Human Wrongs Watch
By Norman Solomon | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service*
On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top
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their screens in huge capital letters:
ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS CIVILIANS
It was the kind of breaking-news banner headline that could have referred to countless U.S. missile attacks and other military assaults during the previous two decades, telling of civilian deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.
But those “war on terror” killings did not qualify for huge banner headlines.
What stirred the Times to quickly publish one about civilian deaths was—as reported on the front page of its print edition—“a deadly Russian rocket assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, that raised new alarms about how far the Kremlin was willing to go to subjugate its smaller neighbor.”
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 