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.

Common Dreams:
"Joined by retired military officers and national security experts, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen on Thursday launched a campaign targeting the nearly $900 billion Pentagon budget and the $100 billion spent on nuclear weapons and 'to get our country to start funding the American Dream instead of the death of millions of people.'

Standing near Union Station in Washington, D.C. beside a towering sculpture showing what $100 billion looks like, supporters of the Up in Arms campaign—a planned four-year public education and advocacy project 'to bring common sense to the Department of Defense and the country's budgetary bottom line'—chanted, 'Money for the poor, not nuclear war!'

'There will be no peace, there will be no security, until we start using our resources to provide for the needs of our people at home and around the world,' Cohen said at the event. 'And we have the money to do it, at no additional taxpayer expense. If we take half the money budgeted for the Pentagon and invested in the things people need and want, the American Dream can become a reality again.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cohen-up-in-arms

-->The NYT won't be the first newspaper to promote a nuclear free zone where people's needs are met. Our newspaper of record has been in favor of the last 9 wars the US has waged.

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Electronic Intifada:
"Twenty months into its livestreamed and accelerating genocide in Gaza, it would hardly be controversial to conclude that Israel is one of the world’s most hated countries.

But a new global survey from the US-based Pew Research Center indicates just how unpopular it has become, especially in the North American and European states where Tel Aviv has always drawn its main sources of financial, military and political support.

'In 20 of the 24 countries surveyed, around half of adults or more have an unfavorable view of Israel,' Pew reported on 3 June. 'Around three-quarters or more hold this view in Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.'
Pew says it last asked the question in 10 of the countries included in its new survey in 2013. 'In seven of these countries, the share of adults with a negative view of Israel has increased significantly.' ”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/revulsion-israel-surges-worldwide-new-survey-finds

-->Bad news for Israel and its war crimes. But you won't get to read about it in the NYT.

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Common Dreams:
"Hundreds of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague on Sunday to demand more action against the "genocide" in Gaza.

NGOs such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and Oxfam organized the demonstration, which ran through the city to the International Court of Justice. The protesters were all dressed in red, creating a 'red line'.

Organisers described it as the country's largest demonstration in two decades. Many waving Palestinian flags and some chanting 'Stop the Genocide', the demonstrators turned a central park in the city into a sea of red on a sunny afternoon."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hundreds-of-thousands-form-red-line-around-the-hague

-->More bad news for apartheid Israel. But the NYT has failed to cover the story, again.

The Irish Times:
"The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour’s drive away Palestinians are starving

June is here. Summer has arrived. And the beaches in Tel Aviv are full. Just an hour’s drive away, two million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. The incongruity of those few words and the bizarre contrast of imagery – the busy beach in Tel Aviv, the dystopia in Gaza – are hard to digest, I imagine, for many in Ireland. They are perhaps shocking, incomprehensible, and sickening even. This, however, is the reality of life, and of course death, here in Israel and nearby Gaza.

Writing those words does not come with judgment. I am simply observing. I also went to the beach in Tel Aviv last weekend. My photograph accompanies the digital version of this article. I recently returned from a 10-day holiday in Spain with my two young daughters. As we descended into Ben Gurion airport, I was struck by the casual announcement of the El Al air stewardess when she politely requested passengers to donate to the spare change program to support children in need in Israel. I wondered if, when hearing those words, “children in need in Israel”, any of my fellow passengers thought for a moment about the estimated 18,000 Palestinian children dead in Gaza and the hundreds of thousands more on the brink of famine."
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/06/07/as-palestinians-starve-an-hours-drive-away-in-gaza-here-in-israel-everyone-went-to-the-beach/

-->Reporting on Gaza is pretty straight forward in the United States. The TV networks hardly report anything at all. Sometimes The NYT will print a groundbreaking story like that of professor Maura Finkelstein who was fired for speaking out about Palestine. But readers in the United States are never presented with their lack of caring while tens of thousands of children starve. We are never reminded of our amorality. We have to go to the Irish Times to express that.

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Common Dreams:
"Professors Express Outrage Over UMich's Use of Investigators to Surveil Gaza Student Protestors. 'My university has no business doing this,' wrote one professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Multiple professors expressed outrage on Friday in response to reporting from The Guardian, which found that the University of Michigan is making use of undercover investigators to keep tabs on pro-Palestinian groups on campus.

'My university has no business doing this. I love the University of Michigan, and this is not how we should operate,' said University of Michigan Law School professor Sam Bagenstos, writing from his personal Bluesky account.

