"The Biden administration has reportedly granted Boeing an export license for the sale of $735 million in advanced weaponry to the Israeli government, news that came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged $5.5 million in emergency aid to help Gaza recover from the latest Israeli bombing campaign.
Citing an unnamed congressional staffer, Alex Kane of Jewish Currents reported Tuesday that the U.S. State Department approved the export license on May 21, a necessary step in the planned delivery of Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Small Diameter Bombs to Israel.
As Kane pointed out, the "two kinds of laser-guided munitions... were reportedly used by Israel in the 11-day attack on the Gaza Strip that ended on Friday with a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas."
-->The NYT didn't carry this story. Nor did any other major US media. Shameful acts of war, shamefully covered up.
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Common Dreams:
"If you get your foreign policy news today from CNN or MSNBC or NPR or similar outlets, then you’re bombarded hour after hour with the idea that the United States has the absolute right to impose sanctions on country after country overseas if they violate human rights or are not democratic.
To give just one example: On Sunday, CNN anchor Dana Bash grilled Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on why the White House is not imposing yet more sanctions on Russia (and China) and why Team Biden was 'giving in to Russia' on the gas pipeline to Western Europe. Sullivan was emphatic in insisting that sanctions had been imposed and more were on the way—boasting that Biden had grabbed even more presidential power to sanction Russia through an executive order.
I’m old enough to remember the superiority complex behind the liberal media propaganda during the Cold War with the Soviet Union—while U.S. foreign policy, in the name of democracy, massacred millions of people of color, mostly civilians, across the globe—from Asia to Southern Africa to Latin America."
-->A moment of truth in a sea of lies. This is Jeff Cohen on Corporate "liberal" media propaganda.
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Common Dreams:
"New research released Monday shows the post-9/11 wars launched by the U.S. military since 2001 have resulted in over 30,000 suicides by active duty American solders and veterans—over four times the number killed in combat operations.
According to Brown University's Costs of War Project—established in 2010 to account for the loss of lives and taxpayer dollars spent on U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—an estimated 30,177 veterans and service members have killed themselves over the last nearly two decades, compared with 7,057 members of the military who have been killed in combat. The findings were compiled from interviews, government data, and secondary literature.
'The sheer length of the war has kept service members in the fight longer, providing more opportunities for traumatic exposure.' —Costs of War Project
The report 'reveals an increasingly severe crisis,' the authors wrote, with the veteran suicide rate per 100,000 people in the U.S. outpacing that of the public."
-->Our compliant media, including the NYT left this story out. It might have resulted in bad publicity for the empire.
