27 September 2017 — WSWS
The WSWS’s campaign against internet censorship gathered strength this week, as the New York Times published an article highlighting Google’s censorship of the World Socialist Web Site.
Day: September 29, 2017
Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens
28 September 2017 — FAIR
In Ken Burns’ introduction to The Vietnam War, bombs fly back into airplanes and flames leap off of houses into flamethrowers.
If journalism resigns itself to being a “first draft of history,” Ken Burns’ popular PBS documentaries, written by Lynn Novick, have increasingly aspired to—and achieved—a coveted status as popular historical canon. This has, in part, been accomplished by Burns’ choice of cozily American subject matter—jazz, baseball, the Brooklyn Bridge—as well as the calming effect that time and distance provide when it comes to more difficult, inflammatory topics like the Civil War. His success is a rare, fraught feat.
Black Agenda Report 28 September 2017
28 September 2017 — Black Agenda Report
Bernie Sanders Can’t Shake His Imperial Piggishness
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
In case you thought candidate Bernie Sanders was fuzzy on global affairs, he’s delivered a major foreign policy address. He’s still an imperialist.
The New Dark Age 