Glenn Greenwald: New Russell Brand Accusations Deserve Scrutiny & Due Process
Glenn Greenwald breaks down the trial by media of Russel Brand, and the need for due process in a time of cancellation.
Patrick Lawrence: Bad Faith and Blank Checks
All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows.
The New York Times Has Decided We Need to Cut Social Security and Medicare
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press (CEPR) The New York Times editorial board came to a shocking realization this week: we are living on borrowed money. That was the…
Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything’s Fake And Stupid
By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com So U2 singer Bono is literally just doing illustrations for the imperialist propaganda rag The Atlantic now, because that’s the sort of thing that happens…
Free Those Who Expose Government Misdeeds, Jail Those Who Try To Conceal Them
People shouldn't be punished for revealing the secrets of the government, governments should be punished for keeping secrets from the people.
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…
Major US Outlets Found Hersh’s Nord Stream Scoop Too Hot To Handle
By every journalistic standard, the extensive international coverage given to Hersh’s story should have made it big news in the US.
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…
Caitlin Johnstone: What the MSM Can No Longer Say
Dissident commentary about Ukraine that was still published in major Western news outlets in 2014 is entirely gone because these publications have turned to full-fledged war propaganda.
On Football, Opium and Popular Resistance: Not All Sports Are Created Equal
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of…
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.
Matt Taibbi: Munk Debate on Mainstream Media
Author Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi take on Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker, and Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times.
NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to ‘Doorstep of Doom’
As we slide closer to what was once considered the ultimate insanity—nuclear Armageddon—corporate media seem to be egging on reckless leaders.
Ukraine and the Anti-Communications System
Remarks on Massachusetts Peace Action Webinar.
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1
YouTube censored this site for accuracy, yet new news today underscores that they continue to hype fake news.