(2021-05-29). Saudi-led Coalition Thwarted Another Houthi Attack, Destroyed Two Booby-Trapped Boats. southfront.org 
Illustrative image.Captureÿ®Ÿä.jpg | On May 28, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it had foiled an attempt by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) to launch an attack with booby-trapped boats. | In a statement, the coalition said that its forces destroyed two remotely-controlled water-borne Improvised Explosive Devices (WBIED) off the shores of the town of al-Salif on Yemen's western coast before the Houthis could launch the attack. | "The Houthi militia continues to threaten shipping a…
(2021-05-29). Unregulated Cryptocurrency Bubble Could Send the Economy Into a Tailspin. truthout.org 
Bank regulators are rushing to come up with cryptocurrency rules, according to the Federal Reserve official overseeing financial regulation, but many fear the rule-making comes too late, and the unregulated bonanza may already be on the cusp of crashing and causing a broader recession that would hurt the poor most intensely. | Fed Vice Chair of Supervision Randal Quarles said on May 25 that his agency and two others — the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Depos…
(2021-05-29). A People's Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery & Propaganda. popularresistance.org When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
(2021-05-29). The People's Podcast: A New Kind of Social Media w/Suzie Dawson & Sean O'Brien. peoplesparty.org Eynelys and Nick talk with activist, whistleblower, and founder of Panquake Suzie Dawson, and Sean O'Brien of Yale Privacy Lab & Express VPN who has joined the Panquake team. Together they discuss the problems with the current state of social media, the censorship & corruption that we face from Big Tech, and how Panquake looks to change the space as we know it. | The People's Podcast is also available on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Anchor.fm.
(2021-05-28). Birds of a Fascist Feather: Why Israel Is Aiding Colombia's Crackdown on Protesters. mintpressnews.com 
Photos circulating on social media show Colombian government forces using Israeli weapons against protestors and Israeli-made Sand Cat armored vehicles patrolling the streets of Colombian cities. Alan Macleod investigates the growing ties between the unlikely allies.
(2021-05-28). Colombia Turns on Media Amid Barrage of Lies and Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Adriaan Alsema — May 26, 2021 | Public support for Colombia's mass media has plummeted as they persistently contradict citizen reporting, a poll confirmed. | According to pollster Invamer, public approval of the news media dropped from 41% to 31% since ongoing anti-government protests began on April 28. | The approval of "the media" in Colombia has been dropping for a decade, but plummeted in May after a wave of social media reports on police brutality was blatantly contradicted by mass media. | Media approval | Colombians become their own reporters | While citizens reported extreme violence by the sec…
(2021-05-28). How America Does Regime-Change Propaganda. southfront.org 
Illustrative image | Written by Eric Zuesse. | In the case of Saddam Hussein, it was by lying about "WMD" and about Saddam's being behind Al Qaeda. | In the case of Muammar Qaddafi, it was by lying about Qaddafi's being hated (instead of supported) by most Libyans. | In the case of Bashar al-Assad, it was by lying about Assad's being hated (instead of supported) by most Syrians. | In the case of Xi Jinping, it is by lying about Xi's being a dictator. | In the case of Vladimir Putin, it is by lying about Putin's being…
(2021-05-28). "Xinjiang in My Eyes": Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. globalresearch.ca This article is …
(2021-05-28). What corporate media got wrong about this brutal arrest caught on bodycam. therealnews.com 
The differences between how PAR and local media covered the arrest and tasering of a cab driver in Toledo, Ohio, are striking. We explore this discrepancy as an example of the ways mainstream media propagates official law enforcement narratives and runs cover for police overreach.
(2021-05-28). Bizarre propaganda offensive begins against New Zealand. challenge-magazine.org The Five Eyes is an "intelligence alliance" compromising of Canada, the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand that began as a World War 2 tool but for most of its existence been a weapon against socialist states. | Its primary function currently is to compile resources for propaganda attacks on China and supposedly validate a whole range of hyperbolic claims about Beijing. | With the population of New Zealand being only about 2% that of the United States' alone, many would correctly assume that Wellington's contribution to this arrangement isn't substantial. A paper from the small country's government estimated th…
(2021-05-28). Many Members of the Republican Party Are Not Conservatives, They're Extremists. commondreams.org "By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party 'conservative,' the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2021-05-28). They're Not Conservatives, They're Extremists. zcomm.org By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party "conservative," the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability…