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• Cohen: Liberal Media Propaganda Tells the World: America is First

  CNN or MSNBC or NPR or similar outlets bombard us with hour after hour with the idea that the U.S. has the absolute right to impose sanctions on country after country overseas if they violate human rights or are not democratic
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  Cook: What happened to Glenn Greenwald?

  Trump happened – and put the left’s priorities to the test
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  Winstanley: Israel’s incitement gets a free pass

  Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London with a high Jewish population chanting "Death to the Jews" and other similar violently bigoted obscenities
• Hollar: Pushing Consumers to Amazon Is Baked In to NYT’s Business Model

  It’s not an Amazon ad—it’s a message from the Times, encouraging readers to sign up for alerts telling them the best ways to spend their money on Amazon‘s biggest marketing day of the year
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  Cohen: School Privatization Lobby Places Fake News on Local Stations

  With Ed Newsfeed, the Betsy DeVos-funded American Federation for Children distributes syndicated content to TV stations. They run it as news
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  Ellsberg: Pentagon Papers at 50

  Daniel Ellsberg on Risking Life in Jail to Expose U.S. Lies About Vietnam War
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  Cook: Friedman’s Last Gasp

  Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism
• Hartmann: Why Fox News Claims “They” Are “Taking Down White Culture”

  "With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
• Kaldveer: Protecting Pacifica

  Saving Independent Radio. Building a Progressive Movement.
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  Cook: Was there a Wuhan lab leak?

  An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception
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  Swanson: What The New Acceptability of the Lab Leak Origin Tells Us About Media Outlets

  If “objective” reporting on matters of “science” is basically subject to fashion trends, how much faith should you put in assertions about economics or diplomacy?
• Wilder: I Will Not Yield My Values

  Fired AP Journalist Emily Wilder Speaks Out After Right-Wing Smears
• Ryder: The Pentagon Papers at 50: What’s Left Out is Crucial

  The Papers provoked questions about how the war could have been waged through six presidencies in a row
• Klippenstein: AP, in Leaked Memos, Doing Damage Control With Staff

  The signature of outgoing Associated Press Executive Editor Sally Buzbee is conspicuously absent from the memo sent over the weekend
• Koehler: Terror plus public relations

  Bombs and missiles are one thing, but the United States and its allies have learned how to soften their effect with public relations
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  Klikauer: Anti-Global Warming PR

  Today a large section of capitalism’s public relations machinery is fighting a new battle – the battle to preserve the profits of mineral extracting corporations and fossil fuel giants
• Paul: Israel’s War Against Press Turns More Literal

  The rest of the world will be worse off, and the Israeli government will get more of what it wants: darkness, and freedom from outside scrutiny
• Dolack: The fight for independent, non-corporate radio flares up again

  If you are a Pacifica listener or staff member who values community radio, hearing alternative voices and democratic accountability, please vote “no” on the bylaws referendum
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  Solomon: Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices and Targets Journalists

  Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage
• al-Sayed: Israel Deliberately Targeting Media

  Journalists had to flee for their lives when Israel bombed and leveled a 12-story Gaza building that housed the offices of media organizations including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera