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Hollar: Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color
It’s a classic charter (and voucher) argument that manages to paint the policy as having only the best interests of the poor at heart, even as it promotes inequality by offering access to a few lifeboats rather than repairing the ship
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Solomon: For Corporate Media, It’s ‘Anybody But Sanders or Warren’
The mass media of the United States -- owned and sponsored by corporate giants -- are in the midst of a siege against the two progressive Democratic candidates who have a real chance to be elected president in 2020
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Higgins: ‘An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier’
AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People
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Goodman: “Don’t Hate the Media, Be the Media”
Reflections on 20 Years of Indymedia, a Radical Media Movement
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Mackler: Bolivia: Anatomy of a Coup
The Bolivian coup was conceived as a relatively quiet U.S.-supported regime change endeavor in comparison to the overt and monstrous full court failed coup that U.S. imperialism conducted against Venezuela
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Goessmann: Open Letter to Roger Hallam
Responding to a media-manufactured scandal with misrepresented statements and political correctness double standards
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Pilger: The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
They know that what happens to Assange can happen to them. The basic rights and justice denied him can be denied to them. They have been warned. All of us have been warned
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Rosenberg: Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in US labs. It is no coincidence
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Resources for teachers and students offer useful tools but reinforce status quo
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Mackey: Through the Fox News Looking Glass on Ukraine
Under the guise of fighting corruption, the Trump administration and its Republican allies have thrown the full force of the United States government, and Fox News, into supporting what amounts to a counter-revolution in Ukraine
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Baroud: How Western Media Bias Allows Israel to Get Away with Murder in Gaza
It is obvious that the West’s “newspapers of record” have maintained their blindspot on fairly reporting on Gaza and intentionally kept the truth from their readers
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Dolack: Resisting misleading narratives about Pacifica Radio
The counter-narratives about the recent takeover, and restoration, of New York City’s Pacifica radio station, WBAI, have apparently begun
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Emersberger: Oppose the Military Coup in Bolivia. Spare Us Your “Critiques”
The coup against Morales should be an incredibly easy one for any “progressive” to unreservedly oppose – and by oppose I mean demand Morales finish off his term. People eager to highlight their “critiques” of Morales are part of the problem
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Tanaka: Response to Pete Dolack Articles on WBAI and Pacifica
The real danger to Pacifica is not a ‘corporate coup’. The real danger is a financial failure which is what the current governance structure has brought about
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Paul: Can Deadspin Live Again as a Worker-Owned Website?
The question about the former Deadspin workers isn’t just what’s next for them; it’s also about what’s next for us, the media consumers who need their voices so badly
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Koerner: Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
The coverage of Chile’s uprising proves once again that criminality on the part of Western states and their clients is perfectly palatable to corporate journalists whose atrocity, Michael Parenti observes, is always “against the truth.”
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Baker: Mark Zuckerberg is a Rich Jerk
Zuckerberg is not a political philosopher concerned about the public good. There is a zero evidence he is a deep thinker of any sort. He is a Harvard boy who stumbled into a good idea and had the necessary connections to get very rich from it: end of story
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MacLeod: The Revolution Isn’t Being Televised
Source: FAIR It’s all kicking off everywhere in 2019. Haitians...
ZMag Media
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Cohen: What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
Corporate TV news outlets serve up a series of partial scores. Call it “propaganda by omission”
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Chomsky: Economic Boom” a Sham
The deaths of despair are estimated at 150,000 a year, contributing to the decline in life expectancy in the U.S. for the past two years, the first time since World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic—a phenomenon unprecedented in developed societies
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Pilger: The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies
A war has been declared on Venezuela, of which the truth is “too difficult” to report
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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.
Video Media
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Greenwald: The Media and Political Humiliation from the Mueller Report
I obviously intended to write about the fallout from Attorney...
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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
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...