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2024-04-15: News Headlines

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)…

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2024-04-13: News Headlines

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".

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2024-04-02: News Headlines

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 | | President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan addresses a g…

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2024-03-29: News Headlines

albawaba (2024-03-29). Russia uncovers Ukrainian link to Crocus concert hall attack. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Russian authorities have made significant strides in their investigation into the tragic terror attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. The Russian Information Agency reports that the Investigative Committee has obtained compelling evidence pointing to a Ukrainian connection with the perpetrators of the heinous act.According to statements from the Russian Investigative Committee, concrete evidence has surfaced linking the terrorists responsible for the Crocus attack to Ukrainian nationalists.Furthermore, investigators have uncovered information indicating that the attac…

scorinoco (2024-03-29). Venezuela's Information Minister Criticizes Fake News Published by Journalist Implicated in Venezuela Coup Attempt. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Freddy àëañez crticized journalist Sebastiana Barráez for publishing fake news in an attempt to whitewash the far-right political party Vente Venezuela and its assassination plot against President Nicolás Maduro. | On Thursday, March 28, Minister àëañez pointed out in a social media post that Barráez, who is implicated in the thwarted coup attempt White Bracelet, "tried to whitewash the political party Vente Venezuela in a desperate maneuver of media distraction." | àëañez attached to his post the screenshot of a publication from the far-right Ar…

albawaba (2024-03-29). How Sam Bankman-Fried went to 25 years in prison from a $32B crypto king. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – The founder of the cryptocurrency exchange platform and coin FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, 32, has been found guilty on Thursday and given a 25-year jail term for defrauding investors out of nearly $8 billion, according to New York Times, ending one of the biggest rise and fall stories in crypto.The Bahamas-based FTX peaked at an evaluation of $32 billion earlier in 2022 according to CNBC, becoming one of the largest crypto currency marketplaces in the globe, offering providing spot trading in alongside derivatives products, before seeing a downfall that lead to the incarceration of its founder Sam Bankman-F…

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2024-03-27: News Headlines

Mnar Adley (2024-03-27). 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.

Tamara Nassar (2024-03-27). Nas Daily accepts award from Israel's genocide lobby. electronicintifada.net Nuseir Yassin's former partner spreads atrocity propaganda.

WSWS (2024-03-27). Palestinian-American journalist files lawsuit against firing by CBS News Detroit for his Gaza reporting. wsws.org Television news reporter Ibrahim Samra has filed a lawsuit against CBS News and its Detroit affiliate WKBD for excluding his reporting and then firing him for objecting to its pro-Israel coverage of the Gaza genocide.

Editor (2024-03-27). Mar 27, 2024. sitrepworld.info The Foggy Dew — Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains MoA: New York Times Misreports Gaza UNSC Resolution Stop the Worsening Undercount of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza, by Ralph Nader Redirecting: On Gaza and the Palestinian Resistance, by Mazin Qumsiyeh Peter Myers Digest: Israel and Gaza Cat McGuire Asks Jeff Brown about "Zio-American Empire vs. China," by Kevin Barrett Is "Neocon" synonymous with "Nazi"? by Don Hank Democracy Is an Ideal Government for Jewish Influence, by Thomas Dalton New Alliances and Military Strength Surge Amid Yemen's Unwavering Support for Gaza, by A Abdulkareem…

SAM (2024-03-27). Will Biden's Bellicose Rhetoric Lead Us To War? progressivehub.net JEFFREY SACHS | LA PROGRESSIVE…

Robert Hunziker (2024-03-27). Climate Agreements Suck. pressenza.com Climate agreements suck. There are no real enforcement provisions. Many signatories cheat. Some don't rep0rt at all. Moreover, reported data is highly suspect. It's a worldwide scandal recently exposed by YaleEnvironment360. | Evidence of cheating is found in the atmosphere: Global CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one year ago, see: CO2 Bursting into the Atmosphere, March 22nd . This is not supposed to be happening. It is twisting the planet's climate system into a pretzel that doesn't know which way to turn next. There are plenty of reasons to believe it…

channelnewsasia (2024-03-27). Free Pap test for cervical cancer for women aged 25 to 69. channelnewsasia.com The Pap test is part of 365 Cancer Prevention Society's #My1stPapTest campaign. From now until May 31, eligible women can sign up for its free cervical cancer screening.

