‘Easy pickings’: In Tunisia’s interior, neglect leaves youth ripe for indoctrination
The Middle East Eye The night of 25 June will forever be etched in Mahfouz bin Der’a’s memory. It was supposed to mark the arrival of the last ten nights of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time of reverence and remembrance. But at the al-Furqan mosque, where Bin Der’a regularly leads communal prayers, a […]
The Meritocracy Is Making Us Miserable
The Nation Merit is a sham,” Daniel Markovits writes in the first sentence of his new book, The Meritocracy Trap. But, for Markovits, our system of elite education and glossy jobs is not fraudulent in the way many of us think. The main problem isn’t that Wall Street, Silicon Valley, or the Ivy League are greedy, […]
Oct. 3 -The Crisis of the Media-Industrial Complex: Nermeen Shaikh of Democracy Now!
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″ text_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Journalist Nermeen Shaikh will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and how independent news outlets like Democracy Now! provide an urgently needed corrective. Nermeen Shaikh is a cohost and news producer at Democracy Now! She is the author of “The Present […]
From banning Palestinians to tech censorship
There has always been a focus on Trumps immigration policies since he announced he was going to ban Muslims from entering the country during the campaign. While he tried following up on that promise when he entered office through executive order, and faced extended legal battles, there are other effects Trump has had on US […]
We’ve Got a New Cold War—Now We’ve Got a New Thought Police to Go With It
The Ghion Journal The recent decline of American global power, and the subsequent onset of the U.S./NATO empire’s 21st century cold war with Russia and China, have made the flow of information throughout the capitalist world a lot less free than it was before. To be sure, when this great power conflict started in the […]
Opposition figures accuse Guaidó officials of ‘scam’ to liquidate Venezuela’s most prized international asset
The Grayzone On August 13, Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s legally defunct National Assembly, held a press conference in the streets of Caracas to discuss his nominee for the post of Citgo Petroleum Corporation’s CEO. “We have interviewed Carlos Jorda,” Guaidó announced in a carefully rehearsed intonation, explaining that the candidate to oversee the former Venezuela state-owned […]
Hurricane Dorian Ravages the Bahamas
The Real News Network DHARNA NOOR: It’s The Real News. I’m Dharna Noor. Hurricane Dorian has utterly devastated The Bahamas. The storm was the most powerful to ever hit the country. It’s killed at least seven people in just two days. Some 13,000 homes in the islands Great Abaco and Great Bahama have been destroyed. Footage […]
Donald Trump: A Hero of Our Time?
CounterPunch How can we explain that the victim of another Trump slur nonetheless stated afterward that this president “is the best thing that ever happened to this country”? How—after the president bawled out his victim, Frank Dawson, for being overweight and told him to go home to his mother—could thousands in his Manchester, NH rally […]
Nearly 2 Million People in India Could Lose Citizenship in Biggest Disenfranchisement in History
Democracy Now! Nearly 2 million people in the northeast state of Assam are at risk of being rendered stateless in India after the government published its National Register of Citizens list Saturday. The highly contested register was first created in 1951 and lists people who are able to prove they came to the state by […]
Hong Kong’s Mass Movement Isn’t Controlled by the U.S.
Truthdig For the 13th weekend in a row, protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong last weekend, marching in the rain. Some tossed Molotov cocktails at police and faced water cannons and tear gas from law enforcement authorities. Their fight against Chinese domination has continued, surpassing most expectations, and has weathered multiple storms, including the […]