2021-08-06: News Headlines

_____ (2021-08-06). The Taming Of Anti-Zionism In The United States. popularresistance.org "And so it's been with the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States. I follow the debates on social media and read the opinion pieces. If Palestine still exists as a radical devotion in this corner of the diaspora, as a prelude to old-fashioned leftist internationalism, then it's only among a smattering of unapologetic rejectionists—a subculture of the solidarity movement, really—disavowed by more tasteful voices as irrationally recalcitrant (or aggressively ignored altogether). "

Anthony DiMaggio (2021-08-06). Killer Disinformation: How Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Hijacked American Political Discourse. counterpunch.org The Biden administration has given new life to a national discussion about the dangers of social media-induced misinformation following its request that Facebook censor Covid-19 anti-vaccination propaganda. Biden lamented the proliferation of anti-vaxxer content, declaring: "They're killing people. Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that — and they're killing people."

Jonathan Turley (2021-08-06). Twitter Suspends Journalist Who Repeated CDC Fact on Vaccines. globalresearch.ca

Caolán Magee (2021-08-06). How the Alt-Right Have Used Online Conspiracy Theories to Create a False Class Consciousness and Take Down Democracy. counterpunch.org "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." These words from WB Yeats encapsulate our current political impasse. Whereas in Yeats' time the worst may have been persuaded by the rational, in today's age of social media, the worst can spread their ideas with conviction — irrespective of the truth.

sputniknews (2021-08-05). Israel's Twitter Page Arouses Fury After Video Boasts of Water Management Accomplishments. sputniknews.com Since 1967, Palestinians in the West Bank have been legally barred from sinking their own wells without a permit from the Israeli military, forcing them to buy water at inflated prices from Israeli water providers.

WSWS (2021-08-05). Egypt's el-Sisi steps up repression as opposition mounts to mass poverty and inequality. wsws.org Egypt's military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is using the courts, new laws and censorship of the internet and social media to suppress all opposition to his brutal regime.

Anonymous103 (2021-08-05). Sanitising Censorship: The Twitter-AP-Reuters News Partnership. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | This week, Twitter was keen to

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