Common Dreams:
" 'The Trump regime is gutting scientific research into climate and atmospheric science for political reasons, at the very time we need a much better understanding of it,' said one environmentalist. 'This is so reckless and dangerous.'
Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring agencies tasked with studying and predicting such weather catastrophes, as well as his ongoing attacks on disaster preparedness and relief.
Though local National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters did issue warnings in the lead-up to Friday's flooding—which killed at least 82 people, including dozens of children—key roles were reportedly vacant ahead of the downpour, prompting scrutiny of the Trump administration's mass firings and budget cuts, in addition to years of neglect and failures by Republicans at the state level."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-texas-flooding
-->The NYT didn't say much about the failure to forecast this disaster. Why not? The NYT spent a lot of ink on the obvious. But why not a headline about who is responsible? Maybe the newspaper has something to gain from omitting the story.
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Jewish Currents:
"An April 29th report from the Harvard University task force on 'combating antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias' at the school has revealed that the university is contracting Project Shema to instruct students, faculty, and staff on antisemitism. In an appendix section nearly 200 pages into the 311-page report, the task force notes that various campus departments and offices have held such workshops with the group since October 7th. Altogether, Project Shema has led or co-led at least ten events regarding Jewish identity and antisemitism at the university in the last 20 months, according to the task force report and event listings reviewed by Jewish Currents, and has plans for more programming at Harvard in the coming school year.
On a campus that has been a focal point for political battles over Palestine-related activism, antisemitism allegations, and DEI in higher education, Project Shema’s trainings have mostly flown under the radar, stirring little controversy. But they have received some criticism: In October 2024, a group of Harvard faculty signed an ultimately unsuccessful petition to cancel an antisemitism and Islamophobia workshop organized by the school’s DEI office and co-led by Project Shema. The petitioners accused Project Shema of conflating antisemitism and anti-Zionism and called out the group for previous collaborations with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Since 2021, a progressive campaign has pushed institutions to 'drop the ADL' as a partner due to its strident Israel advocacy, and the ADL’s increasingly hawkish post-October 7th posture, including its initial support of the Trump administration’s deportations of student protesters, has turned off even some liberals who were once sympathetic."
https://jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-new-group-giving-antisemitism-trainings-at-harvard
-->No mention of Project Shema, the thought police training for Harvard University students and faculty. This should be a hot topic because it is such a transparent tactic of the McCarthy Era. Come to think of it, The NYT required its reporters to sign Loyalty Oaths in the 1950s.
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The Progressive Newswire:
"SEVILLA, Spain - In response to Spain, Brazil and South Africa’s new global coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at the Fourth Financing for Development Conference in Seville, Oxfam Tax Justice Policy Lead Susana Ruiz said: 'We welcome the leadership of Brazil, Spain and South Africa in calling for taxes on the super-rich.
People around the world are pushing for more countries to reject the corrupting political influence of oligarchies. Taxation of the super-rich is a vital tool to secure sustainable development and fight inequalities. The wealth of the richest 1% has surged $33.9 trillion since 2015, enough to end annual poverty 22 times, yet billionaires only pay around 0.3% in real taxes.
'This extreme inequality is being driven by a financial system that puts the interests of a wealthy few above everyone else. This concentration of wealth is blocking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and keeping over three billion people living in poverty: over half of poor countries are spending more on debt repayments than on healthcare or education.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/oxfam-reaction-to-spain-brazil-and-south-africa-launching-a-new-coalition-to-tax-the-super-rich
-->The Guardian carried this story. But I couldn't find it in The New York Times.
Monday, July 07, 2025
The Intercept:
"This constitutes 'a likely war crime' that violates international standards on aid distribution, according to the United Nations. 'Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food,' the U.N. human rights office said. Palestinian health authorities reported that Israel killed 44 people waiting for aid in separate incidents in southern and central Gaza just on Tuesday this week. Israeli soldiers have reportedly killed aid-seekers with bullets, tank shells, and drone-mounted weapons.
Israeli officers and soldiers said that they were ordered to deliberately fire at unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday; the military prosecution has called for a review into possible war crimes.
The Israeli military has said reports about casualties at aid sites have prompted 'thorough examinations … in the Southern command' and that 'instructions were issued to forces in the field following lessons learned.' 'The aforementioned incidents are under review by the competent authorities,' an unnamed spokesperson for the Israeli military said in a statement emailed to The Intercept. ...
