Daily Archives: October 16, 2023

2023-10-16: News Headlines

M. Reza Behnam (2023-10-16). Framing the Language of Carnage in Palestine: Advantage Israel. counterpunch.org Language is a loaded weapon used by the powerful to incite and to maintain advantages during conflicts and wars. No one understood this better than George Orwell when he wrote in 1946, "Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." The "war of words" is as important as the battle itself. Propaganda is used to rally the troops, manage public perceptions and garner support.

Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. (2023-10-15). Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories. popularresistance.org After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). One case in point is the claim that, during their incursion into southern Israel, Hamas fighters stopped to round up, kill and mutilate 40 Israeli babies, beheading them and leaving their bodies behind. | The extraordina…

Editor (2023-10-15). Oct 15, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Seo Linn — àìró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile Message to the Israeli people (Video, Must Watch) Slouching Towards the Final Solution, by Pepe Escobar Why I no longer stand with Israel, and never will again, by Scott Ritter The World Is Being Blinded To What's Happening In Gaza, by Caitlin Johnstone Day 8: As Israel prepares for ground assault, the full scale of the Israeli massacre is emerging No, Hamas Did Not Behead 40 Babies at an Israeli Kibbutz Last Saturday, by Mike Whitney My Heart is Heavy: To Whom It May Concern, Please STOP — Roger Waters (Video) MoA: Pro-Israel Propaganda…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-15). Iranian Women Lead the Fight against a Vicious Propaganda War. libya360.wordpress.com Fiorella Isabel One of the oldest and most culturally rich countries in West Asia, Iran holds relics of the rise and fall of empires of the past. Tehran, its capital and largest city, full of architectural wonders, has a population of 9.5 million. But it is in Mashhad, a city in the northeast of the country, known as a place for…

WSWS (2023-10-15). Over 150,000 protest in London against Israel's war on Palestinians. wsws.org The march was a collective act of defiance of the relentless pro-Israeli propaganda campaign of the media, the Conservative government and the Labour Party and the threats of mass arrests made by the Metropolitan Police.

presstv.ir (2023-10-16). 'You Muslims must die!': US man stabs boy 26 times. presstv.ir A 71-year-old white man in the US state of Illinois motivated by anti-Palestinian rhetoric has stabbed a 6-year-old Muslim boy 26 times and seriously injured his mother.

Abdaljawad Omar, Mondoweiss. (2023-10-15). Biden's Rhetoric Is Reigniting The Question Of Palestine. popularresistance.org On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Israel's military and intelligence brass were shocked by the breakdown of its southern division and defensive line in Gaza. Fearing this would escalate into a wider multi-front campaign involving Lebanon, among other possible geographies, they turned to the United States for support. | President Biden readily extended military, intelligence, and logistical support to Israel. He was also happy to move NATO assets to the region to ensure that Iran and its allies remain deterred from interfering in the ensuing battle in the Gaza Strip. A policy that remains shaky at best. | The…

Luis De Jesus Reyes, Zoe Alexandra (2023-10-15). Moving from rhetoric to action to build socialism. liberationnews.org Dilemmas of Humanity will address the obstacles and possibilities of the peoples in their struggle for a more just world far removed from the oppressive capitalist system…

Luis De Jesus Reyes (2023-10-15). Moving from rhetoric to action to build socialism. peoplesdispatch.org The organization of the working class internationally, the right of people to health and housing, food sovereignty and the rights of immigrants were at the center of the discussion on Sunday October 15 of the III International Conference Dilemmas of Humanity taking place in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. | On the second day of the meeting, attended by around 500 delegates from more than 70 countries, the presentations were once again centered around the main dilemmas facing humanity today due to the prevailing capitalist system and the advance of imperialism in every corner of the planet. | The day began…

Palestine Action. (2023-10-15). Palestine Action Covers BBC Building In Red Paint. popularresistance.org Today, Palestine Action sprayed the BBC's Headquarters with blood red paint, in response to it's recent coverage of Palestine, which has been complicit in manufacturing consent for the occupation's genocide of Palestinians. The action occurred before a protest for Palestine was due to begin at the BBC HQ. Since October 7th, the BBC has given biased and inaccurate reporting on the Israeli massacre of the Palestinian people. It has only ever invited Palestinians to comment when Israelis are killed, with little regard for Palestinians killed by Israel, such as in the case of Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot who w…

Rob Urie (2023-10-15). Is It Fascism Yet? counterpunch.org Image by Alexander Grey. | "Is fascism merely a dictatorial force in the service of capitalism? That may not be all it is, but that certainly is an important part of fascism's raison d'etre, the function Hitler himself kept referring to when he talked about saving the industrialists and bankers from Bolshevism." | — Michael Parenti, The question of fascism in the US of A is both tedious and necessary because of the ways in which the term has been weaponized in recent years.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-15). The Corbett Report unveils the BBC, a coincidence theory broadcaster — Must read! expose-news.com James Corbett's hit piece about the BBC in the style of the BBC's own hit pieces featuring Marianna Spring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. As he says — enjoy! The …

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-16). Monday 10/16: Stop SF Union Busting On Civil Service – Rehire Over 1,000 CCSF Workers – No Outsourcing. indybay.org San Francisco Civil Service Commission | Rm 400 | San Francisco City Hall…

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-15). Monday 10/16: Stop SF Union Busting On Civil Service – Rehire Over 1,000 CCSF Workers – No Outsourcing. indybay.org San Francisco Civil Service Commission | Rm 400 | San Francisco City Hall…

ecsorinoco (2023-10-16). Colombia's President Petro Considers Severing Relations with Israel over Genocide in Palestine. orinocotribune.com "If we have to suspend foreign relations with Israel, we will suspend them," wrote Colombian head of state, Gustavo Petro, on social media this Sunday. "We do not support genocides." The Colombian president issued the statement in response to comments by representatives of the Zionist entity regarding Petro's previous statements on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, which the apartheid state described as "hostile and antisemitic." | "The president of Colombia is not insulted," Petro affirmed in the same post. In addition, he called on Latin America to stand in solidarity with his country. | "I call on Latin America…

WSWS (2023-10-15). Modi government targets acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy and Kashmiri activist for criminal prosecution for 2010 remarks. wsws.org This flagrant attack on free speech is part of the Modi government's ever-escalating assault on basic democratic rights and non-stop campaign of Hindu communalist incitement.

Andrew Korybko (2023-10-15). WaPo's Fearmongering About A War Over The Zangezur Corridor Aims To Manipulate Armenians. thealtworld.com The Washington Post produced an information warfare product, not a piece of journalism like its article is inaccurately presented to the masses as being. | The Washington Post (WaPo) just published a piece alleging that "

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