Common Dreams:
"Reports of Israeli authorities torturing Palestinian prisoners have been publicized for years, with freed detainees describing frequent beatings, attacks by dogs, and rape and sexual abuse, and the United Nations Committee Against Torture now says Palestinians have been victimized by a 'de facto state policy of organized and widespread torture.'

Both Palestinian and Israeli rights groups gave reports to the committee on conditions in Israeli detention centers, detailing Israel’s regular deprivation of food and water for detainees as well as the 'severe beatings,' electrocution, waterboarding. and sexual violence Israeli guards and other authorities perpetrate. ...

The de facto policy of torture in Israel’s has 'gravely intensified' since Israel began bombarding Gaza after a Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, the report found. Despite a ceasefire that was agreed to in October, those retaliatory attacks against the exclave are continuing and still constitute a genocide, Amnesty International said this week."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/torture-in-israel

-->Let's face it. Israel routinely tortures, rapes and murders Palestinian prisoners. Why can't our newspaper of record, The NYT, admit this as well?

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Amnesty:
"Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire. More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction, without signalling any change in   their intent, said Amnesty International today.

In a briefing released today, the organization provides a legal analysis of the ongoing genocide along with testimonies from local residents, medical staff and humanitarian workers highlighting the dire ongoing conditions for Palestinians in Gaza.

'The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal. But while Israeli authorities and forces have reduced the scale of their attacks and allowed limited amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over,' said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-continues-unabated-despite-ceasefire/

-->Well maybe the genocide is over, if you depend on the NYT to get your news. Why wouldn't the NYT cover this story?

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Common Dreams:
"A United Nations report claims that Israel’s assault on Gaza has led to 'the most severe economic crisis ever recorded,' with nearly seven decades’ worth of economic development wiped out over the span of two years.

The report, which was released on Monday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), found that all 2.3 million people in the exclave now live below the poverty line, with per-capita gross domestic product falling to just $161, one of the lowest figures in the world.

Lancet Study Shows Over 3 Million Years of Human Life Lost in Israeli Assault on Gaza
Additionally, the report found that the unemployment rate in Gaza was as high as 80%, while inflation in the exclave surged to nearly 240%, as the Israeli military blockade caused a widespread famine by preventing basic necessities from reaching Gaza residents."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza-economic-collapse

-->Why no NYT coverage of this UN and Lancet study of the economic ramifications of genocide? Our newspaper of record always errors on the side of Zionists.

The New York Times:
"The Rev. Numa Molina wields unusual power for a parish priest in a working-class commuter town near the Caribbean coast. The Venezuelan Jesuit is on a first-name basis with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. He conducts private Masses for Mr. Maduro’s family and advises his son, a ruling party lawmaker, on his outreach to the Roman Catholic Church, Venezuela’s dominant faith. ...

During his workweek, Father Molina traverses Venezuela with armed bodyguards in a white pickup truck with tinted windows, hosts a weekly television program and provides aid to poor Venezuelans.

Father Molina was an early backer of Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, who won a landslide victory in 1998 on a promise of redistributing Venezuela’s oil wealth. His support of the country’s ostensibly socialist government have led detractors to label him the 'Communist Priest.' ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/world/americas/numa-molina-maduro-catholic-church.html

-->Why, this is a story that has something good to say about Maduro and Hugo Chavez! After all these years of warmongering, The NYT casts doubts on a possible US military invasion. Is this the analysis of the Pentagon, which views such an attack as foolhardy and unwinnable? It is hard to tell, but something has changed in the ruling class.  

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 Common Dreams:
"Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers, and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, in the largest regional deployment in decades. ...

With the 'narcoterrorism' accusations against Maduro and associates, Western journalists absolve US officials of the burden of proof (New York Times, 11/4/25; Financial Times, 10/6/25; Wall Street Journal, 11/5/25). There has never been any public evidence about Maduro, or other high-ranking Venezuelan officials indicted by the US, being involved in drug trafficking via the Cartel of the Suns, while a leaked US intelligence memo rejected the notion of government ties to Tren de Aragua. ...

True to form (FAIR.org, 2/9/17, 4/13/18, 7/3/20), many liberal establishment outlets have been more bellicose than the US president they have occasionally chided for murdering scores of civilians in the Caribbean (The Hill, 10/30/25; Foreign Policy, 11/7/25). The New York Times’ Bret Stephens (1/14/25, 10/10/25, 11/17/25) has advocated for a regime-changing military intervention for months (FAIR.org, 2/12/25). Quite tellingly, Stephens does not regret supporting the Iraq War (New York Times, 3/21/23)."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

-->Yes, the US media has been warmongering all along, cheerleading the grand entrance of US troops into yet another quagmire. Endless wars depend on our national media to champion war crimes.

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Aljazeera:
"At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says. Speaking during a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll includes a baby girl who was killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on

It also includes seven other children killed a day earlier, as Israel carried out a wave of attacks across the enclave. 'This is during an agreed ceasefire. The pattern is staggering,' Pires told reporters of the death toll since October 11, the first full day of the truce between Israel and Hamas.

