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Update: David North responds to NYT article on Google blacklisting; Indian workers oppose censorship
“The WSWS’ exposure of Google’s attack on democratic rights is being widely followed and is having a substantial impact. The article that appeared in the Times was in preparation for a month. Its own research confirmed that traffic to the WSWS has fallen dramatically. When asked by the Times to answer our allegations, Google chose… Continue reading
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NY Times interviews David North on Google censorship of the Left
Technology reporter Daisuke Wakabayashi reviews the extensive evidence presented by the World Socialist Web Site that Google is censoring left-wing websites in the name of fighting “fake news.” Research by the WSWS has found that search traffic to thirteen left-wing, anti-war, and progressive sites has fallen by 55 percent since Google announced changes to its… Continue reading
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Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens
The most famous battlefield atrocity, the 1968 My Lai massacre, which was mostly covered up and pinned on one Lt. William Calley, again shows Burns putting his directorial thumb on the scale. Rather than call the massacre “murder,” as it was originally described by Novick, Burns switched the script to read that “the killing of… Continue reading
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Media: While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
The Korean War, in which the United States invaded the North on behalf of South Korea, claimed the lives of over 2 million North Koreans. The US dropped as many munitions as it had dropped on the entire Pacific Theater in World War II—a four-year conflict ranging over tens of millions of square miles, as… Continue reading
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Corporate Media Analysts Indifference to US Journalists Facing 70 Years in Prison
The New York Times (1/13/17) warned of “Donald Trump’s Dangerous Attacks on the Press,” and the Atlantic (2/20/17) declared it “ A Dangerous Time for the Press and the Presidency.” It’s strange, then, that the attack on the press that kicked off the Trump administration—the arrest and subsequent threatening of two journalists with 70 years… Continue reading
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Google is intensifying its censorship of left-wing web sites
The world’s biggest corporations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are intensifying efforts to block internet users from accessing left-wing web sites like the World Socialist Web Site. Continue reading
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NYT Lets Think Tank Funded by Gov't and Arms Industry Claim Huge US Military Budget Isn't Huge Enough
The New York Times (9/18/17) gave an enormous platform to a hawkish think tank that is funded by the US government and by top weapons corporations, letting it absurdly claim, without any pushback, that the gargantuan US military—by far the largest in the world—has been “underfunded.” Continue reading
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'The World May Conclude the US Is No Longer Capable of Diplomacy'
Janine Jackson interviewed Murtaza Hussain about attempts to undermine the Iran nuclear deal for the September 15, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Media’s Instinct to Rehabilitate the Powerful Has Not Changed Under Trump
When Stephen Colbert introduced a surprise guest at the end of his Emmys opening monologue on Sunday night, the audience didn’t seem to expect to see former Trump administration press secretary Sean Spicer. The Late Night host shocked most of the crowd—Veep actress Anna Chlumsky was particularly amazed—with the selection of one of comedy’s favorite… Continue reading
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Media: ‘Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous’
Janine Jackson interviewed Shaye Wolf about Hurricane Harvey’s toxic aftermath for the September 8, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Media: 'Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous'
Janine Jackson interviewed Shaye Wolf about Hurricane Harvey’s toxic aftermath for the September 8, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Outlets owned by Murdoch’s umbrella corporations, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, clearly led the denialist camp. These firms constitute the core propaganda machine of the right in the English-speaking world, with the highest-rated cable news network (Fox News) and the first and sixth biggest-circulation newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post) in the United… Continue reading
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Murdoch-Owned Media's Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Outlets owned by Murdoch’s umbrella corporations, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, clearly led the denialist camp. These firms constitute the core propaganda machine of the right in the English-speaking world, with the highest-rated cable news network (Fox News) and the first and sixth biggest-circulation newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post) in the United… Continue reading
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In Month After Charlottesville, Papers Spent as Much Time Condemning Anti-Nazis as Nazis
Members of the antifa movement “are no different from neo-Nazis,” wrote Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen (8/30/17). “Both practice violence and preach hate. They are morally indistinguishable.” The “both sides” frame—which was employed by Donald Trump in the wake of the attack, and endorsed by white supremacist David Duke—was almost always used a vehicle to… Continue reading
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CNN Celebrates ‘Joy’ of McCain a Day After His Genocidal Threat
Professional truth-teller and self-appointed Russian counter-propagandist Jake Tapper had Arizona Sen. John McCain on his State of Union show (CNN, 9/10/17) for a chummy interview Sunday night. The interview began with Tapper lobbing softballs at McCain about his mortality and reminiscing about buddying up on the 2000 campaign trail (Tapper was, according to his then-editor… Continue reading
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How Media Obscure US/Saudi Responsibility for Killing Yemeni Civilians
A coalition of Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, with minor support from several other Middle Eastern nations, has relentlessly bombed Yemen since March 2015. This August, the coalition ramped up the ferocity of its airstrikes, killing dozens of civilians. Major Western media outlets have, however, obscured the… Continue reading
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NYT Only the Latest Corporate Media Outlet to Give Free Publicity to Mercenary Profiteer
The New York Times (8/30/17) decided to turn over a large chunk of the most precious opinion space in the English-speaking world to mercenary entrepreneur Erik Prince, so he could promote his plan to privatize and profit from the US occupation of Afghanistan. Continue reading
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‘Media’s First Instinct Is to Strip Ideology From the Conversation’
Janine Jackson: The spectre of white supremacists marching with guns and torches, throwing KKK salutes, and screaming about Jews and Commies is a test for Americans, individually and institutionally, and we’re still seeing how various folks are responding. One of the primary institutions that should be asking themselves some questions right now are corporate media. Continue reading
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Trump ‘Presidential’ Again–for Ramping Up War in Afghanistan
Foreign Policy‘s Paul Miller (8/22/17) liked the speech in part because “Trump said ‘win’ and ‘victory’ more times in 15 minutes than President Barack Obama did in eight years.” Donald Trump is finally “presidential” again, pundits insist, now that he is ratcheting up another US war. Continue reading
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Video: How the World May End – John Pilger on Venezuela, Trump & Russia
12 August 2017 — Youtube Must Watch! In this season’s finale, we speak to John Pilger about the mainstream media pushing for a coup in Venezuela, the Labour Party’s division on #CorbynMustCondemn, UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia and US-Russia relations. Continue reading
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