Daily Archives: April 13, 2022

2022-04-13: News Headlines

Benjamin Norton (2022-04-13). Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets. multipolarista.com The Washington Post – owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts – has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.

_____ (2022-04-13). Crisis in Ukraine Through the Prism of Middle Eastern Social Media. journal-neo.org The Russian special operation in Ukraine continues to resonate prominently on social media in the Middle East region. Local analysts monitor how the Internet views these events and their impact on different areas of life and politics. According to a Moroccan researcher, the picture here is a mosaic, as evidenced by the flood of user …

Staff (2022-04-13). Venezuela's Army Captures Foreign Drug-Trafficking Aircraft. orinocotribune.com The Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) of Venezuela has reported the retention of a foreign aircraft, allegedly belonging to drug traffickers, in the western state of Zulia. | Through a message published on his Twitter account, General Domingo Hernández, head of the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (CEOFANB), announced on Tuesday, April 12, that FANB personnel in Zulia state shot down and captured a foreign aircraft linked to drug trafficking. | "Comprehensive aerospace defense exploration system detected a plane entering Venezuelan airspace without authorization and withou…

Staff (2022-04-13). Presidente cubano recuerda victoria popular sobre el golpe de Estado en Venezuela, a 20 años de los sucesos. cubadebate.cu Cuba celebra junto al pueblo venezolano el memorable y heroico suceso popular que devolvió al Comandante Chávez a la Presidencia, escribió este miércoles en su cuenta en Twitter el presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, cuando se cumplen 20 años de la victoria contra el golpe de Estado que pretendió detener la obra de la Revolución Bolivariana.

WSWS (2022-04-12). Oppose Twitter's act of censorship against George Galloway! wsws.org On April 6, Twitter updated Galloway's status with the designation "Russia state-affiliated media" directly under his name and handle. Every tweet issued by Galloway since includes the designation.

Editor (2022-04-12). Facebook Warns About Consortium News Story. scheerpost.com Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress, April 2018. (C-Span screenshot) | By Joe Lauria / Social media giant Facebook has slapped a warning on an The article, reporting that there are questions about who is responsible for the massacre at Bucha, Ukrai…

Alan MacLeod (2022-04-12). Kyiv Independent Deep Dive: The West's In-Kind Answer to Putin's Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Alan MacLeod — Apr 8, 2022 | While staff members of The Kyiv Independent grandstand about how "independent journalism is the cornerstone of democracy," they are quietly being funded by Western governments — a fact that should ring alarm bells with critical media consumers. | KIEV, UKRAINE — As the Russian attack on Ukraine has come to dominate global news feeds, so has a previously little-known outlet called The Kyiv Independent. Since its inception in November of last year, the Independent's profile has risen rapidly and has been promoted and endorsed by both social media giants and the corp…

Staff (2022-04-12). Remove content terming 'Indian variant': India tells social media intermediaries. aninews.in New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): India took a strong objection to the use of the term so-called 'Indian variant' for the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus on social media posts.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). Mexican: President AMLO Wins Recall Referendum with Overwhelming Majority. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the recall referendum with an overwhelming majority. (Photo: AMLO/Twitter) According to the results issued by the National Electoral Institute (INE), over 90% of the voters backed president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to remain in office until the end of his term Mexican president Andrés…

WSWS (2022-04-12). Texas District Attorney reverses on indictment of woman arrested for "fetal homicide" wsws.org The initial indictment provoked widespread anger, with #freelizelle trending on Twitter, reflecting the mass opposition to attacks on abortion.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-12). NATO's Secret Nazi Armies. libya360.wordpress.com Asa Winstanle Italian special forces in training. NATO's Operation Gladio was responsible for untold suffering over decades. (BBC) How the CIA and MI6 created Operation Gladio, a Cold War terror network riddled with Nazis. Part one of a new series. Last month NATO's Twitter account posted a photo of a Ukrainian soldier and saluted her…

Adriaan Alsema (2022-04-12). Colombia's army chief insists massacre victims were drug traffickers. colombiareports.com The commander of the national army insisted that the civilian victims of a military massacre in southern Colombia were guerrillas. General Eduardo Zapateiro took to Twitter to contradict evidence indicating…

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