literal high seas piracy.
and otherwise, an attack to the states from which the ships come from.
literal high seas piracy.
and otherwise, an attack to the states from which the ships come from.
They do the same thing with trump and fall for it every time.
Like the latest shit about Democrats wanting to give medical care to undocumented immigrants.
Not even close to being true but there they are for the past week repeating it everyday like it's a fact.
Saying Donald trump said --Lie-- Only spreads the lie more.
Just don't report in the lie. Skip that part
"Somalian sailing cooperatives intercept cargo vessel to offer exchange of goods or services"
I know they said headline, but cmon actually read the article

There are actual issues with these articles but you can't call it propaganda when half of it is criticizing israel
Intercepts is a neutral term though. Not really repeating mucj propaganda but rather just reporting the fact that they did intercept it.
And they're reporting it because they want everybody to know that theyre conquering the shit out of Gaza and murdering all the Palestinians. But they're reporting it in a way that sounds neutral 😒
The reason mainstream media doesn't mention that it's against international law is because it's not against international law. So they just aren't lying to you, while alternative media is lying to you.
International law isn't written by the UN or whatever organization you might imagine would be passing world legislation. It's just treaties nations agree to. Nations don't want to make it illegal to do things nations want to do. This is why no one has made war illegal under international law. Countries want to still go to war, so it's not illegal under international law. Countries want to be able to do blockades, so blockades are not illegal under international law.
Sure you can say you don't like it, you could say a blockade is wrong, immoral, heinous, or whatever emotional terminology you'd like. But saying a blockade is illegal is either ignorant of international law, or just plain lying.
I'd disagree that this is propaganda. News always should try to Ramona as neutral as possible, avoiding throwing oil on flames where possible.
Also, the title can't contain everything, do the articles themselves mention it?
No, media should just tell the truth
Truth is a very fluent concept, unfortunately
Yes, news should always tell the truth, of course, but it is so easy to (accidentally) inject bias. You could simply spend a minute more on one interview than another and be biased
Journalists should always strive to be as closed to unbiased as possible, and indeed always try to report the truth in a truthful manner
Tell that to fox news and co
This also implies that news organizations must be independent and should always be funded by independent government organizations, not some rich billionaire
Blockades aren't against international law. Countries don't make the things they want to do illegal. It's alternative media that isn't telling you the truth.
Not when the UN require Israel to end occupation unconditionally and that Israel showed the intent and is doing a genocide.
I have a brain to use and there is international law resources I do not trust alternative media or mainstream media blindly. You can't seriously justify settler colonialism and the methods to maintain it which blockade is part of it
I wonder how many UN entities and human right report before you accept the obvious
The UN is a forum for diplomacy to happen in nothing more. It is not the world's government and when it moves in that direction it's always a shit show. The US Electoral College is complete bullshit, but the UN is far far worse than that. One country one vote is never going to lead to an organization that represents the world because most of the world's government's are authoritarian.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/current-members
The UN Human Rights Commission has countries on them that are the worst human rights abusers in the world. This is good from a diplomatic perspective as it could encourage those countries to do better. But it's also bad because those human rights abusers will put out reports to claim their enemies are doing bad things to give themselves cover. Qatar has slavery, and was a supporter of Hamas (and maybe still is unofficial), and they're a member of the UN Human Rights commission. The UN commissions have a nasty habit of not recusing themselves when there's a conflict of interest, so Qatar would have some influence here.
Ethiopia is also of the member. The conflict in Ethiopia is ten times worse than anything you see happening in Gaza. But it's like the line from Lord of War... "there was a white war happening so nobody gave a shit about what was happening in Africa." Ethiopia has an interest in keeping everyone's eyes on Gaza.
Same goes for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The UN is just kinda a fucked up group dominated by authoritarian human rights abusers, they should be treated with some skepticism on anything they say about the subject.
Your link the to Red Cross has this right at the top:
N.B. As per the disclaimer, neither the ICRC nor the authors can be identified with the opinions expressed in the Cases and Documents. Some cases even come to solutions that clearly violate IHL. They are nevertheless worthy of discussion, if only to raise a challenge to display more humanity in armed conflicts. Similarly, in some of the texts used in the case studies, the facts may not always be proven; nevertheless, they have been selected because they highlight interesting IHL issues and are thus published for didactic purposes.
So they admit they don't know what they're talking about and and having "discussion". Basically just shit talking in the general direction of Israel.
You are discrediting reputable human right organizations that show human right abuses of all countries and all international laws. Everybody is wrong and lying except Israel and it supporter. Everybody is laughing at you for the embarrassing and stupid arguments.
If you really believe the UN is not credible maybe you should ask the genocidal state you support to leave it
Not a single country you claim do more abuses than Israel has as much genocide statements and defend settler colonialism . The only person who was more as explicit was Hitler
Like I say the UN is useful as a forum for diplomacy. If countries are making bullshit resolutions they're less likely to go to war. That doesn't make the resolutions less bullshit.
About half the reason for the UN is to get countries to put their energy into bullshit rather than war. The other half is the security council, which is also a little bullshit, but it's at least somewhat connected to how things really work in the world.
Not a single country you claim do more abuses than Israel has as much genocide statements and defend settler colonialism . The only person who was more as explicit was Hitler
You should read up on what's been going on in Ethiopia (member of the UN human rights commission). Or maybe you don't think atrocities committed against black people matter? There were more deaths and more famine from that war than the Israel-Hamas war. And it looks like it could be heating up again. Are you going to protest a war in Africa? Nope, because the people there don't have the social media presence that Iran has cultivated.
Somalia is at least 8 times worse than what's happening in Gaza. Do you care?
Same goes for Syria. But Assad is gone now (because for some reason Hezbollah wasn't able to back him up, wonder why?) so hopefully things can stabilize there.
So you don't care if half a million Africans die. You don't even care if half a million Arabs die in Syria. You only care about Arabs in one particular region of the world. Why is that?
Keep embarassing yourself with your genocide and settler colonialism apologism. Everybody expect you are lying according to you. Nobody has more extreme genocidal statements as israel leaders, the closest to it is nazi statements
I don't you other conflicts as a deflection like you do, you do not care about a single conflict
I'm asking why you care about this particular conflict more than other conflicts where there have been many more deaths.
Sounds to me like you're a Ethiopian genocide apologist.
I got eight notifications about an incident yesterday about two people being stabbed in a synagogue from the BBC News App. What about the hundreds killed in Gaza?
my self-taught media literacy is still very weak and i sometimes wish i hadn't started work on developing it all due to the bitterness it engenders in me when i see how incredibly widespread and accepted/defended it is by my fellow countrymen.
i sometimes wonder if this is the permanent status quo for the western world.
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