(2021-09-28). HBO's Anti-Maduro Propaganda Is Cruder Than Venezuelan Oil. popularresistance.org HBO Max began streaming a documentary on September 15: A La Calle ("To the Street"). It portrays US-backed opposition leaders in Venezuela as pro-democracy heroes battling a brutal dictatorship—a total reversal of the truth. A Daily Beast article (9/13/21) promoting the film is headlined "Capturing Venezuela's Descent Into Socialist Hell," which succinctly conveys the film's slant, and suggests why it found a big corporate platform like HBO Max, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. | From the trailer alone, it's obvious that A La Calle depicts Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López as a noble democ…
(2021-09-28). Lessons From Cambodia on How to Respond to COVID. counterpunch.org From Europe to the Asia-Pacific, what looked like light at the end of the tunnel earlier this year has given way to rising infections and an uptick in mortality rates as the highly infectious Delta strain has taken hold. Countries that appeared to be controlling the virus are now scrambling to limit the spread as
(2021-09-28). Can AI qualify as an "inventor" for the purposes of patent law? ukhumanrightsblog.com 
Thaler v Comptroller General of Patents Trade Marks and Designs [2021] EWCA Civ 1374 The Court of Appeal has ruled that an artificial intelligence machine cannot qualify as an "inventor" for the purposes of Sections 7 and 13 of the Patents Act because it is not a person. Further, in determining whether a person had …
(2021-09-27). Banned Books Week and Author/journalist Michael Levitin On the Impact of The Occupy Wall Street Movement. projectcensored.org This week is Banned Books Week, an annual affirmation of Americans' right to read, founded by librarians and concerned booksellers in 1982 to combat efforts to ban books in US…
(2021-09-27). Corporate media stirred global terror hysteria to push postwar hostility toward new Afghan govt. thegrayzone.com The media's latest ahistorical freak-out over Afghanistan is further evidence of its de facto merger with the U.S. national security state Following the Taliban's victory over the U.S. military, U.S. corporate media has churned out a new narrative about the imminent threat of terrorism from Afghanistan that sets the stage for future military interventions. Blasted out in a stunningly disciplined fashion, the media has demonstrated as clearly as ever its coordination with the national security state and advancements of its …
(2021-09-27). What I Know and Don't Know about SARS-CoV-2 Virus. globalresearch.ca I know that vast numbers of people have been hypnotized by fear, threats, and bribes to accept the corporate mainstream media's version of COVID-19. I have concluded that many millions are moving in a trance state and do not know this. They have been induced into this state by a well-organized, very sophisticated propaganda campaign.
(2021-09-27). 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.
(2021-09-27). Mainstream Media Attention to IPCC Report Neglected Real Cause of Emissions. truthout.org 
It is outrageous that the mainstream media only spent a single news cycle addressing the major Despite the urgency of the message [mdash…
(2021-09-27). Xenophobia: Right Wingers Evict Venezuelan Migrants in Chile, Set Fire to Their Belongings — Vuelta a la Patria Activated. orinocotribune.com 
This Saturday, September 26, a new episode of xenophobic violence occurred in Chile, in the midst of a protest against migrants, mostly of Venezuelan nationality, whose clothes, mattresses, baby strollers, toys and tents were burned. | It is estimated that about 3,000 Chileans participated in the xenophobic protest in the city of Iquique, capital of the northern province of Iquique. The city, a coastal town with resorts and spas on the coast of the Pacific ocean, is a popular tourist destination. They reoccupied . | The protesters occupied a square where undocumented and homeless people live, and the events turne…
(2021-09-27). Iran Becoming Increasingly Alarmed By The Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan Axis. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Tehran miscalculated the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | Since the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, tensions between Iran and the emerging Turkey-Azerbaijan-Pakistan Axis have significantly escalated. It is now glaringly obvious that Iran grossly miscalculated the new reality that would emerge with Azerbaijan capturing Armenian-held territories in the South Caucasus. | A major motivating factor of Azerbaijan's insistence on controlling Nagorno-Karabakh is the Greater Pan-Turkic project, where Turkey sees itself as the domineering center…
(2021-09-27). ReTrolligans—how the GOP risks all, miming 'trollish' gate-crashing, lying, bullying & chaos. nationofchange.org With a daring experiment, the scheming, conspiracy-riven Republicans are testing whether morphing into a party of boorish trolls works.