2023-10-13: News Headlines

Peter Bolton (2023-10-13). Media Disinformation and Selective Outrage are Key Pillars of Israel's War Propaganda Arsenal. counterpunch.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

presstv.ir (2023-10-13). Israel gives Gazans 24 hours to relocate south; Hamas calls it 'fake propaganda'. presstv.ir The Israeli regime has ordered the entire residents of Gaza City to evacuate the area within 24 hours, in what is viewed as a precursor of a ground invasion.

teleSUR, JGN (2023-10-13). Israel da 24 horas a la población de Gaza para abandonar la zona. telesurtv.net Hamás dijo a los residentes de Gaza que la noticia de la evacuación "es propaganda falsa".

Ali Abunimah (2023-10-12). Biden lied about seeing photos of beheaded Israeli children. electronicintifada.net Israel is using atrocity propaganda to justify mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza…

Media Lens (2023-10-12). The Achilles' Heel Of Propaganda: Julian Assange, Nick Cohen And Russell Brand. dissidentvoice.org In the second decade of the 21st century, after much empty talk of 'government of the people, by the people, for the people', it was discovered that people weren't even capable of governing their own media consumption. Huge, artificially intelligent computers revealed that while 49.5% of the population was drowning in a 'post-truth' sea of …

Unicorn Riot (2023-10-12). Zimbabwean Government Mounts Post-Election Propaganda Campaign. unicornriot.ninja

Alan Macleod (2023-10-13). Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories. mintpressnews.com 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 …

midwesternmarx (2023-10-13). The Moral Imperative of Unconditional Decolonization. By: Yanis Iqbal. midwesternmarx.com Naomi Klein's article "Why are some of the left celebrating the killings of Israeli Jews?" is a ragbag of liberal rhetoric. Some unspecified leftists are criticized for celebrating the anti-Jew violence of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. By minimizing the massacre of Israeli civilians, these leftists are said to be fueling the sense of insecurity among Jews that drives Zionist settler-colonialism. Klein desires for "n international left rooted in values that side with …

Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. (2023-10-12). 'A Massive War Crime': Israel Begins Total Blockade Of Gaza Strip. popularresistance.org Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a "complete siege" of the Gaza Strip on Monday, pledging to block food and fuel from entering the occupied enclave and cut off the territory's electricity—steps that international law experts and other observers decried as a clear war crime that will devastate civilians. | "There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," said Gallant. | Using rhetoric that one commentator called "blatantly genocidal," Gallant added that "we are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." | Israel has been imposing a land, air, and sea blockade…

presstv.ir (2023-10-12). US CEOs urge blacklisting of Harvard students who signed anti-Israeli statement. presstv.ir CEOs running a whole host of American business giants urge blacklisting of the Harvard University students, who recently signed an anti-Israeli statement.

Paul Street (2023-10-13). Manufacturing Consent: The Western War Media's Selective Outrage and Imperial Amnesia. counterpunch.org Like many folks I have spent a fair amount of time the last few days in front of a television watching the US cable news stations — primarily CNN and MSNBC with an occasional look at FOX — cover the Israel-Hamas war. I am struck by the extreme and unabashed imbalance in humanitarian concern demonstrated

Richard Gale (2023-10-12). Disinformation Campaign Launched Against Ivermectin Led by Anthony Fauci, the FDA and the CDC? globalresearch.ca

midwesternmarx (2023-10-13). How Western media, social media influencers peddle lies to vilify Palestinians By: Shabbir Rizvi. midwesternmarx.com Since the Hamas-led Palestinian resistance operation "Al Aqsa Storm" on Saturday, mainstream Western media and social media influencers have been aggressively pushing Zionist narratives as part of a murky disinformation campaign against the resistance.The multi-front information war is designed to control the narrative around anything surrounding the Palestinian issue and the latest military operation that has shaken the foundation of the regime.Now more than ever, i …

Patricia Harrity (2023-10-13). EU Threatens to Block X, Musk Demands Concrete Examples of Alleged 'Disinformation'. expose-news.com EU commissioner Thierry Breton has warned Elon Musk in a letter that his platform X, formally known as Twitter, is spreading "illegal content and disinformation" The letter said concerns had heightened after …

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-13). 50 misinformation, disinformation and outright covid lies told by the Australian government and regulators. expose-news.com When it was confirmed that governments around the world released covid-19 "vaccines" which were made in a different way to clinical trial "vaccines" and that the commercial batches were contaminated with toxic …

presstv.ir (2023-10-12). EU asks Musk to censor news about Israel's war in Gaza. presstv.ir The European Union is asking Elon Musk to censor information not conforming to the Western narrative over Israel's war on Palestinians in Gaza.

