By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 6 – Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the Biden Administration's Ambassador to the UN, traveled to Turkey and said she had "made clear to Turkish officials that any attack targeting civilians at Makhmour refugee camp would be a violation of international and humanitarian law."
Then Erdogan bragged he had taken out the general in charge of the Makhmour refugee camp.
On June 6, Thomas-Greenfield's Deputy Ambassador Jeffrey Prescott held a press conference call about her meetings in Turkey. Not all questions were accepted, including Inner City Press' on Halkbank, Osman Kavala, the genocide against Armenians, and Cyprus.
But selected and given a question, or speech, was Hezbollah TV. After the speech, about why the US is providing food to Kurds, Deputy Ambassador Prescott thanked Hezbollah TV for the "good set of questions."
There is a problem here. It might seem that the work of the US Mission to the UN would include advocating for Americans, including US-based independent media, to not be excluded and banned by the UN.
But so far, Thomas-Greenfield and Prescott who know, and Jeffrey DeLaurentis who has been directly told, have done nothing about the UN's ban on Inner City Press and denial of all of its applications to be re-admitted to ask questions, after it was roughed up and banned on July 3, 2018.
This exclusion continues while, for example, the IMF biweekly takes and even solicits Inner City Press' questions. So this is pure censorship - we'll have more on thie. Watch this site.
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