(2022-01-21). Ukraine patrolling Black Sea with Turkish combat drone. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From TASS. The Ukrainian armed forces showcased a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 combat drone during last year's large-scale U.S./NATO Sea Breeze war games in the Black Sea, so no one in Russia should be surprised by the development, however much they may pretend to be. ==== Ukrainian army's Bayraktar drone patrolling Black Sea waters — media …
(2022-01-21). Lee Camp: Pentagon Fails Audit AGAIN! scheerpost.com 
The Pentagon has a long history of budgetary waste and fraud. They've failed every financial audit they've ever had by mind-blowingly large margins. Fortunately for the war hawks the corporate media has helped the Pentagon cover up their actions. Lee Camp hates to repeat himself but this story requires it because the Pentagon keeps on pouring trillions into military violence so he shines his spotlight back onto the military industrial complex to open this episode. | Lee CampLee Camp is the host of the hit comedy news show "
(2022-01-21). U.S. propaganda against China on Xinjiang groundless: Pakistani officials. ecns.cn Pakistani officials said Thursday that the U.S. propaganda against China on Xinjiang is groundless.
(2022-01-21). Swedish People, Parties Polarised Over Joining NATO Amid Russia Scaremongering. sputniknews.com As a result of what the Russian Embassy has described as an "incomparable propaganda campaign", a majority of Swedes are now afraid of Russia as a superpower — to the point that the nation's embassy there has even had to soothe ordinary Swedes and assure them that Moscow doesn't plan to attack the Scandinavian country.
(2022-01-21). Outbreak effectively controlled in Tianjin. ecns.cn The outbreak of the Omicron strain of COVID-19 has been effectively controlled in Tianjin, a senior official said on Friday. But relevant departments will not let their guard down, and residents, too, should not be careless, Gu Qing, deputy secretary general of Tianjin municipality, said at news conference.
(2022-01-21). #AlexaDown: Users Worldwide Joke About Machine Takeover Amid Issues With Amazon's Voice Assistant. sputniknews.com Alexa is a voice assistant developed by Amazon that can do a wide range of things: from telling your kid a bedtime story to controlling lighting in your house. However, should there be an outage, people who enjoy the assistant's help may be plunged back into the Middle Ages and have to turn their lights off themselves.
(2022-01-21). Turkish doctors strike as government policies spread Omicron variant. wsws.org Determination to struggle is growing among health and other workers as the Omicron variant spreads uncontrollably in Turkey and internationally.
(2022-01-20). Hawkish Pundits Downplay Threat of War, Ukraine's Nazi Ties. zcomm.org US corporate media outlets are demanding that Washington escalate the risk of a broader war while misleading their audiences about important aspects of the conflict…
(2022-01-20). Hawkish Pundits Downplay Threat of War, Ukraine's Nazi Ties. zcomm.org US corporate media outlets are demanding that Washington escalate the risk of a broader war while misleading their audiences about important aspects of the conflict…
(2022-01-20). The Disintegrating Faàßade of US Democracy. popularresistance.org The US media is the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus that history has ever known, with the incredible ability to make a broad base of unexamined premises and consents widely accepted. Democracy is reduced to the process of electing representatives despite wide knowledge of the fact that the rich control the outcomes and those outcomes are invariably antithetical to the interest of working-class people, especially working class Brown and Black people.
(2022-01-20). Ralph Nader: Biden's First Year Proves He Is Still a "Corporate Socialist" Beholden to Big Business. democracynow.org 
As President Biden marks one year in office, we speak with former four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel, who say Biden has failed so far to sell his agenda to the American people and bring about the transformative policy he campaigned on — from quelling the pandemic to passing his landmark Build Back Better legislation. The two also critique the U.S. mainstream press for asking "war-inciting questions," with Nader saying "the self-censorship of the press is overwhelming."
(2022-01-20). Blaming The Victims—Not The System—For Bronx Fire Deaths. popularresistance.org As local and national corporate media covered the devastating fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people on January 9, two culprits were somehow never on the list of what and who was responsible: the landlord and the city's Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD) department, which is responsible for making sure landlords comply with housing codes. Always under suspicion were the tenants themselves, who were implicitly blamed throughout the coverage.
(2022-01-20). Telling Lies On An International Scale. popularresistance.org The mainstream media have been replete with stories of a new Tory "red meat" initiative of right-wing policies. "Government sources" briefed the media that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Home Secretary Priti Patel were in talks with their counterparts in Ghana and Rwanda about setting up internment camps to receive asylum seekers deported from the U.K. Apart from the fact it would be entirely illegal to deport Syrians or Afghans to Africa, I knew it to be simply impossible the story was true.
(2022-01-20). The global media's latest anti-China salvo: "Won't somebody please think of the hamsters?" wsws.org The world is in the grip of preventable mass death, and the mainstream media find cause of outrage in the culling of infected hamsters, which it has called the "latest sacrifice in China's attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero."
(2022-01-20). School Privatization Groups Are Exploiting COVID Closure Debates For Their Own Ends. popularresistance.org Schools around the country have once again been forced to make tough decisions about returning to remote learning due to the explosion of new COVID-19 infections resulting from the highly contagious omicron variant. Despite a recent poll showing that 56% of parents support the suspension of in-person learning to slow the spread of the disease, a counter-narrative has emerged, pushed hard by the mainstream media, that pits teachers (and particularly teachers' unions) against parents. Earlier this week, in fact, in New York Magazine, liberal pundit Jonathan Chait defended Nate Silver's widely criticized argument th…
(2022-01-20). The global media's latest anti-China salvo: "Won't somebody please think of the hamsters?" wsws.org The world is in the grip of preventable mass death, and the mainstream media find cause of outrage in the culling of infected hamsters, which it has called the "latest sacrifice in China's attempt to hold fortress COVID-zero."
(2022-01-20). School Privatization Groups Are Exploiting COVID Closure Debates. popularresistance.org Schools around the country have once again been forced to make tough decisions about returning to remote learning due to the explosion of new COVID-19 infections resulting from the highly contagious omicron variant. Despite a recent poll showing that 56% of parents support the suspension of in-person learning to slow the spread of the disease, a counter-narrative has emerged, pushed hard by the mainstream media, that pits teachers (and particularly teachers' unions) against parents. Earlier this week, in fact, in New York Magazine, liberal pundit Jonathan Chait defended Nate Silver's widely criticized argument th…
(2022-01-20). ASPI — The Gov't-Funded Conspiracist Think Tank Now Controlling Your Social Media Feed. libya360.wordpress.com Alan Macleod That ASPI is now partially in charge of Twitter's moderation, influencing what hundreds of millions of people see daily, is a grave threat to the free flow of information, as well as to the chances for a peaceful 21st century. CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA —Social media giant Twitter raised many eyebrows recently when it announced…
