(2024-07-25). Netanyahu's Speech Was As American As It Gets. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress was everything you'd expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.
(2024-07-25). UN Expert Urges End to Targeting of Human Rights Defenders in the Occupied West Bank. devdiscourse.com UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor has condemned the ongoing targeting of human rights defenders in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem by Israeli authorities. In a recent statement, Lawlor highlighted the troubling cases of five defenders currently subjected to administrative detention without charge, including prolonged detention and ill treatment.
(2024-07-25). Good riddance, genocide Joe. You will be remembered as a monster. newarab.com 
The response to Joe Biden finally surrendering the Democratic presidential nomination has been instructive. | Since Israel's genocidal rampage in Gaza began, there has been a common theme in how Western politicians and media outlets have approached the horror: that Palestinian life has little or even no meaningful worth. This has not been subtle. | Sure, this has ranged from the crude — that is, outright genocidal incitement, despite its legal prohibition in the 1948 Genocide Convention — to the lack of concern about tens of thousands slaughtered with Western arms and diplomatic support, not least…
(2024-07-25). CNN Backtracks From Portraying Venezuela's Elections as Fraudulent. orinocotribune.com Although the news network CNN has been part of the campaign promoting the narrative of an alleged upcoming electoral fraud, it has now backed down a bit and acknowledged, for the first time, the possibility of a victory of Nicolás Maduro in the upcoming July 28 presidential elections. | In order to justify its defeat, the US-backed Venezuelan far-right frequently claims that fraud has occurred in elections. They attempted the same strategy in 2018, despite the fact that Venezuela's electoral system has an excellent reputation. Venezuela's corporate media outlets and Western media frequently echo the fraud allegat…
(2024-07-25). What Is at Stake for the Venezuelan Elections? orinocotribune.com On July 28, the Venezuelan electorate will head to the polls to select their next president. Among the ten candidates vying for the position, nine hail from the moderate and extreme right-wing factions. The primary contest, however, is between President Nicolás Maduro, who is seeking a third term (2025-2030) and embodies the continuation of Chavismo, and the US-backed opposition candidate, Edmundo González. | How does the electoral system work? If the opposition loses, will they allege fraud and incite violence? What are the political platforms of the leading candidates? In this video conference organized by the…
(2024-07-25). Even The US Propaganda Machine Can't Whitewash Biden's Sordid Record. popularresistance.org In the long shadow of the First World War, one of the greatest titles for an epochal work – Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford – definitively marked the final acts of the British empire, that hung on for decades until coming to total demise in, of all places, Yemen. | In the same period, TS Eliot, the transplanted American, put it a little differently: "This is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper." | Perhaps the current American equivalent would be "no gas left in the tank", or "end of the line". | Unfortunately, no well-known enough North American cultural figures come to mind who might be able…
(2024-07-25). Why Are You Surprised by the Advances of the Far Right? libya360.wordpress.com Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein 100 years ago, in 1924, after eight months, Adolf Hitler left the prison where he had ended up after attempting a coup d'état the previous year. During his stay in prison, he outlined the first pages of his work "My Struggle" in which he explained some basic foundations of his thought, including…
(2024-07-25). Reactionary reflexivity: Sealing the iron dome on media coverage of Gaza, Part 2. peoplesworld.org 
TV news: The infinite play of signifiers redounds upon itself Nowhere is this hardening of the once playful strategy of reflexivity more apparent than in corporate media news which instead of alternating between illusion and reflexivity is instead utterly delusional while sealing itself off in a reflexive bubble. The New York Times, The Washington Post, …
(2024-07-25). Indonesia launches 'Golden Visa' to lure foreign investors, boost economy. devdiscourse.com Indonesia launched a long-term visa scheme on Thursday intended to attract foreign investors, President Joko Widodo said, with amounts of up to $10 million giving them a 10-year visa and access to Southeast Asia's largest economy. The five-year "Golden Visa" requires individual investors to set up a company worth $2.5 million, while a 10-year visa requires a $5 million investment.
