2021-07-04: News Headlines

_____ (2021-07-04). Silence From Corporate Media as Key Assange Witness Recants. commondreams.org The workers laboring outside in this extraordinary heat are on the front lines of the climate crisis.

Gavin Lewis (2021-07-04). The G7 and the Orwellian Twin Tropes Propagandising US Global Domination. dissidentvoice.org During the recent G7 summit the corporate media went into pro-US propaganda overdrive. The BBC's Global News channel — or UK global propaganda outlet — has spent the years since the Iraq War spinning the US Military's assault on the Black and Brown homelands of the world as 'America spreading democracy'. Media Lens has responded …

_____ (2021-07-04). Why Is Biden's Foreign Policy So… Conventional? commondreams.org "They know they can get away with it because the mainstream media refuses to report it."

Common Dreams (2021-07-04). Eye of Fire as Ocean burns in Gulf of Mexico foretells Earth Future if we Keep Burning Fossil Fuels. juancole.com By Julia Conley, staff writer | — ( Commondreams.org) — A fire that raged for hours in the Gulf of Mexico Friday offered the latest illustration of the climate emergency and the urgent need to end fossil fuel extraction and invest instead in burgeoning renewable energy industries. An underwater gas pipeline controlled by Mexico's state-owned …

_____ (2021-07-03). US Censorship Is Increasingly Official. popularresistance.org The attempts to muzzle the press did not start with Trump, however. President Obama oversaw a war on whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, and ensured that Julian Assange has spent the best part of a decade in hiding or in prison. Assange's most notable journalistic action was to release the Iraq War Logs and the Collateral Murder video, which showed US pilots massacring civilians—including two Reuters journalists—in cold blood.

WSWS (2021-07-03). Corporate media blacks out admission that witness against Assange lied for US indictment. wsws.org A Google News search indicates that not a single English-language corporate publication has reported the confession of a key US witness against Assange that his allegations were false.

Alan MacLeod (2021-07-03). US censorship is increasingly official. nationofchange.org While corporate media like to highlight the many press freedom shortcomings of hostile foreign nations, the censorship worries start much closer to home.

Anonymous669 (2021-07-03). Saudi-led Coalition Destroyed Houthi Booby-Trapped Boats Off Yemen's Western Coast. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On May 28, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it had foiled an attempt by the Houthis (Ansar Allah) to launch an attack with booby-trapped boats. | In a statement, the coalition said that it destroyed two remotely-controlled water-borne improvised explosive devices (WBIED) off the shores of the town of al-Salif in the western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah while Houthi fighters were preparing them for an attack. | "The Houthi militia continues to threaten shipping and intern…

_____ (2021-07-03). Olympics Chiefs Relax Protest Rules For Tokyo Games. popularresistance.org The decision came amid calls to relax rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter, which states: "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas." The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had promised to review the rule after the Black Lives Matter movement gained global support.

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