"UN: Take Off Your Blinders," By Matthew Russell Lee, Inner City Press, May 7, 2017

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UN: Take Off Your Blinders, by Matthew Russell Lee

It was World Press Freedom Day
But the UN restricted the Press
Trying to make it go away
So more dictators it could bless
But we said NO No NO
No more minders
Antonio Guterres
Take off your blinders
Take a look at Cameroon
Where Paul Biya cut off the Net
Don't be like Ban Ki-moon
Change your ways before they are set
So we say NO NO NO
No more restrictions
NO NO NO
No more spokesman's fictions
Three men spoke at the stakeout
But only two men were shown
When you censored Western Sahara
Your free speech cover was blown
So we say NO NO NO
No more stakeout fakeout
NO NO NO
A full week to see how it shakes out
Anders Kompass blew the whistle
on peacekeepers raping kids in CAR
Got fired for his troubles
The UN didn't care that the news would go far
And we say NO NO NO
No more UN retaliations
NO NO NO
Time to pay reparations
The UN brought cholera to Haiti
And told lies while it spread
Still hasn't paid a penny
While ten thousand people are dead
So we say NO NO NO
End the UN lying
NO NO NO
With ten thousand Haitians dying
As the Saudis kept bombing Yemen
Zerougui put them on a list
Ban Ki-moon took them off
And from the next list they will be missed
And I said NO NO NO
No more pay to pay
And I said no no no
It's more like pay to SLAY

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At UN's World Press Freedom Event, ICP Asks of UN Censorship, WIPO & FAO, 1-Line Response
By Matthew Russell Lee, Video here

UNITED NATIONS, May 4 – At the UN's World Press Freedom Day event, the hypocrisy of the UN was on display. After a UN panel gave speeches praising the UN's work, the floor was opened for questions. Inner City Press raised its hand throughout. First the Department of Public Information's Margaret Novicki called on a non governmental organization; then she switched to pre-selected questioners. A DPI staffer told Inner City Press Novicki erred in calling on the NGO, but to keep its hand raised. Inner City Press waited and then asked about the UN's own commitment to press freedom, using as examples the World Intellectual Property Organization's use of criminal defamation laws against a Swiss radio station, FAO going after a website for reporting on corruption, and the UN's lack of due process protections for journalists. All Novicki said, to the three questions, was that "as you know," DPI is committed to freedom of the press. Really?