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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

One more disillusioned by the lies.

Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished since the war began. Members of civil society have refused to respond to my efforts to contact them. Our office seeks to support journalists in the Middle East; yet when asked by NGOs if the US can help when Palestinian journalists are detained or killed in Gaza, I was disappointed that my government didn’t do more to protect them. Ninety Palestinian journalists in Gaza have been killed in the last five months, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That is the most recorded in any single conflict since the CPJ started collecting data in 1992.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

You know what’s interesting about this? We’ve heard of numerous agents of government who feel this is a genocide in Gaza who have resigned, some publicly.

Yet where are the high ranking members of the press (supposedly people concerned with truth to power though we Marxists know better) with the same conscious who resign because their organizations are carrying water, reporting Zionist propaganda, hiding the genocide and being one-sided? Nowhere to be seen. Yet again I say the western press is criminal scum. More shamelessly so than even the state department.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Besides the ones who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, you mean? Probably trying to avoid never getting work again, like Phil Donahue and Chris Hedges.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Really, so that was the line? Not stomping Yugoslavia into the ground? Not Iraq and Afghanistan? Not Korea and Vietnam? Not Somalia, Syria, Ukraine?

OK, cool.

United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished

Have fun clinging to the rest of your delusions, pal.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I feel you're being extremely uncharitable to this person who has likely suffered enormous and lasting consequences for her actions or is about to. At the very least, she has stepped away from her likely substantial and reliable income and has no chance of being employed in a similar capacity. That is no small thing. Think about the effect this could have on the uninformed or undecided.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's an objectively good thing they've done, but it's hard not to be frustrated when liberals treat "the USA has a hostile foreign policy" as some sort of revelation when we've been saying it for a hundred years.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not nearly enough of these.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is a step in the right direction for this person, and losing people usually makes an organization's work harder for those who remain. We want to support both of those things even if it's also fair to ask questions like "what took so long?" or "why aren't you doing more?" One might even call it critical support.

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