Common Dreams:
"Civil society groups in Israel and Palestine face serious human rights violations by Israeli authorities seeking to perpetuate an illegal occupation and apartheid regime, according to a report published Thursday by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The report—authored by the Independent International Commission Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory—examines 'attacks, restrictions, and harassment of civil society actors by all duty bearers,' including the Israeli government and occupation forces, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Hamas in Gaza.
'We concluded that all duty bearers are engaged in limiting the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful association,' U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement. 'We were particularly alarmed by the situation of Palestinian human rights defenders, who are routinely subject to a range of punitive measures as part of the occupation regime.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-civil-society-groups-u-n
-->From the NYT on down, our mainstream media didn't report this story. The Israel Lobby controls a lot of what we read and watch, and this is just one small example.
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Common Dreams:
"Two separate reports published Thursday reach similar conclusions about the United States' sprawling and ever-growing military budget: It is not making the country or the world any safer, it is far too amenable to corporate lobbying, and it is drawing funding away from healthcare, clean energy, education, and other critical public goods.
The new reports from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Brown University's Costs of War Project come after President Joe Biden and House Republican leaders agreed to a military budget topline of $886 billion for fiscal year 2024—a level that war hawks in both parties are already working to increase.
William Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute, notes in his analysis that $886 billion for the military is 'a sum far higher in real terms than the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars or the height of the Cold War.'
'These enormous sums are being marshaled in support of a flawed National Defense Strategy that attempts to go everywhere and do everything, from winning a war with Russia or China, to intervening in Iran or North Korea, to continuing to fight a global war on terror that involves military activities in at least 85 countries,' Hartung writes. 'Sticking to the current strategy is not only economically wasteful, but will also make America and the world less safe.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/reports-pentagon-budget-special-interests
-->Horrendous waste at the Pentagon, and an effort to make the world less safe in this nuclear age, are stories that have been rejected by the NYT. The weapons makers seem to be as good as the Israel Lobby in repressing stories inimical to their carefully crafted images.
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The Guardian UK:
"Outrage as anti-LGBTQ+ protest at California school board turns violent. Democratic politicians across California condemned a volatile anti-gay protest outside a suburban Los Angeles school board meeting on Tuesday, as the school board heard public comment on whether to officially designate June as LGBTQ+ Pride month.
Footage from a local television station showed crowds of people shoving, kicking and throwing punches outside a school district building in Glendale, California.
Adam Schiff, the Democratic congressman who represents Glendale, shared video of the melee, condemning the 'continued acts of violence and hate towards our LGBTQ community' as 'horrific.'
'We will not apologize for celebrating the strength and the diversity of our LGBTQ community,' he wrote on Twitter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/lgbtq-violence-protest-glendale-unified-school-district
-->Why do we have to go to a UK publication to read a story about the fascist attack on LGBTQ rights activists in California? Media that did carry the news, omitted the fascist, out of state thugs who were beating and kicking people on the ground. And were was the NYT?
"Civil society groups in Israel and Palestine face serious human rights violations by Israeli authorities seeking to perpetuate an illegal occupation and apartheid regime, according to a report published Thursday by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The report—authored by the Independent International Commission Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory—examines 'attacks, restrictions, and harassment of civil society actors by all duty bearers,' including the Israeli government and occupation forces, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Hamas in Gaza.
'We concluded that all duty bearers are engaged in limiting the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful association,' U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement. 'We were particularly alarmed by the situation of Palestinian human rights defenders, who are routinely subject to a range of punitive measures as part of the occupation regime.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-civil-society-groups-u-n
-->From the NYT on down, our mainstream media didn't report this story. The Israel Lobby controls a lot of what we read and watch, and this is just one small example.
=====
Common Dreams:
"Two separate reports published Thursday reach similar conclusions about the United States' sprawling and ever-growing military budget: It is not making the country or the world any safer, it is far too amenable to corporate lobbying, and it is drawing funding away from healthcare, clean energy, education, and other critical public goods.
The new reports from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Brown University's Costs of War Project come after President Joe Biden and House Republican leaders agreed to a military budget topline of $886 billion for fiscal year 2024—a level that war hawks in both parties are already working to increase.
William Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute, notes in his analysis that $886 billion for the military is 'a sum far higher in real terms than the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars or the height of the Cold War.'
'These enormous sums are being marshaled in support of a flawed National Defense Strategy that attempts to go everywhere and do everything, from winning a war with Russia or China, to intervening in Iran or North Korea, to continuing to fight a global war on terror that involves military activities in at least 85 countries,' Hartung writes. 'Sticking to the current strategy is not only economically wasteful, but will also make America and the world less safe.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/reports-pentagon-budget-special-interests
-->Horrendous waste at the Pentagon, and an effort to make the world less safe in this nuclear age, are stories that have been rejected by the NYT. The weapons makers seem to be as good as the Israel Lobby in repressing stories inimical to their carefully crafted images.
=====
The Guardian UK:
"Outrage as anti-LGBTQ+ protest at California school board turns violent. Democratic politicians across California condemned a volatile anti-gay protest outside a suburban Los Angeles school board meeting on Tuesday, as the school board heard public comment on whether to officially designate June as LGBTQ+ Pride month.
Footage from a local television station showed crowds of people shoving, kicking and throwing punches outside a school district building in Glendale, California.
Adam Schiff, the Democratic congressman who represents Glendale, shared video of the melee, condemning the 'continued acts of violence and hate towards our LGBTQ community' as 'horrific.'
'We will not apologize for celebrating the strength and the diversity of our LGBTQ community,' he wrote on Twitter.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/lgbtq-violence-protest-glendale-unified-school-district
-->Why do we have to go to a UK publication to read a story about the fascist attack on LGBTQ rights activists in California? Media that did carry the news, omitted the fascist, out of state thugs who were beating and kicking people on the ground. And were was the NYT?
