Weekend Edition: Blinken's 'Empty Words' on Genocide

 

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 ■ Today's Top News  Vance Claims Trump Would Veto Federal Abortion Ban. Warren Responds: 'Women Are Not Stupid' "We are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion for women all across this country," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. By Jake Johnson Blinken Condemned for 'Empty Words' on Genocide as US Backs Israel's Obliteration of Gaza "You are currently arming, funding, and defending a genocide in Gaza. That is how history will remember you." By Common Dreams Staff Israel Launches Massive Attack on Lebanon, Heightening Fears of All-Out War "Looks like Israel is now escalating in Lebanon in a major way in the hopes of kicking off a major war in the north that has thus far been kept to more limited exchanges," warned one analyst. By Jake Johnson Watchdog Warns Mpox Vaccine Maker 'May Be Exploiting the Latest Global Health Crisis' "We must question why Bavarian Nordic refuses to adjust its unconscionable approach to pricing and access," wrote the director of Public Citizen's Access to Medicines program. By Jake Johnson Tlaib Says She Is 'Ashamed of Our Country Looking Away' as Gaza Faces Polio Crisis "We don't want your thoughts and prayers. We need action," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. By Jake Johnson As RFK Jr. Backs Trump, Here's the Secretive Billionaire Plutocrat Funding Them Both Timothy Mellon, the reclusive heir to a Gilded Age fortune, has poured over $165 million into the 2024 election so far, with tens of millions backing both Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. By Jake Johnson

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■ Opinion CORPORATE MEDIA FAILURES!  NONE DARE SPEAK ILL OF ISRAEL! Western Media Outlets Are Complicit in Israel's Genocide—and Must Be Held Accountable Regardless of what happens in the halls of justice, it is certain that these media outlets will eventually be held accountable in the court of public opinion. By Craig Mokhiber Democrats Dismiss the Pain of Gaza at Their Moral—and Possibly Political—Peril Democrats at the DNC last week were ebullient, some giving the impression that the election had already been won. Meanwhile, the carnage in Gaza continued. By James Carden Phil Donahue, The New York Times, and the Iraq War More than 20 years later, the Times continues to diss anyone who got it right on the war after they got it so wrong. By Jon Schwarz

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