How the Western media support state terror – while millions die
Matthew Alford, Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn, and Daniel Broudy, August-September issue of PeaceNews When Noam Chomsky first observed that the United States had attacked South Vietnam, he...
NATO and ‘News’ Media Pump for WW III
by Eric Zuesse (updated and expanded from his article at strategic-culture.org) Introduction America’s announcement that Russia has committed ‘aggression’ against America, is an announcement that America is at war...
Who's Afraid of Sanders and Trump: Or, the Lies the New York Times Sells
by Vaska It looks like the economic and political group whose interests the New York Times serves is getting scared that Hillary Clinton, its candidate for US presidency, might...
Reporting (or Not) the Ties Between US-Armed Syrian Rebels and Al Qaeda's Affiliate
by Gareth Porter, FAIR A crucial problem in news media coverage of the Syrian civil war has been how to characterize the relationship between the so-called “moderate” opposition forces...
American Democracy and Its Opinion Shapers
by Vaska In “Pundits Thought Clinton Beat Sanders—but Did Viewers?” Gunar Olsen analyzes the mainstream and right-wing Internet-based media reporting on Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate in the US. Olsen...
US “Repeatedly and Precisely” Bombs Afghan Hospital
by Vaska Three days ago, during the night of October 2-3, and although it had the precise co-ordinates for the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, US-led NATO forces...
Media lie that crime is on increase to promote more police powers
by Josmar Trujillo The New York Post, the notorious right-wing tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, inspired a media stampede of stories highlighting increases in New York City’s crime statistics....
Priming the U.S. Electorate
by Vaska Jim Naureckas’ latest analysis of the U.S. corporate media commentary following Labour’s loss in last week’s elections in the UK shows how the American corporate press is...
