Common Dreams:
"Peace Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize. As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.

If this is what counts as 'peace' in 2025, then the prize itself has lost every ounce of credibility.

Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help 'liberate' Venezuela with bombs under the banner of 'freedom.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-has-no-meaning-when-right-wingers-like-maria-corina-machado-win-the-nobel-prize

-->Why don't you treat yourself to some coverage that is not manufactured by the US Pentagon. We want their oil, and we are prepared to commit war crimes to get it. Try finding that point of view in our mainstream media.

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Common Dreams:
"The Not Above the Law Coalition on Thursday released a report documenting how President Donald Trump’s administration has been corrupting every aspect of federal law enforcement.

The report, titled Trump’s 'Crooked Cops: The Corruption of Federal Law Enforcement,' said that the president has 'gone to extreme lengths to appoint top officials with no compunction about abusing their power to pervert justice to punish political enemies and favor political friends, before showing how these appointees have swiftly eliminated their agencies’ independence from White House political pressure.

'Law enforcement that serves the political interests of the president rather than the public eliminates a core tenet of democracy, namely that we are a country of laws, not of men,' the report emphasizes."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-doj-corruption

-->The story of Trump subverting justice for political gain is pretty classic. Why can't the NYT come out with these facts. Or is the NYT going to pull a Columbia University, and give the government everything it wants?

The Guardian UK:
"The international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel 'the tools of genocide', the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohamad Hasan, said at a meeting in New York of the Hague Group, the growing alliance of countries dedicated to coordinating practical economic and legal steps to isolate Israel over the war in Gaza.

The group, co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, has become a central exchange for practical steps to try to pressure Israel, including stepping up collective action at ports and airports to prevent the transfer of weapons and goods to Israel, including dual-use heavy machinery.

Brazil last week joined the South African action in the international court of justice accusing Israel of a genocide and said Israel’s claim of self-defence had no application in the context of an occupation. Chile, another group member, has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/world-must-deny-israel-tools-of-genocide-says-growing-alliance-of-activist-states

-->Why is the American press afraid to cover this story? It may be because intricate knowledge of the Gaza genocide implies some responsibility, especially if you are a reporter or photographer.

 The Guardian UK:

"The international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel 'the tools of genocide', the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohamad Hasan, said at a meeting in New York of the Hague Group, the growing alliance of countries dedicated to coordinating practical economic and legal steps to isolate Israel over the war in Gaza.

The group, co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, has become a central exchange for practical steps to try to pressure Israel, including stepping up collective action at ports and airports to prevent the transfer of weapons and goods to Israel, including dual-use heavy machinery. Hasan said states also needed to identify the multinational companies found to be enabling Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land.

The group, meeting as world leaders were in New York for the UN general assembly, heard calls to support the aid flotilla trying to break the Israeli siege of Palestine and for Israel to be blocked from international cultural events."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/world-must-deny-israel-tools-of-genocide-says-growing-alliance-of-activist-states

-->I keep looking for any reference to the Hague Group in the NYT. So far, there is no mention of it. 

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Common Dreams:

"Finnish President Says Security Council Members Who Violate UN Charter Should Lose Voting Rights. 'The composition of the UN still largely reflects the world of 1945,' said Alexander Stubb. 'As the world has changed drastically, so should the decision-making at the UN.'

Finnish President Alexander Stubb on Wednesday renewed his call for expanding the number of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, abolishing veto power, and stripping voting rights from states that violate the UN Charter.

'Today, the UN is struggling to fulfill its central promise of delivering peace and stability,' Stubb said during his UN General Assembly address. 'Countries have increasingly taken the liberty to break the rules of international law, and to use force to gain other peoples’ territories, and suppress other nations.' ...

Under Stubb’s proposal, all five permanent Security Council members would likely lose voting rights: the United States bombs countries and alleged drug traffickers in violation of international law while backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Russia is invading and occupying Ukraine, Britain and France back Israel’s genocidal war, and China persecutes people within its own borders."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/stubb-finland

-->The NYT writes a lot about Alexander Stubb, but none of it pertains to the genocide of the Palestinian people. Why is our newspaper of record still protecting Israel?

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The Intercept:

"Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel and its military–industrial complex. So when a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdrew from a grant from the Israeli military after hearing feedback from students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it was especially welcome news.

'This is one of the only cases where we know that student activism and public pressure led directly to an Israeli tie being cut, let alone a collaboration with its genocidal military,' said Mila Halgren, a postdoctoral associate at MIT. (The university did not respond to a request for comment.) ...

