New PM Barnier vows to address 'anger and grievances' of French
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Thursday vowed to address the "anger and grievances" of the French at a handover ceremony at the Hôtel de Matignon. Barnier was named to the role after nearly two months of political turmoil following surprise snap elections that saw no party winning an outright majority. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.

MORE THAN NINETEEN YEARS AGO (30 Apr 2005), WE PUBLISHED THE CARTOON ABOVE... SINCE THEN, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES HAVE COME AND GONE (OFTEN CENSORED OR TAKEN TO COURT). MANY OF THE FIGUREHEADS ABOVE HAVE DIED OR MOVED ON... SOME NEWSREADERS HAVE BEEN VILIFIED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH... AS WE HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY EXPOSED, MUCH OF THE OFFICIAL NEWS IS MANAGED BY THE CIA, THE NSA AND OTHER INTEL AGENCIES ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE...

STRANGELY, NOWADAYS, FOX NEWS SEEMS TO BE CLOSER TO THE TRUTH THAN SAY A WAPO OR A NYT.... 

WE NEED ALT MEDIA:

On 16 August, social media giant Meta permanently banned The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram. The outlet’s accounts on those platforms, which had amassed over a hundred thousand followers and millions of views, were unilaterally purged without warning or a chance to appeal.

The banning of The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram shows a troubling alliance with Israeli-linked groups to silence voices critical of the occupation state, especially those media outlets covering its adversaries’ narratives.

BY Kit Klarenberg

Permabanned

The ongoing 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is expected to elevate Sino-African engagement and cooperation to a higher level, as it is likely to suggest ways to overcome the challenges facing the world and outline the measures needed to consolidate the gains already made by the two sides.

The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, held in July, resolved to comprehensively deepen reform and promote high-level opening-up, thereby creating new opportunities for Africa and the rest of the world to share the fruits of China's development.

    By Charles Onunaiju 

In the glorious age of the Kamala Ascendency, the TSA is no longer restraining its contempt for American travelers. After squeezing millions of butts and boobs and never catching a terrorist, TSA decided to have fun by taunting its victims. 

After a traveler asked online, “Why does TSA need social media anyways?” TSA’s Instagram account taunted: “Idk Kyle, why do your friends keep bringing stuff they shouldn’t in their carry-on?” Almost 40,000 people liked that post (slightly fewer than the total number of TSA employees). 

BY James Bovard

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Journalists from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) have illegally visited Russia's Kursk Region and published a report about the trip on Wednesday.

The journalists, accompanied by the Ukrainian military, crossed the Russian border without authorization and visited the town of Sudzha and nearby villages, the ABC's report said. They admitted that their trip had come with risks, not just from being in a combat zone, but also that they are unlikely to ever be able to set foot in Russia as individuals.

The authors of the report and photos taken on Russian territory are ABC correspondents Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung.

You never see the dehumanisation of Palestinians in Western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.

Western officials are publicly weeping about six dead Israeli hostages, including one Israeli-American, who the IDF says were recently killed by Hamas.

Jackson Hinkle on 'Frightening' Clampdown on Alternative Media in US: All That’s Left is to Jail Us

Sputnik sat down for an interview with independent journalist, political commentator and influencer Jackson Hinkle, who shared his impressions on the sorry state of free speech in Biden's America for alternative media, as well as life in Russia's liberated territories.

“It’s very frightening what they’re doing to Dimitri Simes and what they’re doing to Scott Ritter,” US journalist and political commentator Jackson Hinkle told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, commenting on the recent wave of raids by the FBI targeting alternative media personalities in the US.

Canada’s National Post is refusing to comment after one of its columnists revealed himself to be a collaborator with Western-aligned intelligence agencies. A Canadian activist is now threatening to sue the paper after the confessed spy smeared him in a front page article.

Adam Zivo, a columnist who covered the war in Ukraine for Canada’s National Post newspaper, has outed himself as an operative of Canadian and Ukrainian intelligence. The admission came as Zivo publicly leapt to the defense of Canada’s Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), in response to a wave of online mockery directed towards a post by the spy agency which asked readers, “Has a stranger ever tried to inflate your ego?,” before warning them that such flattery “could be elicitation.”

