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Cho: Media Bury Studies of Pentagon’s Massive Carbon Bootprint
The Pentagon does not acknowledge that its own fuel use is a major contributor to climate change
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Dolan: AOC’s Plan to Eradicate Poverty Should Be Headline News
While Trump's potential impeachment dominates news feeds, let's not lose sight of the deep policy changes needed to make this country work for all of us
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Contributors: Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party
Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach, Brian Eno, Des Freedman, Justin Schlosberg and 21 others write about a recent report by the Media Reform Coalition
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Monbiot: Demagogues thrive by whipping up our fury
By understanding the psychological buttons they’re pressing, we can stop demagogues from destroying our democracy
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Cole: US Press Horrified by Trump but ignore Israeli Snipers
The Jupiter-sized blind spot of US media, however, managed to report on all this with horror without mentioning that this procedure, of shooting people massing on the border in the legs has over the past 18 months become the routine Israeli policy
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Lennard: Trump Attacked Women of Color Who Led Push for Impeachment
Then CNN Erased Them
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Grossman: Playing the Trump Card
Will the efforts to impeach Trump center on his brutal actions against Mexicans and refugees, against Muslims, African-Americans and basically all working people while rewarding the super wealthy?
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Silverman: Report on British Labour Party Conference
It shouldn’t surprise many of us to learn that the recent Labour Party conference was nothing remotely like the press and media reports
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Grossman: The Bidens, Trump, Kiev and Impeachment
The impeachment drive is quickly gathering steam, and who can...
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Emersberger: Amazon’s Anti-Venezuela Propaganda
Amazon's new anti-Venezuela TV series and the media complicity surrounding it
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Surin: An Excellent Study Of The Manufactured Labour “Antisemitism Crisis”
I’ve just finished reading the uncorrected proof copy an excellent...
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Levy: The Incredible Belief That Corporate Ownership Does Not Influence Media Content
Corporate ownership of media interferes with the core societal function of the press: reporting and investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance
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Solomon: The ‘Official Secrets’ Movie vs. Joe Biden’s Lies About the Iraq War
Joe Biden’s recent efforts to deny his record of support for invading Iraq are marvels of evasion, with falsehoods that have been refuted by one well-documented appraisal after another after another
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Cohen: What George Carlin Taught Us about Media Propaganda by Omission
As with Medicare for All, moneyed elites want to omit the other score – the price tag of sticking with the status quo
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Lindorff: The US Media War Machine Kicks In Against Iran
US Media Keep Saying Iran is ‘In Violation’ of a Nuclear Agreement the US Withdrew From
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Buell: The Politics of the Local Weather Broadcast
Call your Station and Demand News of Climate Crisis
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Fisher: Hurricane Dorian Was Fueled by Climate Change
Why Isn’t the Mainstream Media Making the Connection?
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Taibbi: The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News
The Pentagon is using a moral panic over “fake news” to gain influence over the domestic news landscape
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Krishnaswamy: Climate Minimizers
While the majority of corporate media do not outright deny the reality of the human-caused climate crisis, they are filled with another brand of insidious ideologues that I call climate minimizers
ZMag Media
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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.
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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.
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...