2022-02-09: News Headlines

David Sirota (2022-02-09). Corporate Media Is The Misinformation Problem. dailyposter.com

Kai Ehlers (2022-02-09). Will Orwell's prediction in '1984' become reality? indybay.org Basic elements of a development such as Orwell describes are emerging from the fog of current war propaganda, at least as it is being pursued by the West, namely attempts to drive the population into acceptance of a constant exceptional situation in which war appears as the guarantor of peace.

Staff (2022-02-09). New AI-controlled device helps paralyzed people move. rt.com Patients with spinal-cord injuries were able to walk, cycle and swim again | Three patients completely paralyzed from the waist down due to irreparable damage to their spinal cords regained the ability to move again with the help of a new nerve-stimulating device. | Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne reported on Monday that three men aged 29, 32 and 41, paralyzed after biking accidents, were able to take their first steps within a single day after the device was implanted. | In the following months, they were able to engage in more advanced physical activity, using the remote…

Project Censored (2022-02-08). Update on Julian Assange Case, Future of Gulf of Mexico Drilling, and is Graphika Really a Fake News Watchdog? projectcensored.org After several visits as a guest, Eleanor Goldfield joins the program as co-host with Mickey Huff. In the first segment of this week's show, Kevin Gosztola delivers a brief update… | By Tara Dorabji India, the world's largest democracy, continues to use draconian laws to silence and incarcerate journalists and human rights defenders in Kashmir. On February 4, Fahad Shah, founder…

Editor (2022-02-08). The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into super effective propaganda. mronline.org Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened.

JANET (2022-02-08). Olympic Games & U.S. propaganda: Have you been lied to about Xinjiang, human rights ‚àí and China? iacenter.org February 7, 2022 Feb. 6 update — The U.S. war propaganda machine is working overtime during the Olympics to defame China with false accusations of "human rights abuse" against the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uyghurs, based in its Xinjiang Province. As readers evaluate these claims, keep in mind these facts: 1) There is a centuries-long history of racist U.S. crimes — through state force and economic exploitation — against Indigenous, Black, Latinx and Asian and other oppressed peoples, on land now occupied by the U.S. These crimes, which continue to this day, are integral to U.S. tactics of military…

WSWS (2022-02-08). Australian nurse speaks out about worsening conditions on the front lines of the pandemic. wsws.org "We sometimes look at each other and are gobsmacked and ask, is this really happening? Do we really have three patients on trolleys in the corridor right now with no beds? What if a medical episode happened with that patient?"

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