An open letter published earlier this week by more than a dozen human rights and legal advocacy groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Commission of Jurists, condemned the organization. The letter stated that the privatized, militarized aid distribution system — and close collaboration with Israeli authorities — undermines 'the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.' "
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/27/israel-killed-palestinians-food-aid-gaza/
-->Don't bother looking for this story in the NYT. Our newspaper of record distorts the news about Gaza by leaving stories like this out.
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Common Dreams:
"Israel Defense Forces commanders ordered troops to shoot and shell aid-seeking Palestinian civilians in Gaza, even when they posed no threat, according to IDF officers and soldiers interviewed by Israel's oldest daily newspaper. Haaretz on Friday published testimonies of IDF members including senior officers who said that commanders including Brig. Gen. Yehuda Vach ordered troops to open fire on aid-seeking Palestinians in order to disperse them, even when there was no danger to Israeli troops.
'It's a killing field,' one soldier said. 'Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force—no crowd-control measures, no tear gas—just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.'
The IDF has repeatedly told international media after these massacres they will investigate the circumstances. Haaretz investigated and was able to confirm direct orders to shoot at unarmed civilians seeking aid."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-gaza-aid-killings
-->The details of a genocide makes it all real. The families gunned down trying to get their children food. Details are what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz provides, but not the NYT.
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Common Dreams:
"The Vilification of Zohran Mamdani–and Why He's Right About Israel's Genocide. Bloviating about Mamdani's alleged antisemitism for criticism of Israel has garnered more attention than a shocking report that Israeli soldiers are ordered to shoot at civilians waiting for aid in Gaza.
It says a lot about how corrupted U.S. politics have become that so many elected leaders, Republicans and Democrats, are more enraged about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City's opposition to the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza than they are about Israeli policy itself. And U.S. complicity with it.
That contradiction became especially apparent in recent days when the bloviating about Zohan Mamdani's alleged antisemitism for criticism of Israel has garnered more attention than a shocking report in an Israeli publication, Haaretz, that Israeli soldiers are 'ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamdani-gaza-genocide
-->This opinion won't be seen in the NYT. Our newspaper of record likes stories like these. Anything to get its readers not to focus on the genocide unfolding in front of their noses.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
The Guardian:
"Harvard is suing to stop the Trump administration’s unprecedented interference in the operation of the university, supposedly to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. ...
We are part of a group of 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies who have filed an amicus brief in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. We submitted the brief, drafted by the civil rights attorney Yaman Salahi, because we support the university’s fight against government overreach. Yet in doing so, the institution has committed a different kind of discrimination – one that violates federal civil rights law. We reject Harvard’s troubling assumption that being Jewish necessitates supporting Israel, or that criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza constitutes antisemitism. ...
Harvard’s own complaint and legal filings perpetuate a pernicious fiction: that protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza stem from prejudice against Jewish students rather than moral opposition to the systematic destruction of Palestinian life. This narrative relies on three false assumptions: that Jewish communities hold monolithic pro-Israel views, that Jewish students cannot tolerate different perspectives on Israel-Palestine, and that exposure to criticism of Israel constitutes a civil rights injury."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/harvard-jews-srael-discriminatory
-->Why do we have to read about this in The Guardian? Well, because no matter how you spin this story, it makes Zionists look bad. Like Joe McCarthy's famous lists of Communists in the government, antisemitism is has become a bogus claim, used to attack critics of the Gaza genocide.
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Common Dreams:
"Climate action, pro-democracy, and other civil society groups have warned for months that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are intent on cutting essential programs that millions of Americans rely on while providing the richest households and corporations with at least $5 trillion in tax cuts and other benefits.
But while tech CEO Elon Musk has been highly visible since President Donald Trump took office and selected him to spearhead the administration's slashing of hundreds of thousands of federal jobs at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—an advisory board Musk has since left—other billionaires who are among the top people set to cash in from Trump's policies are less known to the public, even as they wield considerable influence over corporate regulations, privatization, and right-wing attacks on renewable energy.
In a report released Tuesday, the grassroots group Popular Democracy in Action details how six of the top beneficiaries of Trump's assault on social services and his xenophobic, pro-corporate, anti-science policies are cashing in while people across the U.S. struggle with the rising cost of living; fear the administration's mass deportation campaign; and brace for cuts to Medicaid, education, and Social Security.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oligarchy
-->The NYT talks about election strategy, rather than outline the basic economic problem that both parties have: income inequality and rule by the very rich.
