The Rich are Killing 1 BILLION People
Like other interviews I’ve done with members of the political class, this one again shows their psychotic inability to see that the real world trumps the political world. The contemporary British...
View ArticleMeta Is Systematically Censoring Pro-Palestine Posts, Human Rights Watch Finds
Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has been censoring posts from pro-Palestine voices, a new analysis from Human Rights Watch finds, lending evidence to what many advocates for...
View ArticleAfter 18-Month Battle, WaPo Union Wins Tentative Deal With Bezos-Owned Paper
A mobilization by unionized Washington Post staffers that included a historic 24-hour strike helped push the newspaper to offer what the union described as “the best contract [it] has won in half a...
View ArticleUS Media Suppressed Their Government’s Role in Ousting Brazil’s Government
In a new peer-reviewed academic article in Latin American Perspectives (11/19/23), “Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil’s Long Coup,” Sean T. Mitchell,...
View ArticleCorporate Media Fed COP 28 Carbon Capture Confusion
The COP 28 UN climate conference concluded with countries agreeing to a plan to transition away from fossil fuels, using language that fell short of calling for an explicit phaseout. In the debates...
View ArticleWith Attack on Yemen, the U.S. Is Shameless: “We Make the Rules, We Break the...
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s grimly laughable, but the nation’s media outlets routinely take such claims seriously and credulously....
View ArticleAs the Planet Boils, Corporate Media Still Carry Water for Fossil Fuel Giants
The 28th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Conference of Parties summit (COP28), recently met in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The president of the summit, Sultan Ahmed Al...
View ArticleToo Controversial For U.K. Media
Journalists, if not MPs, should always know when there is a good story out there – it is when those most expected to write about it keep silent that we should ask why. RAF Akrotiri, Britain’s sovereign...
View ArticleGaza – A Brutal Demonstration Of ‘Western Values’
‘I find Westerners in general, and Europeans in particular, extremely indoctrinated and obsessed with perceptions of their own uniqueness. Many see themselves as chosen people, after going through a...
View ArticleHow Corporate Media Outlets Failed Their Readers in 2024
The great failure of the press to carry out the bare minimum of its journalistic mandate—to hold political figures accountable in a representative democracy, and to at least question such obvious...
View ArticleThe Twitter Files: Some Observations
In late 2022, the world’s richest man, white nationalist fellow traveler and military contractor Elon Musk, purchased Twitter for $44 billion. He declared repeatedly that he would make Twitter a haven...
View ArticleWestern Coverage of Gaza: A Textbook Case of Coloniser’s Journalism
If you have been following Western media to try to make sense of the heartbreaking images and stories coming out of Gaza during Israel’s invasion, you are bound to be disappointed. Since the beginning...
View ArticleSource Who Revealed How Taxes Steal for the Rich Rewarded With Five Years in...
Because of Charles Littlejohn, we know that former President Donald Trump and a whole bunch of other rich people pay next to nothing in taxes, while the rest of us frantically file tax returns and see...
View ArticlePro-Israel Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Spends $7m to Use Super Bowl as...
Super Bowl LVII in 2023 was the most-watched US telecast in history, and with well over 100 million people expected to tune in on Feb. 11, Super Bowl Sunday will provide one of the biggest platforms on...
View ArticleCNN’s Israel Bias Has Been Laid Bare. But CNN Is The Norm, Not The Exception
Leaks from within CNN reveal that for months its executives have been actively imposing an editorial line designed to reinforce Israel’s framing of events in Gaza, to the point of obscuring atrocities...
View ArticleBaltimore’s Media Nightmare and the Billionairification of News
David D. Smith, leading stockholder of Sinclair, Inc., announced on January 15 that he was purchasing what is left of the Baltimore Sun, once regarded as the crown jewel of the Maryland city’s media...
View Article‘Breaking the Mold’: How Facebook Became the NYT of the Digital Age
“If you try to break the mold, you’re not going to last long,” famed linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky wrote in an essay published in Z Magazine in October 1997. The essay, entitled, ‘What...
View ArticleLocal Papers Across the US Are Refusing to Cover the Movement for Ceasefire
The movement for a ceasefire to end Israel’s war on Gaza has shone a spotlight on the role of corporate media in spreading pro-Israel narratives and minimizing the U.S. public’s access to accurate...
View Article‘The Black Dress’ – Palestinian Documentary Challenges NYT Report on Oct. 7...
In a statement on February 19, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said it had received information that Palestinian women and girls have “reportedly been arbitrarily...
View ArticleWhat the Mass Media Needs to Cover Re: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Last October 27, I suggested subjects the mainstream media needed to cover relating to the saturation bombing of Gaza and its defenseless civilian families and infrastructure. Looking at these topics...
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