The Guardian spoke to several unnamed students who said that they have been followed, recorded, or eavesdropped on private investigators. Students who spoke to the outlet tracked dozens of investigators who have trailed them around campus."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-gaza-surveillance

-->The big story here is the lack of any coverage of the US Government spying on students. You can even find the story in Israeli newspapers. But not here. Is the political surveillance by our government so pervasive that no one gets upset?

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Common Dreams:
"Devastating Report Details an Occupied Palestine on 'Edge of Erasure ...
The world is witnessing Israel relentlessly starve and bomb Palestinians with total impunity,' said one humanitarian worker in the region.

A new report by a leading Quaker social justice organization urges observers of Israel's bombardment and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza and its accelerated annexation of the West Bank to see the 'escalating violations' not as isolated pushes for control of the occupied territories but something much more sinister and profound.

According to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), SC), the policies and violence Israel is perpetrating on people across the territories are 'systematic and risk the erasure of Palestinians.'

The group joined leading humanitarian organizations that have spent years providing aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza—only to have their work impeded and made deadly by the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) attacks—in releasing The Edge of Erasure, a comprehensive look at the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestine-occupation

-->The Western media isn't too interested in the erasure of the Palestinian people. There was very little coverage of this story.

Common Dreams
"Experts Warn Trump Attack on Nuclear Regulator Raises Disaster Risk. 'Simply put,' said one critic, 'the U.S. nuclear industry will fail if safety is not made a priority.'

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders that will overhaul the independent federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants in order to speed the construction of new fissile reactors—a move that experts warned will increase safety risks.

According to a White House statement, Trump's directives 'will usher in a nuclear energy renaissance,' in part by allowing Department of Energy laboratories to conduct nuclear reactor design testing, green-lighting reactor construction on federal lands, and lifting regulatory barriers 'by requiring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to issue timely licensing decisions.' The Trump administration is seeking to shorten the yearslong NRC process of approving new licenses for nuclear power plants and reactors to within 18 months."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nuclear-regulatory-commission-trump


-->One more environmental disaster after another. Yet the NYT didn't cover this important story. The paper has always been pro nuclear energy.

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Orinoco Tribune:
"Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello confirmed the arrest of a group of 38 mercenaries involved in a conspiracy seeking to sabotage Venezuela’s legislative and regional elections scheduled for May 25.

In a press conference held this Monday, May 19, Minister Cabello also explained that of the 38 new detainees—including explosives experts, coyotes, and mercenaries—17 are foreigners (from Colombia, Mexico, and Ukraine) and 21 are Venezuelans.

'A few days ago, we received information that I warned about. I confirm it, explosive attacks specifically targeting embassies in Venezuela. They say in their meetings that if they bomb an embassy, the whole world will find out, and there will be talk of the government’s ‘weakness.’ People who have no scruples whatsoever,' he said."
https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-minister-cabello-confirms-arrest-of-38-mercenaries-amid-new-terrorist-plot/

-->Foreign plots to overthrow Venezuela. The plots are hatched in the US, and then covered up by the US media. All the news that's fit to print never involves plots by the CIA.

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Truthout:
"A new analysis has found that nearly $80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent over the past 50 years, as neoliberal policies have come to roost and billionaires are poised to use their vast power to worsen wealth inequality in the coming years.

Five years ago, researchers for RAND found that roughly $47 trillion earned by the working class between 1975 and 2018 was instead given to the richest 1 percent, in 2018 dollars. This calculation was based on calculations of the growth of the bottom 90 percent in the decades after World War II, when income distribution held steady between groups.

In a new analysis published last month by RAND extending the analysis to 2023, RAND found that that figure is now $79 trillion in 2023 dollars, with inflation accounting for roughly $10 trillion of the growth."
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-1-percent-has-sapped-79t-in-wealth-from-bottom-90-percent-since-1975/

-->No sign of this story in the NYT. Why wouldn't readers of the NYT be interested in how their news is being manipulated?

Popular Resistance:
"There are now credible reports from many sources that the levels of extermination and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza strip is higher than officially released and in 19 months could be over 250,000 [1]. ... Over 200,000 are already out of the Gaza strip (enriching pockets of Egyptian officials who demanded $5000-10,000/person for exit) and 95% of the remaining population homeless.  Perhaps that is why Trump is now speaking about taking one million (who are left) Palestinians to Libya after Israel finished cleaning them from all areas of Gaza towards the south concentration camp of Rafah.

