Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Western corporate media outlets have done a fine job of legitimizing Israel’s mass killing, displacement and destruction in Lebanon.
Belén Fernández
In Midst of Palestinian Genocide, Late Hamas Leader Scolded for ‘Eradicating’ Israel
After the Israeli military killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, it didn’t take long for the usual media suspects to line up with their anti-eulogies.
Jumping on the Hezbollah ‘Narcoterrorism’ Bandwagon
It’s helpful to have a narco-jihadi menace—in bed with socialist regimes in Latin America, no less—festering along the United States’ southern border.
Friedman at 50 Friedman Units: What Did We Do to Deserve This?
On the occasion of the silver anniversary of Thomas Friedman’s foreign affairs column in the New York Times, let’s recall some of his greatest hits from over the years,
Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims
Cuba’s coronavirus performance is a welcome bit of uplifting news in an otherwise mostly dismal international panorama. Lest anyone start feeling too inspired by the idea of humanity, however, sectors of the US corporate media are dutifully standing by to burst the bubble.
A Tough Time to Be a Spy, NPR Reports
NPR’s Morning Edition has just run an upbeat segment on how violating other people’s borders is now a tad more challenging for American spies than it was in past decades.
Media Roll Out Welcome Mat for ‘Humanitarian’ War in Syria
Hillary Clinton has stepped up her promotion of the idea that a no-fly zone in Syria could “save lives” and “hasten the end of the conflict” that has devastated that country since 2011. It has now been revealed, of course, that Clinton hasn’t always expressed the same optimism about the no-fly zone in private.
