Instruction: Write an article about: CNN and NY Times help US gov’t lie about spying on Americans. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: Alejandro Mayorkas, CBP, censorship, CNN, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Donald Trump, ICE, Joe Biden, media, New York Times, Nina Jankowicz

Output:
CNN and the New York Times echoed a blatant lie from the Department of Homeland Security, falsely claiming it does not monitor Americans. DHS has for years spied on US journalists and protesters.

CNN and the New York Times let the head of the Department of Homeland Security lie about the institution’s established record of spying on US citizens, echoing his false claims.
These top media outlets amplified this falsehood as part of an attempt to defend the US government’s de facto Ministry of Truth, the new “Disinformation Governance Board” that the Department of Homeland (DHS) has created in order to censor supposed “disinformation” that it deems a threat to US national security.
DHS, which was created after the September 11, 2001 attacks to oversee the so-called War on Terror, is notorious for its brutal and authoritarian tactics.
The fact that DHS has surveilled American journalists, protesters, and even critical politicians is well documented. This is an undeniable matter of public record.
But CNN and the New York Times allowed the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, to lie about this objective fact, and did not push back in any way.
CNN echoed a blatant lie from the Department of Homeland Security, falsely claiming it does not monitor Americans.
The New York Times later amplified this same lie.
In reality, DHS has for years spied on US journalists and protesters.
Read more here: https://t.co/rtNxGrn3x1 pic.twitter.com/tTurbvgWsI
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) May 3, 2022

CNN host Dana Bash sat down with Mayorkas on May 1, in an interview titled “Bash presses Mayorkas about ‘1984’ comparisons to disinformation board.”
The CNN segment amounted to a defense of DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board, which Mayorkas minimized as a “small working group within the Department of Homeland Security,” supposedly with limited power.
“Will American citizens be monitored?” Bash asked, in regard to this disinformation board.
“No,” Mayorkas said firmly.
“Guarantee that?” Bash responded.
“We in the Department of Homeland Security don’t monitor American citizens,” he insisted.
This statement is blatantly false. DHS’ monitoring of American citizens is very well documented, by dozens of mainstream media outlets and civil liberties organizations.
But instead of pushing back against this clear lie, the CNN host echoed the DHS secretary’s totally false claim.
“You don’t,” Bash replied in agreement. “But will this board change that?” she added.
“No, no, no,” Mayorkas repeated.
This is all completely, categorically false.
The Intercept obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act request showing how DHS has spied on activists protesting police brutality in the Black Lives Matter movement since at least 2014.
NBC 7 obtained DHS documents in 2019 that showed that “the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports.”
In 2020, the New York Times itself reported that the “Department of Homeland Security deployed helicopters, airplanes and drones over 15 cities where demonstrators gathered to protest the death of George Floyd.”
Homeland Security officials used planes, helicopters and drones to record recent Black Lives Matter protests in 15 American cities. They logged at least 270 hours of surveillance — far more than previously known. https://t.co/lOH0jnYZ8V
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 20, 2020

That same year, the Washington Post revealed that the “Department of Homeland Security has compiled ‘intelligence reports’ about the work of American journalists covering protests.”
This led Oregon lawmakers to publicly demand “answers from the Department of Homeland Security, following new reports that the department spied on Portland protesters’ phones.”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has exhaustively documented the department’s spying on Americans, noting five branches of DHS have intelligence missions.
The ACLU even sued the department for spying on journalists and violating their civil liberties.
For nearly 20 years, many of our warnings about DHS have become tragic realities.
It's past time to dismantle this rogue agency. https://t.co/bZHD0reU0O
— ACLU (@ACLU) November 15, 2020

Some current and former DHS officials have tried to put the blame for these authoritarian policies solely on Donald Trump, but the reality is this surveillance started long before Trump entered office in 2017 and has continued since he left in 2021.
Yahoo News obtained documents in 2022 showing that the “controversial unit of Customs and Border Protection that trawled through the travel and financial records of journalists and lawmakers is still monitoring Americans.”
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
CBP unit that spied on journalists and lawmakers is monitoring American protesters: https://t.co/tr9UpgoSsO
— Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) January 26, 2022

Instead of acknowledging any of these facts, CNN and its host Dana Bash simply echoed the lies of the DHS secretary.
And CNN was not the only major media outlet that spread this US government disinformation.
The New York Times amplified the same lies from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The newspaper-of-recored published an article on May 2 titled “Partisan Fight Breaks Out Over New Disinformation Board,” which was really a long-winded defense of Washington’s de facto Ministry of Truth.
The Times quoted Mayorkas’ claim, “We in the Department of Homeland Security don’t monitor American citizens.”
The top media outlet did not push back against this US government disinformation, or point out that its own reporting had shown this claim to be false.
The New York Times echoes the false claim that DHS does not spy on American, without any pushback
The Times article was co-written by Steven Lee Myers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.
Kanno-Youngs had in fact authored the June 2020 New York Times article revealing that the Department of Homeland Security deployed helicopters, airplanes, and drones to spy on Black Lives Matter protesters in 15 cities.
Yet less than two years after acknowledging this fact, Kanno-Youngs and his colleagues at the Times had returned to carrying water for DHS and amplifying its false claims.
The Times reprinted the comments Mayorkas’ made on CNN insisting that the Disinformation Governance Board is needed to counter supposed “disinformation from Russia, China, Iran.”
Mayorkas said the board will censor “disinformation that creates a threat to the security of the homeland.”
Both the CNN and New York Times reports gave the false impression that only conservative Republicans are opposed to the Disinformation Governance Board. In fact many journalists and activists on the left are deeply opposed to this de facto Ministry of Truth.
But these top media outlets deceptively portrayed the controversy as simply another battle in a US liberal-conservative culture war.
There was deep irony in the New York Times publishing blatant US government disinformation in an article warning about the “threat” of disinformation supposedly spread by Russia, China, and Iran.
In his interview on CNN, Mayorkas claimed, “The board does not have any operational authority or capability. What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state adversaries, from the cartels, and disseminate those best practices to the operators that have been executing in addressing this threat for years.”
This appeared to be the DHS director’s roundabout way of saying that the board will pressure social media platforms and Big Tech corporations to censor what it calls “disinformation.”
DHS can thus claim that it is not directly censoring people, that it is instead private companies censoring them, while failing to mention that they are doing so under US government pressure.
Mayorkas also referred to the director of the Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, as “eminently qualified, a renowned expert in the field of disinformation.”
In reality, Jankowicz is an avowed cold warrior who smears independent anti-war US media outlets as supposed “Russian disinfo,” and has called WikiLeaks “scum.”
The authoritarian Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversaw the War on Terror created a “Disinformation Governance Board,” led by information warrior Nina Jankowicz, who smears independent US media as “Russian disinfo” and called @WikiLeaks "scum"https://t.co/V7T9XnIlBI
— Multipolarista (@Multipolarista) May 3, 2022