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Electronic Intifada:
"On 13 July 2024, nine months after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza had begun, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, The Lancet, published a letter from Zion Hagay, Chairman of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), and Malke Borow, the head of the IMA legal department. ...
'The number of health workers killed in Gaza is high because Hamas appropriated several healthcare facilities as command centres … where they stored and launched weapons, and even held hostages. In such a case, the hospital loses any protection afforded it by the Geneva Convention.'
In response, I and others submitted the following letter, as an ethically necessary corrective. 'In casting the Israeli military as essentially blameless, Hagay and Borow seek to use the international stature of The Lancet to distort the public record of the Gaza crisis. They dismiss en bloc the International Court of Justice regarding a finding of genocide, the International Criminal Court, United Nations, WHO and major humanitarian agencies'. ”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/taming-medical-journal-undermines-academic-freedom/50758
-->The Zionists will use any falsehood they can to hide the genocide. This story was planted in the lancet, a world recognized scientific publication. I don't see the story in the NYT.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Common Dreams:
"Joined by retired military officers and national security experts, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen on Thursday launched a campaign targeting the nearly $900 billion Pentagon budget and the $100 billion spent on nuclear weapons and 'to get our country to start funding the American Dream instead of the death of millions of people.'
Standing near Union Station in Washington, D.C. beside a towering sculpture showing what $100 billion looks like, supporters of the Up in Arms campaign—a planned four-year public education and advocacy project 'to bring common sense to the Department of Defense and the country's budgetary bottom line'—chanted, 'Money for the poor, not nuclear war!'
'There will be no peace, there will be no security, until we start using our resources to provide for the needs of our people at home and around the world,' Cohen said at the event. 'And we have the money to do it, at no additional taxpayer expense. If we take half the money budgeted for the Pentagon and invested in the things people need and want, the American Dream can become a reality again.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cohen-up-in-arms
-->The NYT won't be the first newspaper to promote a nuclear free zone where people's needs are met. Our newspaper of record has been in favor of the last 9 wars the US has waged.
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Electronic Intifada:
"Twenty months into its livestreamed and accelerating genocide in Gaza, it would hardly be controversial to conclude that Israel is one of the world’s most hated countries.
But a new global survey from the US-based Pew Research Center indicates just how unpopular it has become, especially in the North American and European states where Tel Aviv has always drawn its main sources of financial, military and political support.
'In 20 of the 24 countries surveyed, around half of adults or more have an unfavorable view of Israel,' Pew reported on 3 June. 'Around three-quarters or more hold this view in Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.'
Pew says it last asked the question in 10 of the countries included in its new survey in 2013. 'In seven of these countries, the share of adults with a negative view of Israel has increased significantly.' ”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/revulsion-israel-surges-worldwide-new-survey-finds
-->Bad news for Israel and its war crimes. But you won't get to read about it in the NYT.
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Common Dreams:
"Hundreds of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague on Sunday to demand more action against the "genocide" in Gaza.
NGOs such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and Oxfam organized the demonstration, which ran through the city to the International Court of Justice. The protesters were all dressed in red, creating a 'red line'.
Organisers described it as the country's largest demonstration in two decades. Many waving Palestinian flags and some chanting 'Stop the Genocide', the demonstrators turned a central park in the city into a sea of red on a sunny afternoon."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hundreds-of-thousands-form-red-line-around-the-hague
-->More bad news for apartheid Israel. But the NYT has failed to cover the story, again.
"Joined by retired military officers and national security experts, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen on Thursday launched a campaign targeting the nearly $900 billion Pentagon budget and the $100 billion spent on nuclear weapons and 'to get our country to start funding the American Dream instead of the death of millions of people.'
Standing near Union Station in Washington, D.C. beside a towering sculpture showing what $100 billion looks like, supporters of the Up in Arms campaign—a planned four-year public education and advocacy project 'to bring common sense to the Department of Defense and the country's budgetary bottom line'—chanted, 'Money for the poor, not nuclear war!'
