Israeli violence against Palestinians - New York Times' editorial techniques keep Israel looking good

© Ashraf Amra/Austria Presse AgenturThe massive upsurge of Israeli violence against Palestinians is invisible to The New York Times. The massive upsurge of Israeli violence against Palestinians is invisible to .Two recent stories in involve violence against Palestinian and Israeli children. But it is striking how differently the stories are treated based on the identity of the victim. The first, from today, is headlined "Israeli Girl Severely Wounded...

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Air Asia flight from Indonesia to Singapore 'missing'

© AFPAir Asia Airbus A320 Air Asia flight number QZ8501, bound from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore, has reportedly lost control with air traffic control. The missing flight is an Airbus A320-200 with 155 people on board, Reuters reports.The plane lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control on Sunday, Indonesian media said, citing Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa.Mustofa said the contact was lost at 6:17 a.m. local time (23:17...

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Police taser and arrest severely autistic man for walking down the street

© WYFF4.comGreenville, SC - An innocent 34-year-old autistic man was tasered and arrested by police on Christmas eve because he walking down the street at night.Greenville City Police were in the area responding to reports of gunshots when they came across Tario Anderson and shined a spotlight in the innocent man's face. Anderson reacted by walking away from this stressful sensory overload."When they put their spotlight on him, he immediately put...

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Portrait of a patsy for the 'war on terror' narrative: Man Haron Monis and the Sydney siege

© EPAMan Haron Monis was no stranger to the Australian media and general public prior to the events at Martin Place. Was the public being primed to accept Monis as some kind of terrorist by virtue of his well known rantings and high-profile court appearances? From the outset of the police siege in central Sydney on December 15 - 16, the response of the federal and state governments was based on a lie: that hostage-taking by a lone gunman in the...

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Out in the cold: How one of the wealthiest cities in America treats its homeless

© ShutterstockHayes Mansion, San Jose. When San Jose dismantled the "Jungle," the nation's largest homeless encampment, many of its residents with nowhere to go scattered. They found hiding places in the scores of small, less visible encampments within the city, where more than 5,000 people sleep unsheltered on a given night.But one group of about three dozen evictees gathered what they could salvage in backpacks and trash bags, and crossed a bridge...

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Foreign Minister of China: "We will provide necessary assistance to Russia"

© AFP Photo/How Hwee YoungRussia's President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping China's foreign minister has pledged support to Russia as it faces an economic downturn due to sanctions and a drop in oil prices. Boosting trade in yuan is a solution proposed by Beijing's commerce minister."Russia has the capability and the wisdom to overcome the existing hardship in the economic situation," Foreign Minister Wang Yi told journalists,...

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U.S. supplying Al Qaeda in Syria with TOW missiles via 'moderate' terrorists

US supplied TOW anti-tank missiles have ended up in the hands of Jabhat Al Nusra, Syria's branch of Al Qaeda. The US provided the missiles to CIA vetted Syrian rebel faction Harakat Hazm in May. A video posted by Al Nusra shows the weapons being used to take over Syrian military bases, Wadi Deif and Hamidiyeh in Idlib province.A story that should have been headline news of Obama's arming of Al Qaeda across all US media, largely went unnoticed....

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Shameless propaganda from NPR: Russian aggression, Putin fascist

Deject Crimeans lamenting their hostile takeover by Russia. On Friday, December 26th, National Public Radio aired two superbly done pieces of anti-Russia propaganda, which could as well have been written by the U.S. CIA, or by , it was so skillfully deceiving.One of these propaganda-pieces, on "Morning Edition," presented Eleanor Beardsley alleging that the anti-immigrant political parties in Britain and France are anti-U.S. and pro-Russian because...

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Holiday goodwill: Putin to provide coal to Ukraine without prepayment

© TASS Russian supplies of coal and electricity to Ukraine without prepayment prove Russian President Vladimir Putin's goodwill to provide real support to the Ukrainian people, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Saturday.He confirmed Ukraine's reports on starting such supplies."Against all the odds as President Putin said earlier in the hard times he had never given up the consistent policy towards supporting the Ukrainian people...

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Horrific 'cures' for mental illness through the ages

© Shutterstock If it wasn't already clear to the public at large, the recent suicide of comedian Robin Williams drove home the point: mental illness can be devastating. It is hardly limited to people we sometimes see on the street railing against apparent voices in their heads, or obsessive-compulsive television characters like "Monk." It is widespread and debilitating and it can kill. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 17...

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