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“Outside forces who, in some cases, do not have to disclose the source of their funding can spend more on a race than the candidates themselves.”
“The problem isn’t what people believe. It’s translating majority opinion into majority rule.”
If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
With two months to go before Venezuelan elections, Western outlets are busy crafting familiar narratives, and leading the charge is the New York Times.
“Pragmatic” means doing what’s best for the US, “ideological” means doing what’s best for the Mexican people Claudia Sheinbaum represents.
“Even though the amount of small money in the system has dramatically increased, the money from the biggest donors…has increased even faster.”
“The goal, really, was not to prove that Trump won, but it was to get on the news week after week and month after month…and just plant those seeds of doubt.”
The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery–but many people who vote do believe that.
“The Republicans have turned their entire apparatus, not into improving people’s lives, but into taking away their right to vote.”
Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.
“The whole mess that got this guy elected was really created by the Macri government and that IMF agreement.”
Argentina’s new president questions the death toll of the country’s military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”
US press coverage has had trouble recognizing that the new government of Benjamin Netanyahu is anything other than business as usual.
“None of them would ever want a former labor union leader to become president of the US. That’s pretty obvious, right?”
Corporate media are so in thrall to the State Department’s propaganda about Nicaragua that they can’t ask simple questions.
It’s hard not to imagine the use that a differently focused press corps might make of Brazil’s change of direction.
Anglo media are treating the Brazilian first-round presidential elections as if the Brazilian Workers Party suffered a crushing defeat.
Rise of the Bolsonaros tells the story of Brazil’s far-right president through sources like Steve Bannon and Bolsonaro’s son Flavio.
“There’s just very, very little transparency in this world. And they found ways to make this transaction in the group even darker.”
Janine Jackson interviewed Global Witness’s Jon Lloyd about Facebook disinformation for the August 19, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Social media platforms’ role in shaping the sharing and fomenting of ideas that they purport to merely facilitate is a widely diagnosed concern. As with any kind of […]
