Daily Archives: April 19, 2023

2023-04-19: News Headlines

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-04-19). Wednesday 5/3: On World Press Freedom Day: A Day Of Action To Free Assange/ Mumia & Against Censorship. indybay.org KQED Television | 2601 Mariposa St. | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-04-19). Far-right Ukrainian nationalists force cancellation of Montreal antiwar meeting—this brazen act of censorship must not go unchallenged. wsws.org The cancellation of the Montreal meeting is anti-democratic, sets a dangerous precedent, and serves to strengthen Canadian imperialism in its predatory war against Russia.

WSWS (2023-04-19). 84-year-old surrenders in shooting of Missouri teenager Ralph Yarl. wsws.org The fixation of the corporate media and political establishment on the role racism may have played in the tragic shooting in Kansas City serves to conceal the root cause of gun violence in America.

Elizabeth Vos, Consortium News. (2023-04-18). Corporate Media Are The Anti-Wikileaks. popularresistance.org It was impossible to imagine four years ago when WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and thrown in Belmarsh Prison that corporate media, which had smeared Assange, could stoop to new lows of government servitude. | But it has now happened with the arrest of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, for allegedly leaking top secret government documents. The leaks exposed a number of significant lies told by both the U.S. government and corporate media about the ongoing war in Ukraine. | Among many items of interest, the documents revealed that U.S. Special…

Dean Baker (2023-04-18). Kevin McCarthy Tells Pants on Fire Lie and WaPo Fact Checker Lets Him Off with a Pat on the Wrist. cepr.net Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's long-time fact checker, usually tries to be fair, but he really fell down on the job in a piece evaluating Kevin McCarthy's claim that Biden's policies cost families $7,400 a year. As the headline tells readers, Kessler concluded that it "depends on your math." Nope, it depends on being honest. …

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-04-18). Monsanto's Evil Is Not Gone, It's Just In Disguise. popularresistance.org Monsanto has been voted the evilest corporation in the world several times over. | Yet, we don't hear anything about them now. What happened? Did they complete the evil? Did they retire after all their evil wrapped up? No, not so much. | Monsanto was one of the most hated companies in the Americas. There were protests just a few years ago, attracting hundreds of thousands into the streets — which is not easy to do. | The most shocking thing was that at Monsanto's lowest point, even the mainstream media started revealing the truth. Here's from Reuters ten years ago: | Monsanto's genetically modified seeds an…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-04-19). Wednesday 5/3: On World Press Freedom Day: A Day Of Action To Free Assange/ Mumia & Against Censorship. indybay.org KQED Television | 2601 Mariposa St. | San Francisco…

WSWS (2023-04-19). Far-right Ukrainian nationalists force cancellation of Montreal antiwar meeting—this brazen act of censorship must not go unchallenged. wsws.org The cancellation of the Montreal meeting is anti-democratic, sets a dangerous precedent, and serves to strengthen Canadian imperialism in its predatory war against Russia.

WSWS (2023-04-19). 84-year-old surrenders in shooting of Missouri teenager Ralph Yarl. wsws.org The fixation of the corporate media and political establishment on the role racism may have played in the tragic shooting in Kansas City serves to conceal the root cause of gun violence in America.

Elizabeth Vos, Consortium News. (2023-04-18). Corporate Media Are The Anti-Wikileaks. popularresistance.org It was impossible to imagine four years ago when WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London and thrown in Belmarsh Prison that corporate media, which had smeared Assange, could stoop to new lows of government servitude. | But it has now happened with the arrest of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, for allegedly leaking top secret government documents. The leaks exposed a number of significant lies told by both the U.S. government and corporate media about the ongoing war in Ukraine. | Among many items of interest, the documents revealed that U.S. Special…

Dean Baker (2023-04-18). Kevin McCarthy Tells Pants on Fire Lie and WaPo Fact Checker Lets Him Off with a Pat on the Wrist. cepr.net Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's long-time fact checker, usually tries to be fair, but he really fell down on the job in a piece evaluating Kevin McCarthy's claim that Biden's policies cost families $7,400 a year. As the headline tells readers, Kessler concluded that it "depends on your math." Nope, it depends on being honest. …

Lee Camp, Mintpress News. (2023-04-18). Monsanto's Evil Is Not Gone, It's Just In Disguise. popularresistance.org Monsanto has been voted the evilest corporation in the world several times over. | Yet, we don't hear anything about them now. What happened? Did they complete the evil? Did they retire after all their evil wrapped up? No, not so much. | Monsanto was one of the most hated companies in the Americas. There were protests just a few years ago, attracting hundreds of thousands into the streets — which is not easy to do. | The most shocking thing was that at Monsanto's lowest point, even the mainstream media started revealing the truth. Here's from Reuters ten years ago: | Monsanto's genetically modified seeds an…

_____ (2023-04-18). Leaked Files: Britain's Secret Propaganda Ops in Yemen. strategic-culture.org Leaked files reveal that British intel used local Yemeni NGOs and social media in a covert campaign to undermine the Sanaa government and influence the war-torn country's peace process. | By Kit KLARENBERG | Yemen's civil war, considered the world's gravest humanitarian crisis, appears to be nearing its end due to a China-brokered detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia, who support opposing sides in the bitter conflict. | Early signs suggest that the rapprochement between Tehran and Riyadh may not only end hostilities in Yemen, but across the wider region. | The US, Israel, and Britain have the most to lose from a…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-04-18). From Europe to the Indo-Pacific, Italy at Arms. libya360.wordpress.com Manlio Dinucci The Europeans are training, under Pentagon orders, to wage war against Russia and China, two countries that do not threaten and have never threatened the European continent. This escalation has no real justification, but is prompted by the intense propaganda campaign being driven by NATO. While concealing the role of the Ukrainian integral…

Anonymous103 (2023-04-18). How The U.S. Regime Is Scaring Its Public To Accept Martial Law. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Like with any

Editor (2023-04-18). Peru's Coup-Plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval (But Full US Backing). scheerpost.com A polling firm found that Peru's coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.

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