The Guardian UK:
"Belgian prosecutors are investigating whether they can bring charges against people suspected of taking part in the killing of Congo’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, almost 60 years after his assassination.
Belgium’s federal prosecutor Frédéric Van Leeuw said on Wednesday: “We are in the process of taking stock of the prosecutions that could be launched. The facts have been qualified as a war crime, which has been confirmed by the Brussels court of appeal. This means there is no statute of limitations.
Lumumba was assassinated by firing squad in January 1961 in Katanga by Congolese rebels with Belgian officers present. He was 35. The Belgium government of the time, the CIA and MI6 have also been implicated.”
-->The US media is still covering up the CIA involvement in Lumumba's murder. No wonder most Americans have a pollyanna view of US foreign policy. The NYT did not run this story.
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Common Dreams:
"A U.S. federal appeals court judge ruled Monday that California cannot require companies like agrochemical giant Bayer to include a cancer warning on their glyphosate-based products, despite the World Health Organization's 2015 classification of the weed-killer as a probable human carcinogen.
U.S. District Judge William Shubb of the Eastern District of California wrote in his opinion (pdf) that mandating a cancer warning label on glyphosate products would violate companies' First Amendment rights by compelling them to echo a finding that Shubb characterized as "not purely factual and uncontroversial. ...
The ruling stems from California's 2017 decision to add glyphosate to its Proposition 65 list of chemicals 'known to cause cancer.' Approved by voters in 1986, Prop 65 requires businesses to 'provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.' "
-->The NYT has a soft spot in its little corporate heart for Monsanto. It didn't print this story.
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Common Dreams:
"A Chinese state-controlled newspaper has blamed the Trump administration's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic to cause the spread of the virus to go 'completely out of control.'
Describing the disease as a 'U.S. epidemic', the paper warned that the administration's failure poses a threat to the rest of the world. 'Lies are dominating US society's recognition of the epidemic,' the Global Times wrote. ...
'In the coming fall and winter, the US epidemic will likely run rampant, and more countries and regions will be forced to suffer because of the US.' "
-->How very true it is that the US inaction on COVID threatens the rest of the world. So true, in fact, that most US media, including the NYT avoided this story.
