Daily Archives: January 23, 2021

2021-01-23: News Headlines

Rayhan Uddin (2021-01-22). Khashoggi murder film 'The Dissident' targeted by suspicious negative reviews. middleeasteye.net Khashoggi murder film 'The Dissident' targeted by suspicious negative reviews | Users flood Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb with negative comments about documentary, in apparent troll campaign | Fri, 01/22/2021 – 12: 57 | The film investigates the brutal murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul in October 2018 (The Dissident official website) | A critically acclaimed docum…

Richard Sanders (2021-01-22). Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada. dissidentvoice.org For decades the Canadian government has been supporting East European émigré associations whose much-revered founders, leaders and war heroes include veterans of Waffen SS divisions and other fascist military formations, perpetrators of the Holocaust and other ethnic-cleansing campaigns, officials from and apologists for Nazi puppet regimes, postwar CIA propaganda assets, proponents of Cold War terrorist …

Anthony Cartalucci (2021-01-22). BBC Propaganda Targets Thailand (Again). thealtworld.com The BBC — British state propaganda which has played a key role in selling wars that have destroyed nations around the globe, ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and ruining the lives of millions more — has its sights set on Thailand. | I explain why what the BBC left out of its deceitful narrative regarding Thailand's ongoing protests is much more important than anything it included in it. | The BBC glaringly omits any discussion about who is funding and backing the protests and why. A convenient omission the BBC also made when covering US-funded mobs in Hong Kong. | References: | BB…

Jon Queally (2021-01-22). GOP Nightmare of Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders About to Come True. zcomm.org "When Republicans controlled the Senate they used the reconciliation process to provide huge tax breaks for the rich and large corporations. We're going to use reconciliation to protect working families, the sick and the poor."

grants.gov (2021-01-22). DEFENSE CIVILIAN TRAINING CORPS. grants.gov FY2021-DCTC-FORECAST | Opportunity ID: | 329760 | Opportunity Number: | FY2021-DCTC-FORECAST | Opportunity Title: | DEFENSE CIVILIAN TRAINING CORPS | Opportunity Category: | Discretionary | Opportunity Category Explanation: | Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement | Grant | Procurement Contract | Category of Funding Activity: | Education | Category Explanation: | CFDA Number(s): | 12.006 | Eligible Applicants: | Public and State controlled institutions of higher education | Private institutions of higher education | Additional Information on Eligibility: | A…

Rod Driver (2021-01-22). The Illusion of Democracy: Government by the Rich for the Even Richer. globalresearch.ca "Democracy has little meaning when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, transportation, and communication, reinforced by command of the press, press agents and other means of publicity and propaganda". …

Cassie Miller and Hannah Gais (2021-01-22). Capitol Insurrection Shows How Trends On The Far-Right's Fringe Have Become Mainstream. splcenter.org Researchers studying the far right have sounded the alarm over the threat posed by the rapid proliferation of conspiracy theories, disinformation and misinformation for years, noting that shifts in the extreme right's mobilization tactics could present new challenges to stemming a tide of violence.

grants.gov (2021-01-22). FY 2021 Global Sports Mentoring Program. grants.gov SFOP0007530 | Funding Opportunity ID: | 330769 | Opportunity Number: | SFOP0007530 | Opportunity Title: | FY 2021 Global Sports Mentoring Program | Opportunity Category: | Discretionary | Opportunity Category Explanation: | Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement | Category of Funding Activity: | Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification) | Category Explanation: | Please see full announcement. | CFDA Number(s): | 19.415 | Eligible Applicants: | Public and State controlled institutions of higher education | Nonpro…

Hannah Dickinson (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). 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 …

WSWS (2021-01-21). A politically motivated smear: Canada's Globe and Mail blames "Marxists" for discredited racialist 1619 Project. wsws.org In an act of political censorship, Canada's "newspaper of record" has refused to publish a letter from WSWS Chairman David North answering its smear.

Rod Driver (2021-01-21). War Propaganda 2: The Cult of Militarism. zcomm.org War propaganda permeates our society…

sputniknews (2021-01-21). 'ÔªøThe Democrats and Mainstream Media Have Smeared, Slandered and Attacked Donald Trump,' Pundit Says. sputniknews.com The inauguration of the 46th President of the United States more closely resembled a military operation than a ceremony as 25,000 national guards lined the streets of Washington DC.

David Faris (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 …

Joe Mayall (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.

Michael Day (2021-01-20). Italian Doctors Sanctioned for Raising Questions About COVID Vaccine. anti-empire.com An Italian doctors association has warned or disciplined 10 medics for promoting anti-vaccination propaganda and is considering sanctions against three others who are accused of downplaying the gravity of covid-19. | This comes amid growing concern that public scepticism over covid-19 vaccines could undermine Europe's fight against the coronavirus pandemic. | Antonio Magi, president of the Ordine dei Medici di Roma (Rome Doctors Guild), said that inquiries into 10 medics accused of unwarranted criticism of vaccinations had been completed, with punishments ranging from warnings to two month suspensions. The other…

The Guardian (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