Daily Archives: 2022-02-08

2022-02-08: News Headlines

JANET (2022-02-08). Olympic Games & U.S. propaganda: Have you been lied to about Xinjiang, human rights ‚àí and China? iacenter.org February 7, 2022 Feb. 6 update — The U.S. war propaganda machine is working overtime during the Olympics to defame China with false accusations of "human rights abuse" against the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uyghurs, based in its Xinjiang Province. As readers evaluate these claims, keep in mind these facts: 1) There is a centuries-long history of racist U.S. crimes — through state force and economic exploitation — against Indigenous, Black, Latinx and Asian and other oppressed peoples, on land now occupied by the U.S. These crimes, which continue to this day, are integral to U.S. tactics of military…

_____ (2022-02-07). Casual Racism And The New Cold War. popularresistance.org A quick Google search of "Russia" or "China" is all that is needed to identify the casual racism of the corporate media and its central role in the U.S.'s New Cold War. Add the word "fear" to the search and the agenda becomes even clearer. In a search for mainstream media articles on Russia conducted on January 26th, nine of the first ten articles that appeared contained the word "fear" in the headline. China fared a bit better than Russia, but not by much. Better than half of the headlines referenced the word "fear" or "worried" to describe affairs relating to the world's second largest economy. | What is the co…

Benjamin Norton (2022-02-07). China and Russia declare 'new era' of multipolarity in historic meeting, challenging US interventionism. multipolarista.com After meeting in Beijing, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin released a joint statement clarifying the ideological divisions of the new cold war: Eurasian calls for multipolarity, cooperation, sovereignty, and "redistribution of power in the world" against US unipolar hegemony and interventionism.

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