Multipolarista documented how Jankowicz got her start professionally running regime-change operations targeting Russia for CIA front the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a branch of the US government’s infamous National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
In its report defending the DHS disinformation board, the New York Times euphemistically claimed the NDI and NED “promote democratic governance abroad.”
In reality, these US government bodies exist to fund opposition groups and destabilize foreign countries targeted by Washington for regime change. The NED’s own co-founder admitted that the organization is a CIA cutout.
In 2016, Jankowicz described herself as “someone who has made a career in democracy assistance.” She later rebranded as a “disinformation expert” after the election of Donald Trump.
Jankowicz has gone out of her way to target independent American journalists who criticize US foreign policy, trying to link them to Russia to justify censoring them.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas, for his part, concluded his interview with CNN emphasizing that the Joe Biden administration has continued the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigration.
“Our border is not open,” he stressed.
When asked what his message was to migrants and refugees, Mayorkas emphasized, “Do not come.”


Instruction: Write an article about: Despite Biden’s claims, Gaza health ministry death toll is accurate, scientific studies show. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, The Lancet

Output:
US President Biden criticized Gaza’s health ministry, but its statistics on Israel’s killings of Palestinians are accurate, according to peer-reviewed articles in top medical journal The Lancet.

The death toll of Israel’s war on Gaza reported by the Palestinian health ministry is accurate, according to two peer-reviewed studies by scientific experts published in top medical journal The Lancet.
As of December 18, Israel had killed 19,453 Palestinians in Gaza, the ministry reported. Two-thirds of the deaths were children (7,729) and women (5,153).
United Nations bodies, human rights organizations, and major media outlets have often used these statistics, because they have a history of being accurate.

“International organizations including the United Nations usually rely on these same figures as they are seen as the best available”, the Washington Post acknowledged.
“Many experts consider figures provided by the ministry reliable, given its access, sources and accuracy in past statements”, the prominent US newspaper wrote.
Israel has claimed, without any evidence, that Gaza’s health ministry is untrustworthy, because it is supposedly run by the political party Hamas. (In reality, the Gaza health ministry is partially funded by and linked to Hamas’ political rival, the Palestinian Authority, based in the Occupied West Bank.)
The US government has echoed Israel’s disinformation. President Joe Biden said in an October 25 press conference, “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed… I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using”.
Despite Biden’s criticism, HuffPost revealed that the US State Department uses the Palestinian health ministry figures in its own reports on Gaza.
In one of such memos, a US official acknowledged that, if anything, “The numbers are likely much higher, according to the UN and NGOs reporting on the situation”.
This was exactly the conclusion reached by scientific experts at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The peer-reviewed article “No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health”, published in leading medical journal The Lancet on December 6, noted that the Palestinian institution “has historically reported accurate mortality data”.
In past conflicts, discrepancies between Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) data and independent United Nations figures were only between 1.5% and 3.8%.
Gaza MoH data were also quite similar to figures from Israel’s own Foreign Ministry, with a difference of just around 8%.
Scholars Benjamin Q Huynh, Elizabeth T Chin, and Paul B Spiegel wrote that they “found no evidence of inflated rates”.
Scientific experts from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine came to a similar conclusion in their own peer-reviewed article in The Lancet, published on November 26.
For this previous study, scholars Zeina Jamaluddine, Francesco Checchi, and Oona M R Campbell reviewed death statistics from October 7 to 26, analyzing the list of 7028 deaths compiled by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Out of the 7028 names, only one had a duplicated ID number, one had an implausible age, and just 281 lacked an ID number.
The experts concluded that the data were reasonable, writing, “We consider it implausible that these patterns would arise from data fabrication”.
They also reviewed MoH figures from previous wars in Gaza, and found them to be reliable.
“Assessments of Palestinian MoH data validity in the 2014 conflict had shown them to be accurate, and we saw no obvious reason to doubt the validity of the data between Oct 7 and Oct 26, 2023”, the scholars stated.
If anything, they concluded that the Gaza MoH figures may be rather conservative.
“The death reporting system currently being used by the Palestinian MoH was assessed in 2021, 2 years before the current war, and was found to under-report mortality by 13%”, they wrote, adding that “it is plausible that the current Palestinian MoH source also under-reports mortality because of the direct effect of the war on data capture and reporting, for example by omitting people whose bodies could not be recovered or brought to morgues”.


Instruction: Write an article about: FBI praises Martin Luther King – after blackmailing and threatening to ‘neutralize’ him. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: Black liberation, civil rights, FBI, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, MLK, NYPD, racism

Output:
While the FBI now praises Martin Luther King Jr. for PR, it previously plotted to “neutralize” him, blackmailing the civil rights leader, attacking MLK as a “filthy, abnormal animal.”

On Marin Luther King Jr. day, this January 17, the FBI tweeted a statement honoring the memory of the late civil rights leader.
While the police agency now praises MLK, it previously plotted to “neutralize” him, blackmailing King and calling him a “filthy, abnormal animal.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” This #MLKDay2022 and every day, the #FBI remains dedicated to service and committed to protecting our communities. pic.twitter.com/HDpq9iWXWP
— FBI (@FBI) January 17, 2022

There are mountains of evidence from the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) showing the FBI blackmailing and threatening MLK.
The FBI even wrote a letter to King revealing that it had spied on the civil right leader and threatened to expose his extra-marital affairs if he did not commit suicide.
A jury in a civil suit brought by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. found US “governmental agencies” were part of a conspiracy to murder the civil rights leader, as the New York Times reported in 1999.
And it was not just King.
A former undercover police officer, named Raymond “Ray” Wood, wrote a letter on his deathbed saying the FBI and NYPD helped to assassinate Black revolutionary Malcolm X.
“I participated in actions that in hindsight were deplorable and detrimental to the advancement of my own Black people. My actions on behalf of the New York City Police Department were done under duress and fear,” Wood said.


Instruction: Write an article about: Terror attacks on Cuba’s embassy fueled by aggressive US policy. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: Cuba, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, sanctions, terrorism

Output:
Cuba’s embassy in Washington has been attacked two times in three years, and no one has been held accountable. This reflects the long history of US-backed terrorism against Cuba, and six decades of illegal economic warfare.

