Common Dreams:
" 'No One Is Free When Others Are Oppressed': Thousands in Spain and UK Rally at US Embassies in Solidarity With America's Anti-Racist Uprising. ...
Thousands of Britons flooded the streets near the U.S. Embassy in London as demonstrators condemned both the killing of George Floyd and pervasive racism in their own country. Enormous crowds also gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, with demonstrators carrying signs that read 'Justice for George,' 'No One Is Free When Others Are Oppressed,' and 'Trump Fascista.'
'There's children of all ages and older adults here,' said 60-year-old Pauline Nandoo, who told Reuters she has been protesting racism in the U.K. since the 1970s. 'They are going to experience what we have experienced and we have to try to make that not happen.' "
-->Is this an international rebellion against the racism and brutality of the American Empire? The US media including the NYT has played down that possibility, pitching reform rather than a structural change to our neoliberal world order. Maybe real change is coming anyway.
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FAIR:
"The mass media, as Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman documented decades ago, are structurally dependent on pre-ordained 'experts,' who play a decisive role in filtering the information reaching the public.
When it comes to Venezuela, one DC-based think tank has become the Western media’s go-to source for confirming the US elite’s regime change groupthink (FAIR.org, 4/30/19): the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
Styling itself the 'leading source for independent analysis and commentary on Latin America,' WOLA is regularly cited in corporate media reporting on Venezuela across the media spectrum. Founded in 1974 and originally part of the progressive Central American solidarity movement, WOLA moved to the right in the 1990s, until by 2002 it was calling (12/02) for a negotiated and peaceful settlement to the 'political impasse' in Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez had been reelected with 60% of the vote two years earlier."
-->This is such a good article about how corporate think tanks push US media coverage towards invasions and coups. The NYT should be covering this story, but of course the NYT is doing most of the biased reporting.
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Middle East Eye:
"Ben & Jerry's freezes when it comes to Palestine. Ice cream brand has been vocal advocate for Black Lives Matter movement, but refuses to halt operations in illegal Israeli settlements. ...
Case in point: Israel. Ben & Jerry's has conducted business in Israel with a licensee partner since 1987, with a manufacturing facility and two scoop shops they describe as located 'outside the occupied territories, just south of Tel Aviv.'
Thousands of individuals and almost 250 organizations in 20 countries have since urged Ben & Jerry's to stop sales in illegal Israeli settlements and publicly oppose Israel's occupation. In 2015, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) called for a boycott of the brand amid its refusal to alter its business practices."
-->Ben and Jerry is PEP, progressive except for Palestine, Should opposition to racism stop at our borders? The NYT doesn't do articles about PEP, since our newspaper of record is a prime example.
