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Skin in the Game
I cannot think of a period in my lifetime when so much was happening in the world so quickly with which it feels that, as a reluctant UK citizen, I have a direct connection and indeed responsibility....
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Western Media, Leaders Slammed for ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture...
Human rights defenders are calling out Western news outlets and political leaders for their conspicuous lack of coverage and vocalized condemnation after leaked video footage appeared to show Israeli...
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Western Media Can Be Held Legally Accountable for Its Role in the Gaza Genocide
The ruthlessness of the Israeli genocide machine in Palestine, and the direct complicity of the U.S., UK, and other Western governments are two key pillars in the horrors being perpetrated against the...
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NYT Uncritically Reported Israel’s Version of Golan Bombing
As the US-backed genocide in Gaza continues, US media assist in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to widen the war, parroting the words of the aggressor. A consequential example of US...
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US Press Loses Interest as Winners of French Election Aren’t Allowed to Take...
One of the US’s oldest and closest allies is currently undergoing a constitutional crisis. Its government is in disarray, led by a head of state whose party has been rejected by voters, and who refuses...
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The Long History of Brazil’s Struggle with Musk and X
Millions of Brazilians woke up on August 31 in a country without X, after the Supreme Court ordered the national telecommunications agency to block the social media platform. This move culminated over...
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Holding the Press and White House Accountable: Solomon’s Afterword on the...
In Norman Solomon’s new Afterword in the paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, the author excoriates the White House for arming a...
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Invisible Rulers: An Establishment Liberal Reads Chomsky, Fights Taibbi and...
Until recently, Renee DiResta–author of the book under review–was the research manager at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory. She has served as a consultant to social media platforms about...
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Israeli Racism Shouldn’t Get a Pass in America
In 2013, Justine Sacco, an executive at a New York public relations firm, sent a tweet in which she joked about AIDS among Black Africans. “Going to Africa,” her tweet said, “Hope I don’t get AIDS....
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How The War On Gaza Exposed Israeli And Western Fascism
Nearly a year into the world’s first live-streamed genocide – which began in Gaza, and is rapidly expanding into the occupied West Bank – the establishment western media still avoid using the term...
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‘Everyone In Gaza is Sick, Injured, Or Both’ – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims
On 20 July 1982, an IRA bomb exploded beneath a bandstand on which 30 military bandsmen of the 1st Battalion, Royal Green Jackets were performing in Regent’s Park, London. Six of the bandsmen were...
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Beirut Suburbs or “Hezbollah Stronghold”? U.S. Media Parrots Israeli...
Last Friday, Israel attacked a meeting of Hezbollah leaders in the southern Beirut neighborhood of al-Qaem. It was an assassination operation following the detonation, days before, of thousands of...
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For Ken Klippenstein, Against Censorship
It has been hard in recent years to get anyone remotely left of center to care about the threat of tech censorship. The matter has either become such a right-wing obsession or been taken up by various...
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Top Papers Quoted More Wine Importers Than Union Leaders on Port Strike
At midnight on October 1, over 45,000 port workers across the Eastern US began a strike that was to last for three days. This labor action was only the latest in a series of high-profile confrontations...
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Republicans, Democrats and Online Free Speech
During the summer, the US Supreme Court issued multiple rulings that have generated a storm of hostility among progressives; for example, there were decisions relating to political corruption,...
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Movement Media Are Fighting for Palestinian Liberation and Against Censorship
A bill currently making its way through Congress could kill independent media outlets like ours. HR 9495 is a bipartisan piece of legislation, ostensibly about allowing U.S. nationals wrongfully...
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Double Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in...
Corporate news media have consistently blundered through their coverage of the violence on October 7, with documented war crimes outshined by—and sometimes disbelieved because of—horrific claims that...
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Demonizing Hezbollah to Legitimize a US/Israel Onslaught on Lebanon
Corporate media’s handling of the US-supported Israeli assault on Lebanon has, like all war propaganda, entailed a campaign to demonize the purported bad guys—Hezbollah, in this case. The coverage of...
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For NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
What are the limits of free speech on a college campus? The New York Times has deployed one of its highest-ranking soldiers in the culture war against liberalism to remind us that the speech of white...
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The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News
One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These...
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Israel Unmasked
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” —Pablo Neruda For over a year, the masters of war in Israel and the United States, abetted by the corporate media, have buried...
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Give Peace a Chance? No Way
Three Developments That Might Lead to Talks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented a week or so ago: “We will do to Lebanon what we did to Gaza.” That arrogant and ugly prediction has...
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Will Justice Department Actually Rein In Elon Musk’s Blatant Vote-Buying Scheme?
On Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) warned Elon Musk that he might be in violation of federal laws as regards his extraordinary recent interventions into the election process. The...
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LA Times Non-Endorsement Another Sign of Our Billionaire-Dominated Politics
The Los Angeles Times will not be making a presidential endorsement in this election, the first time the paper has stayed silent on a presidential race since 2004. But the decision not to endorse a...
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Israel Kills The Journalists. Western Media Kills The Truth Of Genocide in Gaza
Israel knew that, if it could stop foreign correspondents from reporting directly from Gaza, those journalists would end up covering events in ways far more to its liking. They would hedge every...
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Crime Is Down. Why Do So Many Rural Americans Think It’s Going Up?
ven though statistics show a consistent downward trend in violent crime since the early 1990s, conservative politicians and media are trying to convince voters that America is under attack. Often these...
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In Midst of Palestinian Genocide, Late Hamas Leader Scolded for ‘Eradicating’...
The Israeli military killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip on October 17, and it didn’t take long for the usual media suspects to line up with their anti-eulogies. Reuters (10/18/24), for...
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Morning Joe: Dems’ Favorite Show, Blatant Pro-Israel Propaganda
More than half a year into Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was reflecting on the campus protests against the US-backed war that had multiplied across the country — ones...
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Despite History of Fabrication, Press Uncritically Covers IDF-Provided...
Earlier this month, the New York Times (10/12/24), Washington Post (10/12/24) and Wall Street Journal (10/12/24) each published front-page articles based on different sets of documents handed to them...
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Israel’s War on Journalism
There are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare...
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