 Secretary Blinken, what about Shireen Abou Akhlet? She was murdered by Israeli forces, right? CNN just agreed to this. These are your two greatest allies in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Israel. They have murdered American journalists, and there have been absolutely no repercussions. And you're sitting up here talking about the freedom of press and democracy. The United States is denying sovereignty to tens of millions of people around the world with draconian sanctions for electing leaders that you do not like. Why is there no accountability for Israel or Saudi Arabia for murdering journalists? It is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist in Palestine. I deplore the loss of Shireen. She was a remarkable journalist, an American citizen, as you all know. And there are two. We're determined to follow the facts and get to the truth of what happened. Secretary Blinken, all to respect. No, I'm sorry. With respect, they have not yet been established. Yes, that has. No, they have not. If we are looking for an independent, credible investigation, when that investigation happens, we will follow the facts per day lead. It's as straightforward as that. That has not yet happened. But it's something that we very much want to see happen. And we'll have time after the panel for some time or another. That was Secretary of State Antony Blinken being confronted by journalist Abby Martin about the US government's hypocrisy when it comes to freedom of the press. Now, once this video was published, Abby Martin took to Twitter to explain, I wanted to keep pressure on the US government for Israel's murder of journalist Shereen Abu-Akleb and hypocrisy of using press freedom to kill people with sanctions. Now, it's important to note that Antony Blinken in his response to Abby Martin was absolutely lying. We definitively know that Israel targeted this journalist and murdered her. The CNN article that Abby Martin referenced in that video confirms just that. The Israeli military says it is not clear who fired the fatal shot in a preliminary inquiry. The army said there was a possibility Abu-Akleb was hit either by indiscriminate Palestinian gunfire or by an Israeli sniper positioned about 200 meters, about 656 feet away in an exchange of fire with Palestinian gunmen. Though neither Israel nor anyone else provided evidence showing armed Palestinians within a clear line of fire from Abu-Akleb. But an investigation by CNN offers new evidence, including two videos of the scene of the shooting, that there was no active combat nor any Palestinian militants near Abu-Akleb in the moments leading up to her death. Videos obtained by CNN corroborated by a testimony from eight eyewitnesses, an audio forensic analyst and an explosive weapons expert suggest that Abu-Akleb was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces. So Antony Blinken there is feigning ignorance when we know what happened. And look, I'm sorry, we knew from the beginning that Israel was lying. But yet, now that we have definitive proof, he's still pretending as if, well, we've really got to get to the bottom of this and I definitely care, Wing-Wing. Sure, now it's for Saudi Arabia, a 2021 report from the New York Times using US intelligence released by the Biden administration confirms that Saudi crown prince approved of the assassination of Washington postjournalist Jamal Khashoggi. However, the Biden administration refused to penalize Saudi Arabia because, quote, the risk of damaging American interests was too great. I'm gonna repeat that quote again. The risk of damaging American interests was too great. So we couldn't penalize this regime that murdered a journalist, an American journalist. But yet we care about human rights and press freedom. And in fact, after that, the Biden administration sold Saudi Arabia weapons after saying he wouldn't do that, breaking another campaign promise and the reason why we wanna maintain this relationship is because strategically, Saudi Arabia is valuable to the United States, not just geopolitically, but because they have oil. So I mean, this is what the United States does. They virtue signal, but they never live by the standards that they espouse. They hold other countries to higher standards than they hold themselves to and they pick and choose who they're gonna support and prop up based on their interests. And it's truly disgusting. Now, there's another video that I wanna share where Antony Blinken was again confronted by journalist Eugene Perrier this time. And he's gonna ask why it's the case that the United States' standards for democracy is so ass-backwards. That's not his phrasing, but just watch. I wonder how you justify the invitation of Dr. Ariel Amri from Haiti when he is actually governing with no constitutional mandate. His government has been implicated in many different crimes, including potentially the murder of the past president. Countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua are being excluded from the summit of the Americas because you deem them to not be democratic. But how can you use that as your justification when you have the so-called Prime Minister of Haiti who is ruling under no sort of democratic mandate here? Yeah, we, like many other countries, are determined to get to the facts of what happened in Haiti, including the assassination of the previous Prime Minister who determined to find the facts wherever they need and didn't remember they were there. Well, sir, yes, but does democracy, does democracy only matter if they disagree with the United States government? What is your actual basis for saying a government is undemocratic and another one, it can't