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.
=====
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.
=====
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.
Thursday, May 08, 2025
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.
=====
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.
=====
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?
"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.
=====
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.
=====
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?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)