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Offices of Associated Press and al-Jazeera

lundi 17 mai 2021 à 02:00

Israel destroyed the building in Gaza which held the offices of Associated Press and al-Jazeera.

Other media organizations had their offices in that building too.

The US did something similar in Baghdad in 2003: it bombed the office of al-Jazeera. The office was visibly labeled and the US knew where it was. The attack had to be intentional.

Israel knew where those offices were in Gaza, so this attack too had to be intentional.

Australia violating international human rights

lundi 17 mai 2021 à 02:00

Australia's practice of keeping refugees in prison with no time limit, arbitrarily with no stated reason, violates international human rights law. But Australia quietly made it legal under Australian law.

Diosdado Cabello

lundi 17 mai 2021 à 02:00

Diosdado Cabello, vice president of Venezuela, won a libel suit against a newspaper for republishing an article that accused him of ties to drug trafficking, and is seizing the newspaper's offices as payment.

In the US it is very hard for a public official to win a libel suit. The standard is set very high so that officials cannot suppress criticism.

Fossil fuel extraction projects

lundi 17 mai 2021 à 02:00

Fossil fuel extraction projects are having difficulty finding investment funds and insurance for their projects.

This is a crucial step forward, but it won't be enough until it makes those projects come to a halt.

Apple fired a new employee

lundi 17 mai 2021 à 02:00

Apple fired a new employee because he had published statements of misogyny in 2016.

What he wrote about women in 2016 was contemptuous and nasty. It was also 5 years ago. Perhaps he should have been offered a second chance if he has had a change of heart.

I can't disregard the other moral issue, that of his job. The job he was hired for was adtech, which is itself harmful and exploitative by nature. Whoever does that job will do a lot of real harm to people, more than mere insults can do.