Latest Media

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  Street: MSDNC, Single Payer, and the Serenity Prayer

  As any sentient progressive should know, NBC and MSNBC (hereafter “MSDNC”) are media assets owned by and subservient to the United States capitalist and imperialist ruling class
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  Rasmus: Capital’s Latest Ideological Offensive

  Attacking Medicare for All, MMT, & Socialism
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  Abunimah: NY Times publishes call for Palestinian “national suicide”

  Palestinians have not surrendered despite all the atrocities Israel has committed and commits against them. And op-eds using genocidal terminology in The New York Times will not bring them to their knees either
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  Chomsky: Still Manufacturing Consent

  Interview on the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria
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  Dreier: In Praise of I.F. “Izzy” Stone

  In these critical times, remembering what one of last century's most courageous journalists taught us
• Goodale: Assange Indictment “Criminalizes the News Gathering Process”

  A London judge has ordered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to...
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  Emersberger: Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters

  Even worse than being the “resistance” to Maduro is that Reuters has often made itself the “assistance” to politicians like Rubio, who are vicious enough to celebrate the economic strangulation of millions of people
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  Pilger: A ‘Very Long Uphill Road’ for Assange

  It presents the most, the gravest threat to press freedom which I can remember
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  Pilger: The Global War on Assange, Journalism & Dissent

  Interview about the persecution of the WikiLeaks publisher and the rapid crackdown on investigative journalism
• Cho: According to NYT, ‘Relentless Flooding’ in Midwest Just Happens

  Asking whether the climate crisis caused the flooding is a failure to understand the conceptual distinction between weather phenomena like droughts, floods and unremarkable days, and the climate
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  Fisk: While the World Watches Trump

  The real stories are getting pushed down the page – or “to the back of the book”
• O'Day: Corporate Media Have Second Thoughts on Assange

  So long as the persecution of Assange seemed only to do with his particular style of journalism, corporate media were happy to throw him under the bus
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  Fisk: The Final Punishment of Julian Assange

  I’m getting a bit tired of the US Espionage Act....
• Fischer: Hawkish Trump White House Endangers our Collective Conscience

  The war drums in the White House have been beating louder in recent months
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  Cook: The western media is key to Syria deceptions

  The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East
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  Fisk: The Evidence We Were Never Meant to See About the Douma Gas Attack

  It is difficult to underestimate the seriousness of this manipulative act by the OPCW
• Risen: The Indictment of Julian Assange

  A true democracy does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A nation in which a leader gets to make that decision is on the road to dictatorship
• Tveten: Space Capitalists

  If you want your sales pitch for a Moon rocket to be written up as a news article in the Washington Post, it helps to own the Washington Post
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  Gallagher: France Takes Unprecedented Action Against Reporters

  Journalists in France are facing potential jail sentences in an unprecedented case over their handling of secret documents detailing the country’s involvement in the Yemen conflict
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  Koerner: Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press

  The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity...