2024-03-06: News Headlines

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-06). Podcast: Aaron Bushnell, The Israel Lobby, Mass Media Propaganda And More. caitlinjohnstone.com.au We've managed to get a third podcast episode up! Recording it and making enough time to create it and edit it are skills we're still developing, but we've always learned on the job in this weird little project of ours anyway. Personally I think this is our best one yet: In this episode we discuss …

Dr. Paul Larudee (2024-03-06). Gaza Airdrops: Propaganda and Possibilities. globalresearch.ca

Julia Conley, Common Dreams. (2024-03-06). First Western Leader Referred To ICC As 'Accessory To Genocide In Gaza'. popularresistance.org Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is one of several Western leaders who have provided political and material support of the Israeli government and military over the past five months as their bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 30,000 people, but on Monday he became the first to be referred to the International Criminal Court for being an "accessory to genocide." | More than 100 lawyers supported the referral under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, arguing that Albanese, a member of the Labor Party, as well as members of his Cabinet and of Parliament, have provided Israel with "rhetorical support in th…

Hannah Davenport (2024-03-06). Tory minister forced to apologise and pay damages after false allegations about academic. leftfootforward.org Science secretary Michelle Donelan has had to eat her words and retract false allegations she made about an academic for the sake of "another Tory anti-woke headline", following a lengthy legal process. | The cabinet minister smeared Professor Kate Sang as an 'extremist' after falsely suggesting she supported Hamas, and had attempted to claim the academic had breached principles on how public officials should behave. | Donelan has now retracted her claim and the government has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum, at the expense of the taxpayer, following a months-long investigation by an advisory group on equalit…

Dean Baker (2024-03-06). The Estate Tax Exemption is $27.2 Million for a Couple. counterpunch.org The New York Times had a piece on the tax code changes that will take effect next year unless Congress acts to extend current provisions. One of the items on this list is an increase in the amount of wealth exempted from the estate tax. The piece lists the amount currently exempted as $13.6 million,

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