Staff (2021-09-12). REMINDER TUESDAY 14: Zoom with Rainer Shea: 'Propaganda, Corporate Censorship & Dictatorship of the Proletariat'. 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…

Brenda Norrell (2021-09-12). O'odham Rights Report Exposes Abuse: Spy Towers and Border Patrol on Tohono O'odham Nation. indybay.org Ophelia Rivas, longtime founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall, releases 81-page report on the destruction by Israel's Elbit Systems spy towers on the Tohono O'odham Nation, and the abuses by the U.S. Border Patrol on her homeland. Statement now in English, Spanish and French at Censored News.

Jonah Furman (2021-09-12). Ten Thousand UAW Members Gear Up for a Strike Vote at John Deere. zcomm.org "It depends on what flavor of corporate media you're watching. I will tell you, the one commonality that we all share is everybody's sick of Deere and sick of the [UAW] International and ready to stick it to them."

Rainer Shea (2021-09-11). US Destabilizes Eritrea and Ethiopia Using Syria-Style Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 8, 2021 | As the Western media pivots towards Eritrea and Ethiopia amid the Afghanistan occupation's failure, a familiar set of narratives is being propagated. These narratives are familiar for anyone who's researched the encyclopedia of

Dan Cohen (2021-09-11). How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen to Produce War Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-09-11). Canada Conservatives rebrand themselves the better to pursue austerity and imperialist aggression. wsws.org The corporate media has touted Conservative leader Erin O'Toole as "a moderate," and promoted his claim to head a "different" and "open" Conservative Party. This is a sham and a fraud.

Editor (2021-09-11). Realism, idealism, and the deradicalization of Critical Race Theory—Rethinking The CRT Debate, Part 2. mronline.org Recent debates about Critical Race Theory (CRT) have been abysmally uninformed at best and utterly inaccurate at worst. From corporate media and right-wing rags to independent left media, almost everyone has misrepresented or misunderstood the origins, histories, and theories of what is today known as CRT. This three-part series corrects these misunderstandings. Part 1 provides […] | September 11, 2021…

Dan Cohen (2021-09-11). How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen to Produce War Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2021-09-11). Canada Conservatives rebrand themselves the better to pursue austerity and imperialist aggression. wsws.org The corporate media has touted Conservative leader Erin O'Toole as "a moderate," and promoted his claim to head a "different" and "open" Conservative Party. This is a sham and a fraud.

_____ (2021-09-10). How the U.S. Trained the Afghan Mujahideen to Produce War Propaganda. strategic-culture.org Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen explains a little known effort to train Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in propaganda, and how that effort created a blueprint for the White Helmets in Syria. | By Dan COHEN | y now, everyone knows about the White Helmets — the State Department's propaganda operation to manufacture consent for the U.S.'s dirty war on Syria. But long before the White Helmets were the Afghan mujahideen. | Quick review: The White Helmets were presented as laudable rescue teams who operated in opposition-held territory in Syria. | They also embedded with jihadist groups like al Nusra — al…

Mir Ali Hosseini (2021-09-10). Why We Shouldn't Congratulate Biden on Afghanistan. counterpunch.org The media criticizes Biden for the wrong reasons, but it doesn't mean he should be praised. Biden's decision to pull the American troops from Afghanistan put a bitter end to his honeymoon with the liberal press. But only because the mainstream press seems to be pulling the rug from under the President's feet doesn't mean

Staff (2021-09-10). Texas governor branded hypocrite after signing anti-Big Tech free speech bill, having cracked down on Israel critics. rt.com Republican Governor Greg Abbott has been slammed as a hypocrite after he signed an anti-Big Tech censorship bill on Thursday, with critics pointing out that he's cracked down on Texans who've protested against Israel's actions. | In a video on Thursday, Abbott claimed "freedom of speech is under attack in Texas," before revealing he would be signing a law that "prevents social media companies from banning users based upon the user's political viewpoints." He said it would allow Texans to file lawsuits against "dangerous" Big Tech platforms that wrongfully suspend their right to post. | Conservative viewpoints…

Jonah Raskin (2021-09-10). George Jackson: His Liberating Reading List and His Legacy. counterpunch.org Are books dangerous? You bet they are. That's why there are book burners and why there is censorship of books. In the hands of readers hungry for ideas, books are weapons and tools for social change. In the hands of George Jackson, books were a lifeline to the world outside prison where he lived much

Ricardo Vaz (2021-09-10). The Three-Act Tragicomedy of the Venezuelan Opposition. orinocotribune.com By Ricardo Vaz — Sep 8, 2021 | VA writer and editor Ricardo Vaz takes stock of the Venezuelan opposition's antics in recent years. | The history of the Venezuelan opposition since the arrival of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution has been one of gaffes, violence, infighting and shortsightedness. | While the corporate media has done its utmost to

Manuel García, Jr. (2021-09-10). Belief, Truth, Science, Religion and 9-11. counterpunch.org On 2 September 2021, CounterPunch published my article 'Confessions of a Secret Controlled Demolitions Special Operative for 911'. Some readers believe this story is entirely true, and confirms suspicions they "have always known to be true" about 9-11 being "an inside job." Other readers believe this story is a hoax, something like the Piltdown Man

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-10). Czech Republic: U.S. deploys Reapers for NATO air combat exercise. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Multinational Aircraft Support JTAC Training During Ample Strike 2021 The multinational Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) exercise Ample Strike started with Allied aircraft taking off from bases in the Czech Republic and abroad. **** "The US MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial system's (UAS) participation in this year's Czech-led exercise Ample Strike 2021 is the result of …