Sunday, June 21, 2026

Cold-War-Style Propaganda Posing as News at the New York Times

The Times has written a lot of verbiage about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline along with being a shameless promoter of war. Have we reached a nadir in journalism here in the U.S.?

Mistakes in the news are not fake news

And tantrums from the faker-in-chief don’t make them so.

The Media: Not so much fake news as shallow, less than objective journalism

It might be said that the media is not well-rounded for it often beats the same subject almost to death.

High school students

So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.

How guns literally go to men’s heads

"If you are not male and have never carried a gun in public, it’s only an imaginary experiment, but science shows that simply handling a gun alters men’s levels of testosterone and measurably increases their aggressive behavior."

Seattle ends crucial indigenous youth program

Every youth that regularly attended Clear Sky graduated from high school, yet the district wants to end the program anyway.

Crisis means danger and opportunity

The present crisis will undoubtedly lead to great change, but will it be takeovers by neo-fascist leaders such as Trump? Or will the change be social reforms?

A jubilee moment in pandemic America?

The poetry of a movement to change this country...

That time private US media companies stepped in to silence the falsehoods and incitements...

A relatively new medium was harnessed to inject hateful ideas into American society for political gain.

Not exceptional. It’s strange.

Here are examples where America is different from other countries...