2023-02-23: News Headlines

Global Research News (2023-02-22). Selected Articles: How Do You Know When COVID-19 Is Over? globalresearch.ca By Mainstream newspapers, the television news, and the alternative news blogs that we are forced to rely on for information have decayed into unstable and shifting …

Project Censored (2023-02-22). From Russiagate with Love: Corporate Media Spin and Revisionist Reporting on Russia's Alleged Meddling in the 2016 Election Continue. projectcensored.org By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff A January 2023 publication from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) spawned the latest round of spin and shifting baselines from Russiagate apologists. Russiagate refers…

John Wojcik, C.J. Atkins (2023-02-22). Peace talks on Ukraine war unlikely any time soon. peoplesworld.org Most of the corporate media hailed President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kiev this past weekend where he met Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia, whom the administration has said cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons or diplomatic negotiations, was told ahead of time, apparently, and was trusted by the U.S. to insure nothing happened to …

Mickey Z. (2023-02-22). Reminder: Jimmy Carter Was Just Like All the Other Presidents. dissidentvoice.org Former president Jimmy Carter is back in the news. His ongoing illness has surely caused him and his loved ones much distress and grief. For that, I wish them peace as the 39th president nears the end of his life. However, this is also an important opportunity to recognize that corporate media whitewashing is yet …

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-02-23). Free Speech Is For Fighting The Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | My research has led me to conclude that there's an elite conspiracy to enslave us all and turn us all into brainwashed automatons mindlessly enacting the wishes of our rulers in a cruel dystopia built by the powerful, for the powerful. | Haha, just kidding. That already happened. | ‚ùñ | Step one is learning that the mainstream consensus worldview is a lie, and that we've been fed power-serving propaganda since we were children about our society, our nation, our government and our world. Most people haven't even made it to step one yet. | Step two is g…

_____ (2023-02-22). With Billions Wasted NATO Still Doesn't Have the Juice to Beat Russia. journal-neo.org In every mainstream media outlet from Berlin to Los Angeles, Vladimir Putin and Russia are losing in the conflict with Ukraine. The NATO proxy warriors and western think tank experts are endlessly reassuring citizens of the U.S. and other allied countries that Russia is on the ropes and ready for the knockout punch from the …

Hartwig Hohnsbein, Georg Rammer (2023-02-23). January 30, 1933 and Media make politics. indybay.org Edward Bernays, one of the most important developers of modern propaganda, wrote almost a hundred years ago: "The manipulation of the opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate the unseen mechanisms of society form an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country."

WSWS (2023-02-23). War propaganda dominates Berlin film festival opening, including Sean Penn's Superpower. wsws.org The Berlin Film Festival opened last Thursday with a barrage of militarism and war propaganda, followed one day later by the world premiere of Superpower, directed by Hollywood's leading advocate of all-out war against Russia, actor Sean Penn.

_____ (2023-02-22). Washington Accuses Russia of 'Crimes Against Humanity' to Justify Escalation of Ukraine war. strategic-culture.org By Andre DAMON | On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris formally accused Russia, for the first time, of carrying out "crimes against humanity," part of an escalating propaganda campaign to condition public opinion for the direct deployment of US-NATO troops into the war over Ukraine. | Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris asserted: "Russian forces have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population—gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape and deportation. Execution-style killings, beatings and electrocution." | Harris declared: "In the case of Russia's actions in Ukrai…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-02-22). Nord Stream: Propaganda, the Ultimate Weapon of Empire. libya360.wordpress.com Mohsen Abdelmoumen Empire's relentless and murderous persecution of journalists who reveal the truth Journalists who care about doing their job and informing the public are very rare in the West, but fortunately there are still some, even if everything is done to prevent them from delivering information contrary to the dominant doxa. The most obvious…

Anonymous669 (2023-02-22). SDF Commander Wounded In New Turkish Drone Strike On Northeastern Syria (Video). southfront.org A Bayraktar Akƒ±ncƒ± combat drone. Source: the Turkish Ministry of National Defense. | On February 22, a Turkish combat drone targeted a vehicle in an area controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern governorate of al-Hasakah. | The vehicle, an SUV, was struck as it was moving on a road linking the towns of al-Qmaihsli and al-Qahtaniyah in the northern al-Hasakah countryside. | The SDF-linked Hawar News Agency didn't report any casualties. Howev…

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