Cuba’s embassy in Washington, DC was attacked with two Molotov cocktails on the night of September 24. This was the second terrorist attack against the embassy in the past three years.
The US Secret Service responded at around 8pm, but did not apprehend any perpetrators.
The explosives hit the front side of the embassy, which is already scarred with AK-47 bullet holes from a shooting attack in April 2020 — an emblem of the deadly risk it takes to be a Cuban diplomat in the United States, and of the long history of US-backed terrorism against the country.
The moment when the terrorist stands in front on the @EmbaCubaUS, lights up the Molotov cocktails & hurls them against the façade of the mission.
This footage was handed over to US authorities.
Original camera video of the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington#NoAlTerrorismo pic.twitter.com/c9VWJsQ0xU
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) September 26, 2023

The Molotov cocktail attack occurred the same day that a Cuban delegation led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel returned to Havana, after participating in the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). It also came soon after Cuba chaired a historic summit of the G77+China.
The attack was clearly an act of violent intimidation against Cuban diplomats, and a reaction to the powerful show of solidarity by hundreds of people in the US throughout President Díaz-Canel’s visit to New York.
An emotional moment as Cuban President joined our rally to #LetCubaLive
“Thank you for your solidarity, thank you for your support, and thank you for being here with us!” —@DiazCanelB
CUBA SÍ, BLOQUEÓ NO! pic.twitter.com/ttgWcEY0Bz
— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) September 22, 2023

Following the second terror attack, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez announced that no embassy staff had been injured and an investigation was underway.
Initially, the US government was eerily quiet about the attack on a foreign embassy just blocks from the White House.
The night of September 25, a day after the attack – and hours after about 100 DC locals rallied outside the embassy in support of Cuba – US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan finally released a statement condemning the attack and agreeing to an investigation.
Speakers at the rally called not only for an investigation into the attacks, but also an end to the illegal, six-decade US blockade – which virtually every country on Earth votes against each year in the United Nations.
The UN General Assembly vote against the US blockade of Cuba, on November 3, 2022
Cuba is a victim of US-backed terrorism, yet the Joe Biden administration has continued Donald Trump’s designation of Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism” (SSOT), as part of an economic war against 11 million Cuban people.
In a statement, Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs put blame for this latest attack directly on the US government’s aggressive policy and hateful discourse:
Anti-Cuban groups resort to terrorism due to the moral bankruptcy of their hatred against Cuba and the impunity they believe they enjoy. On a regular basis, in the official exchanges between the Embassy and the Department of State, it has been warned that the permissive behavior of United States law enforcement agencies in the face of violent actions can encourage the commission of acts of this nature.
It is the second violent attack against the diplomatic headquarters in Washington, since April 2020. On the night of that day, an individual of Cuban origin, standing in the middle of the street in the US capital and using an assault rifle, fired a burst of thirty cartridges against the building. Fortunately, there were no injuries to the personnel inside the building on that occasion, but there were considerable material damages.
After three years, the perpetrator still awaits trial and the United States government has refused to classify the incident as a terrorist act.
…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns this terrorist action and hopes that the United States Government will act in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, in the interest of avoiding the repetition of these events.
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It also warns against the double standards used by the US government’s supposed commitment against terrorism.
The CIA and FBI have created, financed, and trained hundreds of anti-Cuba terrorist groups since the triumph of the revolution in 1959.
At least 3,478 Cubans have been killed and 2,099 have been disabled by US-sponsored terrorism since the revolution.
This includes 581 attacks against the country’s diplomatic representations abroad, according to Cuba’s Center for Historical Investigations of State Security (CIHSE).
At their peak violence, in 1974, Cuban exiles accounted for 45% of all terrorist bombings on the planet.
The most notorious of these terrorists, Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, bombed a Cuban plane and numerous hotels. They were trained by the CIA and exonerated by the US government for their crimes. They died peacefully in Florida, celebrated as local heroes by the extreme anti-Castro community.
As Cuban Foreign Minister Rodriguez wrote after the latest attack, “The anti-Cuban groups resort to terrorism when feeling they enjoy impunity, something that Cuba has repeatedly warned the US authorities about.”
The weak response to the April 2020 shooting on the embassy is exactly what enabled an attack to happen again, the Cubans say.
The perpetrator of that previous attack, 42-year-old Cuban immigrant Alexander Alazo Baró, has yet to be convicted.
“The author of that barbaric act that machine-gunned our diplomatic headquarters … is still awaiting sentencing,” wrote leading Cuban diplomat Johana Tablada, deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry’s US Division. “Cuba is awaiting condemnation from the US government, which did not even call this terrorist act by its name.”
Cuban journalist El Necio reported, “The defendant is expected to face a mandatory sentence of no less than 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and up to three years of supervised release … However, the defense seeks to prove a clinical picture of schizophrenia. There is still no sentence for this case, but the attacker is in preventive detention.”
(+ detalles) ⤴
– Se produjeron daños materiales en la fachada y los interiores: paredes, columnas, ventanas, escalera y lámpara interior, el asta de la bandera, la reja y la estatua del Héroe Nacional de Cuba, José Martí, frente a la sede (ver fotos)
– El informe policial lo… pic.twitter.com/XIiV23Ih4p
— El Necio (@ElNecio_Cuba) September 25, 2023

At 2:05am on April 30, 2020, Alazo Baró parked his truck 16th Street NW, in front of the Cuban embassy. He approached the fence, yelled and desecrated a Cuban flag, then proceeded to fire 32 shots from an AK-47 at the embassy.
None of the dozen staff inside were injured, but easily could have been. The outside and interior of the building are completely riddled with bullet holes. Now the embassy has bulletproof doors.
Upon his arrest, Alazo Baró claimed he was motivated by his hatred of Cuba and fear of assassination by the Cuban government and alleged criminal groups. At his trial, said he “hated Cubans” and would have shot the ambassador if he saw him, because he was the “enemy.”
After weeks of silence from the United States following the 2020 attack, Cuban Foreign Minister Rodríguez publicly denounced Washington’s lack of cooperation in the investigation, accusing the US of failing to “fulfill its obligation to prevent this attack, of which it received sufficient signals.”
US media and law enforcement dismissed Alazo Baró as a lone wolf, but he was a vocal Trump supporter linked to extremist anti-Cuba groups in Miami.
Alazo Baró had left Cuba in 2003 to settle in Mexico on a religious visa. He then immigrated to the US, crossing the southern border in 2010. He lived first in Florida, then in Texas, and later in Pennsylvania.
Like many Cubans permanently residing abroad, he maintained a normal relationship with Cuba, and visited eight times after leaving, last in 2015. He never exhibited any concerning behavior during his returns to Cuba or interactions with Cuban authorities.
However, during his time in Miami, Alazo Baró associated with the Doral Jesus Worship Center, a religious center and hot spot of aggression and violence against Cuba.
He befriended Pastor Frank López, a vocal extremist who has close relationships with anti-Cuba hawks like Florida Representative Mario Díaz-Balart and Senator Marco Rubio.
According to Facebook posts, Alazo Baró also befriended members of the congregation who advocated using drones to kill Raúl Castro and President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
In February 2019, a year before the AK-47 terror attack on the embassy, Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the Doral Jesus Worship Center alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senators Rubio and Rick Scott, and Representative Díaz-Balart.
Their remarks showed utter contempt for Cuba and Venezuela, which Díaz-Balart said were suffering from “the same cancer.”
President Trump also spoke at the church in July 2020.
#US President @realDonaldTrump will speak today at the Doral Jesus Worship Center, involved in instigation to violence and #terrorism against #Cuba, frequented by the attacker who shot  against our embassy in Washington with an assault rifle.
Will he condemn that action? pic.twitter.com/71EkgG802k
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) July 10, 2020

