The New York Times:
"The Rev. Numa Molina wields unusual power for a parish priest in a working-class commuter town near the Caribbean coast. The Venezuelan Jesuit is on a first-name basis with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. He conducts private Masses for Mr. Maduro’s family and advises his son, a ruling party lawmaker, on his outreach to the Roman Catholic Church, Venezuela’s dominant faith. ...

During his workweek, Father Molina traverses Venezuela with armed bodyguards in a white pickup truck with tinted windows, hosts a weekly television program and provides aid to poor Venezuelans.

Father Molina was an early backer of Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, who won a landslide victory in 1998 on a promise of redistributing Venezuela’s oil wealth. His support of the country’s ostensibly socialist government have led detractors to label him the 'Communist Priest.' ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/world/americas/numa-molina-maduro-catholic-church.html

-->Why, this is a story that has something good to say about Maduro and Hugo Chavez! After all these years of warmongering, The NYT casts doubts on a possible US military invasion. Is this the analysis of the Pentagon, which views such an attack as foolhardy and unwinnable? It is hard to tell, but something has changed in the ruling class.  

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 Common Dreams:
"Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers, and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, in the largest regional deployment in decades. ...

With the 'narcoterrorism' accusations against Maduro and associates, Western journalists absolve US officials of the burden of proof (New York Times, 11/4/25; Financial Times, 10/6/25; Wall Street Journal, 11/5/25). There has never been any public evidence about Maduro, or other high-ranking Venezuelan officials indicted by the US, being involved in drug trafficking via the Cartel of the Suns, while a leaked US intelligence memo rejected the notion of government ties to Tren de Aragua. ...

True to form (FAIR.org, 2/9/17, 4/13/18, 7/3/20), many liberal establishment outlets have been more bellicose than the US president they have occasionally chided for murdering scores of civilians in the Caribbean (The Hill, 10/30/25; Foreign Policy, 11/7/25). The New York Times’ Bret Stephens (1/14/25, 10/10/25, 11/17/25) has advocated for a regime-changing military intervention for months (FAIR.org, 2/12/25). Quite tellingly, Stephens does not regret supporting the Iraq War (New York Times, 3/21/23)."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/venezuela-media-war

-->Yes, the US media has been warmongering all along, cheerleading the grand entrance of US troops into yet another quagmire. Endless wars depend on our national media to champion war crimes.

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Aljazeera:
"At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says. Speaking during a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll includes a baby girl who was killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on

It also includes seven other children killed a day earlier, as Israel carried out a wave of attacks across the enclave. 'This is during an agreed ceasefire. The pattern is staggering,' Pires told reporters of the death toll since October 11, the first full day of the truce between Israel and Hamas.

'As we have repeated many times, these are not statistics: Each was a child with a family, a dream, a life – suddenly cut short by continued violence.' Palestinian children have borne the brunt of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with UNICEF estimating last month that 64,000 children have been killed and injured in Israeli attacks since the war began in October 2023."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/21/at-least-67-palestinian-children-killed-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-began-un

-->Is our media just sick of reporting Israel's war crimes? Leave it to Aljazeera to give US citizens a truer picture of the devastation and destruction of the Palestinian people.

Common Dreams:
"Just as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced new branding for the US military campaign in Latin America, now known as 'Operation Southern Spear,' the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday offered a message of peace directly to the people of the United States as he warned against further conflict.

In an exchange with a CNN correspondent during a rally for the nation’s youth in Caracas, Maduro urged President Donald Trump not to prolong the region’s military engagement. Asked if he had a message for the people of the United States, Maduro said in Spanish: 'To unite for the peace of the continent. No more endless wars. No more unjust wars. No more Libya. No more Afghanistan' ...

He said that attacks on boats, which have now claimed the lives of at least 80 people, are part of President Donald Trump’s targeting of 'narco-terrorists.' However, the administration has produced no evidence proving the allegations against these individuals nor shared with the American people the legal basis for the extrajudicial killings that deprive victims of due process."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-more-endless-wars-maduro-says-to-american-people-calling-for-peace-in-face-of-trump-threats

-->The mainstream media never calls into question the US threats and intimidation directed at Venezuela. The US media has only one point of view when it comes to US imperialism.

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Common Dreams:
"Mexico this week led 59 United Nations member states in affirming their support for the International Criminal Court and—without mentioning US officials by name—decrying their sanctions against ICC judges in retaliation for efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders for alleged crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The Mexican mission to the UN delivered a letter reaffirming the 59 nations’ 'continued and unwavering support for the independence, impartiality, and integrity of the ICC,' the Hague-based tribunal that is the world’s only permanent court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression.

'We express our deep concern over recent measures sanctioning ICC officials, staff, and those cooperating with the court,' the letter continues. 'Such measures erode the international rule of law, constitute an unacceptable interference with judicial independence, undermine ongoing investigations, and threaten the global fight against impunity.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mexico-icc-sanctions

-->The NYT didn't cover this latest criticism of US human rights. Again, the US is isolated in the world community.
 
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Common Dreams:
"For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was involved with Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

However, the Epstein/Mossad ties were often labeled by US corporate media as 'unfounded' (New York Times, 8/24/25), dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory' (New York Times, 7/16/25), or said to have been 'largely manufactured by paranoiacs and attention seekers and credulous believers' (New York Times, 9/9/25). Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has claimed that 'Epstein’s conduct, both the criminal and the merely despicable, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mossad or the State of Israel.'

Drop Site‘s investigations into the Handala [a hacking group] have included six major stories since late September, four of which have centered around 'Epstein’s work on behalf of Israeli military interests, particularly as it relates to his role in the development of Israel’s cyber warfare industry.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-mossad-corporate-media

-->The NYT protecting Israel again. Our newspaper of record just doesn't want to hear the connection between Epstein and Israel.

Al Jazeera:
"Members of Irish football’s governing body have approved a resolution instructing its board to submit a formal motion to UEFA requesting the immediate suspension of Israel from European competitions, the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said.

The resolution passed by the FAI members on Saturday cites violations by Israel’s Football Association of two provisions of UEFA statutes: its failure to implement and enforce an effective antiracism policy and the playing by Israeli clubs in occupied Palestinian territory without the consent of the Palestinian Football Association.

The resolution was backed by 74 votes, with seven opposed and two abstentions, the FAI said in a statement. ... The Irish resolution follows calls in September from the heads of the Turkish and Norwegian football governing bodies for Israel to be suspended from international competition."
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/11/8/irish-football-body-overwhelmingly-backs-call-for-israels-ban-from-uefa

-->The momentum keeps increasing. Israel will end up being ostracized by the whole world. And well it should be for slaughtering tens of thousands of children. But readers of th NYT will never know it, since the newspaper keeps stories like this under wraps.

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The Times of Israel:
"Turkey announced Friday that it had issued arrest warrants for alleged genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 36 other senior officials in his government over the war in Gaza against Hamas.

The announcement was met with a firm rebuttal from Israel. Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said Israel 'firmly rejects, with contempt,' the charges, calling them 'the latest PR stunt by the tyrant (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan.'