The bad news may lead some to despair and tell us we are entering a new dark age [5]. Yet, candles in this darkness are far too many to snuff out by the Zionist/imperial/colonial juggernaut [6]. Actually hundreds of millions of good people acting positively for sustainability, peace and justice. Look around you for these positive initiatives and support them and create more. Organize.

Afterall, every social positive movement came from such people action: there are thousands of examples from women right to vote to civil rights to Zapatista empowerment to Rohingya to Algeria and Vietnam independence. Even in the heart of the empire today, the movement is tremendous. Look at student movements at universities or even common people in Palestine and how they resist. These are the true heroes. The profiteers (oppressors) will be swept to the dustbin of history. They are the few, we the oppressed are the many and must organize better (it is an existential threat). Action based on knowledge is the best antidote for despair.
https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2025/05/dustbin-of-history.html

-->These numbers are not being reported in our mainstream media. Nor is there an awareness of a growing movement in the empire to end predatory wars against the world's indigenous peoples

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The Intercept:
"Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.

The report makes explicit the extent to which the tech giant understood the risk of providing state-of-the-art cloud and machine learning tools to a nation long accused of systemic human rights violations and wartime atrocities. Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations.
A third-party consultant Google hired to vet the deal recommended that the company withhold machine learning and artificial intelligence tools from Israel because of these risk factors.

Three international law experts who spoke with The Intercept said that Google’s awareness of the risks and foreknowledge that it could not conduct standard due diligence may pose legal liability for the company. The rarely discussed question of legal culpability has grown in significance as Israel enters the third year of what has widely been acknowledged as a genocide in Gaza — with shareholders pressing the company to conduct due diligence on whether its technology contributes to human rights abuses."
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/

-->The NYT did a story about Google and Israeli contracts. But the paper didn't print this confirmation that Google is, in fact, involved in committing war crimes.

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Palestine Chronicle:
"The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), the country’s largest labor federation, has voted in favor of a comprehensive boycott of Israel, including a ban on trade and investment with Israeli companies. The decision was passed with an overwhelming 88 percent majority during LO’s national congress, held in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, from May 8 to 9, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

The Palestine Committee of Norway also announced the move on its Instagram page, saying the LO 'will introduce an economic boycott of Israel, with 240 votes for economic boycott, and 69 votes against.'

It said the resolution 'means that LO now requires that the State Pension Fund abroad, Norwegian companies and financial institutions withdraw from companies that contribute to the Israeli occupation. ... The resolution shows strong support among LO’s one million members to introduce boycott, divestment and sanctions,' it added."
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/overwhelming-majority-norways-largest-trade-union-votes-for-boycott-of-israel/

-->BDS? you won't read about it in our corporate controlled media.

Common Dreams:
"Warnings Grow Over US and Israel-Backed Plan for Gaza Aid. The plan 'contravenes basic humanitarian principles,' said a spokesperson for the United Nation's children's agency.

United Nations aid officials have rejected a U.S. and Israel-backed plan for aid delivery in Gaza that reportedly involves the use of a private foundation and U.S. military security contractors to deliver far less humanitarian assistance than the besieged enclave needs.

Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), warned Friday that the agency 'will not participate.'
'There is no reason to put in place a system that is at odds with the DNA of any principled humanitarian organization,' Laerke told the BBC.

Since early March, Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza, compounding widespread misery and hunger in the besieged enclave as Israel continues to mount a deadly military campaign there. U.N. officials have decried the fact that aid is close at hand but is not being allowed in."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-aid-gaza-humanitarian-foundation

-->Food is gone for millions of Palestinians. But so is the news coverage by the genocide's newspaper, The NYT. It didn't cover this story.

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Common Dreams:
"Democrats' Bill Would Extend Social Security and Medicare Solvency 'As Far as the Eye Can See.' 'Working-class seniors pay into Social Security and Medicare their whole careers so they can enjoy a dignified retirement, but they end up paying a much larger share of their income in taxes than billionaires because the tax code is rigged in favor of the rich."

Social Security and Medicare protect tens of millions of American senior citizens from poverty and medical bankruptcy each year, but economic justice advocates have long said the programs would be strengthened and remain fully solvent for as long as possible if the richest Americans contributed more to them—and on Thursday two Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to ensure they do.
The bicameral bill, the Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act, was reintroduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), with the aim of requiring people with yearly incomes of more than $400,000 to contribute a fairer share of their wealth to the two programs."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-medicare-2671925476

-->I don't see this dramatic defense of Social Security in the NYT. The truth is, our newspaper of record has always favored Wall Street's plans to privatize Social Security.

