Patrick Lawrence: University—An Attack on Intelligence
Will someone explain why we hear daily about all this antisemitism but cannot see anything of it more than the odd, unalarming case—the everyday here-and-there variety? Someone, anyone?
The Lies of War Can Be Ended by Truth, by Amy Blumenshine
While the perpetrators of those war crimes were never charged, Assange, the publisher of the documentation revealing them, faces a possible U.S. prison sentence of 175 years in what will effectively be solitary confinement. Free Speech, Free Julian Assange!
Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows. Bad Faith and Blank Checks By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News ScheerPost September 6, 2023 byEDITOR An embedded civilian journalist taking photographs of U.S. soldiers in Dana, More
Covering (Up) Antiwar Protest in US Media, by Dave Lindorff
“Media rarely stray far from the basic framework imposed by systems of power, as FAIR has been effectively documenting for many years.”
Glenn Greenwald: Exploiting Social Justice to Wield Power, with Lee Fang
Glenn Greenwald of System Update interviews Lee Fang of the intercept about how corporations have coopted diversity, tailoring messages to Democrats and Republicans that hide corporate agendas.
The FBI’s Exposed Propaganda Partnership with Big Tech: System Update with Glenn Greenwald
*,,,the mere possibility that one day the powers and the focus of those U.S Security State agencies would be turned inward, primarily targeting not our foreign enemies but the American people themselves."
Bernie Sanders Calls for Revolutionizing America’s Broken Media System, by Kenny Stancil
. “All across the country, corporate conglomerates and hedge fund vultures have bought and consolidated local newspapers and slashed their newsrooms—all while giving executives and shareholders big payouts.”
The Corporate Media Deference That Endangers Us All, by Caitlin Johnstone
"This didn’t just affect AP staff, it affected the whole world; we deserve to know what happened and who was responsible, and AP has no business obstructing that knowledge from us."
Kevin Gosztola Interview: Do People Know Assange?
Why isn't Julian Assange a household word?
On the International Day of Peace September 21st, The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Reaffirmed Its Commitment to the Weapon of War
For the Biden administration, a commitment to peace is a poor substitute for the benefits of securing another $13 billion in aid for Ukraine contained in legislation meant to fund the U.S. government. Moving money from the public coffers to the pockets of the defense companies that pay the bills for both parties is always seen as good bipartisan policy.
War Propaganda About Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin, by Chay Bowes
The immeasurable human suffering that these wars have visited on the innocent populations seldom features. American complicity and responsibility for creating the very problems they now seek to “solve” is bizarrely entirely ignored in its client media.
Beware of the Fact-Checkers, by Leonard Goodman
In other words, in the age of the fact checker, an opinion columnist is required to credit the official word of government bureaucrats, even when those bureaucrats are clearly lying, as they were in this case.