{"id":11827,"date":"2015-09-04T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2015-09-04T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:36:47","slug":"nyt-claims-u-s-abides-by-cluster-bomb-treaty-the-exact-opposite-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11827","title":{"rendered":"NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0today has\u00a0a truly bizarre article<\/a>\u00a0regarding the U.S. and cluster bombs. The advocacy group\u00a0Cluster Munition Coalition<\/a>\u00a0just\u00a0issued its annual report finding that cluster bombs had been used in five countries this year: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan. This is what The Paper of Record, in its report\u00a0by Rick Gladstone, said this morning about the international reaction to that report (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

The use of these weapons was criticized by all 117 countries that have joined the treaty, which took effect five years ago. Their use was also criticized by a number of others, including the United States, that have not yet joined the treaty but\u00a0have abided by its provisions<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Americans, we should feel proud that our government, though refusing to sign the cluster ban treaty, has nonetheless \u201cabided by its provisions\u201d \u2014 if not\u00a0for the fact that this claim is totally false. The U.S. has long been and remains one of the world\u2019s most aggressive suppliers of cluster munitions, and has used those banned weapons itself\u00a0in devastating ways.<\/p>\n

In December 2009 \u2014 just weeks after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize \u2014 President Obama ordered a cruise missile strike on al-Majala in southern Yemen.\u00a0That strike<\/a>\u00a0\u201ckilled 35 women and children.\u201d Among the munitions used in that strike were cluster bombs, including ones designed to scatter 166 \u201cbomblets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the U.S. at first refused to confirm responsibility, a Yemeni journalist, Abdulelah Haider Shaye, visited the scene and found irrefutable proof that it was done by the U.S., a finding subsequently\u00a0confirmed by Amnesty International<\/a>\u00a0as well as\u00a0a cable released by WikiLeaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0today has\u00a0a truly bizarre article\u00a0regarding the U.S. and cluster bombs. The advocacy group\u00a0Cluster Munition Coalition\u00a0just\u00a0issued its annual report finding that cluster bombs had been used in five countries this year: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan. This is what The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1963,5266,5437,1426,1921,8682,584,655,5567,827,834,880,901],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-amnesty-international","tag-cluster-bombs","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-misinformation","tag-new-york-times","tag-nyt","tag-obama","tag-propaganda","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-wikileaks","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11828,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}