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The Guardian UK:
"Netherlands urges review of EU-Israel trade deal over ‘catastrophic’ Gaza aid block
Foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp tells top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas he believes Israel is in breach of rights obligations linked to trade agreement.

The Dutch government, seen as one of Israel’s most loyal allies in the European Union, is calling for an urgent review of the EU Israel association agreement, the basis for the EU-Israeli free trade agreement, the Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp told the Guardian.

Veldkamp described the Israeli ban on the supply of aid into Gaza as 'catastrophic, truly dismal' and in clear breach of international humanitarian law. He has written to the head of the European Union foreign service Kaja Kallas requesting an urgent review, saying he believes Israel is now in breach of the association agreement."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/07/netherlands-urges-review-of-eu-israel-trade-deal-over-catastrophic-gaza-aid-block

-->Israel is now in breach of international humanitarian law. But readers of the NYT will never have to ponder Israel's role in starving tens of thousands of children to death. the NYT didn't print this story.

The Intercept:
"New York University School of Law barred 31 pro-Palestine law school students from campus facilities and demanded that they sign away their right to protest in exchange for being allowed to return. If the students — deemed 'personae non grata,' or PNG — don’t renounce their right to protest on campus, they will be unable to sit for final exams.

'You may not participate in any protest activity or disruptive activity on Law School property,' says the so-called 'Use of Space Agreement' sent to the students, which explicitly lays out conditions for being allowed to return to key campus buildings during the school’s 'exam period.'

The law students, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid further repercussions from the school, are accused of participating in sit-ins, a time-honored form of nonviolent demonstration that is allowed according to NYU policy. The sit-ins on March 4 and April 29 took place, respectively, at the school’s Bobst Library and outside the office of the law school dean. ... Barring the students from campus and demanding they refrain from protesting represents a dramatic escalation against NYU students involved in demonstrations against Israel’s war on Gaza — breaking with school policy and upending precedents for disciplinary procedures, said seven of the PNG students who spoke with The Intercept, as well as other NYU students and faculty.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/03/nyu-law-students-protests-gaza-palestine-israel/

-->The NYT hasn't covered this story yet. Chances are it will come out buried somewhere where people won't complain about it. This fascist assault on the rights of students makes NYU a willing participant in the end of free speech in the US.

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Consortium News:
"I [Chris Hedges] am sitting in the auditorium at The New York Times. It is the first time I have been back in nearly two decades. It will be the last. The newspaper is a pale reflection of what it was when I worked there, beset by numerous journalistic fiascos, rudderless leadership and myopic cheerleading of the military debacles in the Middle East, Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, where one of the Times contributions to the mass slaughter of Palestinians was an editorial refusing to back an unconditional ceasefire. Many seated in the auditorium are culpable.

I am here, however, not for them but for the former executive editor they are honoring, Joe Lelyveld, who died earlier this year. He hired me. His departure from the Times marked the paper’s steep descent. ... On the front page of the program of the memorial, the year of his death is incorrect — emblematic of the sloppiness of a newspaper that is riddled with typos and errors. ...

Lelyveld came back for a brief interim. But the senior editors who followed were of little improvement. They were full-throated propagandists – Tony Judt called them 'Bush’s useful idiots' – for the war in Iraq. They were true believers in the weapons of mass destruction."
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/17/chris-hedges-requiem-for-the-nyt/

-->The NYT hasn't had a story about Gaza for several days now. Plenty on Ukraine. of course. Young boy killed by an Islamophobic right winger, and the boat to Gaza attacked. But nothing beyond that. So maybe Hedges is correct. The genocide won't be televised.

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UltimasNoticias:
"On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 'Liberation of Saigon,' when communist troops from the North entered the presidential palace of South Vietnam in 1975 and ended the war, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, expressed his admiration for the people of Vietnam, for being a beacon of inspiration for countries around the world.

In this context, the President described Vietnam's victory as a catastrophic defeat for the American empire, as their courage demonstrated that 'when a people want to be free, they achieve it, and Vietnam defeated the greatest military machine on planet Earth.'

