W.T. Whitney Jr. (2022-07-28). Prisoner Simón Trinidad Is a Victim of Deadly US Colombia Alliance. orinocotribune.com By W.T. Whitney JR. Jul 18, 2022 | Simón Trinidad's 72nd birthday is July 30. Don't think about sending him a card. U.S. prison authorities have blocked his mail since 2004. He is lodged in a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado. Extradited from Colombia, he remained in solitary confinement until 2018. | As a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Trinidad was in charge of political education and propaganda. He was captured in Ecuador in 2003, with CIA assistance. He had been conferring there with a United Nations official about the release of FARC-held prisoners. | Transferred…

Brian Mier (2022-07-28). Fox Seeks Allies Across the Political Spectrum to Shill for Bolsonaro. zcomm.org Fox's propaganda blitz preemptively sets the stage for the normalization of a possible military coup in Brazil this October…

WSWS (2022-07-28). Twitter ends censorship of Socialist Equality Party (Australia) after widespread opposition. wsws.org The reversal of the lock on the SEP's account followed widespread anger and opposition to the measure from workers and young people in Australia and internationally.

Dave DeCamp (2022-07-27). Bridge Closes in Russian-Held Kherson After Ukraine HIMARS Strike. news.antiwar.com Moscow-installed authorities in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Kherson on Wednesday closed a key bridge after Ukraine's forces struck the area using US-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), The Antonivskyi bridge is the only bridge that crosses the Dnieper River in the city and was closed to civilians after the strike. Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the Kherson administration, said that while the bridge has been closed, i…

Thiemo Kirmse (2022-07-27). Guidance to the system change, parts 1 and 2. indybay.org World War II led to U.S. domination of the political West, which was able to make its mark on the part of the world it more or less controlled. Led and dominated by the military-industrial complex and engaged mentally in a war with the Soviet Union, the USA suppressed any efforts of autonomous state developments that contradicted its interests.

____ (2022-07-27). How to Troll Professionally and Mercilessly. )). smoothiex12.blogspot.com Talk about being merciless by Russians. Well, watch it to the very end, LOL. True? Yes. Cruel? Absolutely, but that is the point. And if this Russian trolling is largely funny. This trolling, from the former President of Russia may create additional panic in Kiev. Dmitry Medvedev in his TG-channel demonstrated two pictures.
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Isheka N. Harrison (2022-07-27). Fact Check: Married Women Couldn't Get Credit Until 1974 and Then Divorce Rate Skyrocketed. moguldom.com Earlier this summer, a historian's tweet went viral after she said married women couldn't get credit in their names until 1974 and the divorce rate skyrocketed as a result. But is her statement correct? "The fact that married women couldn't get a credit in their own names until 1974 and the divorce rate started to …

_____ (2022-07-27). Biden's Disastrous Visit to the Middle East. journal-neo.org Some time ago, it seemed that there was no more important topic in the United States and the world media controlled by it than the visit of President Joe Biden to the Middle East that had been anticipated and then took place. Well-paid commentators, "pundits and experts" who could hardly find Saudi Arabia on a …

____ (2022-07-27). China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-enters atmosphere under control. ecns.cn China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-entered the atmosphere in a controlled manner at 11: 31 a.m. (Beijing Time) Wednesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

WSWS (2022-07-27). Australian and New Zealand workers defend Dr David Berger and oppose censorship of SEP Twitter. wsws.org "We must not have a situation in this country where respected scientists, clinicians and practitioners are gagged for expressing data-backed opinions that differ from prevailing political opinions."

____ (2022-07-27). Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft reenters atmosphere in a controlled manner. ecns.cn The Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft destroyed itself during atmospheric reentry on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

Project Censored (2022-07-26). Protections of the Sixth Amendment and Third Party Ballot Issues. projectcensored.org Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week's show. This past May, the US Supreme Court narrowed the protection of the Sixth Amendment, by ruling that a person convicted of a crime cannot…

Thiemo Kirmse (2022-07-27). Guidance to the system change, parts 1 and 2. indybay.org World War II led to U.S. domination of the political West, which was able to make its mark on the part of the world it more or less controlled. Led and dominated by the military-industrial complex and engaged mentally in a war with the Soviet Union, the USA suppressed any efforts of autonomous state developments that contradicted its interests.

