(2023-05-04). Greenpeace USA Wins Free Speech Battle Against Canadian Logging Giant's $100M SLAPP Lawsuit. democracynow.org 
A judge in California has dismissed a seven-year $100 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA that threatened the group's existence. Canadian logging giant Resolute Forest Products sued Greenpeace in the United States and Canada for defamation after the group exposed the company's irresponsible practices, part of a pattern of corporations attempting to use the burdens of the legal process to intimidate, exhaust and censor activists. Known as SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits, they are increasingly being used by the rich and powerful to silence critics. We are joined by De…
(2023-05-04). Members of Zelensky's party introduce internet censorship bill. wsws.org The increasingly repressive and ever more openly dictatorial measures taken by the government are no doubt motivated above all by growing popular opposition to the war.
(2023-05-04). Voting underway on contract for 35,000 Los Angeles teachers, amid continuing censorship by UTLA. wsws.org The UTLA bureaucracy calls the agreement a "historic victory," but it falls far short of what teachers are demanding, particularly on teacher pay and staffing ratios.
(2023-05-04). Truths that should terrify the Life out of you. expose-news.com Where do most of your medicines come from? Has corporate media in the US become part of the federal government? Has Google become our enemy? Are climate fanatics in the UK trying …
(2023-05-04). Top Polish general says 'situation does not look good' for Kiev. infobrics.org The Polish general's concerns are hardly misplaced considering that he's getting unbiased military reports from Polish and NATO services. Expectedly, such reports are extremely unlikely to ever be published by the mainstream propaganda machine, but General Andrzejczak's words alone should be enough to indicate the actual state of the Kiev regime forces.
(2023-05-03). The Coming War — Time to Speak Up. strategic-culture.org 
Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism. | By John PILGER | In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on "the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists" to discuss the "rapid crumbling of capitalism" and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned aw…
(2023-05-04). Greenpeace USA Wins Free Speech Battle Against Canadian Logging Giant's $100M SLAPP Lawsuit. democracynow.org A judge in California has dismissed a seven-year $100 million lawsuit against Greenpeace USA that threatened the group's existence. Canadian logging giant Resolute Forest Products sued Greenpeace in the United States and Canada for defamation after the group exposed the company's irresponsible practices, part of a pattern of corporations attempting to use the burdens of the legal process to intimidate, exhaust and censor activists. Known as SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits, they are increasingly being used by the rich and powerful to silence critics. We are joined by De…
(2023-05-04). Members of Zelensky's party introduce internet censorship bill. wsws.org The increasingly repressive and ever more openly dictatorial measures taken by the government are no doubt motivated above all by growing popular opposition to the war.
(2023-05-04). Voting underway on contract for 35,000 Los Angeles teachers, amid continuing censorship by UTLA. wsws.org The UTLA bureaucracy calls the agreement a "historic victory," but it falls far short of what teachers are demanding, particularly on teacher pay and staffing ratios.
(2023-05-04). Truths that should terrify the Life out of you. expose-news.com Where do most of your medicines come from? Has corporate media in the US become part of the federal government? Has Google become our enemy? Are climate fanatics in the UK trying …
(2023-05-04). Top Polish general says 'situation does not look good' for Kiev. infobrics.org The Polish general's concerns are hardly misplaced considering that he's getting unbiased military reports from Polish and NATO services. Expectedly, such reports are extremely unlikely to ever be published by the mainstream propaganda machine, but General Andrzejczak's words alone should be enough to indicate the actual state of the Kiev regime forces.
(2023-05-03). The Coming War — Time to Speak Up. strategic-culture.org Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism. | By John PILGER | In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on "the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists" to discuss the "rapid crumbling of capitalism" and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned aw…
(2023-05-04). Russia's Military Performance Doesn't Match the Propaganda. globalresearch.ca
(2023-05-04). Weingarten refutes GOP charges of teacher union control of pandemic policy. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON —Steady and calm under a barrage of hostile Republican propaganda, Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten refuted right-wing charges of undue union influence on pandemic policy on whether, when, how and if schools should have opened at the height of the coronavirus plague. Given the chance to refute their unproven charges that AFT in general …
(2023-05-03). John Pilger on the coming war. Speak up. Now. greenleft.org.au John Pilger recalls the "electric" opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why there is "a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda" today as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
(2023-05-04). Articles] Feasibility of high-dose tadalafil and effects on insulin resistance in well-controlled patients with type 2 diabetes (MAKROTAD): a single-centre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, cross-over phase 2 trial. thelancet.com High-dose tadalafil does not decrease whole-body insulin resistance, but increases microcirculation, induces positive effects in the liver and in intermediate metabolites, in parallel with an improved metabolic control measured as HbA1c. High-dose tadalafil is moderately well tolerated, warranting larger trials to define the optimal treatment regimen in T2D.
(2023-05-03). While Projecting a Friendly Face and an Extended Hand, the Biden Administration Has Continually Challenged the Initiatives of Honduras' New Progressive Government and Ignored the Voice of the Honduran People. covertactionmagazine.com The dangers of a coup remain, given past policies In November 2021, Hondurans resoundingly elected a new government, headed by President Xiomara Castro, that pledged to end official corruption, reduce violence, and move away from reliance upon a destructive, extractive economy controlled by foreign corporations. Castro's government committed to moving the country toward an economy …