Daily Archives: May 17, 2024

2024-05-17: News Headlines

Mohamed Mandour (2024-05-17). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. cpj.org Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging. In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ's research has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists being targeted while carrying out…

Melvin Goodman (2024-05-17). Friedman, Biden and US Weapons Sales to Israel. counterpunch.org In a long oped on Sunday titled "Biden's Error in Pausing Military Aid," Thomas Friedman buys into Israeli propaganda that describes Iran as an "existential threat," and harshly denigrates President Joe Biden for announcing a pause in U.S. weapons sales to Israel. Friedman is critical of Biden for announcing the pause in the transfer of

| Namemohamed Mandour (2024-05-17). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

Staff (2024-05-17). "Resist the Normalization of Evil": Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism. democracynow.org Our guest is the Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass, the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. She is the recipient of the 2024 Columbia Journalism Award, and on Wednesday she addressed the graduating class of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. Hass discusses the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, why journalists should "resist the normalization of evil and injustice," Israel's recent censorship of Al Jazeera, its maintenance of a strict apartheid system, its complete rejection of the prospect of Palestinian statehood and…

Global Research News (2024-05-17). Selected Articles: Western Liars Aggressively Promote WWIII in Europe. globalresearch.ca By Now facing the worst economic collapse ever, unable to heat their homes and factories during the winter, the West is undergoing the elites' controlled demolition, gutting …

teleSUR (2024-05-17). Peruvian Congress Rejects 3 Requests to Impeach Dina Boluarte. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the Peruvian congress controlled by a conservative majority did not admit three impeachment motions presented against President Dina Boluarte. | RELATED: | The first impeachment motion was promoted by Together for Peru and Democratic Change, which maintain that Boluarte did not behave appropriately and transparently for not having responded to Congress for a 12-day absence. | The second impeachment motion was…

Alex Salmon (2024-05-17). 'Beyond the Wall' brings the GDR's contradictions to life. greenleft.org.au The German Democratic Republic (GDR) is often painted as a "walled-in, Russian-controlled Stasi land". However British-German Historian Katja Hoyer's 2023 book Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 presents a more interesting and contradictory picture of a state where socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning and barbed wire co-existed, writes Alex Salmon.

Guest Blogger (2024-05-17). Many of the 'Climate Experts' Surveyed by the Guardian in Recent Propaganda Blitz Turn Out to be Emotionally-Unstable Hysterics. wattsupwiththat.com I sense very little data and science underpins their anti-natalism, but a great deal of ideology and manipulation. So how can we explain these scientists' views, if we don't believe that they emerge from science?>

Tom Orren (2024-05-17). Dirty little housing crisis secrets hidden by the mainstream media. independentaustralia.net

newarab (2024-05-17). Israeli military censored over 600 articles in 2023: report. newarab.com

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