'This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,' Halgren said. 'It also shows that these ties cannot survive transparency and public awareness. Student action is not meaningless; despite increased repression, it is more important than ever to resist genocide.' ”

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/22/mit-israeli-military-funding-grant-protests

-->Why didn't this story get NYT coverage? Because Israel and the US are afraid of boycotts. And because the NYT is the newspaper of the genocide. 

The Guardian UK:
"Politicians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a foreign threat to condemning 'gender ideology', according to a new study of 60 countries and the EU. ...

As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems.

There is a growing 'weaponisation of hate', said Alberto de Belaúnde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally. He said: 'You talk with a politician from Peru … or Hungary or the UK, you start to see common trends and you realise that it’s a global, coordinated and increasingly well-funded effort to diminish LGBTIQ people.' "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds

-->This story isn't to be found in the NYT. Yet so many people have been put in danger by this homophobic trend in our elections. Why isn't that "fit to print"?

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The Guardian UK:
"A growing number of universities, academic institutions and scholarly bodies around the world are cutting links with Israeli academia amid claims that it is complicit in the Israeli government’s actions towards Palestinians. ...

According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 63,000 people have been killed in the territory – the majority of them civilians – with the true toll likely far higher. UN-backed experts have confirmed parts of Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble, are now in a 'man-made' famine.

In response, a growing number of academic bodies are now distancing themselves from Israeli institutions. Last year the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil cancelled an innovation summit with an Israeli university, while a host of universities across Norway, Belgium and Spain have cut ties with Israeli institutions. Others, including Trinity College Dublin, followed suit this summer."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/13/universities-around-the-world-cut-ties-with-israeli-academia-over-gaza-war

-->The NYT didn't cover this story that shows how unpopular Israel's war crimes are in the rest of the world. Our newspaper of record had stories about BDS, but not on this recent proliferation of academic criticism.

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Common Dreams:
"The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are facing widespread criticism after publishing a false report that the assassin who shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah this week had left behind symbols of 'transgender ideology' at the scene of the crime.

On Thursday, with the assassin still at large, the Journal published a news update stating that 'investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.' The report did not identify what these markings were nor the source of the report, instead attributing it to 'an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.'

The New York Times reported hours later that the bulletin came from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), but noted that 'a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that the report had not been verified by ATF analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlie-kirk-2673989947

-->The NYT wasn't as bad printing stories about this assassination as other national media. But our newspaper of record never criticized these false stories either.

The Guardian:
"Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition. Sunday’s decision was a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.

Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza that it suspects of having links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention. Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death. ...

In the 2-1 ruling, the justices said they found 'indications that the current food supply to prisoners does not sufficiently guarantee compliance with the legal standard'. They said they had found 'real doubts' that prisoners were eating properly, and ordered the prison service to 'take steps to ensure the supply of food that allows for basic subsistence conditions in accordance with the law' ”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/israels-supreme-court-says-government-is-not-giving-palestinian-prisoners-enough-food

-->Israel is starving its Palestinian prisoners. It is not so unexpected since Israel is also starving millions to death in Gaza. Yet our pro genocide NYT didn't print this story.

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Mondoweiss:
"Activists and residents are banding together to force companies complicit in the Gaza genocide out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel’s genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago in which case, they are absolutely aware.

The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies from the city-owned industrial park on the East River, where 550 businesses are located. Protestors bang drums, blare airhorns, picket, chalk sidewalks, fold zines, and hand out flyers reading: 'MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, EASY AERIAL & CRYE PRECISION, LOCAL WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS IN OUR BACKYARDS.' Most passersby honk their horns, ring their bells and shout their praise; some others gawk at the commotion or scoff in disapproval. But all who pass know that the Brooklyn Navy Yard houses genocide-profiteers. ..

The landlord in question is the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit developer charged with managing business leases at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by the City of New York. DBNY’s demands are simple: evict Easy Aerial and Crye Precision from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and establish a policy of no weapons manufacturers."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/activists-and-residents-are-banding-together-to-force-companies-complicit-in-the-gaza-genocide-out-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/

-->This is a story that is so big that the NYT didn't cover it. Student activists joining community groups to oppose shipping to Israel is new. And now that the workers and even public relations businesses are starting to come around, our newspaper of record is starting to get anxious.

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Middle East Eye:
"The Global Sumud Flotilla is already on the move. More than 50 vessels, the largest civilian aid convoy ever assembled for Gaza, have set sail from ports across Europe.

