Mondoweiss:
"The U.S. mainstream media, with the New York Times in the lead, is covering up a shocking feature of the Netanyahu/Trump annexation plan that would strip 350,000 to 400,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel of their citizenship. The 'denationalization' proposal is a crime against humanity, but the American press is ignoring it.
Thabet Abu Rass lives in the affected area, a predominately Palestinian part of northeast Israel known as 'The Triangle,' where he heads an organization devoted to promoting peace between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens. Here’s how he translated the denationalization proposal:
'Just imagine if today Donald Trump would tell Hispanic Americans living in the southwest, in territories annexed to the United States from Mexico in the 19th century, that they are Mexican citizens now and no longer American citizens. . . That is exactly what they are trying to do to us.' "
-->No, apartheid won't be televised, or reported on by the NYT. The US media is complicit in the occupation of Palestine, and has been for a very long time.
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The Intercept:
"New details show how deeply Iowa Caucus app developer was embedded in Democratic Establishment. ...
A person with knowledge of the company’s culture, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, shared communications showing that top officials at the company regularly expressed hostility to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s supporters. McGowan is married to Michael Halle, a senior strategist with the Buttigieg campaign. There is no evidence any preference of candidates had any effect on the coding issue that is stalling the Iowa results.
Federal campaign finance records show that the Iowa Democratic Party and the Nevada Democratic Party retained Shadow to develop its caucus app. Shadow has also been retained for digital services by Buttigieg’s campaign, which paid the company $42,500 for software-related services last July, and by Joe Biden’s campaign, which paid Shadow $1,225 for text messaging services, last July as well.
-->A NYT story covered most of the issues on the app's failures. But there was no reference to top officials being hostile to Bernie, or tied into the Buttigieg campaign. Buttigieg's software payments to the company were far more extensive than any other Democratic candidate, another omission from the NYT article.
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Common Dreams:
" 'In Law School They Called This Conflict of Interest': [Rep. Rashida] Tlaib Objects to Paid Bloomberg Staffers on DNC Committees. 'Out of tens of millions of qualified people, Tom Perez's DNC is seating two Bloomberg campaign surrogates on bodies that can propose changes.' ...
The Sludge report came a week after the DNC announced it was amending debate rules to eliminate a requirement for a minimum number of individual donors—a change that could allow Bloomberg to participate in the debate coming up on February 19. ... The elimination of the fundraising requirement was also announced after Bloomberg donated $320,000 to the DNC in November, as well as $800,000 to a joint PAC that raises funds for the DNC and state Democratic parties."
-->The trail of money that continues exposes the corruption in the Democratic National Committee. The NYT doesn't have the stomach to criticize the ultra rich, and didn't connect Bloomberg's gifts to the DNC with any rule changes.
