Latest Media
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Kovalik: The US & Nicaragua: Historical Amnesia & Blindness
If Ortega is forced out of office by this violence, the result will not be, as some on the ostensible left would have us believe, a deepening of democracy and socialism. Rather, it will result in a return of the right-wing to power
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Risen: Declaration of War Against the Press
Now we know that the Justice Department secretly seized the phone and email records of Ali Watkins, a New York Times reporter
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With Literal Nazis Running for Office, NYT Suggests Candidate’s Israel Criticism Is Antisemitic
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Greenwald: Threats to Press Freedom
Interview on Halper’s involvement in the CIA and the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan
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Baker: Protecting Pfizer and Microsoft
We can do better than extending a relic of the feudal guild system
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Johnson: Facebook’s Plan to Fight Government Influence
When a venture that’s supposedly meant to curb “foreign influence” is bankrolled by a number of foreign countries, one would think that would be worth noting
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Abunimah: Why did Facebook ban ad for “Killing Gaza”?
The ban lasted for almost three days before the ad was restored without explanation
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Ellsberg: Civil Disobedience Against War Led Me to Leak Pentagon Papers
Interview about the recent 50th anniversary of one of the most famous acts of civil disobedience in the United States
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Shupak: Blaming the Victims of Israel’s Gaza Massacre
Israel massacred 60 Palestinians on Monday, including seven children, bringing...
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Cook: West’s failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
The contrasting images coming out of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories on Monday could not have been starker – or more disturbing
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Shupak: Media Debate Best Way to Dominate Iran
Rarely allowed into the debate is the notion that Iranians have the right to chart their own course free of US interference
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Mahdawi: Michelle Wolf has nothing to apologise for
Her critics do, though
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Shupak: As Israel Kills Dozens, Palestinian ‘Violence’ Under Microscope
The way that the media frame debates about Palestine/Israel undermines the likelihood of successful movements for peace and justice in the region
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Lesher: This Is Not About Natalie Portman
Does anyone actually believe that Natalie Portman is worth more news coverage and punditry than all those killed in Gaza over the last three weeks put together?
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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
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...