In March 2020, a month before the attack, Alazo Baró was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, diagnosed with delusional disorder, and prescribed medication. He already had a license to carry and, after being medically discharged, he acquired the AK-47 rifle.
Two weeks before the attack, Alazo Baró visited the embassy to scope out the target.
Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Ministry called for the US to investigate these links between the shooter and anti-Cuba leaders.
Cuba questions how Alazo Baró was able to purchase an assault rifle with such ease, and then travel around doing reconnaissance at the site of the attack.
After the shooting, the embassy repaired the shattered glass and installed bulletproof doors, but Cuban officials decided to leave most of the bullet holes in place, marking them with plaques, so that this act of violence and intimidation can never be forgotten.
Meanwhile, the US government and media remain disturbingly quiet about these acts of terrorism in the heart of the capital.
Cuba’s Foreign Ministry argued the attacks on the embassy could not be seen as separate, but rather as a direct result “of the permanent instigation of violence by American politicians and anti-Cuban extremist groups that have made this type of attacks their livelihood,” in a hostile political climate which heightened during the Trump administration.
Clearly this hostility against Cuba did not end with Trump, but rather continues under Biden, as shown by the second attack.
Biden has upheld nearly every one of the hundreds of additional sanctions Trump designed to strangle the Cuban economy, including by renewing the designation of Cuba as a so-called “state sponsor of terrorism.”
Despite US-Cuba cooperation on migration, drug-trafficking, and counter-terrorism, and despite Biden’s campaign promises to return to Obama-era rapprochement with Cuba, his administration has carried on Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” and continues to fund $20 million each year to groups that attack and destabilize the Cuban government.
Cuba has received messages of support from Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, and other allies.
Cuba also saw an outpouring of solidarity from the US people, following a week of actions against the blockade and in support of Cuba during the UNGA.
On September 23, the night before the attack, Cuban President Díaz-Canel rallied with 900 people in New York City for the solidarity event “Voices of Dignity: People vs Blockades”.
As a leader of Cuban-America solidarity group Puentes de Amor, Carlos Lazo, wrote after the attack, “It is sad and disturbing that while the Cuban president advocated yesterday, in front of hundreds of Americans, for the construction of bridges of love between Cuba and the United States, today, in Washington D.C., a terrorist launched two explosives against the Cuban embassy.”
On September 25, local supporters gathered outside the Cuban embassy to show solidarity with the country, calling for the US to investigate these attacks as acts of terrorism, and demanding an end to the US economic war against Cuba.
Against the hateful attack of two Molotov cocktails thrown at our Embassy in #Washington, a wall of love, affection and support from loyal friends in solidarity with the Cuban people was erected. Hate will never defeat noble and genuine love. #CubaIsNotAlone pic.twitter.com/tD5wL7t0U6
— Sandra Yisel Ramírez (@carantosan) September 26, 2023

(Editor’s note: This article was updated soon after it was published on September 25 to include the statement from the White House and the newly released video footage of the second attack.)


Instruction: Write an article about: Puerto Ricans rise up against US-imposed austerity, protest poverty wages. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: austerity, colonialism, neoliberalism, Puerto Rico

Output:
Puerto Rican public workers are protesting the neoliberal policies imposed by the US government’s unelected Financial Oversight and Management Board. A professor speaks about their demands for higher wages and better social programs.

This February, Puerto Rican public workers have been holding large protests against the neoliberal policies imposed by the US government’s unelected Financial Oversight and Management Board.
Multipolarista spoke with Ángel Rodríguez Rivera, president of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors. He described how teachers are rising up, after the minimum wage has not increased in 13 years.
You can watch or listen to the interview below:


Instruction: Write an article about: UN experts: US sanctions violate Iranians’ human rights. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: Alena Douhan, Iran, sanctions, United Nations

Output:
Top United Nations experts wrote a letter to the United States government, emphasizing that its illegal unilateral sanctions on Iran violate the human rights of the Iranian people, calling for them to “be eased or lifted completely.”

Top United Nations experts have criticized US government sanctions for violating the human rights of Iranians.
They made it clear that the unilateral coercive measures that the United States has imposed on Iran violate international law.

A group of UN special rapporteurs stressed that these sanctions have a “negative impact” on “the enjoyment of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the Islamic Republic of Iran and on the right to health and the right to life.”
Violating Iranians’ right to life is a roundabout diplomatic way of saying that US sanctions are killing them.
The UN experts sent a formal letter to the United States condemning its sanctions and requesting that it investigate and remove them.
The special rapporteurs expressed their “serious concerns about the U.S. sanctions as a significant contributing factor in Iran’s environmental degradation, which negatively affects Iranian people’s rights to a healthy and sustainable environment, to health, to life, and to an adequate standard of living.”
They added that “U.S. sanctions impede the enjoyment of the right to education” in Iran.

Washington constantly accuses Tehran of violating its people’s rights. The US government also publicly claims to support the struggle against climate change and pollution, and on paper it recognizes that people have the right to a clean environment.
But Washington’s “sanctions against Iran contradict what seems to be a clear US position on this matter,” the UN experts said.
“It is time for sanctions that impede Iran’s ability to improve the environment and reduce the ill effects on health and life, to be eased or lifted completely so that Iranians can access their right to a clean environment, the right to health and to life, and other rights associated with favourable environmental conditions,” they insisted.
#US sanctions contribute to environmental harm and prevent all people in #Iran, including migrants and Afghan refugees, from fully enjoying their rights to health and life and a clean environment – UN experts ? https://t.co/OtChnuqRWW pic.twitter.com/WPSsSAdgGv
— UN Special Procedures (@UN_SPExperts) December 20, 2022

