The most powerful companies in the world have united against free speech, and they’ve deployed your tax dollars to fund their mission.

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee released a report on the little-known Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and its pernicious promotion of censorship. GARM is a branch of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), a global association representing over 150 of the world’s biggest brands, including Adidas, British Petroleum, Nike, Mastercard, McDonald’s, Walmart, and Visa.

 

By Brownstone Institute

 

Shell Canada Drops 2050 Climate Goal from Website
Shell is the latest oil giant to delete claims after an anti-greenwashing law passed in Parliament.

Shell Canada has deleted a “net-zero” goal by 2050 from its website.

The description of Shell’s Quest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project was edited in recent weeks, and no longer includes the heading “Achieving Net Zero by 2050.”

That language appeared on Shell Canada’s website as recently as June 18, according to the Internet Archive.

List of 64 U.S. Coups During 1947-1989

This is the list of U.S. coups during the Cold War that’s presented in the highly regarded 2018 academic book COVERT REGIME CHANGE, by Lindsey O’Rourke.

(Only the start-date for each coup is shown here, but some of these coups went on for years; 39% succeeded at Government-overthrow, 61% did not. This list is taken from “Table 1.1: U.S.-backed regime change attempts during the Cold War (1947-1989)”):

France 1947

Italy 1947

Albania 1949

Belarus 1949

Bulgaria 1949

Czechoslovakia 1949

East Germany 1949

CrowdStrike outage: Airlines start to resume services

Thousands of companies were dealing with huge backlogs of customers after one of the biggest technology crashes in recent years. Flights and doctor visits were canceled, and banks and TV channels went offline.

Airlines were gradually resuming services on Saturday, a day after a technology crash disrupted computer systems globally for several hours.

Companies and other organizations have been dealing with a backlog of orders, canceled appointments and delayed travel plans due to the outage.

In Asian media this week: India’s message of foreign policy independence. Plus Green-tech overcapacity claims ‘absurd’; How West could help the Rest fight climate change; Asia-Pacific NATO would add to flash points; Party dismisses disgraced leaders; Newspaper scores press freedom own goal.

A striking image from Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Russia was of the Indian Prime hugging Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

US-India rift over close Russia ties – Asian Media Report     By David Armstrong

 

According to Al Jazeera, a bear hug is almost inevitable whenever Modi greets a male world leader.

Top NATO general claims Ukraine has ‘great’ war strategy
Meanwhile, Russia’s advances on the frontlines and Vladimir Zelensky’s non-stop pleas for more military aid paint a different picture

The chief of NATO’s European Command, Christopher Cavoli, has described Ukraine’s losses on the frontlines as merely a sign it is “generating force” for a further offensive. In a speech at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday, the bloc’s top general said Kiev’s overall military strategy is “great” in terms of balancing recruitment, training, and arms procurement.

According to Cavoli, in modern warfare, one “either wins fast and upfront” or is stuck “for a long slog full of unpredictable twists and turns,” which is the case in the Ukraine conflict.

Once again, the US is rehashing the cliché of the "China threat theory" - this time in space. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, said during the annual Aspen Security Forum in a panel discussion on space and national security on Wednesday that the US is seeing from China a heightened "intent to use counter-space capabilities to threaten space."

Joy Reid blasted brutally for calling Trump assassination attempt ‘photo op’, likening it with Biden’s Covid diagnosis

MSNBC host Joy Reid targeted Donald Trump following his recent assassination attempt, implying that the former US President is partly to blame for it.

Reid, who was co-hosting with Rachel Maddow during live coverage of the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday, suggested that Biden recovering from coronavirus is a “sign of strength” akin to Trump surviving an assassination attempt.

Calling both Trump and Biden “elderly”, Reid claimed: “Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take an iconic photo-op during an active shooter situation. Weird situation, we'll figure that out one day.”

On Thursday, a Yemeni drone struck a building in the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv, killing at least one, according to Israeli officials. The Ansar Allah (Houthi) forces said its drone bypassed Israeli air defenses and declared Tel Aviv as an unsafe zone and a primary target for their weapons.

Israel blamed the attack on human error and claimed its defenses were not breached.

Video on social media shows a gliding-type drone flying over the shoreline near Tel Aviv before arriving in the city and causing a large explosion. The Houthis said the new drone is undetectable by Israeli air defenses and named it the Jafa, after the Palestinian name for Tel Aviv before it was occupied by Israel. Its projected path indicates it bypassed far more than just Israeli defenses, traveling nearly 1000 miles (~1600 km) according to some estimates.

How RNZ, ABC and other Western media failed to challenge Israeli war narrative.

This article was first published in the peer-reviewed research journal, the Pacific Journalism Review

As Israel stands accused at the United Nation’s highest judicial court of breaching the 1948 Genocide Convention, it could be argued Western media institutions stand in the dock too. On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague determined Israel had a ‘plausible’ case to answer (ICJ, 2024, paras. 31-32, p. 4) and issued six interim orders, including taking measures to prevent acts of genocide and punishing those who incited it. This followed an 84-page writ by South Africa, filed on 29 December 2023.

 

The nuclear energy debate has not re-ignited the climate wars. The climate war that must be won has been ongoing for many years. This is not a war between Labor and the Coalition, it is a war between people who understand that tackling the climate emergency must be a top priority, and both Labor and the Coalition. Both parties of government are ignoring the science and endangering our national security with their ongoing support for coal and gas extraction.

 

The media is silent on the climate war that must be won    By Ken Russell

 

Russia unaffected by global IT meltdown – ministry

A massive Windows 10 outage linked to the CrowdStrike antivirus platform has hit air traffic control systems, banks, and broadcasters

Russian tech infrastructure has not been affected by the global Windows 10 outage, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media has reported. The crisis illustrates the importance of becoming self-sufficient in terms of critical software, the ministry has stressed.

Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks and broadcasters, suffered serious failures on Friday, triggered by a recent update of the web/cloud-based CrowdStrike antivirus platform. Problems have been reported in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Germany, Spain, the US, and several other countries.

Sorry, we want war: Why EU elites will ignore Hungary’s Orban
The Hungarian leader, who is currently president of the EU Council, is trying to actually make an impact with his term...

Hungary, represented by its Prime Minister Viktor Orban, took over the rotating six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union in July 1, and promptly decided to do something unconventional: actual work. So out came the knives. 

 

BY Rachel Marsden

 

Back in 2022, the most memorable thing that France’s Emmanuel Macron did while in the role was make a logo for his EU presidency that incorporated his own initials. The benefit to the French and European people was fantastic – as in, it exists in fantasy. 

America had the biggest ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ moment in its history when US President Joe Biden debated Donald Trump last week, turning in a performance that confirmed many Americans’ fears that he does not have the cognitive capabilities to be President at his advanced age.

 

BY Ian DeMartino

 

It’s political theory 101. When your candidate is weak, focus on their record. When the candidate’s record is weak, focus on the candidate. But what do you do when both your candidate and his record are tarnished in the eyes of the public? Most likely, you lose.

It’s official: the royals are returning down under. King Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to visit Australia and Samoa in October, attending events in Canberra and New South Wales (with more details to come).

Royal visits are designed to communicate a curated vision of imperial loyalty, but have always been a flashpoint for tension. In fact, the first royal visit to Australia was a disaster. It cost the lives of several people and exposed deep social divisions. The prince himself narrowly escaped assassination.