Monthly Archives: April 2022

2022-04-28: News Headlines

Rainer Shea (2022-04-28). Ukraine: How the US Empire Uses Propaganda to Turn People Into Monsters. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Apr 24, 2022 | The atomic bomb isn't the most powerful weapon that the U.S. imperialists have ever used. There's an even stronger tool that it constantly uses to inflict violence, and that tool is propaganda. It doesn't merely cause harm to the people it targets, it turns them into monsters. Monsters who are willing to kill their fellow human beings for the benefit of American capital, and believe they're doing so for a righteous cause. | In Ukraine, the imperialists have done this by indoctrinating their favored ethnic group to hate Russians. Which is an absurd project on its face, because…

Saheli Chowdhury (2022-04-28). More than 80% of Russians Support Putin — Analyst Egor Lidovskoy (Interview). orinocotribune.com April 27, 2022 ( Russian voices have been silenced, and any alternative or contextualized view of the occurrences is banned or branded "Russian government propaganda." In this context, Orinoco Tribune interviewed Russian economist and political analyst Egor Lidovskoy, to get a vie…

_____ (2022-04-27). An Intellectual No-Fly Zone. popularresistance.org Mountain View, California — Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | Earlier this month, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us that, "Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war." This content, it went on to say, "includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or sim…

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