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  Save The BBC? In Whose Interests?

  By: David Cromwell

  If the BBC is to be ‘saved’, it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up as a truly public service broadcaster
• Hawkish Pundits Downplay Threat of War, Ukraine’s Nazi Ties

  By: Gregory Shupak

  US corporate media outlets are demanding that Washington escalate the risk of a broader war while misleading their audiences about important aspects of the conflict
• Newsrooms Are Unionizing Pretty Much “Nonstop.” Here’s Why

  By: Steven Greenhouse

  Journalists are responding to consolidation and ongoing revenue challenges by joining the unionization wave
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  Why Journalist Kamal Khan’s Passing Feels Like a Deep Personal Loss

  By: Badri Raina

  Every word Khan chose for his reporting bespoke the fineness and subtlety of his learning, and his deep concern for the preservation of India's diverse values
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  Losing It

  By: George Monbiot

  Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart?
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  Community Bonds and Mutual Aid Sustain Anti-Fascists Targeted by the State

  By: Shane Burley

  “You need connections to people who have your back and who know how to reach out to people to help you in ways they can’t,. That’s the whole point of why we’re all doing this in the first place. It’s about community.”
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  PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange

  By: Chris Hedges

  Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class
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  If only Assange had been Navalny

  By: Serge Halimi

  The different treatment of these two heroes is a fine example of the flexibility of the concepts of ‘human rights’ and ‘freedom of the press’ which the western media trumpet at every opportunity
• Media Forget Afghan Plight as US Sanctions Drive Mass Famine Risk

  By: Julie Hollar

  Four months later, as those same citizens have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis due in no small part to US sanctions, where is the outrage?
• US Cold War with China — first stop, Equatorial Guinea

  By: William Minter

  Right out of the playbook: hype the threat of a potential Chinese naval base facing the Atlantic, get more funding for military operations
• Union battles at Amazon and Starbucks are hot news

  By: John Logan

  Which can only be good for the labor movement
• Censorship, the Myth of Free Data and the False Solutions on the Table

  By: Kenn Orphan

  Social media has never been a free service for any of us. But it has certainly given a lot of advertisers, wealthy investors, intelligence agents and politicians a free ride
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  The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend democracy

  By: Robert W. Mcchesney

  Local journalism as it has been known for 200 years has all but disappeared in most places in the United States over the past two decades
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  Prestigious Weaponry Expert Censored

  By: Jeremy Kuzmarov

  Their agenda is clear in trying to poison the debate about Syria and defame dedicated scientists like Postol whose research casts important light on the deceptions underlying U.S. policy
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  US and UK Press Mock New Zealand’s Incredibly Successful Covid Response

  By: Joshua Cho

  One gets the sense that corporate media outlets in countries like the US and Britain mocking or criticizing New Zealand’s pandemic response are following a “misery loves company” ethos
• Network of GOP-focused fake news sites push fear-mongering claims about critical race theory

  By: Meaghan Ellis

  "I think that they could have a meaningful impact. Not because necessarily they're going to influence that many voters, but because elections are decided at the margins"
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  Found in Translation: New York Times Says Democrats Shouldn’t Challenge Oligarchy

  By: Norman Solomon

  The editorial certainly reflected “longstanding values” -- since the Times has recycled them for decades in its relentless attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party
• The myth of redemptive violence

  By: Robert Koehler

  We may search for blame, but blame — scapegoating — is never a solution, just further homage to the myth of redemptive violence
• An Open Letter to the Global Media

  By: Greta Thunberg

  We can still avoid the worst consequences, we can still turn this around. But not if we continue like today. You have the resources and possibilities to change the story overnight
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  Build Back Better Fiasco Exposes How Both Parties Serve Corporate Power

  By: Noam Chomsky

  The signs of collapse of the social order are too numerous and familiar to review once again. To a large extent, it can be attributed to the impact of the one-sided and vicious class war of the past 40-plus years
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  COP26: Biden first President to Back Sweeping Measures on Climate

  By: Juan Cole

  For-profit Press lets Denialist Republicans off the Hook
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  Biden’s DOJ Downplayed Suicide Risk for Assange in Appeal of Extradition Denial

  By: Marjorie Cohn

  More than two dozen press freedom, civil liberties and international human rights groups, and people around the world, are protesting the persecution of Assange
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  The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time

  By: Chris Hedges

  If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting
• How U.S. Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of Its Society

  By: Manolo De Los Santos

  The attempt on Raúl Castro’s life is one of many projects by the U.S. government to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, including 638 attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and the invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961
• Facebook Papers Reveal Complicity in Hate, Lies & Violence Around the World

  By: Ramesh Srinivasan

  The Facebook Papers have provided fresh evidence of how the company has let serious problems fester on its platform, including hate, misinformation, and human trafficking, and failed to invest in moderation outside English-speaking countries