'As we have repeated many times, these are not statistics: Each was a child with a family, a dream, a life – suddenly cut short by continued violence.' Palestinian children have borne the brunt of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with UNICEF estimating last month that 64,000 children have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks since the war began in October 2023."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/21/at-least-67-palestinian-children-killed-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-began-un

-->Is our media just sick of reporting Israel's war crimes? Leave it to Aljazeera to give US citizens a truer picture of the devastation and destruction of the Palestinian people.

Common Dreams:
"Just as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced new branding for the US military campaign in Latin America, now known as 'Operation Southern Spear,' the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday offered a message of peace directly to the people of the United States as he warned against further conflict.

In an exchange with a CNN correspondent during a rally for the nation’s youth in Caracas, Maduro urged President Donald Trump not to prolong the region’s military engagement. Asked if he had a message for the people of the United States, Maduro said in Spanish: 'To unite for the peace of the continent. No more endless wars. No more unjust wars. No more Libya. No more Afghanistan' ...

He said that attacks on boats, which have now claimed the lives of at least 80 people, are part of President Donald Trump’s targeting of 'narco-terrorists.' However, the administration has produced no evidence proving the allegations against these individuals nor shared with the American people the legal basis for the extrajudicial killings that deprive victims of due process."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-more-endless-wars-maduro-says-to-american-people-calling-for-peace-in-face-of-trump-threats

-->The mainstream media never calls into question the US threats and intimidation directed at Venezuela. The US media has only one point of view when it comes to US imperialism.

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Common Dreams:
"Mexico this week led 59 United Nations member states in affirming their support for the International Criminal Court and—without mentioning US officials by name—decrying their sanctions against ICC judges in retaliation for efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The Mexican mission to the UN delivered a letter reaffirming the 59 nations’ 'continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the ICC,' the Hague-based tribunal that is the world’s only permanent court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression.

'We express our deep concern over recent measures sanctioning ICC officials, staff, and those cooperating with the court,' the letter continues. 'Such measures erode the international rule of law, constitute an unacceptable interference with judicial independence, undermine ongoing investigations, and threaten the global fight against impunity.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mexico-icc-sanctions

-->The NYT didn't cover this latest criticism of US human rights. Again, the US is isolated in the world community.
 
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Common Dreams:
"For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

However, the Epstein/Mossad ties were often labeled by US corporate media as 'unfounded' (New York Times, 8/24/25), dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory' (New York Times, 7/16/25), or said to have been 'largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention seekers and credulous believers' (New York Times, 9/9/25). Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has claimed that 'Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.'

Drop Site‘s investigations into the Handala [a hacking group] have included six major stories since late September, four of which have centered around 'Epstein’s work on behalf of Israeli military interests, particularly as it relates to his role in the development of Israel’s cyber warfare industry.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-mossad-corporate-media

-->The NYT protecting Israel again. Our newspaper of record just doesn't want to hear the connection between Epstein and Israel.

Al Jazeera:
"Members of Irish football’s governing body have approved a resolution instructing its board to submit a formal motion to UEFA requesting the immediate suspension of Israel from European competitions, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said.

The resolution passed by the FAI members on Saturday cites violations by Israel’s Football Association of two provisions of UEFA statutes: its failure to implement and enforce an effective antiracism policy and the playing by Israeli clubs in occupied Palestinian territory without the consent of the Palestinian Football Association.

The resolution was backed by 74 votes, with seven opposed and two abstentions, the FAI said in a statement. ... The Irish resolution follows calls in September from the heads of the Turkish and Norwegian football governing bodies for Israel to be suspended from international competition."
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/11/8/irish-football-body-overwhelmingly-backs-call-for-israels-ban-from-uefa

-->The momentum keeps increasing. Israel will end up being ostracized by the whole world. And well it should be for slaughtering tens of thousands of children. But readers of th NYT will never know it, since the newspaper keeps stories like this under wraps.

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The Times of Israel:
"Turkey announced Friday that it had issued arrest warrants for alleged genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 36 other senior officials in his government over the war in Gaza against Hamas.

The announcement was met with a firm rebuttal from Israel. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel 'firmly rejects, with contempt,' the charges, calling them 'the latest PR stunt by the tyrant (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan.'

The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said in a statement that a total of 37 suspects were targeted by the arrest warrants, without providing a full list. They include Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-issues-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-other-israeli-leaders-over-genocide-in-gaza/

-->I don't see this story in the NYT. Why remind its pro Israel readers how isolated this apartheid state has become?

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Adalah Justice Project:
"In a huge win for the Palestine movement and working class people, St. Louis City just became the largest city in the U.S. to pass a resolution to divest from corporations complicit in genocide and human rights violations.

In March, St. Louis residents came together to launch Not Another Nickel, a campaign to divest the city from militarism and genocide profiteering. The campaign quickly gained momentum among St. Louisans who have been suffering after decades of neglect and disinvestment from community infrastructure and services. Together, they demanded transparency, accountability, and a budget that serves people, not profiteers.

