Common Dreams:
"Australia Restores UNRWA Funding as Israel Kills Aid Workers, Starving Gazans. 'Restoring UNRWA funding is the bare minimum,' said one Australian Green senator. 'The Labor government must publicly pressure Israel to allow aid into all parts of Gaza.'

Australia said Friday that it would reinstate funding for the United Nations United Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which has lost hundreds of millions of dollars in international financing due to unsubstantiated Israeli claims that UNRWA staff participated in the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel.

'The best available current advice from agencies and the Australian government lawyers is that UNRWA is not a terrorist organization,' Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in Adelaide while announcing a new funding package for the agency, which works to aid Palestinians forcibly displaced during the Nakba, or 'catastrophe' through which the modern state of Israel was established in 1948, as well as their descendants.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/australia-unrwa

-->The NYT was all over the story of countries defunding UNRWA. But now that the charges look to be more Israeli propaganda, you would think that the NYT would apologize to its readers. But our newspaper of record has no shame when it comes to Palestine.

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Common Dreams:
"More than 100 pro-Palestine demonstrators were arrested Thursday after staging a protest at The New York Times' Midtown Manhattan headquarters, where activists handed out copies of a satirical knockoff of the newspaper that skewered what organizers called its biased coverage of the Gaza genocide.

After surrounding the Times' printing plant in College Point, Queens, members of Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), Palestinian Youth Movement, and other groups shut down the paper's Midtown West headquarters, where they chanted, 'New York Times you can't hide, we charge you with genocide,' 'free, free Palestine,' and 'from the river to the sea.'

Around 150 demonstrators occupied the Times building, where they called on passersby to boycott, divest, and unsubscribe. Some passersby confronted the demonstrators. One angry man attempted to steal a large banner from protesters. The New York Police Department said 124 protesters were arrested."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/journalism-gaza

-->Interesting how The NYT won't even cover the ceasefire demonstrations when they shut down access to the NYT's own printing plant. Hello, NYT, anyone home?

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Aljazeera:
" ‘Massacre’: Israel forces attack crowds waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 21. Palestinian officials call latest assault ‘premeditated’ as people seeking humanitarian supplies increasingly targeted.

At least 21 Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza City in the same area that was targeted hours earlier, government officials said. The Ministry of Health in Gaza described the late Thursday attack as a 'new, premeditated massacre' and said more than 150 people were wounded.

Witnesses told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces had used helicopters, tanks and drones to target thousands of people waiting on food trucks. It was the latest in a string of assaults on people desperately in need of food and other essential supplies as Israel continues to obstruct and severely control the entry of aid into the enclave."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/15/massacre-israel-forces-attack-crowds-waiting-for-aid-in-gaza-killing-21

-->How did our "newspaper of record" deal with another cold blooded slaughter of starving Palestinians waiting for food? The title of the NYT story says it all: "Israeli and Gazan officials offer diverging accounts of deadly chaos around another aid convoy." Diverging accounts of genocide, and deadly chaos instead of an IDF hail of bullets and tank shells.

Reuters:
"The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks. ...

The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.

'Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention, and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities,' the report says."
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/

-->Could it be that UNRWA staff did not participate in the Hamas attack, and that they were tortured into making those statements? Can the world believe anything that Israel has said? Believing is easier if one only reads the NYT. Our newspaper of record didn't cover this story.

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The Intercept:
"Two of the three victims specifically singled out by the New York Times in a marquee exposé published in December, which alleged that Hamas had deliberately weaponized sexual violence during the October 7 attacks, were not in fact victims of sexual assault, according to the spokesperson for the Kibbutz Be’eri, which the Times identified as the location of the attack.

The rejection of the Times reporting in the kibbutz by Be’eri spokesperson Michal Paikin further undermines the credibility of the paper’s controversial December article 'Screams Without Words: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7.'

The Times article described three alleged victims of sexual assault for whom it reported specific biographical information. One, known as the “woman in the black dress,” was Gal Abdush. Some of her family members have contested the claims made by the Times. The other two alleged victims were unnamed teenage sisters from Kibbutz Be’eri whose precise ages were listed in the New York Times, making it possible to identify them. ...

When asked about the claims made by the New York Times, Paikin independently raised their name. 'You’re talking about the Sharabi girls?” she said. “No, they just — they were shot. I’m saying ‘just,’ but they were shot and were not subjected to sexual abuse.' ”
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt-october-7-sexual-violence-kibbutz-beeri/

-->More lies from our nation's premier newspaper. The NYT is still Israel's mouthpiece in the US.

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Common Dreams:
"Flanked by photos of hungry children and destroyed buildings, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a speech Wednesday that the Biden administration must stop merely asking the Israeli government to halt its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza and begin using real leverage to bring about an end to the war and ensure the free flow of aid to the territory's starving population. 