The Istanbul prosecutor’s office said in a statement that a total of 37 suspects were targeted by the arrest warrants, without providing a full list. They include Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-issues-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-other-israeli-leaders-over-genocide-in-gaza/

-->I don't see this story in the NYT. Why remind its pro Israel readers how isolated this apartheid state has become?

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Adalah Justice Project:
"In a huge win for the Palestine movement and working class people, St. Louis City just became the largest city in the U.S. to pass a resolution to divest from corporations complicit in genocide and human rights violations.

In March, St. Louis residents came together to launch Not Another Nickel, a campaign to divest the city from militarism and genocide profiteering. The campaign quickly gained momentum among St. Louisans who have been suffering after decades of neglect and disinvestment from community infrastructure and services. Together, they demanded transparency, accountability, and a budget that serves people, not profiteers.

Their organizing paid off - this morning, the Board of Aldermen in St. Louis took a historic step and passed the Not Another Nickel resolution in a 10-1-3 vote.
The measure calls on the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of the City of St. Louis to divest from any companies that are complicit in or profit from human rights abuses, including genocide, occupation, apartheid, and systemic racism."
https://mailchi.mp/adalahjusticeproject/1172025?e=77a1f7eb24

 

-->More stories not covered by the NYT. BDS is always considered off limits by the Genocide's newspaper of record.

Middle East Monitor:
"More than 150 writers who contribute to the American newspaper The New York Times have announced a boycott of its opinion section in protest against what they described as 'biased coverage' of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the ongoing war on Gaza.

The writers called on The New York Times management to conduct “a review of anti-Palestinian bias and produce new editorial standards for Palestine coverage”.   They also demanded that 'The New York Times’ editorial board call for a US arms embargo on Israel.' "

In a joint letter, the writers said: 'Until The New York Times takes accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the US-Israeli war on Gaza, any putative ‘challenge’ to the newsroom or the editorial board in the form of a first-person essay is, in effect, permission to continue this malpractice.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251029-over-150-writers-boycott-new-york-times-over-biased-gaza-coverage/

-->I love these petitions that are uncovering the bias of the NYT, this one created for writers for the very same newspaper.

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The Times of Israel:
"With its popularity in the United States crashing, Israel is bankrolling what organizers say will be the largest campaign of its kind to bolster support among evangelical churches, until recently seen as an unshakable base of support for the Jewish state.

The Foreign Ministry has hired an American firm to run the campaign, with plans to spend as much as $4.1 million on marketing aimed at Christians across the Western part of the country, according to newly filed federal disclosures. The documents, filed last week under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, reveal that Show Faith by Works, LLC will execute what it bills as the 'largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in US history. ...'

The initiative is designed to reach churchgoers with digital ads that are explicitly 'pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian,' while dispatching a mobile 'October 7th Experience' exhibit to church parking lots and Christian colleges."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-spend-up-to-4-1m-in-bid-to-bolster-support-among-christians-in-western-us/

->No mention of this story in the NYT. Why not? Again, we have to put this down as reticence to publishing articles critical of Israel.

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TeleSUR:
"On Friday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva suggested that the United States should work together with Latin American countries to combat drug trafficking instead of attempting to invade them through military operations supposedly justified as anti-drug actions.

'Before judging anyone, before punishing anyone, you have to have proof. You can’t simply say you’re going to invade or that you’re going to fight drug trafficking in another country’s territory without taking into account that country’s constitution, the self-determination of its people, and the territorial sovereignty of each nation,' Lula said from Jakarta, the first stop on his tour of Southeast Asia."
https://www.telesurenglish.net/lula-urges-the-u-s-to-cooperate-against-drug-trafficking-instead-of-invading-countries/

-->Another missing story by the NYT. Our newspaper of record is always in favor of US military invasions. It's the Empire's newspaper.

The Guardian UK:
"Warner Bros Discovery has rebuked a pledge signed by more than 4,000 film industry figures to not work with Israeli film institutions 'implicated in the genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people', saying that such a pledge would likely violate its internal policies.

In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson said the company 'is committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful environment for its employees, collaborators, and other stakeholders'.

It continues: 'Our policies prohibit discrimination of any kind, including discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or ancestry. We believe a boycott of Israeli film institutions violates our policies. While we respect the rights of individuals and groups to express their views and advocate for causes, we will continue to align our business practices with the requirements of our policies and the law.' ”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/16/warner-bros-discovery-israel-boycott

-Well, the battle to isolate and censure Israel's film industry is certainly news. But not to the NYT, which often leaves stories like this out. Why remind citizens that they can boycott Israeli cinema.

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Common Dreams:
" 'The EPA’s illegal termination of Solar for All has left states, communities, and businesses across the country in limbo, with critical projects stalled and vulnerable households facing higher energy costs.' ”

Warning that the US Environmental Protection Agency’s termination of the Solar for All program this year came at an especially inopportune time, with electricity bills soaring for families across the country, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday led 32 members of the Democratic caucus in demanding that the Trump administration restore the program.

The Solar for All initiative, which was spearheaded by Sanders (I-Vt.), was meant to create tens of thousands of good-paying jobs while allowing low-income households to benefit from renewable energy. If EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin had not illegally pulled $7 billion that had already been appropriated by Congress, said the lawmakers, Solar for All would have lowered residential electricity bills by at least 20% for nearly 1 million homes and saved working families nearly $9 billion in electric costs."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-executive-order-solar

-->The NYT didn't print this story. As a rule, the billionaires' favorite newspaper doesn't report what Bernie says.  

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Common Dreams:
" ‘Wow’: Observers Surprised After Dem Moderate Rejects AIPAC Cash. 'AIPAC’s brand is increasingly, perhaps irredeemably toxic,' wrote one observer. A centrist Democratic lawmaker on Thursday surprised many political observers when he announced he would be returning donations he’d received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who is running a primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), said that he was rejecting donations from AIPAC because it had aligned itself too closely with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last year was accused of committing crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-donations-seth-moulton

-->The NYT covered this story, but our newspaper of record focused on different issues. To the NYT, the race is all about age, and one's status as a US veteran.

Common Dreams:
"Peace Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize. As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.

If this is what counts as 'peace' in 2025, then the prize itself has lost every ounce of credibility.

Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help 'liberate' Venezuela with bombs under the banner of 'freedom.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-has-no-meaning-when-right-wingers-like-maria-corina-machado-win-the-nobel-prize

-->Why don't you treat yourself to some coverage that is not manufactured by the US Pentagon. We want their oil, and we are prepared to commit war crimes to get it. Try finding that point of view in our mainstream media.

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Common Dreams:
"The Not Above the Law Coalition on Thursday released a report documenting how President Donald Trump’s administration has been corrupting every aspect of federal law enforcement.

The report, titled Trump’s 'Crooked Cops: The Corruption of Federal Law Enforcement,' said that the president has 'gone to extreme lengths to appoint top officials with no compunction about abusing their power to pervert justice to punish political enemies and favor political friends, before showing how these appointees have swiftly eliminated their agencies’ independence from White House political pressure.

'Law enforcement that serves the political interests of the president rather than the public eliminates a core tenet of democracy, namely that we are a country of laws, not of men,' the report emphasizes."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-doj-corruption

-->The story of Trump subverting justice for political gain is pretty classic. Why can't the NYT come out with these facts. Or is the NYT going to pull a Columbia University, and give the government everything it wants?