Their organizing paid off - this morning, the Board of Aldermen in St. Louis took a historic step and passed the Not Another Nickel resolution in a 10-1-3 vote.
The measure calls on the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of the City of St. Louis to divest from any companies that are complicit in or profit from human rights abuses, including genocide, occupation, apartheid, and systemic racism."
https://mailchi.mp/adalahjusticeproject/1172025?e=77a1f7eb24

 

-->More stories not covered by the NYT. BDS is always considered off limits by the Genocide's newspaper of record.

Middle East Monitor:
"More than 150 writers who contribute to the American newspaper The New York Times have announced a boycott of its opinion section in protest against what they described as 'biased coverage' of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the ongoing war on Gaza.

The writers called on The New York Times management to conduct “a review of anti-Palestinian bias and produce new editorial standards for Palestine coverage”.   They also demanded that 'The New York Times’ editorial board call for a US arms embargo on Israel.' "

In a joint letter, the writers said: 'Until The New York Times takes accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the US-Israeli war on Gaza, any putative ‘challenge’ to the newsroom or the editorial board in the form of a first-person essay is, in effect, permission to continue this malpractice.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251029-over-150-writers-boycott-new-york-times-over-biased-gaza-coverage/

-->I love these petitions that are uncovering the bias of the NYT, this one created for writers for the very same newspaper.

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The Times of Israel:
"With its popularity in the United States crashing, Israel is bankrolling what organizers say will be the largest campaign of its kind to bolster support among evangelical churches, until recently seen as an unshakable base of support for the Jewish state.

The Foreign Ministry has hired an American firm to run the campaign, with plans to spend as much as $4.1 million on marketing aimed at Christians across the Western part of the country, according to newly filed federal disclosures. The documents, filed last week under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, reveal that Show Faith by Works, LLC will execute what it bills as the 'largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in US history. ...'

The initiative is designed to reach churchgoers with digital ads that are explicitly 'pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian,' while dispatching a mobile 'October 7th Experience' exhibit to church parking lots and Christian colleges."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-spend-up-to-4-1m-in-bid-to-bolster-support-among-christians-in-western-us/

->No mention of this story in the NYT. Why not? Again, we have to put this down as reticence to publishing articles critical of Israel.

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TeleSUR:
"On Friday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva suggested that the United States should work together with Latin American countries to combat drug trafficking instead of attempting to invade them through military operations supposedly justified as anti-drug actions.

'Before judging anyone, before punishing anyone, you have to have proof. You can’t simply say you’re going to invade or that you’re going to fight drug trafficking in another country’s territory without taking into account that country’s constitution, the self-determination of its people, and the territorial sovereignty of each nation,' Lula said from Jakarta, the first stop on his tour of Southeast Asia."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/lula-urges-the-u-s-to-cooperate-against-drug-trafficking-instead-of-invading-countries/

-->Another missing story by the NYT. Our newspaper of record is always in favor of US military invasions. It's the Empire's newspaper.

The Guardian UK:
"Warner Bros Discovery has rebuked a pledge signed by more than 4,000 film industry figures to not work with Israeli film institutions 'implicated in the genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people', saying that such a pledge would likely violate its internal policies.

In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson said the company 'is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment for its employees, collaborators, and other stakeholders'.

It continues: 'Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies. While we respect the rights of individuals and groups to express their views and advocate for causes, we will continue to align our business practices with the requirements of our policies and the law.' ”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/16/warner-bros-discovery-israel-boycott

-Well, the battle to isolate and censure Israel's film industry is certainly news. But not to the NYT, which often leaves stories like this out. Why remind citizens that they can boycott Israeli cinema.

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Common Dreams:
" 'The EPA’s illegal termination of Solar for All has left states, communities, and businesses across the country in limbo, with critical projects stalled and vulnerable households facing higher energy costs.' ”

Warning that the US Environmental Protection Agency’s termination of the Solar for All program this year came at an especially inopportune time, with electricity bills soaring for families across the country, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday led 32 members of the Democratic caucus in demanding that the Trump administration restore the program.

The Solar for All initiative, which was spearheaded by Sanders (I-Vt.), was meant to create tens of thousands of good-paying jobs while allowing low-income households to benefit from renewable energy. If EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin had not illegally pulled $7 billion that had already been appropriated by Congress, said the lawmakers, Solar for All would have lowered residential electricity bills by at least 20% for nearly 1 million homes and saved working families nearly $9 billion in electric costs."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-executive-order-solar

-->The NYT didn't print this story. As a rule, the billionaires' favorite newspaper doesn't report what Bernie says.  

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Common Dreams:
" ‘Wow’: Observers Surprised After Dem Moderate Rejects AIPAC Cash. 'AIPAC’s brand is increasingly, perhaps irredeemably toxic,' wrote one observer. A centrist Democratic lawmaker on Thursday surprised many political observers when he announced he would be returning donations he’d received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who is running a primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), said that he was rejecting donations from AIPAC because it had aligned itself too closely with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last year was accused of committing crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-donations-seth-moulton

-->The NYT covered this story, but our newspaper of record focused on different issues. To the NYT, the race is all about age, and one's status as a US veteran.

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.