Giorgio Balestrieri
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
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"Things" -- like the repressive dictator sitting next to me having a journalist chopped up with a bone saw -- "happen."
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Things" -- like the repressive dictator sitting next to me having a journalist chopped up with a bone saw -- "happen."
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In Spagna il congedo parentale è stato esteso a 19 settimane ed è paritario: padri e madri possono stare a casa per lo stesso periodo di tempo. La cosa si riflette positivamente nella divisione della cura dei figli tra i coniugi. Il video di Arte.
I padri spagnoli campioni europei del congedo parentale
In Spagna il congedo parentale è stato esteso a 19 settimane ed è paritario: padri e madri possono stare a casa per lo stesso periodo di tempo. La cosa si riflette positivamente nella divisione della ...
www.internazionale.it
September 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
In Spagna il congedo parentale è stato esteso a 19 settimane ed è paritario: padri e madri possono stare a casa per lo stesso periodo di tempo. La cosa si riflette positivamente nella divisione della cura dei figli tra i coniugi. Il video di Arte.
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Conferencia sobre política climática
7-9 de noviembre
Un encuentro con algunos de los nombres más importantes del panorama internacional para debatir sobre las claves de la política climática: geopolítica, finanzas verdes, desigualdades territoriales o política industrial.
September 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🔆 CONSTRUIR EL FUTURO 🔆
Conferencia sobre política climática
7-9 de noviembre
Un encuentro con algunos de los nombres más importantes del panorama internacional para debatir sobre las claves de la política climática: geopolítica, finanzas verdes, desigualdades territoriales o política industrial.
Conferencia sobre política climática
7-9 de noviembre
Un encuentro con algunos de los nombres más importantes del panorama internacional para debatir sobre las claves de la política climática: geopolítica, finanzas verdes, desigualdades territoriales o política industrial.
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Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them
Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik
Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them
Netanyahu and the IDF will be accountable to history, if not the ICC.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Last post from Anas al-Sharif, whom Al Jazeera calls one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Netanyahu and the IDF will be accountable to history, if not the ICC.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
“Governments must stop waiting for permission to act. We cannot continue to hope that current arrangements will work. It is time to take decisive action: […]“
www.savethechildren.net/news/mass-st...
www.savethechildren.net/news/mass-st...
As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, more than 100 NGOs make an urgent plea to allow in life-saving aid
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, human...
www.savethechildren.net
July 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Governments must stop waiting for permission to act. We cannot continue to hope that current arrangements will work. It is time to take decisive action: […]“
www.savethechildren.net/news/mass-st...
www.savethechildren.net/news/mass-st...
This is the official report from the Spanish government about the Iberian blackout:
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
www.lamoncloa.gob.es
June 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This is the official report from the Spanish government about the Iberian blackout:
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodemin...
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
Turkey is taking yet another turn toward authoritarianism. Trump and JD Vance seem very worried about a made-up Afrikaner "genocide" and Europe being too unfriendly to literal neo-nazis while ignoring a nuclear power turning into an authoritarian state.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Turkey Bans Images of Jailed Istanbul Mayor in Growing Crackdown
Turkey banned the use of images depicting jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and detained dozens of municipality staff, escalating a standoff with the opposition that’s unsettled investors.
www.bloomberg.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Turkey is taking yet another turn toward authoritarianism. Trump and JD Vance seem very worried about a made-up Afrikaner "genocide" and Europe being too unfriendly to literal neo-nazis while ignoring a nuclear power turning into an authoritarian state.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"Global warming has accelerated since 2010 by more than 50% over the 1970-2010 warming rate of 0.18 °C per decade."
This is one of two or three problems that should keep people awake at night. We need solutions, at scale, urgently.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
This is one of two or three problems that should keep people awake at night. We need solutions, at scale, urgently.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations and the Public Well-Informed?
www.tandfonline.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Global warming has accelerated since 2010 by more than 50% over the 1970-2010 warming rate of 0.18 °C per decade."
This is one of two or three problems that should keep people awake at night. We need solutions, at scale, urgently.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
This is one of two or three problems that should keep people awake at night. We need solutions, at scale, urgently.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Good on Harvard University for standing up to a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to interfere with it and use congress-approved federal funding as leverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands
Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Good on Harvard University for standing up to a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to interfere with it and use congress-approved federal funding as leverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
If confirmed, these are war crimes.
It’s particularly disconcerting that criticism of what Israel is doing is being suppressed in the US.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
It’s particularly disconcerting that criticism of what Israel is doing is being suppressed in the US.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If confirmed, these are war crimes.
It’s particularly disconcerting that criticism of what Israel is doing is being suppressed in the US.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
It’s particularly disconcerting that criticism of what Israel is doing is being suppressed in the US.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
After having his main political opponent arrested, #Erdogan is censoring coverage of protests in state media.
I guess JD Vance and the rest of the Trump administration must be up in arms about this, after scolding European countries for limiting “freedom of opinion”.
shorturl.at/tTMIB
I guess JD Vance and the rest of the Trump administration must be up in arms about this, after scolding European countries for limiting “freedom of opinion”.
shorturl.at/tTMIB
‘It’s disinformation’: Turkish state TV avoids any coverage of mass street protests
News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networks
shorturl.at
March 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
After having his main political opponent arrested, #Erdogan is censoring coverage of protests in state media.
I guess JD Vance and the rest of the Trump administration must be up in arms about this, after scolding European countries for limiting “freedom of opinion”.
shorturl.at/tTMIB
I guess JD Vance and the rest of the Trump administration must be up in arms about this, after scolding European countries for limiting “freedom of opinion”.
shorturl.at/tTMIB
