Did the Press Take Down Bernie Sanders?
The media have a script for elections, and in that script the presumed losers are always marginalized and even dismissed.
The media have a script for elections, and in that script the presumed losers are always marginalized and even dismissed.
As if to prep the populace for their desired outcome, for weeks, mainstream corporate media has been readying the people for a Clinton/Trump general election contest.
John Pilger describes the dangers of confrontation between the United States and Russia, and between the US and China, and how a 'conspiracy of silence' has excluded vital debate from the US election campaign
Most senior Democrats—all of whom were silent as the Obama administration waged war on whistleblowers—have sought either to defend Clinton or downplay the importance of what she did.
The convention is not our party. It is their party. It costs a lot of money to attend. Donate $100,000 and you become an “empire” donor, with perks such as “VIP credentials for all convention proceedings,” along with tickets to lavish corporate and Party receptions, photo ops with politicians at the convention podium, four rooms at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel and a suite at a Yankees game, where a “special guest” will be present.
Add it up and the total grows to no fewer than 5,901,814 legitimate votes and voters tossed out of the count.
Appelbaum further slammed international media over their reporting on Assange and accused those in the U.S. of being propagandists. “Julian is a political prisoner who has been demonised in the press,” he said.
Abby Martin sits down with Dr. Stein [Green Party presidential candidate] to look at how her career in medicine helped her diagnose America's "multi-organ failure," and why her ideas pose such a threat to Empire.
Abdullah: I think what [Clinton’s] really neglecting is the policies that bring crack cocaine into inner cities in the first place, the policies that create unemployment and underemployment in the first place, and then the policies that he initiates, that then go ahead and further oppress and repress communities.
"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
Giroux: Few journalists have acknowledged the presence of white militia and white supremacists groups at Trump's rallies.... Trump is simply the most visible embodiment of a society that is not merely suspicious of critical thought but disdains it.