Edward Curtin It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film – a tour de force – and another to watch it. The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story. For in it we see and hear a dying …
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | July 13, 2018 If FBI agent Peter Strzok were not so glib, it would have been easier to feel some sympathy for him during his tough grilling at the House oversight hearing on Thursday, even though his wounds are self-inflicted. The wounds, of course, ooze from the content […]
By Edward Curtin | January 28, 2018 “And thus the U.S. left leadership sits in the left chamber of the hall of mirrors, complaining about conspiracy theories while closing its eyes to actual conspiracies crucial to contemporary imperialism.” – Graeme MacQueen, Beyond Their Wildest Dreams: September 11, 2001 and the American Left It is well […]
By Kim Petersen | American Herald Tribune | April 7, 2017 One might well expect the corporate/state media to twice be complicit for the gas attack perpetrated by the Syrian regime scenario. One would hope, however, that media independent of the state and corporate sponsors would apply a higher journalistic standard. Yet Democracy Now! has been pushing […]
By Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice | December 30, 2016 The U.S. establishment is not happy. They are not content with largely dominating media narratives on Syria and other critical foreign policy issues; they want total dominance. Thus we now have the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act signed into law on December 24 as […]
By Vanessa Beeley | 21st Century Wire | November 26, 2016 “A closer look at what Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” is reporting on Syria shows that the purported critical broadcaster has become a purveyor of Western government propaganda. While the mainstream media’s propaganda function is obvious to the informed public, Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” plays a more […]
Moving the goalposts on electoral criteria Photo credit – Reuters By Kim Petersen | American Herald Tribune | November 12, 2016 During live US presidential election coverage on RT, after it became clear that Donald Trump was going to secure the required number of electoral college votes to win the election, word came that Hillary […]
By Sam Husseini | November 1, 2016 Follow up to my piece ‘Democracy Now!’ Gets Nuclear Ban Vote Totally Wrong: After I posted my piece on Friday, “Democracy Now!” changed the transcript to read: The United Nations on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to start talks aimed at abolishing all nuclear weapons. The landmark resolution will see […]
By Sam Husseini | October 28, 2016 “Democracy Now” sadly continues its descent, which I’ve alluded to occasionally on twitter. To fully tell this story would require a very long and detailed piece, but the latest chapter of this is worth noting in more than a tweet as it happens. On this morning’s headlines, Amy […]
By Richard Hugus | Aletho News | October 3, 2016 When it comes to Syria, the supposedly “alternative” media outlet, “Democracy Now!” promotes a line no different from the US State Department. In its September 29, 2016 broadcast, “Democracy Now!” co-host Narmine Shaikh describes a “devastating bombing campaign by the Syrian government and Russia in […]