He also said that Ho Chi Minh's heroic war was an example of the struggles against colonialism and imperialism and against all forms of foreign domination.
In a document issued this Wednesday by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, it was recalled that this historic date marked the end of the war and the definitive victory over colonialism and imperialism, which allowed for national reunification under the luminous legacy of Comrade Ho Chi Minh."
https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/politica/presidente-saludo-al-pueblo-de-vietnam-a-50-anos-de-la-derrota-del-imperialismo-estadounidense/

-->If we had a free press, it would have carried this story. Won't we ever get sick of this warmongering propaganda?

Drop Site News:
"Multiple credible sources – including UN agencies, 12 major international NGOs, and journalists on the ground – report that most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now surviving on just one meal per day or less due to Israel’s total blockade on food and other essentials since March 2.

The CEOs of 12 major aid organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, CARE, NRC, and others, said in a joint statement on April 17, 2025: “Survival itself is now slipping out of reach and the humanitarian system is at breaking point.

Every single person in Gaza is relying on humanitarian aid to survive. That lifeline has been completely cut off since a blockade on all aid supplies was imposed by Israeli authorities on 2 March.  We have supplies ready. We have trained medical staff. We have the expertise. What we don’t have is the access – or the guarantee by Israeli authorities that our teams can safely do their jobs.”
https://substack.com/@ryangrim/note/c-110594748

-->This Sunday, the NYT has a front page that covers stories about the Pope's death to cooking mango buns. Gaza doesn't make the front page at all, except for an article on Israel's use of AI on the battlefield. The NYT is still the Empire's newspaper.

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Mondoweiss:
"Last week, without much fanfare, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his nominee for the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. The man he picked was Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, an ultra-orthodox member of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a long-time friend of Miriam and the late Sheldon Adelson, and a leading Trump campaigner and fundraiser in the far-right sector of the American Jewish community.

Kaploun is certain to deepen the Trump administration’s efforts to criminalize even the most minor criticism of Israel, let alone any objection to its ongoing genocide in Gaza and escalating atrocities in the West Bank. He is a strong supporter of the crackdown on free speech and freedom of education by the Trump administration, and, in his new role, is certain to redouble his efforts to advocate for coercive and restrictive measures in defining antisemitism as criticism of Israel and little else.
Ironically, his nomination—which still requires confirmation in the Senate—has already gone a long way toward demonstrating the fact that antisemitism emanates not from Palestine advocates but, overwhelmingly, from the same place it always has: the extreme right, the sector of American society that, like Kaploun himself, so passionately supports Donald Trump."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/meet-trumps-radical-new-antisemitism-envoy/

-->The NYT didn't cover this story. What a shame too, since it exposes where antisemitism in this country is really coming from.

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Common Dreams:
"Study Estimates Fossil Fuel Giants Have Inflicted $28 Trillion in Climate Damage Worldwide. As people around the world cope with the worsening effects of planetary heating, 'the veil of plausible deniability doesn't exist anymore scientifically' for fossil fuel giants.

As planetary heating has fueled increasingly damaging hurricanes, wildfires, and dangerous heatwaves, fossil fuel giants have long been shielded by plausible deniability: Despite scientists' consensus that oil, gas, and coal extraction are polluting the planet and causing global temperatures to rise, they couldn't prove that specific corporations were to blame for worsening climate destruction.
A study published on Wednesday could change that.

Using modeling techniques that have been utilized for more than a decade to explain how climate change is fueling weather disasters, researchers at Dartmouth College estimated that 111 of the world's largest fossil fuel companies have caused $28 trillion in heat-related climate damages so far—slightly less than the value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/polluter-pays-principle

-->Well, the "veil of plausible deniability" is still going strong at the NYT. It didn't cover this story.

Common Dreams:
"Weeks after the Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution to form a 'mutual defense compact' with other Big Ten schools, at least four other schools have pushed forward their own proposals. ... aiming to band together with other universities to protect from the Trump administration's attacks on academic freedom and free speech.
 
Labor unions, Palestinian rights groups, and other advocacy groups on Thursday held rallies and events to mark the Day of Action for Higher Education, with students and faculty at more than 150 schools demonstrating against President Donald Trump's funding cuts; attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; targeting of academic freedom; and deportation operations in which a number of student organizers have been rounded up in recent weeks. ...

Like the mutual defense compact proposal that's now gained traction at several schools, the day of action is partially a response to Trump's demand that universities collaborate with the administration to punish students who took part in nationwide Palestinian solidarity protests last year."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/campus-protest

-->Don't look to the NY Times to cover student resistance to Turmp's fascist aspirations. The fact that colleges are now resisting Trump is big news, but not to the Empire's newspaper.

