UN Declares Genocide in Gaza While 250 US Lawmakers Are in Israel
It is surely in the interest of the public to know if their local representatives were in Israel networking with parties to what the UN has labeled a genocide.
Iman Abid on the Economy of Genocide, Victor Pickard on Paramount Settlement
The UN’s Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.
‘I’m Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media’:
CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel's aid blockade
“Why hasn’t something happened to stop the killing already? And the displacement of 90% of the population?”
WaPo: When Israeli Leaders Commit War Crimes, They Can Prosecute Themselves
The Washington Post argued that rules needn’t apply to the West and its allies, since they have the “means [and] mechanisms to investigate themselves.”
UN Tells Israel: Cease Fire; NYT Says: If You Want
The New York Times offered no rebuttal from any international law scholar to the US claim that the ceasefire resolution was “nonbinding.”
‘This Is About What Has to Happen to Stop This Genocide’:
CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on Gaza ceasefire resolution
Janine Jackson interviewed IPS’s Phyllis Bennis about the Gaza ceasefire resolution for the March 29, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: Reuters reported on March 22 that the United Nations Security Council had rejected a resolution, proposed by the US, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and […]
Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
A senior UN human rights official says there is a “plausible” case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.
Establishment Papers Fell Short in Coverage of Genocide Charges
Establishment media in the US were slow to cover South Africa’s charge—initially providing the public with thin to no reporting on the case.
Corporate Media Fed COP 28 Carbon Capture Confusion
Rather than exposing CCS as the greenwashing ploy it essentially is, some reporting added to confusion and misunderstandings.
Jamil Dakwar on US & Human Rights, Matt Gertz on Mike Johnson
Shouldn’t the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?
‘This Treaty Could Put the Nuclear Weapons Genie Back in the Bottle’
“If the press would do its work and inform people about the treaty…then maybe these countries could be prodded to sign.”
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.
‘When Governments Fail to Take Action, They Step In’
“These wrongs and these crimes, if they are not investigated and prosecuted, then most likely this will happen again in the next armed conflict the United States will be involved in.”
Richard Kim on Brett Kavanaugh, Jamil Dakwar on John Bolton
“Americans don’t want it, but it’s happening anyway; next!” seems to be corporate media’s approach to the nomination of arch-conservative Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
‘Whataboutism’ Runs Amok as Jake Tapper Rattles Off Trump Talking Points
Why arbitrarily audit a handful of the 164 countries that didn’t support the US, rather than characterize their broader makeup?
ABC Campaign Coverage–or GOP Campaign Commercial?
For a news story that promises to be about a conservative candidate’s TV commercial, ABC sure delivered.
Washington Post Slams Venezuela for Electing ‘Former Bus Driver’
It’s no secret that the Washington Post editorial page was quite alarmed by Venezuela’s shift to the left under former President Hugo Chavez. The Post–like the rest of elite US media (Extra!, 11/05)–was an unrelenting critic of Chavez’s policies. Some things haven’t changed. In a scathing editorial (9/20/14), the Post went after Chavez’s successor Nicolas Maduro, […]
Death in Gaza: Some Counts More Controversial than Others
When it comes to the death toll in Gaza, the Washington Post and New York Times both work hard to muddy up the picture.
Bolivian President Isn’t Radical Enough for Corporate Media
Vilifying left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean leaders is nothing new from the US media–from Chile’s Salvador Allende to Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, from Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to Mauricio Funes of El Salvador. Bolivian President Evo Morales is no exception, as he caught the attention of the website Vox, a new outlet that sets out to “explain the news” with an emphasis on data analysis.
Where Is the Discussion of Syria and International Law?
If international law is so important in evaluating Syria’s actions, then shouldn’t it be equally important in evaluating the proposed US response?
