Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

“ A former British soldier who helped dozens of people leave Kabul after the Taliban’s invasion is stranded in Afghanistan after the Foreign Office bungled the paperwork necessary to evacuate him.” The ‘Taliban’s invasion’? According to Tony Diver and propably The Telegraph itself, Taliban carried out an invasion. I scratched my head: Are Taliban from China or Russia? Or maybe the Taliban have just invaded themselves! No, it is their country you like or not, as it is the country of many who have just fled it.  And it is just a small example of the narrative of the corporate media. 

A search of the media aggregator Factiva finds that the five US newspapers with the highest circulation — the  Wall Street Journal ,   USA Today , the  New York Times , the  Washington Post , and the   Los Angeles Times  — have run 343 articles this century containing the phrases “Israel’s right to self-defense,” “Israel has a right to defend itself,” or “Israel’s right to defend itself.” Querying the same outlets in the same period for “Palestinian right to self-defense,” “Palestinians have a right to defend themselves,” or variations of “Palestinians’ right to defend themselves,” produces just two results, nearly identical pieces about an ex-guard at a US Air Force base reputed to have said that Palestinians have such a right. Palestinians Have the Right to Defend Themselves

The US is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life Why is the Paper So Silent?

“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” is the Dumbest Story Yet

  In 2016 the  Washington Post  published 16 articles hostile to Bernie Sanders in 16 hours ... The Sanders-media showdown