Latest Media
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Wilpert: Objectivity and Commitment
Interview on the origins of Venezuelanalysis and reflects on the relationship between commitment and objectivity in news reporting
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Cook: On child vaccines, the experts are suddenly reluctant to follow ‘the science’
Into the void between our scientific knowledge and our fear of mortality has rushed politics
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Hartmann: Afghanistan: The “Big” Media’s Question Today Is Wrong & Dangerous
Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn?
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Emersberger: The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez
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For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
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Renton: Deplatforming: The Risk of Success
Insofar as the left prioritizes deplatforming over other anti-fascist strategies, we contribute to a political culture that is polarized around values, rather than the debate we want to have about power and class
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Boylan: The debacle in Afghanistan shows we should have listened to Julian Assange
The founder of Wikileaks informed us long ago, with documentary proof, that US/NATO troops in Afghanistan were not winning the hearts and minds of the people; instead, they were making themselves hated
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Hollar: Media Rediscover Afghan Women Only When US Leaves
For more than 20 years, US corporate media could have listened seriously to Afghan women and their concerns, bringing attention to their own efforts to improve their situation
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Cole: Climate Emergency v. Afghanistan
Why do TV Cable News, Pols ignore the greatest Terror Threat to the US in History?
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Pitt: Corporate Media Erasing US’s Long-Term Culpability for Afghanistan War
These wars represent more than 60 years of profiteering to the benefit of a preciously guarded few, while the rest of us drown in the blood and soot of aftermath
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Burns: Glenn Greenwald: the greatest journalist of all time?
Why the Brazil-based investigative reporter divides the US left and has become a friend to the right
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Blotcky: Vaccine disinformation and partisan politics are literally killing us
615,000 deaths and counting is unacceptable in a powerful and prosperous country
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Those who govern includes the corporate elite, the CEOs and the top-apparatchiks who use their corporate power to influence, shape, control and in some cases, even own the media
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Cole: Why does he Hate our Freedoms?
White Nationalist Extremist Tucker Carlson touts Orban’s Hungarian Fascism as better than America
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Patnaik: Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance
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Godels: A Tale of Two Countries
Haiti and Cuba have the same enemies. They are victimized by the same opportunistic politicians, the same jaded journalists, and the same spies, who all work to maintain or turn both into neo-colonies
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Cook: Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move to snuff out independent journalism
In the Assange and Murray cases, the British state is carving out for itself a space to define what counts as legitimate, authorised journalism
ZMag Media
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Wolff: A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate
The debate over the minimum wage has been lopsided for a very long time
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Cohen: Let Us Name the System: “Racial Capitalism”
It’s fascinating to see pundits on CNN, MSNBC and other networks now discussing “systemic racism” after they’d spent months during the Democratic presidential primaries in panicked overdrive propping up “the system.”
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Cook: Welcome to the Era of the Great Disillusionment
With a media in place that truly holds politicians to account and celebrates scientists for their contributions to collective knowledge, not their usefulness to corporate enrichment—we would not need to worry about the safety of our communications systems or medicines
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Cook: The bigger picture is hiding behind a virus
If only we could redirect our gaze, if we could seize back control of our attention for a moment, we might understand that we are being plagued not just by a virus but by our fear, our hate, our hunger, our selfishness
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Cohn: Extradition of Assange Would Set a Dangerous Precedent
The Trump administration is seeking extradition of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to the United States for trial on charges carrying 175 years in prison
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Rosenberg: Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?
The animal-research industry is a vast, macabre enterprise richly supporting medical centers and individual researchers with almost no transparency or accountability
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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
Video Media
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Chomsky: Control of Information
Interview on a many topics, including the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Giroux: Fascism Is Not an Exaggeration
Interview on authoritarianism, neo-liberal fascism, and the lack of critical thinking pervading society and culture
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Media: News Corp Bargaining Code
Juice Media’s hilarious expose of the Australian government’s new media legislation that allows News Corp in on Big Tech’s action
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Interview on the current US protest spreading like fire across the country following the police killing of George Floyd, the forthcoming US elections and why it is crucial to vote not for someone in this case, but against someone
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Greenwald: Media “tragically vindicated” Trump by overhyping Russiagate
"We were all so much more fascinated by this superficial, melodramatic espionage thriller that has completely destroyed the credibility of the U.S. 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...