There are others, but I’d say these are the top in terms of credibility, investigative journalism, and reliability

That said, it’s still best practice to cross verify reporting

The Intercept

Democracy Now

Common Dreams

ProPublica

Mother Jones

Jacobin

Zeteo

Drop Site News

Al Jazeera

+972 Magazine

Human Rights Organizations

Edit: adding Counter Punch

Buy a used one

@Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world has been a consistent and unconditional ally of Palestine, quit coping

Christian Zionists far outnumber Jewish Zionists

The vast majority of people want a weapons embargo and an end to the genocide, even a majority of Republican voters.

The reality is that the US is funding genocide. That by the requirement of both international law and domestic law, they have an obligation to cease all weapon transfers to Israel. That’s on top of the popular position and morally correct position of opposing genocide.

Anyone making excuses for why the US needs to continue funding Israel is supporting this genocide.

I do appreciate that discourse is more viable on Lemmy than the corporate alternatives, I only see that as getting more important as corporations like Meta and Google crack down on fact checking and anti-fascist discussions.

I have my criticisms of the moderation on both the .ml and .world side of things, but at least the fediverse is flexible and fluid with the different instances. A lot of topics concerning imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and socialism have nuances that are important to cut through (all) government and corporate disinformation. But even here a lot of that nuance is overlooked in the larger or team-sporty communities.

Hopefully educational discussions will continue to gain prominence on here and brigading/group-think will be frowned upon and discouraged. This kind of FOSS social media is a great opportunity to grow global solidarity and class consciousness. Which is become ever more critical as global capitalism lashes out with fascism against (at first) the most vulnerable

Thanks, the fact that he completely ignored the bolded text in my initial comment was a dead giveaway they don’t actually give a shit about the morality of the situation.

The boycott list exists for a reason, as explained in detail on the BDS website. I abide by it as much as possible, amd is not on the list while Nvidia and Intel are. Since I had to get a Google phone for grapheneos, second hand one at least prevented me from handing money to Google.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but that doesn’t mean people can’t utilize the BDS movement to inform them on how to avoid the companies that contribute the most to Israel’s genocidal apartheid state.

And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.

They all kill children and I boycott them all. You’re the only one running defense by minimizing Microsoft’s role here.

For example, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all launched major cloud computing centres in Israel, offering businesses infrastructure critical to data-driven products and services. Intel is the largest private employer in the country, having commenced operations in 1974.

Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel, and it launched a chip development centre in Haifa. Nvidia, the trillion-dollar chip behemoth powering the AI revolution, has also announced it is expanding its already large R&D operations in Israel. The list goes on

• https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/12/how-us-big-tech-supports-israels-ai-powered-genocide-and-apartheid

Gates’ advice is reportedly treated as gospel, and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership, and consequently, the success witnessed in the category.

Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved and influential in the business decisions is just straight up untrue, stop whitewashing his contributions to genocide.

In summary, Bill Gates’s relationship with Israel is characterized by his admiration for the country’s technological innovation and his significant investments through Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While he has not publicly engaged in the political aspects of the Israel/Palestine conflict, his actions and statements suggest a supportive stance toward Israel’s role in global technology. This support is evident in his continued investments and public recognition of Israel’s achievements in digital security and biotechnology.

• https://shopisrael.com/blogs/support/does-bill-gates-support-israel

He didn’t completely leave, he’s literally the technical advisor listed under “key people” for Microsoft

Bill Gates continues to ‘backstage’ manage Microsoft despite official departure, as Satya Nadella relies on his advice for Microsoft’s transformative AI initiative

Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide is well documented, exposing its strong ties to the Israeli military, its collaboration with Israeli government ministries, and its involvement in the Israeli prison system, which is notorious for systematic torture and abuse of Palestinians. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity (including apartheid), as well as genocide. In light of the International Court of Justice’s legally-binding rulings to prevent Israel’s plausible genocide in Gaza, as well as its July 19 Advisory Opinion affirming Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid system, Microsoft has failed its corporate obligation to prevent genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Microsoft, as well as its boards of directors and executives, may face criminal liability for this complicity.

Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. Microsoft’s extensive ties with Israel’s military are revealed in investigations by The Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, demonstrating how the Israeli military turned to Microsoft to meet the technological demands of genocide.

• https://bdsmovement.net/microsoft

The 7 billion to Africa isn’t as nice as it first seems either; it’s investments into venture capitalist solutions, much more restrictive that aid and the profits are not realized by the locals

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/02/perhaps-bill-gates-not-best-expert-hunger-africa

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/10/open-letter-bill-gates-food-farming-and-africa

I don’t see the problem with adding an edit to the top level comment to provide clarification

It’s a simple resolution to a simple misunderstanding

Biden gave zero genuine pressure to end the genocide. Instead of implementing a weapons embargo, he sent tens of billions worth of weapons used to prolong the genocide.

One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

From the MEMO article:

The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support: “God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.” His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

Even the proposal to ethnically cleanse the entire population of Gaza, or ‘empty Gaza of palesinians,’ by removing them to neighboring countries, was first proposed by the Biden admin behind closed doors

The diplomat said Egypt rejected similar proposals from the Biden administration and European countries early in the war, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel. The earlier proposals were broached privately, while Trump announced his plan at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-egypt-trump-displacement-bc1c43f80655190824a5de4eb1d310cc

That ‘more moderate path’ has been an abject failure, as evident by the election.

Neoliberalism ideology is what has paved the way to rampant fascism in American politics. Neoliberalism, and even liberalism for that matter, will never be a successful opposition to fascism. Being beholden to corporate interests, at the expense of the voters interest nonetheless, will and has only ever normalized if not accelerated fascist policies.

The only way to have a genuine opposition to right-wing populism is by running on a platform of left-wing populism. Ignoring the material harms people are experiencing and aware of is a losing strategy.

