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.

Kate Miriam Hildreth (2023-08-15). The Lancet Censored Science, Education, and Our Right to Informed Consent. globalresearch.ca

Kwolanne Felix (2023-08-15). Despite Reversing AP Psychology Ban, Some Florida Schools Still Won't Teach It. truthout.org The College Board, the nonprofit that devises Advanced Placement (AP) courses, recently announced its AP psychology course was effectively banned by the Florida Board of Education. The course discusses psychological concepts aligned with current research about gender and sexuality that violate Florida's abhorrent "Don't Say Gay" bill. The College Board has rightly refused to censor science for… |

Kate Horgan (2023-08-15). Imperialism and Neocolonialism Around the Globe: US-China Relations; West African Nations. projectcensored.org Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's Project Censored Show. As US-China relations worsen, independent journalist Danny Haiphong says what lies at the root is the desperation of a US ruling class…

Kate Horgan (2023-08-15). 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…

_____ (2023-08-14). Scott Ritter Scrubbed From Youtube. strategic-culture.org Scott Ritter will survive. But over 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers have not survived the carnage that is a direct result of YouTube's censorship of omission and commission. | Join us on , , and . | The best place to begin a disc…

Dana Sanchez (2023-08-15). Fact Check: Singers And Rappers Got Over $100 Million In Covid Money From Government. moguldom.com Dozens of businesses controlled by big-name artists received government grants with no obligation to repay the money through a covid relief program called The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG). Dubbed "Save Our Stages," the aid bill was marketed or hyped to Congress and approved by Congress as supporting small venues and behind-the-scenes workers — not …

Kit Klarenberg (2023-08-15). Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows. thegrayzone.com With Ukrainian forces reportedly suffering a level of amputations reminiscent of WWI, a New York Times proxy war propagandist is spinning amputees as sex symbols and painting their gruesome injuries as "magical." After 18 months of devastating proxy warfare, the scale of the depletion of the Ukrainian military is so extensive that even mainstream sources have been forced to concede the cruel reality. On August 1, The Wall Street Journal reported that "between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians" have "lost one …

Caitlin Johnstone (2023-08-14). THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF ALL TIME: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | The 2024 presidential election will be THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF ALL TIME, because if Americans don't make the correct choice between the two candidates something terrible might happen to their country. The US might even turn into an abusive totalitarian dystopia where everyone's mind is controlled by propaganda engineered to shape them into unthinking gear-turners for a globe-spanning empire. | ‚ùñ | People on one side of the partisan divide are being trained to fear a future fascist takeover. | People on the other side are…

ecsorinoco (2023-08-14). Sergei Shoigu's Tactics are Beginning to Give Excellent Results. orinocotribune.com By Slavisha Milacic — Aug 11, 2023 | Having failed negotiations with Moscow in the spring of 2022, and launching a counteroffensive that allowed their forces to claw back several districts of the Kharkiv region, in September of that same year, the Kyiv authorities started telling their allies that a Ukrainian victory was now a done deal. At the same time, Ukrainian propaganda and the pro-Western opposition inside Russia, were busy convincing the people of the Russian Federation of the Russian army's inability to resist the "modernized Ukrainian forces," and making them believe that there were disagreements…

Matthew J. Carpenter, Amy E. Wahlquist, Jennifer Dahne, Kevin M. Gray, K. Michael Cummings, Graham Warren, Theodore L. Wagener, Maciej L. Goniewicz, Tracy T. Smith (2023-08-15). Articles] Effect of unguided e-cigarette provision on uptake, use, and smoking cessation among adults who smoke in the USA: a naturalistic, randomised, controlled clinical trial. thelancet.com Complementing cessation-focused trials, results suggest that unguided e-cigarette use also leads to smoking cessation, allaying the notion that causal effects of e-cigarettes on cessation are not reflective of real-world scenario of self-determined use. For smokers who may not be able to quit using existing pharmacologic approaches, e-cigarettes may be considered to achive that purpose.

WSWS (2023-08-14). How COVID killed thousands in Michigan nursing homes, as Whitmer administration stood by. wsws.org The Democratic-controlled state government has only recently released documents about the nursing home deaths in 2020, after stalling for years to protect the owners and Governor Gretchen Whitmer.