(2024-08-11). Media Coverage of Venezuela's Election Normalizes US Interference. popularresistance.org Corporate media's coverage of Venezuela's July 28 presidential election is akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim. Likewise, the media has shifted the narrative into the minutia of electoral procedures, ignoring the much larger issue of US interference in the internal affairs of another sovereign county. | Nowhere in the corporate media is there even an inkling that US-imposed regime-change activities in Venezuela or elsewhere might violate some basic principles. | Ours is a homeland where the likes of George Clooney…
(2024-08-10). Venezuela: A report on a new victory. workers.org 
Workers World is publishing, unmodified, several statements from anti-imperialist media to show the breadth of support for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and opposition to the lies of the U.S. government and the corporate media. Author Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein is a Venezuelan consultant and international analyst. Translation: John Catalinotto. July . . . |
(2024-08-11). US-Based Activists Mobilize To Say Hands Off Venezuela! popularresistance.org On August 9, as a part of an international call to action issued by ALBA Movimientos, the Simon Bolivar Institute, the Assembly of Caribbean Peoples, and the International Peoples' Assembly to support Venezuela against US and mainstream media support for the attempted coup against President Nicolas Maduro, dozens of activists gathered in front of the New York Times building in New York City. The newspaper is notorious for backing undemocratic coups in Venezuela. | Since the election of Maduro, the New York Times has joined the US government and right-wing governments across Latin America in openly questioning Ven…
(2024-08-10). People's Movements Worldwide Launch Campaign Of Solidarity With Venezuela. popularresistance.org On August 9, the ALBA Movimientos, a platform of social and political movements from across the Americas and the Caribbean, the International Peoples' Assembly, the Simon Bolivar Institute, and the Assembly of Caribbean Peoples, launched a campaign titled: "For Democracy and Sovereignty: Hands Off Venezuela!" The campaign comes in the aftermath of Venezuela's presidential election and a wave of seemingly coordinated attacks from right-wing political actors, mainstream media, and US and its allies. | The launch document states that, for several months, a media campaign has been created to question the legitimacy o…
(2024-08-10). David Knight Interview — Fighting For Objectivity In a Partisan World Gone Mad. thelastamericanvagabond.com Joining me today is independent journalist David Knight, here to discuss the suffocating rise of partisan mania that always precedes a presidential (s)election, and how objectivity is always the first casualty. We discuss the two party illusion and the rise of the mainstream alternative media (also known as MAMs) as well as many of its
(2024-08-10). Iranian press review: Execution of 2022 anti-establishment protester sparks outrage. middleeasteye.net 
Iranian press review: Execution of 2022 anti-establishment protester sparks outrage | Meanwhile, expert says Iran faces challenges in retaliating against Israel, Tehran says the New York Times acts as a propaganda tool for Israel, and industries experience financial setbacks due to power shortages |
(2024-08-11). Ukraine War Day #900: NATO Invades Russia. awfulavalanche.wordpress.com 
Dear Readers: | In its 1,000 year history Russia has been invaded quite a lot of times. For this reason, Russian rulers (at least the wise ones) always placed much emphasis on fortifying and controlling the border areas. For example, Tsar Ivan Grozny, who put together the basic architecture of the centralized Empire, had designated four major border cities: Smolensk, Pskov, Novgorod, and Kazan. The first three were assigned to keep out Poles and Swedes; and the latter, Crimean Tatars. To govern these border towns, the Tsar appointed four Dukes of high-ranking nobility who also served in his privy council. Thes…
(2024-08-11). KITEEZI TRAGEDY: Museveni orders UPDF to join rescue. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the UPDF Special Forces to assist in the rescue at Kiteezi landfill that collapsed and killed unknown numbers of people. He also directed the State House Comptroller to financially assist the families of those who died with Sh.5million per person and Sh.1 million per …
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…
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…
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…
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…