The Guardian gotta Guardian - ‘absolute’ facts maybe but they shy away from any serious analysis of how in many areas Scotland is doing better than the other three countries - whoops, in their words, two countries and a principality) in many areas.
Unionism with a faux-socialist coat and stinking just as badly as without the coat.
@Wen yep, me too, especially when they started deleting my posts saying Johnson was evil during COVID (I forget the exact reason but I think history proved me right not them)
Al Jazeera rejected accusations that it harmed Israel's #security as a "dangerous & ridiculous lie" that puts its #journalists at risk & said it reserved the right to "pursue every #legal step"
The network is funded by the #Qatar govt & has been critical of Israel's #military op in Gaza.…
#AlJazeera previously called Israeli efforts to curtail its operations an "escalation" & said in a statement in early April that it "comes as part of a series of systematic Israeli attacks to silence Al Jazeera".
It said that Israeli authorities have deliberately targeted & killed several of its #journalists including #SamerAbuDaqga & #HamzaAlDahdooh, both killed in #Gaza during the conflict. #Israel has said it does not target journalists.
@appassionato@palestine Joe Biden is over here in the US celebrating press freedom while having cops beat up protestors while over in Israel, our putative democratic ally in the ME, they're shutting down international news agencies, banning the international press from Gaza and killing Palestinians willing to step into that role by the hundreds.
State Supreme Court judge blocked #Trump’s attempt to gain access to #NBC’s documentary material related to adult film actress #StormyDaniels.
Manhattan Judge Juan #Merchan said Trump atty’s subpoena was “far too broad” & did not meet the #legal standard to compel #NBCUniversal to turn over docs & other items related to the documentary “Stormy.”
“In the instant matter, the Defendant seeks ‘all’ documents, including but not limited to vague & overbroad requests,” #Merchan wrote in the ruling issued Friday.
"Israeli army arrests the entire Al Jazeera crew and destroys the broadcasting vehicles in the yard of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to local sources."
"Israeli occupation soldiers arrest Al Jazeera correspondent Ismael Al Ghoul after beating him up inside the Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City."
Is Ismael part of Hamas?
He's more dangerous than Hamas, he's a journalist exposing Israel's crimes
So Israel has a right to beat him and arrest him, because they don't feel safe. Makes perfect sense
Today Medea Benjamin spoke to lobbyists and profiteers of genocide at Capitol Hill, together with Code Pink.
How AIPAC replied in their own words to uncomfortable questions is telling so much more than Stanfords Prison Experiment data ever could, if accomplished.
Obviously, the fringe right autocratic #Nethanyahu and his zionist racist apartheid #regime of Israel have benefits of Qui Bono, not US citizens, nor the population of Palestine.
#AIPAC isn't even registered as foreign agents while spending a budget of 100 Million dollars to bribe US politicians annually. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2017/1/10/the-lobby-young-friends-of-israel-part-1/
That's how easy it is to swing US votes in the interest of zionist Israel, and kind of a "anti-semitic conspiracy theory" for very well uneducated people, too. If this system ever was a Democracy is another question, but without a doubt it's not in a state of corruption like that.
If a computer is corrupted like that, it's wise to replace MS Windows. Better get rid of it's commercial tools and malicious routines with a Free GNU Operating System aka Linux. Sometimes it's necessary to replace an old harddisk with SSD, but each of those computers can run another decade with Free Software. That's good for our environment and what most of our gfkDSGN artists are working on.
Unabhängige Nachrichten für Russland: Reporter ohne Grenzen starten Sendebetrieb für Medienprojekt „Swoboda“
Langfristig sollen bis zu 25 Sender in den Betrieb von „Swoboda“ aufgenommen werden. Russische Exil-Journalisten sollen das satellitengestützte Programm gestalten.
They made it extremely easy to sue for libel. People even lower their voices when criticizing the powerful.
News coming out of Iceland has to be positive because the government owns part of the tourism industry.
I have these old "postcards" that artists used to hand out where people bought newspapers. The artists would draw political cartoons to get the point across, without naming names.
"Assange is seeking permission to appeal District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s extradition decision, which was issued in January 2021. Barristers Mark Summers KC and Edward Fitzgerald KC set out seven grounds for challenging the ruling.
Due to the limited time available, Assange’s defense lawyers focused on specific aspects of each grounds which they believed merited particular focus, with more detailed arguments provided in written submissions.
Assange’s defense argued the following:
the U.S.-U.K. extradition treaty clearly prohibits extradition for political offenses
the offenses Assange is prosecuted with, namely espionage, fall into the category of “pure” or “self-evident” political offenses;
it was an “abuse of process” for the U.S. to seek the extradition of Assange for political offenses;
extraditing Assange in violation of the extradition treaty “would result in detention which is arbitrary” and in violation of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR);
extradition would represent a “flagrant denial” of his right to freedom of speech under Article 10 of the ECHR, including the possibility that he will be denied protections under the First Amendment of the US constitution
allowing Assange to be prosecuted under the U.S. Espionage Act, when no other journalist or publisher ever has been, violates his rights under Article 7 of the not to be prosecuted for something which did not constitute an offense at the time of his actions
Assange would not receive a fair trial in the U.S.
Assange Is No 'Ordinary Journalist': US Opposes Request For Appeal
"Central to the U.S. government’s opposition is the allegation that Assange and WikiLeaks “solicited” others to commit criminal acts by “stealing” classified government documents.
“[T]here is no immunity for journalists to break the law,” Clair Dobbin KC said on behalf of the prosecution. It would be “frivolous to assert, and no one does” that the “First Amendment” confers a right to violate valid criminal laws, she added.
Framing Assange’s encouragement to leak materials in the public interest as “soliciting” sources to “steal” documents is a stark reminder of the unprecedented threat that this case poses to journalism in the U.K. and the U.S. Journalists all over the world regularly ask sources to share information with them."
Diese Woche wird in UK entschieden, ob #JulianAssange an die USA ausgeliefert werden darf. Dieses Verfahren gg #Assange ist eine Farce, denn Journalismus ist kein Verbrechen u eine Auslieferung wäre ein fundamentaler Angriff auf die #Pressefreiheit - weltweit! #FreeAssange
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Thank you for the Information!
One of our crewmember traveled by train from south Germany to #London to join the protest against the extradition and fight to #FreeJulianAssange
On wednesday (21.2.24) will be a demonstration ralley in London. #Sphinx for #freepress @StellaAssange
Today in Labor History January 31, 1971: For the second time in six months, rioting broke out during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles. Police fired into the crowd, killing one protester. The anti-war demonstrations were organized by the Chicano Moratorium. Chicanos were dying at a higher rate during the Vietnam War than white Americans. During the August 29, 1970 protests, police killed three people, including Journalist Ruben Salazar. Oscar Zeta Acosta portrayed Salazar in his 1973 novel, “The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Hunter S. Thompson portrayed Acosta as his “Samoan attorney” in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”
This case also reveals that like some on the liberal left, some right-wingers only champion of "free speech" for people they agree with. To paraphase Chomsky, if you don't support free speech for views you strongly disagree with, you don't support free speech.
"According to the International Federation of Journalists, Israel has killed more than one media worker a day since October 7, accounting for 72 percent of all media deaths worldwide — more than any other conflict in any country in over 30 years."