The Guardian UK:
"The international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel 'the tools of genocide', the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohamad Hasan, said at a meeting in New York of the Hague Group, the growing alliance of countries dedicated to coordinating practical economic and legal steps to isolate Israel over the war in Gaza.

The group, co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, has become a central exchange for practical steps to try to pressure Israel, including stepping up collective action at ports and airports to prevent the transfer of weapons and goods to Israel, including dual-use heavy machinery.

Brazil last week joined the South African action in the international court of justice accusing Israel of a genocide and said Israel’s claim of self-defence had no application in the context of an occupation. Chile, another group member, has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/world-must-deny-israel-tools-of-genocide-says-growing-alliance-of-activist-states

-->Why is the American press afraid to cover this story? It may be because intricate knowledge of the Gaza genocide implies some responsibility, especially if you are a reporter or photographer.

 The Guardian UK:

"The international community has a legal and moral duty to deny Israel 'the tools of genocide', the Malaysian foreign minister, Mohamad Hasan, said at a meeting in New York of the Hague Group, the growing alliance of countries dedicated to coordinating practical economic and legal steps to isolate Israel over the war in Gaza.

The group, co-chaired by South Africa and Colombia, has become a central exchange for practical steps to try to pressure Israel, including stepping up collective action at ports and airports to prevent the transfer of weapons and goods to Israel, including dual-use heavy machinery. Hasan said states also needed to identify the multinational companies found to be enabling Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land.

The group, meeting as world leaders were in New York for the UN general assembly, heard calls to support the aid flotilla trying to break the Israeli siege of Palestine and for Israel to be blocked from international cultural events."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/26/world-must-deny-israel-tools-of-genocide-says-growing-alliance-of-activist-states

-->I keep looking for any reference to the Hague Group in the NYT. So far, there is no mention of it. 

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Common Dreams:

"Finnish President Says Security Council Members Who Violate UN Charter Should Lose Voting Rights. 'The composition of the UN still largely reflects the world of 1945,' said Alexander Stubb. 'As the world has changed drastically, so should the decision-making at the UN.'

Finnish President Alexander Stubb on Wednesday renewed his call for expanding the number of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, abolishing veto power, and stripping voting rights from states that violate the UN Charter.

'Today, the UN is struggling to fulfill its central promise of delivering peace and stability,' Stubb said during his UN General Assembly address. 'Countries have increasingly taken the liberty to break the rules of international law, and to use force to gain other peoples’ territories, and suppress other nations.' ...

Under Stubb’s proposal, all five permanent Security Council members would likely lose voting rights: the United States bombs countries and alleged drug traffickers in violation of international law while backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Russia is invading and occupying Ukraine, Britain and France back Israel’s genocidal war, and China persecutes people within its own borders."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/stubb-finland

-->The NYT writes a lot about Alexander Stubb, but none of it pertains to the genocide of the Palestinian people. Why is our newspaper of record still protecting Israel?

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The Intercept:

"Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel and its military–industrial complex. So when a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdrew from a grant from the Israeli military after hearing feedback from students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it was especially welcome news.

'This is one of the only cases where we know that student activism and public pressure led directly to an Israeli tie being cut, let alone a collaboration with its genocidal military,' said Mila Halgren, a postdoctoral associate at MIT. (The university did not respond to a request for comment.) ...

'This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,' Halgren said. 'It also shows that these ties cannot survive transparency and public awareness. Student action is not meaningless; despite increased repression, it is more important than ever to resist genocide.' ”

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/22/mit-israeli-military-funding-grant-protests

-->Why didn't this story get NYT coverage? Because Israel and the US are afraid of boycotts. And because the NYT is the newspaper of the genocide. 

The Guardian UK:
"Politicians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a foreign threat to condemning 'gender ideology', according to a new study of 60 countries and the EU. ...

As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems.

There is a growing 'weaponisation of hate', said Alberto de Belaúnde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally. He said: 'You talk with a politician from Peru … or Hungary or the UK, you start to see common trends and you realise that it’s a global, coordinated and increasingly well-funded effort to diminish LGBTIQ people.' "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds

-->This story isn't to be found in the NYT. Yet so many people have been put in danger by this homophobic trend in our elections. Why isn't that "fit to print"?

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The Guardian UK:
"A growing number of universities, academic institutions and scholarly bodies around the world are cutting links with Israeli academia amid claims that it is complicit in the Israeli government’s actions towards Palestinians. ...

According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 63,000 people have been killed in the territory – the majority of them civilians – with the true toll likely far higher. UN-backed experts have confirmed parts of Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble, are now in a 'man-made' famine.

In response, a growing number of academic bodies are now distancing themselves from Israeli institutions. Last year the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil cancelled an innovation summit with an Israeli university, while a host of universities across Norway, Belgium and Spain have cut ties with Israeli institutions. Others, including Trinity College Dublin, followed suit this summer."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/13/universities-around-the-world-cut-ties-with-israeli-academia-over-gaza-war

-->The NYT didn't cover this story that shows how unpopular Israel's war crimes are in the rest of the world. Our newspaper of record had stories about BDS, but not on this recent proliferation of academic criticism.

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Common Dreams:
"The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are facing widespread criticism after publishing a false report that the assassin who shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah this week had left behind symbols of 'transgender ideology' at the scene of the crime.

On Thursday, with the assassin still at large, the Journal published a news update stating that 'investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.' The report did not identify what these markings were nor the source of the report, instead attributing it to 'an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.'

The New York Times reported hours later that the bulletin came from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), but noted that 'a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that the report had not been verified by ATF analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlie-kirk-2673989947

-->The NYT wasn't as bad printing stories about this assassination as other national media. But our newspaper of record never criticized these false stories either.

The Guardian:
"Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition. Sunday’s decision was a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.

Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza that it suspects of having links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention. Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death. ...

In the 2-1 ruling, the justices said they found 'indications that the current food supply to prisoners does not sufficiently guarantee compliance with the legal standard'. They said they had found 'real doubts' that prisoners were eating properly, and ordered the prison service to 'take steps to ensure the supply of food that allows for basic subsistence conditions in accordance with the law' ”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/07/israels-supreme-court-says-government-is-not-giving-palestinian-prisoners-enough-food

-->Israel is starving its Palestinian prisoners. It is not so unexpected since Israel is also starving millions to death in Gaza. Yet our pro genocide NYT didn't print this story.

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Mondoweiss:
"Activists and residents are banding together to force companies complicit in the Gaza genocide out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Most New Yorkers are not aware that companies contributing to Israel’s genocide in Gaza operate in their backyard. That is, unless they happen to walk, bike, or drive down Flushing Avenue outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wednesday afternoon, as I did a month ago in which case, they are absolutely aware.

The campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) organizes weekly noise demos and pickets, demanding the eviction of two companies from the city-owned industrial park on the East River, where 550 businesses are located. Protestors bang drums, blare airhorns, picket, chalk sidewalks, fold zines, and hand out flyers reading: 'MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS, EASY AERIAL & CRYE PRECISION, LOCAL WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS IN OUR BACKYARDS.' Most passersby honk their horns, ring their bells and shout their praise; some others gawk at the commotion or scoff in disapproval. But all who pass know that the Brooklyn Navy Yard houses genocide-profiteers. ..

