Ali Abunimah, Black Agenda Report. (2023-12-07). Debunking Israel's 'Mass Rape' Propaganda. popularresistance.org Israel and its proxies have launched a new media blitz, reviving unverified claims that Hamas fighters perpetrated mass rapes of Israeli women during its 7 October military operation. | Despite blanket coverage, Israel does not claim to have identified any specific victim of such crimes, nor produced any videos or forensic evidence corroborating that they took place. | On The Electronic Intifada livestream we dissected this propaganda campaign and showed how it is being fronted by operatives close to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | Watch the video above. | We explain how this is a decep…

Benay Blend (2023-12-07). Questioning the Stories We Are Told: On Solidarity and Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Benay Blend — Dec 4, 2023 | To be in solidarity with the oppressed, whoever that might be, means to be wary of sensational media that transforms the victim into a victimizer for the sake of inflaming public opinion. | On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, November 29, it is always good to remember what being in solidarity with another group of people really means. | It doesn't matter that the date might have come and gone before this article appears because solidarity is not something that should be put on and taken off, like a shawl, worn when it's convenient but put aside w…

WSWS (2023-12-07). US and Israeli mass rape propaganda, without credible evidence, is being used to justify Gaza genocide. wsws.org The campaign over alleged mass rape is timed to coincide with the resumption of the Israeli war on Gaza, following the brief "pause."

ecns.cn (2023-12-08). Envoy: Honor spirit of Xi-Biden summit. ecns.cn The recent rhetoric about a "China threat" and calls by some U.S. officials and lawmakers to intensify curbs on exports and investment run counter to the commitments that U.S. President Joe Biden made in his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California.

Media Lens (2023-12-07). Genocide: The Gaze from the Abyss. dissidentvoice.org Left-progressive websites don't always get it right. Take Media Lens, for example. In October, we discussed the corporate media invention of so-called 'disinformation experts'. We lampooned the claim that although journalists are 'working within profit-maximising, billionaire-owned, advertiser-dependent, government-subsidised media, they are nevertheless exposing "disinformation" without the slightest trace of bias'. Last May, the BBC unveiled …

WSWS (2023-12-08). Trump threatens dictatorship, but "Genocide Joe" is no alternative. wsws.org The threat of a personalist Trump dictatorship is now being acknowledged by the Democrats and the corporate media, but they offer no way out of the crisis of American capitalism except imperialist war.

Alexander Rubinstein (2023-12-07). Owner of Philly restaurant targeted in Palestine protests is official Israeli govt propagandist and Biden ally. thegrayzone.com The Biden White House and top Democrats have denounced Palestine solidarity activists as antisemites for protesting outside an Israeli-owned restaurant in Philly. Its owner happens to be an official Israeli government propagandist with close ties to the Biden White House. If powerful Democrats are to be believed, it was a night of shattered glass in Philadelphia, PA this December 3. Local Palestine solidarity activists calling for a ceasefire in a war that has left 16,000 civilians dead in the besieged …

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-12-07). Tsunami map strengthens disaster risk reduction in Cuba. plenglish.com Cuba has no high risk of this kind of event. It is important to remember that the phenomenon was recorded in 1882 and 1946 in the segment of the northern fault of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. | There is no evidence in southern Cuba that seismic and tectonic conditions can produce earthquakes that generate tsunamis. Neither of those strong earthquakes in the Oriente fault or the Caribbean generated tsunamis. | Granma newspaper reported that the map was drawn up with all scientific rigor. Data from all faults with the potential to generate earthquakes capable of producing tsunamis are in our geographical area…

Kenny A. Rodriguez-Wallberg, Helle Kieler, Theodoros Foukakis, Jiong Li, Mika Gissler, Anna Sara Oberg, Jonas Bergh, Frida E. Lundberg (2023-12-07). Articles] Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone agonist (GnRHa) during chemotherapy and post-cancer childbirths — a Nationwide population-based cohort study of 24,922 women diagnosed with cancer in Sweden. thelancet.com We did not find evidence of improved or maintained fertility, estimated as childbirth rates post-cancer, in women who received GnRHa during cancer treatment.

Pressenza Muenchen (2023-12-07). Scientists call for moratorium on digitalisation in kindergartens and schools. pressenza.com Digitalisation is currently regarded as a modern solution to educational questions for all age groups in the education sector. But the effects and secondary effects of digital media on development, learning and educational processes are often scientifically unclear. In fact, there is growing scientific evidence about the enormous disadvantages and damages caused by digital media to the developmental and educational processes of children and young people. In line with the duty of caring for public educational institutions, we therefore demand a moratorium on digitalisation, particularly for the period of early edu…

Michael F. Brown (2023-12-07). Anti-Palestinian racist secures anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism resolution. electronicintifada.net Congressman Max Miller pushes genocide for Palestinians and eliminating American protesters.

Screwston Antifascist Committee (2023-12-07). Pro-Israel Billboard Torn Down by Palestine Supporters in Houston. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent direct action in Houston, Texas against a pro-Israel billboard. The following report, alongside the footage seen above, was sent to Screwston Antifascist Committee anonymously: On Thanksgiving Thursday, 11/23/23, a day which commemorates genocide against indigenous Americans and European colonization, a prominent Zionist billboard was torn down in Southwest Houston. The billboard, which…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-12-07). Ireland's "Hate Speech Bill" is a grotesque abuse of State power that will affect freedom of speech worldwide. expose-news.com Ireland's "Hate Speech Bill" or The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 is a radical update to Irish hate crime law. It is a blueprint for …

Labor Video Project (2023-12-08). Washington Post San Francisco Bureau WBNG Journalists Speak Out At Solidarity Strike Rally. indybay.org Striking Washington-Baltimore News Guild members who work at the Washington Post rallied in San Francisco and spoke out about why they're striking nationally.

Drago Bosnic (2023-12-07). The War In Ukraine Would Have Been Over in March 2022, if the U.S. Had not Sabotaged the Istanbul Peace Negotations. Washington Post. globalresearch.ca

infobrics (2023-12-07). Washington Post tacitly admits Kiev regime is losing. infobrics.org The political West has been (ab)using hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as cannon fodder against Russia while heavily exploiting their country. In addition, the weapons that were supposed to be "game changers" turned out to be nothing more than a ludicrous myth of the Western "technological superiority".

Melvin Goodman (2023-12-07). The Washington Post Gratuitously and Wrongly Trashes Jimmy Carter. counterpunch.org Unlike Kissinger, who had no regard for democratic values in the making of national security policy, Carter's "design" for foreign policy stressed the importance of the rule of law, universal human rights, self-determination, and the avoidance of military intervention. Whereas Kissinger orchestrated the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile, Carter suspended military and economic aid to the authoritarian government of Augusto Pinochet.

Larry Johnson (2023-12-08). Dissecting the Washington Post's "analysis" of Ukraine's Failed Counter Offensive — Part 1. sonar21.com

Larry Johnson (2023-12-08). Dissecting The Washington Post's "Analysis" Of Ukraine's Failed Counter Offensive — Part 2. sonar21.com This two part series in the Washington Post is a must read because of what it tells the reader about the abysmal performance of the White House and the Department of Defense. I found it genuinely shocking. I knew that Biden, Austin and Milley were bad. I just did not appreciate how bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, with a 10 marking the biggest fuck up in history, these guys rate an 11. | Part two,

Labor Video Project (2023-12-07). Washington Post San Francisco Bureau WBNG Journalists Speak Out At Solidarity Strike Rally. indybay.org Striking Washington-Baltimore News Guild members who work at the Washington Post rallied in San Francisco and spoke out about why they're striking nationally.