2022-08-04: News Headlines

Fight Back (2022-08-04). Illinois: Arab community fights for Hadi Abuatelah. fightbacknews.org Oak Lawn, IL – Hadi Abuatelah is a 17-year-old Palestinian youth in Oak Lawn, Illinois. On Thursday, July 28, a cell phone video taken by a Black woman captured the savage beating of Hadi by three white police officers. The video went viral, and the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) immediately called for a protest. | 300 Arab community members and their supporters held a militant rally in front of the Village of Oak Lawn Police Department (OLPD) building that afternoon. OLPD responded by brandishing assault rifles and deploying rooftop snipers to intimidate the protestors. | Hadi suffered serious injuries fr…

_____ (2022-08-03). Most 'Fact-Checking' Organizations Facebook Uses In Ukraine Are Funded By Washington. popularresistance.org Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). | In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook's official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction for Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European users. These nine organizations are: StopFake, VoxCheck, Fact Check Georgia, Demagog,…

Contributing Writers (2022-08-03). Twitter facilitates cyber terrorism and NATO-proxy war crimes in Ukraine/ By Vanessa Beeley. marktaliano.net Ukrainian Special Forces (SSO) sniper. Twitter allows blogger to doxx independent journalist on the ground in war zone Original Link Here: Twitter facilitates cyber terrorism and NATO-proxy war crimes in Ukraine (substack.com) Louise Mensch an online blogger, former UK Conservative MP, chick-lit author and committed Russophobe with a sizeable following on Twitter effectively called upon …

WSWS (2022-08-03). Support continues for Australian physician and zero-COVID advocate Dr David Berger. wsws.org "I support Dr David Berger and his social media condemnation of governments' 'let it rip' coronavirus policies. These government policies could easily be renamed to 'let them die.'" — John Thompson, a retired draughtsman…

Alan Macleod (2022-08-02). Most of the "Fact-Checking" Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington. mintpressnews.com In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook's official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction.

_____ (2022-08-02). Mapping The Police: Citizen Control Of The Security Forces In Buenos Aires. popularresistance.org Last week, Ofelia Fernández, a member of the Buenos Aires legislature, announced on her social media the launch of a Map of the City's Police, a collaborative webpage whose objective is to highlight, identify, and denounce situations of police violence within the territory of Buenos Aires; consequently allowing citizens to hold local security forces to account. | This tool of citizen participation was designed in conjunction with a network of individuals and organizations. Those behind the initiative include Fernández, the representative from Frente Patria Grande alliance of the ruling Frente de Todos coalition,…

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