The UN special rapporteurs noted:
Since 1979, the United States of America has imposed a broad and complex network of stringent financial, economic, and trade sanctions against Iran, including a comprehensive trade ban, significant measures to isolate Iran from the international financial and commercial system, as well as secondary sanctions against non-U.S. parties that engage in dealings with Iran.
Some (but not all) of these sanctions were removed or eased in 2015, when US President Barack Obama signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement with Iran that was also joined by the other permanent members of the UN Security Council (Britain, France, China, and Russia), Germany, and the European Union.
In 2018, US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, in violation of a UN Security Council resolution, and subsequently imposed more sanctions on Iran, in clear contravention of international law.
The UN experts noted that the Trump administration not only re-imposed “sanctions that had been lifted or eased under the JCPOA”; it also “introduced additional measures. These sanctions targeted Iran’s energy, shipbuilding, shipping and financial sectors, and included the listing of more than 700 individuals, entities, aircraft and vessels.”
Unilateral sanctions violate a broad scope of human rights including the right to favorable environment negatively affecting right to health and right to life of all people in the country https://t.co/WJK4toNXZy
— Alena Douhan (@AlenaDouhan) December 20, 2022

US threats of secondary sanctions on foreign countries and firms that do business with Iran, as well as overcompliance, make the unilateral coercive measures even more punishing, the UN special rapporteurs wrote:
The full impact of the U.S. sanctions in Iran is magnified by considerable overcompliance on a global scale resulting from complex, time-consuming and/or costly compliance procedures; extraterritorial enforcement and fears of penalties for inadvertent breaches; and sanctions-related obstacles to financial transactions for goods and services that the sanctions do not prohibit.
The primary author of this letter, the top UN expert on sanctions, Alena Douhan, has previously released reports detailing the catastrophic impact that illegal US sanctions have had on civilians in Venezuela and Syria.
She said these “outrageous” US sanctions are “suffocating” millions of civilians and “may amount to crimes against humanity.”
The UN's top expert said “outrageous” Western sanctions on Syria are “suffocating” millions of civilians, and “may amount to crimes against humanity.”
The US-EU-Israel-Gulf proxy war on Syria made its economy shrink by 90%.
90% of Syrians live in poverty https://t.co/XtHCuCHhYP
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) November 12, 2022

The letter concerning US sanctions on Iran was signed by the following UN human rights experts:


Instruction: Write an article about: In COINTELPRO, FBI used anarchism to ‘disrupt left’, attack Vietnam & USSR. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: anarchism, COINTELPRO, FBI, police, Soviet Union, Vietnam, Vietnam War

Output:
In COINTELPRO, the FBI created an anarchist underground zine, boasting “the anarchist point of view is the most disruptive element in the New Left” and could be used to attack Vietnam and the USSR

US police used anarchist talking points and ideology to “disrupt” the left and demonize Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and other targets of imperialism, according to internal FBI documents released through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
“The anarchists point of view is the most disruptive element in the New Left and should be capitalized on in the most confusing ways,” the FBI wrote.
In its Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), which aimed to destabilize and destroy the socialist, anti-imperialist left in the United States, the FBI realized that anarchism and other ultra-left movements could be an effective weapon.
The FBI impersonated anarchists and even created its own underground newspaper or zine.
The FBI’s anarchist publication was titled The Workshop. It proposed to base the newspaper in Washington, DC, with correspondents across the United States.

In internal documents, the FBI stressed that “the publisher and the writers should be strictly anarchist.” Why? Because the cops recognized that “the anarchist position could take any direction, such as an attack on Vietnam policies as well as an attack on the Soviets in Czechoslovakia.”
“The anarchists point of view is the most disruptive element in the New Left and should be capitalized on in the most confusing ways,” the feds added.
The FBI recognized that anarchist ideology could be used to de-politicize the leftist struggle, writing that the publication would “reach wider circulation if it were not so political as to be tied to dogma such as the line of MAO or CHE GUEVARA.”
In the same vein of de-politicizing the struggle, the FBI also recognized it could weaponize culture against the left. It insisted that the anarchist paper should cover lurid topics, just as VICE magazine made its name.
The cops wrote that “the newsletter should also cover vigorously such aspects of the New Left as underground cinema, music, sex, dope, humor and so on,” in order to “increase reader interest.”

The FBI also planned to use the anarchist newspaper to attack leftist Black nationalist and pan-Africanist leaders, singling out Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).
These internal FBI documents were disclosed by Robert Skvarla. He also credited researcher Dale M. Brumfield.
The first proposal, The Workshop, adopted the language of anarchists because their "point of view [was] the most disruptive element in the New Left" and could be used to target anyone. The FBI intended to attack figures like Stokely Carmichael. pic.twitter.com/lKNyIhCA1W
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) October 15, 2021

Skvarla showed that the FBI created another underground newspaper in 1968, titled Armageddon News. This was used to attack and destabilize the movement against the US war on Vietnam.
“We students are concerned for the need for truth within our antiwar movement,” the feds wrote, before going on to demonize communists.
That same year, in 1968, it produced a real fake underground paper: Armageddon News. The paper was ostensibly based out of the University of Indiana Bloomington, allowing the FBI to use it to astroturf attacks on left-wing activists on campus. pic.twitter.com/InEVdJG1OS
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) October 15, 2021

The FBI office in San Antonio wrote in a memo to the bureau’s director that “steps can be taken to cause disruption within the ranks of the New Left.”
And a third paper, The Longhorn Tale, was distributed by the San Antonio field office at the University of Texas at Austin. The paper essentially doxed SDS activists deemed "disruptive." pic.twitter.com/80bCEV7bD3
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) October 15, 2021

The feds also created a Maoist, staunchly anti-Soviet newspaper called Chevara News. This later turned into a right-wing, Ayn Rand-adoring objectivist publication under the name The Rational Observer.
Ah fuck, forgot the funniest one. A Maoist, pro-Che paper initially called Chevara News somehow morphed into an objectivist rag called The Rational Observer. pic.twitter.com/8zrwuAfAvg
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) October 15, 2021

This is just one piece of evidence showing how US cops and feds use anarchism and ultra-left ideology to disrupt the socialist movement and disguise imperialist talking points as “left-wing.”


Instruction: Write an article about: Los bancos de EEUU se enriquecieron durante la pandemia de Covid-19, mientras millones murieron. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: bancos, Covid-19, economía, pandemia, Wall Street

Output:
La pandemia de Covid-19 ha matado a más de 854.000 estadounidenses. El gobierno de EEUU abandonó a su gente – pero aseguró que la banca se enriqueció. Los capitalistas ganaron $5 millones de millones.