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Drop Site:
"On March 25, Francine Katsoudas, an executive at an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate, Cisco, announced new 'guardrails' restricting internal discussions and debates on the Middle East—and specifically on Palestine. 'Some topics are just simply too hard, too painful, too divisive, and they take our focus away from our ability to drive Cisco business, and one example specifically would be the ongoing conflict in the Middle East,' Katsoudas said in a company-wide call. 'We have made the decision that this topic cannot be discussed, cannot be debated in company or organization-wide meetings,' she added.

Hours after the group call with Katsoudas, an employee who was outspoken on Palestine was fired. The reason given for termination, they described to Drop Site, was that their 'comments contribute to a harmful work environment and harms other employees'—but that the company added it was not due to her 'personal viewpoint.' They provided Drop Site with an HR email and notes corroborating their account, but requested anonymity to minimize risk to their future employment and general safety. A week later, Cisco deleted the largest pro-Palestine WebEx chat room, Bridge To Humanity (B2H), and its associated educational website. Cisco did not respond to a request for comment."
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cisco-israel-tech-internal-speech-palestine-gaza

-->There is no free speech for Cisco employees. Why wouldn't more US media carry this story of corporate censorship?

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Common Dreams:
"With Nationwide Actions on Saturday, Anti-Trump Protests Show No Sign of Slowing Down. Events on Saturday included marches as well as direct community-oriented actions, including neighborhood cleanups and food drives.

Two weeks after millions of people attended 'Hands Off' protests across the United States, expressing outrage over President Donald Trump's unlawful deportation operation, abandonment of due process for hundreds of migrants, and spending cuts in the interest of enriching the wealthiest Americans, organizers with the '50501' movement called for 11 million people to take to the streets again on Saturday—and early reports suggested the public remains mobilized against the administration.
 
With Trump intensifying his attacks on federal workers, the environment, freedom of speech, and migrants in recent weeks, organizers said hundreds of events were planned on Saturday—and the protests reflected the wide array of policies that have left Americans angry and fearful about who could be victimized next by the administration."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/50501-movement-protest

-->Always aware the rich people don't like rallies, The NYT hasn't been covering these rallies so much. And when the newspaper does, it is more about Bernie Sanders than about his egalitarian ideas.

Common Dreams:
" 'I think when we talk about America is a democracy, I think we should rephrase it, call it a pseudo-democracy.' That's what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday morning in response to questions from CBS News about the state of the nation, with President Donald Trump gutting the federal government from head to toe, challenging constitutional norms, allowing his cabinet of billionaires to run key agencies they philosophically want to destroy, and empowering Elon Musk—the world's richest person—to run roughshod over public education, undermine healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and attack Social Security.

Taking a weekend away from his ongoing 'Fight Oligarchy' tour, which has drawn record crowds in both right-leaning and left-leaning regions of the country over recent weeks, Sanders said the problem is deeply entrenched now in the nation's political system—and both major parties have a lot to answer for.

'One of the other concerns when I talk about oligarchy,' Sanders explained to journalist Robert Acosta, 'it's not just massive income and wealth inequality. It's not just the power of the billionaire class. These guys, led by Musk—and as a result of this disastrous Citizens UnitedSupreme Court decision—have now allowed billionaires essentially to own our political process. So, I think when we talk about America is a democracy, I think we should rephrase it, call it a 'pseudo-democracy.' And it's not just Musk and the Republicans; it's billionaires in the Democratic Party as well.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-2671682239

-->Sanders is one of the visionaries of our nation's turn from being a democracy to being an oligarchy. Like most visionaries, the NYT rarely prints what Bernie Sanders actually has to say. How often does the NYT report what Noam Chomsky has to say? The NYT is the newspaper of the empire.

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Global Delinquents:
"On March 13th, the UN Human Rights High Commission published a horrifying report exposing in oft-emetic detail how the Zionist entity has employed 'sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians' on an industrial scale since the Gaza genocide erupted in October 2023. The UN concludes these hideous acts are a central component of Israel’s 'broader effort to undermine [Palestinians’] right to self-determination,' their systematic nature pointing unambiguously to endorsement by Tel Aviv’s military and political leaders.

The report records, 'sexual and gender-based violence is by no means a new element of the Israeli occupation.' However, in the wake of October 7th, there has been a 'sharp increase in sexual violence against Palestinian women and men', both by Zionist Occupation Forces and settlers. The UN encountered no obstacles collecting voluminous highly incriminating evidence of this vile abuse. In addition to a welter of victim and witness testimony, perpetrators often voyeuristically captured themselves and their confederates openly committing these crimes on camera.

