Daily Archives: December 5, 2022

2022-12-05: News Headlines

Alexander Neu (2022-12-05). Russia's war in the mirror of western international law nihilism and propaganda. indybay.org With Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine and the Western response, the world may be headed in leaps and bounds toward the nuclear abyss: The escalation dynamic is gaining speed. More and more conventional weapons with better and better effect are being moved by the West to Ukraine, while asserting that they are not a party to the war.

WSWS (2022-12-05). Health experts warn of impending public health crisis as China quickly adapts itself to the herd immunity policy. wsws.org Published estimates suggest that the ending of Zero-COVID in China, now being demanded by the corporate media, could cost 1 to 2 million lives immediately.

WSWS (2022-12-05). Health experts warn of impending public health crisis as China quickly adapts itself to herd immunity policy. wsws.org Published estimates suggest that the ending of Zero-COVID in China, now being demanded by the corporate media, could cost 1 to 2 million lives immediately.

WSWS (2022-12-05). German parliament supports far-right war propaganda with "Holodomor" vote. wsws.org November 30, 2022 will go down in history as the date on which the German parliament (Bundestag) sacrificed historical truth and the freedom of opinion and scholarship on the altar of militarism.

WSWS (2022-12-05). Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Three. wsws.org This is the third part of a five-part review of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands.

____ (2022-12-05). David Ray Griffin (8 Aug 1939 — 26 Nov 2022)The Man and His Work: A Synopsis. transcend.org 2 Dec 2022 – From a hopeful common-sense theology to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the full extent of the climate crisis, to our evolving perception of the nature of the divine, David Griffin stands with the greats; yet was quiet, humorous, down to earth, and unassuming. RIP…

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-04). Rep. Adam Smith Says Calls for Ukraine Aid Oversight are 'Russian Propaganda'. news.antiwar.com Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the head of the House Armed Services Committee, said Saturday that the growing calls for more oversight of the billions of dollars the US is spending on Ukraine are "part of Russian propaganda." While the majority of Republicans strongly favor continuing to arm Ukraine, even the more hawkish GOP members have …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-04). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

_____ (2022-12-04). The Narrative Of Sham Elections. popularresistance.org Every mainstream media outlet described the referenda in September in the Donetsk, Lugansk People's Republics (LPR and DPR), Kherson Region and part of Zaporozhye as a "sham" and therefore "rigged." The results were certainly not what one finds in Western style party political contestations. So, it is very easy to pass these results off as "rigged" to an audience that has not investigated beyond what main stream Western media choose to report. But to equate what was going on there with what is going on in the West is sheer idiocy. To see why the vote went the way it did, follow the reports of Patrick Lancaster, E…

Editor (2022-12-04). Matt Taibbi: Munk Debate on Mainstream Media. scheerpost.com

_____ (2022-12-04). US Railroad Workers 'Under The Thumb'. popularresistance.org Probably the most important US labor event of 2022 has been the 115,000 US railroad workers and their unions attempt to bargain a new contract with the super profitable Railroad companies. As of December 2, 2022, however, that negotiations has not turned out well for the workers. The US government—the Biden administration and Democrat controlled US Congress with the help of virtually all the Republicans—have repeatedly intervened on the side of the management in the negotiations. | Beginning last September, that intervention has ensured that the workers would not be able to strike in order to advance…

Anonymous669 (2022-12-04). SDF Commander Among Two Killed In Turkish Drone Strike On Northern Syria (Video). southfront.org Late on December 3, at least two people were killed when a Turkish drone strike hit a truck in the northern region of Syria. | The truck was reportedly moving near the village of Sanjaq Sadoun in the northern al-Hasakah countryside, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), when it was targeted by a Turkish combat drone. | One of the casualties was identified as Hussein Sheikh Mamd, a field commander of the SDF, while the other was just a driver. | This was the…

Agency (2022-12-03). Elon Musk's New Direction for Twitter: Not "Free Speech," but Banning the Left while Welcoming Fascists. itsgoingdown.org Agency looks at billionaire Elon Musk banning various anarchist and antifascist accounts on Twitter at the bequest of far-Right trolls as the social media giant moves to embrace the far-Right. On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @crimethinc Twitter account. The account had some 67,000 followers on the day of its…

_____ (2022-12-03). New York Times Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops To Lionize In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo battalion "gave access to the New York Times to report on two recent riverine operations," which culminated in a piece (11/21/22) headlined "On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians." | Since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014, establishment media have either minimized the far-right ideology that guides many Ukrainian nationalist detachments or ignored it completely. | Anti-war outlets, including FAIR (1/28/22, 3/22/22), have repeatedly highlighted this dynamic—particularly regarding corporate media's lionization of…

WSWS (2022-12-03). Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship—Part Two. wsws.org The role that Snyder is playing in justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far right make it imperative to investigate his book more closely.

Krish-rad_ind (2022-12-03). LEAKED: Twitter Censorship To Protect Biden Revealed. rumble.com

Paul Anthony Taylor (2022-12-03). Putting Marketing Before Science: Mainstream Media's Hyping of New Drug for Alzheimer's. globalresearch.ca

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