Democracy? Israeli censorship of the press:
«According to figures acquired under a freedom of information request submitted by +972 magazine and the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel, in 2023 the military censor barred the publication of 613 articles – a record annual number..»
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
«According to figures acquired under a freedom of information request submitted by +972 magazine and the Movement for Freedom of Information in Israel, in 2023 the military censor barred the publication of 613 articles – a record annual number..»
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
the Guardian
Israeli journalist describes threats over reporting on spy chief and ICC
Haaretz journalist was warned of ‘consequences’ if he reported on attempts by Mossad chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor
How the Israeli state brutally arrest (just protesting) Palestinians in a totalitarian style:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/07/snatch-and-grab-israeli-style-disappearing-into-the-gulag/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/07/snatch-and-grab-israeli-style-disappearing-into-the-gulag/
CounterPunch.org
Snatch-and-Grab Israeli Style: Disappearing into the Gulag
Rasha Kareem wasn’t hiding from the police. She didn’t think she’d done anything wrong. And she hadn’t done anything wrong. Not by any reasonable standard. Rasha was simply going about her day. She owned a beauty salon in Majd Al-Krum, a town in the Galilee.…
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When I was in Lampedusa. About the migrant, the other, and my students visiting..
https://www.moderntimes.review/the-new-barbarians/
https://www.moderntimes.review/the-new-barbarians/
MODERN TIMES REVIEW
The new barbarians
When visiting a migrant island like Lampedusa, what experiences can be linked to the theory of the 'Other'? Perhaps some philosophers can show the way. Unless the migrants are the best guides.
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Media is too big
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Listen and look #gaza
For those who trusted Pfizer…, and the consequences.
https://twitter.com/McCulloughFund/status/1802788484177953258/video/1
https://twitter.com/McCulloughFund/status/1802788484177953258/video/1
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Here from inside the US administration, on how they were breaking international laws, with #weapons for Israel.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8dHLGQx6rZ/?igsh=MXUya2puMjlrNnFuMQ==
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8dHLGQx6rZ/?igsh=MXUya2puMjlrNnFuMQ==
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#Assange is free now. Let us welcome his voice again!
https://x.com/stella_assange/status/1805393089819033890?s=46
https://x.com/stella_assange/status/1805393089819033890?s=46
X (formerly Twitter)
Stella Assange (@Stella_Assange) on X
Julian is free!!!!
Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU.
Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon…
Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU.
Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon…
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And read what Michael Moore wrote on the role of #Wikileaks, how such an institution could have preventet 911 and the Iraq war.
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelmoore/p/why-i-posted-the-bail-money-for-julian?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelmoore/p/why-i-posted-the-bail-money-for-julian?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
Michaelmoore
Why I Posted the Bail Money for Julian Assange 14 Years Ago
Julian Assange is finally free.
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A must read about the propaganda around not so great Britain’s #Starmer, and the downing of #Corbyn (who actually got more votes in ‘17 and ‘19).
https://www.medialens.org/2024/straight-as-a-die-giving-starmer-a-free-pass/
https://www.medialens.org/2024/straight-as-a-die-giving-starmer-a-free-pass/
Media Lens
'Straight As A Die' - Giving Starmer A Free Pass
The BBC’s banner headline reporting the UK’s 4 July general election result was clear:
‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’
This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading impression that there had been a massive display of…
‘Chris Mason: “Starmer tsunami” and civility after brutality’
This alliterated nicely but gave the misleading impression that there had been a massive display of…
Well, here Russia shows its totalitarian face on internal politics, again.
https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/hrf-fountainhead-announce-resident-artists-9099824?e=d87096f28e
https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/hrf-fountainhead-announce-resident-artists-9099824?e=d87096f28e
No wonder why investments from the West support this war of killings.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/06/13/ukraine-12-trillion-minerals-west-china-russia/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/06/13/ukraine-12-trillion-minerals-west-china-russia/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Geopolitical Economy Report
US senator says Ukraine is ‘gold mine’ with $12 trillion of minerals ‘we can’t afford to lose’
Ukraine is a
Orban, although his past and some politics, is doing the right thing here, thinking independently about the risc of escalation, that the naive West doesn’t.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thetransnational/p/orban-has-done-the-right-thing-but?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/thetransnational/p/orban-has-done-the-right-thing-but?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
TFF • Transnational Foundation & Jan Oberg
Orbán has done the right thing - but of course Sweden wants him out
Jan Oberg According to Swedish Television, SVT, former Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S) wants Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán removed as EU President. I would have thought that Olof Palme would have seen it as crucially important…
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Here is some of the madness following the #militarization climate.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thetransnational/p/germany-outlines-wartime-plans?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/thetransnational/p/germany-outlines-wartime-plans?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
TFF • Transnational Foundation & Jan Oberg
Germany outlines wartime plans
And German leaders defend provocative US Tomahawk missiles as 'necessary' given Russian threat
«The efforts by the Democratic Party and much of the press, including CNN and The New York Times, to discredit Trump, as if our problems are embodied in him, are futile. The smug, self-righteousness of this crusade against Trump only contributes to the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. This crusade attempts to reduce a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump.»
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/my-thoughts-on-the-attempted-trump?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/my-thoughts-on-the-attempted-trump?r=q9ynq&utm_medium=ios
The Chris Hedges Report
My Thoughts On the Attempted Trump Assassination
The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists…
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Interesting that #Orban’s peace mission, as in precidency of EU now, with #Trump as ‘garantee’, is not a way for rest of EU…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/16/trump-has-detailed-and-well-founded-plans-to-end-ukraine-war-says-orban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/16/trump-has-detailed-and-well-founded-plans-to-end-ukraine-war-says-orban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
the Guardian
Trump has ‘detailed and well-founded’ plans to end Ukraine war, says Orbán
‘Likely outcome’ of Trump victory means EU should reopen diplomatic talks with Moscow, says Hungarian PM