2023-08-18: News Headlines

WSWS (2023-08-18). Meeting: End political censorship at Sydney's Macquarie University! Affiliate the IYSSE! wsws.org The IYSSE urges students and staff to take a stand against management's censorship of the only socialist and anti-war club on campus. Attend our meeting on campus on Thursday September 7.

Sandy English (2023-08-17). Florida Censorship Laws Curtail Shakespeare in Schools. globalresearch.ca

Kate Horgan (2023-08-17). Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy. projectcensored.org The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain…

Michael Fox (2023-08-17). El Salvador's model of authoritarianism may be spreading to countries like Costa Rica and Honduras. therealnews.com Costa Rica, a tourist's paradise and a country without a military, has historically been one of Central America's strongest democracies, but times are changing. Last year, Costa Ricans elected Rodrigo Chaves, a man fashioned in the mold of Donald Trump, as their new president. In office, Chaves has attacked his political opponents, focusing particularly on the media and universities, and he has harnessed the power of social media to push conspiracy theories and fake news. And, as of late June, Chaves had the fourth highest approval rating—71%—of any public official in the world. Chaves's popular…

Patricia Harrity (2023-08-17). What the Media Won't Tell You About the Maui Fires. expose-news.com There are many underreported or even un-reported stories about Maui wildfires and the aftermath at Lahaina, as we have come to expect of mainstream media. A video has surfaced by the author …

Anonymous103 (2023-08-17). Eric Zuesse: Democratic Party News Media's Thirst for Russian Blood. southfront.org Written by On August 14th, one of the Democratic Party mainstream 'news'-media, NBC, deigned to do an on-air interview of RFK Jr., who is running in the Democratic Party's primaries to be the 2024 Presidential nominee instead of Biden, and this occasion offered the best presentation I've yet seen of how radically against Biden RFK Jr. really is on the Ukraine issue…

Pablo Jofré Leal (2023-08-18). Fracaso de la contraofensiva ucraniana. globalizacion.ca Durante los últimos tres meses la propaganda occidental, abundante y con recurso ilimitados ha inundado los medios televisivos, radiales, gráficos, las redes sociales del planeta, para sostener que el régimen de Kiev avanza a paso decidido y con resultados positivos,…

Andrew Robinson (2023-08-19). Perspectives] Revealing the hidden roots of modern China. thelancet.com Think of 19th-century China, and what comes to mind? Probably the mid-century opium wars between China and Europe and the cession of Hong Kong to the UK; maybe the Boxer Rebellion of 1899 against foreign imperialism; and perhaps the Dowager Empress Cixi, who ruthlessly controlled the Chinese imperial government for almost 50 years. Yet many other fresh perspectives can be found in the British Museum's China's Hidden Century exhibition. A global first, it arises from a 4-year research project involving more than 100 scholars from China and 19 other countries.

ELEL (2023-08-19). Department of Error] Department of Error. thelancet.com Jones CMP, Day RO, Koes BW, et al. Opioid analgesia for acute low back pain and neck pain (the OPAL trial): a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 2023; 402: 304—12—In the Summary and Acknowledgments of this Article, the funders should have been Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council, University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, and ReturnToWorkSA. This correction have been made to the online version as of Aug 17, 2023.

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