2019-07-23: News Headlines

Media Lens (2019-07-22). The Campaign To Stop Corbyn: Smears, Racism And Censorship. dissidentvoice.org The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must …

ACLU (2019-07-22). Arkansas Wants to Make Sure You Know 'Almonds Don't Lactate'. aclu.org An Arkansas law censoring plant-based products isn't just absurd and unnecessary, it's unconstitutional. | The state of Arkansas thinks you're confused about whether a veggie burger comes from a cow. In fact, it thinks you're so confused that it passed a law making it illegal for companies to use words like "meat," "roast," and "sausage" to describe products that are not made from animals. Under the law, it doesn't matter if those words are modified by "vegan…

Jon Queally, staff writer (2019-07-22). As Trump Tweets More Racism on His Way To 'Pay Respect' to Justice Stevens, Ilhan Omar Calls for Cancelling Student Debt in US. commondreams.org "Trump continues to foment hate and racism that is endangering the lives of women of color in Congress and so many others. We all need to call it out. And it must end NOW." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

James Wright (2019-07-22). Brian Eno unapologetically slams the media campaign to destroy Corbyn, on The Andrew Marr Show. thecanary.co On The Andrew Marr Show on 21 July, musician Brian Eno unapologetically slammed the media campaign to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. | "Sustained campaign against him": | Eno told Marr: I have always admired him and trusted him, I suppose, which is not something you can easily say about many politicians. I think that it's difficult to make an assessment of him when there has been such a sustained campaign against him. So there's a lot of anti-Corbyn propaganda, and… most of the media…

Alan MacLeod (2019-07-22). Media just can't stop presenting horrifying stories as 'uplifting' perseverance porn. nationofchange.org Because corporate media wholly accept and promote neoliberal, free-market doctrine, they are unable to see how what they see as "awesome" is actually a manifestation of late-capitalist dystopia.

RT (2019-07-20). That funny smell: 4.5mn-gallon sewage spill shuts Washington beaches. rt.com Power glitches at the two biggest sewage treatment plants in Washington state's King County have resulted in the uncontrollable discharge of millions of gallons of wastewater into the ocean, causing several beaches to close.

Caitlin Johnstone (2019-07-19). Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash. dissidentvoice.org After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. After the account was suspended without any explanation being presented to its operators, Assange supporters drew a clear line in the sand against internet censorship and began making a big …

Peter Koenig (2019-07-19). The World is Dedollarizing. dissidentvoice.org What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar? Every country, or society would use their own currency for internal and international trade, their own economy-based, non-fiat currency. It could be traditional currencies or new government controlled crypto-currencies, but a country's own sovereign money. No longer the US-dollar. No longer the dollar's …

Paul Craig Roberts (2019-07-19). CNN: Propaganda and Disinformation. dissidentvoice.org CNN abandoned journalism and became a propaganda ministry for the Democratic National Committee and the corrupt upper echelons of the CIA and FBI. After three years of telling the most outrageous lies ever associated with an alleged news organization in an alleged democracy, CNN's viewership collapsed. CNN turned propaganda ministry saw its prime time viewers …

Andre Vltchek (2019-07-18). Why the West is Determined to Ignore China's Success. dissidentvoice.org It used to be comical, but suddenly it is not, anymore. In the past, blind hatred towards China could had been attributed to ignorance, or at least to indoctrination by the Western propaganda and mass media outlets. But now? China's tremendous leap forward, its excellent, humane social policies and determined people-oriented scientific research, as well …

Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-18). Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions. venezuelanalysis.com Guaido's team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.

pip.hinman (2019-07-18). Broken Hill: 'Give us our river back'. greenleft.org.au The Murray-Darling river system is the lifeblood of Australian agriculture, but it is now in serious crisis. | The river system is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, and with mass fish deaths in the headlines and farmers struggling to survive, the water crisis is deepening. | But the current crisis has long-term roots in a river system that for years has been controlled by big business and corrupt governments. | In early July, we travelled to the far-western NSW towns of Broken Hill and Menindee and spoke to a number of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous locals who are at the forefront of the fight to s…

Staff (2019-07-16). "Our Squad Is Big": Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib and Pressley Condemn Trump's Racist Attack. democracynow.org Congressmembers Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar condemned President Trump's spate of racist attacks against them in a news conference Monday. Their public rebuke followed Trump tweeting Sunday telling them to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." The comments have been widely condemned as racist and xenophobic. We hear from the progressive congresswomen in their own words.

John Perry (2019-07-16). A year after Nicaragua coup attempt, the media's regime-change deceptions are still unraveling. thegrayzone.com Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua's government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…

Ben Norton (2019-07-10). The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson. thegrayzone.com Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…