Poroshenko not allowed to leave Ukraine for Poland and US
Poroshenko said that he had meetings planned in the United States and Poland on financing military assistance and unlocking borders, respectively. A meeting with new House Speaker Mike Johnson was also disrupted, he said. Poroshenko called the disrupted trip “a blow to the country’s defense capability.”
As many as 36 groups advocating free speech, the Free Speech Alliance, have turned to US Congress with a request to stop any further funding of NewsGuard.
Free Speech Groups Call on Congress To Block NewsGuard Funding
Previous NewsGuard posts (not necessarily conservative):
NewsGuard is very neutral. Its Board of Directors is
The EU, NATO, NewsGuard and the Voltaire Network (original)secret, but its Advisory Board includes one of the co-founders of Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales) as well as the former director of the CIA and the NSA (General Michael Hayden), the former Secretary General of NATO (Anders Fogh Rasmussen), the former Secretary for Homeland Security (Tom Ridge) or the former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy – i.e. Propaganda (Richard Stengel)
Consortium News Sues NewsGuard, US Government For Alleged Defamation
Read More »For years the Israel on Campus Coalition—a little-known organization with links to Israeli intelligence—has used student informants to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups.
Israel’s War on American Student Activists (archived)
Looks like those microgrants are for more than just attending pro-Israel protests.
Previously:
The “Israel on Campus Coalition” offered college students $250 “microgrants” to attend the “March for Israel” event in Washington, DC on Tuesday.
Pro-Israel Group Paid Students $250 Each to Attend ‘March for Israel’ Event in DC
H/T: Niqnaq
US President Joe Biden signed a stopgap spending bill into law on Thursday, averting a looming government shutdown. The limited appropriation of funds, which omitted aid to Ukraine, passed the Senate on Wednesday.
Biden signs funding bill that excludes Ukraine
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‘I Don’t Give a F*ck About AIPAC,’ Says Mark Pocan
Pocan was drawn into the fracas between progressive lawmakers and AIPAC last month after the group falsely accused him and other representatives of “trying to keep Hamas in power.” The attack came after 10 members of Congress—nine Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)—voted against an October 25 resolution pledging unconditional support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Massie joined progressive Democrats in pushing back against AIPAC, posting on social media that “this baseless smear is meant to intimidate me into voting to send $14+ billion of your money to a foreign country.”
Pocan—who did not vote against the resolution—wrote: “AIPAC is not good at telling the truth. We don’t support Hamas. We just don’t support killing kids, which it seems you do.”
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