'The U.S. government should make it clear that failure to open up access immediately and feed starving people will result in the Netanyahu government not getting another penny of U.S. taxpayer military aid,' said Sanders (I-Vt.), who noted that 'right now we have the incredible situation where a U.S. ally is using U.S. weapons and equipment to block the delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid. And if that's not crazy,' the senator added, 'I don't know what is.' ...

Sanders argued that ending the war and addressing the humanitarian emergency would require the Biden administration and Congress to 'use the incredible leverage we have over the Israeli government to secure a fundamental change in their disastrous policies. ... Of course we have the leverage,' Sanders said. 'We are funding the war.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-gaza-leverage

-->Of course, the NYT is uninterested in printing Senator Sanders' speech. And the major news outlets followed suit. Pressuring Israel is just off the table for our mainstream media, our Congress and President Biden. This genocide in Gaza is stamped with "Made in America."

Democracy Now:
"New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7. ...[In] early December, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government really began an intense propaganda campaign to convince the world that Hamas had engaged in a systematic campaign of rape aimed at Jewish women and girls. And then they launched this fake criticism of feminist organizations, saying that they had all systematically failed to stand up and denounce this systematic rape regime that had been intentionally implemented by Hamas in the October 7th attacks. And on the day that Netanyahu made his most prominent statement about this, President Biden was at a fundraising event in Boston, and he issued — he made a statement at his speech that echoed what Netanyahu said, and said the world, you know, can’t turn away and ignore this. ...

So, The New York Times, they can’t find anyone who works in the rape crisis centers, at the hospitals, among therapists, that are coming forward and saying, 'Yeah, we saw this,' or 'We have documentation of this,' so they go to people who already were known to have promoted false information, and then they start relying on their testimony to paint this tapestry, this notion that there was a systematic rape regime. And in the New York Times article, they do not ever disclose that their key witnesses have serious credibility problems. So, this is, at a minimum, we are looking at a New York Times piece that failed to inform its readers about severe credibility issues among some of its premier 'witnesses,' quote-unquote, that it put forward in this story. ...

My question is: Where are the corrections in The New York Times piece? The New York Times has grave, grave mischaracterizations, sins of omission, reliance on people who have no forensic or criminology credentials to be asserting that there was a systematic rape campaign put in place here."
[Jeremy Scahill from The Intercept]
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/1/nyt_anat_schwartz

-->This story is so similar to what the NYT did right before the US invasion of Iraq. The newspaper brought in unreliable and obviously biased reporters to say what the Pentagon wanted to hear. When push comes to shove, The NYT is always the empire's mouthpiece. And I say, lets bring back Judith Miller and some of her yellow cake uranium!

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The Guardian UK:
"The US and UK have been accused by university researchers of obstructing a United Nations inquiry into the 1961 plane crash that killed the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld. A conference in London heard an update from the UN assistant secretary general for legal affairs, Stephen Mathias, on progress in the inquiry, which is seeking archive documentation from member states.

The participants said the US and UK had been dragging their feet in handing over potentially vital information. Hammarskjöld, a Swede, died on 18 September 1961 on the way to negotiate a ceasefire between UN peacekeepers in the Congo and separatists from the breakaway Congolese region of Katanga. ...

Susan Williams, a researcher whose 2011 book Who Killed Hammarskjöld contributed to the reopening of the UN inquiry, said the US and UK were 'global outliers. ...The most recent general assembly resolution to renew the investigation was co-sponsored by 142 UN member states out of 193 – but not by the US and the UK,' Williams said."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/uk-us-obstructing-inquiry-death-united-nations-dag-hammarskjold

-->Could it be that the US and UK were involved in killing a UN secretary general? But the NYT didn't cover this story. Again the empire's mouthpiece.

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Counterpunch:
"A little while back, I challenged a group of graduate students to find one article in the New York Times written in the last five years that had anything favorable to say about Russia. Their extensive research turned up one article published in 2021 that described the beneficial effects of global warming on cold countries. The piece was entitled, 'How Russia Cashes In On Climate Change.' Other than that, the newspaper’s sizeable cadre of Russia specialists reported virtually nothing about Europe’s most populous nation other than stories picturing Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation as scheming plotters, corrupt and incompetent rulers, meddlers in other nations’ elections, brutal oppressors of their own people, and aggressive expansionists threatening everyone else’s independence and freedom.

One does not have to be an admirer of Mr. Putin or his right-wing regime to consider this coverage so unbalanced and Russophobic as to amount to a form of warmongering. ...

At times like this, one can only hope that a few sane leaders supported by a public tired of inflammatory rhetoric and needless killing will call a halt to jingoist assumptions of our own side’s essential innocence and the other side’s essential aggressivity. That these assumptions generate billions of dollars in profits for military-industrial corporations does not make them easy to extirpate. Even so, we can demand that journalists who ought to know better stop peddling these lies and exaggerations – and a growing number of clear-eyed citizens will say, 'Amen!' ”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/29/more-anti-russian-hysteria-from-the-new-york-times/

-->Well, we would like to see an end to the warmongering of the NYT. The same is true of other "enemies of the state" like Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Iran. We the people want news, not propaganda.