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. 

The Daily Beast:
"President Donald Trump has been forced to confront concerns about his mental health after issuing a profanity-laced Easter tirade against Iran over the weekend.

In a high-stakes press conference on Monday, Trump outlined the dramatic rescue of a U.S. pilot downed inside Iran, as well as the rapidly escalating war that has entered its fifth week.

But questions turned to his expletive-filled rant on Sunday, which has raised serious concerns about his mindset.

'Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F----n’ Strait, you crazy b-----ds, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!' he wrote."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-cornered-on-mental-health-after-crazed-threats/

--The NYT didn't speculate about the sanity of our President, despite the fact that members of his own party have. Is this the NYT protecting the image of our government, despite how erratic and just plain crazy he has been.

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Common Dreams:
"Univ. of Washington Removes Mideast Center Director Who Criticized US-Israeli War on Iran.
 
'There’s a chilling effect on not just my academic freedom, but that of my colleagues; anyone who dares to speak out against the war and against aggression,' said UW professor Aria Fani.

The University of Washington has removed a professor from his role as director of its Middle East Center after he criticized the illegal US-Israeli war of choice on Iran and condemned Zionism, the settler-colonial movement for Jewish hegemony in Palestine.

There’s a chilling effect on not just my academic freedom, but that of my colleagues; anyone who dares to speak out against the war and against aggression,' he said."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/professor-fired-for-israel-criticism

-->People are losing their jobs just like the McCarthy Era. Where is the NYT?

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Common Dreams:
"Trump ‘Openly Flaunting His War Crimes’ as US Bombs Iran’s Civilian Infrastructure .

'The president of the United States would like everyone to know that he is acting with criminal intent, in case there was any ambiguity,' a US law professor said of his social media post with bridge bombing footage.

After pledging in a prime-time address that the United States and Israel would bomb Iran 'back to the Stone Ages where they belong,' President Donald Trump on Thursday shared a video of the US blowing up an Iranian bridge and promised, 'Much more to follow!' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-trump-war-crimes

-->This is another story that the NYT did not cover. Is this just protecting the image of the United States in the rest of the world? And what image would that be?

Common Dreams:
"WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center for Food Safety analyzed the level of risk the EPA permitted for both currently approved and legacy pesticide active ingredients. The analysis found that pesticides have been allowed on the market with a cancer risk as high as one in every 100 people exposed, a far greater level than the EPA’s benchmark of a one in a million chance of developing cancer. Over the last 40 years, the EPA has approved 200 active ingredients that are 'likely' or 'possible' carcinogens. 

The Center for Biological Diversity analysis examined pesticide product labels for all currently approved pesticide products. The EPA has instituted cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 pesticide labels (1.4%) containing an active ingredient that the agency has designated a 'likely' human carcinogen. And the agency has instituted cancer warnings on just 242 of the 22,147 pesticide labels (1.1%) that contain an ingredient the agency has designated as a 'possible' human carcinogen." 
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-analyses-epa-consistently-fails-to-warn-public-of-pesticide-cancer-risks

-->The NYT doesn't like to upset the chemical companies. I am sure the newspaper will report on this EPA failure at some time. But why not today or this week?

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Common Dreams:
"Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces on Friday were caught on camera assaulting and detaining a crew of CNN journalists while they were reporting from the occupied West Bank.

A video of the incident posted on social media by CNN Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond shows the CNN crew walking near the Palestinian village of Tayasir, which in recent days has come under assault from Israeli settlers who established an illegal outpost in the area.

The crew are then accosted by armed members of the IDF, who order them to sit down. After the crew complies with their commands, the soldiers come to seize the journalists’ cameras and phones that are being used to record the incident.

A soldier then puts CNN photojournalist Cyril Theophilos in a chokehold and forces him to the ground. Writing about the assault later, Theophilos said that the soldier 'pushed and strangled me,' adding that this kind of violence 'is just a symptom of the IDF’s actions in the West Bank.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-assaults-cnn-crew

-->The NYT is still filtering out stories like this. Ethnic cleansing is happening in the West Bank, but where is our newspaper of record?

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Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group:
"Nicaragua ranks among the top 25 countries worldwide with roughly 70–80% of its power now generated from renewable sources. The first thing you notice when you drive over the border from Costa Rica are the towering turbines spinning steadily against the Pacific horizon, their blades cutting through the strong coastal winds in the Rivas region.

These iconic structures, part of the Amayo wind farm—one of Nicaragua’s pioneering renewable projects—are a striking welcome sign to a country that has undergone a remarkable transformation in its energy landscape.

Nicaragua, long reliant on imported fossil fuels for electricity, has aggressively shifted toward renewables over the past two decades. In the early 2000s, the nation depended heavily on oil-fired generation, but strategic policies, private investments, and abundant natural resources have driven a rapid increase in clean energy supply.
By 2025, the country had achieved impressive milestones, with renewable sources consistently powering a majority—and often exceeding 70-80%—of its electricity grid in recent years."
https://nscag.org.uk/nicaragua-a-top-25-country-for-renewable-energy-with-70-80-green-power/

-->What are the chances that the NYT will cover this story? Our national media follows suit. Nothing good about Nicaragua will ever be publicized in the empire's newspaper.