WSWS (2024-08-09). Censored for criticizing Glencore, singer of Quebec metal band Guhn Twei speaks out. wsws.org "To go from writing songs that say there's no hope to lyrics that dare to attack the problems we're experiencing in Rouyn-Noranda and point the finger at those responsible, gives meaning to what we're doing and what we're experiencing."

newarab (2024-08-08). Egypt +100: Reimagining Egypt a century after the revolution. newarab.com Egyptian writers are great at writing sci-fi and dystopian fiction but are completely unappreciated. | This is quite a bold and generic statement to make, but hear me out: for decades, Western writers have been conjuring up dystopian world orders in which your every move is monitored by state surveillance, every written word censored and every spoken sentence informed on, but Egyptians have been living this authoritarian reality for the past seven decades. | This then poses the question, what does an Egyptian sci-fi writer write about when your current reality is as far-fetched as the sci-fi novels of American…

Kate Horgan (2024-08-08). The Corporate Press (Finally) Sounds the Alarm on Project 2025. projectcensored.org By Mischa Geracoulis After months of expert legal and public policy analysis, advocacy group warnings, and independent press reporting on the Presidential Transition Project 2025 (Project 2025 for short), the corporate press is finally catching up. Capturing headlines is Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership, a 180-day playbook for the next…

Ju-Hyun Park, Maximillian Alvarez (2024-08-08). International election observers and journalists contest claims of Venezuela election fraud. therealnews.com Within hours of polls closing in Venezuela, the US began to circulate claims that incumbent President Maduro had stolen the election. There was just one problem—these claims emanated from outside the country before election results were even announced. The absence of evidence didn't stop corporate media outlets from running with the story. The accounts of more than 800 international election observers on the ground, however, paint a very different picture. While there is certainly political division within Venezuela, opposition to Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution does not constitute an overwhelmin…

Melvin Goodman (2024-08-09). Mainstream Media's Leading Warmonger: NYT Columnist Bret Stephens. counterpunch.org The New York Times has always favored Israel in its editorial writings, but no Times' columnist compares to Bret Stephens, whose writings are chauvinistic and bellicose., Stephens, a former editor of the Jerusalem Post and a supporter of all Israeli policies, left the Wall Street Journal to join the Times in 2017 because he believed Israel was not getting a fair hearing in the mainstream media. In doing so, he joined other Jewish columnists at the Times (Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Paul Krugman, and Roger Cohen). However, these men brought some objectivity to America's Israel problem. Stephens has no limits in…

Chris Jarvis (2024-08-08). Powerful video explains how mainstream media and politicians have fuelled the far right. leftfootforward.org 'It's our politicians and the mainstream UK media that have put a target on the backs of black and brown communities.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2024-08-09). Towards a WW III Scenario. The Privatization of Nuclear War. Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca Canadian economist Prof. Michel Chossudovsky criticizes the U.S. government for promoting nuclear war propaganda and advocating for the 'safe use' of nuclear weapons in conventional war. He highlights the brainwashing of decision-makers and the dangers of their own power. | Chossudovsky …

noreply (2024-08-09). Here Is Why US Army Will Never Win… smoothiex12.blogspot.com a real war. As one historian correctly noted–Rommel's myth was created by Churchill and Monty in order to embellish own achievements on the secondary theater of operations against rather average military commander, while colossal spectacle was happening on the Eastern Front with military leaders on both sides who would make Rommel nothing but the average corps commander who rode the wave of Hitler's propaganda when things started to go really sour for Wehrmacht in USSR. So, here is H.R. McMaster still not understanding what real war is and exposing his ignorance of REAL military history. He should have "mod…

newarab (2024-08-08). Migrants in UN buffer zone limbo on divided Cyprus. newarab.com According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a total of 59 asylum seekers have been living in the UN-patrolled buffer zone in recent months between the areas controlled by the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus and the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), having attempted to cross southwards. | Sitting on a plastic chair under the shade of trees and surrounded by UNHCR-branded tents, Hussein Zare said he fled his home country of Iran for Cyprus in the hope of gaining entry to the European Union and starting a new life in France. | In May, he flew from Iran to Istanbul with his wife a…