The landlord in question is the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit developer charged with managing business leases at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by the City of New York. DBNY’s demands are simple: evict Easy Aerial and Crye Precision from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and establish a policy of no weapons manufacturers."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/activists-and-residents-are-banding-together-to-force-companies-complicit-in-the-gaza-genocide-out-of-the-brooklyn-navy-yard/

-->This is a story that is so big that the NYT didn't cover it. Student activists joining community groups to oppose shipping to Israel is new. And now that the workers and even public relations businesses are starting to come around, our newspaper of record is starting to get anxious.

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Middle East Eye:
"The Global Sumud Flotilla is already on the move. More than 50 vessels, the largest civilian aid convoy ever assembled for Gaza, have set sail from ports across Europe.

Part of the flotilla has already docked in Tunisia, where it was welcomed by thousands of supporters, before heading to join the rest of the fleet. It is scheduled to set sail from Sidi Bou Said port on 10 September, following weather and logistical delays.

It would not be an exaggeration to call this the boldest humanitarian civil society mission in recent history, destined to take its place alongside some of the most prominent non-violent civil disobedience actions, such as Gandhi's Salt March."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/global-sumud-flotilla-when-states-fail-humanity-sets-sail

-->Another great story, but another failure of our newspaper of record. The NYT is locked up someplace in an Israeli jail. And all its readers are starving for information as the result of its everlasting attempt to hide the American Genocide.

Common Dreams:
"The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States is calling on US lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit—or even just fly over—the Gaza Strip during Israel's ongoing assault.

'Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and US-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on,' the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement late Saturday.' Their mission must not stand alone.'

'Israel's barring them entry to Gaza underscores the urgency of taking decisive steps to end its rampage of death, violence, and destruction,' CAIR continued.' Members of Congress must utilize every tool—diplomatic, legal, and legislative—to ensure that our nation's values and laws demand an end to civilian suffering. The crisis in Gaza is not abstract—it is a matter of life and death. We call on our representatives to act urgently and courageously.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congress-gaza

-->The NYT didn't print this story yet. Why not? Well it calls attention to what any human being should be doing, trying to spread the word that the Palestinians are starving and it is the US - Israel alliance that is to blame for this ultimate war crime.

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Z Network:
"Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States, a Category 5 monster that exposed the raw nerves of inequality, racism, and governmental neglect in the United States. While the storm itself was a force of nature, the true disaster was the response – or lack thereof – from the world’s wealthiest nation. Yet, amidst the chaos and despair, a beacon of international solidarity shone brightly, emanating from an unexpected place: Cuba.

The images are seared into collective memory: rooftops submerged, desperate cries for help echoing through flooded streets, and the Superdome stadium transforming into a squalid shelter. New Orleans, a city with a majority Black population and a vibrant hub of Black culture, bore the brunt. As the levees broke, so too did the illusion of American exceptionalism. Over 1,800 people died, and millions were displaced. The federal government’s response was not only slow but also virtually nonexistent in the crucial initial days. President George W. Bush, vacationing at the time, seemed detached, famously remarking to his FEMA director, 'Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job,” even as the crisis deepened.' ...

Fidel Castro announced that Cuba was ready to send a medical brigade of 1,586 doctors, equipped with 36 tons of medical supplies, to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This wasn’t a conditional offer, nor was it for profit. It was a gesture of unconditional solidarity, rooted in the values of the Cuban people, in offering help to those in need, whether suffering from natural disasters or colonialism.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/20-years-since-katrina-how-the-us-refused-cuban-doctors-as-new-orleans-drowned/

-->This story wasn't given much coverage twenty years ago, and there was hardly any notice in the mainstream media today. The US is as callous as it was two decades ago, and our media tries even harder to hide Cuba's offer to put people before profit.

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The Guardian UK:
"Human rights groups and activists who protest against continued US support for Israel have focused primarily on the flow of US weapons, warning that continuing to send weapons to a state which has been documented using them in probable war crimes makes the US complicit.

However, this week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted another facet of US military support for Israel: military cooperation and intelligence sharing. Individual US military personnel who assist Israeli forces in committing war crimes could face criminal prosecution for their actions, the rights group said.

The US has made no secret of its operational support for Israel throughout its 22-month war in Gaza. The US has provided Israel with intelligence at various points during its military operations, and also embedded US military forces within Israeli operational planning."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/29/israel-war-crimes-gaza-us-military

-->There was very little coverage in the US media about US soldiers being charged with war crimes. Why not? Our mainstream media is still complicit in the starving of two million Palestinians. Someday there will be both US soldiers and reporters charged with crimes against humanity.

Common Dreams:
"Palestinian teenagers kidnapped and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces during the genocidal war on Gaza accused their jailers of torturing and sexually assaulting them in a report published Saturday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

'They took me from the aid distribution site and transferred me to a hospital in Rafah, where I was interrogated for an hour,' one 16-year-old boy identified by his first name Sami, who was abducted on June 29, told ABC. 'They stripped me and conducted a body search. Then, they loaded me into a jeep and transported me to a prison in Israel." ...

'They stripped us of our clothes and took us to Kerem Shalom, completely naked, with nothing,' he continued. 'There, the beatings and torture began ... The Israeli women soldiers beat us. They stripped us and 'played' here, and here, and there,' Mahmoud said, indicating his genitals. 'They beat us with sticks. Got on us while we were lying on the ground. We were handcuffed like that and naked.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-teens-sexually-abused-by-israeli-soldiers

-->The NYT didn't print this story. Are they still checking its veracity? Our "newspaper of record" didn't do too much investigation before it printed endless stories of Palestinians raping Israeli women.

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AP News:
"Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while trying to get food in the Gaza Strip, mostly near aid sites run by an American contractor, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday. ...

Desperation is mounting in the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts say is at risk of famine because of Israel’s blockade and nearly two-year offensive. A breakdown of law and order has led to widespread looting and contributed to chaos and violence around aid deliveries.

Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid — without providing evidence of widespread diversion — and blames U.N. agencies for failing to deliver food it has allowed in. The military says it has only fired warning shots near aid sites. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American contractor, rejected what it said were 'false and exaggerated statistics' from the United Nations."
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-07-22-2025-8eb90d73c1b7499d3dbc8b8d95da65cc

-->This is under the heading of "World News." But the NYT obviously didn't agree. It didn't cover this story. Some of the worst stories about Israel's treatment of Palestinians are just routinely left out.

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Guardian UK
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.

At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians.

That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war

-->This is just another story that has gone down the NYT memory hole. How is it that the New York Post can print a story like this, but not our supposedly "newspaper of record."

 Mondoweiss:
"Israel’s destruction of Gaza grinds on without pause or limit. The army has confirmed plans to invade Gaza City and occupy it, forcing Palestinians to choose between yet another round of displacement or staying to face certain attack. In neighborhoods like Shuja’iyya — once home to 120,000 people — there is nothing left to return to.

This is not a temporary escalation or a breakdown in diplomacy. As Qassam Muaddi reports, Netanyahu’s government is openly preparing for the permanent occupation of Gaza, dangling the prospect of ceasefire talks only to stall criticism and buy time. The U.S. political establishment still treats these theatrics as if they were genuine steps toward peace. They are not; they are covering for more killing.

