Monthly Archives: January 2022

2022-01-29: News Headlines

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-01-29). Censorship by algorithm does far more damage than conventional censorship. mronline.org Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who've been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years.

WSWS (2022-01-29). Canadian media and Conservatives promote far-right trucker protest to push for scrapping of remaining anti-COVID-19 measures. wsws.org Anyone following the Canadian corporate media's news coverage in recent days will have been bombarded by reports about a small protest led by far-right owner-operator truckers against a federal government-imposed vaccine mandate.

_____ (2022-01-29). France has Become a "Destabilizing Force" in Africa. journal-neo.org In a January briefing with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, on the eve of his talks with Russian head of state Vladimir Putin, said Russia was allegedly becoming a "destabilizing force". In making this assessment of Russia's policies, Macron was certainly following instructions from Washington to actively deploy anti-Russian rhetoric and propaganda. …

WSWS (2022-01-29). Contradicting US, Ukrainian President Zelensky denies Russian attack imminent. wsws.org The NATO powers' calls to prepare for a war against Russia supposedly to defend Ukraine are reckless, unsubstantiated propaganda threatening to trigger a world war.

_____ (2022-01-28). Ukraine And US War Propaganda. popularresistance.org The corporate media always carry water for the state, and they are never more dangerous than when the nation is on a war footing. Right now the United States government is sending weapons to Ukraine. One wouldn't know that because of constant references to "lethal aid." The euphemisms and subterfuge are necessary for a very simple reason. Everyone except the Washington war party knows that provoking war with Russia is extremely dangerous. | Joe Biden is picking up where he left off, as Barack Obama's Ukraine viceroy. He and his incompetent foreign policy team have spun a tale about a pending Russian attack on Ukr…

_____ (2022-01-28). US And Russia Climb Escalation Ladder. popularresistance.org The corporate media in the United States are breathlessly covering Russia's every move right now while U.S. politicians are aggressively pushing new sanctions and arms shipments to Ukraine. | But how is the conflict viewed from the other side? Dr. Oleg Barabanov, Academic Director of the European Studies Institute at MGIMO University, joins the show to bring light to the issues from the Russian perspective. | Ben Chacko, editor of the Morning Star in Britain, explains why people in the West should be paying close attention to the conflict.

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-01-28). Fact Check: Full Brain Development Doesn't Happen Until Age 25. moguldom.com There have long been scientific studies that support the argument that full brain development doesn't happen until the age of 25. As a result, some believe certain decisions made prior to that age should be given a bit more grace. However, others say teens and adolescents should still be held accountable for their actions. A …

Brittani Banks (2022-01-28). U.S. Politicians Spend Their Time Papering Over the Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism. independentmediainstitute.org The declines of U.S. capitalism and of its imperial position provoke fear among its mainstream politicians. Their response, in large part, has been to deny that any such decline is happening. These politicians do this partly by acting as though the U.S. remains in the globally dominant position it occupied in the second half of …

_____ (2022-01-28). China's Belt & Road Already Delivering for Southeast Asia. journal-neo.org The West's propaganda campaign against China is attempting to convince the world that Beijing and its policies pose a global threat. China is accused of everything from presenting an outright military threat to its neighbors and the world, to sinisterly trapping nations in debt for infrastructure projects the West insists are unnecessary in the first …

Alan MacLeod (2022-01-28). Graphika: The Deep State's Beard for Controlling the Information Age. mronline.org Semi-state actors play a very important role in today's online landscape and in the 1970s, Graphika employees would likely have been working directly for the CIA.

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2022-01-28: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-01-28). Censorship by Algorithm Does far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship. orinocotribune.com By Caitlin Johnstone — Jan 24, 2022 | Journalist Jonathan Cook has "My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares," Cook writes. "Then, as the algorithms tightened, it became thousands. Now, as they throttle me further, shares can often be coun…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2022-01-27). Is Lockheed Martin Dictating Politico's War Propaganda Articles in Secret? Hell No—They're Doing it Right Out in the Open. covertactionmagazine.com Check out Politico's latest "independent" news story designed to scare the bejeezus out of its readers and justify the cry …

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