Colin Todhunter (2022-07-27). What Was Covid Really About? Triggering A Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Debt Crisis. "Ramping up an Imperialist Strategy"? globalresearch.ca If it was indeed about public health, why close down the bulk of health services and the global economy knowing full well what the implications would be? And why mount a military-style propaganda campaign to censor world-renowned scientists and terrorise entire populations…

____ (2022-07-27). Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft reenters atmosphere in a controlled manner. ecns.cn The Tianzhou 3 cargo spacecraft destroyed itself during atmospheric reentry on Wednesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

____ (2022-07-27). China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-enters atmosphere under control. ecns.cn China's Tianzhou-3 cargo craft re-entered the atmosphere in a controlled manner at 11: 31 a.m. (Beijing Time) Wednesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

WSWS (2022-07-27). Australian and New Zealand workers defend Dr David Berger and oppose censorship of SEP Twitter. wsws.org "We must not have a situation in this country where respected scientists, clinicians and practitioners are gagged for expressing data-backed opinions that differ from prevailing political opinions."

_____ (2022-07-26). Ukraine Government Issues Blacklist Of 'Russian Propagandists'. popularresistance.org The "Center for Countering Disinformation," established in 2021 under Volodymyr Zelensky and headed by former lawyer Polina Lysenko, sits within the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. Its stated aim is to detect and counter "propaganda" and "destructive disinformation" and to prevent the "manipulation of public opinion." | On July 14th it published on its website a list of politicians, academics, activists that are "promoting Russian propaganda" — including several high-profile Western intellectuals and politicians. Republican Senator Rand Paul, former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, mi…

_____ (2022-07-26). Fox Seeks Allies Across The Political Spectrum To Shill For Bolsonaro. popularresistance.org It is no secret that, since the 2016 legislative coup against President Dilma Rousseff and 2018 arbitrary imprisonment of front-running presidential candidate Lula da Silva, multinational corporations have made billions of dollars from environmental deregulation, dismantlement of labor rights and privatization of Brazil's natural resources. It's also now known that corporate media outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post normalized the breakdown of Brazil's rule of law and rise of fascism by ignoring crimes committed by high-profile Judge Sergio Moro that were widely publicized in Brazilian media. | So…

_____ (2022-07-26). Ecological Economics: An Introduction. popularresistance.org Does it make economic sense to cut down a rainforest? What influence should trade have on social policy? How much is the future worth? Is all value equivalent? These are all questions common to ecological economics, a cross-disciplinary science that is attempting to reclaim the field of economics from flawed models and unscientific assumptions. An important act within itself, but one made integral as mainstream economics is driving the planet's sixth mass extinction (Wagler). | Economics is often defined as 'the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy infinite desires', but this seemingly impossible aim itself…

Max Elbaum (2022-07-26). To defeat MAGA fascism, every ally possible will be needed. peoplesworld.org The recent burst of Supreme Court rulings and January 6 Committee revelations have put the MAGA agenda and its plans to seize power front and center in U.S. politics. From white supremacist militias through the Supreme Court majority, from Trump and DeSantis over to "Republican Team Normal," the MAGA-controlled GOP is all in. They have …

WSWS (2022-07-26). SEP (Australia) files second appeal against Twitter censorship. wsws.org Without the slightest reason or rational explanation, Twitter has shut down a significant aspect of the public presence of a political party with a -year history.

____ (2022-07-25). Some Explanations Re: The Saker. smoothiex12.blogspot.com I need to offer some elaborations on the issue which many who also post on my discussion boards do not understand. A few people like to constantly negatively react to Andrei Raevsky's writing. This is those people's right, and I completely am fine with constructive (I underscore it–not some propaganda BS spewing) criticism of my writing as well, as with correcting my mistakes, which I make sometimes. We all do. As any people we have our biases and even delusions. I, certainly, have mine, but so does The Saker. E.g. I and him we will never settle on the account of Solzhenitsyn who for majority of Russians is a tr…

____ (2022-07-25). Max Blumenthal & Aaron Maté Slam Corporate Media Disinfo. transcend.org 21 Jun 2022 – Before a hostile audience from the corporate press, they explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation, working closely with the national security state while deflecting scrutiny from the oligarchy that controls it.