Daily Archives: September 18, 2021

2021-09-18: News Headlines

_____ (2021-09-18). Hush, Hush (Venezuela Is Winning!). popularresistance.org By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about "dictator", "authoritarian regime", "collapsed economy" "humanitarian crisis", etc. etc. | So, the game-changing news that there are peace talks being held in México City between the Venezuelan government and opposition parties is ignored. México is acting as host and facilitator with the kingdoms of Norway and Netherlands, and the Russian Federation as mediators. This seminal event has been scarcely reported by the Nort…

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-18). PM: NATO partners Poland, Baltics must close ranks against "neo-imperial" Belarus, Russia. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Poland, Baltics must 'close ranks' against Russia, Belarus: PM Poland's prime minister [Mateusz Morawiecki] on Friday said his country must close ranks with its Baltic allies against Russia's "neo-imperial urges" and "a wave of disinformation, propaganda and cyberattacks" from Moscow and Minsk. **** Afterwards, at a joint news conference with ≈ imonytƒó, Morawiecki noted the meeting …

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2021-09-17). Milton Allimadi on US Media's Africa Reporting. fair.org (Kendall Hunt, This week on CounterSpin: The primary "sense" of Sub-Saharan Africa in corporate media is absence. When Africa is discussed, it's often been, to put it simply, as a material resource and as a staging ground for Great Nation politics and proxy war. Not as far removed as it ought to be from the Berlin conference in the late 19th century, when the European powers sat down to decide who got which slice of what the genocidal King Leopold II of Belgium called "this magnificent African cake.

Jonathan Cook (2021-09-17). In the name of humanitarianism, Covid is crushing local as well as global solidarity. dissidentvoice.org There seems to be a glaring illogic to official arguments about the need to vaccinate British children against Covid that no one in the corporate media wishes to highlight. Days ago the British government's experts on vaccinations, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, withstood strong political pressure and decided not to recommend vaccinating children …

Ann Brown (2021-09-17). Fact Check: More Children Have Been Shot In Chicago Than Have Died Of Covid-19 In 2021 In US. moguldom.com Gun violence in Chicago is out of control and children are often the victims. In fact, more children have been shot in Chicago than have died of covid-19 in the entire U.S., according to a new report. In the Windy City, 261 children have been shot in 2021, 41 fatally, The New York Post reported. So far …

Edward Curtin (2021-09-17). 9/11 and Afghanistan Post-Mortems: Lessons in Safe Logic. dissidentvoice.org In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary of the mass murders of September 11, 2001, the corporate mainstream and alternative media have been replete with articles analyzing the consequences of 9/11 that resulted in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and its alleged withdrawal after two decades of war. These …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-09-17). Salvadorans hit the streets against recognition of Bitcoin as legal tender. peoplesdispatch.org The Bitcoin law was approved by the parliament, controlled by Bukele's party and its allies, last June. Economists warned that the digital currency's lack of transparency could attract increased criminal activity to the country and make El Salvador a haven of money laundering.

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