For today, links to a review from the Hollywood Reporter, to commentary from an Australian observer, and to reports from Protos, the Tico Times, El Faro, and MintPress News; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (MEDIA 5-20-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA, WEST BANK, YEMEN, and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) –MCM

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FROM MAY 21  Film review: Eugene Jarecki’s Julian Assange doc is a jam-packed chronicle of legal persecution, by Jordan Mintzer | The Hollywood Reporter  Much of Jarecki’s informative two-hour feature, “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” focuses on the decade-plus legal roller coaster ride that Assange and his team of committed lawyers were obliged to take. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 22  The western media brought Gaza to this point, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com.au  For the last year and a half the western media have been brazenly lying to the public by framing this as a “war with Hamas” instead of the naked ethnic cleansing operation it clearly is. They’ve been manufacturing consent . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 5  El Salvador prepares to arrest El Faro journalists: report. From Protos. Carlos Dada, the director of El Faro, a newspaper in El Salvador that has published investigations into the Nayib Bukele administration, has claimed that it has “received reliable information that the Salvadoran Attorney General’s Office is preparing arrest warrants for El Faro journalists.” READ MORE . . . Click HERE for April 17, 2023, report from the Tico Times; HERE and HERE for El Faro statement on April 13, 2023, and HERE for report from MintPress News on May 14 of this year.

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