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  1. gli schiaffi in faccia che #Trump continua a dare a #Meloni &Co. e rivelazioni come quella del #WashPost su #BasiMilitariUSA colpite dall'#Iran sono un'occasione formidabile x saltare giù dalla criminale #MacchinaDellaGuerraUSA prima che sia troppo tardi:

    washingtonpost.com/investigati

  2. this investigation by #WashPost (HT Glenn Greenwald) based on satellite images - now available with huge delay - provide evidence that far from protecting host nations, #USMilitaryBasesAndInfrastructures make us a target, hence are a liability

    washingtonpost.com/investigati

  3. a proposito di #LicioGelli,ricordate che abbiamo in ballo un ricorso #FOIA contro l'#FBI per ottenere tutto il fascicolo #FBI su #LicioGelli?

    Ebbene,l'#FBI manco risponde al nostro avvocato #FOIA USA,avvocato di un grande studio legale che ha vinto causa #FOIA per #WashPost

  4. if you want to understand the role of the éminence grise of the #Vatican diplomacy,#Parolin-who,according to a leak to a #WashPost,tried to find "an escape route for #Maduro"- you should read US diplomatic cables on #Parolin revealed by #JA and #WikiLeaks:

    wikileaks.org/plusd/?qproject[

  5. Mi ha colpito intervista all'ex direttore del #WashPost,Martin Baron,ieri sera a #ReportRAI3.Baron dice era stato contattato da #Snowden.Grazie a #GlennGreenwald rivelai file di #Snowden sull'Italia:a me risulta che WashPost li ottenne tramite collaboratore esterno:Barton Gellman

  6. The waning Washington Post

    Saturday’s copy of the Washington Post could not have made much of a thump whenever it landed on our front walk this morning. At two sections and 36 pages, it was a sadly diminished descendant of what has been the thinnest daily edition of the paper for as long as I can remember, even before I started work there in December of 1993.

    (Back then, average weekday print circulation had just peaked at 832,332; as of June, it reportedly stood at 97,000. The Post’s digital subscriptions hit a high mark of 3 million in January of 2021 and had fallen to 2.5 million by late October.)

    In addition to having separate A, Metro, Sports and Style sections compressed into those two sections, part of a cutback to the print edition made in June, Saturday’s paper was also absent many familiar, favorite bylines–the result of a disturbing exodus of talent from my former employer.

    Even after more than two decades of seeing buyouts encourage dozens of the Post’s more experienced journalists to head for the exits, the numbers and the names of Posties taking a buyout this time are shocking. Among the dozens hitting the ejection seat:

    It’s a horrible hollowing out even before you count the Post journalists who jumped before they could be pushed. See, for example, humor writer Alexandra Petri, whom The Atlantic was smart enough to poach and who has been joined by enough other Post refugees that the paper might as well now be that magazine’s farm team.

    The Nats have never had a fire sale like this, and the Post isn’t even getting prospects in return–just personnel expenses saved, with the buyout packages paid via the paper’s miraculously overfunded pension fund.

    The better comparison is not to our home team but to an out-of-town squad that won’t leave Washington: Elon Musk’s DOGE minions, who might have struggled to do this much damage to the Post if they had commandeered an office at 1301 K Street NW.

    I have not yet canceled our subscription because the Post continues to do good and useful work, especially at the national and international level. But its local coverage has shrunk to the point of often becoming borderline useless, leaving me to piece together a replacement for it by reading the likes of WAMU, Greater Greater Washington, ArlNow, The 51st and the Virginia Mercury.

    The proximate cause for this destruction of journalistic value is the new crop of management led by CEO and publisher Will Lewis, a Fleet Street import with a record of questionable journalistic ethics in London who has shown himself to be a newsroom cancer since his arrival two winters ago.

    But Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos hired Lewis and has yet to fire him. Bezos spiked the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris two weeks before the election, had the paper insult the intelligence of its readers with its explanation (followed by more than 300,000 of them canceling their digital subscriptions), and then spent millions to curry favor with President Trump. Bezos directed the opinions section to become a defender of “personal liberties and free markets” and has since seen some of that section’s better advocates of those things leave even as hacks like Marc Thiessen remain.

