Monthly Archives: June 2023

2023-06-12: 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

_____ (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.

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 …


Aaron Maté, The Grayzone. (2023-06-11). Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users. popularresistance.org 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 fear and disinformation." In an attached memo, the SBU asked Twitter to remove the accounts and hand over their user data. | The Ukrainian government's FBI-enabled targets extend to members of the media. The SBU list that the…

Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism. (2023-06-11). The US Economy — Surprisingly Resilient Or Potemkin Village? popularresistance.org For today's episode, we want to talk about what's going on in the US economy. Because when you look at the discussion that's going on, you see a lot of contradictory narratives. On the one hand, you have people like Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan, who said on Sunday that the country may face a mild recession later this year. You see a lot of major CEOs making similar predictions. By contrast, the Biden administration and much of the US mainstream media are insisting that the US economy is showing extraordinary resilience. So, Michael, I want to ask you, what is your analysis on the current state of the US e…

WSWS (2023-06-12). Radio New Zealand removes references to 2014 Ukraine coup from online articles. wsws.org The New Zealand media and political establishment has launched an hysterical witch-hunt against a Radio NZ employee who is falsely accused of publishing "Russian propaganda."

JANET (2023-06-11). A visit to Xinjiang, China / Accomplishments belie U.S. propaganda. iacenter.org By Sara Flounders June 9, 2023 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 2023. One focus of the trip was a visit to Xinjiang (pronounced Shinjaang) province to gather video footage and interviews that give a more realistic picture of this vast and quickly modernizing, multiethnic region. Footage for the documentary, currently named "Voice of Xinjiang," focuses on…


The Exposé (2023-06-11). Official Government Data proves EMA approval of COVID Vaccine for Children has caused shocking 63,060% increase in Child Excess Deaths across Europe. expose-news.com In the scorching summer of 2021, a momentous decision swept across Europe, sparking a whirlwind of emotions among parents, who had fallen for the 24/7 propaganda, eagerly awaiting a ray of hope …

Anonymous103 (2023-06-11). Kiev Targeted Second Russian Ship 'Priazovie' With Unmanned Boats In Black Sea. southfront.org 'Priazovie' illustrative image | Last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attempted to attack another Russian warship in the Black Sea. The "Priazovie" ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was targeted with six unmanned boats when it was patrolling the area of the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. | According to the Russian Ministry, the attack took place at about 1.30 am Moscow time. The AFU made an unsuccessful attempt…

Anonymous349 (2023-06-11). In Video: Russian Ship Destroys Hostile Unmanned Boats In Black Sea. southfront.org The "Priazovie" ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was targeted with six unmanned boats when it was patrolling the area of the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. | The attack was carried out by six high-speed unmanned boats. All of them were destroyed by fire from the standard armament of the Russian ship 300 kilometers south-east of Sevastopol. There are no casualties. The ship was no…

The Exposé (2023-06-11). Official Government Data proves EMA approval of COVID Vaccine for Children has caused shocking 63,060% increase in Child Excess Deaths across Europe. expose-news.com In the scorching summer of 2021, a momentous decision swept across Europe, sparking a whirlwind of emotions among parents, who had fallen for the 24/7 propaganda, eagerly awaiting a ray of hope …

Anonymous103 (2023-06-11). Kiev Targeted Second Russian Ship 'Priazovie' With Unmanned Boats In Black Sea. southfront.org 'Priazovie' illustrative image | Last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attempted to attack another Russian warship in the Black Sea. The "Priazovie" ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was targeted with six unmanned boats when it was patrolling the area of the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. | According to the Russian Ministry, the attack took place at about 1.30 am Moscow time. The AFU made an unsuccessful attempt…

Anonymous349 (2023-06-11). In Video: Russian Ship Destroys Hostile Unmanned Boats In Black Sea. southfront.org The "Priazovie" ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was targeted with six unmanned boats when it was patrolling the area of the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. | The attack was carried out by six high-speed unmanned boats. All of them were destroyed by fire from the standard armament of the Russian ship 300 kilometers south-east of Sevastopol. There are no casualties. The ship was no…

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2023-06-10: News Headlines

Editor (2023-06-10). Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Information. scheerpost.com The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, new leaks show. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including The Grayzone's Aaron Maté.

