The Guardian UK:
"The US must move beyond piecemeal reform and slogan-making and tackle the ongoing scourge of police brutality and law enforcement’s discrimination against Black people, a United Nations mission has concluded at the end of a historic two-week tour of the country.
UN experts completed their first official visit to the US as part of a system of global inquiries set up by the human rights council after the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020. As they ended their tour on Friday in Washington DC, the experts called for a nationwide commitment to address discrimination suffered by Black Americans in their daily dealings with the law.
'In the US, racial inequity dates back to the very creation of this country and there’ll be no quick fixes,' said Dr Tracie Keesee, one of two independent UN experts who conducted the visit. 'To this day, racial discrimination permeates through encounters with law enforcement – from first contact, arrest, detention, sentencing and disenfranchisement.' ”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/05/us-police-brutality-un-experts-george-floyd
-->True to form, the country so in need of reforming its racist criminal justice system decides that this story is not worth printing. No US media covered the UN mission's report.
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Common Dreams:
"Brazil's President Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva has called for freedom for Julian Assange and denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free the journalist. Lula spoke to a group of reporters in London Saturday while in town to attend the coronation of King Charles III. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison while fighting extradition to the United States.
"The US must move beyond piecemeal reform and slogan-making and tackle the ongoing scourge of police brutality and law enforcement’s discrimination against Black people, a United Nations mission has concluded at the end of a historic two-week tour of the country.
UN experts completed their first official visit to the US as part of a system of global inquiries set up by the human rights council after the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020. As they ended their tour on Friday in Washington DC, the experts called for a nationwide commitment to address discrimination suffered by Black Americans in their daily dealings with the law.
'In the US, racial inequity dates back to the very creation of this country and there’ll be no quick fixes,' said Dr Tracie Keesee, one of two independent UN experts who conducted the visit. 'To this day, racial discrimination permeates through encounters with law enforcement – from first contact, arrest, detention, sentencing and disenfranchisement.' ”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/05/us-police-brutality-un-experts-george-floyd
-->True to form, the country so in need of reforming its racist criminal justice system decides that this story is not worth printing. No US media covered the UN mission's report.
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Common Dreams:
"Brazil's President Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva has called for freedom for Julian Assange and denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free the journalist. Lula spoke to a group of reporters in London Saturday while in town to attend the coronation of King Charles III. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has spent four years in Britain’s Belmarsh Prison while fighting extradition to the United States.
'It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It’s a crazy thing,' Lula told reporters. 'We talk about freedom of expression; the guy is in prison because he denounced wrongdoing. And the press doesn’t do anything in defense of this journalist. I can’t understand it.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brazilian-president-lula-da-silva-calls-for-freedom-for-julian-assange
-->It isn't that hard to understand, really. Our media is owned by a few huge companies, and rarely strays from the Pentagon point of view. You can call it a free press, but you would be wrong. The news coverage of Assange is one of the more striking examples of how controlled our national media is.
