(2022-06-04). NATO Chief Says Ukraine Shouldn't Drop Goal of Driving Russia Out of Crimea. news.antiwar.com In an interview with The Washington Post, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Ukraine shouldn't avoid declaring ambitious war aims of driving Russia out of the eastern Donbas region and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014. "They have the right to say that they are fighting for the whole of Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. …
(2022-06-04). The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com 
Listen to a reading of this article: | ‚ùñ | Empire managers: Putin invaded Ukraine! | Public: Oh no! What should we do about it? | Empire managers: Greatly increase military spending, work to weaken Russia, and censor dissenting opinions. | Public: Wait, aren't those things you've always wanted to do anyway? | Empire managers: Hush. | ‚ùñ | Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda. | ‚ùñ | Fuel prices are soa…
(2022-06-04). Reasons to be Hopeful: Reflections on the Second SAFTU Congress. socialistproject.ca 
The second congress of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has just drawn to a close. More than 700 delegates from all of its affiliates gathered to discuss how best to address the challenges presented by the crisis in the global economy and in South Africa. A summary of the decisions that were taken, and the issues to be addressed, are encapsulated in the I was present throughout and took copious notes of the proceedings. The mainstream media, as usual, focused on th…
(2022-06-04). [Correspondence] Head and neck cancer: high-end technology is no guarantee of high-quality care — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We thank Johannes H A M Kaanders for commenting on our Seminar in which we discussed recent advances in the management of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.1 We agree with the need to exert caution in the wide and uncontrolled implementation of novel modalities such as transoral robotic surgery and proton therapy. We also agree with the need to generate confirmatory data for these modalities Both transoral robotic surgery and proton therapy are tools with the potential to refine and advance existing (approved) modalities.
(2022-06-03). U.S. State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News. scheerpost.com 
By Joe Lauria / Consortium News is being "reviewed" by NewsGuard, a U.S. government-linked organization that is trying to enforce a narrative on Ukraine while seeking to discredit dissenting views. | The organization has accused Consortium News, begun in 1995 by former Associated Press investigative reporter Robert Parry, of publishing "false content" on Ukraine. | It calls "false" essential facts about Ukraine that have been suppressed in mainstream media: 1) that there was a U.S.-back…
(2022-06-03). Patrick Lawrence: Will Biden Provoke War with China? scheerpost.com 
Click to subscribe on: Patrick Lawrence. | "We are the provocateurs" — offered as a condemnation of current US foreign policy — might seem the sort of untutored comment attributed by establishment pundits to the "fake news" environment of t…