greenleft.org.au (2024-03-27). Censors celebrated as bill seeks to define misinformation, disinformation. greenleft.org.au

The Exposé (2024-03-27). Propaganda has come back to Bite: Even the Royal Family can't escape the Turbo Cancer being caused by COVID-19 Vaccines. expose-news.com In the years following the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, public discourse has been saturated with discussions about their efficacy and safety. Among the most visible figures affected by health issues in …

newarab (2024-03-27). New York Times rows back claims of 7 Oct. sexual assault. newarab.com

presstv.ir (2024-03-27). Gaza protesters interrupt 'genocide Joe' as rage rises over US Israel support. presstv.ir Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt president Joe Biden's campaign speech in North Carolina by chanting slogans and protesting his support for the crimes of the Zionist regime.

csmonitor.com (2024-03-27). NBC sought a conservative voice. But its employees didn't want Ronna McDanielNBC News cut ties March 26 with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel less than a week after hiring her as an on-air political contributor, a decision that followed a furious protest by some of its journalists and commentators.

Comment: This story shows how American MSM that only serves both Dems and Repubs has gotten stupider from year-to-year.

aa.com.tr (2024-03-27). Top UN court likely to issue tough decision against Israel for ongoing attacks on Gaza The world court will rule on the requested additional measures in the coming days, which may include criticism of Israel as well as requests for additional monitoring reports, according to the KAN broadcaster report.

newcoldwar.org (2024-03-27). Hezbollah retaliates against Israeli atrocities in Gaza with strikes on military bases Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement has conducted multiple operations against Israeli military outposts in the northern part of the 1948 occupied territories, expressing its unwavering support for Palestinians in Gaza amid a genocidal war.

ca.news.yahoo.com (2024-03-27). Palestinians drown trying to reach Gaza aid air-dropped by US into seaThe Pentagon confirmed that three of the 18 packages it air-dropped on Monday had parachute malfunctions and fell into the water just off the coast of the Strip. However, US officials did not confirm if any Gazans were killed while trying to reach the aid.

firstpost.com (2024-03-27). Teens in Gaza hoping to be killed to end their "nightmare" : UN – Firstpost A spokesman for the UN children's agency said on Tuesday that the situation in the war-torn Gaza is so bad that teens are increasingly expressing their desire to be quickly murdered in order to end the "nightmare".
  "The unspeakable is regularly said in Gaza," said James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations children's agency UNICEF.

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2024-03-25: News Headlines

Michel Moushabeck (2024-03-25). US Shift in Rhetoric Isolates Israel, But Can It Prevent the Invasion of Rafah? truthout.org Today the United States finally decided not to obstruct a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan. The resolution, which was drafted by the 10 elected members of the UN Security Council, demands a lasting and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It was passed with 14 votes in favor and the U.S. abstaining. U.S. |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-03-25). Germany Next Up to Face Gaza Genocide Charges in The Hague. libya360.wordpress.com Ali Abunimah Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, believes that unconditional support for Israel as it perpetrates genocide in Gaza qualifies as atonement for the extermination of European Jews perpetrated by Adolf Hitler, his World War II precedecessor as German leader. On April 8 and 9, the International Court of Justice will once again hold hearings on…

Editor (2024-03-25). Mar 25, 2024. sitrepworld.info Jules Massenet / Thais / Meditation A Barely‚ÄëDisguised Genocide, by Caitlin Johnstone Observers say Israel could cease to exist if a big war breaks out, by Don Hank Jewish Fingernail Fact Check — NOI Research Group The 'New Anti-Semitism,' by Steven Friedman "Man-Made Hell On Earth": A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza, by Jeremy Scahill Rick Sterling on Political Weaponization of Sports & JFK-Israel, by Kevin Barrett Elites, Commoners, And The Shrinking Trust Horizon, by John Rubino Total U.S. Billionaire Wealth: Up 88 Percent over Four Years, by Chuck Co…

_____ (2024-03-25). How the Western Media Helped Build the Case for Genocide in Gaza. transcend.org 20 Mar 2024 – From obscuring the West's role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.

