The portrayal of Democratic candidates in the debates is not the positive picture, especially with a prevalence of less left-leaning ideas permeating the public consciousness. This is the general argument made by The Nation, who continue that the trust we place...
Month: August 2019
Ice-Cold Power Moves: Reading Part 3 of Whitney Webb’s Series on Jeffrey Epstein
The Ghion Journal In Agatha Christie’s famous mystery novel, Murder on the Orient Express, a surprising but supremely unsatisfying conclusion arrives when genteel Belgian detective Hercule Poirot figures out that the gruesome murder was actually committed...
40 rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
The Grayzone The Western corporate media has shown extreme bias against the whistleblowing publication WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange. Nowhere is this more evident than in a recent CNN article on the imprisoned journalist, which completely botches the...
Police Use Your Money to Buy Silence from Brutality Victims
The Real News Network TAYA GRAHAM: Hello. My name is Taya Graham and welcome to the Police Accountability Report. Remember, this show has a single goal: to hold one of the most powerful institutions in the country, policing, accountable. To do so, we go beyond...
Boris Johnson’s Brexit Helter Skelter
CounterPunch Trump sent his national security adviser John “Bonkers” Bolton to London, where the neocon Bonkers could hang out with Trump’s pal BoJo Johnson, absolutely relaxed in the knowledge that this was one place in the world where his host would not treat...
Meet Alvaro Enciso, the Artist Placing Crosses in Sonoran Desert to Memorialize Migrant Deaths
Democracy Now! More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States. On a recent visit to the Arizona borderlands, Democracy Now!...
We’re Listening to the Wrong Voices on Syria
Truthdig Once upon a time, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard traveled to Syria and met with the strongman President Bashar Assad. She considered her willingness to engage all sides of the country’s bloody civil war to be an important step toward peace. For this bold...
‘Pragmatic’: How Corporate Media Praise Dems Who Abandon Progressive Values
FAIR The battle for the Democratic presidential nomination is dominating the news cycle, and two of the three clear frontrunners in polls, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, draw their support from the resurgent left of the party. Sanders in particular...
Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate Debate
The Intercept DEAR MEMBERS OF THE DNC: Your meeting in San Francisco this weekend takes place against a backdrop that is literally on fire. You are gathering one month after the hottest month ever recorded in human history. You are meeting on the same week...
‘Jimmy’s death won’t go in vain’: Iraqi Americans vow to fight deportations
Middle East Eye With the grief came a call for action. As more than 100 people gathered at a community centre north of Detroit to mourn the death of a Michigan man who died after he was deported to Iraq, advocates and officials vowed to fight back against...