"FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A Fort Wayne man accused of fatally shooting and killing two young men and wounding a third was formally charged Tuesday with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
Joseph Bossard, 32, also was charged with aggravated battery, criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon and using a firearm during a crime.
Joshua Cooper and Anderson Retic, both 19, were shot while sitting in their car at a gas station Feb. 17. A third person Jaylin Rice, 20, remains hospitalized is in serious condition.
https://www.dailyherald.com/article/20210223/news/302239924
-->This might be a big story, but only Fox News has picked it up so far. A quick search of the NYT for the white murderer "Joseph Bossard" comes up with nothing. This story, like all the others, doesn't mention the fact that the killer was white and the victims all Black. Was this a hate crime? Our national media rarely asks this question.
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Common Dreams:
"A new report published Thursday details United States so-called 'counterterrorism' operations by the U.S. military in 85 nations since 2018 as part of its 'Global War on Terror,' the open-ended post-9/11 campaign that has seen over half a dozen countries attacked or invaded, hundreds of overseas military bases built, hundreds of thousands of lives lost, and trillions of dollars spent—with no end in sight.
The report—published by the Costs of War Project at Brown University's Watson Institute and USA Today—features an interactive map showing U.S. military operations on every inhabited continent on Earth, including combat, training, exercises, and bases.
'Despite the Pentagon's assertion that the U.S. is shifting its strategic emphasis away from counterterrorism and towards great power competition with Russia and China, examining U.S. military activity on a country-by-country basis shows that there is yet to be a corresponding drawdown of the counter terror apparatus,' the report states. 'If anything, the map demonstrates that counterterrorism operations have become more widespread in recent years.' "
-->Why wouldn't our newspaper of record, the NYT, want to publish this story that outlines just how extensive US military actions have become in the last several years. Covering up for the empire always comes first.
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Common Dreams:
"Iran Slams Israel for Recent Activity at the 'Region's Only Nuclear Bomb Factory.'
New satellite analysis by the Associated Press of Israel's nuclear facility in the Negev desert provides fresh evidence of recent, major activity at at the site.
Israel, which has not signed the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), has never officially declared its nuclear weapons program but is believed to have an arsenal of an estimated 90 nuclear warheads.
The secretive facility in question is the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona. Last week, the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) said that commercial satellite imagery it obtained and that was taken in January showed 'significant new construction' at the site."
-->No interest in this story from the NYT, which only publishes stories critical of Israel if it has to.
