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The fight for Bernie delegates is escalating — and could help...
Corporate media and powerful Democrats are eager to portray the 2020 Democratic presidential race as a thing of the past. But progressive activists have some very different ideas.
Pandemic doesn’t stop corporate media from crusading against universal healthcare
It’s clear that the American system of making health insurance a privilege only for those who work—or for those poor and old enough to qualify for Medicaid and Medicare—has made the U.S. especially vulnerable to Covid-19.
It’s vitally important for media to get facts right in a...
It’s so vital to provide accurate information, particularly about the outbreak’s growth, and especially when you are an outlet that officials and opinion-shapers are likely to look to for guidance when making decisions and recommendations about the drastic measures needed to halt the coronavirus.
Do media really care about money in politics?
But a deeper look at media coverage suggests that media’s concern with money in politics rarely extends beyond the catchy headline.
Media stoop to ‘Russian assistance’ to explain Sanders’ rise
Corporate media are doing their best to smear the progressive candidate that threatens their own business interests.
‘Corporate media are not observers of the electoral process; they are...
And that is a complete misunderstanding of the actual sociology of America.
The corporate media is directly profiting from Mike Bloomberg’s rise as...
"...I don’t think any person in American history has ever spent more money cultivating an image in the public of himself as has Michael Bloomberg."
‘Do they never learn?’: Progressives rip media attempts to downplay Bernie...
"Why is this so hard for people to see?"
How corporate media make Pete look like he’s winning
On closer examination, it turns out that that is not a bar chart, but merely the New York Times’ indication that Buttigieg is in the lead.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.