Frequently, these abhorrent images were pridefully posted on the culprits’ personal social media accounts. Such actions amply attest to the culture of total impunity in which ZOF soldiers literally rape and pillage. 'Despite the abundance of witness and digital evidence of Israeli soldiers committing crimes in Gaza,' the UN found 'there have been no meaningful efforts by Israel to hold the perpetrators accountable.' Requests submitted to Tel Aviv for clarity on investigations into sexual violence committed by Occupation Forces have been ignored."
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/un-exposes-systematic-israeli-rape

-->The NYT role in the holocaust of the Palestinian people is to leave out stores like this. Maybe it is just too condemning of this genocidal regime. Our newspaper of record will always be known for its role in covering up Israel's slaughter.

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Common Dreams:
"Emails Show Trump Official Targeted Maine Social Security Services as Political Revenge. 'Trump is clearly comfortable weaponizing Social Security for political purposes, and we fear that this is only the beginning,' said one critic.

The top Democrat on the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Wednesday led calls for the resignation of acting Social Security Administration Commissioner Leland Dudek following the revelation of internal emails confirming that the SSA canceled contracts with the state of Maine as political payback after Democratic Gov. Janet Mills publicly defied President Donald Trump in support of transgender student athletes.

The emails—which were obtained by House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.)—show that Dudek ordered the cancellation of enumeration at birth and electronic death registration contracts with Maine, even though SSAd subordinates warned that such action 'would result in improper payments and potential for identity theft.'

'These emails confirm that the Trump administration is intentionally creating waste and the opportunity for fraud.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/leland-dudek-resign

-->The NYT didn't print this story. The paper rarely comes out in favor of Social Security. Let's face it, Wall St. is dying to get its hands on the trillions in this program.

The Guardian UK:
"Who is Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who broke the Signal leak scandal? Though exactly how Jeffrey Goldberg ended up on a Signal group chat to discuss what were meant to be secret plans to bomb Yemen remains a mystery, posterity may render it one of recent US history’s most serendipitous chance encounters.

Had the fates been conspiring to add a journalist to the forum whose presence would inflict the maximum discomfort to Trump and his circle, they could hardly have chosen a more fitting candidate. ... At the same time Goldberg is also widely criticized by some on the left of US media and politics for his views on Israel, his past record serving in the Israeli military and his hawkish views on Iran and his support for the US invasion of Iraq.

However, since becoming the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief in 2016, he has built a track record of unearthing stories that have managed to specifically get under Trump’s skin with the type of journalism loathed by the president’s 'Make America Great Again' (Maga) followers.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/who-is-jeffrey-goldberg-atlantic-signal-chat-leak

-->Again we have to go to the Guardian for the complete story. Goldberg served in the IDF and has been a consistent champion of the US wars in the Middle East. Since 2016, His journalism has upset some Maga followers. Why does the NYT leave all this out of its coverage?

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Common Dreams:
"Jewish Groups Denounce Latest 'Cynical' GOP Hearing Equating Criticism of Israel With Antisemitism. 'Israel is a nation state, not a Jewish person, said Rabbis for Cease-Fire. 'Criticism of Israel's genocidal assault is not equivalent to antisemitism.'

Following the Republican Party's latest hearing on antisemitism on college campuses—part of a campaign in which discrimination against Jewish people has been conflated with calls for Palestinian liberation and opposition to Israel's U.S.-backed killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza—the rights organization Rabbis for Cease-Fire on Thursday said it rejected 'the basic premises' of the hearing.

The hearing held by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on Thursday, titled 'Antisemitic Disruptions on Campus: Ensuring Safe Learning Environments for All Students,' was part of an effort to 'instrumentalize concern for Jewish safety to shield Israel from accountability,' said the group.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/congress-antisemitism

-->The NYT did cover statements by Rabbis for Cease-Fire, but conveniently left out any mention of the group's warning about conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

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Mondoweiss:
"Colonial violence is on display from Gaza to U.S. universities

As global attention is drawn elsewhere, Israel has resumed its full-scale assault on Gaza. Tareq Hajjaj reports on the deepening catastrophe: water and electricity have once again been cut off to over 2 million Palestinians, plunging Gaza into darkness pierced only by the flash of Israeli bombs. On the ground, Palestinians face a grim ultimatum: death or displacement. Chris Hedges describes it as the 'final stage of genocide'—a campaign of total erasure.

