(2024-01-18). Democracy Now! 2024-01-18 Thursday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled | Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate o…
(2024-01-18). Democracy Now! 2024-01-18 Thursday. democracynow.org Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled | Headlines for January 18, 2024; Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza; Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians; Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate o…
(2024-01-18). Artist Emily Jacir: Rampant Censorship Is Part of the Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians. democracynow.org 
We speak with award-winning Palestinian American artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir, whose event in Berlin in October was canceled after Israel launched its ongoing assault on Gaza. Jacir decries a pattern of "harassment, baseless smear campaigns, canceling shows, canceling talks" conducted against Palestinian artists in Germany and around the world. "It's very much part of a coordinated movement," she says, connecting global censorship of diasporic Palestinian voices with the violent "targeted destruction of culture in Gaza," which she calls a "part of genocide.̶…
(2024-01-18). Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby Slams Indiana University for Canceling Exhibit over Her Support for Gaza. democracynow.org 
We spend the hour looking at how artists, writers and other cultural workers in the United States and Europe are facing a growing backlash after expressing solidarity for Palestine. We begin with one of these "canceled" cultural workers: renowned Palestinian American artist Samia Halaby, whose first U.S. retrospective was canceled by her graduate alma mater, Indiana University, after she criticized Israel's bombardment of Gaza. The school's provost said this week the show would have been a "lightning rod" that carried a "risk of violence." Halaby expresses her shock and d…
(2024-01-18). Targeted Artist: Censorship Is Part of Genocidal Campaign to Erase Palestinians. truthout.org We speak with award-winning Palestinian American artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir, whose event in Berlin in October was canceled after Israel launched its ongoing assault on Gaza. Jacir decries a pattern of "harassment, baseless smear campaigns, canceling shows, canceling talks" conducted against Palestinian artists in Germany and around the world. "It's very much part of a coordinated movement,"… |
(2024-01-18). Holocaust Survivor Marione Ingram Decries Climate of Censorship After Her Hamburg Talks Are Canceled. democracynow.org 
We are joined by 88-year-old Jewish German American Marione Ingram, who describes how her scheduled speaking tour in Hamburg — the city she fled in the Holocaust — was "postponed" this month amid a wider backlash against those speaking out against Israel's assault on Gaza. Ingram has been protesting for months outside the White House calling for a ceasefire, and characterizes U.S. and German pro-Israel policy as "disturbing" and "frightening." As a survivor of the Holocaust, Ingram says, "My childhood was spent in the first 10 years much the same way as…
(2024-01-18). Navigating the News Void: From News Deserts to Revitalization. scheerpost.com 
By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff /Project Censored In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News, that peoples' need to …
(2024-01-18). Multiple covid injections could weaken immunity and lead to cancer and brain disorders, Thai corporate media reports. expose-news.com On Sunday, the Bangkok Post published an article stating that multiple covid injections may cause hidden diseases to surface, weaken immunity and lead to cancer and brain disorders. The Bangkok Post is …
(2024-01-18). Cameroon FA cautions against fake news about team at AFCON. independent.co.ug 
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON | Xinhua | Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) on Wednesday refuted the rumors on social media about the national football team that is currently competing in Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cote D'Ivoire. In a statement, FECAFOOT secretary general Blaise Djounang said there was no quarrel between FA president Samuel Eto'o and head …
(2024-01-18). Bernie Sanders backs US attack on Yemen. wsws.org From the beginning of the Israeli onslaught against Gaza, Sanders has promoted the propaganda line of Tel Aviv and Washington that Israel's campaign of mass murder is a defensive response to the armed incursion of Hamas last October 7. He is now providing a similar service for the war criminals in Washington in relation to their illegal attack on Yemen.