The ‘Venezuelan People’ Are Whoever Agrees With Donald Trump
Terms like the “Venezuelan people” or “civil society” were used exclusively to refer to opposition groups in alignment with (and funded by) the US government.
‘Resistance’ Media Side With Trump to Promote Coup in Venezuela
We like to think we have an adversarial media—one that will stand up, in particular, to Donald Trump. The media assured us that they would perform their crucial democratic role in holding this dangerous new president and commander-in-chief accountable at every turn. This struck a chord with the public; in the wake of Trump’s […]
Jenni Monet on Indigenous Journalism
Corporate media’s lack of interest in indigenous issues, and their ahistorical, distorted view of them when they do cover them, are long overdue for change.
FAIR Study: Elite Media Allowed No Dissent on Regime Change for Venezuela
When it comes to advocating the overthrow of the US government’s foreign undesirables, you can always count on opinion pages to represent all sides of why it’s a good thing. And the millions of people who beg to differ? Well, they’re just out of the question.
‘US Administrations Have Been Intervening in Venezuela Since at Least the Early 2000s’
“There’s this absurd idea that the sanctions somehow only hurt the Venezuelan government and Venezuelan government officials.”
Debbie Weingarten on the Borderlands, Alexander Main on Maduro’s Reelection
“Building a wall” at the US/Mexico border is an abstraction for many Americans–but not for people who live in the borderlands, and those who listen to those who do.
WaPo: Trump Needs to Destroy Venezuela to Save It
Tamara Taraciuk Broner of Human Rights Watch and Johns Hopkins professor Kathleen Page took to the pages of the Washington Post to whitewash Donald Trump’s successful efforts to make Venezuela’s economic crisis much worse.
ACTION ALERT: Venezuela Poses No ‘Threat to the World’—but WaPo’s Claim That It Does Is Dangerous
Please ask the Washington Post to retract its baseless and dangerous claim that Venezuela poses a “threat to the world.”
From Venezuela to McCain, Media and Human Rights Industry on Same Page
On August 20, the Economist ran an article on Venezuela saying that “forced migration from the country might surpass the Syria crisis.” The magazine reported: The UN’s International Organization for Migration estimates that at the end of 2017 approximately 1.6 million Venezuelans were living outside their country. Today that number is likely to be far […]
That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality
Progressives should not necessarily shed tears for Alex Jones, but they should be aware that their media is next in line, and that Jones’ deplatforming sets a dangerous precedent that is already being used against them.
A ‘Regime’ Is a Government at Odds With the US Empire
A country’s political leaders are likely to be called a “regime” when they do not follow US dictates, and are less likely to be categorized as such if they cooperate with the empire.
Why Venezuela Reporting Is So Bad
Any defense of Venezuela’s government will provoke vilification and ridicule, so both Alan MacLeod and his publisher (Routledge) deserve very high praise for producing the book Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting. It took real political courage.
The Empire’s Media and the Quest for Veto Authority in the Americas
The corporate media’s reaction to US assaults on democracy in Latin America, with rare exceptions, ranged from ignoring them to spreading misinformation in defense of them.
Media Delegitimize Venezuelan Elections Amid Complete Unanimity of Outlook
Across media, coverage of the Venezuelan election was eerily similar. Indeed, most media outlets even used the same word choice and structure in their headlines, declaring Maduro the winner while undermining the system’s legitimacy with the helpful preposition “amid.”
Writing Off Democracy in Venezuela, US Press and Politicians Dream of a Coup
Much of US media, indignant about Russian impact on the US elections, are openly supporting a coup in Venezuela.
‘These Are Sanctions Directly Aimed at the Civilian Population’
“They’ll focus on the horrible deprivation and the hardships and that, but they won’t say that, ‘Hey, by the way, our policy is costing these guys billions of dollars a year.'”
Joe Emersberger on Venezuelan Elections, Dahr Jamail on Antarctic Ice
The United States secretly pressured a Venezuelan opposition candidate not to run, so that the election can be discredited as having no viable opposition candidate.
Western Media Shorthand on Venezuela Conveys and Conceals So Much
Western media have developed a sort of journalistic shorthand, over years of repetition, for conveying distortions and whitewashing gross imperial hypocrisy about Venezuela.
Exonerating the Empire in Venezuela
The United States has for years undermined the Venezuelan economy with economic sanctions, but US media coverage of Venezuela’s financial crisis has gone out of its way to obscure this.
WSJ’s Epic Distortion of Colombian and Venezuelan Refugees
In reporting that Venezuelans are leaving “in Numbers That Echo Syrians to Europe,” the Wall Street Journal picked the wrong country to compare to Syria.
