James North
Writer at Freelance
Editor at Mondoweiss
Covering the Global South for 50 years. Wrote "Freedom Rising," about apartheid South Africa. Editor @Mondoweiss. Reporting on the Migration "Crisis"
Articles
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6 days ago |
newrepublic.com | James North
A recently published study in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet reports that the Trump administration’s evisceration of the landmark President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, program that has long been a bulwark in the fight to combat global HIV/AIDS has already sentenced tens of thousands of people in Africa to death, and with each week that passes with the program stuck in limbo, many thousands of needless deaths will follow.
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1 week ago |
mondoweiss.net | James North
The corporate efforts to muzzle “60 Minutes,” the prestigious American television news program, have been publicly exposed by courageous members of its own staff. But mainstream U.S. media reports have underplayed one significant factor: the intense pro-Israel views of Shari Redstone, the billionaire heiress who is the controlling shareholder of Paramount, the CBS TV network’s parent company.
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3 weeks ago |
mondoweiss.net | James North
Significantly absent in the long obituaries for Pope Francis in both the New York Times and the Washington Post were mentions of his deep concern for the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza. In Francis’s last public message on Easter Sunday, just hours before he died, he had called for a ceasefire in Gaza, and condemned the “deplorable humanitarian situation” there.
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2 months ago |
mondoweiss.net | James North
The one-sided New York Times coverage of the latest news from Israel and Palestine continues, unchanged. *Times reports on the release of people held in captivity continue to be slanted. Israelis who are freed are called “hostages,” and human interest details accompany the detailed coverage. Palestinian are “prisoners,” even though many of them, most likely hundreds, were also held without trial or any due process — and the sparest of personal details accompany the Times reports.
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Jan 27, 2025 |
mondoweiss.net | James North
The usual one-sided coverage of Palestine continued in this Sunday’s New York Times. Right at the top of the front page is a large photograph of one of the four Israeli women soldiers who were just released in Gaza and returned to Israel. It is accompanied by a long article. Inside, on page 6, is another detailed report, with first-hand human interest details about the four Israeli women.
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