_____ (2024-03-25). It's Journalistic Malpractice to Say Gazans Are Starving without Saying Israel Is Starving Them. transcend.org 19 Mar 2024 – The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they're doing packaging a story about Israel's deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it's a troubling prediction about the weather.

Staff (2024-03-25). Protesters stage event at New York art museum in support of Gaza. muslimmirror.com NEW YORK : Protesters covered the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a large patchwork blanket on Sunday displaying messages of solidarity with Palestine to draw attention to Israel's war on Gaza. Many demonstrators gathered on the steps of the museum, also known as The Met. They chanted slogans such as "Free …

Staff (2024-03-25). Protesters stage event at New York art museum in support of Gaza. muslimmirror.com NEW YORK : Protesters covered the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a large patchwork blanket on Sunday displaying messages of solidarity with Palestine to draw attention to Israel's war on Gaza. Many demonstrators gathered on the steps of the museum, also known as The Met. They chanted slogans such as "Free …

SKWAWKBOX (2024-03-25). Video: Israeli Knesset member mocked and called liar by UN-linked parliament gathering. skwawkbox.org Hard right advocate of 'levelling' Gaza derided for repeating debunked atrocity propaganda to 148th Assembly of Inter-Parliamentary Union Danny Danon, a hard-right Likud member of Israel's Knesset, has been derided as a liar and jeered by attendees at the 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a UN-linked gathering of the world's parliaments, which is …

WSWS (2024-03-25). The Moscow terror attack: An imperialist provocation. wsws.org The principal mouthpieces of US imperialism, the New York Times and the Washington Post, have initiated a campaign to deny the all but obvious involvement of the US and Ukraine in this attack.

WSWS (2024-03-25). Instant denials of Ukrainian intelligence involvement in Russian terror attack are not credible. wsws.org The principal mouthpieces of US imperialism, the New York Times and the Washington Post, have initiated a campaign to deny the all but obvious involvement of the US and Ukraine in this attack.

c-span.org (2024-03-25). U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Security Council Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza During a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East and following the adoption of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered brief remarks. The ambassador said the United States supports the resolution but chose to abstain from the vote because they did not agree with everything in the resolution.

c-span.org (2024-03-25). U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Security Council Resolution for Ceasefire in GazaDuring a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East and following the adoption of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered brief remarks. The ambassador said the United States supports the resolution but chose to abstain from the vote because they did not agree with everything in the resolution.

middleeasteye.net (2024-03-25). 'Seeing for Ourselves': A call for inner reflection while tackling injustice In her honest reflections, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan invites readers on a spiritual journey of self-accounting, helping us to think about how we see ourselves and want to be seen

en.abna24.com (2024-03-25). Burning Palestinian civilians by Israel, a model of America's massacre in JapanIn Gaza, Palestine, three Palestinian women get martyred every hour as a result of Israeli airstrikes, targeting residential homes with incendiary bombs and being trapped in dire conditions; women, who are often harder to rescue from under rubble or fires than men.

tasnimnews.com (2024-03-25). Iraqi Islamic Resistance Targets Israeli Military Headquarters with Drone StrikeThe Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it launched a drone strike early Sunday targeting the headquarters of the Israeli regime's ministry for military affairs in the occupied territories.

scoop.co.nz (2024-03-25). Jewish And Muslim Youth Unite To Respond To Gaza Humanitarian Crisis "It was both empowering and sobering to be in the room alongside many of our Jewish brothers and sisters who are committed to upholding their Jewish values in support of a liberated Palestine" said Tahirah Moton (Ng?ti Maniapoto) from the Muslim youth community.