Part of the flotilla has already docked in Tunisia, where it was welcomed by thousands of supporters, before heading to join the rest of the fleet. It is scheduled to set sail from Sidi Bou Said port on 10 September, following weather and logistical delays.

It would not be an exaggeration to call this the boldest humanitarian civil society mission in recent history, destined to take its place alongside some of the most prominent non-violent civil disobedience actions, such as Gandhi's Salt March."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/global-sumud-flotilla-when-states-fail-humanity-sets-sail

-->Another great story, but another failure of our newspaper of record. The NYT is locked up someplace in an Israeli jail. And all its readers are starving for information as the result of its everlasting attempt to hide the American Genocide.

Common Dreams:
"The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States is calling on US lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit—or even just fly over—the Gaza Strip during Israel's ongoing assault.

'Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and US-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on,' the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement late Saturday.' Their mission must not stand alone.'

'Israel's barring them entry to Gaza underscores the urgency of taking decisive steps to end its rampage of death, violence, and destruction,' CAIR continued.' Members of Congress must utilize every tool—diplomatic, legal, and legislative—to ensure that our nation's values and laws demand an end to civilian suffering. The crisis in Gaza is not abstract—it is a matter of life and death. We call on our representatives to act urgently and courageously.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congress-gaza

-->The NYT didn't print this story yet. Why not? Well it calls attention to what any human being should be doing, trying to spread the word that the Palestinians are starving and it is the US - Israel alliance that is to blame for this ultimate war crime.

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Z Network:
"Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States, a Category 5 monster that exposed the raw nerves of inequality, racism, and governmental neglect in the United States. While the storm itself was a force of nature, the true disaster was the response – or lack thereof – from the world’s wealthiest nation. Yet, amidst the chaos and despair, a beacon of international solidarity shone brightly, emanating from an unexpected place: Cuba.

The images are seared into collective memory: rooftops submerged, desperate cries for help echoing through flooded streets, and the Superdome stadium transforming into a squalid shelter. New Orleans, a city with a majority Black population and a vibrant hub of Black culture, bore the brunt. As the levees broke, so too did the illusion of American exceptionalism. Over 1,800 people died, and millions were displaced. The federal government’s response was not only slow but also virtually nonexistent in the crucial initial days. President George W. Bush, vacationing at the time, seemed detached, famously remarking to his FEMA director, 'Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,” even as the crisis deepened.' ...

Fidel Castro announced that Cuba was ready to send a medical brigade of 1,586 doctors, equipped with 36 tons of medical supplies, to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This wasn’t a conditional offer, nor was it for profit. It was a gesture of unconditional solidarity, rooted in the values of the Cuban people, in offering help to those in need, whether suffering from natural disasters or colonialism.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/20-years-since-katrina-how-the-us-refused-cuban-doctors-as-new-orleans-drowned/

-->This story wasn't given much coverage twenty years ago, and there was hardly any notice in the mainstream media today. The US is as callous as it was two decades ago, and our media tries even harder to hide Cuba's offer to put people before profit.

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The Guardian UK:
"Human rights groups and activists who protest against continued US support for Israel have focused primarily on the flow of US weapons, warning that continuing to send weapons to a state which has been documented using them in probable war crimes makes the US complicit.

However, this week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted another facet of US military support for Israel: military cooperation and intelligence sharing. Individual US military personnel who assist Israeli forces in committing war crimes could face criminal prosecution for their actions, the rights group said.

The US has made no secret of its operational support for Israel throughout its 22-month war in Gaza. The US has provided Israel with intelligence at various points during its military operations, and also embedded US military forces within Israeli operational planning."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/29/israel-war-crimes-gaza-us-military

-->There was very little coverage in the US media about US soldiers being charged with war crimes. Why not? Our mainstream media is still complicit in the starving of two million Palestinians. Someday there will be both US soldiers and reporters charged with crimes against humanity.

Common Dreams:
"Palestinian teenagers kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces during the genocidal war on Gaza accused their jailers of torturing and sexually assaulting them in a report published Saturday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

'They took me from the aid distribution site and transferred me to a hospital in Rafah, where I was interrogated for an hour,' one 16-year-old boy identified by his first name Sami, who was abducted on June 29, told ABC. 'They stripped me and conducted a body search. Then, they loaded me into a jeep and transported me to a prison in Israel." ...

