Starving the News

Once again, so that news can be shared more freely —

“Since AFP [Agence France-Presse] was founded in 1944,” the agency’s Society of Journalists said on X, “we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us can ever remember seeing colleagues die of hunger.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-s1-5476532/agence-france-presse-gaza-afp

Basically, the Israeli genocidal behavior is now directly affecting not just Palestinians. Maybe the world will start paying attention? Or, in the words of the inimitable Phil Ochs:

“But Monopoly is so much fun, I’d hate to blow the game

And I’m sure it wouldn’t interest anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends

Author: The Cat Herder General

aka Dennis Moser — Citoyen du monde: Peregrinator, photographer, retired librarian/archivist/academic, musician, teacher of English to foreigners, and sometime writer... Due to bureaucratic nonsense, I have left Europe. I DID not return to the US, I took a left turn at the Calgary airport and am a refugee trying to learn to understand, and maybe speak, "Jouai" over here amongst the Quebecois.

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