"House Progressives Implore Biden State Dept. to Center Palestinian Rights.
The conversation is shifting, public sentiment is changing, and it's time the Biden administration listened to the people and spoke up for Palestinian rights.
In a letter sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, a dozen House Democrats urged the Biden administration to 'ground its engagement on Palestine and Israel in international law and human rights and undue the damage done by the Trump administration,' as Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who led the effort alongside Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, put it.
'We look forward to establishing a new, mutually productive relationship with the State Department under your leadership that results in U.S. policy that supports the human rights and dignity of the Palestinian people,' the group of 12 progressive lawmakers—including Tlaib and Pocan as well as fellow Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), and others—wrote to Blinken."
-->Progressive members of Congress are doing the unthinkable: calling for human rights for Palestinians. The Democratic electorate is behind them too, with ever larger pluralities favoring racial justice in the Holy Land. Corporate media, however, is a big problem. The NYT, for example didn't even cover this story of shifting sentiments.
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FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Media):
"UN Rebuke of US Sanctions on Venezuela Met With Stunning Silence. Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, published her preliminary report on February 12 on the impact of US and European sanctions on Venezuela.
The report laid bare how a years-long campaign of economic warfare has asphyxiated Venezuela’s economy, crushing the government’s ability to provide basic services both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
The campaign to overthrow the Venezuelan government, Douhan added, 'violates the principle of sovereign equality of states and constitutes an intervention in domestic affairs of Venezuela that also affects its regional relations.' ...
Many Western journalists, however, appear not to have seen these overt declarations of collective punishment against the Venezuelan population—a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, according to former UN Expert Alfred de Zayas."
https://fair.org/home/un-rebuke-of-us-sanctions-on-venezuela-met-with-stunning-silence/
-->Yes, the pathetic falling in line of our establishment media. Read the FAIR analysis of how the BBC, the Guardian, NYT, and the Washington Post simply leave out US human rights violations when it come to Venezuela. Only pro empire stories get broadcast or printed.
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Common Dreams:
"New Report to Expose War Industry Lobby Behind $264 Billion US Nuclear Missile 'Boondoggle.' Progressive lawmakers are urging Biden to halt the missile program, arguing it would 'divert limited resources from higher priority needs.'
A new report by the Federation of American Scientists set for publication next week will reportedly argue that U.S. plans to spend up to $264 billion on construction and maintenance of a new nuclear missile are mostly being fueled by intense lobbying from the powerful weapons industry, not rational or humane strategic objectives."
-->Another important story goes missing in our "newspaper of record." The NYT is hardly ever against new weaponry, no matter how wasteful or redundant.
