2022-08-02: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-08-02). Australian workers support zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger, condemn Twitter censorship of SEP (Australia). wsws.org "Silencing a doctor's views, and talk of a 'special education program,' smacks of something out of a totalitarian nightmare." — Vicki, from South Australia…

____ (2022-08-01). 'This Is a War of Propaganda'. transcend.org 10 Jul 2022 – John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange: 20 minutes of truth… and a pretty sweet ending.

____ (2022-08-01). The Shadow Bank That Owns the World. transcend.org 28 Jul 2022 – Behind The Headlines in partnership with MintPress News is proud to release the first episode in our new series: The Most Censored News with Lee Camp. Today Lee takes on one of the more important questions in modern times — Who owns the world?>

Fight Back (2022-08-01). No, the economy is not in a recession (yet). fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On July 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released their report on Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of the year, April to June. GDP went down at a 0.9% annual rate. This followed a decline of 1.6% in GDP in the first three months of the year. | This led to an outcry among Republicans, reinforced by many articles in the corporate media, that a recession had begun. Republican leaders immediately showed their lack of basic economic sense, saying that the American people were already feeling the pain of recession. In fact, the pain that American workers and small businesspeople are feeli…

Jamanetwork (2022-08-01). Study Selection for Reviewing Statins Effects on Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol. jamanetwork.com To the Editor We read with interest the systematic review and meta-analysis by Dr Byrne and colleagues. Although the authors conclude that "the absolute benefits of statins are modest," we identified factors that weaken their argument. Pooling of studies with different clinical contexts may lead to erroneous conclusions. Accordingly, of the 21 randomized clinical trials included, only 6 were secondary prevention trials in which the effect of statins on prognosis was more potent. Furthermore, the specific limitations of the included studies cast doubt on the conclusions. The CORONA (Controlled Rosuvastatin Multina…

_____ (2022-07-31). Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades Of War Propaganda And Lies. popularresistance.org Very few people in the United States trust the mainstream corporate media. This is confirmed by a July survey from the major polling firm Gallup, which found that just 11% of North Americans trust television news, and a mere 16% have confidence in newspapers. | It's quite easy to understand why. The US media apparatus has repeatedly shown itself over decades to be completely unreliable and highly politicized. | The corporate media's treachery has been especially clear in the demonstrably false stories it disseminated to try to justify the US wars on Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. | This disgraceful…

_____ (2022-07-31). Condemn The FBI Raids In St Louis, MO And St Petersburg, FL! popularresistance.org On the morning of Friday, July 29th, the FBI conducted raids at multiple locations, including the Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida, the private residence of Omali Yeshitela in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as the Uhuru Solidarity Center, also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while the house was raided. The FBI says that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian man, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States. | The Committee to Stop FBI Repression and the National Alliance A…

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