'There will be no peace, there will be no security, until we start using our resources to provide for the needs of our people at home and around the world,' Cohen said at the event. 'And we have the money to do it, at no additional taxpayer expense. If we take half the money budgeted for the Pentagon and invested in the things people need and want, the American Dream can become a reality again.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cohen-up-in-arms
-->The NYT won't be the first newspaper to promote a nuclear free zone where people's needs are met. Our newspaper of record has been in favor of the last 9 wars the US has waged.
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Electronic Intifada:
"Twenty months into its livestreamed and accelerating genocide in Gaza, it would hardly be controversial to conclude that Israel is one of the world’s most hated countries.
But a new global survey from the US-based Pew Research Center indicates just how unpopular it has become, especially in the North American and European states where Tel Aviv has always drawn its main sources of financial, military and political support.
'In 20 of the 24 countries surveyed, around half of adults or more have an unfavorable view of Israel,' Pew reported on 3 June. 'Around three-quarters or more hold this view in Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.'
Pew says it last asked the question in 10 of the countries included in its new survey in 2013. 'In seven of these countries, the share of adults with a negative view of Israel has increased significantly.' ”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/revulsion-israel-surges-worldwide-new-survey-finds
-->Bad news for Israel and its war crimes. But you won't get to read about it in the NYT.
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Common Dreams:
"Hundreds of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague on Sunday to demand more action against the "genocide" in Gaza.
NGOs such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and Oxfam organized the demonstration, which ran through the city to the International Court of Justice. The protesters were all dressed in red, creating a 'red line'.
Organisers described it as the country's largest demonstration in two decades. Many waving Palestinian flags and some chanting 'Stop the Genocide', the demonstrators turned a central park in the city into a sea of red on a sunny afternoon."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hundreds-of-thousands-form-red-line-around-the-hague
-->More bad news for apartheid Israel. But the NYT has failed to cover the story, again.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
The Irish Times:
"The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour’s drive away Palestinians are starving
June is here. Summer has arrived. And the beaches in Tel Aviv are full. Just an hour’s drive away, two million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. The incongruity of those few words and the bizarre contrast of imagery – the busy beach in Tel Aviv, the dystopia in Gaza – are hard to digest, I imagine, for many in Ireland. They are perhaps shocking, incomprehensible, and sickening even. This, however, is the reality of life, and of course death, here in Israel and nearby Gaza.
Writing those words does not come with judgment. I am simply observing. I also went to the beach in Tel Aviv last weekend. My photograph accompanies the digital version of this article. I recently returned from a 10-day holiday in Spain with my two young daughters. As we descended into Ben Gurion airport, I was struck by the casual announcement of the El Al air stewardess when she politely requested passengers to donate to the spare change program to support children in need in Israel. I wondered if, when hearing those words, “children in need in Israel”, any of my fellow passengers thought for a moment about the estimated 18,000 Palestinian children dead in Gaza and the hundreds of thousands more on the brink of famine."
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/06/07/as-palestinians-starve-an-hours-drive-away-in-gaza-here-in-israel-everyone-went-to-the-beach/
-->Reporting on Gaza is pretty straight forward in the United States. The TV networks hardly report anything at all. Sometimes The NYT will print a groundbreaking story like that of professor Maura Finkelstein who was fired for speaking out about Palestine. But readers in the United States are never presented with their lack of caring while tens of thousands of children starve. We are never reminded of our amorality. We have to go to the Irish Times to express that.
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Common Dreams:
"Professors Express Outrage Over UMich's Use of Investigators to Surveil Gaza Student Protestors. 'My university has no business doing this,' wrote one professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Multiple professors expressed outrage on Friday in response to reporting from The Guardian, which found that the University of Michigan is making use of undercover investigators to keep tabs on pro-Palestinian groups on campus.
'My university has no business doing this. I love the University of Michigan, and this is not how we should operate,' said University of Michigan Law School professor Sam Bagenstos, writing from his personal Bluesky account.
The Guardian spoke to several unnamed students who said that they have been followed, recorded, or eavesdropped on private investigators. Students who spoke to the outlet tracked dozens of investigators who have trailed them around campus."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-gaza-surveillance
-->The big story here is the lack of any coverage of the US Government spying on students. You can even find the story in Israeli newspapers. But not here. Is the political surveillance by our government so pervasive that no one gets upset?
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Common Dreams:
"Devastating Report Details an Occupied Palestine on 'Edge of Erasure ...
The world is witnessing Israel relentlessly starve and bomb Palestinians with total impunity,' said one humanitarian worker in the region.
