Daily Archives: June 9, 2023

2023-06-09: News Headlines

Lee Fang (2023-06-09). Billionaire Biden Donor Bankrolled 2020 Election Social Media Censorship Effort. globalresearch.ca

Aaron Maté (2023-06-09). FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info, Including Journalists. orinocotribune.com By Aaron Maté — Jun 7, 2023 | The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, leaks reveal. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including Aaron Maté. | The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal. | In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine's main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, "are suspected by the SBU in spreading fe…

Staff (2023-06-08). Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is An Outrage. davidswanson.org

Visualizing Palestine (2023-06-08). Politically Conditioned Funding in Palestine. dissidentvoice.org Over the last two decades, funding in Palestine has become tied to ever-increasing restrictive conditions that are used to control and limit Palestinian civil society. We partnered with Al- Shabaka and Badil to produce the visual illustrating how restrictive funding supports Israeli colonial policies, depoliticizes Palestinian society, criminalizes resistance to Israeli colonization, and thwarts Palestinian …

The Exposé (2023-06-08). June Fundraising Campaign — We rely solely on your support… expose-news.com The Expose is facing unprecedented global censorship. Your support will not only help to keep us going but hopefully allow us to expand and compete with the Mainstream Media worldwide… You support …

infobrics (2023-06-08). Western journalists censored by the Kiev regime. infobrics.org Ukrainian government imposes strict rules on journalists, allowing only information favorable to the regime to reach Western readers.


Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2023-06-08). Western MSM Journalists Censored by the Kiev Regime. globalresearch.ca

Anonymous103 (2023-06-08). Twitter Files: FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users And Obtain Their Info, Including Journalists. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Authored by The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal. | In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine's ma…

Press Associates (2023-06-08). Nationwide 'Teach Truth' day of action against censorship June 10. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The nation's largest union, the National Education Association, will lead a national day-long crusade against right-wing censorship, book-banning, pressure on schools and librarians, and even an occasional book burning, on a "Freedom to Learn and Teach Truth" day of action on June 10. And it won't be just rallies. Indeed, in the epicenter of censorship …

People's Dispatch. (2023-06-09). Cuban Official Condemns Wall Street Journal's Claim About Chinese Base. popularresistance.org Cuba's Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío held a press conference on the afternoon of June 8, wherein he rejected accusations leveled by US corporate media giant The Wall Street Journal that the island had reached a "secret" agreement with the Chinese government to establish a spying base. He said the information the WSJ published was "completely dishonest and unfounded". | The report authored by Warren P. Strobel and Gordon Lubold called the alleged agreement a "brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the US" and claimed that the "eavesdropping facility in Cuba, roughly 100 miles from Florid…

Brian Berletic (2023-06-09). Kalibrated Episode #43 with guest Brian Berletic. thealtworld.com Today I'm speaking Brian Berletic a former marine now living in Thailand who reports extensively on US/Chin/Taiwan relations, Southeast Asia and Ukraine. Lots of mainstream media articles being discussed.

Lindsay Koshgarian (2023-06-09). For GOP, Debt Ceiling Deal Was Never About Debt — It Was About Conserving Power. truthout.org Many mainstream accounts of the recent debt ceiling deal make it sound like the negotiations represented a give and take between spending and saving — with President Biden and Democrats aligned with spending, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republicans aligned with saving. The real interests of the Republican Party in these negotiations, however were not actually about spending… |




Sara Flounders (2023-06-09). A visit to Xinjiang, China / Accomplishments belie U.S. propaganda. workers.org Xinjiang, People's Republic of China U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China / U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31. Sara Flounders and Arjae Red with Young Pioneers in Urumqi, May . . . |

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd (2023-06-09). The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda. fpif.org Editor's note: The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. As a platform for progressive internationalism, FPIF has featured a range of viewpoints on the subject. In that spirit, we present this response from CODEPINK — a group that includes longtime collaborators with FPIF and our parent institution, the Institute for Policy Studies — to a recent critique by FPIF director John Feffer entitled " In the Foreign P…

