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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen

opening thoughts: Reuters photographer Valerie Zink speaks out

producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
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 opening thoughts:

-- Valerie Zink:

For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it’s become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.

When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel’s entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative – one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters’ willingness to perpetuate Israel’s propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel’s genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what’s known as a “double tap” strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.

Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, “every major outlet – from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters – has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting.”

By repeating Israel’s genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility – willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism – Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.

The fact that Anas Al-Sharif’s work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a “hit list” of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine. It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later.

I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can’t conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don’t know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza – the bravest and best to ever live – but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.

part one: 

we talk with Ryan Cooper  is a senior editor at the Prospect, and author of

How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question 

in Politics. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week.

Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind A wind project off Rhode Island 

is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks. https://prospect.org/environment/2025-08-26-donald-trumps-madcap-crusade-against-wind/

trumps pitch against sustainable energy: Trump vows US ban on wind and solar 

projects as energy bills soar: ‘Days of stupidity are over’

https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/business/trump-vows-federal-ban-on-wind-

solar-projects-as-energy-bills-soar/

opening thought for part 2

TRUMP SCHOOL:

Part two:

Race Class with Professor Jonathan Feingold returns this is how we started:

                          press release

date: January 25, 2022

from: arnie arnesen wnhnfm.org

nha...@gmail.com 603 321 7654

Legislation restricting the teaching of race and racism in public schools and government entities has spread across the country. In an effort to respond, Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen  are offering "Race Class" - a once a month course/conversation where listeners can hear what it is like to approach race and racism from a place of curiosity and history rather than fear and anxiety....In describing the foundational purpose of "Race Class," Arnesen and Feingold note, "We know racematters.  Part of this project is to make sense of what that means."

Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian is a crime against history He's not just "whitewashing" museums. It's a full-on project of white racial erasure https://www.salon.com/2025/08/26/trumps-assault-on-the-smithsonian-is-intellectual-violence/?utm_source=salon-crashcourse.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=trump-revives-superpredator-myth-to-justify-d-c-takeover&_bhlid=e40d88aeb5672f229e37cf9cb4f430d9039d6e3b

https://www.contrabandcamp.com/p/how-the-trump-administration-made

How the Trump Administration Made Government Websites White Again 

Ep. 42 | Trump’s Racism is Ends and Means

 

In this episode, Arnie and Jon discuss how the Trump regime sees racism as both an end goal and a means to realize a whole slew of fascist desires. As to the end, we are witnessing an unrelenting campaign to entrench a racial order defined by white supremacist ideals that trace to antebellum America. The erection of confederate monuments, the erasure of Black history, the claim that “race is biological,” and the lawless kidnapping of people of color all serve this agenda. But Trump is also wielding racism to discredit political opponents, defund public education and redirect billions of dollars to allies – all in the service of Trump-style grift and a fascist politics designed to crush our communities and concentrate power in the privileged few.

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KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN'T RISE TO THE TOP -  Anonymous 

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