2023-11-28: News Headlines

David Rovics (2023-11-27). Dublin Riots: the Social Engineering of Xenophobia in Ireland. counterpunch.org In these days of a genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza and a widespread blackout in both the mainstream media in the west, and on social media, the choice between a news blackout on Facebook and a polarized, all-or-nothing "discourse" on X, trying to make sense of anything happening in the world that you're not directly

Alex Newman (2023-11-28). UNESCO's Insidious Plan to "Regulate Social Media" and "Control Speech Online" globalresearch.ca

Chris Walker (2023-11-27). Trump Says He'll Push for Repeal of Obamacare (Again) If He's Elected President. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump suggested in a social media post over the weekend that, if he were to win the 2024 presidential election, he would continue pursuing avenues to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA, commonly referred to as Obamacare because it was passed during the first term of former President Barack Obama, is directly responsible for providing health coverage to tens of… |

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-11-27). Essequibo Campaign stands out by Venezuelans' unity. plenglish.com Caracas, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) The response of the people has been unity over differences, and mostly an active participation, Genesis Garvett, secretary of spokesperson and social media of the All Venezuela campaign command affirmed.

Sharon Zhang (2023-11-27). Elon Musk's Backing of Antisemitic Content May Cost "X" Up to $75M in Ad Revenue. truthout.org Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter) may have cost the company tens of millions of dollars in lost advertising revenue due to his recent comments endorsing an antisemitic and racist conspiracy theory, internal documents show. According to The New York Times, these documents find that the social media platform could lose as much as $75 million from advertising by the end of this… |

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-11-28). What Would a Just Peace in Palestine Look Like? libya360.wordpress.com The Eclectic Radical A meme on Twitter has been asking "Where do the Israeli Jews go?" as if this is the supreme gotcha and this question completely invalidates all discussion of Palestinian liberation, as if Palestinian self-determination automatically means rendering the entire population of Israel homeless and stateless. This ignores the fact that the mere…

WSWS (2023-11-28). Surge of respiratory illness in northern China part of global outbreak of pneumonia among children. wsws.org Cases of influenza-like illnesses have seen thousands of children hospitalized recently. China's health authorities have told the World Health Organization that these illnesses are being caused by the continuing rise in mycoplasma pneumonias combined with other known seasonal viral pathogens.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-11-27). Anti-Arab and Islamophobic hate crimes on the rise in the US amidst Israel's war on Gaza. peoplesdispatch.org This Saturday, three young Palestinian men, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali, and Kenan Abdulhamid were shot in Vermont. The three men, all college students, were shot at four times by 48-year-old Jason J. Eaton. They were speaking Arabic and two of them were wearing Palestinian keffiyehs. All three of the shooting victims are 20 years old. | This comes shortly after three separate videos went viral of former State Department official Stuart Seldowitz harassing an Egyptian halal cart worker with vile Islamophobic and racist remarks. "Did you rape your daughter like Mohammed d…

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