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Democracy Dies in Obfuscation, by Dorthee Benz
“The failure to name—and, worse, to try to obscure through misleading comparisons—what is plainly a threat to US democracy is a dereliction of journalistic duty.”
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.”
Extinction Rebellion: Worldwide, the First Day
“We only get one planet and so we’re here to try and defend it.”
Popular Resistance: the UN, Syria, Venezuela, Assange and Russia, NATO, Cuba, and more
Pertinent articles from the Popular Resistance Daily Digest
Henry Giroux on His Latest Book — The Terror of the Unforeseen — and How Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism
Money drives politics. We all know that now. But the other side of this is that it’s not just an economic system, it’s also an ideological system. [Neoliberalism] operates off the assumption that the market can solve all problems — not simply in the economy, but in all of social life — so it becomes a template and a model for all social relations.
The Pentagon Wants More Control Over the News. What Could Go Wrong? by Matt Taibbi
The most enormous issue posed by the modern media landscape is the industry’s incredible concentration, which allows a handful of private platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google – to dominate media distribution.
Corporate Media get the stories wrong on the Amazon fires
Corporate media addressing modern day crises like the Amazon fires will never do them anything approaching justice.
Julian Assange: the latest blackout by Mnar Muhawesh and Robert Sheer on effects on journalism
If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.
Democracy Dies Without Alternative Media, Robert Sheer interview of Peter Richardson
It really goes to the great secret of American greatness, which comes not from, ever, from the establishment. It never comes from the best and the brightest. Unless they betray their class; unless they betray their teaching.
Commonalities of mass shooters and prevention recommendations
We’ve studied every mass shooting since 1966 and found similarities that can help prevent future attacks.
FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley looks at the Mueller Report
An opportunity to hear about the Mueller inquiry from someone who has been on the inside. You’ll hear a very different story than the one in the mainstream media. This is a don’t miss episode!
Worshipping the Electronic Image, by Chris Hedges
More ominous than the president’s impoverished vocabulary is that he cannot string together sentences that make sense.
‘Cultural Marxism’: The Mainstreaming of a Nazi Trope, by Paul Ari
What does cultural Marxism mean for the far right?
Chris Hedges Interviews Matt Taibbi: The Rot of American Journalism Runs Deep
Chris Hedges discusses the deep rot that infects American journalism with reporter Matt Taibbi. By CHRIS HEDGES RT America On Contact Truthdig May 9, 2019 They explore the ways in which Fox News has reshaped the industry in its own image, and how networks like MSNBC have come to tell viewers exactly what they want […]
UN Says Assange Tortured: Watch the Webcast
Julian Assange was “psychologically tortured” by four nations ganging up on him, said the UN special rapporteur on torture. Watch the replay with Pentagon Papers whistle blower Dan Ellsberg, and other guests. Note: Included below after the video is the article “UN Torture Report: ‘Demonized’ Assange Has Faced ‘Psychological Torture’” by Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe […]
18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
Nothing published on WikiLeaks has ever been proven untrue. Compare that record to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or any mainstream outlet.
The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate, by Chris Hedges
The media model … mutes and destroys investigations into corporate systems of oppression and genuine dissent.
Democracy Now! Assange: Ellsberg, Scahill, Assange Lawyer weigh in on “grave threat to press freedom”
Assange faces up to 170 additional years in prison under the new charges—10 years for each count of violating the Espionage Act.
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