A new report by a leading Quaker social justice organization urges observers of Israel's bombardment and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and its accelerated annexation of the West Bank to see the 'escalating violations' not as isolated pushes for control of the occupied territories but something much more sinister and profound.
According to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), SC), the policies and violence Israel is perpetrating on people across the territories are 'systematic and risk the erasure of Palestinians.'
The group joined leading humanitarian organizations that have spent years providing aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza—only to have their work impeded and made deadly by the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) attacks—in releasing The Edge of Erasure, a comprehensive look at the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-occupation
-->The Western media isn't too interested in the erasure of the Palestinian people. There was very little coverage of this story.
"The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour’s drive away Palestinians are starving
June is here. Summer has arrived. And the beaches in Tel Aviv are full. Just an hour’s drive away, two million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. The incongruity of those few words and the bizarre contrast of imagery – the busy beach in Tel Aviv, the dystopia in Gaza – are hard to digest, I imagine, for many in Ireland. They are perhaps shocking, incomprehensible, and sickening even. This, however, is the reality of life, and of course death, here in Israel and nearby Gaza.
Writing those words does not come with judgment. I am simply observing. I also went to the beach in Tel Aviv last weekend. My photograph accompanies the digital version of this article. I recently returned from a 10-day holiday in Spain with my two young daughters. As we descended into Ben Gurion airport, I was struck by the casual announcement of the El Al air stewardess when she politely requested passengers to donate to the spare change program to support children in need in Israel. I wondered if, when hearing those words, “children in need in Israel”, any of my fellow passengers thought for a moment about the estimated 18,000 Palestinian children dead in Gaza and the hundreds of thousands more on the brink of famine."
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/06/07/as-palestinians-starve-an-hours-drive-away-in-gaza-here-in-israel-everyone-went-to-the-beach/
-->Reporting on Gaza is pretty straight forward in the United States. The TV networks hardly report anything at all. Sometimes The NYT will print a groundbreaking story like that of professor Maura Finkelstein who was fired for speaking out about Palestine. But readers in the United States are never presented with their lack of caring while tens of thousands of children starve. We are never reminded of our amorality. We have to go to the Irish Times to express that.
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Common Dreams:
"Professors Express Outrage Over UMich's Use of Investigators to Surveil Gaza Student Protestors. 'My university has no business doing this,' wrote one professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Multiple professors expressed outrage on Friday in response to reporting from The Guardian, which found that the University of Michigan is making use of undercover investigators to keep tabs on pro-Palestinian groups on campus.
'My university has no business doing this. I love the University of Michigan, and this is not how we should operate,' said University of Michigan Law School professor Sam Bagenstos, writing from his personal Bluesky account.
The Guardian spoke to several unnamed students who said that they have been followed, recorded, or eavesdropped on private investigators. Students who spoke to the outlet tracked dozens of investigators who have trailed them around campus."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-gaza-surveillance
-->The big story here is the lack of any coverage of the US Government spying on students. You can even find the story in Israeli newspapers. But not here. Is the political surveillance by our government so pervasive that no one gets upset?
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Common Dreams:
"Devastating Report Details an Occupied Palestine on 'Edge of Erasure ...
The world is witnessing Israel relentlessly starve and bomb Palestinians with total impunity,' said one humanitarian worker in the region.
A new report by a leading Quaker social justice organization urges observers of Israel's bombardment and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and its accelerated annexation of the West Bank to see the 'escalating violations' not as isolated pushes for control of the occupied territories but something much more sinister and profound.
According to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), SC), the policies and violence Israel is perpetrating on people across the territories are 'systematic and risk the erasure of Palestinians.'
The group joined leading humanitarian organizations that have spent years providing aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza—only to have their work impeded and made deadly by the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) attacks—in releasing The Edge of Erasure, a comprehensive look at the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-occupation
-->The Western media isn't too interested in the erasure of the Palestinian people. There was very little coverage of this story.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Common Dreams
"Experts Warn Trump Attack on Nuclear Regulator Raises Disaster Risk. 'Simply put,' said one critic, 'the U.S. nuclear industry will fail if safety is not made a priority.'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders that will overhaul the independent federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants in order to speed the construction of new fissile reactors—a move that experts warned will increase safety risks.
