(2021-06-15). Reporters Do a Better Job When They Do NOT Ignore Civic Groups. counterpunch.org Connecting the civic community with the mainstream media is no minor endeavor. Historically, this connection has been essential to a functioning democracy. The citizenry is the taproot of democracy and a key source for journalists' declared function of informing the people. My efforts on this front have been threefold. First, I wrote about 30 national
(2021-06-15). McCarthyite Meltdown Shows how Russiagate, Syria Propaganda Captured 'Left' Media. orinocotribune.com 
By Aaron Maté — Jun 8, 2021 | In slandering me, The Young Turks demonstrated how Western chauvinism and careerism have been normalized in progressive media spaces. | On a recent episode of The Young Turks, the self-described "Home of Progressives", hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian disparaged me in a McCarthyite rant. The apparent trigger was a mocking comment that I had tweeted at Uygur, in which I described a recent post of his about Israel-Palestine as "the worst tweet of all time." ( Israelis & Palestin…
(2021-06-15). Why Democracies in G7 and NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. dissidentvoice.org 
Photo credit: BPM Media — Protest at G7 summit in Cornwall UK The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels. The U.S. corporate media have portrayed these summits as chances for President Biden to rally the leaders of the …
(2021-06-15). The Problem With Censoring Political Speech Online — Including Trump's. aclu.org In January, many online platforms decided they no longer wanted to host President Trump's speech. Google, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and other social media services announced they would no longer distribute Trump's hateful, demeaning, outrageous speech or anything else he might have to say. Many people were pleased. Others, including the ACLU,
(2021-06-15). How US And UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests In Belarus. popularresistance.org The at-times fiery protests that raged across Belarus throughout 2020 had largely fizzled out by the time local activist and seeming neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich was dramatically arrested in May this year. | Now, the country has been catapulted back to the top of the mainstream news agenda, with new life breathed into controversial self-appointed President Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's hitherto unheeded calls for Western leaders to recognize her as the legitimate Belarusian leader. | True to form though, not a single outlet has deigned to mention that for many years prior to the unrest's eruption, London and Washington…
(2021-06-15). What NPR's "All Things Considered" won't Tell you about the Iran Nuclear Issue (Like that Iran is Weak and has no Nukes while Israel is advanced and Does). juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — What news audiences of National Public Radio (NPR)'s All Things Considered have and have not heard about the Iranian nuclear program since the election of Joe Biden offers a neat boundary delineation of the Hallin spheres of mainstream reporting on the topic. Daniel Hallin's classic study of …
(2021-06-15). How U.S. and UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests in Belarus. covertactionmagazine.com The at-times fiery protests that raged across Belarus throughout 2020 had largely fizzled out by the time local activist and seeming neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich was dramatically arrested in May this year. Now, the country has been catapulted back to the top of the mainstream news agenda, with new life breathed into controversial self-appointed President Svetlana …
(2021-06-14). Beyond Censorship: Killing the Truth. globalresearch.ca Dear readers, | Over the past few months, 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. While our core readership has remained (thank …
(2021-06-14). Tuesday 6/15: Palestinian Narrative: Censorship and Creativity in Time of Crisis. indybay.org Zoom Webinar…
(2021-06-14). Truthful Accounts: A View from Nicaragua on Propaganda and Corporate Media Journalists. globalresearch.ca Efforts to depict …