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  1. Trump says Israel never talked him into war with Iran

    WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump said that Israel never talked him into war with Iran in a…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #Iran #Israel #JoeKent #Mediacriticism #Nuclearweapons #Trump #TruthSocial #War
    newsbeep.com/494520/

  2. The First Casualty

    They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine.

    urbanwronski.com/2026/03/11/th

  3. When people say “old white men no longer run the music business”, I wonder who they think is signing off on this.
    Because this isn’t accidental.
    It’s conservative, familiar, risk-averse marketing — the kind that comes from entrenched power. 2)

    #MusicIndustry
    #MediaCriticism
    #CulturalPower
    #WhoDecides

  4. #CitationsNeeded pod | #NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing

    "In this News Brief, we break down an object lesson in racist US-Israeli national security state toadyism, double standards, and runaway condescension."

    citationsneeded.libsyn.com/new

    #Gaza #Palestine #media #PalestineCoverage #GazaCoverage #mediaCriticism #USmedia #journaleux #merdias @palestine

  5. "New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN took a pathological liar with a clear ideological agenda at his word for the sole reason he’s rich and powerful."

    #USMedia's Credulous Depiction of '#DOGE' as a Good Faith "Efficiency Panel" Has Aged Poorly | #AdamJohnson

    columnblog.com/p/us-medias-cre
    #PushoverPress #journaleux #merdias #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #Musk #DOGEbags #oligarchs #MediaCriticism