Tag: mainstream media
Glenn Greenwald: Mainstream U.S. media is culpable for disseminating fake &...
"Any story that bolsters the prevailing D.C. orthodoxy on the Russia Threat, no matter how dubious, is spread far and wide."
‘Fake news’ in America: Homegrown, and far from new
The corporate state created this monstrous propaganda machine and bequeathed it to Trump.
Corporate media’s “fake news” war is backfiring by showing the world...
This battle has literally nil to do with fake news – or even Russia – and everything to do with the power of dissent.
Media complicity is key to blacklisting websites
In media and government, the journalists and officials who enable blacklisting are cravenly siding with conformity instead of democracy.
Russian propaganda? The new era of mainstream conspiracy theory
While it is true that Russia, China and other rival countries engage in espionage and propaganda, their efforts to change American minds pale in comparison to the stenography of the US and other Western media.
Too little, too late: Weeks after election, media see Trump’s conflicts,...
The media mostly missed this pressing story once during the campaign. They can’t afford to overlook it a second time.
Trump’s seven techniques to control the media
Historically, these seven techniques have been used by demagogues to erode the freedom and independence of the press.
Libeled by the Washington Post in a ‘false news’ McCarthyite attack...
Is the Pentagon behind this massive hit on independent journalism?
And so it begins: Normalizing the election
The media must not excuse the racism, misogyny, nativism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia because we think Trump voters have legitimate gripes.
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Trump-backed PAC took $5 million from tobacco giant before FDA opened door to flavored...
A multimillion-dollar contribution from Reynolds American was disclosed days before tobacco executives met with President Trump and less than a week before federal regulators issued guidance that could expand flavored vape sales and benefit major cigarette manufacturers.
Suicide is never painless—yet right-wing implosions bring positive changes
The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?
Alex Saab and the fragility of the solidarity movement
It’s difficult not to see the renewed imprisonment of Alex Saab as a disappointing capitulation to U.S. coercion after so many of us fought for his freedom, but we cannot forget the task at hand.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
States introduce temporary moratoriums, strict conditional restrictions pausing new construction of data centers
At least 12 states have introduced measures to temporarily ban or strictly regulate large-scale data center development