'They stripped us of our clothes and took us to Kerem Shalom, completely naked, with nothing,' he continued. 'There, the beatings and torture began ... The Israeli women soldiers beat us. They stripped us and 'played' here, and here, and there,' Mahmoud said, indicating his genitals. 'They beat us with sticks. Got on us while we were lying on the ground. We were handcuffed like that and naked.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-teens-sexually-abused-by-israeli-soldiers

-->The NYT didn't print this story. Are they still checking its veracity? Our "newspaper of record" didn't do too much investigation before it printed endless stories of Palestinians raping Israeli women.

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AP News:
"Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in the Gaza Strip, mostly near aid sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday. ...

Desperation is mounting in the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts say is at risk of famine because of Israel’s blockade and nearly two-year offensive. A breakdown of law and order has led to widespread looting and contributed to chaos and violence around aid deliveries.

Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid — without providing evidence of widespread diversion — and blames U.N. agencies for failing to deliver food it has allowed in. The military says it has only fired warning shots near aid sites. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American contractor, rejected what it said were 'false and exaggerated statistics' from the United Nations."
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-07-22-2025-8eb90d73c1b7499d3dbc8b8d95da65cc

-->This is under the heading of "World News." But the NYT obviously didn't agree. It didn't cover this story. Some of the worst stories about Israel's treatment of Palestinians are just routinely left out.

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Guardian UK
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.

At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians.

That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war

-->This is just another story that has gone down the NYT memory hole. How is it that the New York Post can print a story like this, but not our supposedly "newspaper of record."

 Mondoweiss:
"Israel’s destruction of Gaza grinds on without pause or limit. The army has confirmed plans to invade Gaza City and occupy it, forcing Palestinians to choose between yet another round of displacement or staying to face certain attack. In neighborhoods like Shuja’iyya — once home to 120,000 people — there is nothing left to return to.

This is not a temporary escalation or a breakdown in diplomacy. As Qassam Muaddi reports, Netanyahu’s government is openly preparing for the permanent occupation of Gaza, dangling the prospect of ceasefire talks only to stall criticism and buy time. The U.S. political establishment still treats these theatrics as if they were genuine steps toward peace. They are not; they are covering for more killing.

Even Donald Trump has been forced to acknowledge the Israeli-created famine killing thousands in Gaza. But famine here is not an accident of war; it is a weapon, wielded with intent. As Ahmad Ibsais writes, genocide depends on silencing its witnesses, and Western governments and media have not only ignored it, but they have enabled it."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/weekly-briefing-u-s-protection-keeps-israels-genocide-alive/

-->This analysis of a planned and executed genocide never makes it to US news outlets. The purpose of this war is to eradicate two million, but our media can't quite say that.

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Consortium News:
"When I arrived in Guatemala in 1983 to cover the wars in Central America, which I would do for the next five years, the regime of General Efraín Ríos Montt was carrying out a scorched earth campaign, especially in the highlands of Quiche, Huehuetenango and Baja Verapaz. [Chris Hedges]

The campaign was modeled on the kill-anything-that moves tactics employed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, an effort to eradicate and control the civilian population in areas dominated by the insurgents, who until 1983 were beating back the Guatemalan army.

The Guatemalan military savagely carried out massacre after massacre in the highlands against indigenous, including the wholesale murder of women, children and the elderly, and razed some 600 villages and towns. The number of disappearances and killings averaged 3,000 per month. President Jimmy Carter had cut most military aid to Guatemala in 1977. Israel, however, filled the void. It equipped the Guatemalan military with Israeli-manufactured Galil automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns.

Israel advisors, estimated to be between 150 and 200, provided surveillance and interrogation training to police and military units. They assisted Ríos Montt in carrying out the 1982 coup that brought him to power. They helped plan Guatemala military sweeps that resembled their own erasure of Palestinian villages and massacres carried out in 1947 and 1948."
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/09/chris-hedges-report-israel-also-sponsored-a-genocide-in-guatemala/

-->The NYT published an elaborate article about 37 Guatemalan women who were raped during this genocide. In all the pictures and the descriptions of the victims, the US is mentioned only once, and Israel gets no recognition at all.

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Medecins Sans Frontieres:
"Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs have been unable to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since 2 March.

Instead of clearing the growing backlog of goods, Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in lifesaving goods, citing that these organisations are 'not authorized to deliver aid.' In July alone, over 60 requests were denied under this justification.

This obstruction has left millions of dollars’ worth of food, medicine, water, and shelter items stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt, while Palestinians are being starved."
https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-threatens-ban-major-aid-organisations-starvation-deepens

-->Israel is blatantly starving two million people. That's the basic fact that no major media has the stomach to report.