Benjamin Norton (2022-02-11). Beijing Winter Olympics: Front line in new cold war on China — with Carl Zha. multipolarista.com With a diplomatic boycott by Western governments, corporate media propaganda has demonized the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. China expert Carl Zha discusses the new cold war.

Editor (2022-02-11). Beijing 2022 and China's challenge to sports imperialism. mronline.org In this essay, Charles Xu exposes these narratives for the new Cold War propaganda they are. At the same time, he draws from valuable left analysis of the Olympic movement's historical imbrication with white supremacy to explore China's fraught relationship with international sports.

J. Hahn, Max Chandler (2022-02-11). Shen Yun: The Falun Gong cult's anti-communist propaganda roadshow. peoplesworld.org From February 15-20, 2022, Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host a sensational retelling of China's history spanning thousands of years. Shen Yun—the stunning production that has graced stages in a perpetual roadshow across North America since 2006—is returning to the U.S. capital. The advertising for this affair across 96 cities …

_____ (2022-02-11). They Don't Just Lie to Us About Wars. They Lie to Us About Everything. strategic-culture.org By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | The lion's share of propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world which enables the powerful to have power in the first place. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like neat little cogs in a well-oiled machine. | And it's not even a grand, monolithic conspiracy in most cases. The giant corporations who indoctrinate us with their advertisements, their Hollywood movies and shows, their apps, their websites and their news media are all naturally i…

G. Dunkel (2022-02-10). What's important for workers in BLS January jobs report. workers.org The corporate media shouted loud hosannas to greet the Bureau of Labor Statistics Feb. 4 announcement that the U.S. economy had added 467,000 jobs in January. Upward revisions to previously announced job totals for December and November 2021 increased the media's delight. Overall they concluded that the U.S. economy had . . . |

_____ (2022-02-10). The US Political Elite Gives Cover To The Brutal US Police State. popularresistance.org As US domestic fascism continues to evolve, there is an overt reemergence of a pro-police narrative that no one seems to be talking about. It comes amid stories that suggest that there is a crime wave in major cities across the US. In response, the mainstream press has been amplifying pundits and politicians, especially US president Biden, who argue that the police need more "resources" to better do their job. | This is the ideological offensive, the backlash, against activists' demands to "defund the police." | Press outlets like the PBS NewsHour, once considered "one of the most trusted news programs on televis…

William Briggs (2022-02-10). Australia's 'national interest' and anti-China propaganda. greenleft.org.au Government spokespeople and the media have been a little coy, but now the gloves are off: China is the enemy. William Briggs argues that the Quad meeting is the latest propaganda assault.

Jason Castaneda (2022-02-10). Duterte's oligarchs enriched in waning days of his rule. asiatimes.com MANILA — As the election campaign to determine Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's successor kicks off in earnest, the outgoing populist leader is busy awarding his business cronies eleventh-hour concessions and privileges, building a class of so-called "Dutertegarchs" that will outlast his rule. In early January, the Duterte-controlled National Telecommunications Commission awarded prized broadcast frequencies to …

G. Dunkel (2022-02-10). What's important for workers in BLS January jobs report. workers.org The corporate media shouted loud hosannas to greet the Bureau of Labor Statistics Feb. 4 announcement that the U.S. economy had added 467,000 jobs in January. Upward revisions to previously announced job totals for December and November 2021 increased the media's delight. Overall they concluded that the U.S. economy had . . . |

The Socialist Program (2022-02-09). Human Rights?? U.S. Hypocrisy on Full Display as Beijing Olympics Open. liberationnews.org Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how the US corporate media subjected viewers to wall-to-wall war mongering propaganda targeting the government and people of China as the Olympics opened in Beijing…

Berry Craig (2022-02-09). Kentucky Republicans again aim to ban teaching truth about racism. peoplesworld.org Here they go again—white Republicans trying to whitewash history. Kentucky State Sens. Max Wise and Robby Mills have introduced SB 138, the "Teaching American Principles Act." Like HB 14 and HB 18, it's a censorship bill aimed at restricting the teaching of systemic racism in public schools. SB 138 requires a teacher who "chooses to discuss current events …

Peter Certo (2022-02-09). In OtherWords: February 9, 2022. otherwords.org Just as I was looking ahead to the weekend last week, I got a fresh spike of anxiety. | The Republican National Committee, I read, now officially calls the January 6 coup attempt "legitimate political discourse" and is censoring its members who are helping to investigate it. That felt disturbing — and newsworthy. | But come Monday, that story had all but fallen away in the wider media. This week in OtherWords, I put the RNC's disturbing January 6 statement in the context of other recent headlines — like Donald Trump's draft order to seize voting machines in 2020 — and call on the media to priori…

David Sirota (2022-02-09). Corporate Media Is The Misinformation Problem. dailyposter.com

Isheka N. Harrison (2022-02-09). Fact Check: Biden And Democrats To Hand Out Crack Pipes To Promote Racial Equity, Prevent Infection. moguldom.com The Biden Administration is providing funding to fight against drug addiction and crack pipes are among the supplies included on the approved equipment list. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has included the pipes as one of 20 items in its planned safe smoking kits, which will be distributed through the department's …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-09). Peruvian President swears in fourth ministerial cabinet in six months. peoplesdispatch.org The political pressure from Peru's right-wing sectors, through smear campaigns in mainstream media, forced President Pedro Castillo to reshuffle his cabinet for the second time in a week…

Jessica Buxbaum (2022-02-09). Israel Pumps $30M into "Concert," a Revamped Propaganda Campaign to Fight Apartheid Label. mintpressnews.com Israel's cabinet recently approved 100 million shekels (about $30 million) in funding to revive "Cabinet," a defunct government propaganda program targeting Western countries.

Kai Ehlers (2022-02-09). Will Orwell's prediction in '1984' become reality? indybay.org Basic elements of a development such as Orwell describes are emerging from the fog of current war propaganda, at least as it is being pursued by the West, namely attempts to drive the population into acceptance of a constant exceptional situation in which war appears as the guarantor of peace.

Fight Back (2022-02-09). Florida State University SDS statement on Nazis on campus. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following February 3 statement from Florida State University Student for a Democratic Society (SDS). | This week an FSU undergraduate student has been exposed through copious emails and message logs as being a member of the Neo-Nazi group Patriot Front. The student is Calvin Stow-Ortiz from Tampa, where his father unsurprisingly works for the Tampa Police Department. In leaked messages Stow-Ortiz references spreading the groups propaganda posters and stickers in the Tampa area and made plans with another Patriot Front member to vandalize FAMU's campus with white supremac…

Staff (2022-02-09). New AI-controlled device helps paralyzed people move. rt.com Patients with spinal-cord injuries were able to walk, cycle and swim again | Three patients completely paralyzed from the waist down due to irreparable damage to their spinal cords regained the ability to move again with the help of a new nerve-stimulating device. | Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne reported on Monday that three men aged 29, 32 and 41, paralyzed after biking accidents, were able to take their first steps within a single day after the device was implanted. | In the following months, they were able to engage in more advanced physical activity, using the remote…

William Rivers Pitt (2022-02-09). Having Learned Nothing From 900,000 Deaths, Governors Lift Mask Mandates. truthout.org We've been here before, you and I, right here at the fulcrum between controlling COVID-19 and letting it run wild. Here we are again, swaddled in the dented surety that doing the same thing over and over will bring about a different conclusion, just because we really really want it to… wait, strike that: Just because capitalism really, really wants it to. The rest of that "we" is most of us, baggage stacked down in the dripping darkness of steerage, waiting for the next viral iceberg to smack thi…