On January 16th, Caitlin Johnstone aptly headlined "None Of These War Criminals Will Face Justice While The US Empire Exists", and opened with:

Two journalists were ejected from a State Department press conference on Thursday for asking inconvenient questions about Gaza. One of them, Sam Husseini, was physically carried out by security while demanding to know why Secretary of State Antony Blinken is not in The Hague for his war crimes.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal was also made to leave while asking Blinken why he allowed hundreds of journalists to be murdered in Gaza, telling State Department spokesman Matt Miller that he "smirked through a genocide."

Husseini was then forcibly removed for asking questions about Gaza, and about Israel's nuclear program and Hannibal directive. Blinken told Husseini to "respect the process," to which Husseini replied, "Respect the process? Respect the process? While everybody from Amnesty International to the ICJ says Israel's doing genocide and extermination, and you're telling me to respect the process? Criminal! Why aren't you in the Hague?"

The western political-media class is expressing outrage over the incident, not because of journalists being manhandled for asking critical questions of their government, but because those journalists asked critical questions. …

Just the day before, the January 15th edition of The Chris Hedges Report, "America's Academic Gulag (w/ MIT Student Activists) | The Chris Hedges Report", showed the great international war reporter Hedges interviewing two young rising stars and Ph.D. students at America's leading STEM University, MIT, who are being driven out, and their scholarships and grant funding cancelled, simply because they consider genocide to be unacceptable. One, named Prahlad Iyengar, had been a National Science Foundation Fellow studying for his Ph.D. in the intersection of quantum information, quantum sensing, and machine learning; and the other, who is Richard Solomon, had been studying for his Ph.D in the political economy of trade and science, and who had previously been a Vice Consul and Assistant Secretary in the U.S. State Department.