VIDEO: Mnar Muhawesh: Mint Press Founder, CEO and Editor In Chief discusses the corporate media. ISIS and more…
Mnar Muhawesh addresses the mainstream corporate media, Islamophobia, racism, sexism and more...
Hillary Clinton: the Queen of Chaos and the Threat of World War III
My answer to the first part of the question is that “voting for Hillary because she is a woman” makes no sense to me at all. Yes, women should get together for causes that affect women in general...But Hillary Clinton is an individual, she is not women in general. Women together might fight for women’s right to be elected President, but that right exists. It cannot be reduced to one particular woman’s right to be President.
VIDEO | Diana Johnstone on ‘Queen of Chaos’ Hillary Clinton and U.S. Foreign Policy
"Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone captures the imperial worldview of Hillary Clinton in memorable detail. Hillary the Hawk, as U.S. Senator and Secretary of State, never saw a weapons system she did not support nor a U.S. war practice she did not endorse." —Ralph Nader
Robert Parry: The Misinformation Mess
Parry: There is nothing wrong with having machines do more of the drudgery and give humans more time to enjoy life. The problem comes when the benefits accrue to a tiny minority and the rest of us are forced to work harder or face declining living standards.
Mary Beaudoin | Armies on the Move: Trident Juncture 2015
Beaudoin: Voices crying out for peace are not meaningful to war planners who claim that what they do is for the people’s defense and the people’s security;
Horror Beyond Description: Noam Chomsky on the Latest Phase of the War on Terror
Chomsky: One informative discussion, in Business Week (Feb. 12, 1949), recognized that social spending could have the same "pump-priming" effect as military spending, but pointed out that for businessmen, "there's a tremendous social and economic difference between welfare pump-priming and military pump-priming." The latter "doesn't really alter the structure of the economy." For the businessman, it's just another order. But welfare and public works spending "does alter the economy. It makes new channels of its own. It creates new institutions. It redistributes income." And we can add more. Military spending scarcely involves the public, but social spending does, and has a democratizing effect.
Henry A. Giroux | The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the Impoverishment of the Future
Giroux: The seeds of terrorism do not lie simply in ideological fundamentalism; they also lie in conditions of oppression, war, racism, poverty, the abandonment of entire generations of Palestinian youth, the dictatorships that stifle young people in the Middle East and the racist assaults on Black youth in urban centers in the United States.
Mint Press News’ Mnar Muhawesh on Media’s ‘Fast Food Headlines’
Gosztola: Muhawesh condemns the two-party system as she talks about the effect the presidential election has on journalism when the media is so dependent on covering every tiny detail.
Dave Lindorff: The US Media and Propaganda
Lindorff: 10: If the US provides funds to organizations inside another country, which then organize protests, marches and bloody assaults, and ultimately drive the elected government out of office, as the US did in Ukraine, is that subversion? Objective answer: Yes US media answer: No
VIDEO | Glen Greenwald: “Submissive” Media’s Drumbeat for War and Anti-Muslim Scapegoating, Parts I, 2
Discussion of media fearmongering, anti-Muslim scapegoating, ISIL’s roots, and war profiteering with Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-founder of The Intercept. "Every time there’s a terrorist attack, Western leaders exploit that attack to do more wars," Greenwald says.
John Pilger | From Pol Pot to ISIS: The blood never dried
Pilger: A truce - however difficult to negotiate and achieve - is the only way out of this maze; otherwise, the atrocities in Paris and Beirut will be repeated.
Ben Norton | Our terrorism double standard: After Paris, let’s stop blaming Muslims and take a hard look at ourselves
Norton: By making ISIS go viral, we are only helping them accomplish their sadistic goals.