Tag: news

Requiem for a (sort of) free press in the U.S

Expect these evidence free smears to continue and for more well funded groups like the Integrity Initiative to appear in the future, claiming to be fighting disinformation while engaging in it themselves, often against their own citizens or those of allied countries.

In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...

Despite harping on baseless “voter fraud” myths for years, Fox News has virtually ignored this apparent case of actual election fraud.

“The time is now for the United States to join every other major country on Earth and guarantee health care to every American as a right not a privilege, and Donald Trump, the insurance companies and the drug companies will not stop us.”

What these occurrences share, and what they’re illustrating, is a profound hatred towards purveyors of journalism.

Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.

Does the population agree with this view?

“This is a concerted, corporate-funded effort to get rid of public employee unions."

There is no question that journalists in Russia (and, for that matter, Ukraine) are under threat.