2020-12-24: News Headlines

Eds. (2020-12-24). Why is the Guardian promoting more Pentagon propaganda? mronline.org Recent reporting reinforces the false impression that the United States is threatened by Chinese and Russian expansionism.

Dan Cohen (2020-12-24). Propaganda pandemic: The craziest COVID claims of the year. mronline.org No matter how many Americans die, corporate media is desperate to shore up support at home and attempt to discredit foreign countries for handling the pandemic properly. Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen reviews the most absurd COVID propaganda of the year..

_____ (2020-12-23). It Is Time For The One State Solution To Go Mainstream. popularresistance.org The "Palestinian-Israeli conflict" has often been presented as one of the most intractable in modern world history. | But one reason for this is precisely that it has been wrongly analyzed as a conflict and thus the "solutions" offered and the "peace processes" for getting there fail. | This is not a conflict. There are not two sides fighting over some issue that can be resolved through technical negotiations and compromise. Rather, Zionism was — and is — a settler-colonial project. | Jewish settlers arrived in Palestine from Europe with the intention of taking over the country and making it their own…

Project Censored (2020-12-23). Sharyl Attkisson and Rachael Jolley. projectcensored.org In the first half of the show, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Sharyl Attkisson shares ideas from her new book "Slanted. " She contends that in recent years corporate and government forces have dramatically expanded their intervention into the conduct of journalism, to the extent that some types of investigative stories can no longer be reported. | Then Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief for the Index on Censorship, joins the program from the UK to explain how the coronavirus pandemic has changed the work of reporters — in Europe and elsewhere. She notes that even while the pandemic has…

Staff (2020-12-23). US Airports Are Portals for Disease Spread. Venezuela Shows Another Way. truthout.org I recently traveled to Venezuela to be an observer for its National Assembly election and was struck by a stark difference between the ways Venezuela and the United States are handling the COVID-19 pandemic. | My experience at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, gave me a taste of what a coordinated public health approach looks like in practice, compared to the disjointed politicized approach in the United States. Airports in the United States are currently serving as uncontrolled portals of disease…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-12-23). Turkey sentences former Kurdish parliamentarian to 22 years in prison. peoplesdispatch.org Leyla Gàºven — former Kurdish parliamentarian in Turkey has been sentenced to over 22 years in prison for alleged links with a "terrorist group" and disseminating "terrorist propaganda." Gàºven has been vocal about the plight of Kurdish people.

Chauncey DeVega (2020-12-23). Nothing to see here: Why media keeps downplaying Trump's coup attempt. salon.com Trump's cabal of desperate conspirators is more dangerous than ever, but mainstream media tells us to move on…

Roger Sollenberger (2020-12-23). NY Attorney General subpoenas pro-Trump troll Jacob Wohl for voter suppression scheme. salon.com Wohl and Jack Burkman have been criminally indicted in Ohio and Michigan in connection with the robocall scheme…

WSWS (2020-12-23). Russia imposes sanctions on German officials as Navalny story assumes farcical character. wsws.org For the imperialist powers, no lie is too big, and no story too absurd, to not be employed in the service of war propaganda.

Global Justice Now (2020-12-22). Big Pharma Business Model Is Serious Obstacle to Wiping Out COVID-19: Report. globalresearch.ca New research released today by Global Justice Now examines the history of some of the leading corporations producing coronavirus medicines, warning that their business model is likely to make controlling the pandemic more difficult, despite the rapid production of vaccines….

Alison Weir (2020-12-22). U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act: US Congress Votes $4 Billion to Israel for 2021. globalresearch.ca Congress just voted billions of dollars of U.S. tax money to Israel, No mainstream US media appear to have told Americans that both houses of Congress just voted massive aid to Israel, a tiny country with a long record …

teleSUR (2020-12-21). Chile Opens New Investigation Into Corruption in The Army. telesurenglish.net Chile's Public Ministry and the Investigation Police opened an investigation against nearly 800 serving and retired army officials on corruption charges. | RELATED: | Over 500 retired officials and 270 in practice have been subjected to an investigation into alleged fraud to the treasury committed from 2007 until 2017 after the Mutual Aid Fund (FAM) was closed. | The Comptroller's and the Prosecutor's Offices are se…