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…

David Swanson, Kathy Kelly, John Reuwer, Brad Wolf, World Beyond War. (2023-06-09). Austrian Censorship Of Peace Conference Is An Outrage. popularresistance.org Forty-eight hours before a global peace conference in Vienna, Austria, was to begin, the venue host abruptly cancelled. Peace, it seems, cannot be discussed, especially peace in Ukraine. | This news is a disturbing step in a growing trend. | Owners of the venue which was to host the Summit for Peace in Ukraine, announced on Wednesday, 7 June, 2023, their decision to cancel the agreement holding the summit on their premises. Fortunately, a new location was secured in Vienna (and anyone on Earth can sign up to take part online), but not before a smear campaign against the summit had been launched.

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

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…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-10). In Video: Lancet Loitering Munition Kills Its First Leopard 2 Tank In Ukraine. southfront.org MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA — JUNE 25, 2019: A ZALA Lancet-3 attack drone developed by Kalashnikov Concern on display at the Army 2019 International Military Technical Forum at Patriot Park. Marina Lystseva/TASS | Russia's advanced Lancet system has scored its first kill against a German-made Leopard 2, proving that the main battle tank which was regarded by the mainstream media as a Wunderwaffe is poorly protected. | Video footage showing the successful loitering munition strike was released by the R…


Colin Todhunter (2023-06-10). From Net Zero to Glyphosate: Agritech's Greenwashed Corporate Power Grab. dissidentvoice.org Today, in the mainstream narrative, there is much talk of a 'food transition'. Big agribusiness and 'philanthropic' foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much- promoted plans to 'feed the world' with 'precision' farming', 'data-driven' agriculture and 'sustainable' production. These are the very institutions responsible for the social, ecological and …

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… |

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.

Matt Orfalea (2023-06-10). Bombshell Video: The "COVID Pandemic" Was the Result of Extensive Media Propaganda: "Nobody Is Safe, BE AFRAID!" globalresearch.ca

Patrick Lawrence (2023-06-10). The War We're Finally Allowed To See. orinocotribune.com By Patrick Lawrence — Jun 1, 2023 | After 15 months of conflict, The New Yorker's reportage by Luke Mogelson and photographer Maxim Dondyuk shows us the war in Ukraine that the propaganda machine has been concealing. | Let us consider the following paragraphs, which appear in the May 29 edition of The New Yorker: | "While Tynda and his team were fighting from the trench, long and powerful fusillades had issued from another Ukrainian position, on a hilltop behind them. I later went there with Tynda. In a blind overlooking the no man's land stood an improbably antique contraption on iron wheels: a Maxim gun, t…

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


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…

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-09). Democrats Say GOP Witness Lied to Congress About Connection to Far Right Group. truthout.org A key Republican witness in a recent House subcommittee hearing may have lied to Congress about his ties to far right propaganda group Project Veritas in a recent testimony dubiously accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of being biased against the right, potentially constituting a breach of federal law, Democrats are saying. Republicans had presented suspended FBI agent Garret O'… |

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 . . . |

Andrew Korybko (2023-06-10). China's First-Ever Trilateral Anti-Terrorist Talks With Iran & Pakistan Likely Concern W-CPEC. thealtworld.com India should begin deliberating what it'll do in the event that some Chinese-Iranian trade is conducted across Pakistani-controlled Kashmir since it appears as though this is the long-term outcome that Beijing wanted to advance through the trilateral anti-terrorist talks that it just hosted with Iran and Pakistan. | The first-ever

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… |

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 …

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…

Sharon Zhang (2023-06-09). Democrats Say GOP Witness Lied to Congress About Connection to Far Right Group. truthout.org A key Republican witness in a recent House subcommittee hearing may have lied to Congress about his ties to far right propaganda group Project Veritas in a recent testimony dubiously accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of being biased against the right, potentially constituting a breach of federal law, Democrats are saying. Republicans had presented suspended FBI agent Garret O'… |

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 . . . |

Andrew Korybko (2023-06-10). China's First-Ever Trilateral Anti-Terrorist Talks With Iran & Pakistan Likely Concern W-CPEC. thealtworld.com India should begin deliberating what it'll do in the event that some Chinese-Iranian trade is conducted across Pakistani-controlled Kashmir since it appears as though this is the long-term outcome that Beijing wanted to advance through the trilateral anti-terrorist talks that it just hosted with Iran and Pakistan. | The first-ever

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… |

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 …

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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