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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Biden proposes Supreme Court reforms amid recent fairness and ethics concerns on the high court.
- FBI to interview former President Trump about the July 13 attempt on his life.
- Member s of bipartisan House task force on the Trump assassination attempt named.
- Opposition and international voices decry Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro’s Presidential election victory claim.
- Fresno County considering homeless encampment clearance ordinance.
- Northern California firefighters gained some ground on Park Fire, which has scorched areas of 4 counties.
- Democratic leaders warn of consequences of possible second Trump term in press call.
- Fresno introduces homeless encampment clearance ordinance.
- San Francisco Supervisors considering first in the nation ban on rent-setting software.
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We speak with Politico reporter Ian Ward about JD Vance, who has become a lightning rod for controversy since being picked by former President Donald Trump to be his running mate. Ward spent months with Vance earlier this year for a profile about the freshman Ohio senator and his political evolution from a “Never Trump” Republican to one of the MAGA movement’s most prominent voices. He recently wrote a new piece about Vance headlined “The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview.”
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Between armed violence and fascism within the United States and the US government’s support for genocide abroad, manufacturers of weapons are profiting wildly. Within the US, arms producers are responsible for fueling war crimes in Gaza and mass shootings across the United States. The profit models of these companies are the same: more violence means more customers. Stoke the fear, fury, and legitimacy of conflict to sell more of your product. Generate a public culture receptive to the idea of weapons as the answer to insecurity, including through the construction and entrenchment of gender and racial power dynamics.
Profitmaking requires marketing. Enter the so-called militainment industry—the marketing of guns and militarism through films, television, video games, and now social media influencers. Gun manufacturers and military agencies, especially in the United States, have long had an outsized influence on the entertainment industry, and they use gendered and racialized tropes to promote gun sales along with a wider culture of militarism, war, and armed violence. But over the last two decades, the methods by which gun manufacturers and other military contractors have been able to influence people across many geographies—in particular young, white, cisgendered, heteronormative men—have become increasingly insidious. And the ramifications for violence are profound.
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- Former President and former First Lady Michelle Obama endorse Vice President Harris’ Democratic presidential nomination bid.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Trump at Mar-A-Lago.
- Paris holds its Olympic opening ceremony, attacks on the city’s high speed rail service strands thousands of travelers.
- California’s Park Fires scorches more than 178,000 acres and forces thousands from their homes.
- The UN Security Council discusses the Middle East War.
- Gazans struggle to find clean water amid war conditions.
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As Paris hosts today’s opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics, we speak with Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse, who carried the Olympic torch Sunday in Paris to honor journalists wounded or killed on the job. Assi lost her leg in the same Israeli attack that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on October 13, and says carrying the Olympic torch was a great opportunity to highlight the “atrocities” happening in the region. “There was all the indications that we are press and we were just doing our jobs,” Assi recalls of the attack. “We weren’t holding guns. We were holding cameras.”
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A claim emerged in Chinese-language media that American and Chinese ships recently engaged in intense electronic warfare for more than 12 hours in the South China Sea, causing internet outages and GPS disruption in the north of the Philippines.
However, the claim lacks evidence. There are no official or credible reports to back it up. Experts told AFCL that the details cited by Chinese-language media do not match real electronic warfare scenarios.
The claim was shared in a report published by Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily News on July 8, 2024.
“Recently, the media in Taiwan and the Philippines have been reporting a news story that the U.S. and China have been engaged in a 12-hour electronic confrontation in the South China Sea, and that the US forces have lost the battle,” the claim reads in part.
“During this period, GPS in the northern part of the Philippines was completely cut off, and all communications, including telephone and television signals, were seriously affected,” it reads further.
Chinese netizens have claimed that U.S. and Chinese air forces recently engaged in electronic warfare over the South China Sea, causing power outages in the north of the Philippines. (Screenshots/YouTube and Tencent) Similar claims have been shared on other Chinese-language media reports here, here and here.
But the claim lacks evidence.
Origin of the claim
Many Chinese media outlets, which circulated the claim, cited either “online users” or” Taiwanese media outlets”.
However, keyword searches show that some Taiwanese media outlets cited “media reports from the Philippines” to back the claim.
Keyword searches found no official or credible reports to back the claim.
The earliest media report that contains this claim is from China’s Netease, which was published on June 30.
The Neteast report cited “media reports from the Philippines” and “foreign media outlets” as evidence for the claim, without identifying the outlets.
Power outages
Gao Zhirong, an assistant researcher at the Taipei-based Institute for National Defense and Security Studies, said that the details cited by Chinese-language media do not match real electronic warfare scenarios. Such operations typically target enemy telecommunications equipment and radar, not civilian internet.
“There’s no way to mess with the internet, other than to send some people to cut the undersea cables,” he said.
Gao added that the reported location of the clash is too far from northern Philippines for the jamming effects to have likely caused any disruption there.
“You’d need a whole lot of power for that, which was unlikely to be reached,” he says.