Even Donald Trump has been forced to acknowledge the Israeli-created famine killing thousands in Gaza. But famine here is not an accident of war; it is a weapon, wielded with intent. As Ahmad Ibsais writes, genocide depends on silencing its witnesses, and Western governments and media have not only ignored it, but they have enabled it."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/weekly-briefing-u-s-protection-keeps-israels-genocide-alive/

-->This analysis of a planned and executed genocide never makes it to US news outlets. The purpose of this war is to eradicate two million, but our media can't quite say that.

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Consortium News:
"When I arrived in Guatemala in 1983 to cover the wars in Central America, which I would do for the next five years, the regime of General Efraín Ríos Montt was carrying out a scorched earth campaign, especially in the highlands of Quiche, Huehuetenango and Baja Verapaz. [Chris Hedges]

The campaign was modeled on the kill-anything-that moves tactics employed by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, an effort to eradicate and control the civilian population in areas dominated by the insurgents, who until 1983 were beating back the Guatemalan army.

The Guatemalan military savagely carried out massacre after massacre in the highlands against indigenous, including the wholesale murder of women, children and the elderly, and razed some 600 villages and towns. The number of disappearances and killings averaged 3,000 per month. President Jimmy Carter had cut most military aid to Guatemala in 1977. Israel, however, filled the void. It equipped the Guatemalan military with Israeli-manufactured Galil automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns.

Israel advisors, estimated to be between 150 and 200, provided surveillance and interrogation training to police and military units. They assisted Ríos Montt in carrying out the 1982 coup that brought him to power. They helped plan Guatemala military sweeps that resembled their own erasure of Palestinian villages and massacres carried out in 1947 and 1948."
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/09/chris-hedges-report-israel-also-sponsored-a-genocide-in-guatemala/

-->The NYT published an elaborate article about 37 Guatemalan women who were raped during this genocide. In all the pictures and the descriptions of the victims, the US is mentioned only once, and Israel gets no recognition at all.

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Medecins Sans Frontieres:
"Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs have been unable to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since 2 March.

Instead of clearing the growing backlog of goods, Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in lifesaving goods, citing that these organisations are 'not authorized to deliver aid.' In July alone, over 60 requests were denied under this justification.

This obstruction has left millions of dollars’ worth of food, medicine, water, and shelter items stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt, while Palestinians are being starved."
https://www.msf.org/gaza-israel-threatens-ban-major-aid-organisations-starvation-deepens

-->Israel is blatantly starving two million people. That's the basic fact that no major media has the stomach to report.

Common Dreams:
"Sanders Takes Oligarchy Fight to Appalachia With Standing-Room-Only Crowd in West Virginia . 'Whoever said West Virginia was a conservative state?' Sanders asked the crowd in Wheeling. 'Somebody got it wrong.' ...

On the latest leg of his Fighting Oligarchy Tour, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders headed to West Virginia for rallies on Friday and Saturday where he continued to speak out against the billionaire class's control over the political system and the Republican Party's cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and other social programs for millions of Americans—and prove that his message resonates with working people even in solidly red districts. ...

Sanders spoke to the crowd about how President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was supported by all five Republican lawmakers who represent the districts Sanders is visiting this weekend, could impact their families and neighbors. 'Fifteen million Americans, including 50,000 right here in West Virginia, are going to lose their healthcare,' Sanders said of the Medicaid cuts that are projected to amount to more than $1 trillion over the next decade. 'Cuts to nutrition—literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids. ... Seven hospitals are expected to shut down in the state as a result of the law's Medicaid cuts, and 84,000 West Virginians will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, according to estimates.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-fighting-oligarchy-tour-dates

-->Of course, this revolution will not be covered by the NYT. Burnie is speaking truth to power, and our newspaper of record will have none of that.

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The Intercept:
"How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image. Columbia University President Claire Shipman said the school retained full independence, but it gave in to virtually all of Trump's demands. ...

Shortly after Columbia University made broad concessions to the Trump administration, the school’s acting president Claire Shipman struck a triumphant tone. 'Columbia retains control over its academic and operational decisions,' Shipman wrote in a July 24 email to the entire university community. In an interview with the campus newspaper, she said the topic of disciplinary action had not even come up in negotiations with the Trump administration.

The claim struck critics of the university’s recent actions as odd on its face. The school had agreed to pay a $200 million fine and make significant changes to its academic operations, disciplinary proceedings, and oversight — including giving the Trump administration access to vast swaths of previously private university documents and data.

Critics of the deal with the Trump administration also noted that Shipman’s claim — that disciplinary action wasn’t discussed — was far-fetched. The announcement of the deal came on the heels of the suspensions and expulsions of almost 80 students who had participated in a sit-in and protest in Butler Library on May 7 — in a newly formulated disciplinary process that hewed closely to government demands."
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/

-->Try to find this analysis in the mainstream media. Our corporate controlled press just can't bring itself to admit that Trump has taken control over most political decisions being made for higher education. And most citizens are still denying the fascist take over our colleges and universities.

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-->Common Dreams:
"Oslo’s Promise Was Always a Lie, Its Legacy Is Starving Palestinians. The blueprint for Gaza’s starvation was laid in the 1993 Oslo Accords and operationalized in 2007, when Israel calculated the minimum number of calories needed to keep Palestinians in Gaza alive. That slow violence has now reached its lethal apex.

Back in 2005, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) signed an agreement intended to ensure the flow of goods and people between Gaza and the West Bank. But instead of improving access, the policy became a tool of restriction. Before 2006, 400 trucks entered Gaza daily. Israel then imposed a limit of 107 trucks, and by 2007, only 67 trucks per day were actually allowed in. ...

What’s unfolding in Gaza today is the result of a strategy decades in the making. The Oslo Accords appeared to offer Palestinian self-rule but, in reality, denied any true sovereignty. Israel maintained full control over borders, security, and the movement of people and goods, while delegating limited responsibilities—like health and education—to the PA. What seemed like a step toward statehood instead institutionalized forced dependency."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oslo-legacy-gaza-starvation

-->More truth to power when it comes to Gaza and the forced starvation of tens of thousands of children. The article is particularly interesting because it describes how the NYT subtly tries to cast doubt on the reports of starvation.

Common Dreams:
"Bloomberg reported on Friday that FBI officials earlier this year redacted the name of U.S. President Donald Trump from the agency's files on late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.


 

Three unnamed sources confirmed to Bloomberg that the FBI had redacted the names of Trump and other prominent public figures even before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that 'no further disclosure' of the Epstein files 'would be appropriate or warranted.' ...

The reviewers applied two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions to justify their redactions, according to the report: One that 'protects individuals against 'a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy' and another that protects against disclosures that 'could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/epstein-files-trump

-->So far this story is being reported on by very few news outlets. Where is the NYT?

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Intercept:
"The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence. Israel’s main justification for its deadly blockade on Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

During its near-total blockade on humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas steals aid and that restricting it will help the two parties achieve a ceasefire. The U.S. and Israel pointed to that argument in May when they handed aid operations over to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a contested American nonprofit that funnels Gazans to limited aid sites where the Israeli army has repeatedly opened fire on starving civilians. At each turn, the New York Times dutifully printed the official justifications.

