Tag: mainstream media
You Can’t Trust the (Corporate) Press
From operation mockingbird to wars based on official lies, you can't trust the corporate press. Democracy will only flourish when "the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”
How Mainstream Is Bernie Sanders Really?
A democratic socialist and all, Bernie Sanders isn't being taken seriously by the corporate media. But to mainstream media's surprise, Sanders’s positions are quite mainstream to the stances of the general American public.
Four Numbers that Show the Beating Down of Middle America
Numbers reveal the dramatic fall of the middle class over the past 35 years. But Congress has little need for numbers, except for their own needs, and the super-rich just keep building up their own numbers—it's time for a redistribution of our national wealth.
Is This a Scandal—Or a ‘Scandal?’
It seems Hillary Clinton didn't breach security or violate any federal record-keeping statutes—the laws were tightened after she left office. With no actual evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton and her staff, what do Republicans and their media enablers expect to find now?
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and curb billionaire influence
Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.