According to a White House statement, Trump's directives 'will usher in a nuclear energy renaissance,' in part by allowing Department of Energy laboratories to conduct nuclear reactor design testing, green-lighting reactor construction on federal lands, and lifting regulatory barriers 'by requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to issue timely licensing decisions.' The Trump administration is seeking to shorten the yearslong NRC process of approving new licenses for nuclear power plants and reactors to within 18 months."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nuclear-regulatory-commission-trump
-->One more environmental disaster after another. Yet the NYT didn't cover this important story. The paper has always been pro nuclear energy.
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Orinoco Tribune:
"Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello confirmed the arrest of a group of 38 mercenaries involved in a conspiracy seeking to sabotage Venezuela’s legislative and regional elections scheduled for May 25.
In a press conference held this Monday, May 19, Minister Cabello also explained that of the 38 new detainees—including explosives experts, coyotes, and mercenaries—17 are foreigners (from Colombia, Mexico, and Ukraine) and 21 are Venezuelans.
'A few days ago, we received information that I warned about. I confirm it, explosive attacks specifically targeting embassies in Venezuela. They say in their meetings that if they bomb an embassy, the whole world will find out, and there will be talk of the government’s ‘weakness.’ People who have no scruples whatsoever,' he said."
https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-minister-cabello-confirms-arrest-of-38-mercenaries-amid-new-terrorist-plot/
-->Foreign plots to overthrow Venezuela. The plots are hatched in the US, and then covered up by the US media. All the news that's fit to print never involves plots by the CIA.
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Truthout:
"A new analysis has found that nearly $80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent over the past 50 years, as neoliberal policies have come to roost and billionaires are poised to use their vast power to worsen wealth inequality in the coming years.
Five years ago, researchers for RAND found that roughly $47 trillion earned by the working class between 1975 and 2018 was instead given to the richest 1 percent, in 2018 dollars. This calculation was based on calculations of the growth of the bottom 90 percent in the decades after World War II, when income distribution held steady between groups.
In a new analysis published last month by RAND extending the analysis to 2023, RAND found that that figure is now $79 trillion in 2023 dollars, with inflation accounting for roughly $10 trillion of the growth."
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-1-percent-has-sapped-79t-in-wealth-from-bottom-90-percent-since-1975/
-->No sign of this story in the NYT. Why wouldn't readers of the NYT be interested in how their news is being manipulated?
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Popular Resistance:
"There are now credible reports from many sources that the levels of extermination and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza strip is higher than officially released and in 19 months could be over 250,000 [1]. ... Over 200,000 are already out of the Gaza strip (enriching pockets of Egyptian officials who demanded $5000-10,000/person for exit) and 95% of the remaining population homeless. Perhaps that is why Trump is now speaking about taking one million (who are left) Palestinians to Libya after Israel finished cleaning them from all areas of Gaza towards the south concentration camp of Rafah.
The bad news may lead some to despair and tell us we are entering a new dark age [5]. Yet, candles in this darkness are far too many to snuff out by the Zionist/imperial/colonial juggernaut [6]. Actually hundreds of millions of good people acting positively for sustainability, peace and justice. Look around you for these positive initiatives and support them and create more. Organize.
Afterall, every social positive movement came from such people action: there are thousands of examples from women right to vote to civil rights to Zapatista empowerment to Rohingya to Algeria and Vietnam independence. Even in the heart of the empire today, the movement is tremendous. Look at student movements at universities or even common people in Palestine and how they resist. These are the true heroes. The profiteers (oppressors) will be swept to the dustbin of history. They are the few, we the oppressed are the many and must organize better (it is an existential threat). Action based on knowledge is the best antidote for despair.
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2025/05/dustbin-of-history.html
-->These numbers are not being reported in our mainstream media. Nor is there an awareness of a growing movement in the empire to end predatory wars against the world's indigenous peoples
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The Intercept:
"Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.
The report makes explicit the extent to which the tech giant understood the risk of providing state-of-the-art cloud and machine learning tools to a nation long accused of systemic human rights violations and wartime atrocities. Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations.
A third-party consultant Google hired to vet the deal recommended that the company withhold machine learning and artificial intelligence tools from Israel because of these risk factors.
Three international law experts who spoke with The Intercept said that Google’s awareness of the risks and foreknowledge that it could not conduct standard due diligence may pose legal liability for the company. The rarely discussed question of legal culpability has grown in significance as Israel enters the third year of what has widely been acknowledged as a genocide in Gaza — with shareholders pressing the company to conduct due diligence on whether its technology contributes to human rights abuses."