Staff (2024-03-25). Will Sangh Parivar abandon 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' slogan because it was coined by a Muslim, Kerala CM asks. muslimmirror.com MALAPPURAM : Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said the slogans 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and 'Jai Hind' were first raised by two Muslims and asked whether the Sangh Parivar would be ready to abandon them. Reaching out to the minority community in this Muslim-dominated north Kerala district, the veteran CPI(M) leader said Muslim …

Robert Hunziker (2024-03-25). Climate Agreements Suck. counterpunch.org Climate agreements suck. There are no real enforcement provisions. Many signatories cheat. Some don't rep0rt at all. Moreover, reported data is highly suspect. It's a worldwide scandal recently exposed by YaleEnvironment360. Evidence of cheating is found in the atmosphere: Global CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one

James C. Nelson (2024-03-25). The Monster in the House. counterpunch.org I read with interest Ron Waterman's guest view in the March 19, 2024 Independent Record regarding Hitler's and the Nazi's attacks on Jewish people and our own Country's slide toward authoritarianism. I agree with his commentary. What piqued my further interest, however, was what I had just read about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in

greenleft.org.au (2024-03-25). Censors celebrated as bill seeks to define misinformation, disinformation. greenleft.org.au

NewsOne Staff (2024-03-25). Exonerated! Wrongly Convicted Black Folks Whose Names Have Been Cleared. newsone.com Source: The Washington Post / Getty | UPDATED: 9: 30 a.m. ET, Mar 25, 2024 | It's a tragic story told time and time again: After ppending 44 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, William Franklin

Staff (2024-03-25). Will Sangh Parivar abandon 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' slogan because it was coined by a Muslim, Kerala CM asks. muslimmirror.com MALAPPURAM : Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said the slogans 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' and 'Jai Hind' were first raised by two Muslims and asked whether the Sangh Parivar would be ready to abandon them. Reaching out to the minority community in this Muslim-dominated north Kerala district, the veteran CPI(M) leader said Muslim …

Ken Klippenstein (2024-03-25). Government-Made Comic Books Try to Fight Election Disinformation. theintercept.com With the 2024 elections looming, the Department of Homeland Security has a little-noticed weapon in its war on disinformation: comic books. Few have read them, but the

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2024-03-23: News Headlines

Michael F. Brown (2024-03-23). Will Netanyahu outlast Biden? electronicintifada.net The American president has alienated key constituencies by continuing to arm Israel during the Gaza genocide…

Editor (2024-03-23). Flour Massacre Called 'Aid-Related Deaths'—Rather Than Part of Israel's Engineered Famine. scheerpost.com By Robin Andersen / FAIR Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre. Corporate media reporting was contentious and confused, mired in accusations and conflicting details …

WSWS (2024-03-23). PEN America in crisis as writers withdraw from World Voices Festival over Gaza genocide. wsws.org The writers advocacy group is seeking to conciliate critics over its silence on the murder of writers, journalists and artists in Gaza by the Israeli regime.

Jonathan Cook (2024-03-23). How the western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza. mronline.org From obscuring the West's role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-23). Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough‚Ää—‚ÄäWe've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well. caitlinjohnstone.com.au Humanity doesn't just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial indoctrination. It needs to escape from the heart prison as well.

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-03-23). Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough — We've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): | Humanity doesn't just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial indoctrination. It needs to escape from the heart prison as well. | I'm always talking here about the need to fight empire propaganda to help the public awaken to the fact that everything we've been trained to believe about the world is a lie, because that insight taking root in sufficient numbers would be the first step toward the revolutionary changes our world so desperately needs. | But large numbers of people opening their eyes to the reality of mass-scale psychological man…

Editor (2024-03-23). Mar 23, 2024. sitrepworld.info Kenny Chesney — Don't Blink Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough‚Ää —‚Ää We've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well, by Caitlin Johnstone Wake-up Call, by James Howard Kunstler Who wants to march on Moscow, by Alex Kriel Karl Sanchez: Why the West Cannot Stomach Russians, by the late Andre Vitchek Multipolarity: The Era of the Great Transition, by Alexander Dugin — Arktos Journal Bill to Ban TikTok Is 'Egregious Attack' on U.S. Constitution, Critics Say, by Brenda Baletti Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism, by Matt Taibbi Objective/Non…

