Gideon Polya (2022-01-18). Excellent Xinjiang Health Statistics vs US Alliance Lies. dissidentvoice.org 
The US and its allies are countering the re-emergence of China with a Sinophobic confection of new alliances (the AUKUS and the Quad), military threats, jingoism and false propaganda about a falsely claimed Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang. The UK Uyghur Tribunal admits that there have been no mass killings in Xinjiang but absurdly asserts that …
sputniknews (2022-01-17). Russia's Envoy to OSCE Slams Blocking of Delegation's Facebook Page as 'Censorship'. sputniknews.com Earlier, the Facebook account of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control was blocked following posts about security guarantees.
Steve Macek (2022-01-17). Corporate Media Largely Ignore Labor Issues. Let's Make Them Visible. truthout.org 
A year ago, VICE's Motherboard
_____ (2022-01-17). Should We Disrupt The Democratic Party Or Try To Take It Over? popularresistance.org When trying to figure out how they should interact with political parties, social movements face a common challenge: Should they push from without or seek to operate from within? Should they act as a destabilizing threat to all politicians, or should they work to build strength within a mainstream party? | Frances Fox Piven and Daniel Schlozman are two theorists who stand at opposite poles of this debate. In Piven's view, movements win by deploying disruptive power from the outside that can polarize the public and create discomfort among politicians. "[M]ovements of mass defiance fired the most important episodes…
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-01-17). The Growing U.S. Military & Intelligence Worries of Civil War. libya360.wordpress.com Rainer Shea This is part three in a series on U.S. collapse and the potential for civil war. Read part one for how I think propaganda factors into this instability, and part two for the role that I think neoliberalism has. In 1895, Cecil Rhodes admitted that the exploitation of the colonized is the only thing stopping the imperialist…
Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-01-17). Don't underestimate how badly the powerful need control of online speech. mronline.org 
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they're running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.
WSWS (2022-01-17). 32-year-old Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker dies of COVID-19. wsws.org Caleb Dye's death was a preventable tragedy, under conditions in which management, the unions and the political establishment have allowed COVID to spread uncontrolled in workplaces and schools.
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Security experts have warned of a 'devastating' security flaw and potential for surveillance | British athletes have been offered temporary phones and their Team USA rivals have reportedly been told to use burner devices ahead of the Beijing Olympics, acting after investigations suggested the mandated Games app is not safe. | All attendees of the Games, which take place from February 4-20 2022, are required to submit their health status to the app, which internet experts say is at serious risk of data breaches and may have a list of censored terms including references to Chinese people, Muslims, Jews and the h…