Milei Is ‘Really as Extreme as You Get in Right-Wing Libertarian Ideas’
“The whole mess that got this guy elected was really created by the Macri government and that IMF agreement.”
Bloomberg Hits BRICS as US Power Challenged
The prospect of a group of nations working together to advance independent development sent the Bloomberg news service into attack mode.
Bono, I Presume?
“Africa is sexy and people need to know that,” declared U2 singer Bono (New York Times, 3/5/07), promoting his new (RED) line of products that propose to save Africa one iPod at a time. Celebrity interest in Africa is not particularly new, but today more stars than ever seem to be converging upon the continent, […]
Jeff Chester on COPE Act, Ann-Louise Colgan on World Bank
This week on CounterSpin: How serious is the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act, with Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy. Also this week: Africa Action’s Ann Louise Colgan discuss the media’s shifting coverage of the World Bank.
Another Day, Another Mass Arrest
From September 25 to September 29, activists rallied in Washington, D.C. for the first large-scale U.S. protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On Friday, September 27, several hundred people—including activists, bystanders and journalists—were arrested en masse in what appears to have been an illegal […]
Free Speech Since Seattle
Over the last year, political street protests have made a resurgence in the U.S., with high-profile demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization, in Washington, D.C. against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, in Philadelphia at the Republican National Convention and in Los Angeles at the Democratic National Convention. With them has come […]
IMF Responds on Alternative Media Exclusion
In response to a letter from a FAIR activist protesting the exclusion ofcommunity journalists from the IMF and World Bank’s April meetings, IMFSenior Press Officer William Murray sent the following note: “Thank you for your letter dated June 17, 2000 to Managing Director HorstKoehler regarding our press credential policy. Let me explain briefly whatthe […]
New York Times Op-Ed Page Shuts Out IMF/World Bank Critics
The recent protests against IMF and World Bank policies provoked a deepening and widening of debate on globalization in much of the media, yet the New York Times‘ op-ed page has taken a remarkably one-sided approach to the issue. The Times has run five op-eds critical of the Mobilization for Global Justice, and none that […]
IMF Bars Community Journalists from D.C. Meetings
Press credentials to the IMF/World Bank meetings in Washington, D.C. on April 16 and 17 have been denied to journalists working for community radio and television stations. The denial of credentials has come directly from the IMF Press Office, which has sent the following message to some of those reporters: “We do not provide press […]
Media Distortion of World Bank/IMF Protests Starts Early
Mainstream media have begun to turn their attention to Washington, D.C., andthe Mobilization for Global Justice, a week-long series of protestscoinciding with the meetings of the World Bank and International MonetaryFund (IMF) scheduled for April 16 and 17. Many of the stories draw parallelsbetween the events in D.C. and the World Trade Organization (WTO) protestsin […]
Pepper Spray Gets in Their Eyes
The WTO protests in Seattle may be remembered as the time when the words “pepper spray” first entered the vocabulary of the American public. From November 30 through December 3, as police took on demonstrators outside the World Trade Organization meeting at the Seattle Convention Center, you couldn’t turn on a TV or open a […]
Prattle in Seattle
As tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Seattle to shut down the opening conference of the World Trade Organization meeting last December, mainstream media treated protesters’ concerns with indifference and often contempt. That hostility translated into slanted coverage of both the demonstrations and the police reaction. A U.S. News & World Report headline, “Hell […]
WTO Coverage: Prattle in Seattle
As an estimated 50,000 protesters rallied in Seattle to shut down the opening conference of the World Trade Organization meeting last week, mainstream media treated protesters’ concerns with indifference and often contempt. That hostility translated into slanted coverage of both the demonstrations and the police reaction. In mainstream reports, “anti-trade” became a common–though wildly inaccurate–label […]
Initial Reports from Seattle Gloss Over WTO Issues
As trade ministers from over 130 countries meet in Seattle this week for the World Trade Organization summit, tens of thousands of activists from all over the world have converged on the city to protest both the undemocratic structure of the group and its record on labor and environmental issues. But the news coverage anticipating […]
Are All Yeltsin Critics ‘Hard-Line’ — Or Is That Just the U.S. Media’s Party Line?
When the Russian crisis began, CBS anchor Dan Rather suggested (9/21/93) that Boris Yeltsin “didn’t go far enough” in getting rid of the “hard-liners.” But how does a president legally get rid of elected members of parliament? President Yeltsin did it by simply dissolving parliament on Sept. 21, a blatantly unconstitutional move that won immediate […]
