Israel gets closer to prohibiting foreign press

February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Israel has moved a step closer to potentially banning Al Jazeera after accusing one of its reporters, Mohamed Washah, of working for Hamas. The Israeli parliament voted 25-4 to advance the ‘Al Jazeera Law,’ a bill that would allow the temporary outlawing of foreign media outlets designated as harmful to state security by the defense ministry. The legislation, colloquially known as the ‘Al Jazeera Law,’ specifically targets the Qatar-based network.
Israel gets closer to prohibiting foreign press

ECOWAS: A PRIMER

February 14, 2024February 15, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

ECOWAS in the larger context of Africa’s historic interactions with China, France, USA, UK and Russia
ECOWAS : A PRIMER

Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What It Is and Is Not

February 13, 2024February 13, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Fidel Castro, the world recognizes as a historic anti-imperialist figure, repeatedly warned that the main danger to humanity is US imperialism: “There is an enemy that can be called universal, an enemy whose attitude and whose actions…threaten the whole world, bully the whole world, that universal enemy is Yankee imperialism.” He fought to build a world united front against imperialism, of the world’s peoples and countries to oppose the barbarous actions of US imperialism. We see that anti-imperialist unity right now with United Nations votes and worldwide protests against the US-Israeli slaughters in Gaza, in what the New York Times in 2003 called “a second superpower.”
Anti-Imperialism in the US Today: What It Is and Is Not

The Anti-Defamation League: Israel’s Attack Dog in the US

February 11, 2024February 11, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Posing as a civil rights group, the ADL has long operated as an intelligence organization targeting Israel’s critics. So why does the media still treat it as a credible source?
The Anti-Defamation League: Israel’s Attack Dog in the US (archived)

The Kings of Garbage, or, The ADL Spied on Me and All I Got Was This Lousy Index Card

David Villamar interviewed about Ecuador’s violent crime disaster

February 10, 2024February 11, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Ecuador’s violent crime problem is such an incredible disaster that it manages to attract international attention. Criminals have recently taken over live newscasts. Supporters of the rightwing governments that created the disaster (for example, The Economist) have declared Ecuador to be the deadliest country in the Americas. It’s difficult for Ecuador to get international news coverage. In recent years, it generally has to be something very bad (or sports-related).
David Villamar interviewed about Ecuador’s violent crime disaster

A Tale of Two Breadline Massacres

February 10, 2024February 10, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

All breadline massacres are equal, Orwell might have written, whilst adding that some breadline massacres are more equal than others. Such a thought comes to mind after February 4, 2024, when a Ukrainian armed forces projectile killed 28 residents in the city of Lysychansk, Lugansk region, and wounded several dozen. The civilian victims were standing in line in front of a local bakery, intending to buy bread.
A Tale of Two Breadline Massacres

Previously:

Death toll from Ukraine shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk rises to 28

Putin debunks Tucker Carlson’s warmongering anti-China propaganda, mocks his CIA ties

February 10, 2024February 10, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ben Norton

Putin debunks Tucker Carlson’s warmongering anti-China propaganda, mocks his CIA ties

The “Human Rights Industry” and Nicaragua

February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media repeat stories of human rights abuses without questioning their veracity?
The “Human Rights Industry” and Nicaragua

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Propaganda: Houthis could cut undersea global internet cables, minister warns

February 7, 2024February 8, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Yemen’s UN-recognized government has warned of the possibility that Houthi rebels could cut undersea internet cables off the country’s Red Sea coast, calling it “a serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.”
Houthis could cut undersea global internet cables, minister warns

1. Why would Ansar Allah jeopardize Palestinians’ lines of communication with the outside world? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way. 2. It originates from the Israeli propaganda outlet, MEMRI. 3. The Gulf International Forum is indirectly funded by the Qatari government. 4. Emily Milliken is a junior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, which has been funded by the front organizations Scaife Foundations, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the William H. Donner Foundation.