Julie Hollar on Roe Reversal, Tesnim Zekeria on Baby Formula Shortage
Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather as a partisan football.
Blaming Workers, Hiding Profits in Primetime Inflation Coverage
Segments on inflation put far more emphasis on the contributions of labor shortages than to the role of corporate profit-taking.
‘Communities Should Not Pay Amazon. It Should Be the Other Way Around.’
“Rich companies with armies of consultants…are going to come in and grab every piece of money laying on the table they can.”
‘Mega-Retailers Are Using Inflation as a Cover to Raise Prices and Turn Record Profits’
“We’ve essentially spent 50 years handing our supply chain over to mega corporations. These companies have built a system that works for them.”
Rakeen Mabud on Supply Chain Breakdown
Why has the system broken down? You could say media’s reluctance to critically break down systems is itself a system problem.
‘The Entire Cryptocurrency Market Is Basically a Ponzi Scheme’
“Investors are buying thinking that prices are being driven by speculation, when they’re actually really being driven by market manipulation.”
Steven Rosenfeld on Arizona ‘Audit,’ Sohale Mortazavi on Cryptocurrency
The spate of new election-meddling laws proposed in Arizona suggests that looking away from Trumpists’ “audit” is not the answer.
‘Puerto Rico Hasn’t Had the Opportunity to Develop Its Own Economic Future’
“There’s good momentum to pave a better future, and one that actually has Puerto Ricans in the driver’s seat.”
Why Comparing Chinese Africa Investment to Western Colonialism Is No Joke
Trevor Noah did his best to spin Chinese investment in Africa into neo-colonialism—regardless of the underlying reality.
Natalia Renta on Puerto Rico Debt Deal
A judge has approved a debt restructuring deal for Puerto Rico and the deal’s architects are saying it means a “new day” for the territory.
‘They Do Not Tell Both Sides of the Inflation Story’
“People with a lot of money do not like to lose it. And that’s really at the root of this inflation freak-out.”
Jon Schwarz on Inflation, Enrique Armijo on Alex Jones
You don’t need to understand inflation, elite media seem to say, but you do need to be mad about it.
Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’—or Economic Sanctions?
News outlets are ignoring the fact that, while numbers of Nicaraguan migrants have risen, so have those from almost everywhere else.
‘We’ve Structured Our Economy to Redistribute a Massive Amount of Income Upward’
“We’ve basically structured our financial sector to rake off enormous amounts of money from the rest of the economy.”
Rick Claypool on OxyContin Bankruptcy, Dean Baker on Economic Disconnects
A bankruptcy ruling shields the Sackler family, profiteers on Oxycontin, responsible for, conservatively, half a million deaths by overdose.
The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez
Western media have spent years conveying a lie: that Venezuela had been very prosperous and democratic until Hugo Chávez ruined everything.
![‘Economic Warfare [Is] Designed to Starve the Cuban People Into Rebellion’](https://eadn-wc04-3257648.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/James-Early.jpg-e1628710860183-440x253.png)
‘Economic Warfare [Is] Designed to Starve the Cuban People Into Rebellion’
“We have no right to break the protocols of nations, and to interfere into the sovereignty and self-determination of other nations.”
Extra! Soundbites June 2021
Things You Never Expect Michelle Kosinski, a TV journalist who’s served as CNN‘s White House reporter and a foreign correspondent for NBC, posted a tweet (5/8/21) that declared: As an American journalist, you never expect: Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to […]
Michael Hiltzik on ‘No One Wants to Work!’
Do elite media have space for people who don’t want to risk their lives for less money than they need to live?
UN Rebuke of US Sanctions on Venezuela Met With Stunning Silence
By omitting the devastating impact of sanctions, corporate media attribute sole responsibility for economic and humanitarian conditions to the Venezuelan government, thereby using the misery provoked by sanctions to validate the infliction of even more misery.
