(2021-09-25). Limitation to 1.5 degrees is not possible with our economic system. indybay.org In economics, an international mainstream dominates, which establishes optimized formal models that exclude many areas of economic relations, such as feminism, historical school, as well as post-Keynesianism, which considers the importance of demand and demand to be at least as important as good conditions for companies.
(2021-09-25). "Vigil": The BBC's Submarine Drama Is the Anti-Russian Propaganda Machine in Action. globalresearch.ca
(2021-09-24). Regulating Obscenity Has Never Worked, Why Do We Think it Will Work Now? counterpunch.org Censorship is censorship no matter the intention behind it. While there's plenty of abhorrent material on the internet that no one wants to defend, creating laws — or worse — a bureaucracy to find and remove such content will likely lead to mission creep, ideological capture, or just plain inefficiency. This has been true of
(2021-09-24). Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media. dissidentvoice.org 
During last week's Tory Cabinet reshuffle, ITV political editor Robert Peston inadvertently summed up the primary function of political journalists: 'I simply pass on' His tweet was in reference to a ministerial source saying that Priti Patel was 'not looking happy'. She remained in her job as Home Secretary. Peston's phrase was a tragicomic echo …
(2021-09-24). Far-right throws up new challenges for unions. greenleft.org.au Mainstream commentary about the almost daily anti-vaccination rallies in Melbourne this week has avoided analysing the complex motivations of the demonstrators and failed to suggest sensible ways of responding, argues Sue Bolton.
(2021-09-24). Is Australia's Anti-Lockdown Movement a Creature of Corporate Dark Money? counterpunch.org 'Mainstream media' is the bugbear of choice for the anti-lockdown movement; it associates the facts of epidemiological science with media propaganda, and so avoids having to address the rationale for lockdowns in its own legitimising narratives. In sociology, the process of constructing an exclusionary binary between the known and unknown is called 'Othering.' This is
(2021-09-24). US Mainstream Media Silent as Book Suggests Authenticity of Hunter Biden Emails on Burisma, China. sputniknews.com Earlier this week, the editorial board of the New York Post touted that at least two emails reportedly retrieved from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden had been confirmed as authentic by a "person who had independent access" to the emails in question.
(2021-09-24). Women's Rights: Afghanistan and Beyond. counterpunch.org Suddenly there's major concern across the country — from the mainstream media to every last rock-ribbed Republican — for the rights of Afghan women and girls to be able to work, to go to school. Oh my God, we've given Afghanistan back to the Taliban! Even George W. Bush found his way back into the
(2021-09-24). Fate of the Piripkura tribe in hands of agency controlled by Bolsonaro. peoplesworld.org 
The first glimmer of dawn was squinting over the horizon when Rita Piripkura and her family realized that strangers had appeared on their land. At first, her father thought they were monkeys, but her grandmother understood what was going on. "White men" had arrived in their remote forest in the northwest of the Brazilian state …
(2021-09-24). House passes landmark abortion rights bill, Republicans accuse Democrats of trying to legalize 'murder'. rt.com 
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill that would legally protect a woman's right to have an abortion. However, the vote was a tight one, and Republicans were outraged at its passage. | The Women's Health Protection Act passed the House on Friday, in a largely party-lines vote of 218-211, with only one Democrat, Henry Cuellar of Texas, joining the unanimous Republican opposition. | The bill would enshrine the right to have an abortion, criminalizing attempts by states to hinder terminations, whether by banning such procedures before fetal viability, or requiring a pregnant woman to…