Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism

BryceGreene

September 15, 2023

It has been clear for some time that US corporate news media have explicitly taken a side on the Ukraine War. This role includes suppressing relevant history of the lead-up to the war (FAIR.org, 3/4/22), attacking people who bring up that history as “conspiracy theorists” (FAIR.org, 5/18/22), accepting official government pronouncements at face value (FAIR.org, 12/2/22) and promoting an overly rosy picture of the conflict in order to boost morale.

Becoming Frida

CarrieRickey

September 21, 2023

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, three years before the Mexican Revolution. As a teenager, she attended the National Preparatory School in Mexico’s capital, where she excelled in anatomy and looked forward to medical school and becoming a physician. But in 1925 her goal was sideswiped by a trolley that crashed into the rickety wooden bus that she regularly took home from school. On impact, the tram’s iron handrail impaled her spinal column and exited her vagina, shattering spine and pelvis. She lived with the aftereffects of the accident for the rest of her life.

The Saga of the American Dream

Sunday September 17, 2023
https://youtu.be/vLkyULxrWiE?si=OsPWLY5v8OJNk97r

Official says 5 prisoners sought by the US in a swap with Iran have flown out of Tehran

ByAssociated Press for Daily Kos

September 18, 2023

Five prisoners sought by the U.S. in a swap with Iran flew out of Tehran on Monday, an official said.

 

The Biden Administration is Providing Billions of Dollars of Weapons to a Regime Dominated by People With an Attitude Towards Russia that is Similar to Adolph Hitler

EvanReif

September 15, 2023

Ukrainian Regime Does Not Hide Its Celebration of Fascists Who Wanted to Cleanse Ukraine of “Asiatic” Muscovite Influence.

 

G20 is in need of genuine reform

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR

September 12, 2023

India being the host country, the triumphalist tom-toming that G20 summit on September 9-10 was a “success” is both understandable and probably justifiable. Certainly, Indian diplomacy was in full cry. The negotiation of the G20 Declaration is no mean achievement in a highly polarised environment.

Craig Murray on the ‘slow motion execution’ of Julian Assange

ChrisHedges

September 15, 2023

As Julian Assange continues to fight extradition to the United States to face prosecution under the Espionage Act, a growing chorus of voices is rising to demand an end to his persecution. Hounded by US law enforcement and its allies for more than a decade, Assange has been stripped of all personal and civil liberties for the crime of exposing the extent of US atrocities during the War on Terror. In the intervening years, it’s become nakedly apparent that the intent of the US government is not only to silence Assange in particular, but to send a message to whistleblowers and journalists everywhere on the consequences of speaking truth to power. Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, who was fired for exposing the CIA’s use of torture in the country, joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss what Julian Assange’s fight means for all of us.

Is BRICS+ an Anti-Colonial Formation Worth Cheering From the Left? Far From It.

Tithi Bhattacharya & Gareth

September 13, 2023

BRICS+ is not a new Non-Aligned Movement seeking to redistribute global wealth but an alliance of aspiring hegemons.

باور

گفته میشود که این آخرین شعری است که سیاوش کسرائی سرود:ا

| شکست سیاست «حیاط کوچک و دیوار بلند» آمریکا در جلوگیری از پیشرفت‌های فناوری چین

یازده سپتامبر ۲۰۲۳

شرکت «هواوی» چین با عرضه یک تلفن همراه جدید مجهز به تراشه‌های پیشرفته ساخت داخل، شور و هیجان فراوانی ایجاد کرده به گونه‌ای که برخی در ایالات متحده با ابراز نگرانی گفتند اقدامات محدودکننده علیه تراشه‌های چین موثر نبوده است.ا

UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, predicts IMF

 Faisal Islam & Noor Nanji
The UK is set to be one of the worst performing major economies in the world this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?

RobUrie

September 11, 2023

 

Graph: the ‘enemies’ of the US (in red above) have a freakish, even preternatural, propensity for possessing large oil reserves. As if this weren’t bad enough, five of the ten nations with the largest oil reserves have ‘authoritarian’ leaders who tend toward insanity, if you believe what the CIA has to say about it. That the Americans are willing to slaughter a few million innocents abroad to control oil supplies begs the question of how many Americans they would be willing to kill to do so. The most likely answer given the substance of this essay? All of us. Source: worldometers.info.

Bound to Lose

John J. Mearsheimer

Sep 2, 2023

It is now clear that Ukraine’s eagerly anticipated counteroffensive has been a colossal failure.[1] After three months, the Ukrainian army has made little progress pushing back the Russians. Indeed, it has yet to get beyond the so-called “grey zone,” the heavily contested strip of land that lies in front of the first main line of Russian defenses. The New York Times reports that “In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials.

Caitlin Johnstone: Re-Reading John Pilger

CaitlinJohnstone

September 7, 2023

To go over a 2016 article by the renowned journalist now, in 2023, is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.

 

Democracy Now! (Youtube)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7coh9-MpFJo&t=10s

Western leaders are all fighting for their survival in power

Gilbert Doctorow

Where does this lead? To war!

I follow the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov shows as a professional duty, not for fun. The host is very often boorish and the panelists are variable in quality, with too many duds among them.  However, every several days I am pleasantly surprised by the analytical talents of one or another panelist who gives us a fresh and often persuasive understanding of the drivers of global events. 

 

سلمان پارسی‌

 یکی‌ از بزرگترین تاثیر گذران تاریخ که کمتر به آن بها داده شده است سلمان پارسی‌ است. با هدایت مستقیم چنین شخصی‌ بود که یک راهزن قافله‌ها تبدیل به یک پیامبر شد. سلمان که از بزرگترین امپراطوری‌های آن زمان برخاسته بود، و با دانشی که از مذاهب مختلف آنروز جهان داشت، علاوه بر احاطهٔ او بر علوم پایهٔ آن روزگار که بر علم و جهان‌بینی‌ اطرفیانش برتری داشت، دینی تحت عنوان اسلام زاده شد.ا

The Most Fundamental Problem with the US Military

William J. Astore

August 28, 2023

“Integrity First” is the fundamental core value of the U.S. Air Force. Two other core values speak to “service before self” and “excellence in all we do.” But integrity remains the wellspring, and it’s the U.S. military’s stunning lack of integrity that has cost the American people and indeed the world so dearly over the last half-century. 

 

American Power Just Took a Big Hit

Sarang Shidore
September 1, 2023
For more than a decade, the United States mostly ignored BRICS. The grouping, formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, rarely registered on Washington’s radar. When it did, the impulse — as shown by Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, recently stressing that the coalition is not “some kind of geopolitical rival” — was to downplay the group’s significance. Western commentators, for their part, largely painted BRICS as either a sign of Chinese attempts to dominate the global south or little more than a talking shop. Some even called for its dissolution.

Report: US, Israel to Conduct Joint Drills Simulating Attacks on Iran

Dave DeCamp

August 31, 2023

The US and Israel held their largest-ever joint exercise earlier this year