The US Department of Justice has charged two Russians it identifies as RT employees with money laundering and working as foreign agents for their alleged role in pushing video content that sowed “discord and division” in the US.

In a criminal indictment unsealed on Wednesday, US prosecutors claimed that Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva financed and directed a Tennessee-based production company that published English-language videos to various social media platforms aimed at amplifying “domestic divisions in the United States.”

These videos were viewed more than 16 million times on YouTube alone, the indictment alleged, and, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, represented an attempt to “trick Americans into unwittingly consuming foreign propaganda.”

Tech mogul Elon Musk has vowed to seek the seizure of Brazilian government assets in the US if Brazil does not return property belonging to his companies X (formerly Twitter) and Space X.

Last week, the Supreme Court of Brazil ordered the operations of X to be “immediately suspended” and threatened a fine of 50,000 Brazilian reals ($8,874) per day against anyone trying to sidestep the ban on accessing the platform using a VPN. The judge gave Google and Apple five days to remove X from their app stores. The ruling was upheld Monday by a panel of federal supreme court justices.

The court also froze the accounts of satellite internet provider Starlink, a subsidiary of Musk’s SpaceX, to ensure the payment of fines imposed for failing to appoint a new legal representative for X in Brazil.

THE ELIMINATION SERIES FOR THE AMERICA’S CUP— THE OLDEST SPORTING TROPHY IN THE WORLD APART FROM TRYING TO PULL KING ARTHUR'S SWORD EMBEDDED IN A STONE — IS IN “FULL SWING”… THIS EVENT LIKE ALL SPORTS EVENT IS A HIVE OF SPONSORS WHO WANT SOME BANG FOR THEIR BUCKS…

THIS IS WHY THE BEST SAILORS/SKIPPERS ARE USED TO MANAGE THE NEW AC75 WHICH APPARENTLY ARE A BOATFUL TO HANDLE… IMAGINE DOING 50 KNOTS IN A 10 KNOT AFTERNOON BREEZE… FOR THE LAND-LUMBER, THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO DRIVING A CAR AT 84 kmh IN A 20 kmh COBBLESTONE ZONE… ON THE WATER, ANY CRASH IS PAINFUL. 

THUS AUSSIES NATHAN OUTTERIDGE AND GLENN ASHBY ARE WORKING FOR NEW ZEALAND LED BY PETER BURLING (A FULLY FLEDGED N-ZEALANDER)… 

Editing a book about the media and the war in Ukraine taught me first-hand lessons about censorship. It also confirmed that the Western media’s pro-elite bias is as strong as ever. At an academic conference in Europe in the summer of 2023, I witnessed how several audience members shouted at one of the speakers. That’s not how such meetings are supposed to go. They should be much less eventful.

Macron called a dissolution of the Assembly and emergency elections on the eve of summer, hoping that this would allow him to finish his term by governing with the RN. The plan did not go as planned, and for the past two months, he has been doing everything he can to erase his failure and stay in power.

To “test” public opinion, a whole series of detestable names were circulated during the summer as possible Prime Ministers: the far-right Wauquiez, the air-eating politician Xavier Bertrand, the enlightened bourgeois Valérie Pécresse and even Ségolène Royal. Nothing was spared to us. Figures who only represent themselves but are hated by almost everyone.

FOR MANY YEARS ON THIS SITE, WE HAVE EXPOSED THE “AMERICAN DREAM” CON WHICH IS LEADING TO A COMPLETE DYSTOPIA, THAT IS ADVERTISED TO US AS A FANTASTIC UTOPIA...:

A new book and two new exhibitions explore the concept of the American Dream – and how it came to represent both a utopia and a dystopia.

"Sadly, the American Dream is dead," Donald Trump told an audience of supporters when he announced his bid for the US presidency in 2015. "But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before."

As the US elections of 2024 draw nearer, the American Dream is back on the agenda, with President Biden also promising to restore it, stating in a speech in November 2023 that "Bidenomics is just another way of saying 'the American Dream'."