Daily Archives: October 17, 2023

2023-10-17: News Headlines

Free Palestine (2023-10-17). Instagram / Facebook / Meta Censoring Palestinian Voices During Latest Israeli Siege on Gaza. indybay.org On October 15, Instagram banned the account of Afaf Ahmed, who had been reporting on conditions and developments in Gaza during Israel's brutal siege. She is not alone in being banned by the Meta suite of companies for telling the truth about her experiences as a Palestinian under attack.

Rhoda Wilson (2023-10-17). The stock market is waking up to Pfizer's greedy, unethical and reckless behaviour which Facebook, Google and corporate media have helped to hide. expose-news.com The stock market may be waking up to the possibility that Pfizer may go bankrupt due to the upcoming covid injection claims. Many parallels can be drawn between the corporate behaviours of …

ecsorinoco (2023-10-16). Colombia's President Petro Considers Severing Relations With Israel Over Genocide in Palestine. orinocotribune.com "If we have to suspend foreign relations with Israel, we will suspend them," wrote Colombian head of state, Gustavo Petro, on social media this Sunday. "We do not support genocides." The Colombian president issued the statement in response to comments by representatives of the Zionist entity regarding Petro's previous statements on the conflict in the Gaza Strip, which the apartheid state described as "hostile and antisemitic." | "The president of Colombia is not insulted," Petro affirmed in the same post. In addition, he called on Latin America to stand in solidarity with his country. | "I call on Latin America…

Pavel López Lazo (2023-10-17). Argentine President urges for championing unity and sovereignty. plenglish.com On X social media, Alberto Fernández assured that guaranteeing these four aspects is a duty "in this difficult time the world is going through". | Loyal to our people, we must preserve unity to confront with those who want to put an end to the rights of the ones who work, to put an end to public health, education and to scientific and technological development, he added. | Fernández made the statement from China, where he is attending the 3rd Forum of the Belt and Road for International Cooperation. During the meeting, he met with Dilma Rousseff, with whom he opened the process of Brazil ¥s accession to BRICS…

Ann Brown (2023-10-16). Princeton Economist Krugman Claims America's Inflation Fight Is Over: Why He's Wrong. moguldom.com Renowned Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman stirred a debate when he declared the end of the war on inflation in a recent post on Twitter/X. Krugman's claim has sparked controversy, with other economists and experts arguing that the situation might be more complex than he suggests. Krugman, currently the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the …

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2023-10-16). Leader of campaign to fire Joseph Massad ran Twitter page for Israel's army. electronicintifada.net Academic under attack over article in The Electronic Intifada.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-10-17). Ecuador elects new right-wing president linked to big banana business. peoplesdispatch.org With 97.3% of the votes counted, Daniel Noboa Azin, son of one of the wealthiest men in Ecuador, was elected as the new president of the Andean nation on Sunday, October 15. | 35-years old Daniel Noboa of the right-wing National Democratic Action (ADN) alliance, accepted his victory and thanked the Ecuadorian people for their confidence and for voting for him. | "Today we have made history. Ecuadorian families chose the New Ecuador. They chose a country with security and employment," Noboa wrote on his X (formerly Twitter) account. | Noboa added that he looks forward to changing the country to a place "of realiti…

Aram Aharonian (2023-10-17). La desinformación abre un nuevo frente en el conflicto palestino-israelí. globalizacion.ca La publicación de fake news y teorías de la conspiración favorece tanto la viralización de las noticias como las reacciones emotivas y viscerales de un porcentaje notable de usuarios. Y no se queda solo en las redes sociales, sino que…

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