Staff (2024-04-29). Occupation of the American Campus — The Grayzone live. youtube.com Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the escalation and growth of the protest movement on American campuses against the US-backed genocide in Gaza. They will also cover a looming ICC warrant for Netanyahu, the revealing spectacle of the White House Press Correspondents Dinner, and the latest from Gaza.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-04-29). Psyops Regarding 1994 Rwanda Genocide Continues With 30th Anniversary Commemoration. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov During a commemoration of the 30-year anniversary of the beginning of 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for extending the horrors his people faced. Interview with Keith Harmon Snow Rwandan regime and Western intelligence agencies and their media and academic assets have spread disinformation for…

WSWS (2024-04-29). White House correspondents' dinner celebrates "free press" amid propaganda in support of war, genocide and repression. wsws.org Not one of the assembled journalists raised the criminal role of the Biden administration in the Israeli mass murder in Gaza.

Sharon Zhang (2024-04-29). Sanders: It Is Not Antisemitic to Oppose Israel's Assault of Gaza. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks smearing thousands of U.S. students who are protesting against Israel's genocide in Gaza, emphasizing that it is not antisemitic to oppose Israel's horrific bombing and starvation campaign against Palestinians. In an interview on CNN on Sunday, Sanders, who is Jewish, condemned antisemitism… |

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2024-04-29). Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored. covertactionmagazine.com Israel's Claim To Be a Great Democracy is Undermined By Its Mistreatment Not Only of the Palestinians But Also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth Behind Israeli Policies and Strove For Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians On September 22, 1967, three months after Israel's stunning victory over Egypt in the 6-Day …

T.P. Wilkinson (2024-04-29). "25 de Abril, Sempre" dissidentvoice.org Coming soon: Unbecoming American, A War Memoir, available at amazon.com Fifty years ago the Portuguese became the first and only populace to overthrow its national fascist regime. Although I was in Brazil in 1986 when the 1964 Atos Institutionais that defined the American incited and inspired military dictatorship were replaced by a new civilian constitution …

infobrics (2024-04-29). Western media sees spies and saboteurs everywhere. infobrics.org An espionage scandal in Austria and the ongoing anti-Russian propaganda of the German and Swiss media are poisoning the political atmosphere in Europe.

_____ (2024-04-29). UK and Others Cut Funding to UNRWA but Israel Gave NO EVIDENCE of Terror Links. transcend.org 25 Apr 2024 – An independent report has just exonerated the UN relief agency that is the main channel of humanitarian support to Palestinians across the Middle East. The report by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said Israel has yet to provide any supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UNRWA are members of terrorist organisations.

Sharon Zhang (2024-04-29). Journalism Professors: NYT Risks Credibility With Inaction on Oct. 7 Article. truthout.org Dozens of tenured journalism professors at top schools across the U.S. have raised concerns that The New York Times is risking its own credibility, as well as the credibility of journalism at large, with its inaction on an article about sexual violence on October 7 that has come under scrutiny in recent months due to its reliance on questionable — and, in some cases, debunked — evidence. |

_____ (2024-04-29). Implication of Mathematics in Human Experience from an AI Perspective. transcend.org 29 Apr 2024 – From Sexual Attraction to Existential Preoccupations of Discipline Practitioners – Scientists (and notably mathematicians) pride themselves on their objectivity and tend systematically to deprecate anything characterized as subjective or experiential.

Tom Hardy (2024-04-29). 'We Must Stop Incitement of Violence Against Environmental Activists Before Someone is Seriously Harmed'. bylinetimes.com In 2012, then Home Secretary Theresa May Given that immigration wa…

Staff (2024-04-29). Guardian columnist laments UK "drift to the right" — after slandering Jeremy Corbyn. thecanary.co Guardian columnist John Harris has a new piece where he laments the UK's "drift to the right" and the rhetoric on refugees. But imagine if Jeremy Corbyn, who has long stood with refugees, was prime minister. Refugees certainly wouldn't be facing the Conservative government's Rwanda bill, which threatens to deport them to Rwanda as a …

presstv.ir (2024-04-29). Yemenis rally in Sana'a in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. presstv.ir Thousands took to the streets of Sana'a on Friday (April 26) in support of Palestinians in Gaza, holding up Yemeni and Palestinians flags and chanting slogans in support of Gazans.

presstv.ir (2024-04-29). Yemenis rally in Sana'a in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. presstv.ir Thousands took to the streets of Sana'a on Friday (April 26) in support of Palestinians in Gaza, holding up Yemeni and Palestinians flags and chanting slogans in support of Gazans.

