Common Dreams:
"Human rights defenders expressed outrage on Friday after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed that the Trump administration is revoking or denying visas for any International Criminal Court (ICC) personnel who try to investigate or prosecute U.S. officials or key allies for potential war crimes.
'This is an unprecedented attempt to skirt international accountability for well-documented war crimes that haunt our clients to this day.' —Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program
The move, Pompeo confirmed to reporters Friday morning, is a direct response to ongoing efforts by the ICC to probe allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity tied to the seemingly endless war in Afghanistan."
-->The Empire's publication was in no hurry to publish this story. We are still waiting.
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News stories for the last two weeks from the NYT:
-How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters
-Venezuela Was Crumbling. A Blackout Tipped Parts of It Into Anarchy
-Polish Journalist Beaten by Venezuelan Police
-Darkness Lingers for Venezuela's Most Vulnerable
-Four Dead, Hundreds Detained After Venezuela Blackout
-Venezuela's Guaido to Open Up Oil Industry After Years of Nationalization
-Desperate Venezuelans Swarm Sewage Drains in Search of Water
-Ex-Venezuelan Vice President Accused of Aiding Drug Dealers
-How to Tackle Venezuela’s Military Problem
-Maduro ... uses humanitarian aid as a weapon against his own people
-->The NYT has been pushing the Pentagon's plan for regime change for the last several years. Is this the publication of the American Empire or not?
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The Guardian UK"
"Pro-Israel lobbyists and donors spent more than $22m on lobbying and campaign contributions during the 2018 election cycle. The same or similar Israel-aligned groups and donors have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in recent decades, and that money poured into American politics through a variety of channels, according to the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. The CRP uses federal election records to track campaign finance spending and makes its data available on the OpenSecrets site.
The Guardian examined campaign finance data after Muslim Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar ignited a controversy with two tweets claiming pro-Israel lobby money influenced American political policy and discourse."
-->The NYT was filled with stories about Ilhan Omar’s "All about the Benjamins" statement. Yet this study of exactly how much money pro-Israel lobbyists and donors spent in the 2018 election cycle went unprinted.
