Daily Archives: September 21, 2022

2022-09-21: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-09-21). Pentagon's secret social media influencing campaign exposed. wsws.org Quoting unnamed White House and Defense officials, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Pentagon has been operating fake social media accounts to promote pro-US narratives and anti-Russia propaganda for at least a decade.

Dave DeCamp (2022-09-20). Russian-Backed Authorities in Ukraine Announce Referendums to Join Russia. news.antiwar.com Authorities in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine Putin was set…

The Lever (2022-09-20). Introducing Election Insider . levernews.com

ELECTION INSIDER: Who's Buying The 2022 Midterms?:
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee votes in the state's primary election at the Community School in Cumberland, R.I., on Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)By September 19, 2022 As we rapidly approach the country's November midterm elections, corporate media seems uninterested in one of the biggest threats to democracy: Billionaires and Big Business using huge sums of money to try to secretly buy elections on both sides of the aisle.Increasingly, a small handful o…

TeleSUR (2022-09-20). Rare Ebola Strain Encourages Prevention in Uganda. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, health experts urged Uganda to focus on preventing and controlling the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, noting that there is no vaccine against the rare "Sudan strain." | RELATED: | This follows an announcement by the country's ministry of health that the Ebola virus had broken out and has so far left one confirmed case dead and six other unverified deaths. | Bayo Fatunmbi, head of disease prevention and c…

Eva Lopez (2022-09-19). How to Start a Banned Book Club. aclu.org Blog header image features a VHS Banned Book Club meeting at Vandegrift High School. Credit: Ella Scott | Millions of students went back to school this year facing censorship efforts that restrict their right to learn. Since 2021, dozens of states have moved to introduce and pass classroom censorship bills that restrict students and educators from discussing race, gender, and sexual orientation in K-12 classrooms and universities. At the same time, politicians and school boards across the country have also made moves to ban books — especially books representing Black and LGBTQ experiences — from pu…

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