(2024-07-25). Students from 10 Indian states to join the TV BRICS international teleconference in honour of Pushkin's anniversary. devdiscourse.com Russia and India will hold an international educational tele-bridge on July 29 to commemorate the 225th anniversary of Aleksander Pushkin's birth. Students from ten Indian states studying Russian as a foreign language will increase their knowledge through direct communication with experts in the fields of philology and linguo-cultural studies, TV BRICS reported. The teleconference will be organised by the international outreach project "Modern Russian" of the TV BRICS international media network in cooperation with the Indian Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature and with the support of the R…
(2024-07-25). Karnataka Minister Patil calls BJP's all-night agitation against MUDA 'scam' a 'political drama'. devdiscourse.com Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil on Thursday slammed the opposition BJP over its all-night agitation in the Karnataka legislature after the party's demand to discuss the MUDA 'scam' was denied.
(2024-07-25). Trump-friendly panel shapes Georgia's election rules at long, often chaotic meetings. devdiscourse.com The Georgia State Election Board, which once toiled in relative obscurity, now hosts raucous meetings where public comment spans several hours and attendees regularly heckle its members.
(2024-07-25). Cambodian politician fined $1.5 mln for defamation after democracy criticism. devdiscourse.com A Cambodian court has found opposition politician Teav Vannol guilty of defamation and fined him $1.5 million in damages for comments he made to a foreign media outlet about the state of the country's democracy, rights monitors said. In an interview with the Nikkei this February, Vannol, the president of the Candlelight Party, said democracy in the Southeast Asian nation had worsened under the administration of Hun Manet. He is the son of the country's long-time leader Hun Sen and assumed power last year.
(2024-07-25). Rising Heatwaves Across Europe and Central Asia Result in 377 Child Deaths in 2021. devdiscourse.com A new UNICEF analysis reveals that rising temperatures in Europe and Central Asia led to the deaths of an estimated 377 children in 2021. The report, titled Beat the Heat: Child Health Amid Heatwaves in Europe and Central Asia, highlights that half of these fatalities occurred in infants during their first year of life, with most deaths occurring in the summer months.
(2024-07-25). Netanyahu's Congress Speech: High on Rhetoric, Low on Substance. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-25). 733 Million People Faced Hunger in 2023, Undermining Progress Toward Zero Hunger. devdiscourse.com According to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report released by five United Nations agencies, approximately 733 million people worldwide faced hunger in 2023. This figure represents one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa. The report, launched during the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, highlights a significant setback in global efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030.
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As the genocide continued and a few days after the end of the NATO celebrations, an assassination attempt on former President Trump caused President Biden to address the nation and orate that "political violence has no place in America and U.S. politics should never be a killing field."
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has thrown his weight behind medium and small financial sector players demanding a one stop regulation centre, saying that multiple centres lead to confusion in which gullible Ugandans may be abused and exploited. The President whose message was delivered by the Minister of the Presidency minister …
The Washington Post reports the word "abortion" was not mentioned a single time from the stage during the first three days of the Republican National Convention. Reporter Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at The Nation, says the silence from Trump and others at this week's RNC in Milwaukee does not reflect a change in attitude from the Republican Party, which is still fiercely opposed to reproductive rights. "Republicans can read the polls. They know that abortion has triumphed in all seven instances where it's been on the ballot since the Dobbs decision. They know that…
One of the images that haunts modern Peru is that of stray dogs: caught, tortured, strangled, and In propaganda leaflets, the Shining Path insurgency — which waged war on the Peruvian peasantry and the state from 1980 until 1992 — noted that these dogs were meant to These reformist traitors — including Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang and Z…
Truth is the first casualty of imperialist war. The imperialist ruling class owns the corporate media. The government and the military serve that same class interest. It should be no surprise that when the politicians and generals lie, the media repeats it. The contradiction the liars faced this July is . . . | 
Anti-immigrant hate speech and misinformation about the U.S.-Mexico border took center stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump's campaign screened an ad that scapegoated migrants and asylum seekers for rising crime in the U.S. and falsely claimed Biden's so-called open border policies have facilitated the smuggling of fentanyl. Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera and Voces de la Frontera Action, says Trump's platform is "promoting hateful rhetoric" and the GOP has become a "white supremacist party and is a real…
