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Lockheed Martin-Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
In the past year, FAIR has noted 30 media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system or its underlying value proposition in US media, most of them in the past two months. Business Insider was the most eager venue for the think tank’s analysts, routinely copying–and–pasting CSIS talking points in stories warning of the… Continue reading
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Media: Trump Uses Power of FCC to Pay Back Friends at Sinclair Broadcasting
This morning Sinclair Broadcast Group, the conservative media behemoth that owns more local news stations than any other company in the country, just got even bigger. It announced it was buying Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, creating what Bloomberg (5/8/17) calls a “TV goliath.” Continue reading
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Media: Declining to Label Lies, NPR Picks Diplomacy Over Reality
NPR is notorious for bending over backwards to avoid the appearance of a liberal bias, even refusing to carry an opera program in 2011 after its host participated in an Occupy protest. But, in the age of Trump and his unprecedentedly loose relationship with reality, the network’s strict adherence to “both sides” journalism does a… Continue reading
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Media: 100 Days of Media Hoping for a New, Improved Trump
Nearly 100 days into the Trump presidency, corporate media are still struggling to reckon with the man that occupies the White House. An administration so proudly reckless in its actions and so brazenly detached from the truth has routinely overwhelmed political reporters whose accountability muscles have atrophied. And from cable news panels to newspaper op-ed… Continue reading
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‘1 Percent of Taxpayers Receive More Than the Bottom 80 Percent’
Jeremie Greer: “When you think about what’s driving inequality, I would say a federal system that is subsidizing the income and expenses and wealth at the high end, at the expense of not investing at the low end, is really exacerbating that divide.” Continue reading
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At NYT, Climate Denial and Racism Don’t Make You Fringe–but Single-Payer Does
Being in the New York Times is a legitimizing event, one that cements ideas as not fringe, “other,” or in the realm of the dreaded, career-ending “conspiracy theory.” So it understandably upset many liberals when the Times decided to bestow upon hard-right Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens the ultimate stamp of… Continue reading
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Media: Thomas Friedman’s Perverse Love Affair With ISIS
For the second time in as many years, Thomas Friedman has explicitly advocated that the United States use the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as a proxy force against Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. The New York Times foreign affairs columnist made this suggestion in his Wednesday column, “Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS… Continue reading
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Media: Out of 46 Major Editorials on Trump’s Syria Strikes, Only One Opposed
Of the top 100 US newspapers, 47 ran editorials on President Donald Trump’s Syria airstrikes last week: 39 in favor, seven ambiguous and only one opposed to the military attack. In other words, 83 percent of editorials on the Syria attack supported Trump’s bombing, 15 percent took an ambivalent position and 2 percent said the… Continue reading
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North Korea: ‘The Only Sensible Path at This Point is Dialogue’
Janine Jackson: The Washington Post suggests that people in Seattle and San Francisco “should be worried” about being hit by a ballistic missile from North Korea, citing an analyst who described such an event, a bit cryptically, as “a looming threat but not a current threat.” If the concern is that the saber-rattling between Kim… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Trump’s Tomahawks – The Instant Certainty Of The ‘Mainstream’ Press
As ever, it didn’t take long for them to make up their minds. Roy Greenslade reports in the Guardian on the media reaction to Donald Trump’s bombardment of Syria in ‘retaliation’ (USA Today) for the alleged chemical weapons attacks on Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria: ‘There was an identifiable theme in almost every leading article and… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Syria Chemical Weapons Saga
12 April 2017 — Global Research Articles below are among the most-read on the ‘chemical attack’ in Syria. The Gassing Game in Syria: Regime Change and Beyond By Chandra Muzaffar, April 11, 2017 US-Russia ties are not the only issue adversely impacted by the US’s 7th April bombardment. If the US escalates its military involvement, it will have… Continue reading
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The full article: Washington’s False Flag: United Nations Confirmed that US Supported Syrian “Rebels” Were Using Chemical Weapons By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The UN report refutes Washington’s allegations that the government of Bashar al Assad was using chemical weapons against his own people. Continue reading
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Video: US Deploys Forces At Syrian-Jordanian Border – Further Escalation
The US Special Operation Forces, the UK Special Operation Forces and units from some other countries -have been conducting operations across the Syrian-Jordanian border for a long time. They even had a secret military facility inside Syria where members the so-called New Syrian Army militant group were deployed. However, it was the first time when… Continue reading
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The “Chemical Attack” and the Khan Sheikoun Show – A New President Proudly Presented By “Trump Productions”
The pictures and scenes were not constructed for Trump’s consumption. They were constructed by Trump for consumption by the “western” public. Never forget that Trump is also a successful professional TV presenter who knows how to act in front of cameras. The plot followed Trump’s persuasion style. The same style he used during the campaign… Continue reading
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Video: Did Bipartisan Russia Hysteria Help Fuel Trump’s Rush to Bomb Assad?
In part two of our interview, journalist Rania Khalek argues that the U.S. strike on the Assad regime continues policy that tacitly helps Al Qaeda and ISIS, all the while raising the threat of conflict with Russia – a threat exacerbated by the recent bipartisan frenzy over President Trump’s ties to Moscow. Continue reading
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America’s Progressives Pay Lip Service to Imperialism, Anti-War Movement is Dead
10 April 2017 — Global Research When America’s “Progressives” Pay Lip Service to Imperialism. The Anti-War Movement is Dead By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 09, 2017 Both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) are creations of US intelligence. War has become peace. Realities have been turned upside down. Trump’s illegal punitive airstrikes against Syria are heralded… Continue reading
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Video: Trump Attack on Syria a Deadly Political Game and Reflection of Deep Systemic Crisis
Gerald Horne and Paul Jay discuss the cynical politics behind the attack and the decay and dysfunctionality of the American state Continue reading
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Video: Wilkerson: Trump Attack on Syria Driven by Domestic Politics?
Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, tells Paul Jay that the Syrian Government may not be responsible for the chemical attack and that Trump’s response was a violation of international law Continue reading
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The Essential Pundit Take: ‘Trump Became President’ by Bombing Syria
8 April 2017 — FAIR Fareed Zakaria: Presidents “don’t need to go to a pesky Congress every time they want military force.” “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States” last night, CNN host Fareed Zakaria said when asked about the significance of Trump’s airstrikes on Syria (New Day, 4/7/17). “I think this… Continue reading
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Video: Michael Hudson: Democratic Party Hired CrowdStrike As a Propaganda Organization To Make Accusations Against Russia
Michael Hudson explains that the Senate hearings on Russia are an effort by Democrats to torpedo improvements in Russia-US relations and lack any real evidence of Russian meddling. Continue reading
