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Hollywood hoopla ignores media’s history of servility

By James Bovard – The Hill – 03/02/18 Much of the media nowadays is portraying itself as heroes of the #Resist Trump movement. To exploit that meme, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out “The Post,” a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. But regardless of whether Spielberg’s latest wins the Academy […]

How to Steele an Election

Christopher Steele’s Other Job: He Ran an Info Op Against the United States By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | February 18, 2108 Christopher Steele did far more than simply provide an opposition research dossier to the Democratic National Committee, his Job One. As a skilled intelligence officer, Steele ran a full-spectrum information […]

Washington Post Editorial Writer Disturbed to Discover the Importance of Precedent in Court Decisions

Charles Lane Continues Attack on Unions CEPR | February 15, 2018 The Washington Post has long had a hostile attitude toward unions, which it expresses in both its opinion and news sections. (As an example of the latter, this front page article complaining about high pensions for public sector workers in California, highlighted the case […]

‘Deep State’ CIA Veterans Finding New Homes in the Mainstream Media

(CN Op-ed) — “Former CIA director John Brennan has become the latest member of the NBC News and MSNBC family, officially signing with the network as a contributor,” chirps a recent article by The Wrap, as though that’s a perfectly normal thing to have to write and not a ghastly symptom of an Orwellian dystopia. NBC reports that the former head […]

When is there Going to be Accountability for US Wars and Aggression?

US makes new claims of WMD in Syria By Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice | February 3, 2018 It’s WMD all over again. Anonymous “US officials” are once again accusing a targeted “regime” of using “chemical weapons” and threatening that the U.S. military may have to “hold it accountable”. Once again, western media is broadcasting […]

Tillerson’s Promise of More War in Syria Gets Warm Reception From Corporate Media

By Gregory Shupak | FAIR | January 29, 2018 In a speech at Stanford this month, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared that America intends to keep military troops in Syria indefinitely, in pursuit of the US’s “key end states for Syria,” including “post-Assad leadership,” the marginalization of Iran and the elimination of “weapons […]