WSWS (2024-03-23). The Democrats' "all-out war" on third parties and independent candidates. wsws.org The Democratic Party is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, operatives and propaganda to ensure workers and youth will have no choice in the 2024 US presidential election except Biden and Trump.

greenleft.org.au (2024-03-23). Censors celebrated as bill seeks to define misinformation, disinformation. greenleft.org.au

palestinechronicle.com (2024-03-23). Amid Israeli Genocide – Gaza's Faith Unbroken (PHOTOS & VIDEO) Faith is a central component in the lives of Palestinians. Gaza, now undergoing an Israeli genocide, is in greater need of its faith than ever before.

inthesetimes.com (2024-03-23). Defunding UNRWA Was Never About HamasThe refugee agency is a reminder that Palestinian refugees exist and have inalienable political rights—a truth the Israeli government finds deeply inconvenient.

sfgate.com (2024-03-23). The UN Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a Ramadan cease-fire The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a NEW resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The resolution, put forward by the 10 elected council members, is backed by Russia and China, who vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution Friday. The council is expected to vote on the resolution Monday morning.

truthout.org (2024-03-23). US Has Redefined "Human Shields" to Enable Israel's Slaughter of Gaza Civilians President Biden and members of Congress have cynically reinterpreted "human shields" to flout international law.

palestinechronicle.com (2024-03-23). 'She Never Returned Home' – Palestinians Children Remember Their Mothers, Killed in Israeli Airstrikes In fact, for many children, there will be no mothers to celebrate anymore as well over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the beginning of the war. Moreover, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement on X on Thursday that the Israeli war on Gaza has been killing an average of 37 mothers daily since October 7.

Israel-Gaza War Update: Latest Figures and Statistics

Posted by Richard Medhurst.

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2024-03-22: News Headlines

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III, Popular Resistance. (2024-03-22). It's Not Apathy; You're Not Listening. popularresistance.org One of the popular narratives that was disseminated in mainstream America media to explain Hilary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign loss to Donald Trump was post-Obama voter apathy in the African American community. According to the Washington Post, "In 2016, a seven-point drop in black voter turnout was perceived to have cost Clinton the election. | Political commentators often cite black voters' "enthusiasm gap" as the primary reason for low turnout. This short-sighted perspective fails to consider that Mrs. Clinton ran a terrible campaign. She took the African American vote for granted and failed to craft a…

Global Research News (2024-03-22). Selected Articles: The 5G and Effects on Mice, Rats and Humans. Ten New Studies. Dr. William Makis. globalresearch.ca By This propaganda was successful enough that some of those who were getting COVID-19 Vaccinated made jokes about …

ecns.cn (2024-03-21). HK rallies behind new ordinance. ecns.cn More Hong Kong people at home and abroad voiced their strong objection to the smears by some Western politicians on the city's national security ordinance, which will take effect on Saturday.

Editor (2024-03-22). New York Times readers are the least informed ones. mronline.org One presumes that readers of a media institution which calls itself the 'paper of record' would be informed about an important issue which in other media has for month led the headlines of the day.

Paul Street (2024-03-22). Appeasement and Missed Chances: Nightmare Notes from Weimar Amerika. counterpunch.org Nightmare Years: The Appeasement of Hitler and the Third Reich, 1935-1939 Adolph Hitler's Third Reich could have been stopped in its tracks well before it launched a Second World War that cost 70-85 million lives. But England and France did nothing when in March of 1935 Hitler tore up the Treaty of Versailles by restoring universal

WSWS (2024-03-22). Democratic Party escalates efforts to block third parties from US presidential ballot. wsws.org On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the Democratic Party has assembled a "new team of lawyers" tasked with blocking third-party candidates from appearing on the ballot.

