Expanding Censorship. scheerpost.com On this week's "On Contact," Chris Hedges talks to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the incoming Biden administration and what it will mean for a country in crisis, ravaged by a pandemic it cannot control, hostage to corporate power and bifurcated into warring factions. Glenn Greenwald is the author of several bestsellers, including How …
(2021-01-19). A Slanted Narrative on Slanted Journalism. counterpunch.org 
One out of three adult Americans have no trust in our mass media, according to a September 2020 Gallup poll. Sharyl Attkisson attempts to explain why in her new book, "Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism." Attkisson argues that we live in an Orwellian news environment: The major
(2021-01-19). The Basic Principles of War Propaganda: The US Lies About Every War. globalresearch.ca "In war, truth is the first casualty" (Aeschylus(1)) | A Very Brief History of War Propaganda | Propaganda as a science really got under way during World War 1 (WW1). The British and the German governments both brainwashed their populations into believing …
(2021-01-19). The Rosenberg Orphans And The Power Of Radical History. popularresistance.org The Left would go crazy over Jewish American dissidents Abel and Anne Meeropol if they were alive today. Their tale is a radical epic so poignant that one wonders where the 10-part miniseries is. It covers a range of contemporary themes: children separated from parents, the political persecution of dissidents, and social justice warriors doing battle against a racist, xenophobic, increasingly fascistic America. | It's a story so fantastical, and containing so many celebrated names, that it's hard to believe it hasn't stuck better into the mainstream. Then again, a tale involving judicial executions on fake charge…
(2021-01-19). Mexico: Morena Party Opposes Censorship Against AMLO. telesurenglish.net The National Renovation Movement (MORENA) party will challenge a decision by the National Electoral Institute (INE) which prohibited Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) from expressing judgments on the June federal elections during his morning press conferences. | RELATED: | "It is an excess against freedom of expression and his right to give his opinion on issues of national importance," MORENA l…