2022-11-30: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-11-30). US Officials Concern Troll About World Press Freedoms While Assaulting Them. orinocotribune.com

Leah Watson (2022-11-29). Lessons Learned from Our Classroom Censorship Win Against Florida's Stop W.O.K.E. Act. aclu.org Earlier this month, a federal judge

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-11-29). China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | Facts: | There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. | The US empire's propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas. | Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on. | ‚ùñ | It still amazes me how many people who fancy themselves anti-establishment critical thinkers will spend all day mindlessly regurgitating mainstream media lines about China. | I cannot emphasize enough how little respect I have for anyone who parrots US empire…

Staff (2022-11-29). Abdullah Al-Arian on First Middle East World Cup & Western Media's "Orientalist Outlook" democracynow.org As the 2022 World Cup plays out in Qatar, the first Arab country to host the major sporting event, we speak with history professor Abdullah Al-Arian, who says the international media is projecting an "Orientalist outlook" in its coverage of the games. Al-Arian says despite mainstream discourse, football in the Middle East has historically been used by nationalist movements as "a means of organizing collectively on the basis of achieving their own liberation against colonial rule." His recent New York Times opinion piece is "Why the World Cup Belongs in the Middle East."…

WSWS (2022-11-29). Faced with CUPE propaganda campaign endorsing sellout, Ontario education support workers determined to defeat concessions-filled contract. wsws.org "I was there at the picket lines supporting my co-workers for those two strike days in early November and the anger, resentment, and at times full-blown outrage was on display. Unions missed another opportunity to galvanize that anger and demand a better collective agreement with fair and equitable wages and stronger workplace protections," said a Toronto-based teacher.

_____ (2022-11-29). Pope Francis' War Against Chechens and Buryats. strategic-culture.org Who, beyond Clown Prince Zelensky, is supplying the Argentinian with his mis-information? | Pope Francis is at it again. This time, as reported by Citing an American Jesuit magazine, the state-controlled BBC has Pope Francis, who is also a Jesuit, claiming he has "much information about the cruelty of the [Rus…

Dean Baker (2022-11-29). OMG, a Right-Wing Jerk Can Buy Twitter! Media Concentration Matters. cepr.net It's more than a bit bizarre that until Elon Musk bought Twitter, most policy types apparently did not see a risk that huge platforms like Facebook and Twitter could be controlled by people with a clear political agenda. While just about everyone had some complaints about the moderation of these and other commonly used platforms, …

Staff (2022-11-29). Hablar de las UMAP desde la Cuba de hoy. cubadebate.cu El silencio en torno a elementos históricos de la Revolución Cubana, siendo algunos de ellos poco mencionados y apenas explicados, ha tenido efectos muy negativos. Sobre las Unidades Militares de Apoyo a la Producción (UMAP), como de otros temas, es necesario hablar, investigar, debatir, publicar de forma esclarecedora y crítica en medios de comunicación para fomentar su conocimiento objetivo. No hacerlo permite su utilización como un mero elemento de propaganda.

Danny Shaw (2022-11-29). Book Review: 'Before Crips' Dismantles Dominant Narrative on Gangs. towardfreedom.org John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani's new book, "Before Crips: Fussin', Cussin', and Discussin' among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs," exposes mainstream stigmas and half-truths surrounding street groups. It also explores the true history of the South Los Angeles street organizations that predated the Crips and the Bloods. Danny Shaw reviews the book.

Matthew Johnson (2022-11-28). Salting the Bird's Tail? The Online Safety Bill -v- Musk's Twitter. ukhumanrightsblog.com Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has made headline news over the past few months. Attention firstly focused on whether it would happen at all. Once the acquisition was completed, public opinion turned to Musk's plans for the platform: to make Twitter a bastion of free speech in opposition to an age of censorship. As these …

_____ (2022-11-28). Zhou Enlai's Posthumous Triumph. strategic-culture.org Nations now fashioning a post—Western world order appear to be abiding by the Five Principles espoused by China's first and long-serving premier. | By Patrick LAWRENCE | The big news over the Thanksgiving weekend — big such that you could hardly find it in the mainstream press — is that top officials from China will travel to Riyadh in early December to meet counterparts not only from the Saudi kingdom but also from other Arab nations. There appears a strong possibility that Xi Jinping will attend. | The Chinese president is already scheduled to summit in the kingdom next month with Crown Prince…

Mac Slavo (2022-11-28). Facebook (Meta) Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign. globalresearch.ca

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