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This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describe Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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Whoopi Goldberg's comments on the Holocaust were misguided and clumsy. But those exploiting the row are the ones with the ugly motives, namely the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) & corporate media outlets that vilified Amnesty International's report on Israeli apartheid.
The post Whoopi Goldberg’s Loudest Critics are the Real Racists appeared first on MintPress News.

Several thousand marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial to protest vaccine mandates being implemented across the US. Branded “extremists” by corporate media, rally goers of all political stripes listened to more than 30 speakers. Behind the Headlines’ Dan Cohen reports from the protest.
The post Mainstream Media Melts Down as ‘Defeat the Mandates DC’ Rally Overcomes Political Divides appeared first on MintPress News.

Semi-state actors play a very important role in today’s online landscape and in the 1970s, Graphika employees would likely have been working directly for the CIA.
The post Graphika: The Deep State’s Beard for Controlling the Information Age appeared first on MintPress News.

Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.
The post Chris Hedges: America’s New Class War appeared first on MintPress News.

Universal basic income has been tried successfully countless times. So why the hell isn’t the US government implementing it?
The post Lee Camp: We Know the Silver Bullet to Ending Poverty and Destitution But Choose Not to Use It appeared first on MintPress News.

We're likely to see even more money going … to support these candidates who are perceived to be moderate Democrats who are pro-Israel, and to either protect them if they're incumbents or to unseat [their opponents] if they're progressives. – Don Waxman, UCLA
The post AIPAC Goes PAC and SuperPAC to Cover its Tracks as it Targets Progressives appeared first on MintPress News.

“It’s not a government; it’s not a democracy; it’s essentially a mafia state run by terrorists who don’t hurt just Hawaii but indigenous peoples across the world.” – Ihilani Lasconia
The post The Red Hill Disaster: Two Hawaiian Activists Discuss the Latest Episode in Two Centuries of Colonialism appeared first on MintPress News.

This first part of an investigative series by Dan Cohen reveals that, despite her image as a progressive and political outsider, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo is the ultimate insider and works with billionaires to crush the working class and poor, and usher in a new technocratic biosecurity state.

The corporate media is not our friend. Its coverage of the pandemic is not there to promote the public good. It is there to feed our anxieties, keep us coming back for more, and monetize that distress. The only cure for this sickness? A lot more critical thinking.