Monthly Archives: June 2021

2021-06-30: News Headlines

_____ (2021-06-30). The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout on Recent Assange Revelations. strategic-culture.org We are being lied to. Constantly, and in more ways than we realize. By omission, by distortion, by half-truths and by outright deception. Our minds are being actively messed with by powerful people with limitless resources to ensure their continued domination of the planet at any cost. Our very perception of reality is being assaulted on myriad fronts. Until humanity finds a way to wake itself up from its propaganda-induced coma, the abuses of the powerful will continue.

The Global Research Team (2021-06-30). How to Challenge Online Censorship. globalresearch.ca Dear readers, | For much of this year, independent media — including Global Research — has felt the sting of increased online censorship", in the form of a "crackdown on news that challenges official government narratives". | We started publishing almost 20 …

_____ (2021-06-30). Indigenous-Led Action Outside White House Urges Biden to 'Protect People, Not Polluters'. commondreams.org Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that "free market" capitalism requires.

Farhang Jahanpour (2021-06-30). America wants to be known in Mideast as Champion of Free Speech, so Why is it Censoring Iranian Websites? juancole.com Oxford (Special to Informed Comment) — The Bureau of Industry and Security, an agency of the United States Department of Justice, in a statement on Tuesday 22 June announced that it had seized 33 websites and news outlets used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), and another three run by the "Iran-backed" …

WSWS (2021-06-30). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Nurses at HCA hospitals across the US have held pickets to protest staffing levels, while air traffic controllers in Argentina staged a one-day strike on June 26 over wages.

Betsey Piette (2021-06-29). High school valedictorian defies anti-LGBTQ+ censorship. workers.org Wearing a graduation cap with rainbow colors and a militant fist, Bryce Dershem, valedictorian at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, N.J., began his June 17 commencement speech: "After I came out as queer freshman year, I felt so alone. I didn't know who to turn to for support." Voorhees . . . |

WSWS (2021-06-29). From censor to conspiracy theorist: Zeynep Tufekci promotes the Wuhan Lab lie. wsws.org Zeynep Tufekci, who argued in the New York Times for censorship against left-wing news organizations on the grounds that they promoted "conspiracy theories," is promoting the actual conspiracy theory that coronavirus was released from a laboratory in China.

Staff (2021-06-29). AZ Will Spend Millions to Replace Voting Machines Compromised by GOP "Audit" truthout.org Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, announced on Monday that Security firms hired by the Republican-controlled Arizona state Senate were tasked with au…

_____ (2021-06-29). US Media Give New Respect To Lab Leak Theory. popularresistance.org While many Western media outlets (e.g., NBC, 5/4/20; BBC, 4/26/20) reported on the evidence-free speculations surrounding a potential lab leak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China's Hubei province last year (FAIR.org, 4/17/20), it has never enjoyed as much mainstream credibility as it has in recent months. | Although several reports in 2020 uncritically parroted US officials like Sen. Tom Cotton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and discredited defectors like Yan Li-Meng, there were also many reports at the time disputing and dismissing their claims of a lab leak as…

_____ (2021-06-29). US Media Give New Respect To Lab Leak Theory. popularresistance.org While many Western media outlets (e.g., NBC, BBC) reported on the evidence-free speculations surrounding a potential lab leak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China's Hubei province last year, it has never enjoyed as much mainstream credibility as it has in recent months.

Rep. Ron Paul (2021-06-29). HMS Defender versus the Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-06-29). Canada: "We Don't Need Your Shock, We Need Reparations and Land Back" libya360.wordpress.com Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel It's time to stop pretending Canada didn't already know about the thousands of dead Indigenous children Mainstream society has responded with shock and horror to the recent identification of the unmarked graves of hundreds of Indigenous children on the grounds of two former Indian residential schools. That response is pathetic. Indigenous people's…

Alliance for Global Justice (2021-06-29). Stop US Interference in the Nicaraguan Elections. telesurenglish.net The Alliance for Global Justice called on citizens of the world to sign a letter of solidarity with the Nicaraguan people. This independent NGO also calls to reject the attempts of the U.S. government and the corporate media to disqualify the elections that this Central American country will hold in November. Below is the letter. | RELATED: | As elections approach in Nicaragua, we call on the United States to stop…

_____ (2021-06-29). Biden's Bombing Of Iraq And Syria Only Serves The Weapons Industry. popularresistance.org For the second time in the five months since he was inaugurated, President Joe Biden on Sunday ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Syria, and for the first time, he also bombed Iraq. The rationale offered was the same as Biden's first air attack in February: the U.S., in the words of Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, "conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region." He added that "the United States acted pursuant to its right of self-defense." | Embedded in this formulaic Pentagon statement is so much propaganda and so many euphemisms that, b…

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2021-06-29: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-06-29). From censor to conspiracy theorist: Zeynep Tufekci promotes the Wuhan Lab lie. wsws.org Zeynep Tufekci, who argued in the New York Times for censorship against left-wing news organizations on the grounds that they promoted "conspiracy theories," is promoting the actual conspiracy theory that coronavirus was released from a laboratory in China.

Betsey Piette (2021-06-29). High school valedictorian defies anti-LGBTQ+ censorship. workers.org Wearing a graduation cap with rainbow colors and a militant fist, Bryce Dershem, valedictorian at Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees, N.J., began his June 17 commencement speech: "After I came out as queer freshman year, I felt so alone. I didn't know who to turn to for support." Voorhees . . . |

_____ (2021-06-29). US Media Give New Respect To Lab Leak Theory. popularresistance.org While many Western media outlets (e.g., NBC, BBC) reported on the evidence-free speculations surrounding a potential lab leak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China's Hubei province last year, it has never enjoyed as much mainstream credibility as it has in recent months.

Rep. Ron Paul (2021-06-29). HMS Defender versus the Russian Military: The Danger of Believing Your Own Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-06-29). AZ Will Spend Millions to Replace Voting Machines Compromised by GOP "Audit" truthout.org Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, announced on Monday that Security firms hired by the Republican-controlled Arizona state Senate were tasked with au…

_____ (2021-06-29). Biden's Bombing Of Iraq And Syria Only Serves The Weapons Industry. popularresistance.org For the second time in the five months since he was inaugurated, President Joe Biden on Sunday ordered a U.S. bombing raid on Syria, and for the first time, he also bombed Iraq. The rationale offered was the same as Biden's first air attack in February: the U.S., in the words of Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, "conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region." He added that "the United States acted pursuant to its right of self-defense." | Embedded in this formulaic Pentagon statement is so much propaganda and so many euphemisms that, b…

Teodrose Fikremariam (2021-06-28). Delta Variant Propaganda: COVID Mongering Biden, Fauci and Jab Extremists Are Stoking Fears to Deny Freedoms. globalresearch.ca

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2021-06-28). RAND Corporation Once Again Spreading Anti-Russia Propaganda in Its Reports. globalresearch.ca

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