John Perry (2024-04-27). Germany Buries the Evidence of Complicity in Genocide; Nicaragua Exposes It. orinocotribune.com By John Perry — Apr 25, 2024 | On April 11, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, the British-Palestinian war surgeon, gave his first address as the newly-appointed rector of Glasgow University, chosen in recognition of his work at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. The following day he flew to Berlin, where he had been invited to address a major conference on Palestine. On arrival he was taken away by police, interrogated for several hours and eventually told he had to leave Germany and wouldn't be allowed to return until at least the end of April. Any attempt to speak to the conference via Zoom could result in a fine or even a y…

WSWS (2024-04-27). American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten promotes slander of Gaza protests as "antisemitic," covers for brutal government repression. wsws.org Weingarten, a member of the Democratic National Committee with close ties to the Clintons, "Genocide Joe" Biden and other war criminals, personifies the role of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy as a mouthpiece for US imperialism abroad and austerity at home.

Editor (2024-04-27). Apr 27, 2024. sitrepworld.info Blowing In The Wind — Bob Dylan (1963) Why Divine Wrath Will Fall on Israel and America, by Don Hank Students Go After the Hypocrites, by Eric Margolis Zionism's Expired Shelf-Life: Why Naomi Klein is right that it has become Pharaoh, by H. Scott Prosterman Craig Murray: Worse Than You Can Imagine Empire Managers Say Russia, China And Iran Are Tricking Students Into Opposing Genocide, by Caitlin Johnstone Peter Myers Digest: Columbia faculty walk out over Gaza "Kill All Arabs": The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias, by Prem Thakker Gen Z wants peace for Pale…

Roberto Sirvent, Richard Medhurst, Black Agenda Report. (2024-04-27). United States Corporate Media Watch. popularresistance.org Many of the great lies about October 7 were printed by papers like the New York Times, and broadcast incessantly on CNN and MSNBC. The entire liberal establishment is immersed in Israeli propaganda and Zionist beliefs. Joe Biden, a proud Zionist, is the one supplying the bombs that are being dropped on Gaza. It is the Democratic party, including Bernie Sanders and AOC who said nothing during the first weeks and months of this genocide, and instead talked about the Israeli occupation's "right" to do drop bombs on Palestinians. It is Ilhan Omar, a self-declared "progressive" and Muslim woman, who not only voted to…

WSWS (2024-04-27). PEN America cancels World Voices Festival, literary awards ceremony due to protests over its conduct on Gaza. wsws.org PEN America has canceled its annual festival, as well as its literary awards, after scores of authors withdrew from both programs to protest its acquiescence to the Gaza genocide.

ecns.cn (2024-04-27). Comicomment: 'Overcapacity' accusation, another example of economic bullying. ecns.cn Some Western countries have lately accused China of "overcapacity." The " overcapacity rhetoric" seems to be an economic concept, but behind it is the intention to curb and suppress China's industrial development, and to seek a more favorable competitive position and market advantage for the United States. It is another example of U.S. economic coercion and bullying, aligning with its broader hegemonic ambitions.

presstv.ir (2024-04-27). Yemenis rally in Sana'a in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. presstv.ir Thousands took to the streets of Sana'a on Friday (April 26) in support of Palestinians in Gaza, holding up Yemeni and Palestinians flags and chanting slogans in support of Gazans.

presstv.ir (2024-04-27). Yemenis rally in Sana'a in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. presstv.ir Thousands took to the streets of Sana'a on Friday (April 26) in support of Palestinians in Gaza, holding up Yemeni and Palestinians flags and chanting slogans in support of Gazans.

