(2021-04-21). Corporate Media Sideline Health Experts during Pandemic. projectcensored.org As the COVID-19 pandemic became more widespread and dangerous in the US, information surrounding it became unclear and uncontrolled. Establishment media outlets had the crucial task of clarifying this information…
(2021-04-21). COVID-19 Exposes Extent of Student Debt Crisis. projectcensored.org In August 2020, Politico's Bianca Quilantan reported on how COVID-19 has affected colleges and universities across the US. According to the article, the pandemic forced many schools to close their…
(2021-04-21). Factory Farming in US Creates Breeding Ground for Next Pandemic. projectcensored.org As the impacts of COVID-19 continue to expand, experts say pandemic prevention should also focus on the United States, where intensive agricultural practices are breeding grounds for disease, according to…
(2021-04-21). The Questionable Government Practice of "Escheatment" projectcensored.org In the 1990s Walter Schramm, a Delaware resident, invested in Amazon stock. As the stock's value grew, Schramm left his Amazon investment alone only to learn in 2015 that it…
(2021-04-21). Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: "Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests" orinocotribune.com Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and native of Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions. | WASHINGTON — Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University Endowment Fund in Beijing and a native of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Gao discusses growing up as a Mongolian ethnic minority in XUAR, and how the propaganda war against China hurts Uyghur interests, but will ultimately backfire on the United States. Gao and Coden also discuss the U.S.-China artificial intelligence…
(2021-04-21). ACLU Demands Improved COVID-19 Protections for Florida Detainees. projectcensored.org The American Civil Law Union (ACLU) of Florida and Disability Rights Florida co-filed a class action lawsuit against the Sheriff of Broward County after receiving complaints of the county's lack…
(2021-04-21). Defeat of Minimum Wage Increase Leaves People with Disabilities Behind. projectcensored.org As was widely reported by news outlets (including CNN, CBS, NPR, among others) in February 2021, a popular $15 minimum-wage hike was struck from President Biden's COVID relief package when…
(2021-04-21). Unexpected Environmental Consequences of COVID-19. projectcensored.org Due to COVID-19, recycling programs in many bigger cities have ceased. Because the recycling process is hands-on and involves multiple processing steps, many recycling centers have either shutdown or significantly reduced operations to avoid cross-contamination cases. But with pollution already being one of the most pressing public concerns of this century, reductions in recycling are deeply problematic. | Unfortunately, recycling programs are not the only ecologically-friendly options that have been disrupted by COVID-19, as Bloomberg News reported in March 2020. Companies such as Starbucks have stopped acceptin…
(2021-04-21). Opportunists Game Facebook with COVID-19 Misinformation for Profit. projectcensored.org According to a March 2021 report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Dr. Eric Nepute began posting misinformation regarding COVID-19 and coronavirus vaccines on Facebook and other social media platforms,…
(2021-04-21). Report Documents Governments' Use of COVID-19 to Impose Authoritarian Policies. projectcensored.org A January 2021 report by the American Friends Service Committee documents how local and state governments arounds the world have implemented "extreme emergency measures under the cover of responding to…
(2021-04-21). Could Malaysia's Fake News Ordinance Stifle Public Debate? — Analysis. eurasiareview.com By Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani* | On 12 January 2021, Malaysia's king, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, announced a nationwide state of emergency that will last until 1 August 2021. That same day, the Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced the imposition of stricter movement controls in states most badly affected by COVID-19. The Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021 was gazetted on 14 January 2021. | On 12 March, the Emergency (Essential Powers) (No. 2) Ordinance 2021 followed, taking action against the spread of fake news across video, written and audio platforms. The ordinance raises concerns abou…
(2021-04-21). Toondah Harbor Project to De-List Australian Wetlands, Endangering Habitats and Indigenous Sites. projectcensored.org The Walker Corporation's Toondah Harbor development would de-list over 67 hectares of land and water around Moreton Bay in Australia, threatening endangered species and indigenous sites, according to reports by…
(2021-04-21). Rising Drug Prices Will Become Leading Cause of Senior Citizen Deaths, Report Finds. projectcensored.org The rising cost of prescription drugs could lead to the premature deaths of 1.1 million seniors in Medicare programs in the next decade, according to a study conducted by the…
(2021-04-21). UK's New Coal Mine Plans Foreshadow Massive Carbon Emissions. projectcensored.org An October 2020 Guardian article reported that West Cumbria Mining will open "the UK's first new deep coalmine in 30 years" after local government officials approved the company's plans, and…
(2021-04-21). Google's Union-Busting Methods Revealed. projectcensored.org Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a union avoidance firm, obtained by Vice's Motherboard show the disturbing lengths to which companies will go in order to derail workplace organizing. The leaked records include a spreadsheet of anecdotal personal information the company had gathered about the employees of one client, Conifer Health Solutions, who hired IRI Consultants to thwart a union drive at two hospitals the company owns in Seattle. The document included data about employees' private lives including descriptions of workers as: 'lazy', 'impressionable', 'money oriented', and 'a single mother'. IRI Consultant…
(2021-04-21). Lack of Federal Relief Leaves Theater in the Dark. projectcensored.org As of March 2021, more than 51,000 musical theater actors have been unemployed for over a year. This does not include the 150,000 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical…
(2021-04-21). Claudio Saunt: The Mass Expulsion of Native American Indians From the Southern US. projectcensored.org On this week's Project Censored Show: History Matters. Historian and author Claudio Saunt is featured on the program for the hour. He addresses the mass expulsion of Native American Indians…
(2021-04-21). The Washington Post's phony campaign on Uyghur "genocide" wsws.org With astonishing speed, the US media has swung into action churning out a growing deluge of propaganda with lurid horror stories of life in the detention camps in Xinjiang, calls for the US to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and demands for tougher measures against China.