Then the Times published an article on Saturday reporting that there was 'no proof' that Hamas was stealing aid from the United Nations, citing four anonymous Israeli sources. The story noted that the U.N. aid system, which provided the bulk of the aid to Gaza, was 'largely effective,' and there was no evidence that Hamas regularly stole from the U.N., though the unnamed sources claimed that Hamas did steal from smaller organizations.

But in 61 articles related to Gaza’s hunger crisis the Times published since January, 23 included Israel’s accusations that Hamas was stealing aid. Nine of those stories did not include opposing statements refuting Israel’s claim. Twelve articles of the 61 analyzed by The Intercept cited concerns about Hamas diverting aid without an explicit accusation. At the time of publication, the Times had not added a correction or update to these stories to indicate that the claims were false."
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/30/new-york-times-hamas-aid-israel-gaza-famine/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

-->We are lucky to have news outlets like the Intercept to keep the NYT honest. But the lies spread by the NYT has perpetuated the carnage and starvation in Gaza.

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Common Dreams:
"And, in a certain sense, this debate is not really about Israel. It is about the United States of America, and whether we will abide by U.S. and international law, or whether we will continue to contribute billions of dollars to an extremist government in Israel, which has caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in Gaza. This debate is over whether or not the United States of America will have any moral credibility on the international scene. Whether or not we will be able, with a straight face, to condemn other countries who commit barbaric acts if we don't stand up tonight. That is what we are debating.

M. President, the vast majority of the American people and the world community understand that the Netanyahu government in Israel has gone well beyond defending itself from Hamas. Over the last 21 months, it has waged an all-out, illegal, immoral and horrific war of annihilation against the Palestinian people.

This war has already killed some 60,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 143,000 — most of whom are women, children and the elderly. In a population of just over two million, more than 200,000 people have been killed or wounded since this war began. That, M. President, is 10% of the population of Gaza."
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remarks-sanders-forces-vote-to-stop-arms-sales-to-israel-amid-starvation-in-gaza/

-->Why wouldn't the NYT quote part of Bernie's recent speech to the Senate? It is so moving and so true. It is most certainly "fit to print" if any story is.
 

Mondoweiss:
"The New York Times commitment to Zionism begins with its own staff. [The paper] has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism.

We are putting The New York Times on notice. Since the Zionist genocide in Gaza began over 20 months ago, the 'paper of record' has run cover for Israel’s war crimes. We have witnessed the Zionist entity drop 2,000 pound bombs on displaced Palestinians forced to survive in tents, massacre starving Palestinians at aid sites, arrest and torture Palestinians accused of fighting back or administering care, destroy Gaza’s entire healthcare system, obliterate almost every one of its schools and universities, damage over 90 percent of residential buildings, and block food and supplies from entering the besieged strip. But New York Times journalists have chosen to ignore, whitewash, distort, or justify each one of these crimes. As much as any weapons manufacturer, The New York Times is a part of the machinery of war — producing, in the realm of public opinion, the impunity that enables and sustains Israel’s ongoing genocide."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-new-york-times-commitment-to-zionism-begins-with-its-own-staff

-->The NYT is moving, as is NPR. But were have they been over the last year and a half? They have been covering up for Israel's genocide. And congratulations to the NPR "roundtable" which had its first Palestinian on the program today.

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Common Dreams:
"ADL-Backed Bipartisan Bill Threatens to Censor Israel Criticism on Social Media. The bill’s lead sponsors described it as part of an effort to prevent antisemitic hate. But their comments during a press conference on the measure suggest it will also target critics of Israel. Free speech advocates are raising concerns that a new bipartisan bill would force social media companies to censor criticism of Israel on their platforms.

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) rolled out the bill, called the Stopping Terrorists Online Presence and Holding Accountable Tech Entities (STOP HATE) Act, at a press conference Wednesday, alongside Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). ... Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald—a critic of government efforts to regulate 'misinformation'—suggested that the bill flies in the face of the right's supposed commitments to free speech. 'There was [a] full consensus on the Right for the last decade that Big Tech censorship was a great evil, especially if pressured and demanded by the U.S. government,' he said on X. 'All that changed [when] it came time to censor for Israel.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/adl-bill-censors-israel-criticism

-->The NYT is playing it safe when it comes to media and Israel. Of course, the paper should have covered this story.

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The Intercept:
"It was Tuesday, June 10 when Khalil heard from neighbors that an aid truck had arrived a few kilometers from where he lived in Deir al Balah, Gaza. By then he had already lost about 45 pounds since the war began in 2023. With his brothers and a friend, Khalil set off on foot. On the walk over, the 26-year-old could hear intermittent shelling, but the promise of food, he felt, was worth the risk. ...

When they arrived around 6:30 a.m., a huge crowd was gathering at the aid point in Netzarim. 'People start heading there before sunrise because the lines get impossibly long,' Khalil said. Thousands had clearly gotten the same tip. The sheer amount of desperate, hungry people was overwhelming. Khalil said, 'I hadn’t eaten properly in days. I was dizzy and weak.'

Khalil quickly noticed military presence. 'We saw the Israeli soldiers in full military uniform standing next to their armored vehicles. We arrived knowing the place was dangerous. But, there was no clash, no threat to them,' Khalil said. ...

He stood in line with hundreds of others. There were children, women, and elderly men. 'Some were barefoot, some had been waiting since the night before,' he recalled. As his group inched closer to the point where they hoped they would be able to grab a parcel of items, gunshots rang out. Khalil ran for his life. 'They began shooting directly at unarmed civilians,' he said. 'The bullets were chasing us as if we were targets on a shooting range, and not just hungry people. We scattered under a hail of bullets."
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/21/israel-gaza-famine-food-aid-starvation/

-->Too bad, the NYT can't bring itself to tell this story. It provides some similar stories, but continues to blame the starvation on Hamas and price gouging by sellers.

Common Dreams:
"Despite Board Capitulation, NEA Teachers Still Reject Anti-Defamation League.
NEA's commitment to free speech may be tested should the ADL object to teachers introducing lessons on the history of Zionist erasure of Palestine.

In a gut punch to the base, National Education Association leaders lickety-split dismissed a motion passed by a majority of the NEA’s 7,000 delegates not to partner with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for curriculum or professional development. ...

'The ADL is not a neutral body. It is a bully pulpit that is used to disrupt, dox, and target supporters of Palestine, and opponents of racism, transphobia, and oppression,' said Greenspan [Jewish Voice for Peace delegate]. 'We will continue to speak out and rise up in NEA until justice is served.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/adl-national-education-association

-->So far the NYT has not carried news about the NEA teachers' rebelling against their union leaders. There is a groundswell of support for Palestine, a country and a people being exterminated by the Israeli military. Why only tell half this story?

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Common Dreams:
"Pope Demands 'Immediate Halt to the Barbarity' of Israel's War on Gaza. Pope Leo XIV said the Israeli military's deadly attack on Gaza's sole Catholic Church was 'just one of the continuous military attacks against the civilian population and places of worship' in the Palestinian enclave. ...

