The Independent UK
"White House denies journalist’s claims it blew up Russian gas pipeline. ... Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh had reported last Friday that the blasts last September were carried out on orders given by president Joe Biden.
The White House National Council said on Friday the claims were 'utterly false and complete fiction' while the CIA and state department were also critical. ... While the US agrees with the judgement of NATO, Sweden and Denmark that the explosions were a deliberate 'act of sabotage', nobody has claimed responsibility, with the Kremlin blaming the West. ...
Seymour Hersh has a long career as an investigative reporter. In 1969, he exposed the massacre of South Vietnamese villagers by US troops in the hamlet of My Lai and his syndicated report was credited with helping end the Vietnam War. ... Then in May 2015, the London Review of Books published an article quoting Pakistani and US sources as saying those governments lied about details of the raid that killed al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan. Both governments denied Mr Hersh's allegations that Pakistan had been holding bin Laden prisoner and knew about the raid in advance."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-gas-pipeline-war-white-house-b2279730.html
-->Notice how even this article begins with a denial of Hersh's story. There was no news outlet that was going to run this story before the denials came. And even after the denials, very few US media outlets printed or reported on these accusations. The NYT certainly didn't. The US empire certainly has control over the nation's media, and this story is troubling sign that war propaganda is on the rise.
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Common Dreams:
"Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau on Wednesday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old 'twin cities' relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government's violent anti-Palestinian policies. Colau said at a press conference that the city council came to its decision in response to campaigning by more than 100 rights groups and 4,000 residents, who urged her to cut ties with Israel.
In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leftist mayor said her constituents called on her to 'condemn the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people, support Palestinian and Israeli organizations working for peace, and break off the twinning agreement between Barcelona and Tel Aviv.' ...
The letter and Colau's announcement to the press come two weeks after an Israeli military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ada-colau-israel
-->The NYT didn't cover this story of a major city in Europe cutting ties with Israel. Although our "newspaper of record" has printed more stories about Palestine recently, the NYT is still covering up for apartheid.
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Aljazeera:
"Ukraine slams Roger Waters over UN Security Council speech. The Pink Floyd star argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked during an address to diplomats in New York.
But the 79-year-old – who has previously praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticised the West for supplying Ukraine with arms – then implied that Kyiv and its allies were partly to blame for the conflict as well. 'The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked. So I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms,' Waters told diplomats in New York City via video link, without referring to any specific individuals, groups or countries.
'The only sensible course of action today is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine,' he added."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/9/ukraine-slams-roger-waters-over-un-security-council-speech
-->Like the previous story, we only learn about Roger Waters' address to the UN through US denials, something the NYT specializes in. This time, however, the newspaper left this story out completely, as did most of the US media. War censorship always comes before an actual war. In fact, we may see US and Russian troops eventually killing each other. I wonder if the NYT will still be around to cover it.
"White House denies journalist’s claims it blew up Russian gas pipeline. ... Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh had reported last Friday that the blasts last September were carried out on orders given by president Joe Biden.
The White House National Council said on Friday the claims were 'utterly false and complete fiction' while the CIA and state department were also critical. ... While the US agrees with the judgement of NATO, Sweden and Denmark that the explosions were a deliberate 'act of sabotage', nobody has claimed responsibility, with the Kremlin blaming the West. ...
Seymour Hersh has a long career as an investigative reporter. In 1969, he exposed the massacre of South Vietnamese villagers by US troops in the hamlet of My Lai and his syndicated report was credited with helping end the Vietnam War. ... Then in May 2015, the London Review of Books published an article quoting Pakistani and US sources as saying those governments lied about details of the raid that killed al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Pakistan. Both governments denied Mr Hersh's allegations that Pakistan had been holding bin Laden prisoner and knew about the raid in advance."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-gas-pipeline-war-white-house-b2279730.html
-->Notice how even this article begins with a denial of Hersh's story. There was no news outlet that was going to run this story before the denials came. And even after the denials, very few US media outlets printed or reported on these accusations. The NYT certainly didn't. The US empire certainly has control over the nation's media, and this story is troubling sign that war propaganda is on the rise.
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Common Dreams:
"Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau on Wednesday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old 'twin cities' relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government's violent anti-Palestinian policies. Colau said at a press conference that the city council came to its decision in response to campaigning by more than 100 rights groups and 4,000 residents, who urged her to cut ties with Israel.
In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the leftist mayor said her constituents called on her to 'condemn the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people, support Palestinian and Israeli organizations working for peace, and break off the twinning agreement between Barcelona and Tel Aviv.' ...
The letter and Colau's announcement to the press come two weeks after an Israeli military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ada-colau-israel
-->The NYT didn't cover this story of a major city in Europe cutting ties with Israel. Although our "newspaper of record" has printed more stories about Palestine recently, the NYT is still covering up for apartheid.
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Aljazeera:
"Ukraine slams Roger Waters over UN Security Council speech. The Pink Floyd star argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked during an address to diplomats in New York.
But the 79-year-old – who has previously praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticised the West for supplying Ukraine with arms – then implied that Kyiv and its allies were partly to blame for the conflict as well. 'The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked. So I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms,' Waters told diplomats in New York City via video link, without referring to any specific individuals, groups or countries.
'The only sensible course of action today is to call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine,' he added."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/9/ukraine-slams-roger-waters-over-un-security-council-speech
-->Like the previous story, we only learn about Roger Waters' address to the UN through US denials, something the NYT specializes in. This time, however, the newspaper left this story out completely, as did most of the US media. War censorship always comes before an actual war. In fact, we may see US and Russian troops eventually killing each other. I wonder if the NYT will still be around to cover it.
