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By keeping her mouth shut. Her loose-cannon belligerence takes off where John Bolton leaves off. She shows herself to be another of Bannon’s world-deconstructing hand picks. This egregious shill is now on TV defending the utter heartlessness and hypocrisy of … Continue reading →

On AM Joy, the Reverend Barber restores some moral compass to the broadcast waves. “We have to reframe: this kind of knee-jerk action is not presidential. It’s the antithesis of what it means to be presidential.”

At Daily Kos,  SUNY professor Ian Reifowitz granulates “the moral and strategic bankruptcy” of Trump’s Syria policy.

Adam Johnson at FAIR: “Five major US newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News—offered no opinion space to anyone opposed to Donald Trump’s Thursday night airstrikes. By contrast, the five papers … Continue reading →

Jeremy Scahill tweets: “Trump authorized strikes that killed 1,000 civilians in March. But his multimillion dollar cruise missile show has made him presidential.” Why isn’t the “mainstream” media covering the human cost of these strikes? What they’ve done instead is … Continue reading →

Jim Naureckas at FAIR takes a disturbing tour of the rings of hell occupied by our “mainstream” broadcast “news” shows.

namely the citizens and children we killed in Trump’s “presidential” bombing rampage Thursday night.

that Putin and Trump collaborated on Thursday night’s bombing gambit, thus making Trump look independent from Russia, among other false narratives redounding to Trump’s advantage. And, of course, the “mainstream” media ate it all up. Lawrence O’Donnell didn’t, and neither … Continue reading →

And the TV networks played on.

I abhor Trump’s attempt to undermine American civil institutions, but there’s no getting around the fact that he and the lawless GOP led by McConnell have now succeeded in laying waste to the Supreme Court. We now see a Supreme … Continue reading →