Common Dreams:
"In Landmark Ruling, European Court of Human Rights Sides With BDS Movement Over French Government. This momentous court ruling is a decisive victory for freedom of expression, for human rights defenders, and for the BDS movement for Palestinian freedom, justice, and equality.
'Today's landmark decision sets a significant precedent that should stop the misuse of anti-discrimination laws to target activists campaigning against human rights violations perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians,' Marco Perolini, Amnesty International's France researcher, said in a statement.
-->The NYT goes out of its way to make Israel look good. It didn't print this story. What if freedom and justice for Palestinians broke out in the USA?
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Common Dreams:
"More than seven months after claims of fraudulent elections sparked an undemocratic coup that led to the ouster of Bolivian President Evo Morales, the New York Times late Sunday reported on new research showing the U.S.-led Organization of American States used flawed data and analysis to support its widely cited contention the voting was rigged.
'It was clear from the start, but now even the NYT is admitting: what happened in Bolivia was nothing short of a coup by the U.S. and its OAS puppet, deposing one of the most successful democratically elected leaders in modern Latin American history,' tweeted journalist Glenn Greenwald ...
-->But the NYT couldn't bring itself to admit that the newspaper had been part of a US coup to overthrow another democratically elected government. The NYT headline said it all: "A Closer Look at Bolivia's Election Muddies Tampering Claims." Muddies? It was a lie, reported as truth by our newspaper of record. The subheading is almost as good: "There was fraud - we just don't know where and how much." It is a typical NYT apology, full of half truths. Let's face it, the NYT was part of the coup in its initial reporting of electoral fraud. As always, it served as the empire's mouthpiece.
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Common Dreams:
"The Trump administration renewed its attacks on the International Criminal Court on Thursday with President Donald Trump issuing an executive order imposing economic sanctions against ICC staff involved in the ongoing investigations into alleged war crimes by U.S. and Israeli forces, with travel restrictions also imposed on those ICC court officials and their family members.
'President Trump is grossly abusing emergency powers to block one of the only avenues left for justice to victims of terrible American human rights violations,' Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, said in response to the move. 'He has repeatedly bullied international organizations, and is now playing directly into the hands of authoritarian regimes by intimidating judges and prosecutors committed to holding countries accountable for war crimes.' "
--The worlds biggest bully trying to destroy the International Criminal Court. The NYT sometimes avoids stories like this because it makes the empire look too despicable. Our "newspaper of record" didn't cover Trump's executive order.
