News Corp executive chairman Michael Miller‘s push for Meta, X and TikTok to adhere to a stronger ‘social license’ displays its ignorant hypocrisy in full force, Dr Victoria Fielding writes.
Source: News Corp calls for tech giants to adhere by ‘social license’ utterly hypocritical
Jonathan Cook comments on The Intercept‘s coverage of two prestigious law reviews’ censorship of a Palestinian scholar.
Academia Only as Free as Powerful Donors Allow
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has published the annual report since 1990, documented 835 active anti-government groups, up 133 from 2022’s count, and 595 hate groups, an increase of 72 over the previous year’s figure.
Accounting for a large portion of the increase was a 50% surge in white supremacy hate groups in 2023, the highest jump ever recorded by the SPLC, growing to 165 over 109 in 2022. White power and neo-Nazi rallies across the U.S. totaled 143 in 2023, down from 191 in 2022.
SPLC saw a 33% rise in anti-LGBTQ+ organizations over last year, bringing the total to 86. The group said the growth was largely attributable to the anti-trans movement on the far-right.
White Nationalist, anti-LGBTQ Activity on the Rise, annual Hate Report shows
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Ray of hope after UNSC approves ceasefire
- For the first time since Israel’s bloody war on Gaza began eight months ago, the UN Security Council finally approved an immediate ceasefire – but many questions over its implementation remain.
- Hamas says it’s willing to engage in indirect negotiations to implement the principles of the resolution “that are consistent with the demands of our people and resistance”.
- Israel’s UN representative said after the vote that her country “will not engage in meaningless and endless negotiations, which can be exploited by Hamas”.
- Global charity Mercy Corp says the ceasefire resolution must be “implemented fully and immediately” with no time to waste as half of Gaza’s population is “on the verge of starving to death”.
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A river of cash has poured into Trump’s coffers since his conviction—the campaign claims it received $53 million in the first 24 hours. Which is kind of surreal, but I suppose it adds up. After all, when Trump holds a post-conviction press conference that starts with him saying, “This is a case where, if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” at least some of those rich-as-hell donors no doubt imagine he’s talking directly to them.
America’s Top 100 Donors Heavily Favor Trump and the Republican
That's one way to deal with how expensive running for office has become, especially in a party where the presidential nominee is grifting for himself alone.
Republicans Are Simply Running Billionaires For Congress
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With each news report of the daily Palestinian death toll from unrelenting Israeli bombardment, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally, including present Ukraine, ever since I began regularly consuming news products in 1988.
Clearly, human lives on this planet are not perceived as being of equal value/worth when, morally speaking, we all definitely should and even could be.
In fact, human beings can actually be perceived and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nations. ... It's like an immoral consideration of 'quality of life'.
A somewhat similar inhumane devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in protractedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken nations. The worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
At the same time, with this conflict there has been widespread partisanship via Internet and news commentary. The politics of polarization outside of Israel and even the Middle East, perhaps in part for its own sake, has gotten quite disturbing. Especially on social media are the angry and thoughtless two-dimensional views amplified, including the majority posted by non-Jews and non-Palestinians.
It arouses a spectator-sport effect or mentality, with many contemptible trolls residing well outside the region yet actively supporting the ‘side’ [via politicized commentary posts] that they hate less. I anticipate many actually keep track of the bloody match by checking the day’s-end death-toll score, however extremely lopsided those numbers.
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