Left-wing populist positions are overwhelmingly popular, they are even popular with independent and Republican voters. Those positions directly benefit everyone in the working class. The only issue for the neoliberal administration in charge of the DNC is that those policies come at the expense of billionaires and massive corporations, the people who fund their convention and races to secure their interests over the general population.

Human rights is nonnegotiable. If anyone is willing to throw a group of people under the bus for any reason, they are no ally.

If the DNC prioritized running on those popular policies and actually attempted to earn as many votes as they possibly could by offering concessions to as much people as they could, they would have won. Trump would not be president. We wouldn’t be funding one genocide while ramping up concentration camps for ‘enemies within’. But the DNC has proven themselves to priorities their corporate backers over the people. Only a small few like Bernie, AOC, and The Squad are genuinely interested in opposing the fascism of the Republican party. If they gain control of the DNC, we may have a chance out of this through legislation and reform. If the DNC continues to prop up corporate interests over progressives, then the way out will become much much bloodier.

Fascism does not compromise. Appeasement is the problem. Opposition is necessary.

Edit: after seeing your other comment, I’ll provide polls that support my point, on the large support of both on the weapons embargo and on left-wing populist policies.

But demanding opposition to genocide and neoliberal policies is purity testing!

Why can’t the left just accept liberal capitalism instead of purity testing human rights?

Surely the problem is with leftist individuals who hate liberalism so much they must secretly support Trump.

It couldn’t be any systemic or material issues that have compounded over decades, leading to populist sentiment and opposition to the status quo, as people demand solutions to the cost of living crisis that they’ve seen only ever get worse. It was surely not a mistake to not run of overwhelmingly popular democratic socialist policies that would’ve directly addressed those issues, or run on no weapons embargo despite it’s overwhelming support. The DNC did nothing wrong, it’s all the voters fault, especially those anti-genocide ones. Who cares if they had loved ones killed by Israel, they should have known better, it’s a simple trolley problem.

/s (this kind of sentiment is so annoying)

I would always defend the US as a force for good in the democratic world (albeit a very flawed one) and highlight that compared to other major powers (russia, china), the US has been involved in a very good outcomes (post WW2 Germany/Japan, Polands and the Baltic nations after the breakup of the USSR).

As an American who used to think that until I learned about the unabridged history of US domestic and foreign policy, the US has absolutely not been a force for good. In many, many cases, far from it.

Knowing Better has many well made videos on the domestic side, including company towns, neoslavery, and the Indian removal.

The US Doesn’t Meddle in Foreign Affairs

America’s worldwide empire is made up of military bases, & how it became that way

Every Place America Has Bombed (and why)

United States involvement in regime change

In addition to the history of propping up fascist dictators for the benefit of US corporate business, the US has also backed and materially support multiple genocides

East Timor, Korea, Bangladesh, and Indonesia are the ones I know of. In addition to, of course, the ongoing genocide of Palestine.

There is of course also the war crimes the US has committed against the populations of Afghanistan, Cuba, Korea, Iraq, and Cambodia. Among many others

But Rogan’s behaviour is an example of degeneracy. True degeneracy. Not degenerate as a random insult or say the term “degenerate gambler”, but the actual term like in the dictionary. A regressive, undesirable behaviour that is an affront to the development of human society. And this is perhaps the largest media personality in the US.

This has nothing to do with degeneracy. Outside of STEM, this term has no real use. ‘Social Degeneracy’ goes back to scientific racism and eugenics and has been used historically to dehumanize.

Rogan, and practically every other alt-right podcaster, are reactionary and conservative. They are pro capitalism. Even when they acknowledge the material harms that people face, since they can’t rightfully recognize that capitalist exploitation is the root cause, they instead scapegoat minority groups such as immigrants, lgbt+, and pro-palestinian protesters.

Reminder that Douglas Murray is a committed conservative who is very supportive of fascism, as long as it has the ‘right’ victims. So much so that he’s gotten an award by Isaac Herzog in 2024.

Murray has been a supporter of Israel’s military response to the October 7 attacks by Hamas. He spent around 6 months in Israel, visiting Gaza twice, and writing in defense of Israel’s actions.

Murray said “conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition.” and that “All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop.” Murray’s former coworker at the Centre for Social Cohesion, James Brandon, interpreted this speech as calling for the collective punishment of Muslims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Murray_(author)

If you’re serious about combating anti-semitism, you need to recognize the difference between Anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Genuine anti-semitism is more rare on Lemmy than other platforms, I call it out whenever I see it. None of us should tolerate any kind of Bigotry. Zionism is about Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Cleansing of native Palestinians, it is not reflective of Judaism nor is it representative of Jewish people. Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. The conflation of the two is genuinely antisemitic, as it falsely attributes the actions of Israel to all Jewish people.

Zionism is anti-Semitic at it’s core, it other-izes Jewish people, and justifies the violent settler colonialim of Israel as in the defense of all Jewish people, which only serves to further fuel genuine Antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people globally. Zionism is also an inherently fascist ideology. The ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine has always been fundamental since it’s inception as a colonialist movement.

Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.

The Apartheid Defense League is not credible and not factual. They only care about Anti-zionism not anti-semitism. The Zionist tag you got checks out

Both the DNC and RNC both operate within the framework of neoliberal ideology

I know, farming counties are rural and susceptible to the massive amount of disinformation like every rural American. They believe in the same lies about (other illegal) immigrants being criminals and don’t think Trump is talking about them, when he absolutely is. Either way they are still deserving to be protected from Trump’s policies.

FCWA has repeatedly advocated against Trump’s policies. Undocumented Immigrants can’t vote. Nor do Immigrants duped into voting for Trump deserve to victims of Mass Deportation and Concentration camps.