Klaus Weinert (2021-09-26). 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.

Staff (2021-09-25). Facebook Finances Propaganda for and Against Certain Politicians. orinocotribune.com Facebook used its News Innovation Test program to support Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's election campaign in the recent federal elections in Canada. In July 2021, Facebook signed a support agreement with Canadian media companies Black Press Media and Glacier Media and with national newspaper The Globe and Mail. | Facebook distributed a total of $8 million among 14 Canadian outlets that participated in the program. | In Argentina in August 2021, Facebook signed an agreement with more than 150 national and local circulation newspapers, supposedly to guarantee that Argentine President Alberto Fernández co…

Johanna Ross (2021-09-25). "Vigil": The BBC's Submarine Drama Is the Anti-Russian Propaganda Machine in Action. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-09-25). 'They Saw Me And Thought The Worst'. popularresistance.org As Sojourner Gibbs pulled out of her parking space at a Sam's Club in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, one afternoon last summer, she felt the familiar, sickening symptoms of diabetic shock. Weakness, confusion. She began to sweat and shake uncontrollably. And then, Gibbs said, panic set in. | Her car lurched forward a few feet. She slammed on the brakes. The groceries she had just purchased for her family's Juneteenth barbecue jostled in the back. People started honking their horns. A concerned woman walked up to her car. "I'm a diabetic! I need help!" Gibbs yelled. | The woman called 911. Dispatcher notes show a re…

Klaus Weinert (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.

Johanna Ross (2021-09-25). "Vigil": The BBC's Submarine Drama Is the Anti-Russian Propaganda Machine in Action. globalresearch.ca

Dara Macdonald (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

Media Lens (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 …

Sue Bolton (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.

Ben Debney (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

sputniknews (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.

Robert Koehler (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

Manuella Libardi (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 …

Staff (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…