By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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UN GATE / SDNY, May 13 – How corrupt and misreported is the UN Security Council?
After the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh there was a draft UNSC statement which would have condemned violations or abuses against journalists.
Typically China broke silence to block it.
With no public comments by the US, or UAE, or French of UK Missions - all of which have been complicit in banning Press from the UN -- it was switched for China to protecting journalists "as civilians."
What - like the Uighur civilians China mass incarcerates? The migrant laborers the UAE mistreats? The Anglophones killed in Cameroon with France's complicity? The African asylum seekers the UK sends to Rwanda?
The president of the Security Council in May is the US, whose Linda Thomas-Greenfield has spend much of the month traveling and who has yet to address the banning of US-based Inner City Press from the UN by Antonio Guterres - and the UN's Melissa Fleming's refusal to even answer the polite letter of pro bono law firm Quinn Enamuel. So, we call B.S. Watch this site
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