Staff (2024-03-22). Maldives Prez seeks debt relief from India after insisting on withdrawal of military personnel. muslimmirror.com Male : After his anti-India rhetoric, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has struck a reconciliatory tone, saying India will continue to remain his country's "closest ally" and urged New Delhi to provide debt relief to the archipelago nation. The Maldives owed approximately USD 400.9 million to India by the end of last year. Ever since he …

Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-22). A compilation of corporate media's explanation of sudden deaths. expose-news.com As sudden deaths and cardiovascular diseases became more common, corporate media has needed to find explanations for the alarming trends. Filipe Rafaeli has compiled corporate media headlines that provide the most curious …

greenleft.org.au (2024-03-22). Censors celebrated as bill seeks to define misinformation, disinformation. greenleft.org.au

youtube.com (2024-03-22). LIVE: Outside Moscow concert hall after shooting by several gunmenRussia's Federal Security Service said 40 people died and more than 100 were wounded in an attack Friday at a Moscow concert hall.
  The attack, which Russian authorities are investigating as terrorism, is the deadliest in Russia in recent years.
  Several gunmen burst into the concert hall on the edge of Moscow and sprayed visitors with automatic gunfire, killing and wounding dozens and starting a massive blaze

PositiveUniverse.com Comment (2024-03-22). The duplicitous American MSM wants the public to believe that Russia vetoed the US drafted Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.The American MSM wants the public to believe that Russia vetoed the US drafted Security Council calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
  It was a trick resolution question. It did NOT call for a ceasefire and simply stated that a ceasefire is an 'imperative' (important), further enabling the march by Israel for an upcoming Rafah invasion and massive slaughter of Palestinians.

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2024-03-21: News Headlines

Priti Gulati Cox — Stan Cox (2024-03-21). Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention. counterpunch.org The American government has provided most of the armaments and targeting technologies being used to kill Gazans by the thousands while turning many of the rest of them into refugees by destroying their homes, offices, schools, and hospitals. Nor did the Biden administration threaten to withdraw that support when Israel blocked shipments of crucial food and fuel to the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip. It also keeps vetoing U.N. Security Council resolutions that would hold Israel accountable.

Priti Gulati Cox — Stan Cox (2024-03-21). Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention. counterpunch.org The American government has provided most of the armaments and targeting technologies being used to kill Gazans by the thousands while turning many of the rest of them into refugees by destroying their homes, offices, schools, and hospitals. Nor did the Biden administration threaten to withdraw that support when Israel blocked shipments of crucial food and fuel to the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip. It also keeps vetoing U.N. Security Council resolutions that would hold Israel accountable.

WSWS (2024-03-21). Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer receives support against Zionist smear campaign. wsws.org Even in the entertainment industry, where defense of the Gazan population against homicidal bombings, massacres, starvation and disease can mean the end of one's career, voices have been raised in Glazer's defense.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-03-21). George Soros, the United Nations and groups organising pro-Hamas protests. expose-news.com Since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, we have been witnessing a strange phenomenon whereby corporate media and independent media are pushing the same narrative, except for some outlets in America. This …

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III, Popular Resistance. (2024-03-21). It's Not Apathy; You're Not Listening. popularresistance.org One of the popular narratives that was disseminated in mainstream America media to explain Hilary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign loss to Donald Trump was post-Obama voter apathy in the African American community. According to the Washington Post, "In 2016, a seven-point drop in black voter turnout was perceived to have cost Clinton the election. | Political commentators often cite black voters' "enthusiasm gap" as the primary reason for low turnout. This short-sighted perspective fails to consider that Mrs. Clinton ran a terrible campaign. She took the African American vote for granted and failed to craft a…

Gringo (2024-03-21). Mar 21, 2024. sitrepworld.info Cantique de Jean Racine — Gabriel Fauré Report: Assange in Plea Deal Talks, by Joe Lauria Missouri v. Biden: Our Day in the Supreme Court, by Aaron Kheriaty, MD The worm turns: Russia's new position on entering into strategic arms negotiations, by Gilbert Doctorow The Other America: A New Documentary on the 3 Missed Chances for World Peace, by Matthew Ehret Democracy, Russian Style, by Scott Ritter Washington Post Calls on VP Kamala Harris to Step Down, by Paul Craig Roberts God and Revolution, Choosing Hope, Reconsidering Antisemitism, An Anatomy of Our Thinking (4), by Ray Zwarich Aut…