(2021-04-20). 'Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests'. popularresistance.org Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University Endowment Fund in Beijing and a native of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Gao discusses growing up as a Mongolian ethnic minority in XUAR, and how the propaganda war against China hurts Uyghur interests, but will ultimately backfire on the United States. Gao and Coden also discuss the U.S.-China artificial intelligence arms race as well as the comparative strengths of the two countries.
(2021-04-20). The Chauvin Trial is Dangerously Deceptive. counterpunch.org 
Since most U.S.-Americans know little about social and political reality beyond their own limited experience and bubbles, powerfully deceptive narratives and images disseminated by the corporate media easily distort public perceptions. The election and presidency of Barack Obama fed the dangerous illusion that racism no longer posed barriers to Black advancement and equality in the
(2021-04-20). Shocking Omissions: Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of The Guardian. dissidentvoice.org 
Long before 'the propaganda model' flew off Edward Herman's keyboard and into Manufacturing Consent, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because …
(2021-04-20). Mainstream media reporting on the establishment. thecanary.co 
Image description | This cartoon begins with the headline "Mainstream media reporting on the establishment". Beneath that are two columns with the following subheadings; a red box labelled "don't say" and a green box labelled "do say". Each point in the don't say column has a red cross beside it, each point in the do say column has a green tick beside it. The list in the columns is as follows: | Don't say Incompetent. | Do say mismanaged, indecisive, ill-judged. | Don't say racist. | Do say unique sense of humour, gaffe prone, blunt. | Don't say corrupt. | Do say technically within rules, questions will be rai…
(2021-04-20). 'Divisive': How Corporate Media Dismiss Ideas Unpopular With Elites. zcomm.org The next time you hear your favorite political proposals being labeled as too "divisive," "contentious" or "polarizing" to work, check the polls first…
(2021-04-20). Governor DeSantis Signs Unprecedented Anti-Protest And Anti-Public Safety Law. popularresistance.org Tallahassee, Fla. – This morning, just days after the Republican-led Florida Senate voted to pass an unprecedented, costly and racially charged bill (House Bill 1) to censor protest, preempt local policing budgets and preserve symbols of white supremacy, Governor DeSantis is signing it into law. The bill passed despite widespread opposition by Floridians of all political ideologies and diverse sectors, after Governor DeSantis made it his number one legislative priority and lobbied behind doors to make sure it passed both Chambers as early as possible. The new law, which does nothing more than silence dissent and…
(2021-04-20). "A Sign of Progress": How a Tiny Corporate Media Clique Inverted Reality During Brazil's 2016 Coup. orinocotribune.com By Brasil Wire — Apr 17, 2021 | On the fifth anniversary of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, the role foreign media played in propagandising for it still warrants further investigation. | Little of international media coverage of Brazil's 2016 coup and its centrepiece, the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, has dated well. But one opinion piece in US newspaper the New York Times stands out as emblematic of the inverted reality being presented to the world, as Brazil's first female president was facing a right-wing plot to remove her and her progressive government from office. | Written by Op-Ed contributo…
(2021-04-20). Zero Mainstream Coverage Today of the Foiled, U.S. Backed Plot to Assassinate Belarus President Lukashenko. globalresearch.ca In his last book "War with Russia?" my friend and colleague …
(2021-04-20). Poloxamer 188 for Sickle Cell Disease. jamanetwork.com Although effective treatments exist to prevent painful vaso-occlusive episodes in patients with sickle cell disease (ie, hydroxyurea), finding therapies to reduce the severity or duration of episodes once they have begun has proved elusive. Inhaled nitric oxide, intravenous magnesium, and intravenous sevuparin have been tried without success. In 2001, JAMA published a phase 3 multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of poloxamer 188 in 255 children and adults with sickle cell disease hospitalized with a vaso-occlusive episode. In that study, Orringer et al found a modest, statistically significa…