Pope Leo's remarks came as the Israeli military issued expanded evacuation orders in central Gaza and killed more than 80 people across the enclave as they sought to obtain food aid amid an increasingly dire hunger crisis fueled by Israel's blockade. ...

The U.N. World Food Program said 25 trucks with aid had entered for 'starving communities' when it encountered massive crowds that came under gunfire. the outlet continued. Nafiz Al-Najjar, who was injured, said tanks and drones targeted people 'randomly' and he saw his cousin and others shot dead."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/pope-leo-gaza

-->Is the NYT just holding this story for now? That is quite inexcusable, since it reflects on how millions of Catholics will perceive the holocaust of the 21 century.


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Z Network:
One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsible public-service broadcaster should also scrutinise the government’s actions and statements, and challenge them robustly.

Instead, as Declassified UK has reported, Britain’s ‘obedient’ defence correspondents, including BBC journalists, are covering up British spy flights for Israel. The RAF has carried out more than 500 surveillance flights over Gaza since December 2023. The Ministry of Defence insists that the flights, undertaken by aircraft based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, are solely to assist in providing information about Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October 2023. But the British ‘mainstream’ media – which largely serves state-corporate interests, not the public interest – have not carried out a single investigation into the extent, impact or legal status of these flights. ...

This is surely a significant question that responsible journalists should be raising; particularly, the national broadcaster. But, as Declassified UK has observed, the BBC has essentially remained ‘silent’ on whether these flights are contributing to the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide and war crimes in Gaza."
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/burying-genocide-the-bbc-gaza-and-the-role-of-the-uk/

-->Corporate power is able to hide another war crime, this time committed by the British defense contractors. Most Western countries will end up with blood on their hands. Why isn't that news?

World News:
"LONDON (AP) — More than 70 people were arrested Saturday at protests in the U.K. against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organization by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base.
In London, the Metropolitan Police said 42 people had been arrested by late afternoon. All but one of the arrests were for showing support for a proscribed organization, which police have said includes chanting, wearing clothing or displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. Another person was arrested for common assault.

A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester, according to Greater Manchester Police, while South Wales Police said 13 people were also held in Cardiff.
In London, it was the second straight week protesters gathered to support the pro-Palestinian activist group. Its outlawing has meant support for the organization is deemed a criminal offense. Police arrested 29 people at a similar protest last weekend."
https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/world-news/ap-more-than-40-arrested-at-london-protest-in-support-of-banned-group-palestine-action/

-->This seems to be a non story in the US. Maybe that's because UK demonstrators are being arrested for flying flags and chanting. The common thread is the use of criticism of Israel as part of the arrest warrants. That is coming to our shores very soon.

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The Guardian: UK
"Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitism. The 'humanitarian city' Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation. ... 'It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,' he said, when asked about the plans laid out by Israel Katz last week. Once inside, Palestinians would not be allowed to leave, except to go to other countries, Katz said.

Katz has ordered the military to start drawing up operational plans for construction of the “humanitarian city” on the ruins of southern Gaza, to house initially 600,000 people and eventually the entire Palestinian population.

'If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new 'humanitarian city', then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing. It hasn’t yet happened,” Olmert said. That would be 'the inevitable interpretation' of any attempt to create a camp for hundreds of thousands of people, he said."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/israel-humanitarian-city-rafah-gaza-camp-ehud-olmert

-->The NYT isn't interested in what Olmert has to say. This story gets eliminated because it honestly portrays what is going to happen to the Palestinians.

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Common Dreams:
"Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: ...
'If President Trump will not even put America first when Israel murders American citizens, then this is truly an Israel First administration,' said one U.S. group.

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Health and cousins of Sayfollah Musallat—also known as Saif al-Din Kamel Abdul Karim Musallat—said Friday that Israeli settlers beat the dual U.S.-Palestinian citizen to death while he was visiting family in the illegally occupied West Bank.

A spokesperson for the ministry, Annas Abu El Ezz, told Agence France-Press that 23-year-old Musallat 'died after being severely beaten all over his body by settlers in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, this afternoon.'

Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, from the nearby village of Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya, said that 'the young man was injured and remained so for four hours. The [Israeli] army prevented us from reaching him and did not allow us to take him away.' "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence-west-bank


-->The NYT did a typical coverup for Israel. Its headline reads "Two Palestinians Are Killed in a West Bank Clash With Israeli Settlers." According to the NYT, there had been "a violent exchange on Friday between Palestinians and Israeli civilians." And why the delay in printing this story?

Common Dreams:
" 'The Trump regime is gutting scientific research into climate and atmospheric science for political reasons, at the very time we need a much better understanding of it,' said one environmentalist. 'This is so reckless and dangerous.'

Deadly flooding caused by torrential rain in central Texas late last week called attention to U.S. President Donald Trump's full-scale assault on the climate research and monitoring agencies tasked with studying and predicting such weather catastrophes, as well as his ongoing attacks on disaster preparedness and relief.

Though local National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters did issue warnings in the lead-up to Friday's flooding—which killed at least 82 people, including dozens of children—key roles were reportedly vacant ahead of the downpour, prompting scrutiny of the Trump administration's mass firings and budget cuts, in addition to years of neglect and failures by Republicans at the state level."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-texas-flooding

-->The NYT didn't say much about the failure to forecast this disaster. Why not? The NYT spent a lot of ink on the obvious. But why not a headline about who is responsible? Maybe the newspaper has something to gain from omitting the story.

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Jewish Currents:
"An April 29th report from the Harvard University task force on 'combating antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias' at the school has revealed that the university is contracting Project Shema to instruct students, faculty, and staff on antisemitism. In an appendix section nearly 200 pages into the 311-page report, the task force notes that various campus departments and offices have held such workshops with the group since October 7th. Altogether, Project Shema has led or co-led at least ten events regarding Jewish identity and antisemitism at the university in the last 20 months, according to the task force report and event listings reviewed by Jewish Currents, and has plans for more programming at Harvard in the coming school year.

On a campus that has been a focal point for political battles over Palestine-related activism, antisemitism allegations, and DEI in higher education, Project Shema’s trainings have mostly flown under the radar, stirring little controversy. But they have received some criticism: In October 2024, a group of Harvard faculty signed an ultimately unsuccessful petition to cancel an antisemitism and Islamophobia workshop organized by the school’s DEI office and co-led by Project Shema. The petitioners accused Project Shema of conflating antisemitism and anti-Zionism and called out the group for previous collaborations with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
 
Since 2021, a progressive campaign has pushed institutions to 'drop the ADL' as a partner due to its strident Israel advocacy, and the ADL’s increasingly hawkish post-October 7th posture, including its initial support of the Trump administration’s deportations of student protesters, has turned off even some liberals who were once sympathetic."
https://jewishcurrents.org/inside-the-new-group-giving-antisemitism-trainings-at-harvard

-->No mention of Project Shema, the thought police training for Harvard University students and faculty. This should be a hot topic because it is such a transparent tactic of the McCarthy Era. Come to think of it, The NYT required its reporters to sign Loyalty Oaths in the 1950s.

