(2021-09-08). Protect Workers from This Heat. otherwords.org Corporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work. | Of course, that's "dignity" as defined and controlled by corporate elites, not by workers, and the reward for it frequently includes on-the-job injuries — and death. Not that CEOs and well-heeled investors intend to sicken, maim, and kill thousands of laborers every year, but they certainly do put them in positions that assure such unhappy results. | For example, they demand that farm workers go sunrise to sunset picking crops in California's 105 degree desert heat, and that construction c…
(2021-09-08). Afghanistan and the US Corporate Media. counterpunch.org The Taliban's lightning fast takeover of Afghanistan was amazingly achieved with relatively little killing and bloodshed. Since the rout of the government, an entity essentially installed by the US, the Taliban has been assuring the Afghan people that its governance style will be more moderate than under its previous rule. Many people in Afghanistan are
(2021-09-08). Corporate media silent on Australia's party de-registration laws. wsws.org The near-universal lack of reporting is clearly intended to keep ordinary people in the dark about these anti-democratic laws and their far-reaching implications.
(2021-09-08). Agenda ID2020 of the "One World Order": The 101 to Understanding Its Implications. globalresearch.ca Foresight by Geopolitical Analyst Peter Koenig. | Incisive article published on August 17, 2020 | . | . | Agenda ID2020 — is hardly mentioned by any media, let alone the mainstream. Agenda ID2020, if carried out, is the ultimate control by a small …
(2021-09-08). Virginia's health board moves to loosen pandemic safety rules as the state cuts unemployment benefits for thousands. wsws.org Throughout the pandemic, the Democratic Party-controlled government has consistently sacrificed the health and well-being of its population to the interests of big business.
(2021-09-08). "Will Corporate Greed Prolong the Pandemic?": Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Global Vaccine Equity. democracynow.org 
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says global vaccine inequity endangers everyone on the planet, including those in rich countries, and says the best way to solve the problem is to drastically increase production of COVID-19 vaccines. "As long as the disease is festering someplace in the world, there are going to be mutations," Stiglitz says. "So it's in our own self-interest that we get the disease controlled everywhere."
(2021-09-07). BBC Admits Documentary on Syria Chemical Attack Contained 'False Claims'. orinocotribune.com UK's propaganda outlet BBC has admitted that a Radio 4 documentary about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, in 2018 contained serious inaccuracies. | On Sunday, the UK corporation's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) upheld a protest by The judges agreed that BBC investigative journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou's show failed to meet the "corporation's editorial standards for accuracy" by reporting false c…
(2021-09-07). Afghanistan, Corporate Media and the Declining Image of the United States. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-07). BBC Xinjiang/Uyghur Lies Spread to Afghanistan. newatlas.report September 7, 2021 (The New Atlas) — What happens when British state media — the BBC — combines its war propaganda in Afghanistan with its anti-China propaganda in Xinjiang? New Sinophobic narratives depicting Beijing as hunting Uyghurs down far beyond its borders and for apparently no real reason. References: BBC — Afghanistan's Uyghurs fear the …
(2021-09-07). Zoom with Rainer Shea: 'Propaganda, Corporate Censorship & Dictatorship of the Proletariat' (Tuesday, September 14). orinocotribune.com 
(Español abajo) | Caracas, September 6, 2021 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Rainer Shea (Shea's account with the online publishing platform Medium.com was suspended a few days ago. In January of this year, Shea was banned from Facebook. As a result, Orinoco Tribune felt it necessary to open a debate about a Marxist-Leni…
(2021-09-07). The Political Economy Of Racial Inequality. popularresistance.org From the rise of Ronald Reagan through the presidency of Donald Trump, the absence of class-based understandings of racial inequality gave us crack babies, super-predators, and many other underclass tropes. While the past two years have witnessed widespread calls for a racial reckoning—influenced in no small part by the horrors of Trumpism—a majority of Democratic politicians and corporate media figures have preferred to frame events in moral terms, using a cultural, race-based analysis of inequality that is antagonistic to social democratic politics.