Más de 5,55 millones de personas alrededor del mundo han muerto por el Covid-19. Sólo en Estados Unidos, por lo menos 854.000 habitantes han perdido sus vidas. Y la pandemia ha destruido el sustento de muchos más, llevando a la bancarrota a familias, devastando comunidades.
Mientras tanto, los milmillonarios se han enriquecido. Los 10 capitalistas más ricos de la tierra duplicaron su riqueza durante la pandemia, al tiempo que los ingresos del 99% de la humanidad bajaron.
Y la prensa financiera prácticamente se está jactando.
El medio de comunicación Reuters publicó un informe chocantemente franco que admite que los grandes bancos de EEUU han ganado muchísimo dinero durante esta crisis sanitaria mundial.
Con el título “Los bancos de Wall Street ven ‘nuevo normal’ en ingresos del comercio”, el reportaje fue re-publicado en la página oficial de la bolsa Nasdaq.
El artículo se jacta de que “una inyección masiva de efectivo en los mercados de capitales por parte de la Reserva Federal [de EEUU] condujo a una liquidez y una actividad comercial sin precedentes durante la pandemia, ya que los inversores buscaban oportunidades para sacar provecho”.
Luego, el informe dice alegremente, “Los bancos con grandes mesas de negociación como Goldman Sachs GS.N, JPMorgan JPM.N y Morgan Stanley MS.N han sido los mayores beneficiarios de la volatilidad del mercado, lo que ha permitido a los negociantes disfrutar de su mejor período desde la crisis financiera de 2007-09”.
Discutí esta “inyección masiva de efectivo en los mercados de capitales por parte de la Reserva Federal” en una entrevista (en inglés) con el economista Michael Hudson.
La Reserva Federal rescató discretamente a los grandes bancos en septiembre de 2019 con $4,5 millones de millones en préstamos de emergencia, que, según Hudson, parecen haber violado la ley. Y esto es además de los millones de millones de dólares más que el Tesoro de EEUU invirtió en el sector financiero.
El informe de Reuters continúa, citando al director ejecutivo del banco Goldman Sachs, David M. Solomon, quien dijo a los analistas, “Ninguno de nosotros podría haber anticipado el entorno que hemos vivido durante los últimos dos años y particularmente el entorno de este año, que obviamente fue un viento de cola significativo para nuestro negocio”.
Ojo, el director ejecutivo de Goldman Sachs no estaba diciendo que el banco no podría haber anticipado los millones de muertes; más bien, estaba diciendo que Wall Street no podría haber anticipado disfrutar de sus mayores ganancias desde la crisis financiera de hace 14 años.
Solomon no es el único. El director financiero de JPMorgan Chase, Jeremy Barnum, señaló que 2020 y 2021, la cima de la pandemia, fueron “años récord”.
El artículo de Reuters citó a un analista del banco de inversión JMP Securities, Devin Ryan, quien dijo, “El nivel del 2020 y 2021 es bastante alto”.
Las actitudes de estos banqueros lo dejan en claro: el capitalismo es un culto a la muerte.
Mientras millones de personas morían en una pandemia global histórica, los oligarcas capitalistas orquestaron una transferencia ascendente de riqueza masiva.
“Los diez hombres más ricos del mundo han duplicado con creces su fortuna, que ha pasado de 700 000 millones de dólares a 1,5 billones [millones de millones] de dólares (a un ritmo de 15 000 dólares por segundo, o lo que es lo mismo, 1300 millones de dólares al día) durante los primeros dos años de una pandemia que habría deteriorado los ingresos del 99 % de la humanidad y que ha empujado a la pobreza a más de 160 millones de personas más”, informó Oxfam.
Los oligarcas capitalistas ganaron $5 millones de millones de dólares durante la pandemia, el “mayor incremento de la riqueza de los milmillonarios desde que se tienen registros”, dijo Oxfam.
La organización humanitaria calculó que la desigualdad contribuye a la muerte de por lo menos 21.000 personas cada día — una persona cada cuatro segundos.
La derecha de las Américas ha advertido histéricamente sobre el “autoritarismo del Covid” y un inminente “estado biomédico”, pero la realidad es que Estados Unidos, su gran modelo político, ya es en gran medida la distopía libertaria con la que han soñado los oligarcas capitalistas — han invertido una gran cantidad de dinero para crear este sistema ultra-neoliberal.
La ideología dominante de EEUU es cada hombre por si mismo, perro come perro. Esto se refleja claramente en la respuesta del gobierno estadounidense a la mayor crisis sanitaria en un siglo.
Esta estrategia de laissez-faire ha sido bipartidista. Tanto con el ex presidente Donald Trump como con el mandatario actual Joe Biden, el gobierno federal de EEUU básicamente no ha hecho nada sustantivo, dejando que cada estado y cada ciudad del país decida su propio destino.
La Casa Blanca de Biden dejó esto en claro, diciéndole a la gente que están solos. Y el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EEUU les ha dicho a los hospitales que, a partir del 2 de febrero, ya no tienen que informar las muertes diarias del Covid-19 al gobierno federal.
Biden afirmó que revertiría la inacción de Trump, pero su administración sólo está mirando, haciendo nada, mientras entre 2000 y 3000 norteamericanos mueren por día por el Covid-19. Sólo en el día del 18 de enero de 2022, 2990 personas en EEUU murieron del virus.
Las desastrosas consecuencias de esta estrategia libertaria son obvias para todo el mundo: al menos 854.000 muertes del Covid-19 en Estados Unidos, según estadísticas oficiales.
Este es un nivel asombroso de pérdida humana, solo superado por el barbarismo del régimen de extrema derecha de Jair Bolsonaro en Brasil, que ha supervisado 622,000 muertes por Covid-19 en una población de 213 millones. (Si Brasil hubiera implementado las mismas políticas, o sea la falta de ellas, con la población de EEUU, 335 millones, tendría 978.000 muertes por Covid-19.)
Mientras tanto, en la República Popular China continental, con una población de 1,400 millones, ha habido menos de 5.000 muertes. En 2021, solo hubo dos muertes por el Covid-19 en China continental. Dos.
Si Estados Unidos tuviera la misma población que China, estaríamos hablando de 3,6 millones de muertos por Covid-19.
Pero la diferencia es que la banca de China es propiedad del estado, y es el gobierno chino el que controla el sector financiero, no los bancos los que controlan el estado, como lo hacen en Estados Unidos. Por lo tanto, es difícil para las élites en China enriquecerse mientras sus compatriotas mueren, como lo hacen los banqueros en la gran “democracia” estadounidense.


Instruction: Write an article about: ‘Western dominance has ended’, EU foreign-policy chief admits, warning of ‘West against the Rest’ geopolitics. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: EU, European Union, Gaza, General Assembly, Global South, Josep Borrell, Sahel, Ukraine, United Nations

Output:
The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, admitted that the “era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended”. He warned that the EU must not divide the world into “the West against the Rest”, as “many in the ‘Global South’ accuse us of ‘double standards’”.

