2023-09-21: News Headlines

Rhoda Wilson (2023-09-21). Thrown To The Wind: The film that could Save an Entire Whale Species is now free to watch. expose-news.com When Public released its first documentary, 'Thrown To The Wind', a month ago, Facebook censored any mention of it. At that time, it was only viewable by subscribers to Public. Now, Public …

Keith Brower Brown, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. (2023-09-20). Work Extra During A Strike? Auto Workers Say 'Eight And Skate'. popularresistance.org Only 13,000 of 146,000 auto workers at the Big 3 companies are on strike, so far. But others still on the job are turning up the heat by refusing voluntary overtime. | At all three companies—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—Auto Workers (UAW) members have told Labor Notes about overtime refusals. Many Big 3 plants are hugely dependent on overtime to make up for understaffing. | Organizing on the shop floor and on Facebook, many auto workers unified so fast to do their part for the strike that they forced management to shut their plants for this entire past weekend. | That followed advice from top…

Ana Perdigón (2023-09-21). OAS's Almagro Applauds Guyana's Attack on Venezuela's Sovereignty (+ VP Rodriguez). orinocotribune.com In a new display of interference in Venezuela's internal affairs, discredited secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, expressed his support for the illegal rounds of bidding held by Guyana for oil exploitation in the disputed Essequibo territory. | Through social media, Almagro acknowledged "Guyana's right" to welcome investors and affirmed that they must preserve their territorial integrity and security by taking the case with Venezuela to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). | Luis Almagro's statement on a bilateral issue between Guyana and Venezuela is yet another exa…

Ann Brown (2023-09-21). Ex-NFL Player Sergio Brown Appears To Show Up On Video In Mexico As Hunt For Mom's Killer Continues. moguldom.com In an odd turn of events, former NFL player Sergio Brown, who has been missing since the tragic death of his mother, appears to have surfaced online with a video posted to social media on Sept. 19. This has sparked numerous questions about his whereabouts and involvement. Myrtle Brown, Sergio's 73-year-old mother, was found dead …

Kit Klarenberg (2023-09-21). Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand. thegrayzone.com The author of letters to social media companies demanding the financial punishment of Russell Brand is a British lawmaker implicated in London's war on Covid-19 and Ukraine dissenters. Her husband was a commander in the Army's psy-ops division. Allegations of sexual impropriety and abuse by comedian and podcaster Russell Brand by the British media prompted YouTube to demonetize the star's popular channel on September 20. The Grayzone can now reveal that YouTube's financial censorship of Brand is the result of …

Tamar Sarai, Scheer Post. (2023-09-21). Student Journalists Nationwide Face Censorship And Challenges. popularresistance.org In the age of social media, with new platforms emerging seemingly every few months, high school newspapers are just one outlet where young people can share their voices and relay the stories of their lives. Yet student-run newsrooms play a profound and unique role not just in the school community, but also in the broader media ecosystem surrounding each campus. The power of student media is perhaps most obvious in cases where student-led newsrooms break major news. In 2017, The Booster Redux, the student-run newspaper at Pittsburg High in Pittsburg, Kansas, made national news when a simple profile on the school's…

Amy Goodman (2023-09-20). Judge Tosses Charges Against 3 Indigenous Water Protectors for Pipeline Action. truthout.org A Minnesota judge has dismissed criminal charges against three Indigenous water protectors who were arrested for protesting oil extraction on treaty-ceded Anishinaabe land. Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin were arrested in January 2021 after police saw video shared on social media of the three women singing, dancing and praying near construction crews for Canadian energy company… |

Staff (2023-09-20). "I'm Not a Criminal… Enbridge Is": Charges Tossed Against Winona LaDuke & Others for Pipeline Action. democracynow.org A Minnesota judge has dismissed criminal charges against three Indigenous water protectors who were arrested for protesting oil extraction on treaty-ceded Anishinaabe land. Winona LaDuke, Tania Aubid and Dawn Goodwin were arrested in January 2021 after police saw video shared on social media of the three women singing, dancing and praying near construction crews for Canadian energy company Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline. In a landmark opinion, Judge Leslie Metzen affirmed the protesters' free speech rights, writing that "to criminalize their behavior would be the crime." We go to…

Staff (2023-09-20). PDVSA: Russian Companies to Strengthen Cooperation With Venezuela's Oil Industry. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) reported on its official social media about Russian companies' interest in cooperating to strengthen oil production and refining in Venezuela and strategic areas of the oil industry. | "Russian companies are interested in relaunching oil cooperation with Venezuela in strategic areas such as oil production and refining, modernizing the power grid, and supplying petrochemicals including catalysts and additives," the PDVSA announced on Tuesday, September 19, posting a photo of the meeting between PDVSA President Pedro Tellechea and Russian Vice Prime Minist…

Staff (2023-09-21). Is this the end of French neo-colonialism in Africa? peoplesdispatch.org In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Colonel Assimi GoàØta, the head of the transitional government of Mali, wrote that the Liptako-Gourma Charter which created the AES would establish "an architecture …

greenleft.org.au (2023-09-21). United States: United Auto Workers strike against the 'Big Three'. greenleft.org.au

The Exposé (2023-09-21). DARPA & Moderna teamed up to create mRNA Gene Therapy Injections which led to a Deadly COVID "Vaccine" expose-news.com DARPA has openly bragged on Twitter that Moderna's mRNA vaccine technology, and by extension Moderna's Covid vaccine, was a product of their ADEPT program. Below, Spartacus takes a look at the paper …

Dana Sanchez (2023-09-20). Crypto Pioneer Arthur Hayes Brings Attention To Capital Flight From China: 5 Things To Know. moguldom.com Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of the BitMEX crypto exchange with a passion for Bitcoin, brought attention to capital flight from China in a recent Twitter thread, expressing his hopes that some of the money that has left the country "finds its way to Lord Satoshi and $BTC". At its height in 2019, BitMEX was worth …

Javier Arana Villasusa (2023-09-21). Venezuelan President recalls International Day of Peace. plenglish.com That is the path of the Bolivarian Republic and "we will always insist on building a world without hatred and violence, where human solidarity and social justice prevail," the head of State wrote on his X account, formerly Twitter. | The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared September 21, 1981, as the International Day of Peace, with the goal of commemorating the ideals of peace of every people and every nation. | The date makes special emphasis on social and economic development on issues such as poverty, hunger, health care, education, climate change, gender equality, water, sanitation, electricity,…

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