Orinoco Tribune 2 (2022-10-04). Cholera and US Sanctions Killing Syrian Civilians. orinocotribune.com By Steven Sahiounie Sep 29, 2022 | On September 23, the Al Qaeda-occupied area in Idlib Province reported the In the northeast region of Syria controlled by the US-backed SDF, a Kurdish mi…

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-03). Russia's State Duma Approves Annexation of Ukrainian Territories. news.antiwar.com On Monday, Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, unanimously approved a measure to formalize the absorption of the Russian-controlled territories of Ukraine. Russia is annexing areas it controls in the Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and the breakaway Donbas republics on Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR) following referendums. Russian President Vladimir …

_____ (2022-10-03). Iran's Protests: A Different View From The Ground. popularresistance.org Setareh Sadeghi, an Esfahan, Iran-based scholar and teacher, provides Max Blumenthal with a view of Iran's protests against the country's morality police and the death of Mahsa Amini never heard in US mainstream. Sadeghi explains that while many Iranians oppose the morality police, the protests have failed to spread far outside Tehran, and have relied heavily on social media amplification from the outside – including from neoconservative elements hell bent on regime change – to magnify the impact of the protests. Sadeghi also addresses the impact of US sanctions on Iranian women, and details civil disobedience by…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-10-03). Mahan air dismisses reports of bombing threat on its flight. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 03 (MNA) — Iranian Mahan Air has rejected earlier today's reports on a bombing threat onboard the Tehran-Guangzhou flight as fabricated and part of the propaganda campaign against Iran.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-10-03). Mahan air dismisses reports of bombing threat on its flight. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 03 (MNA) — Iranian Mahan Air has rejected earlier today's reports on a bombing threat onboard the Tehran-Guangzhou flight as fabricated and part of the propaganda campaign against Iran.

SouthFront5 (2022-10-02). More Evidence Points To US-NATO Sabotage Of Nord Stream. southfront.org If you live in Germany, you may want to begin scouting out firewood before winter. | By Increasingly, there is little doubt who is behind the Nordstream pipeline leaks, now numbering four. The corporate media is lamely attempting to blame R…

Ricardo Gomez (2022-10-02). LEVER WEEKLY: Manchin's Pipeline Deal Hits The Rocks. levernews.com This week, Democrats dropped Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-W.Va.) fossil fuel pipeline permitting bill that the corporate media and fossil fuel lobbyists have been trying to pass off as an energy and environmental victory.As a result, according to a Wednesday

JANET (2022-10-02). Movements in NATO countries mobilize against war. iacenter.org By John Catalinotto September 30, 2022 With an avalanche of anti-Russian propaganda in NATO-member and other European Union countries — and in the U.S. — the corporate media has created an obstacle to mobilizing antiwar actions. Nevertheless, the high economic cost of the war, including much higher prices for basic goods and shortages of energy sources, have created an opening that anti-imperialist and antiwar activists are starting to widen. In Germany, the antiwar movement has called for coordinated actions in cities around the country Oct. 1. In Spain, at least one coalition has called, in its Madr…

Editor (2022-10-02). Stephen King Reviews New Dystopian Novel That Mirrors Present Day. scheerpost.com Deena So'Oteh | By Diego Ramos / ScheerPost Staff Writer | Stephen King finds myriad events that mirror the reality of the world today in his New York Times review examining "Our Missing Hearts," by Celeste Ng. King allows for a glimpse of what a dystopian near future could look like when dealing with censorship, dissent and what appears to be the most important theme of the book: relations with China. | King says, "In Ng's version of the American Nightmare, there's no need to burn books. 'We pulp them,' a helpful librarian tells Bird. (Bird doesn't tell her he's picturing book bonfires, but she intuits it.)…

_____ (2022-10-02). Decoding The Pentagon's Online War Against Iran. popularresistance.org The civil unrest in Iran in response to the recent death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while she was waiting at a Tehran police station, although rooted in legitimate grievances, also bears the hallmark of a western-sponsored covert war, covering multiple fronts. | Mere days after the protests erupted on 16 September, the Washington Post revealed that the Pentagon had initiated a wide-ranging audit of all its online psyops efforts, after a number of bot and troll accounts operated by its Central Command (CENTCOM) division — which covers all US military actions in West Asia, North Africa and South and Central A…

Kurt Nimmo (2022-10-01). Towards a "Global Censorship System"? International Alliance to Censor Speech. globalresearch.ca