Europe’s top diplomat has acknowledged that the “era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended”.
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs, wrote this in a blog post on the official website of the EU’s diplomatic service on February 25.
“If the current global geopolitical tensions continue to evolve in the direction of ‘the West against the Rest’, Europe’s future risks to be bleak”, he warned.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, along with the anti-colonial uprisings in Africa’s Sahel region, have “significantly increased this risk” of Europe becoming geopolitically irrelevant, Borrell said, lamenting that “Russia has managed to take advantage of the situation”.
The European foreign-policy chief revealed that “improving our relations with the ‘Global South'” is one of ” the four main tasks on EU’s geopolitical agenda”.
“Many in the ‘Global South’ accuse us of ‘double standards'”, he confessed.

Borrell is known for sporadically making frank comments, admitting inconvenient truths that most European diplomats leave unsaid.
In 2022, the EU foreign-policy chief confessed, “Our prosperity was based on China and Russia – energy and market”, with “cheap energy coming from Russia” and “access to the big China market” as the cornerstone of the European economy.
However, Borrell’s insistence that Europe must not divide the world into the “West against the Rest” was contradicted by his insistence in the same February 2024 article that the EU must expand its “cooperation with key partners, and in particular the US”.
The top European diplomat wrote that “recent months have reminded us how important NATO remains to our collective defence”, calling to strengthen the US-led military bloc.
In 2023, the influential think tank the European Council on Foreign Relations published a white paper titled “The art of vassalisation”. It warned of “Europe becoming an American vassal”, noting how the war in Ukraine had “revealed Europeans’ profound dependence on the US”.
The EU’s foreign-policy chief does recognize that it would be an error to pit “the West against the Rest”, yet he is simultaneously calling for deepening the trans-Atlantic alliance between the US and Europe, which only exacerbates that geopolitical division.
On the global stage, Europe frequently joins the United States in violating the will of the international community.
At the United Nations, the US and Europe often vote together, while the vast majority of member states, which are located in the Global South, vote against them.
Source: Alastair Iain Johnston, “China in a World of Orders: Rethinking Compliance and Challenge in Beijing’s International Relations”, International Security (2019)
The US only voted with the majority of the world at the UN General Assembly 32.7% of the time from 1983 to 2012.
In 1988, just 15.4% of overall UNGA votes coincided with the US vote.
Europe is the only region of the world that consistently votes with the US.

In November 2023, the West voted against the vast majority of the world in UN General Assembly resolutions concerning democracy, human rights, cultural diversity, mercenaries, and unilateral coercive measures (sanctions).
In April 2023, the West once again voted as a bloc against the other countries on the UN Human Rights Council, defending unilateral sanctions, which violate international law.
In December 2022, the West voted against the rest of the planet in UN General Assembly votes calling for a new international economic order.
West votes against democracy, human rights, cultural diversity at UN; promotes mercenaries, sanctions


Instruction: Write an article about: US invites authoritarian far-right regimes to ‘Summit for Democracy’. Use the themes and topics represented by the tags provided as guidance for the content. It's not necessary to include the exact tag words in the article, but the article should reflect the essence and context of these tags.

Input: Benjamin Netanyahu, China, Hungary, Imran Khan, India, Israel, Italy, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Venezuela

Output:
The Joe Biden administration invited numerous authoritarian far-right leaders to the US State Department’s so-called “Summit for Democracy”, including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Poland’s Andrzej Duda, India’s Narendra Modi, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, and Pakistan’s coup regime.

The US government organized a conference of its allies which it misleadingly called a “Summit for Democracy”, but which actually featured numerous anti-democratic, far-right regimes.
The State Department invited 120 global leaders to participate in the summit on March 29 and 30. They did so virtually, via video calls.
Several of the heads of state who spoke represent governments that even Western officials, corporate media outlets, and mainstream human rights organizations have admitted are authoritarian, including Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Andrzej Duda of Poland, and Narendra Modi of India.

The Joe Biden administration also invited Pakistan’s unelected coup regime, which came to power following a US-backed regime-change operation against democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan in April 2022. (Islamabad, however, decided not to attend, as it faces mass protests and instability at home.)
Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni participated in the summit as well. Meloni is a defender of former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. She started her political career as the leader of the youth wing of a fascist political party founded by war criminals from Mussolini’s regime.
Meloni’s far-right political party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) still uses the same symbols and colors of Mussolini’s fascist movement. An important leader of her party has a bust of the late dictator in his house, and was investigated for doing Nazi salutes.
The Biden administration organized the first so-called “Summit for Democracy” in 2021, in attempt to unify US allies in a bloc to wage a new cold war on China and Russia, which were not invited to either summit.
These intentions were made obvious when the US pressured all invitees to sign a joint statement denouncing Russia over the proxy war in Ukraine. The left-wing governments in Brazil and Mexico refused to support Washington’s denunciation of Moscow.
For its part, China’s Foreign Ministry condemned the summit as an attempt to “draw lines between countries in the world according to US criteria and interfere in their affairs based on US interests”, in a way that “reflects how arrogant, intolerant, selfish and domineering the US has always been, and how it contravenes and tramples on democracy as part of the common values of humanity”.
The US government exposed its cynical political designs by inviting Ukraine and Taiwan to participate in the summit, despite the fact that Taiwan island is not a country, but rather a province of the People’s Republic of China.
When the US government normalized relations with China in 1972, it signed the first of three communiqués, in which it legally recognized that Taiwan is part of China.
Violating its formal diplomatic commitments, the Biden administration publicly illustrated Washington’s support for separatists in China’s Taiwan province by inviting them to both of the so-called “Summits for Democracy”.

Ukraine’s leader Volodymy Zelensky spoke at the conference as well, in spite of his brutal attack on democracy at home. Zelensky’s regime has banned all communist and socialist parties, while imposing some of the most aggressive anti-worker legislation in the world, suspending collective bargaining rights and essentially making it illegal to form a union.
Even the New York Times reluctantly acknowledged that Ukraine has imposed authoritarian control over the media. While Zelensky’s supporters maintain that this is necessary due to the ongoing war, his draconian crackdown began well before Russia invaded. In 2021, Zelensky’s regime banned critical media outlets deemed to be “pro-Russian”, while arbitrarily persecuting and arresting opposition politicians.
Two NATO members were not invited to the so-called “Summit for Democracy”: Türkiye (formerly known as Turkey) and Hungary. This was clearly a politically motivated sign of disapproval by the Biden administration, because the two countries have tried to balance the West against Russia, maintaining good relations with both sides.
The democratically elected socialist governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua were not invited either. Instead, Washington invited right-wing US-sponsored opposition activists from both Latin American countries, including Lesther Alemán, who played a major role in a violent coup attempt in Nicaragua in 2018.
Also participating in the summit was the notorious CIA cutout the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which Washington has used to meddle in foreign countries all across the planet, organizing regime-change operations and funding “color revolutions”.
As a key foreign-policy strategy, the Biden administration has weaponized rhetoric about “democracy” to advance US geopolitical interests.
In his first State of the Union address in 2022, Biden claimed that Washington’s new cold war on China and Russia was a “battle between democracy and autocracies”.
But European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said otherwise in a speech in October, criticizing the deceptive “democracies vs. authoritarians” framing.
Top EU foreign-policy official Josep Borrell admitted the West’s new cold war on China & Russia is NOT a battle of “democracies vs authoritarians”
He conceded: “On our side, there are a lot of authoritarian regimes”
It's an economic conflict
Full video: https://t.co/Ev3qLA5i2S pic.twitter.com/yKbyLBNIVI
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) October 29, 2022

