Latest Media
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Emersberger: Propaganda Blitz Against Venezuela’s Elected President
Media doesn't let facts get in the way
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MacLeod: ‘Venezuela’: Media’s One-Word Rebuttal to Threat of Socialism
The simplistic narrative of a socialist dictatorship starving its own people provides great utility as a weapon for the establishment to beat back the domestic “threat” of socialism
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Examining mainstream media claims that Maduro "stole" the 2018 presidential election
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Shupak: US Media Ignore—and Applaud—Economic War on Venezuela
The US government acknowledges that it is knowingly, consciously driving the Venezuelan economy into the ground, but US media make no such acknowledgment
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Smith: Blackface Is Just One Part of the Problem
The furor over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo has America once again asking the wrong questions about racism
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Contributors: Venezuelan News Site Latest Victim in Facebook Censorship
Facebook has removed the page of yet another media outlet. This time, it’s not a far right fringe network like Infowars, but “Venezuela's only independent, grassroots leftwing English media platform,” the outlet, Venezuela Analysis, noted on Twitter
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Monet: Indigenous stories in the media landscape
‘The Indigenous Narrative Holds the Power to Really Shift People’s Societal Views’
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Swanson: Plutocratic Policy, Not Truth, Comes With a Bodyguard of Lies
At the recent World Economic Forum at Davos, a U.S....
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Fisk: Deaths of Journalists Brushed Aside in Middle East
Why is the fate of the Saudi reporter of infinitely more pressing importance than that of Yaser Murtaja, shot by the Israelis in Gaza?
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Podur: How social media supercharged the propaganda system
"Manufacturing Consent" predicted how a privately owned free press could function as a propaganda system
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Kotcher: Americans’ Concern About Climate Change Surging to Record Levels
A new poll about climate change says improvements in media coverage have helped spur the public’s concern about the issue
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Solomon: Bernie’s Likely 2020 Bid Could Transform the Political Landscape
While on the surface aimed at one individual, such an assault is actually an ideological war against the vision of government aligned with social justice
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Orphan: The Propagandists for Empire
With most media attention in the US on the government...
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What we urgently need is a politics freed from the constraints of the feasible,and energized by an awareness of the necessary and desirable
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Pearson: Distorted Western Media Coverage of Poor Countries
The coverage ends up distorting how we understand global forces, culture, and history
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Johnson: ‘Prisoners Eating Steak’ Non-Story
Many major media outlets thought it newsworthy to point out that prisoners at Coleman federal prison in Wildwood, Florida, received a routine holiday meal that was slightly above their normal, bottom-of-the-barrel provisions
ZMag Media
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Cook: Bolsonaro: A Monster Engineered By Our Media
The western elites will decry Bolsonaro in the forlorn and cynical hope of shoring up their credentials as guardians of the existing, supposedly moral order. But they engineered him. Bolsonaro is their monster
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Wittner: Getting the Story Wrong: The Distortion of American Politics by the Press
Ever since the foundation of the American Republic, there has been both praise for and suspicion of the press
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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
Video Media
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Hedges: Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria, journalist and editor-in-chief, Consortium, discuss...
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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
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...