2022-08-15: News Headlines

Lee Camp (2022-08-15). New Polls Show Almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore. mintpressnews.com Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Nowadays, they never keep it a secret that they run the media.

Paul Joseph Watson (2022-08-15). World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and AI Intel to Censor 'Hate Speech' & 'Misinformation'. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-08-15). Fire in Matanzas: The Real Story Beyond the Smoke and Fire. orinocotribune.com By Gustavo A Maranges — Aug 9, 2022 | Today, after several days, I checked what the mainstream media has reported on the accident at Matanzas supertanker base. I was not surprised at all by what I found. I say this because many of us are used to reading articles driven by sensationalism and not by any credible principles of journalism when reporting on Cuba. | This has been a tragic accident with incalculable consequences for Cubans. Meanwhile, for the foreign public, it has been reduced to spectacular photos showing huge flames accompanied by a column of black smoke that overshadows two of the country's ma…

STP Jesse (2022-08-15). UC Using CIA Methods at People's Park. indybay.org In 1975 The Church Committee discovered Operation Mockingbird a CIA program which attempted to manipulate domestic American news media for propaganda purposes. Almost years later U.C. is using the same technique to destroy Peoples Park.

_____ (2022-08-14). CBS Censors Its Own Report On Ukraine Weapons Corruption. popularresistance.org Under Ukrainian government pressure, major US media outlet CBS News censored a documentary that it produced that exposed corruption in Ukraine. | The report estimated that, of the tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons that Western governments have sent to help Ukraine wage a proxy war against Russia, just around 30% have actually made it to the frontlines. People involved in the Ukraine arms ratline told CBS in the documentary that there was significant corruption, due to "powerlords" and "oligarchs," and that much of the military equipment was being siphoned off or sold on the "black market," in what was…

Chay Bowes (2022-08-14). War Propaganda About Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin. globalresearch.ca

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-14). Russia Urging for IAEA to Visit Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. news.antiwar.com Russia has called for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send inspectors to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), a facility that Russia has controlled since March. | "We believe that the IAEA should not delay the visit. It would be good if it is held in late August or early September, but not all things depend on us," Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's envoy in Vienna, said on Saturday, In recent weeks, the ZNPP has come under frequent shelling, and Ukraine is blaming Russia for the attack even though the…

Matthew Cunningham-Cook (2022-08-14). LEVER WEEKLY: Just The Facts. levernews.com By subscribing to The Lever, you're making a choice to cut through corporate media's simplistic narratives about the world that just don't square with the nuance and facts on the ground. We tirelessly dig through the facts and tell the truth about the myriad challenges America is facing right now.As the saying goes, "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." You've chosen to be at the table by supporting the work we do.This week, The Lever team's reporting pressured the Washington Post to issue a correction to an irresponsible "Fact Check" column written by Glenn Kessler that called into question the ca…

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