While Israel increasingly isolates itself on the international stage, BRICS members Iran, Russia, and China are quietly coordinating a full-spectrum effort to support Palestine diplomatically and militarily.
Instead, the US on Wednesday approved a further $20 billion weapons package to Tel Aviv, showing exactly how committed the Americans are to securing a permanent ceasefire.
More forever wars.
Quick search:
https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-20-billion-weapons-us-aid-b6a99129c88a5dcc4a4753e20b5e19ec
However, the weapons are not expected to get to Israel anytime soon, they are contracts that will take years to fulfill. Much of what is being sold is to help Israel increase its military capability in the long term, the earliest systems being delivered under the contract aren’t expected until the 2026 timeframe.
Pepe Escobar is a defender of Putin’s colonization of Ukraine. His participation in a source where the main thrust of their reporting has been against the genocide of Palestinians undermines their message when he’s not also critical of the ethnic cleansing of eastern Ukraine and the kidnapping of Ukrainian children into Russia.
Reported as a “Low Quality Source”, so I looked at it thinking “Probably another one of those blog sites, sounds like a blog site…”
MBFC’s big beef appears to be “lack of transparency”. There are no failed fact checks in the last 5 years so I’m allowing it for now.
If it turns out later to be funded by, I dunno, Idi Amin or somebody later on down the line, we’ll remove it. But I don’t see “lack of transparency” ALONE as a reason to remove it.
While I think this specific journalist is a piece of shit, I applaud your restraint.
It looks like the big beef with this author is possible Russian contamination:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_Escobar
“Escobar’s work has been scrutinized for its appearance in outlets identified by the U.S. State Department as part of Russia’s disinformation network, such as RT and Sputnik News, raising questions about the potential propagation of Russian propaganda.”
The main thing that tipped me off this guy was not to be respected was this line from an article someone pointed out to me:
As Russian President Vladimir Putin made very clear during his Tucker Carlson interview seen by one billion people worldwide, Ukraine is part of Russian civilization – even if it is not part of the Russian Federation. So shelling ethnic Russian civilians in Donbass – still ongoing – translates as attacks on Russia.
Tucker Carlson has been legally demonstrated in court to be not a serious journalist. His interview with Putin was widely panned by experts to be a farce, specifically and especially Putin’s nebulous claims about Ukraine belonging to Russia and Tucker’s uncritical reception of those claims.
Pepe’s uncritical endorsement of Tucker’s journalism and Putin’s claims deserve ridicule.
Yeah, but that falls right in line with the Russian propaganda angle.
edit: improved format a bit
Owner-class media bias/fact check does not see it as “Low Quality Source” though, so they are more false reports to continue censorship.
Detailed Report:
- Bias Rating: LEFT
- Factual Reporting: MIXED
- Country: USA
- MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
- Media Type: Website
- Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
- MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
Yeah, and the only reason they’re marked “medium credibility” is the lack of transparency. There’s no issue with factual reporting.
The Cradle - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for The Cradle:
MBFC: Left - Credibility: Medium - Factual Reporting: Mixed - United States of America
Wikipedia about this sourceSearch topics on Ground.News
https://thecradle.co/articles/how-a-brics-trio-is-staring-down-israel
thecradle.coMBFC uses non-partisan fact-checking institutions to bolster their credibility, while holding none of the standards. Then they use that laundered credibility to gatekeep minority and politically inconvenient voices.
It should be noted that despite no non-partisan fact checkers are listed on MBFC’s site as raising concerns about the The Cradle’s credibility, Dave M. Van Zandt has arbitrarily placed it in the “Factual Reporting: Mixed” and “Credibility: Medium” categories. One of the concerns he posits is The Cradle’s ‘lack of transparency,’ but the weird right-wing guy who decides these ratings also lacks any transparency himself in the method he used to come to that conclusion.
Fact checking should increase media literacy and identify bad actors that fabricate news, not justify the destruction of a diverse and healthy media environment.
