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2024-05-15: News Headlines

Agence France-Presse (2024-05-15). In Israel-Gaza war, UN says women and children make up at least 56% of the dead. scmp.com The United Nations clarifies a fresh breakdown of the death toll in Gaza, after Israel condemned the world body for 'parroting … Hamas's propaganda messages'.

| Namemohamed Mandour (2024-05-15). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

Mohamed Mandour (2024-05-15). 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…

Michael Hauser Tov (2024-05-15). Defense officials cry conflict of interest over justice's refusal to halt probe into October 7 failings. haaretz.com Supreme Court Justice Gila Canfy Steinitz's husband – former minister Yuval Steinitz – could benefit from the state comptroller's investigation, critics argue…

Sara Flounders (2024-05-15). DIVEST Now! A revolutionary demand. workers.org Why have student encampments for Palestine ignited such an uproar of brutal repression, vicious police attacks, mass arrests, overwhelming condemnation in the corporate media and a new level of reactionary legislation in Congress? Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 2024. The demand to divest, raised at almost every encampment, exposes the . . . |

Sara Flounders (2024-05-15). DIVEST Now! /A revolutionary demand. workers.org Why have student encampments for Palestine ignited such an uproar of brutal repression, vicious police attacks, mass arrests, overwhelming condemnation in the corporate media and a new level of reactionary legislation in Congress? Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 2024. The demand to divest, raised at almost every encampment, exposes the . . . |

Aram Aharonian (2024-05-15). Milei and Telesur: media censorship moves forward. pressenza.com This is neither a coincidence nor a surprise. For almost two decades they have been trying to silence Telesur, and from the moment we announced our intention to give the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean their voice, to see us with our own eyes and not with those of the North, the United States and their imitators, the offensive against the Latin American-Caribbean channel began in our countries. | The sad thing is that the current Argentinean president believes that by imposing media censorship against Telesur in Argentina, he is silencing the voices of those who have been left voiceless by the establis…

ecns.cn (2024-05-15). Collapsed Baltimore bridge starts demolition in U.S. ecns.cn The controlled demolition of the largest remaining steel span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was underway.

aljazeera (2024-05-15). India top court bails NewsClick editor arrested in Chinese funding case. aljazeera.com Prabir Purkayastha was arrested last year after NYT report said outlet was backed by network pushing Chinese propaganda.

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2024-05-10: News Headlines

Julianne Tveten, Fairness, Accuracy in Reporting. (2024-05-10). TikTok Law Is An Attempt To Censor, Not A Warning To Big Tech. popularresistance.org 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 much-needed regulation of tech behemoths like Meta, Amazon, Google and Apple. | But by conflating the US's legal treatment of TikTok—a subsidiary of the Beijing-based ByteDance—with that of its own tech industry, media obscure the real reasons for the law's passage. This was apparent in a New York Times p…

infobrics (2024-05-10). Ukraine introduces desperate recruitment strategy: "Choose Your Own Adventure" infobrics.org "Everyone will Fight — choose your own unit now," reads Ukrainian neo-Nazi propaganda.

Yaniv Kubovich (2024-05-10). State comptroller: Israeli military's demand to delay October 7 probe is unreasonable. haaretz.com Matanyahu Englman warned that accepting the defense establishment's position could preclude 'any oversight of the IDF for a very long time' and impede access to critical evidence…

(2024-05-10). Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war. Mohamed Mandour

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-05-10). Comienza en Chile propaganda con vistas a primarias municipales. radiohc.cu La Habana, 10 may (RHC) A partir de hoy comienza en Chile el período de propaganda para las elecciones primarias del 9 de junio, donde se nominarán los candidatos a los cargos de alcaldes y gobernadores.

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