Observer Middle East correspondent based in Turkey.
Bylines @theobserveruk.bsky.social & seen in @theguardian.com, sometimes others.
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www.ruthmichaelson.com
Ruth Michaelson
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The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm.
You may have heard of it.
RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers.
It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide.
And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick.
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signal.org
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
“New management has instructed me to insert falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story”- also the mention of certain politicians choosing their interviewees, a reference to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Why destroy only one newsroom when you can do it to two?
Ruth Michaelson
Bill Grueskin
Because everyone knows, the surest way to solve a problem is to stop measuring it
Andrew Farrand
Devastating news from Egypt where activist and poet Ahmed Douma, only just released from prison in August 2023 after serving nearly 10 years behind bars, has been sentenced to a new one year term on spreading false news charges (Case 4894/2026).
The cycle of injustice continues.
"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System--The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research". | Eric Niiler for @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