Ben Bartee (2023-06-09). COVID Propaganda Roundup: Pfizer Knew mRNA Shots Sicken Infants in April 2021. globalresearch.ca

Andrew Korybko (2023-06-08). Why'd The Former NATO Chief Repeat "Russian Propaganda" About Poland Intervening In Ukraine? thealtworld.com The exact same scenario that was previously smeared by the European External Action Service as a "recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative" is now being extended credence by none other than former NATO chief Anders Rasmussen. | Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen

Rick Rozoff (2023-06-09). Balkans: NATO holds 30-nation air training for battlefield support. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandJune 9, 2023 Joint Terminal Attack Controllers of 30 nations conduct interoperability training in Slovenia Thirty nations have been engaged in interoperability training during the multinational Slovenia-led exercise Adriatic Strike in several training areas across the country. After the opening ceremony of Adriatic Strike 2023, the Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) from Allies …

Grace Panetta (2023-06-09). Blue State "Shield" Bills Link Protections for Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care. truthout.org Blue states are crafting a new kind of legislation to respond to a dramatic wave of restrictions on abortion access and gender-affirming care across the country. Democrats are invoking the fall of Roe v. Wade as a reason to protect both areas of health care simultaneously — while aiming to create safe havens for those fleeing surrounding Republican-controlled states. Lawmakers in five states… |

Sara Flounders (2023-06-09). A visit to Xinjiang, China / Accomplishments belie U.S. propaganda. workers.org Xinjiang, People's Republic of China U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China / U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31. Sara Flounders and Arjae Red with Young Pioneers in Urumqi, May . . . |

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd (2023-06-09). The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda. fpif.org Editor's note: The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. As a platform for progressive internationalism, FPIF has featured a range of viewpoints on the subject. In that spirit, we present this response from CODEPINK — a group that includes longtime collaborators with FPIF and our parent institution, the Institute for Policy Studies — to a recent critique by FPIF director John Feffer entitled " In the Foreign P…

Ben Bartee (2023-06-09). COVID Propaganda Roundup: Pfizer Knew mRNA Shots Sicken Infants in April 2021. globalresearch.ca

Andrew Korybko (2023-06-08). Why'd The Former NATO Chief Repeat "Russian Propaganda" About Poland Intervening In Ukraine? thealtworld.com The exact same scenario that was previously smeared by the European External Action Service as a "recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative" is now being extended credence by none other than former NATO chief Anders Rasmussen. | Former NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen

Rick Rozoff (2023-06-09). Balkans: NATO holds 30-nation air training for battlefield support. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATOAllied Air CommandJune 9, 2023 Joint Terminal Attack Controllers of 30 nations conduct interoperability training in Slovenia Thirty nations have been engaged in interoperability training during the multinational Slovenia-led exercise Adriatic Strike in several training areas across the country. After the opening ceremony of Adriatic Strike 2023, the Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs) from Allies …

Grace Panetta (2023-06-09). Blue State "Shield" Bills Link Protections for Abortion, Gender-Affirming Care. truthout.org Blue states are crafting a new kind of legislation to respond to a dramatic wave of restrictions on abortion access and gender-affirming care across the country. Democrats are invoking the fall of Roe v. Wade as a reason to protect both areas of health care simultaneously — while aiming to create safe havens for those fleeing surrounding Republican-controlled states. Lawmakers in five states… |

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2023-06-09). BRICS New Development Bank De-Dollarizing. popularresistance.org The BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is expanding, and building a new economic architecture to challenge the dominance of the US dollar. | 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. | In March 2023, the NDB inaugurated its new chief: Dilma Rousseff, the former president of Brazil, from the South American nation's leftist Workers' Party. | Rousseff has stressed that the NDB's goals are financing "infrastru…

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