Dear Democrats, the Mainstream Media Are Not Your Friends
The Nation About 25 years ago, I asked Paul Begala, then an adviser to Bill Clinton, how the Democrats failed to pass a health care bill when they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. Begala identified the party’s fatal mistake as follows (I paraphrase from memory): “We were depending on the media to […]
From more diversity to less empire
Diversity in any business has more recently been a goal companies have been striving to achieve as their customer base become more responsive to more non-white employees. The same is true for the journalism business, where a report by The Nation calls out companies for failing to properly diversify their employees. The recent decision by Israel to […]
Empires Start by Moving Outward…and Finish by Moving Inward
The Ghion Journal The story of how America became a global superpower is one in which a group of ambitious and egotistical men rationalized the implementation of a governing model that would lead to massive death and suffering. The main forerunner of this drive to superpower status was Theodore Roosevelt, a late-19th/early 20th-century narcissistic politician […]
PHOTOS: Venezuelans march against US embargo in enormous #NoMoreTrump protest
The Grayzone Venezuela has been reeling for years from the effects of a suffocating blockade by the United States. This August 5, US President Donald Trump tightened the noose when he declared a total economic embargo of the country. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans responded to Trump’s executive order by flooding the streets of the capital, Caracas. […]
Hong Kong Protest Withdraws From Airport, but Situation Remains far From Normal
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. After canceling hundreds of flights on Monday and Tuesday, the Hong Kong airport, one of the world’s busiest, has been returned to normal, more or less. Protesters had taken over the Hong Kong airport’s, check in area which had […]
Our Lords, Their Flies
CounterPunch As a college student, after reading Lord of the Flies for the second time (I’d first read it as a young teenager), I asked the professor in my philosophy of literature class if he thought humans were inherently evil. He responded by asking if I was pursued by daemons. Taken aback, I replied that I didn’t […]
Horror at MCC: “Gulag” Conditions at NYC Jail Were Known for Decades Before Jeffrey Epstein’s Death
Democracy Now! Questions are mounting surrounding accused serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide in his New York jail cell over the weekend. Epstein was found dead in his jail cell on Saturday morning at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, or MCC, in Manhattan, where authorities say he hanged himself. The warden at MCC has since been reassigned, and […]
Words We’re Not Hearing From Leaders Who Should Be Saying Them
Truthdig On April 4, 1968, the night Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death, Robert F. Kennedy, campaigning for the presidency, climbed up on a flatbed truck at a rally in an African American section of Indianapolis. “Do they know about Martin Luther King?” he asked someone. Not everyone did. This was before 24-hour […]
Here’s the Evidence Corporate Media Say Is Missing of WaPo Bias Against Sanders
FAIR Bernie Sanders has taken to calling out corporate media for their anti-progressive bias, and their feathers have gotten quite ruffled. In a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire, Sanders told the crowd: We have pointed out over and over again that Amazon made $10 billion in profits last year. You know how much they paid in […]
PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES ARE CARVING A PATH TO THE SENATE IN 2020 — NO THANKS TO CHUCK SCHUMER
The Intercept IT’S HARD TO imagine things going much worse for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2019. As he preps for the election he has long hoped will make him the majority leader, his prized recruits across the country have spurned him. In Texas, Colorado, and Montana, his top choices have (so far) turned down […]