_____ (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.

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 …

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.

Rainer Shea (2021-09-16). Coups, Censorship & Propaganda: the US New Cold War Playbook. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Sep 14, 2021 | Uncountable are the editorials in every American and European newspaper and magazine of note adding to this vocabulary of gigantism and apocalypse, each use of which is plainly designed not to edify but to inflame the reader's indignant passion as a member of the "West," and what we need to do. Churchillian rhetoric is used inappropriately by self-appointed combatants in the West's, and especially America's, war against its haters, despoilers, destroyers, with scant attention to complex histories that defy such reductiveness and have seeped from one territory into another, in…

_____ (2021-09-16). Pandemic Politics… Democrats and GOP Are the Disease Party. strategic-culture.org Both parties in the United States are making the Covid-19 pandemic an even greater disaster. One from cowardice and the other from denialism. | In the bitter, bipartisan cauldron of U.S. politics, it may seem odd to bracket the two main parties as being on the same side of a problem. But that only seems odd if one mistakenly believes there is any substantive difference between them. | Both parties are the same when it comes to supporting Big Business and war. Why not the Covid pandemic too? | The mainstream media would have us believe that the Democratic Party of President Joe Biden is almost diametrically oppose…

CJ Polychroniou (2021-09-16). So-Called Democratic "Moderates" Are Right-Wingers Who Have Always Blocked Social Progress. zcomm.org The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties, a long and continuous history of union suppression, and without a major socialist party at the national level…

_____ (2021-09-16). 20 Years Of Post-9/11 Amnesia. popularresistance.org The constant demand that we "Never forget!," the events of September 11, 2001 is rather laughable. Forgetting is difficult after enduring 20 years of war propaganda. News stories about that day are plentiful albeit useless, that is to say they add nothing to our understanding of why the U.S. was attacked and depend upon sentiment, jingoism, and tried and true claims of exceptionalism to maintain fear, hatred, and support for war. | The aftermath of September 11 gets surprisingly short shrift but it is just as important as the who, what, when, where, why, and how of that date. It was just three days later that the…