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The Progressive Newswire:
"SEVILLA, Spain - In response to Spain, Brazil and South Africa’s new global coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at the Fourth Financing for Development Conference in Seville, Oxfam Tax Justice Policy Lead Susana Ruiz said: 'We welcome the leadership of Brazil, Spain and South Africa in calling for taxes on the super-rich.

People around the world are pushing for more countries to reject the corrupting political influence of oligarchies. Taxation of the super-rich is a vital tool to secure sustainable development and fight inequalities. The wealth of the richest 1% has surged $33.9 trillion since 2015, enough to end annual poverty 22 times, yet billionaires only pay around 0.3% in real taxes.

'This extreme inequality is being driven by a financial system that puts the interests of a wealthy few above everyone else. This concentration of wealth is blocking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and keeping over three billion people living in poverty: over half of poor countries are spending more on debt repayments than on healthcare or education.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/oxfam-reaction-to-spain-brazil-and-south-africa-launching-a-new-coalition-to-tax-the-super-rich

-->The Guardian carried this story. But I couldn't find it in The New York Times.

The Intercept:
"This constitutes 'a likely war crime' that violates international standards on aid distribution, according to the United Nations. 'Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food,' the U.N. human rights office said. Palestinian health authorities reported that Israel killed 44 people waiting for aid in separate incidents in southern and central Gaza just on Tuesday this week. Israeli soldiers have reportedly killed aid-seekers with bullets, tank shells, and drone-mounted weapons. 

Israeli officers and soldiers said that they were ordered to deliberately fire at unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday; the military prosecution has called for a review into possible war crimes.

The Israeli military has said reports about casualties at aid sites have prompted 'thorough examinations … in the Southern command' and that 'instructions were issued to forces in the field following lessons learned.' 'The aforementioned incidents are under review by the competent authorities,' an unnamed spokesperson for the Israeli military said in a statement emailed to The Intercept. ...

An open letter published earlier this week by more than a dozen human rights and legal advocacy groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Commission of Jurists, condemned the organization. The letter stated that the privatized, militarized aid distribution system — and close collaboration with Israeli authorities — undermines 'the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.' "
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/27/israel-killed-palestinians-food-aid-gaza/

-->Don't bother looking for this story in the NYT. Our newspaper of record distorts the news about Gaza by leaving stories like this out.  

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Common Dreams:
"Israel Defense Forces commanders ordered troops to shoot and shell aid-seeking Palestinian civilians in Gaza, even when they posed no threat, according to IDF officers and soldiers interviewed by Israel's oldest daily newspaper. Haaretz on Friday published testimonies of IDF members including senior officers who said that commanders including Brig. Gen. Yehuda Vach ordered troops to open fire on aid-seeking Palestinians in order to disperse them, even when there was no danger to Israeli troops.

'It's a killing field,' one soldier said. 'Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force—no crowd-control measures, no tear gas—just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.'

The IDF has repeatedly told international media after these massacres they will investigate the circumstances. Haaretz investigated and was able to confirm direct orders to shoot at unarmed civilians seeking aid."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-gaza-aid-killings

-->The details of a genocide makes it all real. The families gunned down trying to get their children food. Details are what the Israeli newspaper Haaretz provides, but not the NYT.

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Common Dreams:
"The Vilification of Zohran Mamdani–and Why He's Right About Israel's Genocide. Bloviating about Mamdani's alleged antisemitism for criticism of Israel has garnered more attention than a shocking report that Israeli soldiers are ordered to shoot at civilians waiting for aid in Gaza.

It says a lot about how corrupted U.S. politics have become that so many elected leaders, Republicans and Democrats, are more enraged about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City's opposition to the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza than they are about Israeli policy itself. And U.S. complicity with it.

That contradiction became especially apparent in recent days when the bloviating about Zohan Mamdani's alleged antisemitism for criticism of Israel has garnered more attention than a shocking report in an Israeli publication, Haaretz, that Israeli soldiers are 'ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamdani-gaza-genocide

-->This opinion won't be seen in the NYT. Our newspaper of record likes stories like these. Anything to get its readers not to focus on the genocide unfolding in front of their noses.

The Guardian:

"Harvard is suing to stop the Trump administration’s unprecedented interference in the operation of the university, supposedly to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. ...

We are part of a group of 27 Jewish scholars of Jewish studies who have filed an amicus brief in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. We submitted the brief, drafted by the civil rights attorney Yaman Salahi, because we support the university’s fight against government overreach. Yet in doing so, the institution has committed a different kind of discrimination – one that violates federal civil rights law. We reject Harvard’s troubling assumption that being Jewish necessitates supporting Israel, or that criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza constitutes antisemitism. ...

Harvard’s own complaint and legal filings perpetuate a pernicious fiction: that protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza stem from prejudice against Jewish students rather than moral opposition to the systematic destruction of Palestinian life. This narrative relies on three false assumptions: that Jewish communities hold monolithic pro-Israel views, that Jewish students cannot tolerate different perspectives on Israel-Palestine, and that exposure to criticism of Israel constitutes a civil rights injury."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/harvard-jews-srael-discriminatory

-->Why do we have to read about this in The Guardian? Well, because no matter how you spin this story, it makes Zionists look bad. Like Joe McCarthy's famous lists of Communists in the government, antisemitism is has become a bogus claim, used to attack critics of the Gaza genocide.

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Common Dreams:
"Climate action, pro-democracy, and other civil society groups have warned for months that the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are intent on cutting essential programs that millions of Americans rely on while providing the richest households and corporations with at least $5 trillion in tax cuts and other benefits.

But while tech CEO Elon Musk has been highly visible since President Donald Trump took office and selected him to spearhead the administration's slashing of hundreds of thousands of federal jobs at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—an advisory board Musk has since left—other billionaires who are among the top people set to cash in from Trump's policies are less known to the public, even as they wield considerable influence over corporate regulations, privatization, and right-wing attacks on renewable energy.

In a report released Tuesday, the grassroots group Popular Democracy in Action details how six of the top beneficiaries of Trump's assault on social services and his xenophobic, pro-corporate, anti-science policies are cashing in while people across the U.S. struggle with the rising cost of living; fear the administration's mass deportation campaign; and brace for cuts to Medicaid, education, and Social Security.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oligarchy

-->The NYT talks about election strategy, rather than outline the basic economic problem that both parties have: income inequality and rule by the very rich.

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Electronic Intifada:
"On 13 July 2024, nine months after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza had begun, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, The Lancet, published a letter from Zion Hagay, Chairman of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), and Malke Borow, the head of the IMA legal department. ...

'The number of health workers killed in Gaza is high because Hamas appropriated several healthcare facilities as command centres … where they stored and launched weapons, and even held hostages. In such a case, the hospital loses any protection afforded it by the Geneva Convention.'

In response, I and others submitted the following letter, as an ethically necessary corrective. 'In casting the Israeli military as essentially blameless, Hagay and Borow seek to use the international stature of The Lancet to distort the public record of the Gaza crisis. They dismiss en bloc the International Court of Justice regarding a finding of genocide, the International Criminal Court, United Nations, WHO and major humanitarian agencies'. ”
https://electronicintifada.net/content/taming-medical-journal-undermines-academic-freedom/50758

-->The Zionists will use any falsehood they can to hide the genocide. This story was planted in the lancet, a world recognized scientific publication. I don't see the story in the NYT.