Not Only Against Demonstrators but also Journalists: Israeli forces Practice Murder in Cold Blood

7 April 2018 — PCHR

Ref: 42/2018 – Date: 07 April 2018 – Time: 10:00 GMT

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On Saturday, 07 April 2018, Israeli forces killed photojournalist Yasser Murtaja. Murtaja succumbed to wounds he sustained after being hit with a live bullet that was shot by an Israeli sniper to the abdomen. Since the beginning of the incidents, 9 journalists sustained live bullets wounds.

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US Isn’t Leaving Syria—but Media Lost It When Possibility Was Raised By Gregory Shupak

7 April 2018 — FAIR

Independent: US troops will remain in Syria despite Trump telling rally he ‘wanted’ to bring them home

The White House made clear that Trump’s talk of pulling out of Syria was just talk (Independent4/4/18)–but not before numerous media figures expressed alarm that the illegal occupation might end.

At a rally in Cleveland last week, President Donald Trump said that the US will get out of Syria “very soon.” It is now clear that the 4,000 US troops currently occupying Syria (Washington Post10/31/17) will in fact stay in Syria (Independent, 4/4/18), even though keeping troops in another country in defiance of that country’s government is a violation of international law. Yet the very possibility of US withdrawal from Syria rendered apoplectic journalists who are convinced of the legitimacy of Washington’s domination of the country—international law be damned.

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The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King: “We All Knew He [Ray] Was Not the Shooter”; By William Pepper and Michael Welch

7 April 2018 — Global Research

A Conversation with William Pepper on Global Research

Global Research News Hour episode 215

“And who is to know how a jury ruled

Pronouncing justice long delayed

When a media establishment schooled

By their absence the truth waylaid.”

-Dr. William Pepper (quoted in The Plot to Kill King) [1]

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The Good Friday Massacre: World…We Are All Palestinians, Now!

6 April 2108 — Global Research

The Good Friday Massacre: World…We Are All Palestinians, Now! 

By Brett Redmayne-Titley, April 06, 2018

Eighteen more Palestinians were unapologetically murdered this past “Good Friday”  by the Israeli military. They were unarmed. They were on their own land. They were desperate.  They screamed their desperation as they marched. Then, they shouted their daily reality of personal horrors too close to Israel’s attention. So, they were killed. Continue reading