be invited, and another one that's undemocratic can be invited? Does democracy matter only if they disagree with the United States? The answer to that is yes. It's absolutely yes. Now, notice how every single thing that he said there was completely hollow and vacuous. I mean, he responded to that question as a customer service chatbot and Amazon would respond to a question. It's like he's this NPC and whenever a tough question like this about the United States' hypocrisy comes up, you know, this NPC has this automatic dialogue tree that immediately initiates and he responds in a very, you know, non-committal way. Well, of course, we want to get to the bottom of this and we're all concerned and thoughts and prayers and yada, yada, yada. It's just this is why people around the world don't take the United States seriously because we're so shamelessly hypocritical. It's why, legitimacy-wise, we've been declining for decades because we do what we want, you know, terrorize these countries, invade countries who didn't attack us and then we claim, oh, we care about democracy and human rights, unreal. Now, there's one more video that I want to show you, not of Anthony Blinken, but of OAS Chief Luis Amagro. Now, this is the organization which successfully pulled off a coup in Bolivia following unfounded Trumpian allegations of election fraud. Now, a member of the Party of Socialism and Liberation confronted him and as you're going to see, he was relentless and eventually he was put in handcuffs and escorted out. And he was killed. You're here to lecture about media freedom when you install the dictatorship and murderous journalists and murderous innocent people. You have blood on your heads. Because of your lies, there was a coup in Bolivia, a coup against the democratically elected government and that dictatorship that you helped install massacred 36 people, 36 innocent people who are protesting for the restoration of their democracy, for the restoration of the independence of their country and the towns of Saqibah and Saqqata, people who are protesting peacefully indigenous people, workers, women, students, demanding a restoration of that democracy that you helped destroy, destroyed because the United States wanted to plunder their resources, the Bolivia, the goal, all the mineral resources, the gas of Bolivia, the corporations in Wall Street the United States wanted to loot the resources of Bolivia and so you helped install a dictatorship that would facilitate that looting. In Saqibah and Saqata, dozens of people were massacred by the soldiers of your dictatorship. The soldiers of your dictatorship. And one of the people that your dictatorship murdered was a journalist, Sebastian Morrow. He was a journalist who was exposing the lies that you are telling and exposing the truth, the truth about the coup that you orchestrated and he was beaten to death in his apartment. And now you come here and dare, and dare to lecture about media freedom, about democracy, about human rights. You have no shame, you're a murderer and you're a puppet of the United States, a puppet of the United States. In Venezuela too, you dared to support the coup attempt to Juan Guaidó ridiculously, outrageously tried to attempt and declare himself the president of Venezuela. What a lie, what a lie. The majority of people in Venezuela had never even heard of Juan Guaidó. And yet you said that he's the president and I believe you still ridiculously say that Juan Guaidó is the president of Venezuela. That is an outrageous insult. An insult to the democracy and the sovereignty of the people of Venezuela. How dare you do this. You murder or who murdered people in Bolivia. You murder or who supported the sanctions in Venezuela. The sanctions in Venezuela that killed 40,000 people. 40,000 people because of your eyes, because of the coup attempt that you've been part of. And you are nothing, nothing but a murderer and you have no shame here to come and talk about human rights to lecture the whole world, to lecture the whole hemisphere about democracy and the freedom of the press when Sebastian Morrow, an Argentine journalist who is in Bolivia, an Argentine journalist who is in Bolivia exposing the truth about the coup and he was killed. You're here to lecture about media freedom when you install the dictatorship and murder journalists and murder innocent people, workers, indigenous people, students, you. Yeah, kudos to him. He is absolutely brave and he is speaking truth to power. And that's what that looks like right there. So thankfully, Bolivia ultimately thwarted this coup attempt and they took back their democracy. But the problem is that there's never been any accountability and when there's no accountability, then we can all expect it to happen again, perhaps not in Bolivia, but maybe in a different country. I mean, it happened with Venezuela as that individual pointed out. So, you know, these leaders here, they have the audacity to speak about press freedom and democracy as if they genuinely care about that. They will disregard press freedom and democracy in an instant, so long as strategically that's the valuable position to take. Political expediency above everything else, our interests above everything else. So I love that, you know, people were not backing down and so many journalists and activists confronted these leaders here because if you're going to say one thing, but do another, that's something that as a civilized society, we just can't accept. So they have to be challenged and they have to be called out for the hypocrisy and I applaud everyone here for standing up and genuinely speaking truth to power in a very important and profound way.