Monthly Archives: February 2022

2022-02-28: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-28). UK workers and youth speak in support of "Fight Covid! Save lives! Stop the drive to World War III !" webinar. wsws.org "Everyone should condemn the war against Ukraine while opposing the NATO contribution to the current war. All the mainstream media are trying to rally people into a bloody war with Russia, which could be catastrophic for the entire planet."

Ali Abunimah (2022-02-28). Ukraine, Palestine and the propaganda of war. electronicintifada.net Western publics are being primed for another bloody calamity.

Anonymous103 (2022-02-28). War In Ukraine, The West's Propaganda War Is The End Of Democracy. southfront.org Tianjin explosion in China | Written by Piero Messina | Vladimir Putin has become "Putler", something halfway between Putin and Hitler. For the less aggressive, the Russian president is Vlad the Mad. "There has never been a genocide against the pro-Russian populations in Donbass. Nazi formations do not exist and have never existed in Ukraine and there has been no massacre in Odessa. Putin threatens the world and must be stopped." Western media is treating the Ukrainian crisis as if it were selling soap bars w…

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2022-02-28). War Propaganda about Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless. transcend.org 27 Feb 2022 – Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2022-02-28). Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War. fair.org The US government in 2020 declared five Chinese media entities to be "not independent news organizations" but rather "effectively controlled by the [Chinese] government" (Politico, Most nations have some form of state media. These days, it's pretty easy for Americans to access any number of foreign state media outlets, and many of them have journalists covering US affairs. Some of those journalists must register as "foreign agents" with the US government. But others don't have to—a distinction that h…

Andrew Korybko (2022-02-27). President Putin Didn't Spark World War III, he Just Averted it! orinocotribune.com By Andrew Korybko — Feb 24, 2022 | A much larger war that could dangerously escalate into World War III was averted by Russia's preemptive special operation in Ukraine aimed at neutralizing the US and NATO's latent, imminent, and hot threats emanating from that country. This makes Moscow's military mission truly a peacemaking one since the Eurasian Great Power responsibly sought to prevent World War III, not spark it. Russia truly had no choice but to act now. | The US-led Western Mainstream Media's latest information warfare narrative against Russia is that President Putin just sparked World War III, but th…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-27). Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict (+Zelensky on the Frontlines?). orinocotribune.com The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident. | Biased reports, publications of old photographs, and even simulations and video games serve as "source" for the mainstream media and social media accounts of great influence. With the publication of fake news, they are trying to show an "indignation" against war, something that was never seen against all the atrocities perpetrated or promoted by governments such as that of the United States.

_____ (2022-02-27). Fake News Warfare In Ukraine Conflict. popularresistance.org The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident. | Biased reports, publications of old photographs, and even simulations and video games serve as "source" for the mainstream media and social media accounts of great influence. With the publication of fake news, they are trying to show an "indignation" against war, something that was never seen against all the atrocities perpetrated or promoted by governments such as that of the United States.

Staff (2022-02-27). EU closes skies to Russian aircraft. rt.com The European Union is closing its airspace to Russian-owned, registered or controlled aircraft | European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU will close its airspace to Russian planes as part of the next wave of sanctions on Moscow over its military offensive in Ukraine. | Speaking on Sunday, von der Leyen said Europe was "shutting down the EU airspace" for all Russian aircraft, declaring "they won't be able to land in, take off or overfly the territory of the EU. Including the private jets of oligarchs." | The ban will apply to Russian-owned, controlled and registered planes. | The closu…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-02-27). Colombia's security forces struggle to contain ELN terror campaign. colombiareports.com Colombia's ELN guerrillas subjected rebel-controlled regions to a three-day terror campaign. According to conflict monitors, guerrillas carried out dozens of operations between Wednesday and Saturday. "The armed strike succeeded in…

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2022-02-27: News Headlines

Andrew Korybko (2022-02-27). President Putin Didn't Spark World War III, he Just Averted it! orinocotribune.com By Andrew Korybko — Feb 24, 2022 | A much larger war that could dangerously escalate into World War III was averted by Russia's preemptive special operation in Ukraine aimed at neutralizing the US and NATO's latent, imminent, and hot threats emanating from that country. This makes Moscow's military mission truly a peacemaking one since the Eurasian Great Power responsibly sought to prevent World War III, not spark it. Russia truly had no choice but to act now. | The US-led Western Mainstream Media's latest information warfare narrative against Russia is that President Putin just sparked World War III, but th…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-02-27). Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict (+Zelensky on the Frontlines?). orinocotribune.com The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident. | Biased reports, publications of old photographs, and even simulations and video games serve as "source" for the mainstream media and social media accounts of great influence. With the publication of fake news, they are trying to show an "indignation" against war, something that was never seen against all the atrocities perpetrated or promoted by governments such as that of the United States.

Adriaan Alsema (2022-02-27). Colombia's security forces struggle to contain ELN terror campaign. colombiareports.com Colombia's ELN guerrillas subjected rebel-controlled regions to a three-day terror campaign. According to conflict monitors, guerrillas carried out dozens of operations between Wednesday and Saturday. "The armed strike succeeded in…

_____ (2022-02-26). War In Europe And The Rise Of Raw Propaganda. popularresistance.org Marshall McLuhan's prophecy that "the successor to politics will be propaganda" has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain. | On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age. In 1964, McLuhan famously declared, "The medium is the message." The lie is the message now. | But is this new? It is more than a century since Edward Bernays, the father of spin, invented "public relations" as a cover for war propaganda. What is new is the vir…

Staff (2022-02-26). Chinese banks limit financing for Russian purchases — media. rt.com The two largest lenders reportedly restricted funding for the purchase of Russian commodities | China's largest public financial institutions are reportedly limiting financing to purchase raw materials from Russia under the threat of sanctions from the US and allies over the military operation in Ukraine. | The step, which might only be temporary, was taken by at least two of China's largest state-controlled banks, ICBC and Bank of China, which are at major risk of secondary sanctions from Washington, Bloomberg news agency reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources. | ICBC, the world's biggest bank by a…

Staff (2022-02-26). Russia accuses 'Ukrainian nationalists' of shelling residential areas. rt.com The attack resulted in civilian casualties, Moscow claims | Moscow has said that Ukraine used multiple rocket launchers to shell residential blocks in the town of Starobelsk, roughly 100km (62 miles) north of Lugansk on Saturday morning. The reported incident occurred during the fight between Ukrainian troops and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) backed by the Russian military. | Ukraine controlled the town prior to the dramatic flare-up this week, and it is unclear who is controlling it now. | According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack by "Ukrai…

Staff (2022-02-26). US warship sails through Taiwan Strait. rt.com Chinese state media accused the US of stirring up "trouble on two sides of the world" | The USS Ralph Johnson, a guided-missile destroyer of the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, sailed through the Strait of Taiwan on Saturday. The Pentagon said the exercise was a "routine" one, but amid heightened tension in Europe over Ukraine, China's state media accused the US of fomenting conflict "on two sides of the world." | The USS Ralph Johnson transited the strait through waters controlled by neither mainland China or Taiwan, a statement from the Seventh Fleet read. "The United States military flies, sails, and operates anyw…

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