Patrick Lawrence: The Happiness of Others
For Americans, admitting that people in other parts of the world have and want different things from what they have and want can, in its subtle way, be devastating to…
New York Times Tries for Pulitzer Prize in Irresponsible Reporting on Bank Crises
By The Center for Economic and Policy Research The New York Times seems to think it is a newspaper’s job to promote bank panics wherever possible. It would be difficult…
Patrick Lawrence: Trump & the Stormy Deep State
We keep coming face-to-face with the wreckage of the Russiagate years, when the 45th president threatened the national security apparatus for, possibly, the first time since Kennedy fired Allen Dulles…
In FBI Case, the First Amendment Takes Another Bizarre Hit
The same Democratic minority staff that trashed the First Amendment in last week's Twitter Files hearings put something amazing in writing in a parallel case.
Chris Hedges: The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism
The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia…
How Can the Peace Movement Be More Effective?
By Tom Valovic / Mass Peace Action I’m probably not your typical peace activist. Over the last 15 years or so, I’ve been involved in a variety of volunteer and…
Sanders Proposes ‘New Deal for Journalism’ To Ensure Media Serves Public Interest
Nonpartisan, publicly funded media is "an idea that we should explore," said the senator.
Pentagon Wants To Return Special Ops Propagandists To Ukraine
By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack An article by The Washington Post titled “Pentagon looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine” contains some interesting information about what US special ops forces…
US Funds ‘Independent Journalism’ in Cuba to Spread Propaganda, Ex-Spy Admits
Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, “a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US”. They spread anti-government disinformation with the…
NYT Worries Big Brother Is Not Watching You
By Dorothee Benz / Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting A recent guest essay in the New York Times (12/28/22) concluded a searing takedown of “our technology overlords” with the sentence:…
Western Governments Keep Assigning Themselves the Authority to Regulate Online Speech
By Caitlin Johnstone / Substack Depending on what political echo chamber you’ve been viewing it from, the ongoing release of information about the inner workings of pre-Musk Twitter known as…
News Sites Took Nearly $1 Million From Consultant Pushing Power Companies’ Agenda: Report
One climate writer said the new exposé, published by NPR and Floodlight, "pulls back the curtain on yet another insidious corporate strategy to erode the core tenets of democracy for…
Joe Lauria: Mainstream Media Discover Twitter Censorship
The MSM were angry about Twitter suspending corporate journalists but don’t care when independent journalists critical of officialdom — including from CN — are banned.
Project Censored: Hunting the Twitter Files
Nolan Higdon on how legacy media censors details about censorship.
Bernie Sanders Calls for Revolutionizing America’s Broken Media System
"We need to rebuild and protect a diverse and truly independent press so that real journalists and media workers can do the critical jobs that they love, and that a…