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This past Thursday, war criminal and Israeli prime minister Netanyahu spoke at the UN, spewing psychotic hatred and fallacies as dozens of delegates walked out of the General Assembly hall. Fun fact: journalist Alan MacLeod made a map of the 77 countries whose delegates walked out. The overwhelming majority are from the Global South. Still, as journalist Sam Husseini pointed out, every year delegates walk out on Netanyahu’s speech. “We really need to move beyond the performative and symbolic. In 1981, the UN General Assembly passed COMPREHENSIVE AND MANDATORY sanctions against South Africa and even attacked the Security Council for failing to live up to its responsibilities.”
And yes, some corporate media reported on the walkouts though they failed to remind readers and viewers that there is in fact an international arrest warrant out for Netanyahu - so if he should be soap-boxing anywhere, it should be in a dark cell.
Meanwhile, outside the UN buildings, and outside the corporate media framing, thousands of people took part in protests held across New York City, including a march organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestinian Youth Movement outside the UN headquarters. In the kind of twist that only makes sense in the land of the free, dozens of genocide protesters were arrested including New York City council members, whistleblower Chelsea Manning and actress Hannah Einbinder.
In reporting by Indigenous media outlet Crushing Colonialism, more than three-quarters of the Indigenous languages still spoken are endangered and some have no fluent speakers, while others are spoken by only a handful of mostly elderly speakers. Without action, some estimates suggest that fewer than 20 Native languages may still be in use in the “United States” by 2050, down from about 167 currently spoken.
And as author Israel Temmie notes, none of this is an accident but rather the inevitable result of the US’ cultural genocide which made it illegal for Indigenous peoples to speak their languages and practice their traditions, forcing children into boarding schools that sought to “kill the Indian, save the man.”
And still, Indigenous communities across the so-called US are not allowing their languages and thereby their cultures to be relegated to the past, and Temmie gives several examples of how Native Nations are rebuilding languages once pushed to the brink of extinction.
For example, the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project uses historical documents to reconstruct its grammar and vocabulary, teaching the language through community classes, educational programs, and immersion initiatives, helping children and adults learn and use Wôpanâak in everyday life. That’s even more impressive when you consider that the Wôpanâak language had no fluent native speakers by the late nineteenth century.
In Dr. Austin Kocher’s “This Week by Immigration Numbers” post, he shares an important tool to get kids out of federal custody: habeas.
98% of habeas petitions for children in federal shelter custody ended in the child's release, 40 of the 41 cases with a known outcome.
80% of those children were out within 30 days of filing and a quarter within a week, often because Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) expedited the release itself rather than a judge ordering it.
Be sure to listen to this week’s episode of the Project Censored show where Dr. Kocher joins us again to give important and unreported updates on immigrant rights issues.
This coming week October 4th is election day in Brazil and this past week, Brasilwire reported that US company Meta has, without explanation, disabled Lula’s Instagram and Facebook profiles’ ability to run ads, 10 days from election. The President’s campaign has complained and threatened legal action, citing this as another example of US interference and manipulation.
This comes just a week after a British study found that Meta approved political ads containing AI-generated false election information, targeting a Brazilian audience and paid for by a US account.
In a press release by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) a historic super El Niño, set to peak between November 2026 and January 2027, threatens to push millions of people into acute food insecurity as conflict-disrupted shipping routes drive up food, fertilizer and fuel costs.
In particular, IRC warns that Kenya, Somalia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Syria and Afghanistan could be devastated, as these regions are already struggling with climate disasters and humanitarian crises, and this year’s El Niño will only exacerbate what they’re facing.
For example, IRC modelling shows Somalia faces up to 2.6 million people at immediate risk of catastrophic flooding if El Niño combines with a positive Indian Ocean Dipole as currently projected. Meanwhile, IRC analysis shows poor rains could push an additional 700,000 people in El Salvador into hunger.
But hey, at least climate change isn’t real, right?! I mean, you wouldn’t think so if you only engage with corporate media’s absolute dearth of coverage on the topic.
New Scientist reports that OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government healthcare website accessing non-public files making it the first publicly revealed case of an AI agent breaching the defenses of a government portal.
Though the company learned of the breach in August, it didn’t notify Australian authorities until 10 September, which it did by emailing a public government mailbox. It then took more than five days to reach the cybersecurity department.
In this week’s episode of the Project Censored radio show, I spoke with president of National Nurses United Cathy Kennedy about their campaign to “Purge Palantir” from hospitals and clinics. And we can add this breach to a long list of reasons why AI should be nowhere near healthcare.
And because we all need a chuckle these days, after Trump declared CNN, MS NOW, and Politico “fake news” and exiled them from the White House grounds on Friday, the other networks that make up the White House press pool—including ABC, CBS, NBC, and even Fox News—agreed to boycott their pool duties on Monday in solidarity with the banned outlets.
What that meant in practice is that as Trump stood on the lawn to announce a new heli-pad (yes, I’m fucking serious), there was no microphone to capture the presumably deep and philosophical commentary he was throwing out to the void. The mouth was moving but no audio was heard.
In perhaps the only time I have ever and will ever agree with the far right-wing bag of lunatics at Newsmax, the president’s attack on the media might be “backfiring just a little bit.”
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