Credit: UNICEF/Tess IngramSAN FRANCISCO, Jun 21 (IPS) - "When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time." Officials running the Pentagon and State Department have been in overdrive for more than 250 days in support of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Among the weapons of war, cluster munitions are especially horrific. They defeated a Pentagon funding amendment that would have prohibited the transfer of cluster munitions to other countries. The Biden administration correctly responded to indications (later proven accurate) that Russia was using cluster munitions in Ukraine.

Source: International New York Times June 21, 2024 23:18 UTC