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Exposing ‘Democracy NOW!’ as democracy never: deceit to hide the actual dictatorship by the billionaires

Eric Zuesse Along with the ideologically center and right-wing ‘news’-media that everyone knows front for billionaires to deceive Americans to tolerate America’s lousy Government, are dozens of ‘alt-news’ media that fool leftists into thinking that this is a two-party democracy instead of two sides of a one-party actually right-wing — the billionaires’ — fascist dictatorship. […]

US ‘left’ aligns with State Department on China Cold War

Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks to Danny Haiphong, a contributor at the Black Agenda Report, about why some US leftwing media outlets repeat State Department talking points on China.   Haiphong also challenges some of the more hackneyed talking points repeated in putatively left media, including that “China is capitalist” and “China has imperialist […]
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रवीश कुमार: हिंदुस्तान का दुखता हुआ दिल

यह बिरले होता है कि ख़बरनवीस ख़ुद ख़बर बन जाए।पिछले तीन रोज़ से एक ख़बरची ही ख़बर है: रवीश कुमार। याद आती है कोई 18 साल पहले रवीश से एक मुलाक़ात। “ दिक्कत यह हुई है टेलिविज़न की दुनिया में कि जिसे ख़बर दिखाने का काम है, वह सोच बैठा है कि लोग समाचार नहीं, … Continue reading रवीश कुमार: हिंदुस्तान का दुखता हुआ दिल →

With Progressives Like These, Who Needs Conservatives?

NEW YORK — In April, in the days after Western diplomats, aid workers, and reporters yet again accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons against his own people, the renowned foreign correspondent Eva Bartlett found herself watching a video clip of Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman interviewing Glenn Greenwald, a co-founder of online news publication The Intercept, who said this: