By Wayne MADSEN | Strategic Culture Foundation | 25.12.2016 If one wishes to believe NBC News’s «exclusive» report, President Barack Obama almost delivered the Halloween scare of all time on October 31, 2016, just a week before he accused Donald Trump of being «temperamentally unfit» to be commander-in-chief. On Halloween, Obama activated the White House’s […]
Recent leaks show that the press is in Hillary Clinton’s pocket.
What mainstream accounts of Venezuela’s “peaceful” opposition leave out By Gabriel Hetland | Jacobin | September 11, 2016 The media narrative is clear: peaceful demonstrators upset about a collapsing economy and political repression are fighting an oppressive state in Venezuela. The actual history, however, is more murky. For more than a decade the Venezuelan opposition […]
By Gareth Porter | FAIR | August 11, 2016 Coverage of the breakdown of the partial ceasefire in Syria illustrated the main way corporate news media distort public understanding of a major foreign policy story. The problem is not that the key events in the story are entirely unreported, but that they were downplayed and […]
The major U.S. news media has consistently slanted its coverage of the Syrian conflict to back neocon desires for more U.S. military intervention in support of “regime change,” Gareth Porter wrote for FAIR. By Gareth Porter Coverage of the breakdown…Read more →
By Daniel Lazare | Consortium News | January 22, 2016 Bret Stephens, the deputy editorial page editor who writes The Wall Street Journal’s weekly “Global View” column, is not really a bad prose stylist, and his logic is not always unsound. But his unexamined assumptions lead him astray. His latest installment is typical. Entitled “Why the […]
Image: Israel’s Captain Kurtz, Arab-killer, during IDF service. Courtesy Tikun Olam
Mr. RothsteinRothstein: Kosher Conservative MoleBy Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgEdward Rothstein is a public intellectual whose oracular writings are found throughout the canonical journalism of the American Establishment: the New York Times, Wall Street Journal (where he is “critic at large”), New Republic, New York Review of Books.Mr. Rothstein is a mole within the “Conservative” movement.
By Joe Emersberger – TeleSUR – May 27, 2015 Juan Forero’s latest article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), co-authored by José de Córdoba, ran with the headline “Venezuelan Officials Suspected of Turning Country into Global Cocaine Hub”. The article was immediately cited by the BBC, UK Guardian, and Reuters among others. Here are five things readers should notice about […]
By Mark Jaycox | EFF | May 19, 2015 Three provisions of the Patriot Act expire on June 1 and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to delay taking action on the issue by calling for a two month or 5-year reauthorization of Section 215—the provision of the Patriot Act the NSA relies on […]
