Both the corporate media and political class in the US are blatant in their support for Israel
NO ONE CARES THAT ISRAEL IS A CALLOUS and BRUTAL APARTHEID STATE. MEANTIME, to please the Israeli lobby, the Biden administration has stonewalled United Nations Security Council efforts to call for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence, which of course can only mean a massacre for Palestinians. But never forget this is a lethal BIPARTISAN disease that will end only when real changes occur in the composition of the US power structure and the banishment of corporate influence and billionaires’ money from politics and media. 

We don’t trust Ajazeera completely but they are a damn sight better than their Western mainstream counterparts. In this segment, look for the analysis of the situation by Al Jazeera’s Gaza chief correspondent Marwan Bishara (Arabic: مروان بشارة‎). He comes on around 23:51. Bishara is a Palestinian journalist and Al Jazeera English’s senior political analyst and the editor and host of Empire, which examines global powers and their agendas. Bishara has little difficulty clarifying the situation on the ground, and smashing the ludicrous notion spread by most Western journalists that Hamas and the Gaza strip—a tightly controlled and cutoff zone lacking a navy, and air force, armor or advanced weapons—all of which Israel has, besides being a nuclear power, represent a comparable military opponent to Israel.

GLENN GREENWALD—There are three interrelated political factions that wield actual power to change blind U.S. support for Israel: the U.S. Congress, the Democratic Party, and the Biden Administration. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who claims to oppose this U.S. posture toward Israel, has significant influence in and responsibility for each: she is a member of Congress, one of the party’s most popular elected officials, and was a vocal supporter of the Biden campaign in the general election and is now a key surrogate for his administration.

As Israeli bombs fall on Gaza yet again as part of a conflict triggered by further incursions by Israeli settlers into occupied East Jerusalem, those key power centers remain steadfast in their support for Israel. The Biden State Department has issued one statement after the next so supportive of Israel that its spokesman, Ned Price, was petrified to utter a word that might be construed as empathy for Palestinian suffering — even refusing to condemn the killing of Palestinian children when asked explicitly if he does. After a two-minute opening statement on Sunday in which he announced that “the U.S. condemns in the strongest terms the barrage of rocket attacks fired into Israel” and heralded “Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself, its people and its territory,” Price took questions from reporters in which he appeared on the verge of some sort of seizure each time he was pressed to say what he thought about violence by Israel against Palestinians

JONATHAN COOK—In the new environment of social media, that began to change. Not only have some journalists become more influential than the papers they write for, but others have abandoned the employee-servant model completely. They have reached the conclusion that they no longer need a corporate outlet to secure an audience. They can publish themselves, build their own readership, and generate their own income – freeing themselves from corporate servitude.

In the last few years, this is a path I have pursued myself – becoming mostly reader-financed. For most of us, it is a precarious option. But it is liberating too – in a way that no previous generation of journalists could ever have imagined possible.