Exclusive: The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
Hersh denounced news organizations as “crazy town” for their uncritical promotion...
Hersh denounced news organizations as “crazy town” for their uncritical promotion...
Islamophobia is not the same thing as racism, just as fascism is not the same thing as Hate. Any effective resistance to Trump’s agenda will have to go much further than the official opposition rhetoric that invites us to conflate these things. By PETER GAFFNEY Counterpunch February 16, 2017 The travel ban was a More
Wrongheaded Calls to "Give Trump a Chance"
Wrongheaded Calls to "Give Trump a Chance"
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media”
“Actual discussion of content, of issues that matter to Americans, is very, very rarely heard in the press. ..."
We should be demanding that interviewers in the media start calling out so-called "experts" when the experts are caught distorting the truth.
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).
To this point, U.S. drones have taken over 7,180 lives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somali; no tally has been kept of drone assassinations in the other countries engulfed in war – Iraq, Syria and Libya. These killings, as you know, violate international law requiring due process and a variety of principles established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed by the U.S. after World War II.
But the question of how to push back against the problem has seemed gargantuan. Four hundred and thirty-five Congressional districts: how to begin?
