Latest Media
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Emersberger: Media on Venezuela Conveys and Conceals So Much
Western media have developed, over years of repetition, distortions and whitewashing gross imperial hypocrisy about Venezuela
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Chelala: Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel
In spite of a systemic policy of demonization against him, Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government crimes against the Palestinians
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Greenwald: Silencing Julian Assange
Many of the recent media claims about Assange — which have centered on the alleged role of Russia in the internal Spanish conflict over Catalan independence — range from highly dubious to demonstrably false
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Baroud: Media Cover-up: Shielding Israel is a Matter of Policy
It is a calculated and long-term campaign, aimed at guarding Israel and demonizing Palestinians
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Cook: Robert Fisk’s Douma report rips away excuses for air strike on Syria
All of us have a moral responsibility to stop simply believing what our governments and their propagandists in the corporate media tell us
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Lucas: UK Journalist Given Access to Douma to Deny Chemical Attacks
A British journalist has been escorted to the town to give a pro-regime account denying that the attacks ever occurred
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Solomon: Missile Attack on Syria Is a Salute to “Russiagate” Enthusiasts
Whether They Like It or Not
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Feffer: Trump’s Trade War Is About Trump, Not China
Those China tariffs aren't surprising. What’s bizarre are the people praising Trump's recklessness and reviving his political fortunes
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Baker: Rich People Complaining About Deficit
There is no honest way to discuss the burden of the debt without also talking about the burdens created by these government-granted monopolies
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Cohen: Do U.S. Oligarchs Exist? Not in Mainstream Media
U.S. oligarchs have done far more to undermine U.S. democracy than any Russian
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Swanson: “Why, This Isn’t Cuba”
Outrages should be outrages because of what they are, not because of who commits them
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Rall: The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance
The media has created a relentless culture of ultraviolence, a debate without diversity between those who want bombs and those who want even more wars
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Wallerstein: Recurrent Themes: Corruption and National Security
People everywhere make claims and complain regularly about corruption and...
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Cohen: Same Old Media Parade: Why Are Liberals Cheering?
It’s now the 15th anniversary of the tragic invasion of Iraq. The huge mainstream media failure in the run-up to the invasion is taught in college journalism courses, including mine
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Richardson: Journalism of, by and for the Elite
The reality is that the average New York Times reporter shares much more in the way of educational and cultural background with those they cover than with the general public
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Chomsky: On the Populist Groundswell, the Future of Humanity, and More
Interview on foreign policy, dissent in the Internet age, public education, corporate predation, who’s really messing with American elections, climate change, and more
ZMag Media
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Herman: Publishing Edward S. Herman
An important semantic development of the past decade that is closely related to the doublespeak of moderateness and extremism is the new usage of the concept of “special interests.”
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Dolack: An Honest Conversation About Vietnam
More than four decades past the end of that imperialist adventure, having a serious discussion about it remains taboo.
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Herman: “Meddling in Fake News and the Real World”
The United States outclasses Russia and its predecessor, the Soviet Union, in both the number, and frequency of resort to violence, in their interventions in foreign elections.
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Baroud: How Palestine Disappeared from U.S. Media Coverage
As if he has, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel has left many analysts mystified.
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Phillips: Propaganda, Fake News, and Media Lies
Both PR and propaganda seek to change behaviors and ideas among the masses in support of the agendas of public and private institutions.
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Herman: The New Anti-Russian Hysteria
It is sad to see the liberals carried away on the wave of hysteria about the supposed Russian information warfare menace and possible influence over or even capture of the Trump presidency. It is also very dangerous to human welfare as it helps consolidate the power of the military-industrial complex
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Street: Reflections on the Not-so Public Broadcasting System
the news and commentary one finds on PBS is in rich tune with the narrow capitalist parameters of acceptable coverage and debate that typify the more fully and explicitly for-profit and commercialized corporate media
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who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine
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Herman: Public Editors & Structural Bias
Sullivan claims that the NYT has and should maintain “abiding attention to society’s have nots.” To the war on labor and decline of labor unions, which they have scanted for years?
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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of Politics by the Press
On the night of April 22, three days after the presidential primary, seven words buried at the end of a Times Union blog let slip the fact that Sanders had won the 20th Congressional district
Video Media
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M.j.: Independent Publishing in India
Continuing our focus on independent publishing in India, we talk to...
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Interview on a wide range of topics, from the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Hersh: Syria, Osama bin Laden and more
Interview about his career and recent articles on Syria and Osama bin Laden
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
Blogs Media
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: Media Coverage Misrepresents Yemen’s Real Problems
Yemen has found itself splashed all over the news again...
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Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
On behalf of the Bosnian Serb defendant Ljubiša Beara in...
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Paul: ‘The War You Don’t See’: Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine
Global Policy Forum, Blog http://globalpolicyinbrief.blogspot.com/ Seven months prior to the...
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Kearns: The “middle class mob”: press coverage of Saturday’s UK Uncut action
Discourses around protests develop pretty quickly such that it's tricky...
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Sinclair: Email exchange with the BBC’s Mark Mardell about US military aid to Egypt
Please see below an email exchange I had in January...
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Campagna: What Are We Struggling For? – Seminar
Last year’s student protests saw a new generation take to...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 4
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights,...
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Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference — Part 3
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic...
Audio Media
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Schechter: Michael Albert On Participatory Media
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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Wilpert: Announcing TeleSUR English
Greg Wilpert is director of teleSUR English, a newly launched multimedia website that is sponsored by teleSUR, the Latin American TV channel that is funded by the left governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Cuba
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Bennis: Afghanistan after the Wikileaks War Logs
Interview about the impact of the Wikileaks documents and the...
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Pilger: Journalism and the War on Terror
John Pilger is an acclaimed Australian journalist and documentary maker....
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Robbins: Address to National Association of Broadcasters
A renowned actor, director and writer, Robbins used his keynote...