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While Attacks in Israel Make Headlines, Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Ignored

The recent acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza—on top of the routine humanitarian crisis that defines everyday existence there—has gotten sparse coverage in US media over the past three weeks.

July 15, 2017
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Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US

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Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost

July 14, 2017
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Industry Efforts to Censor Pro-Terrorism Online Content Pose Risks to Free Speech

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In recent months, social media platforms—under pressure from a number of governments—have adopted new policies and practices to remove content that promotes terrorism. As the Guardian reported, these

July 13, 2017
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Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert Exposes How Nations Use Cyberwarfare to Target Activists & Journalists

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Part 2 of our conversation with Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab recently revealed how the Mexican government used Israeli-made spy software…

July 13, 2017
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Major Investigation Into Congressional Blackmail Scheme; Media Remains Silent

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A family of rogue congressional IT staffers got paid millions of dollars for mostly no-show, no-performance jobs by over 20 House members, many of them on sensitive House committees.

July 12, 2017
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‘There Is Myopia in Western Media Covering the Refugee Crisis’

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Janine Jackson interviewed Vijay Prashad about displaced people for the July 7, 2017, episode of CounterSpin.

July 12, 2017
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