With Turban or Hammer and Sickle, Cartoonists Tried to Make You Fear Mamdani
Right-wing cartoonists waged a relentless campaign to tar Mamdani as a dangerous political extremist and religious radical.
A Seattle Socialist’s Victory Gives Elite Media the Jitters
Editorial boards are not afraid socialist policies will fail—they fear they will work, thus making a “tax the rich” agenda more popular nationwide.
Media Throw Everything But the Facts Against Harris’s ‘Price Control’ Proposal
Debates over whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s economic proposals constitute Communist price controls or merely technocratic consumer protections are obscuring a more insidious thread within corporate media. In coverage of Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal, it’s taken for granted that price inflation, especially in the grocery sector, is an organic and unavoidable result of market forces, […]
Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism
Our past has not been fully grappled with or understood, and that has everything to do with what’s happening now.
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‘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.”
Socialists Denounced as Foes and Tools of Real Estate Industry
The idea that DSA members are at the same time both tools and enemies of real estate interests is a frustrating and confounding contradiction,
US Media Lie About Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism—Before, During and After Election
That Bolivia’s MAS won this month’s election in an apparent landslide hasn’t meant an end to US media hostilities.
Socialism’s Increasing Popularity Doesn’t Bring Media Out of McCarthy Era
Looking at the representation of socialism among the hundreds of pundits in corporate media, one can be forgiven for almost thinking socialist pundits don’t exist.
Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Corporate Media From Crusading Against Universal Healthcare
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, many in corporate media are still engaging in class warfare by continuing their crusade against universal healthcare.
Media Malfunction as Sanders Notes Positive Aspects of Latin American Socialism
Election Focus 2020: News organizations seemed unable to process that a major national political figure could say something positive about a socialist country, leaving these outlets flailing around in absurd ways.
News Flash! Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism
Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism. In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. CNBC (1/22/20) ran an article headlined, “BP’s CEO Chides AOC and Bernie […]
News Flash: Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism
Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism. In response to a rising progressive tide in the United States, a new genre of stories has emerged in corporate media: rich guys warning against taxing them, or really changing anything about the system at all. Just as the press are keen for you to know that […]
Corporate Media Find All the Wrong Lessons for US Left in Corbyn’s Defeat
Election Focus 2020: Across the spectrum, corporate media all came to the same conclusion regarding the election: Corbyn’s loss spells the end for the US left and a “crushing defeat” of the discredited policies of socialism.
‘Venezuela’: Media’s One-Word Rebuttal to the Threat of Socialism
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.
Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left
Even if today’s socialist wing of the Democratic Party hasn’t won every underdog primary race against better-funded centrist opponents, it is apparent that progressives are winning the battle of ideas within the party.
Media Continues Writing Premature Obituaries for the Democratic Left
Even if today’s socialist wing of the Democratic Party hasn’t won every underdog primary race against better-funded centrist opponents, it is apparent that progressives are winning the battle of ideas within the party.
The Myth That Sanders Hasn’t Been Criticized Won’t Go Away
As Donald Trump caught up with Hillary Clinton in the polls over the past two weeks, the Bernie Sanders campaign has reiterated its last-ditch argument to win over superdelegates and secure the nomination: The Vermont senator is walloping Trump in the polls by over ten points, in contrast to Clinton’s dead heat. To counter this increasingly messy fact, several Clinton boosters in the media have dusted off an old talking point: that Sanders hasn’t been properly “vetted”—thoroughly examined for political faults—rendering the polls meaningless.
Sanders, Redbaiting and the ‘Denouncing’ Double Standard
Whenever the issue of socialism—or communism, its more fear-inducing cousin—comes up, the press must attempt to compel those who have previously expressed support or sympathy for red politics to “denounce” their prior statements.
Chicago Tribune Warns Voters Away From ‘Socialism’ Cliff
Capitalist institutions like giant media conglomerates tend to see an aversion to socialism as normal and healthy.
Media Welcome for ‘Baroque Conspiracy Theories’ Not Unprecedented
What “surprises” Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik (8/30/09) more than this summer’s news full of “baroque conspiracy theories” and “weepy hysteria” is “the idea that these are somehow unprecedented.” Hiltzik looks back to an earlier era of supposed presidential “socialism” in the U.S. to see such current claims as “merely the latest examples of […]