Robert Inlakesh (2023-10-13). "Beheaded Israeli Babies", "Raped Women" And Other Disinformation To Justify Gaza Massacre. thelastamericanvagabond.com Following Israel's onslaught against Gaza, killing over a thousand civilians, rendering hundreds of thousands homeless and cutting off the water, food, international aid, electricity, and fuel to what Israel's Defense Minister called "human animals" in Gaza, an immense focus has been placed upon the nature of the initial Hamas attack against Israel. By now you

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-12). Matt Le Tissier speaks about his fight to get the football establishment to recognise vaccine injuries and stop pushing covid injections onto footballers. expose-news.com Footballing legend Matt Le Tissier has been a fierce critic of the UK government's covid policy. His views saw him attacked by corporate media and he was fired by Sky Sports. However, …

Abeer Al-Najjar (2023-10-13). The War on Gaza and The Rise of the Inquisitor Reporter. counterpunch.org Since October 7, the start of Hamas' "Al-Aqsa Flood operation", the western media went into a new phase of performative theatrical ethics over media and political discourse. They started a frenzy of highly dramatized sympathies with the Israeli victims, bestowing exclusively used labels of "innocent", and "civilian", turning a blind eye to Palestinian victims, then

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-12). Lula: Veto Everything! libya360.wordpress.com Presenza Apib* demands that President Lula be consistent with his environmentalist discourse and veto the entire bill that threatens indigenous lands. Following the approval of Bill 2903 (PL2903) by the Federal Senate (27/09), the Brazilian indigenous movement is mobilising in the villages, in the cities and internationally, demanding that President Lula veto the bill known…

Jeffrey St. Clair (2023-10-12). Some Young Lives Matter More Than Others, Some Don't Seem to Matter at All. counterpunch.org How many children will Biden's shipment of weapons to Israel kill? How many limbs will be lost? How many small heads will be crushed in the rubble? Will we see the bodies our bombs have mutilated? Get a body count of the deaths our tax dollars have underwritten? What doctrine of just war decrees that the deaths of children justify the killing of more children?

presstv.ir (2023-10-13). Israeli settler, who called for Palestinians to be 'wiped out', behind 'beheaded babies' fake news. presstv.ir The source behind the claim that Hamas beheaded babies during its operation against the Israeli regime is an extremist settler who called for Palestinians to be "wiped out" earlier this year, according to a report.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-12). Ukraine: Between War and Peace — Tamara Lorincz in Conversation with Jacques Baud. libya360.wordpress.com Join a discussion which featured retired Colonel Jacques Baud, Senior Swiss Military Intelligence Officer, former NATO worker in Ukraine and award winning author of "Ukraine Between War and Peace" "Putin: Master of the Game?" and Governing by Fake News among others. Organized by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and the Canada Wide Peace & Justice…

presstv.ir (2023-10-12). Israeli settler, who called for Palestinians to be 'wiped out', behind 'beheaded babies' fake news. presstv.ir The source behind the claim that Hamas beheaded babies during its operation against the Israeli regime is an extremist settler who called for Palestinians to be "wiped out" earlier this year, according to a report.

The Lancet (2023-10-14). Editorial] The future of work and health. thelancet.com The world of work is changing rapidly. Estimates suggest that by as early as 2025, employers will divide work equally between human beings and machines, disrupting 85 million jobs globally. A move towards automation and outsourcing is in direct contrast to the political dialogue, which has framed employment as the antidote to poverty. Most people assume that employment with good working conditions is good for health: it offers connection, community, and purpose. Sustainable Development Goal 8 calls for achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all by 2030.

Tamara Pearson (2023-10-13). There is a way out of the global love crisis. greenleft.org.au There are big bucks in outsourcing society's problems to the individual. writes Tamara Pearson.

Frank Pega, Natalie C Momen, Ali H A Abubakar, Rola Al-Emam, Mohd N Hassan, John Howard, Sadia H Hussein, Sergio Iavicoli, Silvère K Kevi, Spo M Kgalamono, Sk Mamunur Rahman Malik, Guy Mbayo K, Abdinasir Y Osman, Rajesh S Pandav, Raja R Pote Shrestha, Dipendra R Singh, Xin Sun, Marin K Wotobe, Maria P Neira (2023-10-14). Comment] Monitoring workers' health: focus on rights, determinants, and equity. thelancet.com The Lancet Series on Work and Health1—3 recognises that changes in the world of work are causing new occupational hazards to physical and mental health and increasing health inequalities within and between countries. These changes have profound implications for official workers' health data and monitoring systems, which have become a global health priority as the world seeks to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).4,5 These monitoring systems are public goods that provide international organisations, governments, and communities the evidence base for policy and practice that ensures health for all…

Editor (2023-10-12). Source of Dubious 'Beheaded Babies' Claim is Israeli Settler Leader Who Incited Riots to 'Wipe Out' Palestinian Village. scheerpost.com After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants "cut [off] heads of babies," Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim. | The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be "wiped out."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-10-12). Source of Dubious 'Beheaded Babies' Claim is Israeli Settler Leader Who Incited Riots to 'Wipe Out' Palestinian Village. libya360.wordpress.com Max Blumenthal and Alexander Rubenstein After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants "cut [off] heads of babies," Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim. The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be "wiped…

Chris Gilbert (2023-10-12). Venezuelan Migrants: Survivors from a Passenger Ship That You Sunk. counterpunch.org The empire throws the stone but hides its hand, and the obedient mass media (The New York Times included) follows suit by telling only of the reactions provoked by repeated imperial stonings. Two million Palestinians have been made hostage in the world's largest open-air prison for decades, where they are subjected to repeated attacks and humiliations. Then, lo

Dave DeCamp (2023-10-12). US, Qatar Agree to Deny Iran Access to $6 Billion of Its Funds. news.antiwar.com The US and Qatar have agreed to deny Iran access to $6 billion of its own funds that were recently released as part of a prisoner swap deal with the US, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The $6 billion was frozen in South Korea due to US sanctions on Iran that were re-imposed …

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