2024-02-13: News Headlines

_____ (2024-02-12). Friedman's Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda. transcend.org 6 Feb 2024 – NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It's the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.

_____ (2024-02-12). Netanyahu's War on Truth. transcend.org 7 Feb 2024 – Israel's Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians…

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2024-02-12). Putin Debunks Tucker Carlson's Warmongering Anti-China Propaganda. popularresistance.org The US TV host Tucker Carlson set off a political scandal by traveling to Moscow this February to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. | This provoked a debate in the media, which — as is so often the case in partisan US politics — completely missed the forest for the trees. | Liberal war hawks like Hillary Clinton portrayed Tucker Carlson as a traitor and "useful idiot" of Putin. | Democrats have been blinded by their obsessive hatred of Russia, and are utterly incapable of seeing what is happening geopolitically. | In reality, Carlson and other Donald Trump allies in the Republican Party have…

Drago Bosnic (2024-02-12). Media Propaganda Machine's Laughable Meltdown Over Putin Interview. "Tucker is Getting A Lot of Flak" globalresearch.ca

Dr. Joseph Mercola (2024-02-12). "Fact Check" Funder Publicis Pays $350 Million for Role in Opioid Epidemic. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2024-02-12). Pushing Gazans into Rafah and Then Attacking Rafah, Killing UNRWA Funding without Evidence. transcend.org 10 Feb 2024 – The IDF has been packing the population of Gaza into the southernmost part of the enclave like toothpaste toward the end of a tube, and now they're going to attack that southernmost part, but it's totally not genocide and you're an evil Nazi if you say it is.

Thomas Knapp (2024-02-13). State of the Presidency: 46+25 = 47? counterpunch.org According to a report issued by Special Counsel Robert K. Hur on February 8, his investigation found "evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." While the report also mentions "innocent explanations for the documents that we cannot refute," the argument against charging

Binoy Kampmark (2024-02-12). Absence of Evidence: Israel's Case Against UNRWA. dissidentvoice.org Statistics are often given lanky legs that take their user far. But how they are used, and how they are received, is striking. The current figure of 27,500 dead is a blighting, grotesque fact. But as they are Palestinians, the issue is less significant to certain parties than, say, 140 Israeli hostages being held in …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2024-02-12). Absence of Evidence: Israel's Case Against UNRWA. globalresearch.ca

midwesternmarx (2024-02-13). Nicaragua to take western states to ICJ for 'facilitating genocide By: News Desk. midwesternmarx.com The Central American nation has called on Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada to stop sending arms to IsraelThe Nicaraguan government has started legal proceedings to take Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and other violations of international law. In a statement, Managua said it has informed the governments of "the [UK], Germany, the Netherlands, …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-02-13). New 4D imaging may detect poor pumping in deadly heart disease. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have found that a newer imaging technique may find subtle changes in heart dysfunction during acute stages of myocarditis and also heart functional differences by sex.

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2024-02-13). The Crisis At The New York Times. popularresistance.org It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as it murders, starves and disperses a population of 2.3 million while making their land uninhabitable. | The Israelis took this risk and they have lost. We are now able to watch videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating as they murder Palestinian mothers and children, as they dance and sing while detonating e…

Editor (2024-02-12). Patrick Lawrence: The Crisis at The New York Times. scheerpost.com

Larry Johnson (2024-02-13). Putin, Ukraine and the Unfolding Disaster in the Middle East. sonar21.com A couple of worthwhile discussions — today with Judge Napolitano and a Friday conversation with Nima Alhkorshid in Brazil. If you have not done so already please subscribe to my Tucker is killing it on Twitter, YouTube and TikTok. On X/Twitter alone he is over 198 million impressions. That is more than CNN, MSNBC and FoxNews get in three months. We are in a vast, new me…

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