A lawsuit led by Palestinians and Palestinian Americans that accused President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials of enabling genocide in Gaza was rejected Monday by a federal appeals court, which upheld a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit. The three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that courts cannot review the executive branch's decisions on foreign policy, even when there is a risk of breaking domestic and international law. We speak with Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which helped represent the plaintiffs in the case. She sa…
The June 28th debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was a two-pronged disaster. Much has been made of Biden's "senior moments" as well as Trump's 30-plus false claims. There is a growing number of "liberal" national media outlets, led by The New York Times, calling for Biden to step aside for a younger and more coherent candidate. Sadly, less attention has been 
We speak with journalist Robert Kuttner about Donald Trump's selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate in the 2024 election. Vance rose to fame in 2016 after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy about his upbringing in Appalachia. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with the backing of right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, who spent $10 million on his candidacy. While he was a vocal critic of Trump's politics, once comparing him to Hitler, Vance has since embraced the MAGA movement and is now one of the most vocal defenders of the former president. Vance's elevation is "very…
As Donald Trump selected Ohio Senator J.D. Vance to be his vice-presidential candidate Monday, we look at the record of the 39-year-old political rookie, who rose to fame after writing the memoir Hillbilly Elegy and who once compared Trump to Hitler and called him unfit for the presidency. He was elected to the Senate in 2022 with backing from right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, and he has since embraced the MAGA movement and become one of Trump's most loyal supporters. For more on Vance's rise and his appeal to the Republican base, we go to Pikeville, Kentucky, to speak with famed sociologist Arlie R…
July 13, 2024. The art exhibit, "Neon Dreams: Through the Prism", opened at the Imahika Art Gallery to provide a captivating window into one of the most influential art movements in 20th-Century Art. | Artworks from different artists brought together by Gabo Valenzuela is on display, whose vibrant often larger-than-life pieces incorporate imagery from everyday common objects to advertising, comic books, and video games. | By presenting these artworks, "Neon Dreams: Through the Prism", viewers are invited to reconsider the boundaries between Fine Art and popular culture. | Contemporary tribute to Filipino imaginat…
Dozens of media and civil society organisations have called on BBC News, The New York Times, the AFP news agency, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and the European Federation of Journalists were among over 70 signatories to an open letter calling for access to Gaza. | "We, the undersigned, request that Israeli authorities end immediately the r…
WEBINAR: Repression against Palestine in Europe. A deeper look into the repressive apparatus and strategies of confrontation (Languages: English and Spanish) Ever since the 7th of October, repression against the pro-Palestine movement in Europe has taken new levels. From banning demonstrations in multiple countries, the prosecution of activists, the media smear campaigns, up to the …
I am trying to build an audience on my new YouTube channel, My latest episode deals with the Western intelligence war on Russia. As I mentioned in my post on Tuesday regarding the alleged Russian bombing of a children's hospital in Kiev, the organized media response attacking and condemning Russia was, in my judgment, a fully supported CIA/MI-6 information operation aka propaganda. | The CIA envisioned by Harry Truman, i.e., an agency that would recruit human spies, produce…
Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell has been saying for some time that he needs to see more evidence that inflation is under control before he lowers interest rates. We can never be certain of where the economy is going, so it's understandable that he remains worried that inflation could reaccelerate. However, there are risks 
From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China's westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.
In 1895, Queen Liliʻuokalani spent She spent her days in confinement translating the creation story of the Hawaiian people into English, line by line. | She would never be allowed to rule over her people again. The U.S. annexed Hawaiʻi over the protests of the Native people, and the islands became a terr…
Given the recent pro-Palestinian protests around the world and on many university campuses, it seems strange if not surprising that neither genocide nor the continuing flow of U.S. weapons to Israel were mentioned during the first (and maybe only) 2024 presidential debate. Nor did the New York Times Editorial Board see fit to cite complicity in genocide while calling for Biden to step down after his poor debate performance. Instead, it declared that Biden has been "an admirable president." 
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The New York Times, long considered the "newspaper of record" in the United States, has in recent weeks made no secret about its chief concern: President Joe Biden's ability to defeat Donald Trump in November 2024. And, it has done everything it can to promote the idea that the Democratic Party ticket needs a new