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2024-04-26). Psyops Regarding 1994 Rwanda Genocide Continues With 30th Anniversary Commemoration. covertactionmagazine.com Rwandan regime and Western intelligence agencies and their media and academic assets have spread disinformation for three decades On April 7, Rwandan President Paul Kagame commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide by lighting a flame in honor of the victims in front of foreign dignitaries, and giving a speech in which he …

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-04-26). Empire Managers Say Russia, China And Iran Are Tricking Students Into Opposing Genocide. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Empire managers and propagandists are losing their minds about student protests against the genocide in Gaza on university campuses, so naturally we're seeing a mad push to frame this as the result of interference by Russia, China, Iran and Hamas. These demented conspiracies of foreign influence come even as Israel's prime minister openly calls for the US government to quash the university protests by any means necessary. | In

UN News Centre (2024-04-26). oPt: UN updates on probe into allegations of staff collusion during 7 October attacks [EN/AR]. reliefweb.int Country: occupied Palestinian territory | Source: UN News Centre | Please refer to the attached file. | A UN Office investigating Israeli accusations that 12 staff members from UN Palestine relief agency UNRWA were involved in the 7 October Hamas-led attacks has closed one of the cases because Israel had not provided any supporting evidence, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Friday. | "We are exploring corrective administrative action to be taken in that person's case," he said, speaking during the daily press briefing in New York. | Meanwhile, eight staff remain under investigation by the UN's inte…

Kyle Anzalone (2024-04-26). US Won't Sanction Israeli Military Units That Committed 'Gross Human Rights Violations'. news.antiwar.com Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent a letter to House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson explaining that three Israeli military units found to have committed "gross human rights violations" will not be prevented from obtaining US weapons. Last week, Axios reported that the State Department had elected to blacklist a single Israeli military battalion that was …

Eric Elliot, Grant Inskeep (2024-04-26). Manufacturing Consent in the 21st Century. counterpunch.org Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman wrote Manufacturing Consent in the late 1980s to describe the structural forces which cause an otherwise free media—one lacking government censorship, fear of prison for journalists (aside from those sharing designated government secrets), and staffed with people who genuinely see themselves as holding power accountable—can nonetheless produce systematic propaganda, with a highly

WSWS (2024-04-26). The WHO updates its terminology for pathogens that transmit through the air. wsws.org The World Health Organization published a consensus statement on airborne pathogens, finally aligning the WHO with scientists who presented evidence of this early in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but with no guidance on what measures should now be taken on the pandemic.

WSWS (2024-04-26). Germany's Green Party vice-chancellor appoints himself "defence industry minister" wsws.org The Green politician knows what he's talking about. The last time there was a defence industry minister was under Hitler.

Mnar Adley (2024-04-15). MintPress News: Pushing Back Against Atrocity Propaganda. mintpressnews.com While corporate mainstream media gave Israel the cover to commit genocide in Gaza, MintPress has been at the forefront of challenging atrocity propaganda and naming the names of those who profit from this massacre. For this, we have been targeted financially and algorithmically.

_____ (2024-04-15). Harmonizing Dissonance via a Rubik's Cube Framework. transcend.org 15 Apr 2024 – Experimental Guide to Navigation of Hypersensitive Global Polarization – There is no lack of reference to global division and polarization: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Vaccination-Antivax. Each of these now constrains discourse — even to the point of dividing families, friends, communities, or collegial groups.

_____ (2024-04-15). Israel's UN Ambassador Holds Up Picture of Hitler with Grand Mufti at Session on Palestinian Statehood. transcend.org 8 Apr 2024 – Erdan tries to impress upon diplomats at the UNSC that Muslims were connected with Hitler, saying the Palestinians goal of eradicating Jews predated the UN or the creation of the state of Israel. (See debunking Addendum by TMS Editor)…

People's Dispatch. (2024-04-13). US Officials Brazenly Deny Genocide. popularresistance.org US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was pressed by Senator Tom Cotton during a recent Senate Armed Services Committee meeting, on whether Israeli actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. | "We don't have any evidence of genocide being created," Austin responded, who recently met with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (the same Israeli official who called Gazans "human animals" in October), as Gallant came knocking on the US's door to ask for more weapons. The United States has sent tens of thousands of weapons to Israel since October, with Israel being the largest recipient of US military aid for decades.

