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Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative: Tareq Haddad’s First-Hand Account
A mafia runs editors. Freedom of the press is dead. Journalists and ordinary people must stand up.
Progressive Media Failed Bolivia in the Run-Up to the Coup
In our brave new age of hybrid warfare, corporate media play the role of ideological heavy artillery within the arsenal of Western imperialist powers. Day in and day out, “reputable” establishment outlets bombard progressive and/or…
How Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential candidates are rejecting the Obama administration’s embrace of charter schools, and media observers aren’t taking kindly to it. “Minority Voters Chafe as Democratic…
The World had an ‘Unprecedented’ Number of People in Humanitarian Need this Year
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (IPS) - The world had an unexpected number of people in crisis this year, which exceeded projected numbers the United Nations had expected, with climate change being one of the key crises that led to "needs to…
Western media excited about ‘new Iran revolution’, but polls tell a different story about protests
Data from two foreign polls tell a very different story about protests in Iran. The economy is tough, but a majority of Iranians back their government's security initiatives and reject domestic upheaval.
On November 15, angry Iranians…
OPCW Manufactured A Pretext For War By Suppressing Its Own Scientists’ Research
Leaks from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) prove that the OPCW management ignored or manipulated reports its Fact Finding Mission had written about the April 2018 Douma incident in Syria.
The history of…
Are UN Peace Operations Effective?
Quantitative studies of United Nations peace operations generally conclude that they are effective. However, the findings of these studies have been questioned on the basis that they show correlation, but fail to identify the causal…
IRAQI CHILDREN BORN NEAR U.S. MILITARY BASE SHOW ELEVATED RATES OF “SERIOUS CONGENITAL DEFORMITIES,”…
MORE THAN A decade and a half after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new study found that babies are being born today with gruesome birth defects connected to the ongoing American military presence there. The report, issued by a team of…
Belief in American exceptionalism on the decline: poll
Most Americans think theirs is an exceptional nation, either for what it represents (42.4%) or what it has done for the world (18.2%), according to a survey from the Eurasia Group Foundation.
But, but, but: 39.5% view America as just…
The Bolivian Coup Is Not a Coup—Because US Wanted It to Happen
Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not how corporate media are presenting the weekend’s events…