This push is not just military. Qassam Muaddi unpacks Israel’s latest plan to facilitate the 'voluntary emigration' of Palestinians from Gaza—another euphemism for ethnic cleansing. The world must not be fooled by the language of bureaucracy.

In the West Bank, Israeli forces are intensifying violence, turning refugee camps into battlefields. Felix Nobes documents how even Palestinian sports, a source of pride and resistance, are being systematically dismantled."
https://newsletters.mondoweiss.net/emails/webview/59730/150219247528707703

-->Mondoweiss coverage of Palestine is an example of how a free press should operate. The NYT coverage is the exact opposite. The paper offers readers pages on Ukraine, but disturbingly little on the hunger and slaughter going on in Gaza as well as the West Bank. Soon, we will see the broken bodies of Palestinians being starved to death. They are the same pictures that came to us from Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau. They are America's shame, and its no wonder that the NYT would try to divert our attention.

The New York Times:
"Serving Sushi Amid Artillery Strikes in a Frontline Town."

-->This is on page 4, after the IDF has spent the weekend slaughtering hundreds of civilians in a calculated assault to continue the genocide. But the sushi story is about Ukraine. So is the next story about Ukraine's nuclear power plants. And the next: "Ukraine Attacks Air Base, home to Russian Bombers." And the next: "Russia's Public its War-Weary, But Still Wary of Concessions." Then we go to a story about egg prices in Hungary. Next story is about Syrians who were wanted by the Assad Regime. And the next is about Iran releasing a French Citizen. This is followed by a story of Trump saying he will annihilate the Houthis. Only then is the absolute slaughter of two million Palestinians described to readers of our "Newspaper of Record."

And the title of this story is pure Israeli propaganda: "Hamas Fires Rockets at Tel Aviv." In the minds of the scripted NYT reporters, Palestinians always start the bloodshed and the IDF always responds. Sadly, the NYT is still talking about the "a full scale war," and not of an internationally recognize genocide of he Palestinian People. Then we get the description of an aerial bombardment and an IDF statement that the attack "had targeted Hamas." Nine paragraphs in, we find out that 500 people were killed "including scores of children." But it is not really scores of children butchered by this new assault, it is hundreds.

-->The NYT will own the genocide of the Palestinian people, just like the United States will. The newspaper has been exposed again and again for its pro Israel bias. But like the IDF, the NYT is shameless and purposely ignorant.

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Jacobin:
"President Donald Trump’s environmental regulators are advancing a proposal to block states from warning consumers about herbicides and other agricultural products in their food, according to federal documents reviewed by the Lever. Among the substances that could now go undisclosed is a widely used chemical that some studies have linked to cancer and that Trump’s own health secretary has called a 'poison.'

Last month, Trump issued an executive order mandating agencies 'fully address the growing health crisis in America.' But the initiative from Republican attorneys general — which would usurp state labeling authority — is now being moved forward by Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The measure would declare that any label citing scientific findings not acknowledged by Trump’s EPA would 'constitute misbranding.' "

-->Where is the NYT story on Trump's hiding cancer warnings on agricultural products? Our newspaper of record has had a long standing love affair with Roundup, owned now by one of the largest chemical companies in the world.
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-epa-pesticides-regulations-health

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Common Dreams:
" 'Columbia's capitulation to fascist government intervention is so severe when you really look at the details,' wrote an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Columbia University received a wave of criticism on Friday after it agreed to a number of demands from the Trump administration as part of negotiations over $400 million in federal grants and contracts that the Trump administration had pulled due to the school's alleged 'inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.'

The school agreed to a ban on masks and to appoint a senior vice provost with broad power to oversee both the department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies and the school's Center for Palestine Studies, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news. Also, Columbia has hired over 30 'special officers' who will have the ability to remove individuals from campus and arrest them, per the memo from the school announcing the update.

On Friday evening, writer Ross Barkan wrote on X, 'I confess I don't get Columbia folding. Don't they have an endowment worth many billions? Very rich alumni? Alumni who hate Trump? They could do a massive resistance fundraiser to make up for lost federal dollars. Very odd and very weak.'" Others echoed this sentiment."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-columbia-demands

-->Where is the NYT on this story? The newspaper did have an editorial entitled: "The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump." But no mention of Columbia in the article! Has the NYT buckled just like Columbia University?