“On our side, there are a lot of authoritarian regimes”, Borrell admitted.
“We cannot say we are the democracies, and the ones which follow us are also democracies. That is not true”, added the top EU diplomat.
Israel’s authoritarian far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the US government’s 2023 “Summit for Democracy”
One of the first speakers at Biden’s 2023 Summit for Democracy, as it opened on March 29, was the far-right leader of the Israeli apartheid regime, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has served as prime minister for more than 15 of the 27 years since 1996. Today, his far-right coalition government includes members of literal fascist parties.
All major mainstream Western media outlets have acknowledged that Netanyahu’s regime is authoritarian, including the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, AP, Guardian, and Foreign Affairs.
In fact, Netanyahu spoke at Biden’s summit while mass protests were going on in Israel against his authoritarian regime.
Israel’s most influential newspaper Haaretz – which is essentially the country’s equivalent of the New York Times, promoting a centrist liberal perspective – published an article warning, “‘Israel’s Government Has neo-Nazi Ministers. It Really Does Recall Germany in 1933′: Holocaust historian Daniel Blatman says he is astounded at how quickly Israel is hurtling toward fascism”.
Poland’s authoritarian far-right President Andrzej Duda speaking at the US government’s 2023 “Summit for Democracy”
Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” also featured the far-right president of Poland, Andrzej Duda.
Many Western mainstream media outlets have admitted that Poland is run by an authoritarian regime.
Even former US President Barack Obama stated in an interview on CNN in 2021 that NATO and EU members Poland and Hungary “now essentially have become authoritarian”.
However, while Poland’s far-right authoritarian regime was invited to Biden’s “Summit for Democracy”, Hungary was not. The reason why is clear: Poland is virulently anti-Russia, so it was welcomed; whereas Hungary has tried to balance good relations with both the West and Russia, so it was the only EU member that was not invited.
Mainstream NGOs that are routinely cited in the Western media to attack NATO’s adversaries have admitted that far-right authoritarianism is growing closer to home.
The Civil Liberties Union for Europe – a major civil society organization that is similar to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the United States – warned that Poland and Hungary are increasingly authoritarian. Both are “seizing further control of the justice system, civil society and media, while cutting basic human rights and fuelling divisions by scapegoating migrants and other minority groups”.
The Western government-funded International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) has warned that the Polish regime is violently cracking down on protesters and arbitrarily detaining anti-fascist activists, while allowing fascist extremists to use Nazi symbols.
Duda’s far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party reportedly tapped the phones of opposition politicians and journalists to illegally spy on them.
India’s authoritarian far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at the US government’s 2023 “Summit for Democracy”
Joining Netanyahu on the opening panel of Biden’s 2023 Summit for Democracy was India’s far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi is a longtime member of a fascist paramilitary group, the RSS, whose early leaders were inspired by Nazi Germany, praising Adolf Hitler’s “purging the country of Semitic races” as a “good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by”.
Before he became prime minister, Modi governed the state of Gujarat, where high school textbooks honored “Hitler, the Supremo” and the “Internal Achievements of Nazism”.
As governor of Gujarat in 2002, Modi oversaw a massive pogrom, in which hundreds of Muslims were killed. (As prime minister, Modi censored a documentary exposing his role in the massacre.)
India’s far-right ruling party, BJP, promotes an extreme Hindu-nationalist ideology that sees Muslims and other religious minorities as inferior, second- or third-class citizens, and heavily discriminates against them.
Some of Modi’s political allies have openly called for overturning India’s secular constitution and turning the state into a “Hindu rashtra”: a theocratic regime.
In fact, just a few days before Modi spoke at the so-called “Summit for Democracy”, his government launched an authoritarian attack on the leader of India’s political opposition, Rahul Gandhi.
On March 23, Gandhi was expelled from India’s parliament and sentenced to two years in prison over fraudulent charges of defamation, due to a comment Gandhi made in 2019 in which he referred to Prime Minister Modi and his wealthy oligarch allies as “thieves”.
The politically motivated charges seek to bar Gandhi from office, effectively paving the way for BJP and far-right Hindu nationalists to hand themselves victory in the upcoming 2024 election, without significant opposition.
Many mainstream media outlets have acknowledged that Modi’s regime is authoritarian, including the New York Times, the BBC, NBC News, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, and The Diplomat.
But Modi was eagerly welcomed at Biden’s “Summit for Democracy”, because the United States is desperate to recruit India for its new cold war on China, and hopes to weaken New Delhi’s positive relations with Russia.
India is part of the BRICS system, but it is also a member of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, an anti-China military alliance led by the United States, known commonly as the “Asian NATO”.
In fact, India joined BRICS before Modi came to power, under the previous government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, of the Indian National Congress party.
Remember BRICS? Well, thanks to @jairbolsonaro and @narendramodi the B and the I both get that the C and the R are threats to their people. pic.twitter.com/JwL8E0uJte
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 19, 2021

Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed that Washington had tried to use Modi in India and his far-right counterpart Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to disrupt and divide the BRICS system.
Former diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar has cautioned that India is the weakest link in the BRICS system, because its government supports Washington’s “so-called ‘rules-based order’, which is a metaphor for the political ideology of the US as the dominant state and ‘lone superpower’ in the 1990s”.
BRICS faces a paradox that, while it grows, it also fails internal conflicts, “and the main reason for this is India’s unwillingness to work with China as leaders of economic growth”, Bhadrakumar wrote.
Modi’s “India feels uneasy that the centre of gravity in BRICS is poised to shift further to the left of centre”, he said, and, “Being an acolyte of the US-led ‘rules-based order’, India faces the spectre of isolation”.
The United States sees these contradictions, and hopes to exploit them to its advantage. That explains why India was invited to the so-called “Summit for Democracy”, despite being overtly anti-democratic.
The presence of so many authoritarian, far-right leaders clearly demonstrated the cynical political goals behind Washington’s Summit for Hypocrisy.