Three links: to a public exchange from the Chris Hedges Report, to commentary from Tom Dispatch, and to an interview from Useful Idiots, all via ScheerPost; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names just above or below. NOTE: Here four authors place current events in the Middle East and their depiction in the context of others decades or centuries ago in the Americas, East Asia, and Europe. (MEDIA 5-23-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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FROM MAY 5  The moral issue of our time. Chris Hedges of the Chris Hedges Report and physician Gabor Maté speak and then answer questions at a fundraiser for the Middle East Children’s Alliance about the genocide in Gaza, about decisions facing individuals about what to do about it, and about what others have done in analogous situations in history. Click HERE for intro and video but, as yet, no transcript.

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FROM MAY 22  The horrors inflicted for 500 years, by Greg Grandin | Tom Dispatch / SheerPost  Consider the Spanish conquest of the Americas alongside Israel’s assault on Gaza. There are uncanny parallels between the two conflicts, including that each began in the wake of a communications revolution: the printing press then, social media now. READ MORE . . .

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Norman Finkelstein reacts to Israeli Embassy staffers shooting. Katie Halper and Aaron Maté of Useful Idiots speak with author Norman Finkelstein about, among other things, the murders of two employees of Israel’s consulate in Washington — Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim — and U.S. media coverage of the murders and of the current genocide in Gaza. Click HERE for video of part of the interview. 

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