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Diana Johnstone talks about her new book, Circle in the Darkness
“[Johnstone] recounts in detail how the Western left betrayed its historical principles of social justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grounds of “human rights”.
Henry Giroux: It is impossible to be radical without being optimistic. Henry Giroux
Pablo Rivera and Ezequiel Passeron had the honor and privilege of talking with professor Henry Giroux, one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, to analyze the challenges of covid-19. Digital Lighthouse Truth is not fake news. Justice is not fake news. We don’t have to tell you what dangerous times […]
Glenn Greenwald: Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism”
THE MOST MENACING ATTRIBUTE of what Smith calls “Resistance Journalism” is that it permits and tolerates no dissent and questioning: perhaps the single most destructive path journalism can take.
New Documents From the Sham Prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn Also Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations
“The conflation of ideological and evidentiary questions, and the substitution of substantive political debates with tests of tribal loyalty, are indescribably corrosive to our public discourse.”
Chris Hedges on Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & State of the Left
A fixed election system, mainstream corporate media, and more.
Henry Giroux: The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism
“Neoliberal capitalism is the underlying pandemic feeding the current global shortage of hospitals, medical supplies, beds and robust social welfare provisions, and increasingly an indifference to human life. The social contract has been all but eliminated while notions of the public good, social obligations and democratic forms of solidarity are under attack.”
Chris Hedges Interview: America’s Broken Political System and How We Rise Up To Overthrow It
Chris Hedges discusses the demise of Truthdig and the media, Julian Assange, and America now and the relationship of compassion and activism in resistance.
US ‘Disinformation’ Claims Do Exactly What Enemies Are Accused of: Distract From Covid-19 Failures
“While the foreign misinformation in question isn’t clear, the purpose of the domestic narratives surrounding said misinformation is.”
Supreme Court Crushes Media Diversity in Ruling on Lawsuit Accusing Comcast of Racial Discrimination
“What this story is about is, it’s basically — it’s about a series of black entertainment moguls who started media networks or television shows.”
Who Wants a Revolution? No One Who Owns a Major Media Outlet
“The pundits appear willfully ignorant of their own role in shaping electability narratives. In the debates, electability was a favorite topic of the journalists doling out questions, and the message (evidence be damned) was clear: Sanders is unelectable. As we reported after studying every debate question prior to Super Tuesday (FAIR.org, 2/29/20), Sanders’ electability was questioned more than four times as often as Biden’s (21 to 5).”
Iran Unrest: Protests and Provocations, by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Electronic communications and foreign media act as today’s Trojan Horse. Sculpture from American Film “Troy.” By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) Newsletter Volume 38 Number 1 Winter 2020 November 24, 2019, Iran: When protests in Hong Kong, Iraq, and Lebanon erupted, I was fully anticipating protests in Iran to follow. In 2018 alone, the National Endowment for […]
Flight 752 Out of Tehran
“It seems reasonable to speculate that in the early hours of January 8 a calamitous incident was contrived to happen.”
Independent Media with Laura Flanders and other current issues
“There is something deeply wrong with having our news brought to us by the same corporations that bring us our killing.”
Chris Hedges: What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
“The publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. If Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.”
PBS NewsHour Coverage of Suleimani Assassination, by Mike Madden
On January 25, 2020 Mike Madden gave the following speech at a protest of Trump’s actions in the assassination of Suleimani, inciting a possible war with Iran. American bias in US media coverage* has been obvious for a long time: America has interests, Iran has ambitions. America has allies, Iran has proxies. America has a […]
As We Work to Prevent Iran War, It’s Time to End All Our Wars
“On Thursday, the House passed a resolution that would reassert Congress’s constitutional, and long-neglected, power to start and end wars. The resolution faces an uphill battle in the Senate, and this is where progressives should place their energy.”
Three Years of Tracking | U.S. Press Freedom Tracker January Newsletter
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