Chris Hedges: The Rot of American Journalism Runs Deep
...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 to hear.
...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 to hear.
Western Sahara, where peaceful protesters, led by women, are beaten in the streets. Thousands have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation. AMY GOODMAN: Today a Democracy Now! exclusive: “Four Days in Western Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony.”
The next step toward attaining a world free of nuclear weapons must involve the nuclear armed states. Disarming nuclear weapons should not be a difficult process since we have the technical expertise and verification procedures in place.
“Pat Tillman showed me I could resist the indoctrination”
Chomsky: Page after page of the book contains graphic examples of --you can only call it--this kind of insanity and at one point describes the book as a chronicle of human madness, which captures the character of the era we have been living in very accurately. And we should bear in mind that this is only one of two existential threats, the other...is another dramatic illustration of human madness, the threat of global warming...
There is a long list of the censored. The acceptable range of opinion is so narrow it is almost nonexistent.
"In this series of highly informative conversations deftly organized by CJ Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky teaches us - yet again - so much on a huge range of issues - from economic globalisation through international politics to the linguistic foundations of humanity."
"In this series of highly informative conversations deftly organized by CJ Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky teaches us - yet again - so much on a huge range of issues - from economic globalisation through international politics to the linguistic foundations of humanity."
Ed was the main author of "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media," written with Noam Chomsky
Students should not be free to think. They don’t put it this way, but what it means they shouldn’t be free to enquire, to think, to challenge
Students should not be free to think. They don’t put it this way, but what it means they shouldn’t be free to enquire, to think, to challenge
“By filling the media space with bizarre inventions and brazen denials, purveyors of fake news hope to mobilize potential supporters with righteous wrath—and to demoralize potential opponents by nurturing the idea that everybody lies and nothing matters."