WSWS (2024-04-13). Australian actors condemn Gaza genocide, oppose Zionist crackdown on free speech. wsws.org The pro-Israeli campaign of lies and intimidation has its limits, as evidenced by the principled and courageous statements of world-renowned actors Hugo Weaving and Miriam Margolyes.

Richard Horton (2024-04-13). Comment] Offline: A mirage of progress for health and democracy. thelancet.com "Hong Kong parliament passes draconian law to crack down on dissent." "Macron feels force of Kremlin's fake news machine." News headlines suggest democracy is under threat. And so it is. Last month, the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index (BTI) recorded a further decline (between February, 2021, and January, 2023) in the quality of democracy across 137 countries. Only 63 nations were classified as democracies. The majority were labelled autocracies—covering 4 billion people. The BTI deploys words such as "gloomy", "gradual erosion", and "a new nadir".

Alan Macleod (2024-04-02). The US and ISIS: It's Complicated. mintpressnews.com While ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the Moscow shooting, Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the United States might have been behind the attack. | Although he provided no evidence for his claim, it is true that ISIS and the United States government have a long and complicated relationship, with Washington using the group for its own geopolitical purposes and that former ISIS fighters are active in Ukraine, as MintPress News explores.
  A Brutal Attack: | On March 22, gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, killi…

Staff (2024-04-02). State Dept. Whistleblower: Biden Is Skirting U.S. Law by Rushing More Bombs & Warplanes to Israel. democracynow.org The Washington Post reports the Biden administration has recently authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel. The arms package includes more than 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, which can be used to level entire city blocks. The U.S. is also sending 500 MK-82 500-pound bombs and 25 F-35 fighter jets. "It has been doing this on a weekly basis since the conflict began, just an open tab of arms," says Josh Paul, former State Department official who worked on arms transfers before resigning in October to protest increasing arms sales to Israel. "These are the a…

SAM (2024-04-02). Huge Transfer Of U.S. Bombs To Israel Not Newsworthy To The New York Times. progressivehub.net NORMAN SOLOMON…

David Swanson (2024-04-02). Latest Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy to the New York Times. worldbeyondwar.org When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that "the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel," a lot of people cared. #WorldBEYONDWar…

Norman Solomon (2024-04-02). Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy to the NY Times. indybay.org Not Newsworthy to the New York Times…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-04-02). South Africa publishes regulations to control speech online ahead of elections. expose-news.com The South African Film and Publication Board ("FPB") published regulations last week which are ostensibly aimed at tackling misinformation and disinformation through internet platforms, including social media, during the upcoming elections. In …

Scott Ferguson (2024-04-02). Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva. mronline.org Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of—-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Many of our listeners will be familiar with Dr. Tcherneva's contributions to MMT, especially her book, The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity Press, 2020). We speak with Pavlina about her work, and also get her perspective on the causes and conditions of MMT's movement from the margins of economic discourse toward the mainstream of political economic thought.

Larry Johnson (2024-04-02). Israel Itching to Ignite World War III. sonar21.com There is no other way to look at it. Israel bombed a diplomatic building protected under international law when it destroyed Iran's Consulate in Damascus, Syria today. There is no justification for this. I don't care if Iran was harboring Adolf Hitler inside the Consulate, this is an egregious crossing of a redline. The United States correctly condemned the fledgling Iranian regimen when "students" stormed the U.S. Embassy in the fall of 1979 and took hostages. Yet, when Israel destroys a diplomatic facility protected by the Geneva Convention, the United States plays dumb. At this point, Iran would be fully…

aljazeera.com (2024-04-02). Israel's war on Gaza live: Seven aid workers killed after food deliveryUS-based aid group World Central Kitchen confirms seven staff members were killed in a "targeted attack" by the Israeli military and called on it to stop "this indiscriminate killing" in Gaza. Those killed were from Palestine, Australia, Poland, the UK, and a US-Canada citizen.

MEE staff (2024-04-01). George Washington University and programme director sued over UAE 'smear campaign'. middleeasteye.net George Washington University and programme director sued over UAE 'smear campaign' | Farid Hafez, an Austrian political scientist, alleges GWU academic falsely claimed he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood | Mon, 04/01/2024 – 20: 57 | President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan addresses a g…