Project Censored (2023-06-15). Texas Book Ban Bills Set a Dangerous Precedent for the Narratives of Young People in Education. projectcensored.org By Cameron Samuels | Special Guest Writer for Project Censored's Dispatches on Media and Politics Amid an unprecedented wave of censorship, many of our state legislators have left no mercy…

_____ (2023-06-14). The Collective West is more united than ever against China. journal-neo.org The US and the EU have now developed the closest for the past three decades positions on the PRC, according to the US Department of State. On Tuesday, May 30, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was visiting Sweden, made a very ambiguous statement regarding China. At a joint press conference with Swedish Prime […] | –°–æ–æ–±—â–µ–Ω–∏–µ

Sasha Abramsky (2023-06-14). Tennessee's Anti-Drag Law Is Latest Chapter in State's Century of Censorship. truthout.org Over the past several weeks, Tennessee legislators and Gov. Bill Lee have been engaged in an increasingly acrimonious battle with the state's LGBTQ+ community and civil liberties defenders over the permissibility of drag shows in public spaces. It isn't the first time the state has found itself at the epicenter of a burgeoning culture war over what can and cannot be said or done or taught in… |

Project Censored (2023-06-14). E-girls and Truth in Military Recruitment plus Gun Violence and the Intersections of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the US. projectcensored.org To open the program, Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer for MintPress News. He's just written about a new phenomenon in…

Kathy Kelly (2023-06-14). Norman Solomon's War Made Invisible Refutes Collusion with War Makers. dissidentvoice.org Following a string of U.S. "forever wars," a profusion of well-written, often riveting novels, memoirs, and analyses have been published. Talented authors have aimed to promote understanding about the human cost of war. In the same period, mainstream media sources have continually developed ways to make war appear normal —something necessary, justifiable, or in some …

Sara Flounders, Worker's World. (2023-06-15). A Visit To Xinjiang, China. popularresistance.org Xinjiang, People's Republic of China – U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China / U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31. | One focus of the trip was a visit to Xinjiang (pronounced Shinjaang) province to gather video footage and interviews that give a more realistic picture of this vast and quickly modernizing, multiethnic region. Footage for the documentary, currently named "Voice of Xinjiang," focuses on an area with 4,000 years of history, which is at the center of the ancient Silk Road that today…

Sara Flounders, Worker's World. (2023-06-15). A visit to Xinjiang, China Accomplishments belie U.S. propaganda. popularresistance.org U.S. propaganda is powerful. Responding to an increase in U.S. attacks on China, a delegation was organized by the China / U.S. Solidarity Network, which then visited China from May 11 to May 31. | One focus of the trip was a visit to Xinjiang (pronounced Shinjaang) province to gather video footage and interviews that give a more realistic picture of this vast and quickly modernizing, multiethnic region. Footage for the documentary, currently named "Voice of Xinjiang," focuses on an area with 4,000 years of history, which is at the center of the ancient Silk Road that today is a major hub in China's ambitious B…

Sara Flounders (2023-06-14). A Visit to Xinjiang, China. Accomplishments Belie U.S. Propaganda. globalresearch.ca

Abdel Bari Atwan (2023-06-14). Is Israel on the warpath, again? thealtworld.com Successive could prompt Netanyahu to lash out — and trigger an un-survivable all-out conflictsetbacks | I have learned from experience to closely scrutinise any statements made by Hezbollah leaders, especially Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. When they make threats, they do not do so idly or for propaganda or publicity reasons. They do it to send out specific messages, to both friends and enemies, and demonstrate their readiness to confront dangers they see coming, perhaps imminently. | In an interview with the Iranian Tasnim news agency published on Monday , Hashem Safieddine head of Hezbollah's executive council,…

Otis Grotewohl (2023-06-15). Who bombed Nova Kakhovka Dam? Who benefits? workers.org Areas of flood damage (in pink) are in Russian-controlled territories. The Nova Kakhovka Dam, a hydroelectric dam located in southern Ukraine, was destroyed on June 7. Evidence suggests the dam was intentionally attacked. Its demolition led to mass flooding and ecological destruction. Many fear the toxins and debris that have . . . |

_____ (2023-06-13). Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info. strategic-culture.org The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, new leaks show. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including The Grayzone's Aaron Maté. | By Aaron MATÉ | The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal. | In March 2022, an FBI Special Agent sent Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine's main intelligence agency. The accounts, the FBI wrote, "are suspected by the SBU in spreading fear…

Staff (2023-06-13). "Doing Journalism Is a Crime": Guatemalan Publisher José Rubén Zamora Faces 40 Years Behind Bars. democracynow.org Prominent Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora faces 40 years in prison in his sentencing hearing Wednesday for what press freedom and human rights groups say are inflated charges of money laundering. Zamora is the founder and president of the investigative newspaper El Periódico and has long reported on Guatemalan government corruption. El Periódico was forced to shut down last month after months of intensifying harassment and persecution from President Alejandro Giammattei's right-wing government. The government has held Zamora "as a hostage" for nearly a year as part of its wider crackdown…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2023-06-13). Take Action To Stop The Growing Assault On Transgender Rights. popularresistance.org In the first five months of 2023, over 500 pieces of legislation were introduced in the US to restrict the rights of transgender people. This is part of a growing assault, fueled by the corporate media, on transgender existence. Clearing the FOG speaks with journalist and activist Morgan Artyukhina about the history of transgender struggles, the impacts of the current hostile environment on people, how transgender rights are being used to divide and weaken the ruling class and what people can do to show solidarity and stop the assault. Morgan also discusses the importance of education in creating an inclusive soc…

teleSUR (2023-06-13). Fact Check of US Lies Against Cuba. telesurenglish.net The recent claim spreading in Washington that China built an "eavesdropping" facility in Cuba has been rejected by Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, who called the allegation "fabricated," "totally false and unfounded." | RELATED: | Since the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s, the U.S. administration has consistently spread lies about the island with the purpose of discrediting the socialist…

Anonymous669 (2023-06-14). Russian Service Member Killed, Others Wounded In Rare Northern Syria Attack (Videos). southfront.org Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter. | On June 12, a Russian service member was killed and several others were wounded when their vehicle was hit while on patrol in northern Syria. | The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a London-based opposition war monitor of unclear funding, reported that the vehicle was hit when the Turkish military shelled a road linking the villages of Herbel with Um Hawsh in a part of the northern Aleppo countryside that's controlled by the Ku…

infobrics (2023-06-13). BRICS New Development Bank De-dollarizing, Adding Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe as Members. infobrics.org One of the most important institutions created by the BRICS is the New Development Bank (NDB). This is a Global South-oriented alternative to the World Bank, which is located in and essentially controlled by the United States…

Olga Peterson (2023-06-13). Udo Ulfkotte Exposed the CIA's Role in Controlling Worldwide Media in his book "Journalists For Hire" and Should Be Celebrated Among the Great Whistleblowers of All-Time. covertactionmagazine.com Ulfkotte's political awakening about the corruption of the media industry came when he was sent to cover the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s and was instructed to present Iraq as the good guys A former editor for the German main daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Dr. Udo Ulfkotte became nationally renowned in dissident circles for …