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  Bennis: Marc Lamont Hill Was Arguing for the Rights of Humans, Not of States

  The important demand that CNN rehire Hill has obscured much of the actual content of his speech
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  Engelhardt: News From the Far Side of Nowhere

  In a Crippled World, All the News That’s Fit to Splint
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  Cook: No criticism of Israel is allowed

  CNN's firing of Marc Lamont Hill and outrage at Airbnb and the Quakers reveal a complete intolerance of criticism
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  Baroud: The Conspiracy against Refugees

  Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America
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  Street: A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives

  George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky
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  Cook: Guardian escalates its vilification of Julian Assange

  It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks
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  Greenwald: Trump’s Amoral Saudi Statement

  A Pure Expression of Decades-Old “U.S. Values” and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
• Ressa: How Facebook Aids Authoritarians

  Interview on Duterte’s deadly “war on drugs,” his affinity for Donald Trump, and his weaponization of social media
• Wokusch: The Case Against WikiLeaks Is a Crisis for the First Amendment

  The Trump administration once celebrated WikiLeaks. Now it wants to prosecute Julian Assange simply for publishing things it doesn't like. That's a threat to all journalists
• Johnson: Attacking the Press

  "I think the Acosta incident is... a symbol of an attempt to discredit not only CNN but the entire press corps."
• Richardson: Who, Us?

  Corporate Media Ignore Their Role in Trump’s Refugee ‘Invasion’ Panic
• Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas: Delay, Deny and Deflect

  How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
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  Engelhardt: The Donald and the Fake News Media

  An Affair to Remember
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  Monbiot: In a World of Their Own

  By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance
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  Emersberger: Free Speech Depends on Who’s Talking

  Julian Assange has been without any means to directly communicate with the public—in other words, to defend himself from relentless attacks and ridicule in Western media
• Thomas: Yemen, Khashoggi, and the deadly Saudi trade

  Whatever happened to Jamal Khashoggi was unquestionably a crime and a tragedy. It is, however, a painful reminder of the selective nature of international outrage
• Loeb: The President’s Lies

  Donald Trump is spreading misinformation at a dizzying clip—even for him
• MacLeod: Financial Press Cheers Election of Fascist in Brazil

  The financial press once again made its decision clear, proving that democracy and the health of the stock market often do not mix
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  Cook: Bolsonaro: a monster engineered by our media

  Bolsonaro, like Trump, is not a disruption of the current neoliberal order; he is an intensification or escalation of its worst impulses. He is its logical conclusion
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  Grossman: Fascism Denial Ignores Some Inconvenient Truths

  Learning the inconvenient truths about fascism, like learning about the climate crisis, could lead us to actually shift our beliefs and lives, in order for our society to survive and recover