Daily Archives: October 17, 2023

2023-10-17: News Headlines

Alan MacLeod (2023-10-17). Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories. orinocotribune.com By Alan MacLeod — Oct 13, 2023 | 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). | Extraordinary claims, zero evidence | One case in point is the claim that, during their incursion into southern Israel, Hamas fighters stopped to round up, kill and mutilate 40 Isr…

Peter Bolton (2023-10-17). Media Disinformation and Selective Outrage Are Key Pillars of Israel's War Propaganda Arsenal. dissidentvoice.org Headlines have been dominated since Saturday by the surprise Hamas attack against Israel and the Netanyahu government's response. By Monday, Israel had formally declared war against the Islamist group and moved tens of thousands of troops toward Gaza in what looks like preparation for a full-blown ground invasion. Most controversially, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

WSWS (2023-10-17). Illinois landlord murders Palestinian-American child: The product of US imperialism's propaganda campaign. wsws.org Six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times with a 12-inch military knife, while his mother suffered a dozen wounds but survived.

Alan MacLeod (2023-10-16). Propaganda Blitz: How mainstream media is pushing fake Palestine stories. mronline.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).

Dr. William Makis (2023-10-16). Brainwashing Techniques Used to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake. globalresearch.ca

Edu Montesanti (2023-10-16). The Forgotten Chilean 9/11, Incomparably Worse than the American 9/11: Chomsky (Interview). orinocotribune.com The US analyst remembered the 50th anniversary of the Chilean military coup, pointing out the power of American propaganda over the global imagination by despising the terror experienced in Chile during the dictatorship that started in 1973, while overstating the US 9/11, at the center of historical attention. "Washington was Al-Qaeda in Chile", says the intellectual in an exclusive conversation with this report. Exposing CIA documents, confirming the US role in State terrorism lived in Chile at the time | "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." &…

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.

Robert Inlakesh (2023-10-17). Pro-Israel Propaganda Continues To Justify Mass Murder, Here's The Truth (Part 2). thelastamericanvagabond.com As Israel carries out its horrifying aerial attacks against the besieged people of the Gaza Strip, killing over 3,000 innocent civilians, the majority of whom are women and children, Western media and leaderships continue to spread disinformation in order to win support for collective punishment and war crimes, labelling it "self-defense". As a continuation of

krish-rad_ind (2023-10-16). LIVE: The End of The US Propaganda Machine?! (& much more). rumble.com

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.

krish-rad_ind (2023-10-16). Biden's Rhetoric Is Reigniting The Question Of Palestine. popularresistance.org

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-17). The stock market is waking up to Pfizer's greedy, unethical and reckless behaviour which Facebook, Google and corporate media have helped to hide. expose-news.com The stock market may be waking up to the possibility that Pfizer may go bankrupt due to the upcoming covid injection claims. Many parallels can be drawn between the corporate behaviours of …

Wyatt Reed (2023-10-17). Media whitewashes own role in killing of Palestinian-American child. thegrayzone.com The New York Times surreptitiously edited its article on the politically motivated murder of a Muslim American child to remove a lawmaker's condemnation of the media's role in the lethal hate crime. And after inciting a wave of anti-Palestinian hysteria, Biden and corporate media pundits feigned sorrow. The New York Times has quietly abridged a quote by a Palestinian-American legislator and removed his condemnation of mainstream US politicians and media organizations like the New York Times, which he blamed for …

Ramzy Baroud (2023-10-16). It's Not a Hamas-Israeli Conflict: It's an Israeli War Against Every Palestinian. mintpressnews.com In Israel's version of events, the war began on October 7, when Hamas fighters attacked Israeli military bases, settlements, and towns. No other date before the Hamas attack seems to matter to Israel, the West and corporate media.

Andy Kroll (2023-10-17). Moscow's Man on the Spot in Africa. tomdispatch.com One of modern history's major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its implications for the fast-changing shape of global power. Over the past 60 years, France has used every possible diplomatic device, overt and covert, fair and foul, to incorporate some 14 African nations into a neocolonial imperium called "Franàßafrique" — a vast region covering a quarter of Africa and stretching for nearly 3,000 miles from Senegal on the Atlantic coast to Chad in the continent's center.

ecns.cn (2023-10-17). Book issued in five more languages. ecns.cn Five new foreign-language editions of The Belt and Road Initiative, a book of President Xi Jinping's discourses on the BRI, were launched in Beijing on Monday.

Aram Aharonian (2023-10-17). La desinformación abre un nuevo frente en el conflicto palestino-israelí. globalizacion.ca La publicación de fake news y teorías de la conspiración favorece tanto la viralización de las noticias como las reacciones emotivas y viscerales de un porcentaje notable de usuarios. Y no se queda solo en las redes sociales, sino que…

Ben Bartee (2023-10-16). Neocon Propagandist Threatens Nuclear War Unless U.S. Gives Israel More Money and Weapons. globalresearch.ca

United Front Committee For A Labor Party (2023-10-17). 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 (2023-10-16). 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…

Mansa Musa (2023-10-16). California is about to execute an innocent Black man. therealnews.com A 1995 robbery gone wrong in the town of Tulare, California, ended with the murder of five people. For years, the police were unable to pin the case on anyone—until they arrested Timothy James Young. The sole evidence in the case against Young was the word of Anthony Wolfe, a jailhouse informant who was not present at the scene of the crime. Nevertheless, Young was sentenced to death in 2001. 16 years later, the state of California is about to proceed with his execution. Allison Dean of the

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…

Max Blumenthal (2023-10-17). Source of dubious 'beheaded babies' claim is Israeli settler leader who incited riots to 'wipe out' Palestinian village. mronline.org The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be "wiped out."

Omar Karmi (2023-10-16). Arab diplomacy stutters into gear. electronicintifada.net Blinken's tour of Arab countries has coincided with a subtle shift in US public messaging.

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-17). Israel Asks US for Additional $10 Billion in Military Aid. news.antiwar.com Israel has asked the US for an additional $10 billion in military aid amid its onslaught in Gaza, The New York Times reported on Monday night. The report said lawmakers in Congress are working with the White House to craft a spending package that will include military aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan and additional …

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-17). US Secretly Provided Ukraine With Cluster Bomb ATACMS. news.antiwar.com CNN reported Tuesday that the US has secretly provided Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), munitions that typically have a range of about 190 miles and can be fired from the HIMARS rocket systems. US officials told The New York Times that the ATACMS the US has provided are armed with cluster bombs, a …

Sam Carliner (2023-10-16). El Paso Residents Say "Border Crisis" Is Manufactured, Reject Militarization. truthout.org El Paso, Texas, has increasingly become the subject of an intense national conversation. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal report that migrant surges are straining the city, the country and the economy. These are just three headlines from a barrage of coverage of the "crisis" at the border. Nastassia Artalejo, an El Paso resident whose family has lived in the city for… |

Editor (2023-10-16). MSNBC suspends pro-Palestine anchors amid Israeli aggression on Gaza. mronline.org MSNBC 's move seems to give yet another proof of media censorship and bias in covering the Israeli aggression on Gaza.

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