Bruce Lerro (2024-03-21). Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part II. dissidentvoice.org Summary of Part I After briefly reviewing the theories of the relationship between religion and nationalism, I find the theories of Anthony Smith, George Mosse and Adrian Hutchinson the most compelling. They all agree that religion provides the propagandistic foundation for nationalism. But I also claim that it is a particular kind of religion, monotheism, that is …

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (2024-03-21). Washington Post Calls on VP Kamala Harris to Step Down. globalresearch.ca

Matt Taibbi (2024-03-21). Absurd New York Times Hit Piece: First Amendment case in the Supreme Court. Matt Taibbi. globalresearch.ca

ecns.cn (2024-03-20). Blinken claiming that China is spreading disinformation is in itself disinformation: Chinese FM. ecns.cn The U.S.' Secretary of State Antony Blinken's accusing China of spreading false information is in itself false information, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian on Wednesday.

Binoy Kampmark (2024-03-21). Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under. dissidentvoice.org The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an information medium never before seen on such scale could be used to liberate mind and spirit. With almost disconcerting reliability, humankind would coddle and fawn over a technology which would, as Langdon Winner writes, "bring …

navyrecognition.com (2024-03-21). Russia & China have secured agreement with Houthis to protect their vessels According to information published by Bloomberg on March 21, 2024, the Houthi group has assured China and Russia that their naval vessels will be granted safe passage through the strategically critical maritime zones of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

muslimnews.co.uk (2024-03-21). Gaza: 100 Palestinians killed 92 injured by Israeli bombings last 24 hoursMore than 100 Palestinians were killed and 92 more injured by Israeli indiscriminate bombings in the last 24 hours in Gaza Strip according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza. The death toll of Palestinians from Israeli deadly attacks since 7 October 2023 has gone up to 31,988 including over 13,000 children and 74,188 Palestinians injured in Gaza Strip. 8,500 Palestinians are missing.

ecns.cn (2024-03-21). Beijing slams Washington for spreading false info. ecns.cn Beijing hit back at Washington's slandering of China by spreading disinformation on Wednesday, saying the United States is the biggest source and spreader of false information in the world.

The Exposé (2024-03-21). You stayed at home so that Drs & Nurses could kill your Friends & Family with Midazolam & pretend they were COVID-19 Deaths. expose-news.com The world was thrown into chaos when a new "virus", Covid-19, was declared a pandemic by the government. Fear propaganda was broadcast non-stop on television and radio, all paid for by the …

The Exposé (2024-03-21). BREAKING: Explosive Court Documents prove Pfizer, FDA & Fact Checkers LIED when they said Toxic Graphene Oxide was not inside the COVID-19 Vaccines. expose-news.com Graphene Oxide is a fairly new substance not yet well understood. But what we do know is that studies have proven it can be toxic to cells and tissues in the body. …

stclair (2024-03-21). The New York Times' Answer to the Collapse of the News Industry: Free Journalism School. counterpunch.org Yes, I am serious. That is the answer that the New York Times opinion page gave us this morning. The argument is that if students leaving school didn't have so much debt, it would be easier for them to take relatively low-paying jobs in journalism. This is incredibly annoying for two reasons. First, there are

Dean Baker (2024-03-21). Tech Layoffs Are Down, So the NYT Has a Major Column Telling Us Tech Layoffs Are Bad. cepr.net The New York Times opinion section seems determined to promote an alternative reality about the economy. Today it featured a column by Ashley Goodall, a former executive at Cisco Systems, telling us why mass layoffs in tech are bad. While Goodall makes several good points about layoffs being both bad from the company's long-term perspective, …

