Chris Hedges and Tavis Smiley Discuss Popular Resistance and the Failure of Mainstream Media
“Actual discussion of content, of issues that matter to Americans, is very, very rarely heard in the press. ..."
Millennials ‘Search for Truth’ on Election and Distrust Media, Intelligence Firm Reports
“If millennials vote en masse, they have a chance to determine the election’s outcome,”
Chris Hedges | Unspeakable
Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.
Inside the John Pilger | Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton and Trump
George Bush’s press spokesman once called the media “complicit enablers”.
Learning to Claim Our Victories Or Why Fighting for Justice Is Like Surfing
Hillary Clinton actually said the words “systemic racism.” Never in our history has a mainstream presidential candidate described our country’s racial institutions in that kind of language.
Glenn Greenwald | On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive is an Easy Call
WikiLeaks has always been somewhat controversial but reaction has greatly intensified this year because many of their most significant leaks have had an impact on the U.S. presidential election.
Max Blumenthal | Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
Like The Syria Campaign, the White Helmets are anything but impartial.
Cast Your Vote: What Is the Most Effective Form of Civil Resistance?
The whole system is guilty.
Media Ask Which Candidate Can Better Exploit Our Irrational Fear of Terrorism
Politico (9/20/16) frames the terrorism issue as “who has the upper hand.”
Why Won’t the Corporate Media Push Back Against Lying Think Tanks and Experts?
We should be demanding that interviewers in the media start calling out so-called "experts" when the experts are caught distorting the truth.
The Biggest Strike in World History? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone
A coalition of trade unions in India representing some 180 million workers staged a one-day general strike on Friday, September 2, in protest of what they called the “anti-worker and anti-people” policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...Assocham, India’s chamber of commerce, estimated that the economic impact of the strike was $2.4 billion–$2.7 billion (Hindustan Today, 9/3/16).
Masculinity Metaphors Dominate Mainstream Media Coverage of Election
The frequent use of boxing and football metaphors in political discourse did not cause violence to become such an important force in our politics, but this usage is one measure of how presidential campaigns can be less about policy differences and complex political agendas than they can be about the selling of a certain kind of executive masculinity, embodied in a particular man whom the public comes to know largely through television and other technologies of mass communication.