Common Dreams:
"Outcry After Biden Admin Pushed for Retraction of Northern Gaza Famine Report
'It sure looks like USAID is allowing political considerations—the Biden administration's worry about funding Israel's starvation strategy—to interfere,' said one human rights expert. ...

The decision by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) to retract its December 23 alert on the rapidly spiraling starvation crisis in the northern part of the besieged enclave came after the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, publicly criticized the report.

FEWS NET, which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), said in its report that Israel's 'near-total blockade of humanitarian and commercial food supplies' for nearly 80 days has made it 'highly likely that the food consumption and acute malnutrition thresholds for famine... have now been surpassed in North Gaza Governorate.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/icc-report-no-famine-in-gaza

-->The way our government deals with famine is to hide its role in it. Shameful really. But The NYT could have restored some decency to this retraction by running the story. But it didn't, and that is shameful as well.

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The Hill:
"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an op-ed on Fox News, slamming the political power of billionaires in the U.S. and increasing wealth concentration, arguing the country is moving down 'the path of oligarchy.' Sanders, who in November secured his fourth term in the Senate, wrote that the country is diverging in two opposite directions: the billionaire class and the rest of the the U.S.

'We are in a pivotal and unprecedented moment in American history,' he argued in the op-ed, which was published Friday. 'Either we fight to create a government and an economy that works for all, or we continue to move rapidly down the path of oligarchy and the rule of the super-rich.'

The former two-time presidential candidate slammed the top 1 percent, calling out Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and claiming the trio 'own more wealth than the bottom half of our society — over 165 million people.' ”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5057810-sanders-billionaires-fox-news-op-ed/

-->The NYT, the oligarchy's newspaper of record, didn't print this story. The newspaper just doesn't cover Bernie, even when he was running for president.

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Common Dreams:
" 'As Palestinians Starve and Freeze, Israeli Troops Unwind at Gaza 'Beachfront Resort'
"And U.S. taxpayers are funding this," fumed one critic.

As the people of Gaza suffer hell on Earth, Israeli soldiers committing what the world increasingly recognizes as a genocide against them can now kick back and relax at a beachfront resort in the embattled strip and enjoy treated water from a desalination plant while Palestinians die from lack of water, food, and other necessities.

The Israeli outlet Ynet reported Thursday that Israel Defense Forces troops in northern Gaza are relaxing at a 'beachfront resort' located 'amid the devastation' wrought by the IDF's U.S.-backed 445-day assault, which, according to Gazan and international agencies, has left more than 164,000 Palestinians dead, maimed, or missing; millions more forcibly displaced, starved, or sickened; and most of the coastal enclave in ruins."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-beachfront-retreat-gaza

-->More shame to be hidden by The NY Times. It didn't cover this story, that could have come from the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.