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Both the UAE and Morocco deals are being framed in the news as US-brokered peace/normalization deals with Israel. There is no mention of the substantial arms sales to each Arab country. In both cases, those reports come out later on, as if separately, or are buried in the story
More people have been forced to leave the NYT over the Tom Cotton op-ed than left due to the Paper of Record’s 18 months of Iraq/WMD coverage that convinced millions of people to support an illegal invasion that destroyed a country of 26 million people and gave rise to ISIS. https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1337450088596123651
Adam Rubenstein, who edited the Tom Cotton send in the troops op-ed, has left the NYT. Over the last several months, many of the people involved in the Cotton blow up have left the opinion section.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-assistant-adam-rubenstein-who-edited-tom-cottons-send-in-the-troops-column-resigns
Jake Tapper's continued success is unsurprising considering his strict commitment to three of the sacred pillars of corporate news media:
1. Gratuitous troop worship.
2. Pro-austerity debt scolding.
3. Shameless anti-Palestinian bigotry.
Authorities in #Iran has executed Iranian incarcerated former exiled journalist and activist Rohollah Zam, founder of telegram channel “Amad news”, who was arrested by the IRGC in October 2019 outside Iran https://twitter.com/jadehiran/status/1337612215072002049

وسائل اعلام إيرانية متعددة: السلطات القضائية نفذت حكم الإعدام بروح الله زم، مؤسس حساب اماد نيوز المعارض والذي تتهمه طهران بالتآمر ضد النظام
One of so many reasons to eliminate this barbaric practice...#AbolishTheDeathPenalty https://twitter.com/johnathanperk/status/1337456057669521408
Of the 1,528 people the U.S. has executed over the last 50 years, exactly zero were wealthy.
Arguments against this brutal punishment are too numerous for a single tweet. The blatant socioeconomic inequity inherent to the process is but one of them. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
The fact that Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib cannot send out a simple Hannukah greeting without being flooded with hostility and hyper Israeli nationalism says a lot more about her critics than it does about her.
"Blackness is transnational."
These Black Iranians want you to know that they exist, and that their stories of racism, isolation and a hidden history matter.
