(2021-07-11). Facebook cracks down on propaganda campaign in Jordan. juancole.com 
( Al-Bab.com) — Facebook reported this week that it removed 2,784 accounts in June for "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". Among those, 947 related to countries in the Middle East and North Africa region: Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria and Sudan. Facebook treats online campaigns as "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" if they seek "to mislead people about who they …
(2021-07-10). Pressed for Answers on Syria Cover-up, OPCW Chief Offers New Lies and Excuses (Part I). orinocotribune.com 
By Aaron Maté — Jul 2, 2021 | Facing growing outcry, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias went before the UN and told new falsehoods about his organization's Syria cover-up scandal — along with more disingenuous excuses to avoid addressing it. | In the two years since the censorship of a Syria chemical weapons investigation was exposed, the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Fernando Arias, has vigorously resisted accountability. | Arias has refused to investigate or explain the extensive manipulation of the OPCW's probe of an alleged April 2018 chlorine attack in…
(2021-07-10). "Stop Interfering": Ethiopia's Opportunity After the Election. dissidentvoice.org 
Despite ongoing violence in the northern region of Tigray, persistent attempts to de-rail the process and cries of catastrophe by western powers (most notably the US) and mainstream media, on the 21 June Ethiopia conducted its first ever democratic elections. The mechanics of the election were not perfect, but crucially there were no reports of …
(2021-07-10). England's Euro 2020: "National unity" in furtherance of "herd immunity" wsws.org Neither politics nor the pandemic are suspended by fond hopes and good will. Following a well-worn playbook, the Euros are being used as a vehicle for anti-scientific propaganda and nationalist mythmaking.
(2021-07-10). Democrats Cover Up Links Between Fascist Police "Trainers" popularresistance.org The stunning revelation that the Capitol Police's emergency response unit had been trained by contractors with an affinity for the Third Reich has been buried by the corporate media and the Democratic Party. To date, not a single article on the use of Northern Red Inc. by the US Capitol Police has been published by the Washington Post or the New York Times, nor has the information been reported on the cable or broadcast television channels.
(2021-07-10). America's Impressive History Of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its People. popularresistance.org The Biden Administration, the mainstream media and pretty much all the politicians in our country continue to throw fuel on the Sinophobia fire initially stoked by former President and current Mar-a-lago "fungineer" Donald Trump. | (Word to the wise, "Sinophobia" means anti-China hatred, not anti-cinema hatred as I had thought. So I apologize to all the people who posted a movie review for Fast And Furious 27 and noticed a response comment from me reading "GODDAMN SINOPHOBE!" Under the circumstances, that was an odd thing to yell.) | During the Trump Administration, the Wuhan lab leak theory was called a ridiculo…
(2021-07-10). Defense Of For-Profit Health Care Hasn't Changed In Decades. popularresistance.org From Ronald Reagan's notorious 1961 rant against the horrors of socialized medicine to present-day propaganda of the insurance industry, right-wing and corporate efforts to halt the expansion of public health care seem to strike the exact same notes again and again — and draw on the same bogus arguments.
(2021-07-10). Spare Us An Afghan Threequel, Joe! popularresistance.org It's the most powerful, influential, and wealthy Washingtonian war-hawks who make up the most vocal minority. It is these cats — controlling the most communication mediums with the most reach — that are trying their darnedest to pull Biden back in. Leading the loud charge with the well-wornest of debunked stay-the-course arguments are, of course, the obvious lunatics — lawmakers of the classical warmongering Republican variety.
(2021-07-10). [Correspondence] WHO COVID-19 therapeutic guidelines — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Bram Rochwerg and colleagues for information on the WHO therapeutic guideline development process. Unfortunately, they do not address our main concern: the unjustified extrapolation of evidence from randomised controlled trials in severe COVID-19 to therapeutic guidelines for uncomplicated illness.1 Pooling summary data from studies with different severity definitions, deciding on inappropriate primary outcomes, and extrapolating from results in hospitalised patients to ambulant individuals with mild infections suggests a worrying lack of clinical judgement.
(2021-07-10). Billionaire-Funded Website With Ties to Far Right "Canceling" Professors. zcomm.org Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country…
(2021-07-10). The right wing is pumping out critical race theory attacks to boost its propaganda war on public education. nationofchange.org "No one deserves the school I went to," says Celia Gottlieb. Gottlieb is currently enrolled in Middlebury College and working as an intern with New York University's Metro Center, but she is talking about the high school she attended in Highland, New York, a small community in the Lower Hudson River Valley region of the …