    Bezos has, however, yet to interfere with the paper’s news coverage–which would be my own subscription-canceling moment.

    This is much worse than what I thought might happen when Bezos stunned D.C. with his $250 million purchase of the Post in 2013, and it is an even steeper drop from how things seemed to have progressed a decade ago. My journalistic alma mater now seems trapped in the grip of a billionaire with no need to sell such a trivial asset but also no interest in investing to improve it.

    That may be fine financially for Bezos and his other businesses, many of which are heavily exposed to Trump’s uninformed whims. But if this is how he leaves the Washington Post, there should be no amount of packages shipped, data centers built, or rockets launched that will erase this stain from his record.

    #1301KStreet #BezosWashingtonPost #buyouts #DOGE #JeffBezos #LocalNews #newspaper #wapo #WashPost #washingtonPost #WillLewis

  7. Just noticed that Alexandra Petri has left the #WashPost and moved to #TheAtlantic. That made me instantly subscribe to the Atlantic again. Let's see how long I last with it!

  8. è importante capire come viene manipolato il dibattito: siamo in una crisi senza precedenti

    il 22 maggio l'intelligence USA ha concluso che #Iran NON sta lavorando all'atomica

    9 giorni dopo è stato leakato report dell'#IAEA riportato dal #WashPost

    ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicol

  9. Jeden z najbogatszych i najpotężniejszych ludzi na świecie właśnie ogłosił, że jedna z najbardziej znanych i opiniotwórczych gazet codziennych (którą sobie niedawno kupił) przestanie robić dziennikarstwo, a zacznie być tubą propagandową (nadmiernie ładnie to ujmując: "wolności osobistych i wolnego rynku"). To jest już początek nowego feudalizmu, technofeudalizmu.

    Wyrywajmy sobie włosy z głowy lub... potraktujmy sprawę poważnie. Przyszłość jest teraz. 🧓

    Źródło: x.com/JeffBezos/status/1894757

    #JeffBezos #Bezos #WashPost #WashingtonPost #dziennikarstwo #media #USA #feudalizm #technofeudalizm #Amazon #Kindle #Alexa #AWS

  10. Inside the world of Martin Sellner, millennial influencer of Europe’s far right

    The Post spent time with Sellner to understand his secretive movement and how his rhetoric found its way into the Trump campaign and Austria’s election on Sunday.

    Archived:
    archive.ph/9aOZ3

    washingtonpost.com/world/2024/

    #Europe #Racist #MartinSeller #WashPost

  11. #Books While perusing the #Washpost books section this morning, I noticed there’s a new Reagan biography, Reagan: His Life And Legend by Max Boot. It’s on Bookshare so it’s now in my collection. @LynnI I thought you might be interested.

  12. Grimly funny: Trump propagandist says the best way for Republicans to support Trump is to vote the OPPOSITE of what Trump instructs them. (Because, he says, if they do what trump says, they will cause disaster.) washingtonpost.com/opinions/20 #WashPost

  13. Is it just my imagination or is the #WashPost devoting less space to hard news these days - including on the online equivalent of the area above the fold - in favor of breezy features & practical tips? Does this really provide the illumination that democracy doesn't die in?

  14. We need to talk about #QAnon. Or more specifically the current Q propaganda film hoping to mainstream it's ideas AGAIN.

    #WashPost #MAGA #News
    archive.ph/waFNi

    First paragraph of that Wash Post article sums it up nicely.

    "Donald Trump plans to screen the film Sound of Freedom at his New Jersey golf club next week. The film, about agents fighting a child sex trafficking ring, has been embraced by the far right and Christians, who have helped boost it to more than $50 million in receipts at the box office."

    This is the Hollywood version of 2020's #SaveTheChildren campaign intended to suck normies into #MAGAQ-verse.

    mediamanipulation.org/case-stu

  15. A very important story on how workers who pushed unionizing effort at Starbucks were treated. No subscription required to read this article: wapo.st/3Pjy3nh

    #washpost #wapo #union #starbucks