Unlikely scenario
Chinese-language media reports claimed that after a Chinese vessel recovered a sonar buoy dropped by a U.S. P8A anti-submarine aircraft in the South China Sea, both sides dispatched several electronic warfare aircraft to the area.
They further claimed that the U.S. military sent Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft and Boeing RC-135 strategic reconnaissance planes, while China dispatched Shaanxi Y-9 warplanes and Type 815 surveillance ships.
But Richard Fisher, a senior researcher at the International Assessment and Strategy Center told AFCL that it was unlikely the U.S. military would engage in a large-scale electronic war to protect sonar buoys.
The primary purpose of the EA-18G Growler is to attack and disrupt electronic combat systems, such as radar and missile guidance, said Fisher, adding that jamming GPS signals is only a secondary function of the aircraft.
Translated by Shen Ke. Edited by Shen Ke and Taejun Kang.
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Berlin, July 25, 2024—Russian authorities have targeted more than a dozen exiled journalists over the last month as part of their escalating campaign of transnational repression of independent voices.
Authorities sought the arrest one exiled journalist and added two to their wanted list of suspects sought on criminal charges. More than 95,000 people are named on the the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ online database and risk arrest if they enter Russia.
In addition, five were prosecuted for working with “undesirable organizations,” which are banned from operating in Russia. Anyone who participates in or works to organize the activities of such outlets faces up to six years in prison. It is also a crime to distribute the organizations’ content or donate to them.
Another three journalists were added to the “foreign agents” register, which legally requires them to regularly submit detailed reports of their activities and expenses to authorities and to list their status as “foreign agents” on any published content. Two journalists were fined for failing to comply with this law.
Arrested in absentia
- On June 26, a Moscow court ordered ex-state TV host Farida Kurbangaleeva’s arrest in absentia on charges of justifying terrorism and spreading “fake” information about the Russian army after she interviewed a soldier of a pro-Ukrainian Russian paramilitary group on her YouTube channel. A person arrested in absentia would be immediately held in pre-trial detention if they traveled to Russia or if they traveled to a country that could extradite them to Russia.
On June 20, the Prague-based journalist was also added to the government’s wanted list and on June 28, she was designated a foreign agent.
Wanted list
- On July 17, the Ministry of Internal Affairs added Andrei Zakharov, an investigative journalist and host of The Insider Live YouTube channel, to its wanted list on unspecified charges. Zakharov is facing criminal charges for failing to list his status as a foreign agent in two Telegram posts in March. Zakharov was labeled a foreign agent in 2021, after which he fled Russia.
- On July 18, the Ministry of Internal Affairs added Svetlana Prokopyeva, a journalist with the U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Sever.Realii website, to its wanted list on unspecified charges under the Criminal Code. In 2023, Prokopyeva was fined for “discrediting” the army for an interview with a historian about the war in Ukraine. Prokopyeva, a CPJ 2020 International Press Freedom Awardee, left Russia in 2022.
Prosecuted for ‘undesirable’ activities
- On June 27, a Moscow court fined Asya Zolnikova, a journalist with the Latvia-based independent news site Meduza, 12,000 rubles (US$136) for “participating in an undesirable organization.” At least four other journalists with Meduza, which was labeled as undesirable in 2023, have faced similar charges this year.
Four exiled journalists were prosecuted for “participating in an undesirable organization” for working with Latvia-based investigative outlet The Insider, which was banned in 2022:
- On June 27, journalist Vladimir Romensky was fined 7,500 rubles (US$85) by a Moscow court.
- On July 2, a Moscow court registered a case against The Insider’s founder and editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov.
- On July 15, journalist and editor Timur Olevskiy was fined 10,000 rubles (US$114) by a Moscow court.
- On July 18, a case was registered against journalist Marfa Smirnova.
Designated foreign agents
Between June 28 and July 5, the Ministry of Justice added at least three more exiled journalists to its foreign agents register:
- Aleksandr Shurshev, editor-in-chief of the investigative outlet Khroniki (Chronicles Media).
- Olesya Gerasimenko, who told CPJ that she worked with the BBC until January when she became a freelance journalist.
- The Insider’s investigative reporter Sergey Yezhov.
Fined under foreign agent legislation
Two journalists were fined by a court in the western region of Pskov for failing to comply with the foreign agent legislation:
- On July 1, Denis Kamalyagin, the exiled editor-in-chief of independent newspaper Pskovskaya Guberniya, and the legal entity the journalist created to comply with the law, were fined 330,000 rubles (US$3,785).
- On July 19, the legal entity created by journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya was fined 300,000 rubles (US$3,441). Savitskaya was labeled a foreign agent in 2020 and left Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Russian authorities have effectively clamped down on independent reporting in the country since their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Hundreds of Russian journalists have fled into exile, where they are now increasingly harassed by the authorities with fines, arrest warrants and jail terms in absentia.
CPJ emailed the Ministry of Internal Affairs requesting comment but received no immediate response.
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