There's Far More Diversity in Venezuela's 'Muzzled' Media Than in US Corporate Press
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation's crisis has become perhaps the world's most lucrative fictional genre. Ciara Nugent's recent piece for …
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More Families Freed from US Controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Northern Syria
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
While the partisan, fake faction fight over usage of concentration camp persists domestically, American politicians and US media continue to ignore the US Rukban concentration camp in Syria. US occupation criminals continue as illicit armed guards, dictating which Syrians may …
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The US politicians Trump told to 'go home' hit back, and get widespread support
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-07-15
Donald Trump has drawn a lot of criticism for telling four US congresswomen of colour to "go back" to where they came from. The women in question — three of whom were born in the US — aren't taking this lying down. | "Complete and total catastrophe": | Trump tweeted the following on 14 July: | ….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't the…
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Sexual assault case in Massachusetts against actor Kevin Spacey threatens to fall apart
wsws.org | 2019-07-15
The dismissal of the case would be a blow to the witch-hunt as a whole, which has ruined or threatened dozens of artists' careers, creating an atmosphere of censorship and intimidation.
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'Go Fix Your Countries': Trump to US Congresswomen
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-14
"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how," United States President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday addressing a group of Democratic congresswomen. | RELATED: | Tlaib Slams Israeli Racism, Applauds Intersectional Solidarity | "So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, viciou…
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Russian trolls are coming! Obama staffer issues warning amid dispute within Democrtic party
rt.com | 2019-07-14
With sniping and infighting rocking the Democratic Party, former White House staffer Ben Rhodes has warned the left to be on the lookout for those ever-present "Russian trolls," drawing ridicule. | …
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'Ready to protect US & its assets': Military warns 750k+ alien hunters NOT to storm Area 51
rt.com | 2019-07-14
With the number of UFO enthusiasts volunteering to raid Area 51 growing uncontrollably amid an avalanche of memes on Twitter, the Pentagon seems to be worried that some might actually show up to try and break 'them aliens' free. | …
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Skull of Death: Mass Media, Inauthentic Opposition, and Eco-Existential Reality in a Pre-Fascist Age of Appeasement
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair | Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media's role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. | Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance | Two Sundays ago, in a fit of masochistic media research, I watched some cable news talking heads do their weekly news roundups. CNN had a panel of know-it-all neoliberals who reflected on the Democratic Party's first two presidential debates. Everyone agreed that Kamala Harris had…
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The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2019-07-12
Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed an open letter signed by Noam Chomsky defending Labour MP Chris Williamson from "anti-Semitism" smears. | Source…
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The Journalists Do The Shouting
Jason Hirthler | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
The loudest pro-war voices are nowhere near the fight It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. — George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia There seems to have been a distinct…
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Women of color winning elections: Changing the system and challenging Democrats
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-12
PHILADELPHIA–The public dispute between Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being portrayed by the mainstream media as a challenge to unity in the Democratic Party. Yet, as history continues to be made with an unprecedented number of women of color running for and winning public office, it may …
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The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-10
Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/10/the-guardian-…
The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-10
Britain's leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/10/the-guardian-…
Voices from Syria's Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting
Eva Bartlett | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-04
Eva Bartlett visited refugees in Syria escaping the horrid conditions in the Rukban Refugee Camp, a desolate outpost in the US administered deconfliction zone. What she found was very different than the 'reality' depicted by the Western press.
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Voices from Syria's Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting
Eva Bartlett | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-04
Eva Bartlett visited refugees in Syria escaping the horrid conditions in the Rukban Refugee Camp, a desolate outpost in the US administered deconfliction zone. What she found was very different than the 'reality' depicted by the Western press.
mintpressnews.com/voices-syria-rukban-re…
Warning to Progressive Dems: You're Leaving Corporate Media's Comfort Zone
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-07-02
by Julie Hollar After the first round of Democratic primary debates, the line from corporate media and their overwhelmingly centrist sources was clear: The Democrats are moving dangerously to the left, at their own peril. | Washington Post reporter Michael Scherer ( 6/30/19), under the headline "Democratic Candidates Veer Left, Leaving Behind Successful Midterm Strategy," pushed the media conventional wisd…
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Far-Right Extremists Are Calling for Terrorism on the Messaging App Telegram
Michael Edison Hayden | splcenter.org | 2019-06-27
Neo-Nazis, white nationalists and antigovernment extremists are publishing volumes of propaganda advocating terrorism and mass shootings on Telegram, a Hatewatch review of hundreds of channels on that app reveals.
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