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Former Writers for The Village Voice on the Decline of Print Journalism with Chris Hedges (Video)
The role of independent media in journalism.
Seymour Hersh | SYRIA: Trump‘s Red Line
“What doesn’t occur to most Americans” the adviser said, “is if there had been a Syrian nerve gas attack authorized by Bashar, the Russians would be 10 times as upset as anyone in the West.
NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
the essential antecedents of war are being established based on anonymous “experts” and “officials,” and hardly anyone notices, much less pushes back.
‘The Only Sensible Path at This Point is Dialogue’ Hyun Lee
CounterSpin interview with Hyun Lee on North Korea
Robert Parry | Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Exclusive: The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
Jeremy Scahill | Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
Hersh denounced news organizations as “crazy town” for their uncritical promotion…
The Rage of Caliban: Identity Politics, the Travel Ban, and the Shifting Ideological Framework of the Resistance
Islamophobia is not the same thing as racism, just as fascism is not the same thing as Hate. Any effective resistance to Trump’s agenda will have to go much further than the official opposition rhetoric that invites us to conflate these things. By PETER GAFFNEY Counterpunch February 16, 2017 The travel ban was a […]
Henry A. Giroux | Combating Trump’s Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of “1984”
Wrongheaded Calls to “Give Trump a Chance”
Chris Hedges and Tavis Smiley Discuss Popular Resistance and the Failure of Mainstream Media
“Actual discussion of content, of issues that matter to Americans, is very, very rarely heard in the press. …”
Why Won’t the Corporate Media Push Back Against Lying Think Tanks and Experts?
We should be demanding that interviewers in the media start calling out so-called “experts” when the experts are caught distorting the truth.
The Biggest Strike in World History? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone
A coalition of trade unions in India representing some 180 million workers staged a one-day general strike on Friday, September 2, in protest of what they called the “anti-worker and anti-people” policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. …Assocham, India’s chamber of commerce, estimated that the economic impact of the strike was $2.4 billion–$2.7 billion (Hindustan Today, 9/3/16).
7180. The truth about murder drones (Video)
To this point, U.S. drones have taken over 7,180 lives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somali; no tally has been kept of drone assassinations in the other countries engulfed in war – Iraq, Syria and Libya. These killings, as you know, violate international law requiring due process and a variety of principles established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the U.S. after World War II.
Joe Scarry |IT’S A LOCK: Why the US Can’t Break Its Addiction to War
But the question of how to push back against the problem has seemed gargantuan. Four hundred and thirty-five Congressional districts: how to begin?
Joe Scarry | The Election 2016 Diet: Invest 100 Hours for Peace
This year seems to underline a difficult truth: in the run-up to the US presidential election, it always seems axiomatic that this will be the opportune time to make headway on the antiwar agenda; but in the craziness of election season itself it becomes obvious just how far out of the action we antiwar people are.
Dr. Todd Green | Islamophobia: What Are We Really Afraid Of? (Video)
Dr. Green’s talk addresses what we hope to bring to light about the problem of terrorism, its causes and solutions.
Ralph Nader | Commercializing Elections to Destroy Our Democracy
These are the citizen champions who, for example, led the fight for safer and nutritious food, less harmful medicines, cleaner air and water, more secure pensions, a freer media, more open government, waging peace instead of war, securing indigenous peoples’ rights, safer transportation, the well-being of children, insurance industry accountability and great advances for people with disabilities.
Orlando: When Media Learned Killer’s Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It ‘Terrorism’
When those who wish to use violence against innocent people are unidentified, they are referred to as “shooters” and their attacks as “attacks” or, in the case of Orlando, as “shootings.” It’s not until the perpetrators are identified as non-white people with an otherized cultural background that the media uses the word “terror.”
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