"EXECUTIVES AT A major broadcasting company stepped in this week to block the airing of a segment on Hill TV that defended Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., amid an ongoing controversy inside the Democratic Party. ...
[Katie] Halper’s monologue examined Tlaib’s claim that Israel has the characteristics of an apartheid state by exploring the definition of apartheid and quoting from human rights organizations such as Israel-based B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. She quoted former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak saying that Israel could become an apartheid state if it didn’t change course, and so on. Halper also made reference to Israeli laws that bar Palestinians from traveling freely or living in Israel proper even if they are married to an Israeli, as well as to laws that grant or exclude entry into the country specifically on the basis of religion or ethnicity. ...
Producers told Halper that perhaps a standard segment would work, but when Halper proposed to a Nexstar executive that she use her next appearance for such a segment, she was told her services would no longer be needed."
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/29/hill-tv-israel-apartheid-rashida-tlaib-censorship/
-->A major TV broadcaster fired for referring to apartheid Israel. And the rest of the mainstream media is so scared of the Israel Lobby, that it never even reported this incident of censorship. And the NYT didn't report the story at all.
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The Intercept:
"LEAKED CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN Brazilian officials reveal the inner workings of a secretive collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice on a sprawling anti-corruption effort known as Operation Car Wash. The chats, analyzed in partnership with the Brazilian investigative news outlet Agência Pública, show that the Brazilians were extremely accommodating to their U.S. partners, going out of their way to facilitate their involvement in ways that may have violated international legal treaties and Brazilian law.
Operation Car Wash, or Lava Jato in Portuguese, rocked Brazil’s political and business establishment, leading to the imprisonment of former president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva — a move that barred him from reelection and paved the way for a win for far-right Jair Bolsonaro. It also led to massive fines and economic and reputational harm for some of Brazil’s most important companies. Yet the investigation itself has been mired in controversy, especially after reporting by The Intercept and partners revealed clear misconduct and political bias by the judge and prosecutors who handled the case against Lula."
-->The US Department of Justice was involved in putting former Brazilian president Lula in jail on false charges. Why wan't this big news? Isn't this the type of interference in foreign affairs that the US always claims to be innocent of?
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Common Dreams:
"Titled Billionaire Enabler States: How U.S. States Captured by the Trust Industry Help the World's Wealthy Hide Their Fortunes, the new report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) estimates that the United States is host to $5.6 trillion in trust and estate assets belonging to super-wealthy elites, both foreign and domestic.
'The concept of the 'offshore' tax haven has very much washed ashore,' says the report, which exposes how 13 U.S. states 'shield the fortunes of the world's richest people.'
'The clandestine world of financial secrecy stretches around the world, all the way back to the United States,' says the report, which comes one year after the groundbreaking Pandora Papers investigation revealed how the U.S. has become a major player in the international wealth-hiding system.
-->Not one to publish news that makes Billionaires look bad, our own NYT didn't print this story. The newspaper is part of the problem of the exploding wealth of the few.
