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For champions of civility coming to Tucker Carlson’s defense, the problem for public discourse is not his vile statements, but any suggestion that the public could be better served.
There continues to be a large market for pieces saying the big conflict in the US is generational rather than class. The HuffPost made its latest contribution this week.
When the headline of a story literally includes the phrase “Big Question: What Is Terrorism?” you might think it would offer at least one plausible definition proposed by any party or individual involved in these discussions. But not a single definition is suggested by anyone in the report.
The reaction to Ilhan Omar’s comments proved her point: The United States’ allegiance to Israel, right or wrong, is unwavering, and any questioning of Israeli policy and the Palestinian plight is “unacceptable” and will be linked to antisemitism in order to squash debate.
Election Focus 2020: Are campaigns controlled by media consultants necessarily better than those controlled by the candidates themselves? Why should Bernie Sanders bending to “the wishes of his current advisers” be considered a good thing?
The political right is uniting with establishment Democrats in denouncing presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders for his supposedly pro-dictatorship stance on Venezuela. And the media are piling on.
Election Focus 2020: The Tea Party upsurge might have “cost” the Republicans in morality, but not in seats or political power. Activists are hopeful that a solidly progressive platform can bring the Democratic Party a similar advantage.
If you’re thinking that Facebook–90 percent of whose customers are not in the United States–should treat Russian-backed outlets differently than US-backed outlets because the US supports peace and democracy, or doesn’t use social media to try to manipulate other nations…. Well, this is why it’s important to get your information from a variety of sources.
Election Focus 2020: Why, one is compelled to ask, do longtime, diehard conservatives care so much about what’s in the Democratic Party’s best interests?
Incredibly, instead of pointing out that the advocates of austerity have been shown wrong, most reporting continues to treat their policies as being credible, and in fact often works to hide evidence of its failure.
The US administration and corporate media have resorted to the most extreme lying about Latin America that has been seen since the Reagan administration wars of the 1980s.
Venezuela’s years of social gains have been almost entirely written out of media coverage of the effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government by the US, Canada and their right-wing partners in Venezuela and the region.
While commentators are at least beginning to worry about Amazon’s emerging monopoly here at home, this concern does not extend to countries like India, exposing the underlying neocolonial disposition of corporate media.
The “economic textbooks” CBS cites in its warning on debt seem not to be very reliable.
A federal appeals court has overturned FCC chair Ajit Pai’s attempt to gut the subsidy that makes it possible for low-income communities to access broadband.
It’s not unusual for Western media to ignore facts they have themselves reported when a major “propaganda blitz” by Washington is underway against a government.
Western media outlets uniformly echoed the Trump administration’s simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid.
Alarmed by the growing threat of progressive policies at home, the establishment has found a one-word weapon to deploy against the rising tide: Venezuela.
Inchoate fears about public transit—and the people who use it—have a long history, both in New York and other US cities.
The US media chorus supporting a US overthrow of the Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country’s economic crisis as a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US has strangled the Venezuelan economy.
