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2024-01-05: News Headlines

aa.com.tr (2024-01-05). OPINION – Netanyahu is ill-equipped for war and peaceWhilst The Israeli military censorship maintains a tight grip on information about losses, Israeli casualties are in the thousands. For example, on December 17, the Times of Israel assessed the number of injured Israeli armed forces to be 6,125.

Sharon Zhang (2024-01-05). Report: All CNN Gaza Coverage Seen by Bureau Monitored by IDF Before Publication. truthout.org CNN has for years maintained a policy of running all of its coverage on Israel and Palestine, including its recent Gaza coverage, past its bureau in Jerusalem, where it is subject to the censorship policies set by Israel's military, damning new reporting by The Intercept has revealed. The Jerusalem CNN staff who review the reporting do so under the watchful eye of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)… |

WSWS (2024-01-05). New York City educator speaks out against Gaza genocide. wsws.org An educator in New York City speaks about the Gaza genocide, the right-wing censorship by the city's Department of Education and the role of the working class in stopping the slaughter by the Zionist regime.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2024-01-05). In Ukraine, 2023 Was a Year of Disappointment: Ever-Present Corruption, Military Failure and Flight From the Country. orinocotribune.com By Dmitri Kovalevich — Jan 1, 2024 | Dmitri Kovalevich is the special correspondent in Ukraine for Al Mayadeen English. He writes a monthly situation report as well as occasional special reports. This is his situation report at the end of 2023. | For Ukraine, the year 2023 was far from comforting, notwithstanding the efforts by the country's government and heavily-censored media to uplift the spirits of the population with promises of economic improvement and military victories in the new year. | The news at the end of the year makes clear, even to optimists, that everything promised by the West and by the U…

Peter Handel (2024-01-05). These Are the Essential Stories Corporate Media Refused to Cover in 2023. truthout.org Every year for almost five decades, Project Censored — one of the most respected anti-censorship and media literacy advocacy organizations in the U.S. — has published a State of the Free Press yearbook. The annual volume collects the 25 most underreported stories of the past year and exposes how economic and political forces manipulate our media landscape to their benefit. State of the Free Press… |

Staff (2024-01-05). How Corporate Media Whitewash Israeli Crimes: A Personal Narrative. youtube.com MintPress founder and director, Mnar Adley, was recently invited to speak at a conference in Chicago to give a keynote speech about Israel's ongoing attack against Palestinian journalists, how Western corporate media whitewash Israeli crimes along with sharing her personal journey of surviving Israeli occupation. Support independent watchdog journalism! www.patreon.com/MintPressNews MintPress News: www.mintpressnews.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/MintPressNews

Mnar Adley (2024-01-05). How Corporate Media Whitewash Israeli Crimes: A Personal Narrative. mintpressnews.com This speech was delivered by MintPress founder Mnar Adley in Chicago at the Sirat Conference on December 25th, 2023. Adley was invited to give a keynote address to talk about corporate media's complicity in Israeli war crimes and Israel's attack on journalists.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-05). 'Beheaded Babies' — How UK Media Reported Israel's Fake News as Fact. libya360.wordpress.com Hamza Ali Shah Journalists watch Israel bomb Gaza. (Photo: Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty) Britain's national press have been indispensable allies of Israel throughout its brutal war on Gaza. The assertion that during Hamas' attack in southern Israel on 7 October babies were beheaded gained traction almost immediately. On the morning of 10 October, Israeli…

WSWS (2024-01-05). The working class, the fight against capitalist barbarism and the building of the World Party of Socialist Revolution , (Part Three). wsws.org Just as genocide is being openly adopted as an instrument of policy and mass death has been normalized in the ruling class response to the pandemic, fascistic and authoritarian movements are again part of the mainstream political landscape throughout the world.

