media bias

A Right-Wing German News Conglomerate Bought Politico for a Billion Dollars

by Thomas Klikauer and Meg Young At the end of August 2021, Germany’s right-wing Axel Springer bought the US political magazine Politico for about $1bn (€850m) – the most expensive acquisition in the history of Germany’s right-wing Springer Group. Until the Springer takeover, Politico used to belong to the Capitol News Company of media owner Robert Allbritton. Allbritton founded Politico[Read More...]

US: the Sickness Unto Death

As soon as I heard Biden say, “We will hunt you down,” about the Afghan airport bombers, I knew that the US would immediately kill some Afghan women and children. The US will slaughter women and children at the drop of a smallpox blanket, an H-bomb, Agent Orange or a reaper drone. When the rampaging […]
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An extraordinarily balanced look at Afghanistan and Biden [Video]

It seems like more and more people are truly finding their voice when it comes to reporting news. Starting with Rush Limbaugh, the proliferation of “alternative” media news sources was shifted into high gear in 2020 with the clear introduction to out-and-out propaganda dissemination across all the major US news networks. Even though several sources […]

How the Taliban Surge Exposed Pentagon’s Lies

A month ago, as the US army prepared to end the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan and hand over responsibility to local security forces it had armed and trained, maps showed small, relatively isolated pockets of Taliban control. At the weekend, the Islamist fighters marched unchallenged into Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, bringing almost the entire country under […]

US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington is No Longer Calling the Shots

Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for military interventions and, often, for frivolous wars. Writing in the conservative rag, The National Review, months before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Goldberg paraphrased a statement which he attributed to Ledeen with reference to the interventionist […]

Sanitising Censorship: The Twitter-AP-Reuters News Partnership

This week, Twitter was keen to share the news about its new arrangement with The Associated Press and Reuters “to expand our efforts to identify and elevate credible information” on its platform.  The company reiterates its commitment that people using its service are able to “easily find reliable information” hoping to “expand the scale and […]

Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It Is Time to Recalibrate the Government

The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but […]
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2020 election audits expand despite suppression efforts [Video]

The states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia have all joined Arizona in the decision to conduct forensic audits of the 2020 presidential elections. This move got a major push after authorities from these and several other states visited the Maricopa County auditing operations. We do not know what they saw, but whatever it was was […]

Out to Lunch: The Atrophying of Western Minds

Interrogate the devil; he will tell you that beauty is a pair of horns, four claws and a tail. — Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary This is what real education looks like — Evo Organizes Anti-Imperialist Day School For Youth Iris Varela spoke about the history of the Bolivarian Revolution and explained in detail how the economic blockade […]
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Three states now auditing 2020 election. Does this mean anything? [Video]

Pennsylvania and Georgia are going to conduct audits of the ballots in the 2020 Presidential election. In doing so, they join Arizona, which is currently conducting such an audit in Maricopa County. These audits are ostensibly an attempt to check the reality of the very strange 2020 election. Now, of course, no major networks are […]