2023-06-13: News Headlines

_____ (2023-06-12). Stop the Campaign of Smears and Censorship Targeting Anti-War Meetings on Canadian University Campuses! strategic-culture.org By James CLAYTON | Are you a student at a Canadian university? Help defeat the attempts to censor anti-war actions on university campuses by contacting the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) and joining its struggle to build an international anti-war movement led by the working class. Email iyssecanada@gmail.com and

Alan MacLeod (2023-06-12). Shadowy, Israel-Linked Group Attempts To Censor Pro-Palestine Spotify Artists. orinocotribune.com By Alan Macleod — Jun 12, 2023 | A shadowy, Israel-linked pressure group is attempting to remove artists supporting Palestinian liberation from Spotify. We Believe in Israel, an outgrowth of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM), is lobbying both the U.K. government and the popular music streaming platform in their efforts to censor a range of artists — including MintPress News' Lowkey. Studying these organizations' key figures, MintPress can reveal that the lobby group may have sympathetic ears in key positions in both. | Coordinated attack | Earlier this year, following a long…

Anonymous103 (2023-06-12). Russian Military Reveals Ukraine's Losses During Next Day Of Counteroffensive. southfront.org Illustrative Image | While the Kiev regime is censoring true reports from the southern front lines front lines, the Russian Ministry of Defence continues counting losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). | The AFU continued offensive operations in the South Donetsk direction. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, as a result of three Ukrainian attacks from the direction of Velikaya Novoselka in the DPR and in the area of the Levadnoye in the Zaporozhye region, the AFU lost: | over 120 serviceme…

Editor (2023-06-12). The D-Notice: Very British State Censorship. scheerpost.com By Kit Klarenberg / Substack Julian Assange is "dangerously close" to being extradited to the US after losing his latest legal appeal. In a three-page judgment handed down on June 6th, British High Court judge Justice Jonathan Swift rejected all eight grounds of Julian's appeal against the US extradition order, signed by then-Home Secretary Priti Patel a …

WSWS (2023-06-12). UK Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer slanders Roger Waters, demands censorship. wsws.org Waters' steadfast criticism of NATO's war in Ukraine, defence of the Palestinians from Israeli state repression and support for the imprisoned anti-war journalist Julian Assange has earned him the ire of imperialist governments everywhere.


_____ (2023-06-12). Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info. transcend.org 7 Jun 2023 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.

Brittani Banks (2023-06-12). When Corporate Media Fail, Independent Media Rise Up. independentmediainstitute.org Right-wing media outlets such as Fox News have long pushed racist narratives to further their goals. And, outlets like the New York Times—the so-called "liberal media"—do too little, too late, to push back; it falls to the ranks of independent media outlets to create and promote counternarratives based on racial justice. This is not a …

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2023-06-12). The surprising pervasiveness of pro-war propaganda. nationofchange.org An FPIF commentary criticized CODEPINK's position on the war in Ukraine. Here is our response.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-06-12). Neo-Nazi Regiments in the Ukraine Army? It's Perfectly Ok with U.S. State Department and CIA—and Its Reliable New York Times Echo Chamber—as Long as They Hide Those Nasty Neo-Nazi Insignia. covertactionmagazine.com Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based investigative research group that received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA cutout that promotes propaganda denigrating U.S. enemies and defending U.S.-NATO foreign policy. On June 6, one of its researchers, Michael Colborne, provided a tortured defense essentially of the adoption of Nazi insignia by Ukrainian soldiers on …

infobrics (2023-06-13). BRICS New Development Bank De-dollarizing, Adding Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe as Members. infobrics.org One of the most important institutions created by the BRICS is the New Development Bank (NDB). This is a Global South-oriented alternative to the World Bank, which is located in and essentially controlled by the United States…




Anonymous834 (2023-06-13). Eric Zuesse: What Ended Democracy In U.S.-And-Allied Countries. southfront.org Written by When virtually all of the news-media in a country are owned and controlled by billionaires, those individuals (who are less than a thousand) collectively control the 'news'-media and thus mentally control the masses and don't just fund the careers of the winning political candidates but control the entire body-politic — both their public and…

Anonymous834 (2023-06-13). Eric Zuesse: What Ended Democracy In U.S.-And-Allied Countries. southfront.org Written by When virtually all of the news-media in a country are owned and controlled by billionaires, those individuals (who are less than a thousand) collectively control the 'news'-media and thus mentally control the masses and don't just fund the careers of the winning political candidates but control the entire body-politic — both their public and…

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