Monthly Archives: May 2024

2024-05-09: News Headlines

(2024-05-09). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

Editor (2024-05-09). TikTok Law Is an Attempt to Censor, Not a Warning to Big Tech. scheerpost.com By Julianne Tveten / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) As US lawmakers' agitation over TikTok culminates in a law that threatens a nationwide ban if the social media platform isn't sold to a US buyer within nine months, an emergent media narrative finds a silver lining. Every legislative move targeting TikTok, the story goes, has the potential to inspire …

Partido Humanista de Chile (2024-05-09). Chile is a polarized state that tries to discipline the population by force. pressenza.com Carabineros assassinated. | In the early hours of the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Carabineros, three non-commissioned officers were murdered on the road between Cañete and Tirúa, in the province of Arauco, Biobío region; an event considered to be one of the worst attacks against this institution in living memory, and in response to which the government declared three days of mourning and the President held an emergency meeting in the early hours of the morning at the Government Palace. | According to initial reports, the victims were officers of the Public Order Police (COP) who had been patrolling th…

Associated Press (2024-05-09). Nicaragua cancels controversial Chinese canal concession after nearly a decade. scmp.com Nicaragua's congress, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, repealed a law which had given a Chinese investor a concession of up to 100 years to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans…

bwitanek (2024-05-09). Teach Palestine Week May 13 — 17. fightbackbetter.com Integrating lessons about Palestine into our curriculum is vital for challenging the narratives propagated by mainstream media that often demonize a people struggling for survival and dignity on their own land. We must remember that Palestine has endured continuous attacks and systematic destruction for 76 years, and we must never forget the original and ongoing Nakba. | YOUR STUDENTS deserve an honest & truthful understanding of Palestine. We strongly urge educators to incorporate lessons about Palestine into their teaching every day from May 13th to May 17th. We will provide simple 20-minute activities that…

presstv.ir (2024-05-09). Hezbollah says it hit Israeli targets in 'multipronged attack'. presstv.ir Lebanon's Hezbollah says it launched a multipronged attack on targets controlled by the Israeli regime.

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2024-05-07: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-05-07). Australian PM Albanese backs Zionist witch hunt against anti-genocide protesters. wsws.org At a meeting with Rabbinical Councils leaders, Albanese aligned himself with a vitriolic campaign by Zionist organisations and the right-wing corporate media to slander and shut down campus protests.

Julie Hollar, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2024-05-07). CNN Paints Peace Protests As Hate Rallies As They Are Suppressed. popularresistance.org As peace activists occupied common spaces on campuses across the country, some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid. CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.

teleSUR (2024-05-07). Milei's TeleSUR Censorship Reflects Fear: President Maduro. telesurenglish.net On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed that Argentine President Javier Milei is afraid of the "truth of the people." | RELATED: | Earlier, the multi-state channel teleSUR denounced that the Milei administration prohibited the broadcast of its signal on the Argentine open digital television system. | "Milei, you are afraid of the truth of the people," Maduro said, emphasizing that Argentinians will still be able t…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-05-07). The "bad flu" called covid came and went before the end of 2019. expose-news.com The 2020 covid pandemic was a pandemic of iatrogenic harm instigated by governments and aided by corporate media. Covid, in so far as it is in any way distinct, came and did …

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