Did you notice the corporate media blackout of the March 2 rallies for Palestine?
Hundreds of thousands of people across the United States took to the streets for Palestine as part of the Global Day of Action on March 2. The corporate media failed to cover it.
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On March 2, hundreds of thousands of people around the U.S. joined millions of people around the globe for an international day of action to demand a ceasefire, no invasion of Rafah, and a free Palestine.
It is an outrage that mainstream media outlets almost completely failed to cover the massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations taking place in dozens of cities across the country.
In New York City, an estimated 50,000 people marched with energy and determination in the rain to demand an end to Israel and Biden’s genocide on March 2.
In San Francisco, 15,000 people took to the streets as part of the global day of action to say, hands off Rafah!
In Boston, thousands rallied and marched in the freezing rain outside of Cambridge City Hall on March 2 to say end the siege on Gaza now!
Thousands of people in Los Angeles rallied and marched outside of City Hall in a massive display of solidarity with Rafah on March 2.
Thousands in Washington DC surrounded the Israeli Embassy on March 2, just one week after the self-immolation at that location of US Airman Aaron Bushnell
The U.S. corporate media is trying to cover up Israel and Joe Biden’s genocide of Palestinians.
Between the continuous lies, the misleading headlines and the misrepresentation of peoples’ movements, mainstream media outlets serve as an arm of the war machine.
The media can attempt to silence our movement, but Biden cannot escape his plummeting popularity and the hundreds of thousands of people continually taking to the streets against his complicity in genocide.
We will continue to disrupt business as usual until Palestine is free!🇵🇸
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The US, a nuclear-armed military power which provided billions to Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen & billions in ongoing support to Israel?
Or Ansar Allah, who holds much power in Yemen & are the ones stopping Israeli-linked ships in solidarity w/ Palestine?
The U.S. government has been clear in their stated intent regarding the anti-Yemen bombing campaign.
President Joe Biden said, “I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary.”
It’s not surprising that the US — a capitalist country —would be upset about interference w/ commerce & trade.
But isn’t there something else they could do besides bomb Yemen to solve this problem?
Yemen has been clear they'll continue targeting Israeli ships as long as the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues.
🧵In “celebration” of Joe Biden’s 81st birthday today, here are 5 of the greatest crimes he’s committed over the course of his political career.
1️⃣Biden's participating in the genocide of Palestinians.
Israel couldn’t exist without the backing & financial support of the US.
At least 68% of people in the U.S. favor a ceasefire, yet Biden continues to press Congress for $14+ billion to send to Israel’s war on Palestine.
2️⃣The rise in mass incarceration is directly tied to the notoriously racist 1994 Crime Bill, backed by Biden. The bill resulted in harsher sentences, more prisons & more violent policing.
Today the US incarcerates more people – disproportionately Black – than any other nation.
🧵As we enter a new Cold War on China and Russia, never forget that the New York Times has always played a key role in the ruling class’s McCarthyite witch hunts.
Here are just a *few* times the NYT has peddled Red Scare paranoia, from the 1940’s up until today:
Throughout the 1940's and 1950's: When the NYT engaged in rootless speculation targeting teachers, and uncritically running baseless accusations that there are hundreds of card-carrying communists in New York City schools.
July 22, 1948: When they smeared third party progressive presidential candidate Henry Wallace as a communist puppet.
🧵As Western corporate media is cheerleading for a new offensive, here are 10 times they've tried to whitewash Nazis in Ukraine's military over the course of the war:
When the NYT was hand wringing over Nazi symbols on Ukrainian soldiers “fueling Russian propaganda”
When CBS News portrayed the neo-Nazi elements of Azov as part of “Russia’s alternate reality”
On June 8, US media added to its long storybook of tales to scare people away from normal relations with Cuba.
The Wall Street Journal published an article claiming China has plans to set up a “spy base” in Cuba, to “eavesdrop” on the US and “identify potential strike targets.”
Cuba’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos de Cossío stated “All these are fallacies promoted w/the deceitful intention of justifying the unprecedented tightening of the blockade, destabilization, and aggression against Cuba and of deceiving public opinion in the US and the world.”
As Cuban officials held a press conference on June 8 to completely deny the allegations, even John Kirby, National Security Council spokesman who was the former press secretary for the Pentagon, has denied the WSJ report, calling it “inaccurate.”
This June 4 marks the 34th anniversary of what is known in the U.S. as the Tiananmen “massacre.”
The mythology of this event has been exploited by the West for over 30 years to justify imperialist aggression against China.
The “massacre” narrative is as sensationalist as it is incontestable: supposed accounts tell tales of protesters linking arms only to be run over repeatedly by military vehicles, their remains incinerated and washed down drains. Some Western reports claim 10,000 were killed.
But there was no such massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4
By that time, most of the protesters had left the square and the ones who remained left peacefully after negotiating with the army.