Aljazeera:
"For 13 years, Sehar Bibi has waited for her son to be released from Guantanamo Bay, where life for one of the last Afghan prisoners has been defined by hunger strikes, force feedings and isolation. Hundreds of detainees including senior Taliban leaders have been released from the notorious detention centre run by the United States military. But Asadullah Haroon, who has never been charged with a crime, remains.
Haroon was working as a honey trader travelling between Peshawar and eastern Afghanistan’s Jalalabad when he was arrested in 2006 in what his family claims was likely a trap to claim a cash reward for fighters.
Haroon, whose wife had just given birth to a girl when he was detained, is now a so-called 'forever prisoner', part of about half the jail’s remaining 40 inmates stuck in legal limbo."
-->Guantanamo's "forever prisoners" remain one of the empire's most egregious violations of international human rights. At least 780 prisoners were held in detention there, and many were brutally tortured, making their statements and "confessions" unusable in trials. Only 8 prisoners have ever been convicted, and they were found guilty by illegitimate military tribunals. Three of those convictions were eventually overturned. The NYT didn't cover Haroon's story.
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The Guardian UK:
"People in Gaza are searching through rubbish to find food as Palestinians battle unprecedented levels of poverty, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
Across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and elsewhere, Palestinian refugees are suffering at new depths because of the pandemic, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency chief, Philippe Lazzarini. 'There is despair and hopelessness,' he said in an interview.
'In Gaza, people are going through the garbage,' Lazzarini said, referring to reports from UNRWA staff in the enclave. 'More people are fighting to provide one or two meals a day to their families.' ”
-->The NYT, always alert to stories that make Israeli apartheid look bad, didn't print this story.
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Politico:
"Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $75 million to a super PAC that flooded battleground states with anti-Joe Biden ads in September, a huge investment from the GOP megadonors as President Donald Trump slipped in the polls.
The Adelsons gave the massive sum to Preserve America PAC, accounting for roughly 90 percent of the group’s fundraising in September, according to a person familiar with the group's finances who shared details with POLITICO ahead of the group's campaign finance filing.
The money for Preserve America brought the Adelsons' giving to Republican candidates and committees to a whopping $176 million for the 2020 election cycle, according to FEC data. The couple had previously given $50 million to Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP super PAC focused on defending the Senate majority. An additional $40 million in donations to the Congressional Leadership Fund, the Republican super PAC focused on the House, was revealed in new filings late Thursday night."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/adelson-trump-super-pac-429688
-->Strangely, Politico never mentions why Israeli citizen, Sheldon Adelson, has given a fortune to the Republican Party. It's all about Israel, stupid! Well, the NYT never even covered this story.
