Daily Archives: February 3, 2022

2022-02-03: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-02-03). Maus, graphic novel about the Holocaust, censored by Tennessee school board. wsws.org The McMinn County School Board has removed Maus, by Art Spiegelman, which depicts the experience of the author's family in Poland during the Holocaust, from the 8th grade curriculum, allegedly because of "rough language."

WSWS (2022-02-03). Maus, graphic novel about the Holocaust, censored by Tennessee schoolboard. wsws.org The McMinn County School Board has removed Maus, by Art Spiegelman, which depicts the experience of the author's family in Poland during the Holocaust, from the 8th grade curriculum, allegedly because of "rough language."

WSWS (2022-02-03). Whoopi Goldberg suspended for comments about the Holocaust. wsws.org The backlash in the corporate media against Goldberg's insensitive and confused comments is rife with hypocrisy and works to conceal anti-Semitism and fascism within sections of the ruling establishment.

Margaret Kimberley (2022-02-02). Ukraine and US War Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Margaret Kimberley — Jan 26, 2022 | The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis. That crisis has been manufactured by Joe Biden, who was the Obama administration point person in using Ukraine as a means of destabilizing Russia. | 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 a…

Margaret Kimberley (2022-02-02). Ukraine and U.S. war propaganda. mronline.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.

WSWS (2022-02-02). International Viewpoint supports war propaganda against Russia. wsws.org Under the misleading title "Time for International Anti-War Solidarity," unnamed "Ukrainian socialists" called on the "international left" to "condemn the imperialist policies of the Russian government."

VINS (2022-02-02). ADHD in Girls Often Underdiagnosed. projectcensored.org The rate at which ADHD goes undetected in girls is increasingly higher than their male counterparts. As of September 2021, 12.9 percent of boys were diagnosed with ADHD while only 5.6 percent of girls were. As Cheyenne Leonard reported for Women's eNews, "The reason for this diagnosis gap is not because ADHD is more prevalent in boys but, as

VINS (2022-02-02). Cross-Border Police Surveillance Treaty Undermines Privacy Rights. projectcensored.org According to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) reviewed a surveillance treaty, drafted by the Council of Europe's (CoE)…

VINS (2022-02-02). Federal Safety Agency Underreporting Deaths of Offshore Drilling Industry Workers. projectcensored.org According to an August 2021 article by the Energy News Network, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Agency (BSEE) underreported offshore oil and gas worker fatalities from 2005 to…

Editor (2022-02-02). Greenwald: The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship. scheerpost.com Joe Rogan interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Aug. 6, 2019, roughly six months before he endorsed the Vermont independent for president. | By Glenn Greenwald / American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by "liberals," I mean the term of self-description used by th…

VINS (2022-02-02). British American Tobacco Funding War in West Africa by Oversupplying Region with Cigarettes. projectcensored.org In May 2021, CorpWatch reported on British American Tobacco's (BAT) plan to open a cigarette factory in Mali that year. This, the result of a complicated partnership between the Malian…

Kevin Mwanza (2022-02-02). Fact Check: 80% Of NFTs Created With The OpenSea Free Minting Tool Are Plagiarized, Fake Or Spam. moguldom.com The booming NFT art market could have been built on fakes and plagiarized content. More than 80 percent of the NFTs created on the OpenSea free minting tool either counterfeits or spam, according to OpenSea — a peer-to-peer marketplace, supposedly, for rare digital items and crypto collectibles. NFTs or nonfungible tokens are cryptographically unique digital …

WSWS (2022-02-02). California single-payer health care plan dead on arrival, as Democrats abandon bill they campaigned on. wsws.org Assemblyman Ash Kalra declined to put the bill before a vote in the 11th hour, stating later that "It became clear we did not have the votes," in the Democratic Party-controlled legislature.

Staff (2022-02-02). The Silencing of Black & Queer Voices: George M. Johnson on 15-State Ban of "All Boys Aren't Blue" democracynow.org School districts and Republican-controlled state legislatures are rapidly intensifying efforts to ban certain books about race, colonialism, sex and gender identity from public classrooms and libraries. The wave of book bans — with more than 70 educational gag order bills being introduced in legislatures over the past month alone — have been largely led by right-wing groups funded by Charles Koch. We're joined by author George M. Johnson to talk about their award-winning memoir-manifesto "All Boys Aren't Blue," which deals with homophobia, transphobia and racism and has been targeted for removal in at…

Amy Goodman (2022-02-02). "All Boys Aren't Blue" Has Been Targeted for Removal in at Least 15 States. truthout.org School districts and Republican-controlled state legislatures are rapidly intensifying efforts to ban certain books about race, colonialism, sex and gender identity from public classrooms and libraries. The wave of book bans — with more than 70 educational gag order bills being introduced in legislatures over the past month alone — have been largely led by right-wing groups funded by Charles Koch. We're joined by author George M. Johnson to talk about their award-winning memoir-manifesto…

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