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/
-->The NYT did a story about Google and Israeli contracts. But the paper didn't print this confirmation that Google is, in fact, involved in committing war crimes.
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Palestine Chronicle:
"The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), the country’s largest labor federation, has voted in favor of a comprehensive boycott of Israel, including a ban on trade and investment with Israeli companies. The decision was passed with an overwhelming 88 percent majority during LO’s national congress, held in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, from May 8 to 9, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestine Committee of Norway also announced the move on its Instagram page, saying the LO 'will introduce an economic boycott of Israel, with 240 votes for economic boycott, and 69 votes against.'
It said the resolution 'means that LO now requires that the State Pension Fund abroad, Norwegian companies and financial institutions withdraw from companies that contribute to the Israeli occupation. ... The resolution shows strong support among LO’s one million members to introduce boycott, divestment and sanctions,' it added."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/overwhelming-majority-norways-largest-trade-union-votes-for-boycott-of-israel/
-->BDS? you won't read about it in our corporate controlled media.
"There are now credible reports from many sources that the levels of extermination and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza strip is higher than officially released and in 19 months could be over 250,000 [1]. ... Over 200,000 are already out of the Gaza strip (enriching pockets of Egyptian officials who demanded $5000-10,000/person for exit) and 95% of the remaining population homeless. Perhaps that is why Trump is now speaking about taking one million (who are left) Palestinians to Libya after Israel finished cleaning them from all areas of Gaza towards the south concentration camp of Rafah.
The bad news may lead some to despair and tell us we are entering a new dark age [5]. Yet, candles in this darkness are far too many to snuff out by the Zionist/imperial/colonial juggernaut [6]. Actually hundreds of millions of good people acting positively for sustainability, peace and justice. Look around you for these positive initiatives and support them and create more. Organize.
Afterall, every social positive movement came from such people action: there are thousands of examples from women right to vote to civil rights to Zapatista empowerment to Rohingya to Algeria and Vietnam independence. Even in the heart of the empire today, the movement is tremendous. Look at student movements at universities or even common people in Palestine and how they resist. These are the true heroes. The profiteers (oppressors) will be swept to the dustbin of history. They are the few, we the oppressed are the many and must organize better (it is an existential threat). Action based on knowledge is the best antidote for despair.
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2025/05/dustbin-of-history.html
-->These numbers are not being reported in our mainstream media. Nor is there an awareness of a growing movement in the empire to end predatory wars against the world's indigenous peoples
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The Intercept:
"Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.
The report makes explicit the extent to which the tech giant understood the risk of providing state-of-the-art cloud and machine learning tools to a nation long accused of systemic human rights violations and wartime atrocities. Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations.
A third-party consultant Google hired to vet the deal recommended that the company withhold machine learning and artificial intelligence tools from Israel because of these risk factors.
Three international law experts who spoke with The Intercept said that Google’s awareness of the risks and foreknowledge that it could not conduct standard due diligence may pose legal liability for the company. The rarely discussed question of legal culpability has grown in significance as Israel enters the third year of what has widely been acknowledged as a genocide in Gaza — with shareholders pressing the company to conduct due diligence on whether its technology contributes to human rights abuses."
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/
-->The NYT did a story about Google and Israeli contracts. But the paper didn't print this confirmation that Google is, in fact, involved in committing war crimes.
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Palestine Chronicle:
"The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), the country’s largest labor federation, has voted in favor of a comprehensive boycott of Israel, including a ban on trade and investment with Israeli companies. The decision was passed with an overwhelming 88 percent majority during LO’s national congress, held in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, from May 8 to 9, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Palestine Committee of Norway also announced the move on its Instagram page, saying the LO 'will introduce an economic boycott of Israel, with 240 votes for economic boycott, and 69 votes against.'
It said the resolution 'means that LO now requires that the State Pension Fund abroad, Norwegian companies and financial institutions withdraw from companies that contribute to the Israeli occupation. ... The resolution shows strong support among LO’s one million members to introduce boycott, divestment and sanctions,' it added."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/overwhelming-majority-norways-largest-trade-union-votes-for-boycott-of-israel/
-->BDS? you won't read about it in our corporate controlled media.
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