Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents (w/ Hüseyin Doğru) | The Chris Hedges Report.

 

Western states test the limits of their expansive repression of free speech in cases such as the sanctioning of German journalist, Hüseyin Dogru.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD8SDssOLAs
 

-->Chris Hedges does some of the very best reporting on Western values, or the lack thereof. He is the canary in the coal mine for so many anti imperialist in our "land of the free." 

 

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Common Dreams:


"A poll worker in Syracuse, New York said she was left unsettled after a pair of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at her polling place to tell her to delete Instagram content calling for the indictment of the agent who shot Renee Good in January.

 

The worker, Paigelynne Gonyea, was in the middle of her shift during Tuesday’s elections in New York when she received a phone message from someone who identified himself as Dave Brody, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security. He said agents 'were just by' her apartment and had spoken to her husband about a post in which she 'doxxed an ICE agent back in January.'

 

Gonyea said the agents were referring to a post she made on January 8, 2026, the day after an ICE agent shot and killed Good, a 37-year-old mother and US citizen, in Minneapolis. The post contained an image of the masked agent, who had at that point been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune."


https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-poll-worker-ross-post

-->This is the beginning of ICE taking the role of Trump's thought police. You would think that the NYT would be interested. But our newspaper of record didn't cover the story.

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Left Voice:

"UAW Divests from Israel Bonds. After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of rank-and-file organizing.

Bucking a decades-long trend of sidelining questions of international solidarity and silencing Palestine liberation, delegates to the 39th UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit, Michigan voted June 18th to divest from Israel bonds. The UAW reportedly holds at least $400,000 in these investments. Delegates from Unite all Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the class struggle movement of the UAW, representing UAW members across the country, led the effort to divest.

UAW members have been fighting to divest dues money from Israel bonds for over fifty years. In the 1970s, the UAW Arab Workers Caucus picketed UAW events, struck, and organized for the 1974 UAW Constitutional Convention demanding divestment. Workers redoubled their efforts after the apartheid state escalated its genocide in October 2023."

https://www.leftvoice.org/uaw-divests-from-israel-bonds/

-->The NYT doesn't bother itself with divestment from Israel. Why isn't this covered? Probably because the Israel Lobby still has enough power to hid this very successful program. The United Auto Workers is one of the biggest unions in the country. 

Common Dreams:
"Around 200 graduating students at Stanford University in California walked out of Sunday’s commencement speech by Google CEO Sundar Pichai to protest his company’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown.

With graduating students across the country booing commencement speakers who mention artificial intelligence, Pichai was careful to avoid discussing the historically disruptive—and potentially apocalyptic—technology during his speech, even joking about the difficulty of doing so given his job and the fact that his name can’t be spelled without the “ai” at the end. It was an apparently wise decision, especially given a recent interview in which he opined that humans aren’t “evolved” enough to fully understand the profound technology shift AI is driving.

However, protesting students were already walking out and chanting, “Free, Free Palestine!” by the time Pichai started speaking. Students waved Palestinian flags and blew whistles as they marched out of the venue."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/stanford-graduation-walk-out  

-->The mainstream media would like us to focus on other issues, rather than on the continued genocide in Gaza. The fact that the student movement for Palestinian rights is as powerful as ever will not be covered in the NYT. 

Intercept:
Israel’s government asked Meta to censor social media content about its ongoing war against Iran, according to internal documents viewed by The Intercept.

Company records show that Israel petitioned Meta to take down Facebook and Instagram posts expressing support for Iran, opposition to Israel, and even depictions of Iranian missile impacts.

The government flagged a variety of materials related to the war, including posts mourning the death of Ayatollah Khamenei following his assassination by the U.S. and Israel on the opening day of the conflict, content supportive of Iran’s retaliatory attacks, and Iranian accounts that shared military analysis and propaganda sympathetic to the Iranian regime’s perspective.

In some cases, Meta complied with the censorship requests, the records show, though it is unclear on what grounds. Meta maintains that it only removes content as required by law or materials that violate its speech policies. ...

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/18/israel-facebook-censor-content-moderation-iran-war/ 

 

-->Israel telling Meta what to take down on Facebook. Both Israel and Instagram are part of the genocide coverup. When will the NYT publish this story?

Mondoweiss:
Maryland pension system divests 85% of Israeli Bond holdings amid pressure campaign

Last month the Maryland Break the Bonds Campaign, a local coalition of organizations and activists, announced that the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has divested roughly 85% of its Israeli bond holdings.

The move represents a $62 million in divestment from Israeli sovereign bonds and is believed largest state-level divestment from Israeli bonds thus far.

"I’m with CAIR Maryland, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and we are a coalition member of the Break the Bonds campaign in Maryland. We’ve been working closely with Jewish Voice voice for Peace’s DC Metro and Baltimore chapters to hold our state’s pension and retirement system accountable and making sure that they are divesting state funds, pension funds, from Israeli bonds." 
https://newsletters.mondoweiss.net/emails/webview/59730/189191322969572760


-->This is a big win for divestment. The story is covered by a number of Jewish organizations, but nothing from the NYT, which treats the BDS movement like it treats Bernie.

 

The Intercept:
"The United States is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin American countries using a new AI-laden content mill, an investigation by The Intercept has found.

La Tilde quietly began development early this year and appears to still be a work in progress, pitching itself as a modern media brand for Latin American audiences with articles published in both Spanish and English. Its name references the accent mark emphasizing vowels in Spanish; “news with an accent” is the site’s catchphrase. ...

So far, La Tilde’s coverage amounts to an unusual blend of personal finance tips (“Why instant payments matter so much for your business and your wallet”) and articles extolling the value of U.S. military operations in Latin America (“Operation Absolute Resolve: The mission that captured Nicolás Maduro and set a new standard for precision and coordination”).

Its article on the U.S. abduction of the Venezuelan president praises the mission in Trumpian prose, calling it “The Perfect Operation – Coordination, Timing and Precision at an Unprecedented Scale,” and “a military operation of coordination and accuracy never seen before.” Citing “information obtained exclusively by La Tilde,” it describes the operation’s tactical brilliance, flawless execution, and incredibly precise coordination of military assets in the air and on the ground."
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/02/la-tilde-propaganda-latin-america-pentagon/


-->The Pentagon's AI propaganda isn't covered by the NYT. We get all sorts of stories about AI, but nothing on how our Pentagon uses it.

The Guardian:

"Colombian President Gustavo Petro warned on Tuesday that the current model of fossil fuel-driven capitalism was leading the world into 'barbarism' and 'fascism.'

According to a Wednesday report from The Guardian, Petro told attendees of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels being held in Santa Marta, Colombia that capitalism’s insistence on continued fossil fuel dependence was 'suicidal' and driving the world toward more conflict.

 

'There is inertia in the power and the economy of this archaic form of energy—fossil fuels—that lead to death,' said Petro. 'Undoubtedly, that form of capital can commit suicide, taking with it humanity and [other] life... The question that needs to be asked is whether capitalism can truly adapt to a non-fossil energy model.' ”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gustavo-petro-suicidal-capitalism

 

-->Colombia has been in the news recently. The most important part of this coverage is the fact that our present form of capitalism is driving the world to suicide. The NYT has always been a fortress of capitalism, and it didn't cover this story.