The Guardian UK:
"The residents of JP Nagar have no way to escape their ghosts. This ramshackle neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the Indian city of Bhopal, stands just metres away from the chemical factory which exploded just after midnight on 2 December 1984 and seeped poison into their lives forever. The blackened ruins of the Union Carbide plant still loom untouched behind the factory walls.
It remains the world’s worst industrial disaster, which saw 40 tons of toxic gas released into the air, killing over 3,000 instantly and condemning hundreds of thousands to a future of prolonged pain, cancer, stillbirths, miscarriages, lung and heart disease and the drawn out deaths of everyone around them. ...
This week marks the 35th anniversary of the disaster yet the injustice suffered by the people of Bhopal remains stark and unrelenting. Approximately 575,000 people were poisoned that night and over 20,000 people have died since from related conditions. No one from Union Carbide was ever tried for the gross negligence that led to the gas explosion, despite multiple criminal charges being brought against them in India. No cleanup operation of the chemical waste – which was already being dumped into the local community before the explosion – has ever been conducted."
-->The US media has a short attention span when it comes to murders committed by our corporations abroad. Only Vice and the Guardian covered this story.
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The Guardian UK:
"Is the Republican party actually trying to get the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar killed? If the question sounds outrageous, consider what has happened in the last couple of weeks alone.
While soliciting campaign contributions through email, George Buck, a Florida Republican candidate who is running for Congress, called for Omar’s execution, then denied doing so, then suggested it again later that same day. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Danielle Stella, a Republican candidate attempting to unseat Omar from her congressional post, was suspended from Twitter for twice suggesting that the Muslim congresswoman be tried for treason and hanged.
And in western New York, Patrick W Carlineo Jr pleaded guilty recently to threatening to assault and murder Omar. He called her DC office last spring, stating that he was a Trump-loving patriot and asking a staffer, 'Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood?' "
-->Right wing idiocy or fascism? The murdering of opponents goes all the way back to Hitler's Brown Shirts. Why doesn't the NYT point out this deadly form of domestic terrorism while Americans can still do something about it?
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Common Dreams:
"Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first two Muslim-American women elected to Congress, have been the target of a sustained campaign of far right hate and lies originating from a shadowy Israeli group, according to an investigation published Thursday by The Guardian. ...
The report details how a jewelry salesman and 'online operator' from the Tel Aviv area named Ariel Elkaras and others were part of a vast coordinated effort that utilized '21 far-right Facebook pages across the U.S., Australia, the U.K., Canada, Austria, Israel, and Nigeria' to spread malicious lies about the two congresswomen."
-->Is the racism and Islamophobia flooding the US organized in Israel? Readers of the NYT will never hear about it. The newspaper didn't print this story.