Gregory Elich (2024-01-05). Migration as Economic Imperialism. counterpunch.org Numbering an estimated 169 million, [1] international migrant laborers are generally regarded in mainstream economic circles as playing a substantial role in poverty alleviation and economic development in their home countries. This is accomplished, it is asserted, through remittances sent home by migrants, reaching an estimated $647 billion arriving in low- and moderate-income countries in 2022, a

midwesternmarx (2024-01-05). John Pilger (1939-2023) By: K.J. Noh. midwesternmarx.com A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away.John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Imperialism and all its violent predations—war, genocide, exploitation—as well as its endless lies and propaganda. Till his death, he fought tirelessly for the freedom of Julian Assange, and his last article was a call to solidarity.John gave voice to the invisible and the …

UMMID (2024-01-05). Implication of Oct 7 Hamas attack on Zionism. ummid.com The importance of this attack and the rapid collapse of the Zionist forces was a fatal blow to the Zionist propaganda that it possesses one of the best armies in the world.

upi.com (2024-01-05). Houthis disrupting Red Sea shipping have 1,000-year historyThe Houthis have existed in one form or another since about 790 and have controlled the same mountainous area of northern Yemen for centuries.

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2024-01-04: News Headlines

WSWS (2024-01-04). Comedian and musician Tom Smothers dies at 86: A victim of government and corporate censorship in the late 1960s. wsws.org Tom Smothers demonstrated an anti-establishment streak, in relation not only to the Vietnam War but other social issues, which led CBS executives, in April 1969, to cancel The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Staff (2024-01-04). The Exodus to YouTube: Journalists flee mainstream media in India's challenging ecosystem. muslimmirror.com By Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan, The resonating voice of Ravish Kumar, an emblematic figure in Indian journalism, echoed on November 30, 2022, as he announced his departure from NDTV after 27 years. This pivotal moment marked a confluence of personal tribulations and the impending spectre of a hostile takeover of NDTV by an oligarch with close …

Staff (2024-01-04). The Exodus to YouTube: Journalists flee mainstream media in India's challenging ecosystem. muslimmirror.com By Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan, The resonating voice of Ravish Kumar, an emblematic figure in Indian journalism, echoed on November 30, 2022, as he announced his departure from NDTV after 27 years. This pivotal moment marked a confluence of personal tribulations and the impending spectre of a hostile takeover of NDTV by an oligarch with close …

Sasha Abramsky (2024-01-04). Early Contests Could Disrupt the Narrative That Trump Is the Inevitable Nominee. truthout.org The first primaries and caucuses of the presidential election season are now just weeks away, and polls continue to show that Donald Trump is hugely outpolling his GOP rivals. In fact, his leads are so constant, and across so many states, that much of the mainstream media assume his nomination to be a fait accompli, and are focusing not on the early contests in Iowa, New Hampshire… |

Maria Paez Victor (2024-01-04). Pity the British. orinocotribune.com By Maria Paez Victor — Jan 1, 2024 | Bread and circus! That was the Roman formula for governance. The latest UK government ploy, however, omits the bread and jumps straight to circus. The UK has sent a warship that will inflame a delicate 100-plus year border dispute between two Caribbean nations, Venezuela and Guyana. | The government of the UK should be at pains to right a wrong the UK committed one hundred and twenty-four years ago. Instead, the UK is threatening Venezuela with a warship — a situation that could very quickly escalate into a regional conflict. | In 1899, as the mainstream press of th…

Larry Johnson (2024-01-04). Combatting Israel's Lies About October 7. sonar21.com My brother-in-law, a good man, is one of the victims of the Israeli propaganda campaign in the aftermath of the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli military bases and kibbutzim located outside the wall separating Israelis from the Palestinians in Gaza. Shocked and surprised by the success of the Hamas attack, the Government of Israel launched a massive, successful propaganda campaign that claimed Hamas had murdered 40 children, beheaded some of them, baked a baby in an oven and wantonly raped the alluring Israeli women. I call it a "success" because it infuriated people in the United States and Europe and…

UMMID (2024-01-04). Implication of Oct 7 Hamas attack on Zionism. ummid.com The importance of this attack and the rapid collapse of the Zionist forces was a fatal blow to the Zionist propaganda that it possesses one of the best armies in the world.

WSWS (2024-01-04). Despite the cover-up, current coronavirus wave reaches new heights in Germany. wsws.org In contrast to official propaganda about the end of the pandemic, COVID continues to spread and cost many lives.

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2024-01-04). The Government's Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power. dissidentvoice.org Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then you just sit back and watch the pattern. Figure Two: And this pattern is always the same? Figure One: With few variations. They pick the most dangerous enemy they can …

John W. Whitehead (2024-01-04). Apocalypse Now: The Government's Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power. globalresearch.ca

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