Dean Baker (2024-03-21). The New York Times' Answer to the Collapse of the News Industry: Free Journalism School. counterpunch.org Yes, I am serious. That is the answer that the New York Times opinion page gave us this morning. The argument is that if students leaving school didn't have so much debt, it would be easier for them to take relatively low-paying jobs in journalism. This is incredibly annoying for two reasons. First, there are

ecns.cn (2024-03-20). China hits back at West's 'double-standards' smear against Article 23. ecns.cn In response to comments made by countries such as the U.S., the UK, Japan and the EU bloc, Lin Jian, spokesperson of China's Foreign Ministry, said "We strongly deplore and firmly oppose individual countries and organizations' slandering and smear against the law."

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2024-03-13: News Headlines

Patricia Harrity (2024-03-13). Report Finds U.K. Media Bias in Israel/Gaza Reporting — Stop Falling for Their Propaganda. expose-news.com

Jim Hightower (2024-03-13). The End of Anti-Woke Politics? otherwords.org Well, well, well — look who's waking up and raring to go: Mr. and Ms. Woke! | We so-called "woke" people have been the target of far-right politicos and front groups that are frantically trying to ban us and our ideas from America's political discourse. In the past few years, such thuggish gubernatorial demagogues as Ron DeSantis have perverted the power of Big Government to attack teachers, librarians, public agencies, and even beer. Beer! | Why? Because such people and organizations make educational efforts to reduce bigotry, hatred, and exclusiveness in our society. "That's woke," screech the ultra-right…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2024-03-13). CELAC Should Revisit Its Position on Haiti. orinocotribune.com By Mona Péralte — Mar 6, 2024 | The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was founded in Caracas, Venezuela in December 2011 as an alternative to the Washington, DC-based Organization of American States (OAS), formed in 1948 to be a Cold War chariot. Cuba characterizes the OAS as Washington's "Ministry of Colonial Affairs, " which expelled the socialist nation in 1962. | "As the years go by, CELAC is going to leave behind the old and worn-out OAS," then Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said at the 33-member alliance's inaugural ceremonies. | "It's the death sentence for the Monroe Doctrine…

People's Dispatch. (2024-03-13). Activists Push Palestine To The Front Line Of The Oscars. popularresistance.org "The Palestinian protests shut down the Oscars tonight!" shouted actor and activist Mark Ruffalo on the red carpet, on the way to the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony on the night of March 10. "Humanity wins!" he said, raising his fist. | Indeed, right outside where A-list celebrities were gathered for Hollywood's most important awards ceremony, a massive crowd was taking to the streets of Los Angeles, shouting "while you're watching, bombs are dropping!" and holding banners with slogans such as "No awards for genocide."

Editor (2024-03-13). Mar 13, 2024. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Hauser & Petrit àáeku — Concierto de Aranjuez — Adagio Confident Dragon Lays Out Modernization Roadmap, by Pepe Escobar Whatever You Have to Tell Yourself, by Mark Chapman Crocodile Tears For Gaza While Backing Its Destruction, by Caitlin Johnstone The Debate Over Israel as 'US Aircraft Carrier,' by Diana Johnstone QZionism hits Peak Conspiracy Theory with Smears of Oscar-Winning Jonathan Glazer, by Juan Cole The last stammering of Jewish fascism, by Thierry Meyssan The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA Here's…

albawaba (2024-03-13). Democrats urge Biden to stop arming Israel. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – A number of Democrat senates called on President Joe Biden to stop providing weapons to Israel until it lifts restrictions on the delivery of American humanitarian assistance to Gaza, according to a New York Times report.Citing a letter on Monday by Senator Bernie Sanders, the New York Times reported that by continuing to arm Israel, Biden was violating the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act.According to Sanders's letter, the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, stipulates that "no assistance" should be provided to any country that restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of US humanitarian assist…

ecns.cn (2024-03-13). Officials from central government, HKSAR refute Western media reports on Article 23. ecns.cn Officials from the central and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) governments have refuted Western media reports on Article 23 legislation by writing letters to media outlets such as the Washington Post and Bloomberg.

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