UN GATE / SDNY,
March 2 - The Biden
Administration has concluded
that the Russian government is
behind the poisoning of Alexei
Navalny with novichuk. In an
embargoed press call on March
2, senior Administration
officials announced responses
such as the Treasury
Department designating seven
Russian officials for
sanctions.
One
wonders if Ambassador Linda
Thomas-Greenfield will be
raising this in the UN
Security Council. Inner City
Press would asks, but it is
banned from entering the UN by
four-year Secretary General
Antonio Guterres, so far
unaddressed by the US Mission.
During the embargoed press
briefing, the officials said
for example that "President
Biden believes the people of
Russia, like people
everywhere, deserve the right
to free expression and to free
media" and that Navalny was
retaliated against for
exposing "uncomfortable truths
about Russian officials."
But what
about the rights of people and
press in the United Nations,
and the banning of Press which
exposes uncomfortable truths
about Guterres Administration
officials like Fabrizio
Hochschild (sex exploitation)
and Catherine Pollard (role in
retaliation for exposing UN
giving China the names of
Uighur and other dissidents)?
The United
Nations, its often
unaccountable senior
leadership like Fabrizio
Hochschild and always
sychophantic press corps all
seem pleased by the prospect
of increased funding from
Foggy Bottom and ultimately
the American people. But will
the UN administration
belatedly live up to
principles like those of the
First Amendment, for example
content neutral press access?
So far,
no.
On
February 25 new Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield held a
stake-out by the UN Security
Council. Inner City Press has
questioned US Ambassadors from
Zalmay
Khalilzad through Susan
Rice and Samantha
Power to Nikki
Haley. But now, due to
critical coverage of and
questions to Antonio Guterres,
it is banned.
The remained the case on March
1, despite emails to the
Mission and four officials
there.
So, an
investigative US-based media
is blocked from questioning a
US official. Can this be
legal? And what about the
President of the General
Assembly, and the President of
the UN Security Council - now
the US - not yet circulating
the letters and C.V.s of
opponent of Guterres? We'll
have more on this.
Inner City Press
before corrupt UNSG Antonio
Guterres had it thrown
out without due process
or appeal covered not only the
UN and its "Peacekeeping"
missions in Haiti and
elsewhere, but also Antony
Blinken (here,
meeting Prince Zeid) and Linda
Thomas-Greenfield (here,
after a trip to Somalia; Inner
City Press covered the UN
Security Council trip to
Djibouti).
On February 25,
the IMF took Inner City Press'
questions on Sudan and
Cambodia via WebEx, here.
Inner City Press also spoke
for half an hour on Honduras
UNeTV, including about the
Biden Administration,
Secretary Antony Blinken and
Honduras, and SDNY: here.
The UN banned
Inner City Press, including
from the stakeout by the US
Ambassador. Again, can this be
legal? Is it sustainable? Is
it credible? Watch this site.
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