Common Dreams:
"US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo. It was the 31st straight year that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the crippling U.S. blockade on the socialist nation. ...
By a vote of 187-2 with one abstention, the U.N. General Assembly approved a Cuban draft resolution affirming the 'necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial, embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.' The U.S. and Israel cast the only votes against the resolution, while Ukraine abstained.
Speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez Parrilla called the embargo an 'illegal, cruel, and inhumane policy' and 'an act of economic warfare in times of peace.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-embargo-on-cuba
-->The US mainstream media tries to hide these UN votes from the general public. Both the US and Israel are pariah states, recognized as such by an overwhelming number of the world's nations. Our propaganda driven media likes to leave such conclusions out of their news coverage.
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The Guardian UK:
"Leftwing Democrats in Congress have invoked a landmark law barring assistance to security forces of governments deemed guilty of human rights abuses to challenge the Biden administration’s emergency military aid program for Israel.
Members of the Democratic party’s progressive wing say the $14.3bn package pledged by the White House after the 7 October attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis breaches the Leahy Act because Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civilians. An estimated 9,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, among them 3,700 children, according to the Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas.
The act, sponsored by the former Democratic senator Patrick Leahy and passed in 1997, prohibits the US defence and state departments from rendering security assistance to foreign governments facing credible accusations of rights abuses. The law was originally designed only to refer to narcotics assistance, but was later expanded, with amendments covering assistance from both state department and Pentagon budgets."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/israel-aid-democrats-leahy-act-congress
-->The NYT left this story out, as did most of the US media. Congress is breaking their own law about funding nations that abuse human rights. But why remind Americans of how dysfunctional the US Congress really is?
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Middle East Monitor:
"Member of the US House of Representatives Rashida Tlaib has criticised the US’ unconditional financial support of Israel’s policies of apartheid which, she said, contribute to the continuation of the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
'I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today and every day,' Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, said in a statement in which she also called for 'dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
'As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government [Israel], this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue,' she added.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-us-congresswoman-tlaib-slams-us-for-funding-israels-policies-of-apartheid/
-->Why can't the NYT print Rashida Tlaib's words when she criticizes US and Israeli war crimes in Gaza. We get stories about a video being made, about the failure to censor her in Congress, and what genocide really means. Her actual speech is so much more compelling. And that's why most of it didn't make it into our paper of record.
"US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo. It was the 31st straight year that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the crippling U.S. blockade on the socialist nation. ...
By a vote of 187-2 with one abstention, the U.N. General Assembly approved a Cuban draft resolution affirming the 'necessity of ending the economic, commercial, and financial, embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.' The U.S. and Israel cast the only votes against the resolution, while Ukraine abstained.
Speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez Parrilla called the embargo an 'illegal, cruel, and inhumane policy' and 'an act of economic warfare in times of peace.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-embargo-on-cuba
-->The US mainstream media tries to hide these UN votes from the general public. Both the US and Israel are pariah states, recognized as such by an overwhelming number of the world's nations. Our propaganda driven media likes to leave such conclusions out of their news coverage.
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The Guardian UK:
"Leftwing Democrats in Congress have invoked a landmark law barring assistance to security forces of governments deemed guilty of human rights abuses to challenge the Biden administration’s emergency military aid program for Israel.
Members of the Democratic party’s progressive wing say the $14.3bn package pledged by the White House after the 7 October attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 Israelis breaches the Leahy Act because Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has overwhelmingly harmed civilians. An estimated 9,000 people have been killed in Gaza so far, among them 3,700 children, according to the Gaza health ministry, run by Hamas.
The act, sponsored by the former Democratic senator Patrick Leahy and passed in 1997, prohibits the US defence and state departments from rendering security assistance to foreign governments facing credible accusations of rights abuses. The law was originally designed only to refer to narcotics assistance, but was later expanded, with amendments covering assistance from both state department and Pentagon budgets."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/israel-aid-democrats-leahy-act-congress
-->The NYT left this story out, as did most of the US media. Congress is breaking their own law about funding nations that abuse human rights. But why remind Americans of how dysfunctional the US Congress really is?
=====
Middle East Monitor:
"Member of the US House of Representatives Rashida Tlaib has criticised the US’ unconditional financial support of Israel’s policies of apartheid which, she said, contribute to the continuation of the cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
'I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today and every day,' Tlaib, who is of Palestinian heritage, said in a statement in which she also called for 'dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.”
'As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government [Israel], this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue,' she added.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231010-us-congresswoman-tlaib-slams-us-for-funding-israels-policies-of-apartheid/
-->Why can't the NYT print Rashida Tlaib's words when she criticizes US and Israeli war crimes in Gaza. We get stories about a video being made, about the failure to censor her in Congress, and what genocide really means. Her actual speech is so much more compelling. And that's why most of it didn't make it into our paper of record.
